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I tried making my first catapult with a raising bridge, thinking that the objects would be shot in the direction the bridge is lifted but no, they go up in a cloud and fall to the ground. I used corpses.

It gave me an idea for your bomb though. You can make a tiny raising bridge somewhere and dump many items on it. One flick of a switch will send them flying and I'm sure walls surrounding the area will direct the objects in the direction you wish. That gives you the option of lathering them all up in some nasty poison or igniting them.

I'm definitely trying that and the booze explosion thing in the next fortress. This one is in the last gasps of a slow slow slow FPS death

That's a great read. Here are a couple of notes:

1 - Dwarves in LOTR are capable of wearing very heavy armor at all times and not get slowed down by it. They are also champions of endurance.

2 - Dwarves have a sort of berserker rage in DF, though not as brutal, violent and insane as the one you described.

3 - I don't think dwarves are very warlike. They have no ambition to conquer more land since all their expansion can be done underground anyway. However, a few would be extremely valuable in any siege since, as you mentioned, no one can beat them when it comes to engineering

I'm pretty sure it's automatic. After he gets diagnosed, the last thing on the list of treatments will be "Needs Crutch" and it will be brought to him automatically. At least that's what happened with my guy when he broke his hip. He'll be almost as fast or as fast as other dwarves when he becomes a legendary crutch walker but might never lose that annoying flashing white thing that says he's injured

Yeah I reported this on mantis and made a thread about it yesterday or some such. Training like this can be great if you use one or two dwarves at a time in a pit with wooden training weapons(wooden crossbow if they're hammerdwarves, no wooden training maces though) and disarmed but armored goblins.

I switched to cages because of this bug. I used to get legendary military dwarves pretty quickly in .34 but pitting makes it a lot faster

I've had that problem with lakes and they didn't have enough water to cause problems, just a mess having to cover up those holes afterwards

Just as I was about to reply that one of my 3 suturers was completely idle, he got diagnosed yet again and then my suturer went and sutured him. I guess he needs to be diagnosed when a dwarf with the correct labor happens to be free in order for the job to be done

I always hear people complain about the medical being broken in DF but in .34 that wasn't my experience. My dwarves got rescued, cleaned, treated and were back on their feet, sometimes with the annoying blinking thing, sometimes with crutches but sometimes completely fine.

In this version I had an accident with a hatch(don't make them ever unless they're meant to lock something away or for pitting) where 2 dwarves got hurt. One was a baby and he was left to limp on his broken lower left leg around the meeting hall, the other was sent to the hospital, treated, put in traction and left there. I tried dismantling the Traction bench twice to see if it was just that bug but he got put right back on it. But that happened sometimes in .34, it just took a long time.

But then I got this other dwarf who got hurt, needs sutures, setting and dressing. I canceled all hauling for my suturer but no cigar. He also keeps getting evaluated almost every day and there's no progress. He's constantly sleeping and experiencing mortal fear because his injury came from fighting. I'm about to give up, wall him in and let him starve because I need his armor. Any suggestions?

On the caverns I concur with Deboche, you are more than ready to open them up and delve deeper. Underground pastures makes animal management easier, less travel time for your dwarfs. Although,  I have yet to create a working tree farm in 40.xx, perhaps allowing for multiple Z levels would help?

You do need more than 1 z level. I'm hoping to make one and now that trees are so big, it doesn't need as big an area as before.