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Annoying as it might look from an overviewer / almighty / omniscient player, just think of a small villagr of 200-200something people.

There's always somebody angry, somebody depressed, somebody who is a troublemaker, someone cheerful...

Of course, stress needs balancing and all that, but you must accept you can't have everybody happy.

Some time ago I read the story of the first Spanish attempts to settlements in America, early 1500. Hunger, scarcity, disease, rain, fights, murders, executions... Many of them just went insane.

So thinking about it, melancholy and insanity and depression are not out of place when you live in a hellhole in the jungle with constant rains.

(But yeah, it needs tweaking)

I've had few issues with bugs, and lots of fun with the new aspects of the game.

Sending raids with heavy war animals against necromancers, creating the Best Tavern in the Continent and watching the dances, or, ¡At last! constructing pedestal and display furniture for artifacts, coins or dragon skull totems.

Can't speak too much about engineering megaprojects, but stocking a library with books about mineral remedies or romantic literature or animal breeding is just great.

Mote and bailey, I'm afraid, for none of my fortresses can keep focus on long term defense once the tantrums and noble demands and werebeasts attacks and sieges get traction.

I've tried to make a panopticum 8 point star shaped fortress but that was a bite much larger than I could chew

Oh, I've thought about that, and the kitchen needing fuel, too. Right now the cooks are doing 'roasts' without any heat at all.

That would surely tune down the excess of prepared food I always have (one busy kitchen feeds more than a hundred villagers, I think).

But my curiosity was about fire, in general

Just like other players, I've had villagers dying of thirst because the river froze and they couldn't think of using the fires from the kitchen or the smelter to melt some ice and drink.

Also, a fire originated by a forgotten beast burned the whole cavern in another embark, with the citizens just ignoring it or being caught in the flames by accident. So basically dwarves avoid fire or ignore it.

This doesn't happen in adventure mode, where you can set a campfire (and melt ice) and interact with it, just in fortress mode, so I'm curious about the reason. ¿Is it a design decision, like in "we'll get to that later", or "it's just how it's intended to be"? ¿Or a technical reason, like in "Implementing and fixing this would be a hell/timesink so great it's better to leave it for later"?

Other games (Prison architect, rimworld) deal with fire management, you can set fires and you can try to extinguish them if they become too dangerous, and it's not out of character for a medieval city simulation like this game is.

So: curious about it. ¿Is there a devlog or a forum post where I can read about this matter? or ¿Can someone give me a brief explanation?

Hunters will shoot bolts at carps in a river. They won't recover the dead fish, though.

Yes, it gets very confusing when you're trying to make a statue of a god and all you end up with is statues of dwarves writing rude poems (in order to worship said god).

That said, it makes sense, historical and religious art makes that a lot (saints visiting another people, or receiving divine presences, or nobles paying homage to a liege...). But the name changing of the statue makes it confusing.

Also, I recommend making a statue of every weremonster you slain, sometimes you learn really interesting stories about them because for some reason your sculptor knows everything about that entity.

Oh, wow, you people are right, maybe they came inside other animals, not birds. That would explain why no more chickens or turkeys gave me platinum.

Or maybe the whole platinum stones thing it's just a bug, and [pun] that's why the birds ate it [/pun] bdm - tsssss.

Hope I can edit this pist later when I regret the terrible joke.