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This is somewhat related to this as Im trying to decide what to do with all my goblins and foul blendecs. If I pit the goblins will they breed after a while?

Only one way to find out! My added question is whether the newborn goblins are hostile or not. If they are, this is an ideal training area: pit a recruit against a couple of goblin children and watch as their experience starts to soar!

Or you could bring along all of the adamantine in bins and put them in a single spot on a still unclaimed piece of land. Then embark to that piece of land and have adamantine ready for you. However, I advise you to bring it inside and then immediately forbid it. Otherwise you might attract unwanted visitors at an early stage.

Build a trapped and (partially)(magma-)floodable arena with (pseudo-)randomly placed floodgates, floor hatches and upright spike traps all linked up to (multiple and/or the same) pressure plates. Start easily and throw in a kitten or so. Then work your way up to dogs, cows, camels, trained dogs, multiple animals... Should a megabeast appear on the map on a certain time, cage it and throw it in too. If it survives, add the [INTELLIGENT] and [PET_EXOTIC] to it's entry in the raws to make sure it doesn't tear up your entire fortress. Unless it of course already has killed one.

That or a maze with the same properties and a dispensable creature on the other end. But here you can make it so that the goblins block the eachother's paths. Here you could also put a megabeast on one end and the green menace on the other. Have the gobbos team up at a certain point and see who's faster. Because if they're not, they're obviously doomed. if they are, they might stand a chance.

Well, that is if you dont get your dwarves to tantrum and go berserk

And these are only the consequence of death and/or really bad managing. So the best thing to do is to eliminate moods (delete [trANCES] from the entries of whatever person you're using) to even still minimize the chance of death and downward spiralling. And in real life people don't go: "Hey, I know, I'm going to grab some shells, raw adamantine, steel, cut rubies and feather trees and claim this workshop to make a silly sceptre worth over 9000 monetary units!"

If you wanted to increase reality and minimalize the fantasy input, you could always make the Dwarves Caucasians, the elves Asians, the humans Africans and the goblins Middle-Eastern (yay for stereotyping!). Or to whatever peoples you're using the setting in. You could even use Adventure Mode as an example of nomadic people. roaming the lands in search of food, but that would be a bit hard to do, since there are still cities and such...

The only downside to this type of game is the length of it all. I'm assuming it'll (nearly) all be aboveground, so it would take ages to make the houses: first the walls, then the roof, other walls, another roof... But then with mass-build implementation, it'll take a lot less of time (at least to designate).

Also, (relatively) unrelated: it's rated A, for Armok's blessing.

Grab her in the standard-female-grab-area and put her in the Noble promotion room.

They're Dwarves, just grab her by the beard.

I don't know whether you've found it already, but the Df wiki is an extremely valuable place for learning tricks, strategies and finding out why things won't do what you want them to do. As for the farm plot, you'll obviously need seeds. You can scroll through them with -,+,* and / on the numpad. These controls will also work for most other menu's where the field of play will also be visible. Most other menus are full-screen and use the arrow keys and page up/down. When you are in the farm plot-menu, scroll down to the desired plant and hit Enter. It will light up and your farmers will start to plant the seeds. However, this is only for the season you're in. To change the season, use a,b,c and d for spring, summer, fall and winter, respectively. You don't have to mark the plants every year again, only if you wish to change the crop. Your dwarves will automatically harvest and store the crops when they've fully grown. If you wish to stop food production for a season, go to the desired season and hit z. If you should have potash, you could fertilize the field, however this is not obligatory or needed.

Embark in a freezing area with an aquifer instead of an ocean. It'll make things a lot easier.

Have them create a civilization, but beware that the dogs won't survive, most likely, whereas the titans will probably destroy everything.