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One of my dwarves just went in to a strange mood, I got an announcement stating "Urist McBob, Butcher begins to stalk and brood"
He then claimed a masons workshop and broods saying "Leave me. I need... things... certain things...".
He isn't stating the item that he wants but I read on the wiki that when they begin to stalk around they most likely will want bone, so I slaughtered some animals.
No reaction.
So then I looked at his preferences remembering that apparently their preference for the material for the item they want to make is what they will demand. In his thoughts and preferences he said that he likes native aluminum. Unfortunately I don't have any.
What should I do? I'd prefer not to have to kill him since hes my best butcher and I'll need him later.

In one of my old forts a trading caravan arrived on the opposite side of the river across from the fortress. They decided to cross the river near the edge of the map where the water flow was lower then the rest. As soon as they stepped in to the river they were doomed, they weren't able to get out. At some points the trader or the Oxen would step out but for some reason they would immediately move back in to the river and become trapped again.

All of this was happening late fall, and I was curious as to what would happen as soon as it was enter and all the ice would freeze. When the ice formed all the traders instantly perished. I suddenly realized, this means I get free stuff! So I immediately told my Dwarves to go and channel into the ice to gain access to the goods. As soon as they dug down I found the corpses and the goods. Heres the weird thing, all of the corpses were actually skeletons. Weirded out I moved on and set the goods so that they could be gathered and moved back to the fortress. About 20 minutes(real time) after I took the goods, the traders and guards rose as ghosts and started to haunt my trading depot. They stayed there until my fortress failed, approximately 5 minutes later when a failed attempt at created a well caused the mines and then the fort to flood. Sadly I didn't notice until I was spammed with messages of "Urist Mcsomething canceled store item, could not find route." turns out he was trapped and drowned shortly. I tried to salvage the fortress but my attempts  were crushed by a group of goblin ambushers...

I was told that to create a garbage chute you just need to create a stockpile for whatever you want to dump(or a garbage zone) over top of a x deep pit. I tried that but it won't let me place the actual zone/stockpile there. What am I doing wrong?

Does the length  of the bridge affect how tall it will be when you activate the bridge so that it is closed? So if for example you had a bridge that is 3 tiles long in a one layer high hallway, what happens to the bridge?

I really want to move my pasture animals underground so its easier to create a meat industry so my dwarves won't become plant eating hippies. Do I flood an area underground and wait for grass to grow?