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Since recent updates, it seems that it's impossible to prevent depression among dwarves. They have all the luxuries, but they still accumulate stress over petty unpleasantnesses. Many are already depressed.

Is this the new inevitable way fun finds us and for game to simulate my personal life in the new version or is there a feasable way to combat it?

Such toggle might be useful if you are in dire situation and need to reinforce your militia with recruits. Right now, best equipment would depart to battlefield already and get lost in fighting, causing new recruits to try and reclaim it instead of stocking with excess weapon and armour.

I know you can forbid equipment of the fallen, but forbidding/unforbidding is very inconvenient.

To an extent, becoming a mountainhome might be seen as a certain benchmark to say "I made it". But it's not very exciting (I think it should require higher economic achievement, but that's for another topic). But how about another way to amuse yourself and get a nice mountainhome status?

Next time liaison decide to show up, why not hand him a declaration of your independence? This way we might have some fun.

• Once you declare independence, your citizens will have to choose if they want to be your subjects or enemies. Did you manage to keep them happy enough to not suffer death by loyalism?
• Supply from mountainhome will be cut. Is your economy efficient enough to provide all you need at home?
• Army of your former owners will show up. Are you bad enough dude to withstand siege by steel-clad bearded psychos, not unlike your own?

After you destroy several sieges your highest ranked noble should be crowned as king. Before that he should probably call himself "Rebel leader" with the same requirements. Home civ should recognize your independence and restart the trade. Maybe even allow migrant influx again (It's not like dwarves don't want to migrate to prosperous nation-state)

So, I started my fist adventures in 0.40

And as I was massacring bandits I noticed that some of them are sleeping. In the middle of the fight. Non-hostile to me. Easy throat-cutting target.

I also decided to massacre my previous fort, I spawned there and started killing citizens, again, with no reaction from militia. Is this what always happen?

So, I have my first baron in forties version. I like to keep as many nobles as possible because it amuses me and add roleplaying.

What happens if he die? Will baron's post vanish still? He doesn't have family, by the way, I assigned generated peasant.

Admittedly, I didn't see dwarven economy in action, but I heard it didn't work. I would like to sketch a system that I think would add more fun and realism to the game without need to overhaul mechanics.

What if we give each dwarf an entitlement counter? Every job he performs adds some to it, based on his or hers personality, and contribution. Meanwhile, we decide a percentage of finished goods that will be marked for handouts, as well as allowed to mark them for handout manually, the same way we mark them for dumping. Too meet his entitlement dwarves would claim trinkets as their property, wearing or storing it. Rooms, food and clothes should also probably count toward this. If dwarf doesn't get enough, he would get upset and maybe go on strike.

This way we wouldn't have much additional troubles with interface while finding a way to utilize finished goods that average fortress probably produces massively.

At some point you will inevitably mine out enough gem clusters, your whole jeweler's workshop menu would drown into options. Gems become almost impossible to process efficiently through manager and workshop alike.

Adding jobs that work for any gem available would make late game more comfortable, don't you think?

Don't you hate to have to decide between long history and having more living megabeasts? I propose adding an even to compensate for dead megabeasts by creating new with divine wrath.

History should say something like this:
[Angered/Bored/Appalled/Offended] by [civilization's name]'s [irreverence/complacency/decadence], [God] had sent [megabeast] to torment them.