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Kind of a simple suggestion to make dorf diet more interesting. I always felt like caravans from other races should bring more exotic stuff that dwarves can't replicate.

Give elves and humans some high quality food dorfen cuisine can't comprehend.

- Processed meat (such as sausages) - more expensive meat that can be mixed in food or eaten as is.
- Spice - very expensive powder used as cooking ingreidient
- Fruits - apples, pears, cherries. Dwarves can't conceive idea of using trees for anything that doesn't involve axes, so they can't grow them. Make good ingridients, raw food and base for booze.

I found unpleasant discrepancy between my stock screen and my boozemaking ability.

There's entire barrel full of pig tails, yet basic z-screen says I have no plants and my brewing doesn't seem to work. My whole agriculture seem to collapse, actually. Is there any way to recover?

We all know and we all can see - sheriff, guard and hammerer are useless people. Only good thing they can actually do to fort is hammer a vampire, which, frankly, a rare occasion.

I propose following system to mitigate it. Give every dorf a hidden "delinquency" counter. It would rise if dorf sees injustice (nobody punished for a crime, he's punished for someone else's crime, someone else is punished for his crime), and fall if justice is dispensed (somebody punished for crime and dorf doesn't know they are innocent).

It get adjusted to situation (is there justice system operational, for example, and his mood) and if counter gets too high, dorf would commit a crime, ranging from punching their fellow dorf or animal in the face to taking a sword from stockpile and murder someone. Dorf with lower delinquency would attack their grudges or avenge unpunished crimes against them and their friends, high would do it out of boredom (like serial killer). Additional crimes might be sabotage (Breaking workshops) and theft (stealing small items and hiding them into chests or something, excluding them from trade and use)

Not only it would give justice (as well as obeying mandates) system proper purpose, it would also allow enthusiasts to try and run dens of vice and anarchy.

After fighting some ant men in caves and losing many miners and woodcutters to them, I noticed few friendly ant men crawling around.

Is a known fenomenon? Because I can't explain their existence otherwise.

While playing fortress, I always felt like game doesn't offer enough challenge for late game, which are not unstoppable hordes from hell.

I feel it would be fitting if Humans, greedy giant bastards they are, would come into prosperous fortress demanding rent for settling on their territory. When diplomat shows up, he would announce a demand for a tribute that fortress must offer to next caravan before trade could begin. Fail few payments and humans will lay a siege.

I like to have large military training 24/7. And, well, my endless recruits don't seem to learn much. Is it possible that I do something wrong? How long does it take to turn recruit into at least novice?

I settled near the tower, and now my corpses raise from the dead and eat me. No warning as usual. Could it be that necromancer came in ambush? Could it be not a coincidence that caravan just arrived?