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I have also noticed that when members of a caravan meet an untimely demise some of the items they drop seem to be ignored, even if claimed and with proper storage space.  This seems to only happen to items dropping on the trade depot tiles themselves.  I wonder if the quatum nature of depots result in quirks with stockpile request mechanics.

So anything happening?

So my notifications aren't working right.  That said, nice turn.  We have zombies!  Do necros have a range or LoS requirement?

You can kind of do this with labor activation and careful use of claiming, forbiding and dumping.  Also, the utility Dwarf Therapist makes the labors even easier to manage.  You would hop over to DT, disable all roles besides haul refuse (especially easy if you made a custom hauler profession and gave it to, say 5 dwarves) and then jump back to DF, and mass reclaim and mass dump the area in question.

I mean, it would be cool to have a way to prioritize what gets done beyond LIFO and using utilities, but in the mean time there are ways to do it.

I chuckled at my dorfing, a female fish cleaner.  In my forts that would be immediate reassignment to hauling or the military.  Feel free to do either.  Could you post the description?  I want ot give a journal entry a try.

Whatever works.  My plan is to essentially wait for whenever another save gets posted.  I tried tracing back through the posts, but between all the aborted turns, and your multi-year multi-dorf succession, it was getting tedious to find  what I was looking for (a save that is still viable for a few months with judicious dfhackery if needed and close to the current turn).  This is obviously a me problem, not a thread problem .  I also won't be touching on the out of game, in-canon stuff.  Once I finish my almanac/history thingy, I'll open it up, or maybe wikify it for others to refer to/build off of/add to.

Nice write up for the end of the year/turn.  At first I thought there was going to be forgotten beast induced trauma, but it looks like we are a few dwarves short of the default threshold for FBs.  Next overseer might want to take note of that, regarding doors v raising bridges, and the odds of a FB building destroyer showing up.

I've never breached the caverns so early intentionally, but then again, I almost always take starting locations with running water of some sort and divert into the base.  Depending on how many z levels to the water (I'm assuming about 10 or so based on you description?), it may be easier to just tunnel down some wells, if the next overseer isn't that good with pumps.  Armok knows I'm not, I just use them to train my off-duty military.  In my current monstrosity of a fort, I just put 5 wells in one 3x3 area off the main dining room and a few floors below my hospital.