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For best results, during a period of upheaval like this, just restart with a new fort every update. I've resigned myself to it and it's given me a lot of practice building forts and running them for a few years.

The RNG is a harsh mistress.

Indeed.

EDIT: OH GOD THE PEACHICKS!

*FPS DEATH*

'Twas likely to happen sooner or later.

Is there any way to increase the population cap of individual animal types? A split of 20/20 M/F would provide better data to evaluate the 75/20/5 theory, but with only 10 additional slots for children, I doubt the numbers would line up.

Toady said something about the orientation tags a few weeks ago. Let me see... ah... this thread, page 10. (direct link to post)

And here is a good explanation of the mechanics behind orientation tags.

Stairs count as an air block so far as a falling creature is concerned. I found that out the hard way when my best carpenter and mason both took a nose-dive down fifteen or so z-levels when my masons deconstructed some stairs underneath them. The mason died on the spot but the carpenter lived long enough to die an agonizing death of bleeding out. I didn't have a hospital at the time.

I would suggest you check to see what could have caused a fall in that spot. Could the child have been 1) climbing, 2) standing where another dwarf was deconstructing, or 3) dodging for some reason into open air? Any of those could potentially cause a fall. Lastly, check for wildlife, tame animals, and sparring. Wrestling is once again notorious for causing sparring injuries, and I've heard of dwarves getting involved in sparring when another dwarf is tossed into or dodges into their tile.

It seems whips are as overpowered as ever. Makes me want to train a squad of lasherdwarves.

So far I haven't gotten far enough to worry about real fortress defense. I've barely managed to get things up and running in the food, drink, and accomodations departments. This is partly due to a d_init.txt issue I had and partly due the fact that Toady's been updating quite frequently.

At the moment, I just narrowly avoided flooding my entire fortress due to a small mishap with an aquifer. My best miner nearly drowned, too. Good thing climbing exists now, or that would've been very messy. The fort's only pick and only legendary miner... mm. I suppose a one-pick challenge may not be the best way to start out when I still haven't built a real fort in .40 yet, but whatever. I'm considering methods to weaponize the aquifer. Suggestions would be appreciated.

Yeah, probably not.

So long as nothing broke, I assumed it was fine. Ah well.

I'm not using any mods. I'm planning not to until Toady has a finalized stable release and DFHack updates to the latest version.

One of the main issues with vampires is that they eventually slow down due to sobriety enforced by their [NO_DRINK] tag. In the past, I ran a very successful vampire-only fort with around 180 vamps who all had that tag removed by modifying dwarf blood to remove it. Since everyone drank dwarf blood to become a vampire, the [NO_DRINK] tag was also stripped at that time.

It makes a fort ridiculous, because every dwarf becomes extremely strong, friendly to undead units, [NO_EAT], and [NO_SLEEP]. I highly recommend it, but make sure you have a way of avoiding the effects of every job being completed in half the time. My fort eventually suffered a massive tantrum spiral when the entire fort became friends with one another and then one dwarf died of thirst when a mood failed. I tried to recover by chaining malcontents and letting everyone slack off in the dining room with the mist generators on, but two more dwarves went melancholy before I stabilized and they later brought the population down to nineteen or so.

Tragedy training is a must for any fort, especially one where - due to vampiric hyperefficiency - dwarves will have a lot of friends.

I'll try to work it up in a new fort and see if it works out ok still, and post up my findings and everything else then.

Sounds good. I'm planning several projects, one of which involves a light danger room-type setup as Staalo tried. I'll post again here when I have some more information, screenshots, and maybe preliminary results.