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Indeed, chickens do hunt vermin.  Including big garden spiders.  I was messing with a garden spider, poking it with a stick, and one of the chickens walked over and grabbed the thing, splattering me with its guts.  Did you know garden spider guts are sort of a grayish-brownish color?

What did you expect to happen when 2000 degree magma got acquainted with a dwarf? 

Glycerol is a chemical compound also commonly called glycerin or glycerine. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid that is widely used in pharmaceutical formulations. Glycerol is a sugar alcohol, and is sweet-tasting and of low toxicity.

http://www.pioneerthinking.com/glycerin.html

The process of removing the glycerin from the soap is fairly complicated (and of course, there are a lot of variations on the theme). In the most simplest terms: you make soap out of fats and lye. The fats already contain glycerin as part of their chemical makeup (both animal and vegetable fats contain from 7% - 13% glycerine). When the fats and lye interact, soap is formed, and the glycerin is left out as a "byproduct". But, while it's chemically separate, it's still blended into the soap mix.

While a cold process soapmaker would simply pour into the molds at this stage, a commercial soapmaker will add salt. The salt causes the soap to curdle and float to the top. After skimming off the soap, they are left with glycerin (and lots of "impurities" like partially dissolved soap, extra salt, etc.). They then separate the glycerin out by distilling it. Finally, they de-colorize the glycerin by filtering it through charcoal, or by using some other bleaching method.

We have discovered a new alcohol.  We must have it!

He doesn't only do negative reviews.  Listen to his portal review.

I even had my seven starting dwarves die out of dehydration after they fell unconcious in their beds! >_>

That's not because of the worldgen:
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=20488.0

Minimum Volcanism:  Setting this to anything other than zero appears to cause infinite rejects.
Minimum Volcano Number: Setting this to its maximum has no detrimental effect that I could tell.  Volcanoes everywhere!

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Originally posted by darknight:
<STRONG>Things could get ugly in the future, when enemies can tunnel into a complex. If they can do that, then they could cut in thru an engraved wall or floor. So you could end up with invaders digging in on one side, and a berserk engraver on the other, with the other dwarves stuck between them. Nice thought!</STRONG>

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The logical outcome of that scenario would be for the goblin to dig through the wall and see a purple-faced legendary engraver, who would promptly make a masterwork engraving in the goblin's skull.