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Go the animals menu from the z menu and designate the animals with x. I believe you can also v iew the animal then go to it's p whatever that screen is called and designate from there, but I haven't really played the newest update.

WEll the part of the code that determines body proportions is this
"   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:75:95:98:100:102:105:125]
      [APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:500]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:75:95:98:100:102:105:125]
      [APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:500]"
Those numbers being the exact same for humans, dwarves, elves, and goblins. I'm guessing the reason it's like that is for the in-game descriptions. If you changed the height numbers to something like 50:70:73:75:77:80:100 then when you looked at the description of what a dwarf looked like all of them would be called short except the very rare extremely tall dwarves whose height simply wouldn't be noted at all. It's the same things for broadness it bases the description with 100 as the standard no matter what the actual average is.

I've found similar things with the age of myth lasting much longer in the more recent version, however it's not a bug as worlds still go into the other ages just fine. It's instead that more megabeasts are surviving because megabeasts were really buffed up in world generation. I used to generate medium worlds with 100 megabeasts and 150 semimegabeasts and it would turn to the age of heroes before year 200. Now I do that, all civs except maybe one goblin civ get wiped out before year 200.

I remember testing for the message myself and just getting two humans one being grand master at unarmed combat and just punching the other one in the lower body over and over and it worked. I'd guess the requirement is any hit at all it doesn't even need to be a strong one.

Going to war with elves isn't very dangerous once you get a military with three dwarves with base quality copper equipment, so I wouldn't worry about it.

I had a fortress once (in the last version number) where I captured a whole bunch of elven and goblin prisoners and wanted to try setting them loose in an artificial cave system rather than use them in my arena as I had been. It took a long time as the cave was quite big, but eventually I got a large artificial cave with a small hole to drop prisoners into it. I dropped a bunch of goblins, elves, and the horses the elves brought into the cave and I don't remember how long it took, but eventually the elves, goblins, and horses alike all started having children. I know that in most cases the foals were instantly killed by all groups in the cave probably due to some strange thing with how allegiances are calculated. However I don't know if the goblin or elf children were killed as soon as they were born which is probably quite important to this idea. Another thing important to the idea though is invaders having children and I know they normally don't, and I don't know exactly what caused my invaders to have children, but I can make a few guesses. Of course the attack had ended by the time they were thrown in there because if it hadn't then the elves wouldn't have invaded after the goblins so that could be a part of it, the ambush or siege being officially over. Thinking about everything that's the only real thing I think might have changed the outcome from them not having any children to them having them, though if that doesn't work I could make a few more guesses that I really doubt would work.

I consider animal hair thread quite an important material since thread is instantly made into cloth otherwise and animal hair thread isn't used for anything so it can be used in a hospital.