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The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.

The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Durin's Day.

A king he was on carven throne
In many-pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
The light of sun and star and moon
In shining lamps of crystal hewn
Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
There shone for ever fair and bright.

There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
The delver mined, the mason built.
There beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
And metal wrought like fishes' mail,
Buckler and corslet, axe and sword,
And shining spears were laid in hoard.

Unwearied then were Durin's folk;
Beneath the mountains music woke:
The harpers harped, the minstrels sang,
And at the gates the trumpets rang.

The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm.
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere;
There lies his crown in water deep,
Till Durin wakes again from sleep.

You can track which tools have been validated in the steam release here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hiDlo8M_bB_1jE-5HRs2RrrA_VZ4cRu9VXaTctX_nwk/edit?usp=drivesdk

Check the Tools sheet. We're validating them in "waves". Right now we're in wave 2.

• Reanimation takes more time and/or have a cooldown. Have them start at the largest thing in range, and then a noticeable wait before next thing (maybe 500-1k frames? Should make an reanimation per around 10-30 seconds). This alone should take care of most of the lag.
• Minimum weight to reanimate: Not only there's relatively little combat point in reanimating a very small left hand or something, having every piece getting reanimated means the game lags something fierce when a heavy battles means body pieces are flying around.
• It's a bit more of an accessory suggestion, not something that'd solve the problem on its own, but having undead decay and die on their own (at least on non-evil biomes and/or non-intelligent undead). They don't seem stay hostile against the next enemy attack anyway, so all they are doing there is eating the fps. Having them eventually die off automatically should help reduce the accumulation entities in the fortress zone. I'm thinking maybe a season or two, giving plenty of time, but still dying off in good time. Maybe have dependent on environment, with them dying off faster in good biomes? I know, dfhack already has a script for this too, but the software is not yet available for .50, plus, if I recall correctly, it also affects the intelligent undead visitors you occasionally can get.