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There does not seem to be a way to filter out streams and brooks in the site finder in 50.12 version. I'm trying to embark on a major river with iron and flux, and the results are quite numerous since the game includes all streams and maybe brooks too.

Also, is there a way to help world gen generate more major rivers?

So my fort had 3 military squads and thus 30 warriors. One was armed with spears, one with axes and one with hammers. All iron equipment, mostly good quality but not masterworks. The hammer squad wasn't trained very well but the other two were. I got invaded by about 60 undead, with roughly 50 walking corpses and 10 intelligent undead leading them. All in a mix of iron, bronze and copper equipment.

I figured that this should be a relatively even fight as the invaders were strung out in a stretched column from map edge to my drawbridge, so I gathered my dwarfs at the entrance, lowered the drawbridge and sent them out to kill.

Imagine my shock when ALL of my military dwarves got slaughtered and only little under 20 undead were killed. As far as I can tell, my dwarves didn't get swarmed and it was the intelligent undead that proved to be my undoing - one of them was fighting three of my dwarves and he slew all of them.

Is it because undead feel no pain and suffer no blood loss? Should I have re-trained my military as 30 hammer users? Should I have waited until I have steel and adamantium gear? Or are undead better dealt with traps instead of a straight-up fight?

Just as background info, these three squads have killed cyclops and giants with zero problems, as well as fought off a goblin invasion (3:1 odds) with only like two casualties. Which is why the undead prowess in battle really took me by surprise.

In multiple forts I've now had the problem where the marksdwarves dodge through the fortification in front of them and end up falling out of the archery tower to their deaths. At first I thought the problem was that I had carved entire segments of walls into fortifications but the problem persists even if there's only 2 out of the 14 possible wall tiles. Then I experimented and even if there's only 1 open tile, one marksdwarf after another will dodge through that single open tile and fall into the throng of goblins outside.

So, it seems to me that archery towers are now completely useless if the enemy has any ranged units and every siege has them. I guess archery tower might be useful against necromancers and beasts still but this is very disheartening. Are there some funky layout tricks I can use to eliminate this or should I just focus on traps and melee instead?

Does a military squad need as many weapon racks and armor stands as it has members?

Do military dwarves need personal bedrooms if they are sleeping in the barracks? Conversely, do they need beds in the barracks if they have bedrooms already?

Does every Marksdwarf in the squad require their own archery target?

I assigned my Sharpshooter squad to train 5 at a minimum, every month, in the hope that the 5 not training melee would on their own train archery but they didn't do that. Do I need to have all 10 training for one month, then the whole squad without orders the next month? Wiki talks of inactivity but if I set the squad Inactive in the Alerts window, they only do their civilian jobs.

And finally, is there a minimum space required in the barracks for sparring?

I started with a 4x4 area when I meant to do a 6x6 area. Somehow, I didn't realize until now, about ten years into the fort. Everything is going really well so I don't want to abandon this fort. Is there any tricks for enlargement of my fort area?

Also, I insulted the elven caravan by offering them a wooden item by mistake. I'm not at war with them so will the caravan eventually return? I want to buy their giant grizzly bears!

I'm planning a challenge fort with the main aim of accomplishing whale/shark/serpent/sea monster hunting, something that I've never done before. I know about biomes and surroundings, but what I would like to know is how to maximize the chances of such massive aquatic creatures spawning in my corner of the map. Is it better to have 1 tile of land and rest ocean or will that just kill my FPS? Is 1 tile of ocean enough to spawn every type of creature allowed by that biome?

Are there any other hints & tips you'd like to share?