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[DalmoTheDwarf]

I've got a miasma problem. Not sure exactly how but a giant hamster has found his way into my dining room, where he decided to die (I assume starvation because he was following one of the migrants that came). Now I keep getting miasma. I have a corpse and a refuse stockpile outside (Not sure which he belongs to) but I can't seem to get any of my dwarfs to get rid of his rotting carcass. How can I prioritize the hauling of his body out of my dining hall?

Also, any quick tips for fps improvement?

[anewaname]

For the dead giant hamster, check if the body is located in a non-pathable tile. All workshops have some non-pathable tiles, and statues and archery targets are also non-pathable. If an item lands in one of those tiles, your dwarfs cannot get to the item and you need to deconstruct the building. Fighting near workshops often results in this problem. If the item can be pathed to and it is not forbidden, and the stockpiles are set to take from anywhere, then the job should be done when there are jobless dwarfs available.

There are dozens of threads referencing FPS... Here is a recent one with a link to a video that covers many FPS concepts. Each of the concepts he mentions is something that can effect FPS to one degree or another.

[PatrikLundell]

Hauling is a low priority task, and there's little to no priority between different hauling tasks (trade goods excepted), with miasma or the risk of food rotting having no weight whatsoever. To ensure hauling you'd need to disable all competing jobs (which includes higher priority ones such as crafting) on one or more dorfs and return them to their normal duty only after the offending item has been scheduled. I believe pets are hauled by corpse hauling and corpses of other trained animals are considered refuse.

If you've just opened access to a cavern and everyone is busy hauling old bones: good luck... You should forbid all that garbage in the cavern and/or close off access to it to get the buggers to deal with the immediate issue

[TomiTapio]

Also, any quick tips for fps improvement?

- short world history (25 to 70 years), not 1000 years
- 2x2 embark
- worldgen a medium island, not large region
- don't open up the caves
- generate world that has no cave layers
- topside fort, zero digging
- modding a reaction to destroy unwanted stuff (cremate bodyparts, burn clothes, burn toys, grind rocks to dust)

On the corpse: Go to stocks screen, forbid all bodyparts & corpses, then in the trouble zone do a mass un-forbid. (d-b-d? d-b-f?)

[PatrikLundell]

A world without caverns can't have dwarves, so such a world would either be adventure mode only, or require modded races. A single cavern works, though.

[feelotraveller]

Also, any quick tips for fps improvement?

Biggest factor by far in fps is pathing. 

Limiting pathing can be achieved by restricting the number of creatures (dwarfs, animals) and/or by fortress design - quick suggestions include trying to ensure only one possible way to get to each location, making workshops and stockpiles deadends, placing material stockpiles close to the workshops that need them, having only one main staircase of limited size, using intelligent traffic restrictions, etc.

Reading http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Path and working out your own recipe is highly recommended. 

[Fleeting Frames]

Oh yeah, the fps question. *considers* *types* *erases*

Pretty much the only quickly applied advice that isn't very commonplace and springs to mind is to try making a backup of your fortress save, and retiring-unretiring that. This can reset your pathing map from digging, and can help your fps or hurt it for reasons I'm not quite sure about. Wiki article on unretire/reclaim is useful reading for this for sticking with a fortress this was done on. For a more commonplace one, avoid things that toggle walkable state frequently, such as fluctating water levels or doors linked to repeater.