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[ColonelTEE3]

Ghosts -- made me quit my last couple forts. Insanely, unfathomably annoying. I got ghosts of people who never existed alive, and could not be put to rest, and ghosts of dwarfs who died in ways that made it either very difficult or impossible to put their bodies to rest, and my game would stagger and slug to a halt from the ghosts. Is there any way to turn them off yet?

And how much more complicated has the game become in the last year?

Lastly -- my best fort i ever had succumbed to a pandemic of forgotten beast sludge that was impossible to eradicate because it grew and spread at an exponential rate, attaching itself to every side of every object and orifice of everything everywhere, and it would spontaneously melt the skin of my dwarfs (often they would step on it, and seconds later the bottom of their foot would be destroyed and they'd bleed out in seconds). Despite my best efforts i could never clean the fort of blood, ooze, puke, and all the other lovely fluids coming from anything that breathed; it always ended up reappearing somewhere, in large piles.

Basically to sum up this last question - how much does unwanted fluid spread now and how hard is it to clean?

[Muttonhawk]

Well for the ghosts you can make slabs, then tell your craftsdwarf workshops to engrave the slabs as memorials to each dwarf of which one of you troublesome ghosts is named, then plonk the slabs anywhere. Bob's your uncle, one sleepy spirit! Rinse and repeat as necessary for each ghost.

[Monkeyfacedprickleback]

Are you playing the most recent version? Because I know in the current version you can turn off liquids be tracked through the fort by animals and stuff. For the liquids if you want to get rid of them build something ontop of the floor tile and it'll clean the tile of filth.

If you are playing an older version it's probably better to keep upgraded.

[Ieb]

Ghost lag has been fixed, although I recommend trying your very best to get all those god damn merchants and their guards buried. I think they were the main culprit in the past when it came to ghosts, hanging around and being a pain in the ass because you couldn't make a memorial slab for 'em.

Also, check out DFhack and cleanmap tool. Cleans all stains from the entire map in one go, although like said, fluids don't get smeared all over fucking everywhere like in early DF2010 thanks to init settings.

I also think that cleaning got it's priorities fixed a bit, but it's still wonky. Like I have an entrance tunnel in the soil that got it's moss floor and sand walls stained with kobold blood during an ambush, and it never got cleaned. Meanwhile, killing a FB in the caverns and it's blood being smeared all over gets cleaned up quite often. Which can be a pain if you don't have a fort that's located in the caverns and lacks walls to keep wildlife at bay. Like when your god damn legendary weaponsmith goes clean some crundle blood that's right next to a cave dragon, or something.

[Quantumtroll]

Bryan Derksen actually managed to reclaim Battlefailed, a fortress with so much evil sludge that dwarves' clothes were so completely covered by it that a simple punch would fatally infect and poison even Forgotten Beasts. 

If Battlefailed could be made clean, anything is possible.

[ColonelTEE3]

I remember using the DF clean map thingy before and i had to do it a dozen times because things kept reappearing, but if theres a way to stop trailing it, i bet i could enjoy it a lot more.

I read some guy made a fort with a cap of 0 (which i thought meant there was no cap?) and all the dwarfs there were descendants of the original 7, i really liked that notion, mostly because im sick of tending to hundreds of worthless Novice Soap Makers and Cheese Makers.

[Ieb]

Yeah, you can do that even if you have a dwarf civ that's still alive, although you will get 2 migrant waves no matter what, I recall. Or maybe it was that only with dead dwarf civs you don't get any migrant waves?

Anyway, with a pop cap edit you can easily have a small fort and take your time to expand. Although you need to get your dorfs paired up. Assuming they have compatible personalities.

[Sutremaine]

all the dwarfs there were descendants of the original 7, i really liked that notion, mostly because im sick of tending to hundreds of worthless Novice Soap Makers and Cheese Makers.

At least you can make them do something else. Children are useless for 12 years and you end up with dwarven conga lines.