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[Fleeting Frames]

You could also hit it with minecarts or ballista. Latter is usually pretty weak, but beings literally made of fire break apart really easily.

[xZippy]

Real dumb question, but when you enable a labor for a dwarf and they do said new labor, will they gain the skill of what they're doing at a normal pace?

[Fleeting Frames]

±50%, depending on focus. Plus whatever slight impact attributes and possibly preferences have.

Also, dabbling dwarves work slower (which is more than balanced out by higher levels needing more experience).

[xZippy]

Do dwarves care about the size of your fortress/placed being crowded?

[Fleeting Frames]

Sorta. While they can share a tile by being prone, they'll try to seek another pass instead of walking through another dwarf in your hallways, and don't like too crowded taverns - in fact, if you channel an 1x1 hole and put a tavern in there on embark, your game will freeze, to the point where you can't pause.

Neither of those causes any bad thoughts. Eating at a crowded table (that is, a table surrounded by multiple chairs used by dwarves for eating) can give bad, or sometimes good thought, as well as help with "meeting" counter for socialization purposes.

On very rare occassions, I've seen a crowded stairway result in stepping off the stair, and crowded 1-wide walkway next to path to magma result in ‼dwarf‼, and Goatmaan also reported something similar once. But I'm not sure that's related to crowding or personal relationships or something else. These injuries can indeed result in bad thoughts.

Similarly indirectly, if they're crowded together with dogs, the dogs may attack them due overcrowding, and this may make dwarves upset.

[Ianflow]

Seems so, but them having population and you being what they wish to attack most is also important (though you can amolieorate that with raids in .44). I think fort population also matters, given how there's two "lower tiers" sieger caps in memory based on what you set it at.

Yeah from what I was reading on the wiki about civ tags sieges tend to ramp up.
From what I understand it generally goes
- fort wealth, exported wealth, fort pop (I don't know if it chooses the highest, or a mixture)
- intensity of the last siege
- available troops and beasts

There's some definite leeway, but the goblins aren't sending a 100gobbo siege for their first one just because you have the wealth+pops to merit one.

Do your dwarves have rooms? I tried a communist fort once, where no one owned anything. It didn’t work too well

I'm a bit late to this one too, but you've got a misconception about how communism works, and the issue that dwarves tend to prefer a place to sleep with a measure of privacy.
Generally within any given fort, most everything the average dwarf owns is their personal property rather than private, at least in that it can be disowned or re-assigned at a later point in time. Chairs, swords, earrings, flasks, etc and the like. Dwarves also for the most part don't care if the only way for you to reach your bedroom is to go through their's even while they're busy sleeping.
The general exceptions to this is the land-owning nobles and their hierarchical system, but even then it's kind of loose as dwarves aren't inherently deprived of food and drink, or claiming personal property.

It's a decent joke, but it also just doesn't work due to that error.

Similarly indirectly, if they're crowded together with dogs, the dogs may attack them due overcrowding, and this may make dwarves upset.

you won't believe how long it took for me to realize there was a reason my dogs would attack their puppies.
If you're going to station a wardog in a 1x1 pasture folks, remember to move their litter (they usually won't die but still)

[xZippy]

Do animals with shells or really tough hides have sort of realistic more-than-average "immunity" to some damage?

[anewaname]

Do animals with shells or really tough hides have sort of realistic more-than-average "immunity" to some damage?

Most creatures have layers, of muscle, fat, skin, and some have additional growths (hair, horns, scales, shells). Each layer represents an obstacle to whatever is attempting to damage the creature. You also need to consider the size of the creature, because this effects the thickness of the layers on that creature.

So if you compare a dwarf to an elephant, the elephant's hide might be thick enough to deflect some weak attacks that would have hurt the dwarf, and if you compare a giant tortoise to a forgotten beast (that has a shell), the FB is shell is going to be a lot tougher. I suspect shells also work as a "shaped" layers, capable of deflecting blows in the way that armor does. I'm not sure how scales work, but they probably provide more protection than skin and less than shell.

So, shells and hides do provide some additional protection, by reducing incoming damage, based on the "mass" and "material composition" of that layer.

[Ulfarr]

Animals with shells/scales are sure tougher than creatures without, but that toughness usually doesn't really come into play outside of combat with really crappy weapons (light weight non edged weapons, wooden arrows etc). I have an anecdote of an armadillo that was locked in combat for months because it's shell would deflect every blow my militia/hunters would throw at it.

Spoiler: old post of mine from the "what's going on in your fort" thread (click to show/hide)

(Modded civ play test)

My 2 hunters were locked in battle with an armadillo sow for a couple of months with no party managing to score anything but glancing hits. Eventually I formed a militia squad armed with wooden clubs but even they would have trouble scoring any meaningful hit. It took them two seasons until one of the hunters grabbed the armadillo from the tongue and threw it around ripping the tongue apart and causing the animal to bleed to it’s death.

I had now three legendary wrestlers. The most interesting part was that in the initial (pre militia) period the civilians would bring food and water to the hunters while they were busy wrestling the armadillo.

[Psilobe]

My fortress got one temple. Went to build a library, but when I assign location there are now multiple to choose from. One correspond to the temple name but I'm not sure what the rest do.

Is there an easy way to view your locations and what they are for? Does other things like hospital, water, plant gathering etc also create location names?

[Large Wereroach]

Hi there. Is there a way to make use of forgotten beasts remains that I couldn't figure out yet?
e.g. right now I have a FB "jelly opal" in my refuse stockpile, or I had FB ash etc. Given the amount of bones they provide me with, I was hoping to receive a similar amount of gems  or other stuff...

[Fleeting Frames]

@Psilobe: One is your fortress as whole. One is made each time you create a new temple, tavern or library. If you reclaim a worldgen fortress, the zones in its tavern can also be pre-assigned to locations the worldgen fortress had.

Rest of zones don't have a location, though you can find them in the 'R'ooms menu - though this is easier if you rename them from "Activity zone #1234" to something more human like "NW underground hospital".

@Large Wereroach: Only with modding (or possibly mooding - haven't tested). You could simply edit a relatively unimportant smelter reaction, or do something more involved with devel/inject-raws (example with display cases). Maybe something mirroring how leather gets treated as globs to get multiple items out of them? Someone more skilled with modding will have to answer what form of reaction would be proper.

[Large Wereroach]

@Fleeting Frames thanks. I don't feel like going into modding (yet ), I'm still challenged with the micromanagement that comes by default. Also it's not like I haven't got enough gems . So into the dump they go.

[TomiTapio]

Press "l" (lowercase L) to view your fort's locations. There you can assign scholars, inn and temple performers, messengers.
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Occupation
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Messenger

[xZippy]

You know when a liaison sets up the "priority" for items they want? Is there a way to go back and check that?