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[UristMcVampire]

Edible socks.

[MasterOfLazdumat]

Upon setting up a library, a noble from the Scribes' Guild arrives to make sure that no unauthorized copies are made. Doing so is a hammerable offense. If the justice system is not set up, the noble sends a siege against the fortress. Due to a bug, it is impossible to petition to make authorized copies.

[BigUglyWorm]

I actually really love the idea of kobold caravans.  Namely, I love the idea that they don't actually know what caravans are or how trade works, but they've watched the Tall Folks come with their wagons, offloading certain things at the fortress and taking other things away (often shiny things!).  So now they've built a cart from sticks lashed together with ivy and loaded all their Illicit Treasures on it, convinced that if they just fork over enough copper coins and silver crossbow bolts, they can finally get that masterwork adamantine helm they've always wanted.
Honestly, it's like watching little kids pretending to run a store.

[delphonso]

Rather than trading at all, they should just unload random things in your trade depot and take random things from your stockpiles. They don't quite get it, but understand why everyone is always so pleased with trading.

[anewaname]

Betty-Boop-style cartoon logic: anything and everything can, at any point, spontaneously spring to life, usually just long enough to perform a couple simple actions.  Barrels will drink booze from themselves, trees will hurl fruit at passersby, tables will donkey-kick dorfs in the ribs, etc.

Additionally, any time music is played in your fortress, inanimate objects will bob, sway, and hop about in time with it.  Try not to get motion sick as your entire tavern--musicians, guests, tables, chairs, and even engravings--does the salsa.

This would be a great interaction for savage good biomes. You suddenly receive job cancellation spam and find a dozen animated barrels in your tavern, doing a dance.

[Azerty]

Upon setting up a library, a noble from the Scribes' Guild arrives to make sure that no unauthorized copies are made. Doing so is a hammerable offense. If the justice system is not set up, the noble sends a siege against the fortress. Due to a bug, it is impossible to petition to make authorized copies.

Intellectual property actually has a long history before the 1400s.

[PlumpHelmetMan]

I actually really love the idea of kobold caravans.  Namely, I love the idea that they don't actually know what caravans are or how trade works, but they've watched the Tall Folks come with their wagons, offloading certain things at the fortress and taking other things away (often shiny things!).  So now they've built a cart from sticks lashed together with ivy and loaded all their Illicit Treasures on it, convinced that if they just fork over enough copper coins and silver crossbow bolts, they can finally get that masterwork adamantine helm they've always wanted.
Honestly, it's like watching little kids pretending to run a store.

Honestly I'd probably give them the helm 90% of the time, just out of pity.

[BigUglyWorm]

Honestly I'd probably give them the helm 90% of the time, just out of pity.

The real secret weapon of the kobolds: being lovably pathetic.

[BigUglyWorm]

Adamantine is now highly radioactive, it's coloration resulting from Cherenkov radiation.

[compsognathus]

Adamantine is now highly radioactive, it's coloration resulting from Cherenkov radiation.

A radioactive mineral is not a bad suggestion.
It could have mythological, magical, religious meanings. cursed artifacts, malign structures etc.
In the future, researchers could discover the secret and destroy myths and religions that were built on it.

I have read many good suggestions in this thread.

[BigUglyWorm]

Adamantine is now highly radioactive, it's coloration resulting from Cherenkov radiation.

A radioactive mineral is not a bad suggestion.
It could have mythological, magical, religious meanings. cursed artifacts, malign structures etc.
In the future, researchers could discover the secret and destroy myths and religions that were built on it.

I have read many good suggestions in this thread.

My thinking was more that the best metal for arms and armor now gives your dwarves radiation poisoning and cancer.  I'd love to see radioactive materials, as long as they're other materials.

[delphonso]

Lead poisoning -

Dwarves go mad if they drink out of lead goblets too often, or if their bedroom walls are rich in lead.

[King Zultan]

A radioactive mineral is not a bad suggestion.

At some point there really should be repercussions for using pitchblende for barrels.

[UristMcVampire]

You can eat adamantine, but eating it turns you gay.

[scourge728]

So it's the dwarf version of pink kryptonite? (That is a real thing btw)