I'm not sure why smoke keeps popping up in my fort.
The first time I saw smoke was in my workshop room. I hadn't installed the magma furnace yet, and it was centered around my stonecraft workshop (not the wood furnace). I've only butchered a small number of animals, and each time I butcher something, the room got flooded with smoke (is this normal). I don't recall the other instances, but it seems like smoke randomly appears every now and then and then goes away without any indication of what caused it or damage. Except for this last time.
One of my soldiers went into my food stockpile which has been filled with smoke for quite some time (I can't remember when it started, but my save happened only seconds before this incident, so I can't trace it back). He comes out on fire and then bleeds to death. I examined each tile in the stockpile, and I see no suspicious objects.
My questions are:
a) Is smoke always indicative of fire?
b) Does fire show up when I examine a tile?
c) Any idea how this smoke and possibly fire is getting generated?
This is from DF Wiki:
"A touch warm" means that, when eaten, Fire Imp meat will cause a flurry of cancelled jobs as dwarves rush for beverages instead.
My soldier's death seems a lot more extreme than this, but could this possibly be related?
I have killed 2 fire imps (one may have been butchered), and I've got guards stationed around the other two which are floating around the magma pipe.
This is my first post, so I'll ask my two other noob questions:
d) Every time I save and quit, there is about a 1/3 chance that the game crashes. I have not fiddled with save folders, and I am running Vista. Any ideas about the cause or the cure?
e) Why won't my dwarves carry metal bolts? I have forbidden all bolts but metal, changed weapons in [m] to get them to swap out and back into crossbow, have dumped all wooden bolts, and read the relevant DF wiki articles. One of the three pulled his head out of his ass and picked up steel bolts, but one has a crossbow and no bolts (at least they aren't in his quiver or displayed in the inventory) and the third is using wooden again (I took them off forbidden since my earlier frustration for training). They are all on duty.