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[GaxkangtheUnbound]

He had a whole list and was ecstatic, and then. . .
[...]
No more thoughts. He became content.

This occurs at the end of every year. Or season. I forget.

He had all the thoughts at the beginning of year two. It's still spring.

[monk12]

He had a whole list and was ecstatic, and then. . .
[...]
No more thoughts. He became content.

This occurs at the end of every year. Or season. I forget.

He had all the thoughts at the beginning of year two. It's still spring.

He achieved Swords Nirvana, a plane of pure peace and contentment, the point at which all becomes clear, easy, simple, perfect, the status of the true Swordsmaster, the Enlightened, the Oneness.

Now that I've been actively unhelpful, I regret to say that I do not know of the phenomena to which you refer. I do know that thoughts have a timer, where they are strongest while fresh, then fade and kick around his memory for a while, and then disappear. I do not know when this occurs, and it is certainly odd that he would not already have new thoughts to replace the old.

[Uzu Bash]

There's a dead dog sitting unmoved in part of the fort that no enemy has reached in years. There are plenty of pet coffins available, even more than the day he died. The dwarves have shuffled every other body around between refuse and graveyard stockpiles, but won't move this even if I mark it Dump. And it's still mutilated, not skeletal and no sign of rot. I don't recall if it ever released a miasma.

[Sphalerite]

Did you reclaim the fortress?  Objects which are tasked for a job when the fortress are abandoned are untouchable when you reclaim, and dead bodies stuck in this state won't even rot.  You can get it unstuck by channeling out the floor under it.

[Tinker Thinker]

I've seen references to limiting the number of migrants who can come to a fortress.

How?

I loathe migrants, they always mess up my plans. . .

[Uzu Bash]

Did you reclaim the fortress?  Objects which are tasked for a job when the fortress are abandoned are untouchable when you reclaim, and dead bodies stuck in this state won't even rot.  You can get it unstuck by channeling out the floor under it.

No, it's an original embark, and the dog died during it. It has moved, though oddly. When I marked it Dump, it didn't even generate a Dump Item job, and I marked a few different items for dumping to get a list to check. I left it alone to queue some contruction work, when I scanned past the area it had been moved to the nearest dump zone.

Still no sign of rot. This dog was killed a loooong time ago, still a mutilated corpse, while everything else on the corpse list is a partial skeleton by now.

[plynxis]

pyramid power? maybe you built one over it by accident

[GJScarritt]

I've seen references to limiting the number of migrants who can come to a fortress.

How?

I loathe migrants, they always mess up my plans. . .

In the Init.txt settings, Population.  Set it to 10 or whatever.  Your first two waves are hard-coded tho, but once you hit the pop cap, no more will come. 

If you don't even want the first two waves, then lock them out and let the Invaders kill them off (or let them starve outside).   Since they aren't friends with anyone inside, there will be no bad thoughts when they die.

[tolkafox]

There's a dead dog sitting unmoved in part of the fort that no enemy has reached in years. There are plenty of pet coffins available, even more than the day he died. The dwarves have shuffled every other body around between refuse and graveyard stockpiles, but won't move this even if I mark it Dump. And it's still mutilated, not skeletal and no sign of rot. I don't recall if it ever released a miasma.

Not sure about the dogs inability to rot, but I believe only petted animals can be buried.

There's only two solutions I can offer you: Collapse a few floors on the dog or cast it in obsidian (it's already dead, right?)

[FuzzyZergling]

Question: are wooden weapons from elves better than training weapons?
Also, what about wooden armor, is it bottom tier trash, or better than leather, at least?

[rephikul]

Question: are wooden weapons from elves better than training weapons?
Also, what about wooden armor, is it bottom tier trash, or better than leather, at least?

Wooden weapons are regular weapons made of wood. A wooden spear still have tip 10 times sharper then a wooden training spear.

Wood is more rigid and have better edge resistance then leather.

EDIT: bone is about 5-10 times harder then wood while having similar density to most brown overland wood


Now, my own question:
Do windmill, screw pump and water moving around generate noise? I'm planning to build a great waterfall in my meeting hall but with current design it'd also go through the bed room and might cause disturbances.

[Diverso]

So, after my pitting experiments i've got quite a bunch of kobold and goblin corpses in refuse stockpiles.(partial skeletons already) How do i get rid of those?

[Pirate]

I've killed a FB and a dragon. Can I butcher their corpses and how ?

[SandehBear]

I've captured several horses and want to start taming/butchering them. I haven't bothered to set up an automatic butching system so the former is probably easier for the moment.
Trouble is, can't get horses out of cages without them running amok. I would ideally restrain them, but as soon as I get them out of the cages they run off, so I can't tame, can't restrain to let them start breeding. What am I doing wrong, most people seem to do this easily?

[drkpaladin]

I've captured several horses and want to start taming/butchering them. I haven't bothered to set up an automatic butching system so the former is probably easier for the moment.
Trouble is, can't get horses out of cages without them running amok. I would ideally restrain them, but as soon as I get them out of the cages they run off, so I can't tame, can't restrain to let them start breeding. What am I doing wrong, most people seem to do this easily?

You tame the horses from the kennels while they are still in the cage.  You don't release them before taming them, unless you want them to run amok.  Just queue up the Tame Large Animal job while they are in the cage they were caught in, then you can safely move them around or release them.