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[Sphalerite]

If the creature wasn't a tame animal belonging to your fortress, isn't rotted, is large enough to butcher, and isn't intelligent, then you should be able to butcher it, even if it was killed by your soldiers or traps or whatever.

[agatharchides]

If one of my dorf dips gets forgotten beast crap in it, do I risk the spread of contagion?

[Buttery_Mess]

It occurred to me recently that trees don't seem to grow on tiles assigned as stockpiles. Or are they, but simply obscured? I was wondering if this could be used to stop certain tunnels from clogging up with trees.

[bobhayes]

It occurred to me recently that trees don't seem to grow on tiles assigned as stockpiles. Or are they, but simply obscured? I was wondering if this could be used to stop certain tunnels from clogging up with trees.

They don't and it can. They'll even stop growing if still in sprout mode. But you can't build a stockpile over an existing full-grown tree. It's a bit of a realism hole, since things like smoothed floors *don't* stop growth.

"What are you doing, Urist?"
"Laying down aSmoothing this nice marble floor so that this sluiceway won't get overgrown."
"That won't work. To make trees and bushes stop growing you have to intend to store socks here."
"Huh?"
"Yeah. Just think hard about how this tunnel will be Sock Storage Depot #13."
"OK....done."
"Now nothing will ever grow here again."
"Praise Armok, for his ways are mysterious and somewhat illogical!"

[Sphalerite]

Constructed floors do block the growth of trees.  Smoothed floors don't.

[Buttery_Mess]

Well smoothed floors with no mud on them won't support trees.

Thanks for the advice, this is going to help me keep my emergency escape tunnel/goblin lure tunnel open.

[tolkafox]

Just make sure that the stockpile isn't actually going to have anything stored in it (I usually use coin stockpiles since I never make coins) and that no bins/barrels are being stored in it. I forget the bin/barrel part and had 5 dwarves trying to bring bins to stockpiles up an irrigation canal that was being flooded by a river.

[Ghills]

I just had a cat adopt someone while the game was paused. Is this supposed to happen?

[Sphalerite]

It's probably not supposed to, but it does.

[Ghills]

OK. Well, we've already got quantum mechanics, I guess we can have time-traveling cats too. It's just irritating.

[monk12]

I've also noticed that while navigating screens while paused, you can be interrupted by liason/trader messages.

[Flaede]

Time does in fact pass while the game is paused. I think certain commands/actions allow one or two ticks to go by while the game switches screens or does something. I've had dwarves haul things, start moods, die, and many other things go on while I'm paused for lengthy periods.

[obeliab]

I've sometimes read about dwarves more-or-less randomly falling off of walkways and platforms, but I've never seen this outside of dodging and untimely digging.  Can this really happen?  How does it happen?

[Flaede]

I've sometimes read about dwarves more-or-less randomly falling off of walkways and platforms, but I've never seen this outside of dodging and untimely digging.  Can this really happen?  How does it happen?

dodging can be triggered by tame animals (even more so now), so that helps. I know that slipping because of mud is planned, but I don't ever recall hearing it was in.

[RiderofDark]

If I use a setup like this:

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CCCCCCCCCCCC
CbbbbbbbbbbC
CbbbbbbbbbbC
CbbbbbbbbbbC
CCCCCCCCCCCC
C = Closed bridge
b = retractable bridge

Will the retractable bridge get destroyed if I obsidianize on it? Will I be able to retract the bridge?