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[Sutremaine]

Burrows and alerts.

Check the wiki to see how they're set up, but a basic burrow system is:
:Fortress. This covers the whole map except for the parts that are outside the fortress walls topside, and the caverns if you can be bothered. Use this as a general civilian alert to stop them wandering out after stray socks and other things left outside. You can always put a single burrow tile over things you'd like collected anyway, as burrow tiles don't need to be touching.
:Safety zone. This covers food, drink, and sleeping only, and is used to keep civilians in a small safe area in case of attack.
:Threshold (optional). This covers the trade depot and any other area that's open to the outside and needs to be that way, and which your civilians only need access to at certain times. If your depot is located well behind the defensive lines, this isn't really necessary. Could also be used to control the reloading of traps.

[rutsber]

Do animals generally kill each other? I have a bunch of animals in a pasture and apparently one of my horses suffocated one of my rams.

[greycat]

Animals sometimes get frisky and fight with each other, if they're in the same pasture.  Having a lot more space for them helps, but not completely.

[rutsber]

How do I tell how much food I have? I pressed n to look but it says 600? With 500? Seeds and plant 5. Everything else but drink is none. Also, how can I get more?

[D.L.]

I've managed to kill two difficult forgotten beasts (luckily, no serious syndromes). One was made of green glass, and the other made of marcasite. My dwarves hauled the body parts to a stockpile set to accept skulls, bones, shells, teeth, and horns - can I actually make anything out of these parts, or is the game just in error? If I can, great, otherwise, I'll go atom smash them.

[DrSazar]

How do I tell how much food I have? I pressed n to look but it says 600? With 500? Seeds and plant 5. Everything else but drink is none. Also, how can I get more?

You probably don't have a "book keeper" noble. If you do have one then his recordings are probably set to the lowest precision or he dosen't have a study.

[veok]

Which labors can produce anvils out of new and interesting materials? The gem jobs and blacksmithing only or...?

[Double A]

Ok, so I have a +indigo tourmaline earring+. It's not an artifact. I don't know how I got it at all. It's worth 750, so I want to recreate this as much as possible.

edit: Just got a human caravan, they have a -copper bowl-, copper boning knife, and a copper meat cleaver. Are these things useful for anything?

Silver spiked balls (I think...), or silver warhammers, or even crossbows (since the material doesn't count, only quality).

You can't make silver crossbows in an unmodified game.  It's not an option on the menu.

You can make any weapon out of silver, dude.

[Lord Shonus]

No, you can't You can make any melee weapon out of silver. Ranged weapons use a different tag.

[Double A]

I just bought a silver crossbow from a caravan. Do humans follow different rules? Because that seems unlikely.

[Lord Shonus]

Things you can buy from caravans di not always match up with those that you can make.

[veok]

Ok, so I have a +indigo tourmaline earring+. It's not an artifact. I don't know how I got it at all. It's worth 750, so I want to recreate this as much as possible.

edit: Just got a human caravan, they have a -copper bowl-, copper boning knife, and a copper meat cleaver. Are these things useful for anything?

Firstly: Caravans bring things like Rabbit Meat and prepared honeybee brain. They do *not* play by the rules.

As to your questions: when dwarves cut gems, they have a random chance to cut a Large Gem or Gem Crafts instead, so keep cutting gems and you'll get more of those crafts.

As to the human caravan tools? Useless. Handy weapons in adventure mode, maybe, but otherwise useless.

[rutsber]

In adventure mode what button is the downstairs symbol supposed to be? I'm using the mayday pack if it helps.

[silversurfer]

Good friday was going great at the fort, then Urist mcdrunk tried to barter with the foo foo elves and them seem to think he was trying to give them the keg of beer he was drinking from (wooden barrel).  Now things have turned ugly...  Do I kill all the elves before they leave the building?  Is peace even possible at this point? 

[wuphonsreach]

Good friday was going great at the fort, then Urist mcdrunk tried to barter with the foo foo elves and them seem to think he was trying to give them the keg of beer he was drinking from (wooden barrel).  Now things have turned ugly...  Do I kill all the elves before they leave the building?  Is peace even possible at this point?

Kill all but one, or offer them even more wood.

(Elvish ambushes are fun.  And it stops them from bringing bin after bin full of near-useless cloth.)