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[MDFification]

So... my fortress was chugging along normally, ignoring the undead crawling around outside, when I got the message: "An ambush. Curse them!" Zooming to the location, I saw some grizzly bears, okapi and horses, all of them named. There are no "conventional invaders" that I can see. What the hell?

The image of the unit list:

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The image of the ambush itself (the background is blood on snow [evil region - blood rain])

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My guess would be that's an ordinary ambush that brought trained animals and mounts for whatever reason. So the invaders are still hidden, but their animals aren't stealthed.
That or the Okapi and the Horses have teamed up and are en route to feed you to their war bears.

[lukstra]

An instant after un-pausing, another ambush message went off, revealing meowkins riding the animals. Strange that the animals, excluding the riders, are seen first.

EDIT:
A cascade of ambush messages went off. Currently there are about 80 meowkin invaders! So much for a race that: "see war as an obstacle
to profit and fun."

[narhiril]

An instant after un-pausing, another ambush message went off, revealing meowkins riding the animals. Strange that the animals, excluding the riders, are seen first.

EDIT:
A cascade of ambush messages went off. Currently there are about 80 meowkin invaders! So much for a race that: "see war as an obstacle
to profit and fun."

Evidently they see you and your fields of blood as a bigger obstacle. 

[MDFification]

An instant after un-pausing, another ambush message went off, revealing meowkins riding the animals. Strange that the animals, excluding the riders, are seen first.

EDIT:
A cascade of ambush messages went off. Currently there are about 80 meowkin invaders! So much for a race that: "see war as an obstacle
to profit and fun."

Evidently they see you and your fields of blood as a bigger obstacle. 

That or they've realized that killing you and taking your stuff would lead to massive profit and !!FUN!!...

[Golbolco]

I think I found a bug. The game won't send any dwarves to make the overgrown pedestals at the temple component foundry, even though I have everything they need.

[greycat]

Overgrown pedestals use the Stonecrafting labor.  Make sure someone's got that enabled, and the free time to do the job.  (Plus make sure there are no burrow restrictions that would interfere, etc.)

[Golbolco]

That fixed it, thanks. Also, what labor does the "fabricate precision orichalcum tools" need?

[Remuthra]

Alchemist, I believe.

[greycat]

Ah, interesting.  Fabricate orichalcum precision tools does indeed use Alchemy; all the other precision tools use Mechanics.  I didn't know that!  (Thought they were all Mechanics.)

[Remuthra]

That would be because the first fabrication takes place at the Alchemy Lab, while the others take place at the Machine Shop (Which requires the tools you built in the lab).

[Golbolco]

Thanks again. One last stupid question; are ankylosaurs grazers?

[Remuthra]

Nope, just looked in the raws, and they have no grazer tag.

[narhiril]

Nope, just looked in the raws, and they have no grazer tag.

I decided not to make them grazers because having war animals that need to graze is really, really annoying to micromanage.

[greycat]

Here's something weird: one of my dwarves is in traction, and is being diagnosed frequently (all normal so far -- I've seen the same in vanilla).  But one of the diagnoses is odd:

10th Felsite, 129: Evaluated
10th Felsite, 129: Evaluated
12th Felsite, 129: Diagnosed with runic defender
12th Felsite, 129: Evaluated
...

[narhiril]

Here's something weird: one of my dwarves is in traction, and is being diagnosed frequently (all normal so far -- I've seen the same in vanilla).  But one of the diagnoses is odd:

10th Felsite, 129: Evaluated
10th Felsite, 129: Evaluated
12th Felsite, 129: Diagnosed with runic defender
12th Felsite, 129: Evaluated
...

That's the behind-the-scenes syndrome that handles the dwarven racial bonus for wielding a runic defender (increased toughness).  One of your doctors just happened to be a talented enough diagnostician to pick it out.  It's nothing to worry about.  If you force the dwarf to drop his runic defender, it should go away, but it isn't harmful, so I wouldn't worry about it.

If it helps you, think of the doctor perfoming an exam, exclaiming "I do say, I think you've got a runic defender," and then all of his colleagues looking at him like he's a complete buffoon.