My militia commander is apparently talking to himself. He's sitting in the tavern and socializing, but there's nobody nearby for him to be socializing with.
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How do I have giant olm bones? Giant olms live in the caverns, and I haven't actually dug down to the caverns yet.

Forbidding used ammunition proved that used ammunition doesn't all cease to exist...just most of it. Still not sure what's causing the bug.
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There is a miasma in my duchess's bedroom because she decided to store a prepared meal in her chest and it started to rot. (The miasma is the purple cloud.)
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There seems to be a bug in the newest version of the game where used ammunition just...ceases to exist? I've changed the settings to "forbid used ammunition" to see if that solves the issue.
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Another new fortress, this one I'm decorating in a rainbow theme. But anyway, I have so many poults (baby turkeys) it's affecting my framerate. Just look at them all!

Welp somehow my saved copy of the new version of Dwarf Fortress got fucked up so I'm starting over. Although I did (accidentally) discover that the smaller fortresses do in fact not suffer as much from lag!

I just had the Diplomacy tab pop up, and I was like, "Why do I have a diplomacy in the middle of winter?" So I clicked it...and it promptly disappeared.
Well then. Apparently it's a phantom diplomacy. I see we're playing this game again.
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I prefer to build my fortress out from the upper left, but alas, in this fortress, the hill that I need to dig into to build my depot is on the right, so I'm building it out from the upper right instead.
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Created yet another fortress, which is going well. My hunters are actually hunting, and I'm enjoying some of the features of the latest version of the game, such as the fact that it tells me the dimensions of what I'm mining out.
My only complaint is that I had to put the trade depot on the right.

That fortress hasn't gone anywhere since I realized it's completely flat, which means there's nowhere to dig into the mountain to create a straight route to an underground trade depot that the wagons can access.
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A dirt road crossing a river, with a bridge going over the river.

So I downloaded the latest version and started a new fortress. I chose an embark location that was in the "path of attack," kind of curious what that was. Well...

Decided to give up on that game because it was pissing me off. My hunters weren't hunting, and despite literally having nothing better to do, the dwarves weren't storing my scrolls in any stockpiles. Also, there were no books.
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Well shit.
I've got my first dead dwarf and I don't even know why they died.
I reverted to save but then saved over it without checking, and the dwarf was already dead.
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But it finally got built, and I had my dwarves bring some items that were cluttering up the old trade depot to the new one to speed up the rebuilding process, along with some items to trade. So now I'm just waiting for the dwarven caravans to get to the depot so I can trade.

I had to build the new depot right next to the old one, since there are only two levels in my fortress accessible by wagons, and the one with the trade depot is the only one that actually has room to build a trade depot.
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So I reverted to the early autumn autosave, deconstructed the depot, and tried to build a new one up on the surface.
No dice. It seems that dwarves prioritize things going on within the fortress to things going on above ground, so they just weren't building the new depot.

Well, this time, perhaps because rather than just one caravan that got trapped, it was all of them (seriously, there were 22 wagons when they finally got free), the humans started going berserk after the dwarves arrived, causing the dwarves to turn around and leave.
Clearly, this was unsat.

The rebuilding takes a bit because first they have to move everything that was in the trade depot outside the tiles it occupies, which is why I need to construct a temporary one elsewhere.
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Somehow every single human caravan got stuck in my trade depot. Normally a caravan getting stuck in the depot isn't that big a deal, I'll just deconstruct the depot after the dwarves leave, then construct a new one temporarily in another location while waiting for it to be rebuilt.

So it looks like I'm going to have to wait until all of my shit is in the appropriate stockpiles before the messenger will actually leave the fortress.
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I had a couple holdings pop up, so I designated a messenger in order to request workers from them. Except the messenger keeps starting the task of "request workers" only to immediately replace it with "store item in stockpile."
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Then, you have to click on "Details" for each dwarf in the squad, and at the bottom click "Uniform worn over clothing" so that it's replaced by "Uniform replaces clothing." Which I did.
What I failed to do was then click "Confirm" at the top. So none of the changes I made actually took effect.

I may have figured out why my dwarves still weren't going to Individual Combat Drill.
In order to have the dwarves wear only armor and no clothing, you have to go to the squad screen by pressing [q], then select the squad and click on the option "Equip" down at the bottom.
So far, so intuitive.

The stockpiles are only about a third mined out, which means by the time it's done I should have two, maybe three more strange moods.
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Started digging out some more stockpiles to store my excess wood, and finally got another strange mood. Unfortunately the dwarf was possessed, so they didn't actually gain any skill.
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I'm considering giving in and making armor out of iron so I can just tell the rest of my dwarves only to wear armor and not have to worry about it. I just don't like doing that because it runs the risk of them becoming attached to the iron pieces and not replacing them when steel becomes available.

So far I've told six squads to wear nothing but armor. It doesn't seem to have affected the number of dwarves doing "Individual Combat Drill."
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What this amounts to is that I can't just tell all my dwarves to wear their military uniform in place of clothes, because those who can't get their hands on the highly-demanded armor will just go naked and get unhappy thoughts about not having any clothes.

So unfortunately I don't have enough steel armor to equip all my dwarves, and I try to keep my fortress free of non-steel armor so my dwarves don't grow attached to it and then refuse to switch it out for the superior steel armor.
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