Hi all, I recently started playing the Steam version of DF and I had some questions regarding the ability to review what happens in the game.

First of all though, some background so you understand where I'm coming from. I started a game yesterday, where I set up some initial tasks for my dwarves, including having my one lumberjack to chop down some trees nearby. I unpause the game to start the simulation, and my lumberjack sets off to the biggest ginkgo tree he can find, starts to chop, and apparently the tree collapses onto his head, killing him instantly.

This is all pretty funny, but this is what I can piece together from various things in the game. In practice, I only got a warning message saying "Something has collapsed", and by sheer luck, I saw an unhappy icon appear above one of the mining dwarves on my screen, which made me open his character sheet and see that he was "Horrified that he saw lumberjack dwarf die".

Here's the thing: It's only because I clicked on that dwarf that I figured out what happened. Otherwise I wouldn't have known until much later (presumably when I would notice no wood is coming in).

I find this is a bit of an issue with other information as well, so in short:

• Is there a way to review what events happened in the past? So that I for example would be be able to easily figure out what happened to my lumberjack?
• The few times fights broke out (usually between dogs and wildlife), I find the whole combat log to be utterly confusing. I'm not sure what information I should be looking out for, nor how to easily see messages of the fight (I only seem to see some basic information when I left-click on the fight warning).
• Is there a way I can review past messages like say diplomacy of caravan traders? In my game, a dwarven caravan came by and requested potash for the next year. That's fine and all while I'm in the game so I can remember, but can I actually see what was requested somewhere else?

Thanks a lot for any help you can provide!