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Hi y'all, another question from a rusty returning player.  I've built a mass pitting system and am trying to dump some goblins into it, but cannot find them in the list of creatures to "Assign" to the pit.  Here's what I do: hit "i" for zones, move the cursor over the pit zone, Shift-P for "set Pit/Pond information", then there's a list of my domesticated animals I can choose to pit, but no list of goblins.  I have the goblins in cages and have stripped them of their valuables.  What am I forgetting?

My dwarves killed a weremonitor in the trade depot, and won't haul its body (or any of its teeth, etc) either to the refuse pile or the graveyard (I have no idea if it was a dwarf or what).  This is indoors and I've used d-b-c to (c)laim the corpse, even though it wasn't forbidden.  What gives?

Some of my wounded dwarves themselves became weremonitors and were subsequently killed, and their fellows had no problem moving them to the graveyard, so I know there's no general prohibition on hauling werecorpses.

Two questions for situations I've never encountered before:

(1) My second militia commander (the first died with his War Giant Cheetah in an unfortunate drawbridge accident) tried to solo fight a Giant Dingo and it bit both of his hands off.  I decided to make him my Baron since I couldn't think of anything else for a no-handed dwarf to do.  So far he's doing fine.  Are there any other jobs I could have given him instead?  The only things I can think of are broker or manager.

(2) Two of my peasants walked over a webbed cage trap and got caged.  Is there any way to get them out, short of building the cage somewhere, installing a lever, and opening it mechanically?  Will other dwarves feed and water them while they wait for the mechanics to do their thing?

Hi all, I was thinking about the idea of doing a succession fort based on the idea of a Hoover Dam type megaproject, but I haven't really fleshed out the idea yet.  Anyone have any suggestions?  My basic idea is that we'd need a map with a very tall non-freezing waterfall and a deep, wide canyon carved by the lower river.  By developing the ability to drain and fill the reservoir, we could build underwater structures or perhaps even submerge the fortress entrance as a defense.  The dam could generate power using water wheels, but what would we use the power for?  And how should the main fort be architected?  Certainly some industries could be built inside the dam, milling being the obvious choice.

Your suggestions would be very welcome... or if you have a good map for it, let us know.

It was the 78th year of the new age of the world, and I was a fisherdwarf of the dwarven civilization The Mountainous Arches.  But there aren't that many fish in the mountains, so I had a radical idea: bring dwarven civilization to where the fish are.  Now fisherdwarves don't have much clout in dwarf society, that's just a fact, so my idea of building a fortress on the seashore wasn't going very far.  I did what anyone would do: cram my proposal full of lots of needless attention-getting stuff to make it exciting, and then show them the money.  I would construct a fabulous port complex, the first in the world to systematically harvest the riches of the ocean -- whale soap, shark leather, fish roasts, you name it -- and make it available to trade with the awestruck humans.  I would build a gleaming offshore platform, seafloor magma pipes, and a five-star dwarf hotel.  Who's prone to great ambition, now, by my beard!

Well, I only managed to convince six others, and we couldn't even get authorization to take a single pick or weapon, but we all agreed that the plan was worth the risk of stealing an anvil and some copper and tin ores. 


By mutual consent, we dubbed our new group The Sack of Sport, and set out for the ocean.  Our group:

Ducim "Dreamer" M, fisherdwarf and expedition leader.  Your narrator.
Melbil Urdimlar, lady miner. Very cheerful, loves ducks.
Libash M, armorer/weaponsmith. An optimist. He likes steel and unicorn horn.
Kogan A, lady farmer. Not affected by the sufferings of others. Uh.
Dr. Ral V, physician. Lady physician. Mighty physician.
Mistem D, swordsdwarf. He's just incredibly fat, but promises to work on it.
Stukos A, hammerdwarf. Impervious to the effects of stress.

1 Granite, year 79:
We drove the wagon right up to the ocean before disembarking. (Nobody ever told me about the tides!)
Somebody suggested the name "Rooterquake" and it just stuck with us.  Behold the beginnings of Port Rooterquake.

A giant osprey soared over the deep ocean as we began to chop trees and forge picks.  We're dealing with flat earth, here (at least for now), so we're going to have to dig down instead of sideways.

I've embarked in a rocky wasteland with absolutely zero plants or trees on the surface.  Much to my surprise, when I breached the first cavern, I found it totally devoid of plant life, too.  No spores growing on the ground, no subterranean trees.  And no spores appeared on my soil layer.  I dug down, way down, and breached Cavern 3 (somehow totally missed Cavern 2), and it has normal plant growth.  After breaching Cavern 3, I finally have spores growing on my soil layer.  Is this normal?  I thought caverns always had plant life.

It's possible to assign an animal as a pet to someone, isn't it? How do you do that?  I went through the "animals" interface to try and assign a war dog (brought on embark) to somebody.  Do I need to give that person the "animal trainer" skill?  Does this mean that no one can have an animal that they didn't train by themselves?