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I wanted to add a conditional job for level pulling.
Unlike normal workshops, there are no entries for a lever in its workshop order queue.
Maybe I messed something up? Or is it impossible to add "Pull lever" to a lever's work shop orders, so it can be executed conditionally?

I wanted to disable a track stop with a lever, once a certain number of items was reached. Obviously another lever pull conditional when items low again, linked to the first job. If this is currently impossible, would it be hard to change the raws so a lever works like a normal workshop in this regard?

Any other ways I could do something similar?

Just as decoration?

I had an adventurer with a few followers.
One of the followers I lost in a abandoned fortress. Later she rejoined when I found her in front of the bedroom where a forgotten beast was hiding.
After that her group behaviour was already a bit odd: very aggressive to other followers.

Next I retired my adventurer and played fortress mode for a bit. Then I continued adventure mode.

I unretired my adventurer and decided to have a look at the new party mode. Previous followers now became members of my party.

Now that previous followers keeps asking: "what happened?", when I talk to her I can "free" her like prisoners in a goblin fort. However next day it all repeats. She keeps reverting to prisoner status. She doesn't want to be brought to her home or family members.

Does anyone has a clue what went wrong and how to solve that issue? It might be she became a prisoner while I played fortress mode and upon making the party she never lost her prisoner status. Is it a bug?

The two other followers do not behave this way.

By using a stack of sharp items you will create multiple crafts of the same type at once when bone carving in adventure mode.

Easiest is to pick up a stack of bolts or arrows.

Downside is it only counts as one craft for gaining bone carving experience.

At the point that you often produce masterworks and everything else is basically trash this speeds up things.

One of the perils an adventurer has to endure is lag.
Forts and other busy places can slow the game down a lot.

For several reason my adventurers had have to return to these laggy places on a regular basis.

So I created a special minecart track entrance to the fort. The tunnel ended near the edge of the map. It started at the booze stockpile. Which was fairly close to other stockpiles my adventurers frequented.

Next I made a copy of the fortress and retired. Copies are not for save scumming. Copies are required because switching modes and using hacks will not produce a stable game. Game crashed a couple of times. Backups saved to day (most of it).

Next I played as adventurer starting in my own fort. Keep changing peasant/local hero till you spawn at the right place.

With the adventurer I created a site, right next to the fortress. Now it was time to start digging again. With gui/advfort in the dfhack console you enable the possibility to dig with your adventurer. Once it is enabled, use ? for options.

Digging is quite easy. Don't forget to get a pickaxe from the fortress. Track carving will have to be done in both ways, e.g. both from north to south and south to north. Digging an up ramp was a bit harder. Eventually it worked.

Now I had a site next to the fort where I could ride a minecart right into the heart of the fort, fill it with booze, quires, logs or whatever takes too long or is too hard as an adventurer. It was glorious.

In fortress mode, I hardly use the ride minecart option. In adventure mode it is great fun.

As for safety: minecarts do ride on bridges. The minecart tunnel had a bridge to close if needed. I did not play long enough in fortress mode again to see if anyone comes through.
You could try and use wooden minecarts. But better have an adventurer that dodges well or push a minecart while riding again just before ramps. Getting stuck just before a ramp and fiddling around with minecarts that roll back at a ramp are !fun!.

I do not know how far you can extend this craziness. Game crashed again when trying to install a lever in adventurer mode. Going to try and extend machinery across sites. Likely will not work but.. for !science!

Possibly you can link multiple forts this way, using adventurer sites in between. If anyone comes up with some great scheme using this, please post. I'd like to know the extend of what is possible with this.

I thought it would be fun to setup some sort of underground tower overlooking the entrance path. I did not expect it to work that good.

Normally when I deploy archers I have to be careful they don't go melee their opponents. But it looks if you make the path long enough archers will prefer to get new ammo instead of hammering with crossbows.

The setup I used was a winding road around a central room. This central area was only accessible from below. Every level the road went 1 down with ramps. Everything above the roads except for the first layer was carved out as well. Fortifications were carved on every side that overlooked the road. It is 8 stories high.

To prevent trolls sticking their arms in the wall was 2 thick. Downside is that it does not look great to carve fortifications on two sides and that all archers need to have lots of training before they shoot through double fortifications.

The archers were assigned to the top level fortifications using a burrow and a schedule to guard that burrow. On that burrow was the bolt stockpile. Using this setup I have only seen archers with not enough skill trying to get into melee.

If they decide to go the wrong way they would first have to climb all the stairs down in the central room and then the winding road around it up: plenty of time to kick them out of an archery squad and see them running back into safety.

If needed I'll add pictures but I hope this is enough info to make your defense positions in such a way they prevent some nasty game mechanics.

I turned off fishing on my dwarves. I didn't want to empty the river too fast.
But uncontrollable residents continued fishing. Way faster then my cooks could handle.
Many fish rotted away and now the river is empty.

It's great when poets and the like help hauling. As for the other jobs its a mixed blessing.
Other jobs I've seen done by residents include planting seeds and harvesting.
If you want those jobs only be done by a legendary dwarf and have visitors becoming resident things might mess up.