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[IIzTrollin]

Im going start a list of questions either i find common or i have my self. ill post the answer once its answered all will be on this first thread. pics will be in spoilers if possible, and answers will be in red.




1.What the "other" in the status (Z) screen?

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Prepared food and other "food" classified things (such as tallow) that don't fit nicely into the other categories.-i2amroy


2. What are the Red numbers in the stocks screen. (status (Z), stocks)

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Forbidden or built things. For example if you had 20 weapons, 8 of which were in a weapon trap and 4 were forbidden then it would have a red 12. I believe that things owned by traders also fall into the red category.
-i2amroy


3. How do you get your dwarfs in the military to spare? is it when they are standing next to each other in a training area?
Dwarves that are set to train and have an available barracks will perform demonstrations as well as spar once they obtain some basic competency with weapon skills. This chance can also be maximized by having squad sizes of 2-3.-i2amroy


4. What are billion bars?
Billon (not "billion") is an alloy of copper and silver.  There is nothing particularly special about it.  In older versions you used to be able to use a single unit of tetrahedrite to smelt two billon bars (it would act as both the copper and the silver input), which made it a great value.  That was largely considered an exploit tho and has since been fixed - now it takes two units of tetrahedrite (one for the copper and one for the silver) and the value gain is 0.-Dwarfler


5. Is it true titans can step down one Z level or any mob(unit what ever you call them) without a ramp or staircase?


6. Reading the wiki said you can't raise or lower bridges on titans, does this include retracting?
bridges don't work if a large enough creature is on it.  This includes retracting-neckbeard

7. I just had a titan walk into my area and just leave, there was a goblin invasion which i wanted to see it battle any reason why they just leave? apparently it died from my one dwarf shooting it once it bleed out.

8. How do you train your dwarfs in Armor and Shield using? i read you have to set up pits with goblins/kobols in them but how do you get your dwarfs in the pits after words?

[i2amroy]

1)Prepared food and other "food" classified things (such as tallow) that don't fit nicely into the other categories.
2)Forbidden or built things. For example if you had 20 weapons, 8 of which were in a weapon trap and 4 were forbidden then it would have a red 12. I believe that things owned by traders also fall into the red category.

[Mimodo]

Hey, I knew the answers to that too I feel smart

[i2amroy]

Dwarves that are set to train and have an available barracks will perform demonstrations as well as spar once they obtain some basic competency with weapon skills. This chance can also be maximized by having squad sizes of 2-3.

Also not to put a damper on anything, but generally the best places for questions like this is over on the DF Gameplay Questions Board. I believe you can move the post as the OP if you should choose to do so in the bottom left of the screen under "move topic".

[IIzTrollin]

haha thanks, ive just posted my smaller questions here and it worked well i figured  id be better here so it doesnt get confused in teh adventure mode also

[Dwarfler]

4. What are billion bars?

Billon (not "billion") is an alloy of copper and silver.  There is nothing particularly special about it.  In older versions you used to be able to use a single unit of tetrahedrite to smelt two billon bars (it would act as both the copper and the silver input), which made it a great value.  That was largely considered an exploit tho and has since been fixed - now it takes two units of tetrahedrite (one for the copper and one for the silver) and the value gain is 0.

[Garath]

If you go into more the detailed stocks menu (tab), the 'red' items are split up in different colors again, blue when in a building (bed, trap, lever), red for melting come to my mind immediately. Iirc trader brought items are also red in that list.

[Triaxx2]

Trader owned. Trader brought have () around them.

6) Only if they can fly.

[Neckbeard]

For question #5 (and maybe I'm misinterpreting this) but yea, any units (monsters, livestock, dwarves, hippies, arch-conservatives, ect.) can go up and down a z level as long as a valid path is available to it.  If you mean threw things like floor hatches and such, yes if they are unforbidden, or captured by invaders/hostile wildlife, and shouldn't be able to if they are forbidden without first destroying the hatches or whatever else.  Building destroyer's like Ogers and such can destroy doors, floor hatches, grates I beleive, don't know about floor bars but probably not.  For things like constructed floors being in the way, that should be no until a dwarf either deconstructs the floor, or some other construction falls threw and punches a hole in it.

For question #6, bridges don't work if a large enough creature is on it.  This includes retracting.

[Garath]

note that titans arn't the only creatures that are too large for bridges