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FearfulJesuit

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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2011, 07:54:48 pm »

How?
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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2011, 08:16:45 pm »

I would double your metal industry, and just let the rest be idle.You never know when you'll need an army of garbagedwarves.
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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2011, 09:35:00 pm »

i love some of these suggestions, currently, i have 12 idlers, i found some casseterite so i am going to start making bronze, hopefully bronze serrated discs will give the impending elves a run for their money xD
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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2011, 11:33:51 pm »

ok, i just made an army of peseants, they are training with swords and shields, it will be fun times, but i have a question, and i cant find it on the wiki, what is this?



also, how long until i get something attacking my fortress, wanna see carnage :D

i currently have 55 dwarves
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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2011, 11:41:52 pm »

Congrats, you're a barony now, a section of land run by a baron/baroness under the indirect overview of the king.  Be prepared to get spammed with useless demands from your new noble, and be forced to make an opulent room for them as well!

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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2011, 11:44:49 pm »

interesting, what should i choose, a or b?
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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2011, 11:44:52 pm »

Go with A if you want to put up with a baron. Otherwise, B.

And you need a population of 80 for sieges and megabeasts. You can get semimegabeasts (ettins, cyclopes, giants, minotaurs) at your current population.
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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #22 on: January 28, 2011, 02:38:33 am »

ok, i got a siege, but the goblins are just standing there, they are not going towards my fort
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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #23 on: February 01, 2011, 07:52:25 pm »

Is there a way to get into your fort?
If not they'll just stand there waiting for you to drop your gates.
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Re: how to combat idle dwarves?
« Reply #24 on: February 01, 2011, 11:13:46 pm »

5) drop them from high levels, use them to train your doctors. that broken leg will teach them to get to work!

This. I have about 90 idle dwarves at any given time unless i'm hauling rock. I also have three full medical squads that keep my doctors occupied. We occasional lock the hospital to let the paralyzed ones die without sucking up the food supply. Those severed spines don't heal, you know!
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