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[Sutremaine]

Gloves aren't shaped, gauntlets are. They have a shape due to being made as individual left and right items, but only gauntlets have the tag that makes the associated item one per body part.

My militia commander refuses to wear anything other than a breastplate and greaves. No gauntlets, boots or helm. He claims them, in a sense: in the equipment screen, the telltale green mark appears next to "Metal Footwear" and such as soon as I make the relevant piece. He's just not actually putting it on.

Is your uniform set to 'replace clothing' or 'over clothing'? That's usually the problem (dwarves won't put on extra clothes/armour items if that body slot is full). I believe that armour now counts as clothing for the purposes of clothing thoughts, but to be on the safe side you could add footwear, lower body wear, and upper body wear to the uniform and set it to 'replace clothing'.

[Putnam]

Use "P" (capital p) to check what your dwarf is wearing to fulfill his/her assignments.

[Moonshadow101]

Huh, never used [P] before. Still, all of the armor shows up exactly as expected. Again, though: he's not actually wearing it.

And it's set to "Over Clothing." Your solution of switching to "Replace Clothing" is functional, if a bit bothersome. It's probably what I'll have to do for now, so thanks for the idea.

So presumably what's happening is that the gauntlets are probably conflicting with the mittens, and the boots with the shoes, and the helm with the cap or hood. But the recent update broke their ability to take the old thing off in order to put the armor on. Annoying, since the update was supposed to fix layering, not break it. I've never had this kind of issue before: my last fort in 34.10, I had more than ten legendary-skilled combatants who always wore their armor like good little dwarves.   

[DrKillPatient]

I have heard that only one cart can be on a track at once, i.e. if you put a second one on the track by having overlapping routes, the other just derails. Is this true, or can multiple minecarts be loaded onto the same track, each on a different route?

EDIT: One more question; can necromancers still ambush you in your migrant waves if you're not within 10 tiles of their tower?

[Thorakh]

How do I get my marksdwarves to train at the archery targets? They will very sporadically shoot at it but most of the time they're busy doing useless demonstrations or other things. My archery range is within my baracks. I've enabled both the baracks and the archery range as being a training spot for my dwarves. If I only set the archery range as training spot, my dwarves won't even go there and just sit around somewhere in my fortress doing absolutely nothing.

[Lord Allagon]

What is better for maces, iron or steel?

[Snaake]

What is better for maces, iron or steel?

Steel, and probably silver too. Silver is heavier than either iron/steel, but steel's otherwise better properties counterbalance this somewhat. Or that's my understanding of current knowledge.

[DrKillPatient]

It's my understanding that steel is less dense than iron, so out of those two, I would consider iron to be the better one. Silver beats them both by far, however, as its density is much greater than either one.

[Edmus]

It's my understanding that steel is less dense than iron, so out of those two, I would consider iron to be the better one. Silver beats them both by far, however, as its density is much greater than either one.

Ripped off the wiki:
steel:  [SOLID_DENSITY:7850]
Silver: [SOLID_DENSITY:10490]
iron:   [SOLID_DENSITY:7850]
I am rather inexperienced at the raws so correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't this mean Iron and steel are the same density? With silver much higher like you said.

[knutor]

Are these L Set Traffic Areas supposed to linger behind, after minecart track is deconstructed?  Or is this a bug?  Thanks, Knutor

[DrKillPatient]

It's my understanding that steel is less dense than iron, so out of those two, I would consider iron to be the better one. Silver beats them both by far, however, as its density is much greater than either one.

Ripped off the wiki:
steel:  [SOLID_DENSITY:7850]
Silver: [SOLID_DENSITY:10490]
iron:   [SOLID_DENSITY:7850]
I am rather inexperienced at the raws so correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't this mean Iron and steel are the same density? With silver much higher like you said.

Huh, I didn't know that. I guess they are indeed equal.

[Garath]

How do I get my marksdwarves to train at the archery targets? They will very sporadically shoot at it but most of the time they're busy doing useless demonstrations or other things. My archery range is within my baracks. I've enabled both the baracks and the archery range as being a training spot for my dwarves. If I only set the archery range as training spot, my dwarves won't even go there and just sit around somewhere in my fortress doing absolutely nothing.

sounds like not enough bolts or bolts reserved for hunting/combat

[Argelle]

Use "P" (capital p) to check what your dwarf is wearing to fulfill his/her assignments.

Sorry, into which menu do you get 'P' (capital)?

[Trif]

Use "P" (capital p) to check what your dwarf is wearing to fulfill his/her assignments.

Sorry, into which menu do you get 'P' (capital)?

In (m)ilitary - (e)quipment.

[Telgin]

This may end up becoming a modding question (in its respective thread), but does anyone else experience an unreasonable number of crashes on the embark screen where you're assigning skills to your starting seven?  Back in .31.25 I don't think I've ever seen DF crash on this screen, but it seems to happen randomly and frustratingly commonly for me in .34.11.

It happens randomly whenever I 'v'iew the dwarf (or not a dwarf in this case), or use 'c' to go and give them a name.  I'm using a saved embark profile to help mitigate time lost this way, but maybe it's exacerbating the problem.  Even a dwarf I've viewed fine may crash the game if I come back to them.

The game is modded and I'm using a custom species for the game, but I'd like to rule out the possibility that it's crashing here for others before I wrack my brain trying to figure out if I've somehow managed to break it myself.

In the past, running as administrator helped get around crash problems for me, but it didn't have any effect in this case.