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[!!Fyre!!]

Just picked up the game again after about a year away and I'm playing 0.34 now. About 4 dwarf years into my current fort I had a child mood and ended up with a nice goblin bone cage, which I proceeded to build outside so my dwarves would go admire it, helping to prevent cave adaptation. Literally 20 seconds later a flying fire-breathing titan flies over my wall and burns everything including the cage (and several dwarves). After managing the ensuing tantrum spiral for about 6 months I noticed my awesome cage is still on fire and is continually setting fire to anything that begins to regrow near it.  I know (at least in previous versions) that you could make ever-burning barrels, so I'm wondering if there is any way to put out and/or recover the cage.

[Garath]

artifacts are supposed to be indestructible, so it might really burn for ever. Try to get some firefighters (stairs up a z-level, walkway, pond designation and watch them pour water on the flames). Don't know if it'll work, don't know if it'll go out by itself. Good luck though

[Skorpion]

Just picked up the game again after about a year away and I'm playing 0.34 now. About 4 dwarf years into my current fort I had a child mood and ended up with a nice goblin bone cage, which I proceeded to build outside so my dwarves would go admire it, helping to prevent cave adaptation. Literally 20 seconds later a flying fire-breathing titan flies over my wall and burns everything including the cage (and several dwarves). After managing the ensuing tantrum spiral for about 6 months I noticed my awesome cage is still on fire and is continually setting fire to anything that begins to regrow near it.  I know (at least in previous versions) that you could make ever-burning barrels, so I'm wondering if there is any way to put out and/or recover the cage.

Designate a pond zone over it, and have a dwarven bucket chain pour water on it. That worked last time I had fire-clowns set my military alight, including the artifact donkey leather quiver.

[Aaarrgh!]

Are metals waterproof? If I floor my fortress with them, will there not be any mud after flooding?

[PainRack]

Just a quick question. Let say I was to send some finished goods from my trading depot stockpile back inside my fort stockpile by using a minecart. How do I prevent my dwarves from filling up the wrong stockpile instead?

[Trif]

Link the fort stockpile to the track stop.

[i2amroy]

Are metals waterproof? If I floor my fortress with them, will there not be any mud after flooding?

There will always be mud after flooding. Mud on constructed floor tiles will not grow any plants though, so it will prevent trees from blocking pathways or anything like that.

[Crazy Horse]

Can a magma safe-bridge retract even if it's weighed down by several z-levels of magma? (In a case of the roof of a migrant entry-tunnel being a long bridge, this bridge also serving as the floor of a magma reservoir.)

[Sutremaine]

Yes. The only things that will prevent a bridge from functioning are creatures with a base size of 1,000,000 or over.

[Mr.Pylon]

I was perusing an old thread about making danger rooms for dwarf children and an idea popped into my head. Say you take a 3x3 room over several z-levels of nothing with a chain in the middle and floor hatches, linked to a lever, on all of the outside tiles and a creature attached to the chain. What happens when you pull the lever and the chained creature falls through one of the floor hatches? Will it hang at the end of the chain like a swinging dummy, will it simply drop to its death, or will something whacky happen?

[Foxhound]

Why won't my dwarves build a gabbro still? I have 9 of them. Construction isn't suspended. They also won't build the kitchen. Thank you for any help.

[i2amroy]

Do you have anyone with the brewing (cooking for the kitchen) labors enabled?

[Foxhound]

That was it, thank you.

[Telgin]

I was perusing an old thread about making danger rooms for dwarf children and an idea popped into my head. Say you take a 3x3 room over several z-levels of nothing with a chain in the middle and floor hatches, linked to a lever, on all of the outside tiles and a creature attached to the chain. What happens when you pull the lever and the chained creature falls through one of the floor hatches? Will it hang at the end of the chain like a swinging dummy, will it simply drop to its death, or will something whacky happen?

Chains only prevent voluntary movement.  If you do something like drop the floor from beneath a chained critter, they'll get loose.

[Foxhound]

So do statues placed in the fortress decrease the chance of a dwarf going insane?