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[Garath]

Also, first put a save up (here) for other people to take a look at, just in case they find something you didn't, then do a long and big search on the bugtracker to see if you can find anything similar and if not THEN put a report up

[Sutremaine]

It's probably a lack of points. If you don't have enough points for an item, it won't show up, and if your Quickfort profile had fewer than 200 points spare after you made it you'll be short on points for the steel anvil.

[Lida_Brainbroken]

During a siege, one of my Marksdwarfs decided to leave the safety of the walls to recover a quiver.  In a panic, I forbade the quiver, but now he just stands there in stasis. (job: Pick up equipment) I even allowed it again with no result.  Fortunately, the enemy formation came down the opposite hillside, so he was unscathed, but still he stands there motionless.  Will he eventually snap out of it, or did I make a mistake and doom him to starvation and thirst?

[Garath]

should snap out of it, check if he's holding something (like a less valuable quiver). He might just be frozen in trying to find a place to put it down

[Telgin]

Try giving a station order.  That usually fixes problems with soldiers trying to pick up equipment.

[Lida_Brainbroken]

Try giving a station order.  That usually fixes problems with soldiers trying to pick up equipment.

Thanks, I'm not sure if issuing stations, or finally changing the alerts to "Regular watch" did it, but he snapped out of it.

[Eric Blank]

As a complete noob to working with linux, how does one go about actually starting up dwarf fortress on a linux OS? I downloaded the appropriate file from the bay12 homepage and extracted it, but now I can't figure out how to actually RUN it, as there were scant few files in the compressed package and none of them is a .exe. In fact, all of them appear to be text files...

[HD23]

When a wooden bin burns, what happens to the fireproof items in it? Do they just scatter around?


Also, migrants stopped coming to my fort, after I lost 50 dwarves to various sieges.
Oddly, I'm not getting:
"No one even considered making the journey to such a cursed death-trap this season."
like I did on previous forts, but instead I'm getting the standard "The fortress attracted no migrants this season."

[Garath]

they need to get news that you're open to migrants again, may take some time

[Trif]

As a complete noob to working with linux, how does one go about actually starting up dwarf fortress on a linux OS? I downloaded the appropriate file from the bay12 homepage and extracted it, but now I can't figure out how to actually RUN it, as there were scant few files in the compressed package and none of them is a .exe. In fact, all of them appear to be text files...

Linux doesn't have .exe files; executable files don't have to be encoded which means that you can read them like text files. In this case, the right file is df . It should open if you click on it in your file manager. If it doesn't, try opening it in the terminal.

I don't know your linux distribution, but most newbie-friendly distros should allow you to right-click somewhere in the file manager with an option to "Open Terminal Here" or something similar. That saves you the trouble of navigating to the right folder with the command line.
Anyways, once you're in the df_linux folder, you can open Dwarf Fortress by typing

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./df
If it opens, you're done. If not, you'll get a few error messages that you can copy-paste here and we can find out how to make it work.

[Larix]

When a wooden bin burns, what happens to the fireproof items in it? Do they just scatter around?


Also, migrants stopped coming to my fort, after I lost 50 dwarves to various sieges.
Oddly, I'm not getting:
"No one even considered making the journey to such a cursed death-trap this season."
like I did on previous forts, but instead I'm getting the standard "The fortress attracted no migrants this season."

AFAIK, that means you didn't get enough wealth reported to attract new migrants. I think you need actual fortress-produced wealth to count for immigration: cooking lavish meals, making 30 each of every clothing item and setting up mass encrusting jobs on furniture would be quick ways to generate wealth. And you need to have a dwarf caravan trade and successfully leave the map...

That you actually get _any_ migration messages means your reported population is below the population cap, i.e. your headcount does allow migration.

[Fluoman]

So, somehow i got two successive cave-ins.

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Z0
WWWWW
WIIIW
WIIIW
WIIIW
WWWWW

Z-1
WWWWW
W...W
W.I.W
W...W
WWWWW

Z-2
WWWWW
WFFFW
WF_FW
WFFFW
WWWWW
With W as Wall, I as Ice, . as open space, F as Floor and _ as future farm plot.
This is an approximation of my situation (in truth, I is an 11x11 block of ice). Naturally, I at Z-1 dropped and transformed into water. Nothing new here.
However, one month and no thawing later (glacier embark, frozen all the time), i get the message that a section of the cavern has collapsed.
Another cave-in? why?

[i2amroy]

Did the game actually zoom to that section? The game should pause and recenter on wherever the cave-in is, so that should tell a lot about what caused it.

[Fluoman]

It did not rezoom IIRC.
The first was a controlled and perfectly normal cave-in, but I'm not sure the second cave-in zoomed.
If memory serves well, I was setting up the farm under the second cave in when it happened. I instantly checked whatever could have happened, but my checklist is really short on that: mining (no mining orders) and thawing (summer in a glacier embark? Yeah but why would it thaw underground?).

[Ianflow]

Is there really a difference between iron and steel anvils?
I mean, should I really be discerning on which to pick for my embark?