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[Miriage]

How long do dwarves live? Searched wiki for this, couldn't find the answer.

They usually die anywhere from 0-160, the life of the dwarf is arduous.
(120-160ish))

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[MAXAGE:150:170] From the raws.

[KroganElite]

since during worldgen your fort isn't there, it doesn't. It just means that you won't have as many Giants, ettins, dragons, rocs or bronze colossuses in your world so there is a smaller chance they'll attack you when playing. Megabeasts definately do affect the world in worldgen, killing adventurers, eating animals and adventurers, etc

My words were unclear. What I meant to say was that I thought whatever megabeasts were created and survived during worldgen do not actually determine what attacks you and how frequently. I heard it was just random?

[Garath]

I think it's random in that it's picked from the available megabeasts and doesn't really take into account where in the world you are. Every megabeast that attacks you will have a history you can look up and is a historical character. Having fewer megabeasts in the world will mean fewer megabeasts attacking your fort

[kudzis]

Hi,

I'm getting spammed by messages "... cancels plant seeds: needs plump helmet spawn". I've googled for an answer, and the problem was that all seeds were put in one barrel, and when I was being transported, dwarfs could not take seeds from it (the barrel was regularly transported from stockpile to dining hall, I imagine dwarves were trying to collect seeds from eaten plump helmets).
I've forbidden seeds in all my stockpiles, created a small stockpile (6 tiles) near the farm plot, and allowed barrels: 0, enabled only food>seed>plump helmet seeds. Now tricksy dwarves started using cloth bags instead of barrels, and problem repeats - they run to dining hall with bag in hand, and others can't access it

What should I do to solve this problem?

There is a rather simple solution that will solve like 95% of this from happening.
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Thanks for an advice, I'll give it a try when I get home. Another small question - is there a way to check if metals exist in my world? I've been digging around in search for metals (suitable for weapons), but I'm unable to find any.

[Garath]

dfhack, 'prospect all' will give you a completely accurate count of all metals, stones, gems, trees and several other things at your site. When used pre-embark it will give an estimate

[Skorpion]

A minecart route shows both stops as 'set dir/connect track', in yellow. However, the route seems to run just fine. Things get loaded, then they get dumped out at the end. What gives?

[Kuxe]

I wish to trade an artifact, Atorkulbet (figurine of Gypsum), with the elves but I can't find it in the "Move Goods to/from Depot"-menu. It is currently in a stockpile. I tried filtering by value and searching for it, but without results.. I'm very new to trading and all I managed to do was trade some gypsum stone for logs, which I need as my fort is in a desert.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: Searched forums and found out artifacts cannot be traded. Another question arises: What should I do with an artifact figurine?...

[beefsupreme]

Is there any way I could simulate a lot of in game time between two fortresses in one world? I want to have one ancient fort near the worldgen time, and then I want to see carvings about what I did in the first fort in a much later fort.

[Telgin]

I wish to trade an artifact, Atorkulbet (figurine of Gypsum), with the elves but I can't find it in the "Move Goods to/from Depot"-menu. It is currently in a stockpile. I tried filtering by value and searching for it, but without results.. I'm very new to trading and all I managed to do was trade some gypsum stone for logs, which I need as my fort is in a desert.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: Searched forums and found out artifacts cannot be traded. Another question arises: What should I do with an artifact figurine?...

Without the display case mod, there's nothing you can do with it as far as I know.  The display case mod would let you at least put it in a room to raise its value.  You'd need to regen the world after adding the mod though, so it can't help you this time.

Is there any way I could simulate a lot of in game time between two fortresses in one world? I want to have one ancient fort near the worldgen time, and then I want to see carvings about what I did in the first fort in a much later fort.

I think the fastest way you can do this is to embark, then abandon forts over and over again.  It will advance the world time by a year each time, I think.  Keep in mind that events that happen in worldgen won't happen in the between years.  Once you stop worldgen, that's it.

[duskhorizon]

Hello.

Is there any way to know how many unclaimed by other dwarves items left in my fortress? For example cloth etc. I saw some dwarves running around naked, checked my stocks page, there should be lots of shirts in my fort, but how to know how many  of them are actually available for my dwarf to pick it up and how many are already owned by other dwarves.

I hope you understand

[Miriage]

Hello.

Is there any way to know how many unclaimed by other dwarves items left in my fortress? For example cloth etc. I saw some dwarves running around naked, checked my stocks page, there should be lots of shirts in my fort, but how to know how many  of them are actually available for my dwarf to pick it up and how many are already owned by other dwarves.

I hope you understand

I belive the easiest way would be to set up a specific stockpile which you can monitor.

[duskhorizon]

That is what i thought and what i have done.

Thanks anyway

[Skorpion]

A minecart route shows both stops as 'set dir/connect track', in yellow. However, the route seems to run just fine. Things get loaded, then they get dumped out at the end. What gives?

Okay, it's being hauled manually. As in, someone picks up the minecart and carries it to the other stop. There are no breaks in the route at all. Why does this happen?

[Fantersam]

Do enemies jump down z levels even when there is no downward ramp ?

[Slythe]

Do enemies jump down z levels even when there is no downward ramp ?

No.  If there are no stairs or ramps to connect z-levels, no non-flying creatures can willfully go down or up levels.