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[BlackFlyme]

For the FBs, I was just wondering if they would show up at a later fort or something if they were in an abandoned fort.

I'm not sure about FB's, but other creatures can so I don't see why not. I had one world where I had run into a werezebra in a few different forts.

But given that there are usually many more FBs than were-creatures, titans, and (semi)megabeasts combined, the chances would be much more slim.

[Sutremaine]

iirc, wells are automatically designated as water sources so yes, you'd need to close entrance to it, or use traffic designations to make other water more easily reachable

Wells are water sources, but not 'water source' zones. If you place a zone over the water you want the dwarves to take water from, they should all troop over there instead of scooping up the well water.

[Garath]

For the FBs, I was just wondering if they would show up at a later fort or something if they were in an abandoned fort.

I'm not sure about FB's, but other creatures can so I don't see why not. I had one world where I had run into a werezebra in a few different forts.

But given that there are usually many more FBs than were-creatures, titans, and (semi)megabeasts combined, the chances would be much more slim.

on the other hand, I recall a story of someone who had a were creature epidemic all over the world. Every village had dozens of were-lairs around it and hardly any normal population at all. Each full moon all the were whatevers came to the village and tried to infect those not infected yet. A nightmare to live there, I imagine. Something similar might happen with the were-zebra (not saying it did, but it can), and each w-zebra visiting was in fact a different one

[smjjames]

iirc, wells are automatically designated as water sources so yes, you'd need to close entrance to it, or use traffic designations to make other water more easily reachable

Wells are water sources, but not 'water source' zones. If you place a zone over the water you want the dwarves to take water from, they should all troop over there instead of scooping up the well water.

I did have a water source zone.....

[Sutremaine]

That usually solves it for me. What's your setup for the well and the water source zones?

[smjjames]

That usually solves it for me. What's your setup for the well and the water source zones?

I already abandoned the fort though.

[BlackFlyme]

on the other hand, I recall a story of someone who had a were creature epidemic all over the world. Every village had dozens of were-lairs around it and hardly any normal population at all. Each full moon all the were whatevers came to the village and tried to infect those not infected yet. A nightmare to live there, I imagine. Something similar might happen with the were-zebra (not saying it did, but it can), and each w-zebra visiting was in fact a different one

I can imagine that happening in some older worlds, I had one where I couldn't wander more than five steps in adv. mode without coming across a were-bear.

But this was a small world generated using the advanced-world-gen to have many (semi)megas, no titans or vamps, and only a handful were-creature types. Unless I had the luck to get two were-zebras with the exact same name, it was unlikely that it was two different ones.

I think I even posted about it before.

Spoiler: Pre Edit: Found it. (click to show/hide)

The werezebra Cog Kubukmebzuth has come! A large zebra twisted into humanoid form!

Apparently he had escaped the cage I left him in in my previous fort and came all the way across the world for vengeance!

Shame he wandered straight into a herd of wild unicorns...

The only other were-beast that I know of, a were-antelope, was killed in my fort. Her legends mode entry was interesting, her husband was one of the only necromancers in the world, and in the countless years she rampaged she never infected or even killed another person.

[ancistrus]

Two of my dwarves refuse to spar. One wields a pickaxe, the other has a whip. Is the lack of sparring caused by exotic weapons?

[BlackFlyme]

Two of my dwarves refuse to spar. One wields a pickaxe, the other has a whip. Is the lack of sparring caused by exotic weapons?

What are they doing right now? They may be stuck watching a demonstration or something.

Do you have them set to train right now, and do they have a barracks? Is their squad active?

[ancistrus]

Two of my dwarves refuse to spar. One wields a pickaxe, the other has a whip. Is the lack of sparring caused by exotic weapons?

What are they doing right now? They may be stuck watching a demonstration or something.

Do you have them set to train right now, and do they have a barracks? Is their squad active?

Yes, they do watch demonstrations...and have been for about two years. No sparring in that time.

I said two of my dwarves, by which I mean that other dwarves are sparring allright. I do know how to get them to train properly, it is just these two that give me a headache.

EDIT: Nevermind they just started.
When having a problem, ask another person. The Universe will then solve your problem to make you feel stupid.

[MightyPaladin]

does non-military training improve dwarf stats?  'cause the wiki infers that it does, but experience suggests it doesn't

[Putnam]

Yes.

[Sutremaine]

It's nowhere near as fast as sparring though. Plus, if you're using a dwarf's description screen and not DT to check out a dwarf's stat growth, they might have to pick up a couple of hundred points in a stat before it ticks over to the next set of descriptive text.

[squeakyReaper]

Is there a utility, or feature in DFHack, that would list all the creatures that can spawn in my embark site? I'd really like Giant Chinchillas, but I can't quite seem to find any. Or even regular Chinchillas. :<

[Serefan]

Why are there a select few dwarves with a limited profile? Going to their profile takes you directly to the 'thoughts and preferences' which only contains a short physical description. As a result, everything else (like 'relationships' and 'holding and owned objects') is inaccessible. I've always had a few dead dwarves like this, but now I've got a live migrant as well.