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[Farmerbob]

So, I made the mistake of assuming wood barrels and rock pots were used identically. In an effort to conserve wood, I just made a bunch of rock pots. The result--all my food has just been laying out, and now I've got flies galore.

If I rush production of barrels, will dwarves automatically start sticking the food in them, or do I have to designate this labor somehow?

hrm rock pots should be used just like barrels if nothing has changed.

Except for large prepared meals.  They sit out in the open, but if they are in a food stockpile they will not rot.

[vorpal+5]

I'm in search of a 'medical courses and how to heal injuries' tutorial for dummies (me!!). Aside from the wiki, anything else? I can't even seems to cure light wounds 

[Farmerbob]

I'm in search of a 'medical courses and how to heal injuries' tutorial for dummies (me!!). Aside from the wiki, anything else? I can't even seems to cure light wounds 

Create hospital zone.  Put some Beds, Tables, and chests or bags in the zone.  Traction benches too when you can.  Assign a chief medical dwarf and some medical dwarves.  Wait for stubborn, drunk, idiot dwarves to choose to go to the doctor.

Fixed it up a bit.  Thanks

[stolensteel]

So, it's been a few years since I've played DF. I think I get the jist of the military, but is there a way that I can get someone to do something with all the wolverine corpses that I have? I have an axedorf that kills them as soon as they come in, so they don't disturb my lumberjacks, but I'm kinda low on meat, so it would be nice to use the wolverine corpses. Also, if a Yak dies of old age, can I get the meat from that somehow?

[Farmerbob]

So, it's been a few years since I've played DF. I think I get the jist of the military, but is there a way that I can get someone to do something with all the wolverine corpses that I have? I have an axedorf that kills them as soon as they come in, so they don't disturb my lumberjacks, but I'm kinda low on meat, so it would be nice to use the wolverine corpses. Also, if a Yak dies of old age, can I get the meat from that somehow?

You have to set them to collect from outdoors.  Also filter the vermin corpses option if you do have them collect from outdoors if you have active outdoor cats.

[greycat]

So, I made the mistake of assuming wood barrels and rock pots were used identically.

hrm rock pots should be used just like barrels if nothing has changed.

Except for large prepared meals.  They sit out in the open, but if they are in a food stockpile they will not rot.

The only difference between a barrel and a pot is the pot can't be used at the farmer's workshop to process sweet pods into dwarven syrup.  That reaction requires a barrel (either wood or metal), not a pot.  (Bug 4356)

Otherwise, they both store food the same way -- stacks of 10 or less can fit, but larger stacks will just sit on the ground.

[greycat]

Create hospital zone.  Put some chests or bags in the zone.  Assign a chief medical dwarf and some medical dwarves.  Wait for stubborn, drunk, idiot dwarves to choose to go to the doctor.

Also put some beds in the hospital.  I'd say those are more important than the chests/bags.  Most dwarves won't go to the hospital under their own power -- they'll usually be carried there.  If the hospital has no beds, then they'll either be diagnosed and treated in their own bedroom (wherever that may be), or they could be carried to a random bed (??).

In order to make your doctors give medicine a high priority, you probably need to disable all other labors, especially hauling.

[GoldenShadow]

A thing I figured out is to turn off prepared meals at the Kitch food stockpile. Turn on everything except drinks and prepared meals. Then put 2 stockpiles very close to your cafeteria. In on, turn off all food EXCEPT for prepared meals. And the other one is just for drinks. All the raw ingredients are right there by the kitchen buildings and the preapred food is taken to the dining room. This turns out to be very space efficient, space wise. A good prepared meal can be stacked very high, like 50 or so. This solves the problem of running out of storage space and making food hauling much faster too, since its only one trip to carry 50 prepared roasts instead of 50 trips to carry 1 plump helmet at a time. For example. You can have you farms at the surface and the food storage deep down by the magma forges without requiring so much hauling labor. Any food that comes in large stacks is great for cooking. Eggs, tallow, quarry bushes...

[Yaotzin]

Couple questions on ice -> water dumping

Must the final level it lands on have no ice or doesn't it matter?

What exactly is required to disconnect the block and make it fall? Channels around it and space below obviously, what about above? Do I have to mine it out or what?

[Nil Eyeglazed]

Couple questions on ice -> water dumping

Must the final level it lands on have no ice or doesn't it matter?

What exactly is required to disconnect the block and make it fall? Channels around it and space below obviously, what about above? Do I have to mine it out or what?

The idea is to drop the ice below the surface where it will warm up.  If it lands on ice, it's not below the surface-- you've got to drop it lower than that.

To disconnect the block, it must be disconnected from all adjacent rock/ice, including the ceiling, so yes, you have to mine out the ceiling.  But be aware that if you expose the area to the outside by taking out the top layer of ice, your caved-in ice won't melt, because it won't be considered underground.

This means that to get a single layer of ice dropped into water, you need at least 3 z-levels of ice.

[fluffhead]

Admantine caps use cloth to be made.  Do these caps rot like clothing, or are they considered an armor and not rot?  i need to know before I forge the caps as I don't want to waste my materials.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

As of last version, adamantine caps were vulnerable to wear, same as any other clothing.  I don't imagine that it's changed.

[fluffhead]

As of last version, adamantine caps were vulnerable to wear, same as any other clothing.  I don't imagine that it's changed.

Thanks Nil!

[Farmerbob]

Create hospital zone.  Put some Beds, Tables, and chests or bags in the zone.  Traction benches too when you can.  Assign a chief medical dwarf and some medical dwarves.  Wait for stubborn, drunk, idiot dwarves to choose to go to the doctor.

Fixed it up a bit.  Thanks

Also put some beds in the hospital.  I'd say those are more important than the chests/bags.  Most dwarves won't go to the hospital under their own power -- they'll usually be carried there.  If the hospital has no beds, then they'll either be diagnosed and treated in their own bedroom (wherever that may be), or they could be carried to a random bed (??).

In order to make your doctors give medicine a high priority, you probably need to disable all other labors, especially hauling.

Put my edits in original post and this post as well, thanks for the catch!

[vertinox]

Has the truetype fonts crashing been fixed in the latest version? That is the on thing that drives me crazy about .31 because it hurts my eyes to play with truetype fonts off.

Also, in my quest to upgrade, are there any other show stopping crashes/bugs that get in the way that weren't in .31?