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[Nibble]

It seems that throwing boulders into magma (ie, a garbage incinerator) produces lava mist. Is this new to this version? I don't think it happened before...

[Tirion]

So... my current fort just lost all but one dwarven child due to a siege, and subsequent dehydratings/going mad/etc. (Said dwarven child may have been saved due to the small blip in happiness given when he slaughtered another berserking dwarven child by smashing his fist through his brain. At age two. But I digress.)

Now though I've had my first migrant wave come in, and get settled in enough that they no longer have the flashing "X" over them. But my nobles screen remains blank, with no ability to appoint anyone (which means I can't form a militia to get rid of the last few stragglers that keep interrupting jobs, for instance.)

Will the noble ranks/ability to appoint them eventually come back for whatever reason, or am I pretty much doomed to scrub the fort and start anew?

E: Nevermind, seems to be a bug as reported in Mantis. Ugh. Guess it's time to abandon.

Wait till they elect an expedition leader.

[Garath]

It seems that throwing boulders into magma (ie, a garbage incinerator) produces lava mist. Is this new to this version? I don't think it happened before...

pretty new yeah

@stormfeather:

mayors, if you have enough population (or probably expedition leaders) are elected in hematite, after which you can usually set most functions like manager and broker again. Barons won't be replaced

[Stormfeather]

Thanks, I ended up abandoning though - I had an ambush right after, and couldn't appoint a military to go wipe them out or anything, and got tired of watching my dwarves run around endlessly and uselessly. I finally just abandoned.

[Isileth]

I'm newish to the game and was building a cistern for my fort yet got some unexpected results, hopefully someone can tell me whats going on.

I embarked at the start of a brook and was using a u bend with stairs on each side. Based on what I read on the wiki I expected the water to rise to one level below the river on the other side. However it is simply going to the bottom of the u bend and not rising at all.

[FuzzyZergling]

I'm newish to the game and was building a cistern for my fort yet got some unexpected results, hopefully someone can tell me whats going on.

I embarked at the start of a brook and was using a u bend with stairs on each side. Based on what I read on the wiki I expected the water to rise to one level below the river on the other side. However it is simply going to the bottom of the u bend and not rising at all.

Do you have any diagonal pathways at the bottom of the bend?

[Isileth]

No its a straight line all the way from the river to the cistern, joined to the river without a diagonal as well.

[Dorfimedes]

No its a straight line all the way from the river to the cistern, joined to the river without a diagonal as well.

Bwuh... That's bizarre. Are you absolutely sure there's open space in the section the water is supposed to rise through? That might seem obvious, but I can't think of anything.

[tryrar]

So, I have a small problem. I have a short drawbridge  placed on the track leading from my outdoor wood stockpile into the fort that I keep closed to block access, though I do have some cart triggered pressure plates to activate the bridge. But, so far, whenever I set the minecart to guide down(since it splots off my main rail at my main wood stockpile), the dorfs simply take the cart off and haul it down to the stockpile below. How do I fix this?(and no, pushing isn't an option due to the aforementioned T-split)

[DTF]

So... my current fort just lost all but one dwarven child due to a siege, and subsequent dehydratings/going mad/etc. (Said dwarven child may have been saved due to the small blip in happiness given when he slaughtered another berserking dwarven child by smashing his fist through his brain. At age two. But I digress.)

Now though I've had my first migrant wave come in, and get settled in ...

Boy, imagine the migrants.
(when still outside) "Ahhh yes, this place looks formidable. Very nice."
And then they go inside, find everyone dead apart from a very unhappy 2-year old child covered in blood.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8EhRGRFnpm0#t=42s
pancakes = plump helmets

[vonduus]

Playing 34.10

Traders came in before I set up stonetraps in my three tiles wide passageway. Trade Depot was obviously accessible.

During trade some dorfs put up some rows of stone traps, and now the traders "have left", the game tells me. But they are still here, they just won't trade, and they cannot leave, because the depot is not accessible.

Deconstructing the traps frees up the passage and lets the merchants out.

This is not normal dwarfish behavior, I have had lots of forts with lots of stonetraps, and they have never before blocked access to the depot. So is this a new feature, or is it a bug?

[Yovatsap]

I want to start a fort with the pop cap set to 0 so I won't get migrants after the hard-coded waves.

My question is; what problems would I encounter in such a case?

[Tirion]

I want to start a fort with the pop cap set to 0 so I won't get migrants after the hard-coded waves.

My question is; what problems would I encounter in such a case?

0 may be a bugged value meaning no cap. Set it to 1.

[Yovatsap]

I want to start a fort with the pop cap set to 0 so I won't get migrants after the hard-coded waves.

My question is; what problems would I encounter in such a case?

0 may be a bugged value meaning no cap. Set it to 1.

K then. Thanks for the heads up. But still I need some speculations as to what would happen? Would I be defenseless against attacks or anything like that?

[Niyazov]

Playing 34.10

Traders came in before I set up stonetraps in my three tiles wide passageway. Trade Depot was obviously accessible.

During trade some dorfs put up some rows of stone traps, and now the traders "have left", the game tells me. But they are still here, they just won't trade, and they cannot leave, because the depot is not accessible.

Deconstructing the traps frees up the passage and lets the merchants out.

This is not normal dwarfish behavior, I have had lots of forts with lots of stonetraps, and they have never before blocked access to the depot. So is this a new feature, or is it a bug?

Traps blocking wagons is a new "feature" that was introduced along with minecarts and wheelbarrows.