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[Xen0n]

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I really have no clue, but I'd consider them to do the worst possible combination of things.
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Hahaha, yes, that has become my default assumption of dorfs unless proven otherwise

My main concern though is just what happens when there are more identical orders for a squad than there are members, if it causes glitches / unhappy thoughts.

[Yovatsap]

Can I mine the gold form my "native gold cavern floor" by using the c(h)annel command?

[greycat]

Can I mine the gold form my "native gold cavern floor" by using the c(h)annel command?

No.  You've already mined the gold that was in that spot, and the floor's not enough to produce a boulder.  Channeling will (possibly) give you a boulder from the level under that.

[DTF]

Can I mine the gold form my "native gold cavern floor" by using the c(h)annel command?

Yes, the floor is basically the tile below. Any mining action (up/down stairs, ramps, channels) that gives you access to this tile provides the stone/ore that is there.

[Yovatsap]

No.  You've already mined the gold that was in that spot, and the floor's not enough to produce a boulder.  Channeling will (possibly) give you a boulder from the level under that.

Yes, the floor is basically the tile below. Any mining action (up/down stairs, ramps, channels) that gives you access to this tile provides the stone/ore that is there.

I'll just try it out and let you guys know.

[DTF]

Wait... im talking BS arent I?
Of course you cant get it, its the floor of the tile you've already mined.
My bad for getting your hopes up.

[Xen0n]

With regards to my previous question:

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"I've just learned that it's possible to assign multiple <o>rders to a single squad each month in the Military Schedule screen.  I'm planning to combine all my 2-dwarf squads into 10-dwarf squads, each with five "Train (2 minimum)" orders each month.

Question:  in the above situation, what happens if the squad has less than 10 dwarves?  Say, just 4 dwarves?  Do they freak out that 3 of the orders can't be fulfilled that month?  Furthermore, if I had a bunch of different orders set for that month (4 dwarves defend this burrow, 2 dwarves train, 4 dwarves patrol this route), but not enough dwarves, how do they decide which orders to follow?"

I can report that at least few months in using schedules of 5x Train (2 minimum) with squads of 2 or 3 dwarves doesn't appear to have any adverse effects, that I've noticed.

Moving on to more fun military things, I'm assuming that my squads deciding to go to "No job" and civilian mode whenever I shift them directly from one alert schedule to another is just some of the existing bugs. 

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E.G. I had a marksdwarf squad set to do a patrol route around the perimeter, with a stop by an ammo bin.  When they instead just marched in a circle around the ammo bin, I set them to a different alert schedule I already set up, that told them to defend a burrow which was just a thin strip at my south wall, but instead they all revert to civilians.  I gave up and tried to muse the (m)ove command to position them close to my fortifications and hope they get some shots in. 

I assume using Active Commands with the (s)quad menu is still the only effective way to get the military to do things?  Too bad it doesn't let you defend burrows or patrol routes from that menu...

Anyway my real question is about the longstanding bug that war-trained animals act like civilians with respect to civilian alert burrows.  This is silly because any time I set my military out to kill stuff, I want to keep my civilians inside (but still send all the war-dogs out with the soldiers).  I was wondering if in the months that I've been away any good workarounds have been thought up for this?  I just got Zombie + Human sieges overlapping now and it's hard enough to fight only using (m)ove commands; it'd be nice if the war Giant Leopard I trained up could actually help out instead of stay inside.

[Blurk]

Is it possible to change the age children change into mature dwarves?

[ResMar]

Yes, look at the tags in their raws.

[Yovatsap]

Do rotting corpses generate miasma only once? The outcome of the last ambush was in my favor but there wasn't enough time to clean them up so I just locked the room down and my dwarves are locked inside until I open that door. Miasma generated in the room, then it went back to normal but the pieces are still "Kutsmob Uraruksos's rotten corpse" and stuff. Is it safe to open the door now?

Edit: Disregard the question. The answer was yes.

[Yovatsap]

On another note, how do I tame the giant eagle that luckily flew into my cage trap?

[ab9rf]

On another note, how do I tame the giant eagle that luckily flew into my cage trap?

Create a training zone, and assign a trainer to the eagle from the Animals screen (off the Z status screen).

[Yovatsap]

Create a training zone, and assign a trainer to the eagle from the Animals screen (off the Z status screen).

Do I move it to the training zone or something? If so, how do I do that? Move the cage?

[ab9rf]

Create a training zone, and assign a trainer to the eagle from the Animals screen (off the Z status screen).

Do I move it to the training zone or something? If so, how do I do that? Move the cage?

Not required.  You have to have a training zone, but you don't need to move the critter there.  You can train critters in cages just fine, I do this all the time.

[Yovatsap]

Oh, it just got to semi-wild! Thanks a lot for that ^^ How would a giant eagle do in the army by the way?
And I can't see an entry for giant eagles in the Overall Training tab, not even general familiarity. Is that a problem?