Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Sutremaine]

The only time I have DF crash on me is if I do something in DT that I haven't pinned down yet. The game by itself is very stable for me.

[Elvin]

I have a garbage dump that is next to a channel, thus making the dwarves throw the dumped items directly into the magma on the z level below. I then see out of the blue a fire has somehow consumed one of the (I presume) dwarves who was dumping something. Figuring it's something to do with only being 1 z-level abve the magma, I put a wall around the original dumping level and channel out a square one higher. I've just had another fire start, and this leaves me totally stumped as to the cause.

tl;dr: fires are starting related to a garbage dumping into magma. Why?

Thanks.

[crazysheep]

Falling objects create magma mist now, which then set your dwarves on fire. You made the right call to make the chute taller, but I don't know why your dwarves are still catching fire.

[vjek]

I have a garbage dump that is next to a channel, thus making the dwarves throw the dumped items directly into the magma on the z level below. I then see out of the blue a fire has somehow consumed one of the (I presume) dwarves who was dumping something. Figuring it's something to do with only being 1 z-level abve the magma, I put a wall around the original dumping level and channel out a square one higher. I've just had another fire start, and this leaves me totally stumped as to the cause.

tl;dr: fires are starting related to a garbage dumping into magma. Why?

Thanks.

I've run into this as well, and now avoid dumping garbage into a pit just one z-level below.  Everything goes great for months or years, and then all of a sudden "Urist McHauler has bled to death" errmmm what?  and sure enough, magma death.

And I've also seen goblins survive a 22 Z-level fall onto upright spikes.  Curse you, strange physics, curse you.

[agvkrioni]

On Pressure-Plates and bridges.

If I have a row of pressure plates linked to a bridge, when an enemy walks over the plate, the bridge should raise/retract yes? When does the bridge go down?

[rhesusmacabre]

The bridge will open after a delay of ~100 ticks, and close after the enemy leaves the plate with a delay of ~200 ticks. The precise timing is down to build order.

[Snaake]

The only time I have DF crash on me is if I do something in DT that I haven't pinned down yet. The game by itself is very stable for me.

I've had some crashes, but none on the embark preparation screen (I don't usually view or customize dwarves there, though).

[D.L.]

I have a friendly marksdwarf (probably from the last dwarf caravan) that won't leave the map. She's just standing one tile from the edge, with a clear path out. Any suggestions?

[agvkrioni]

Build walls and an artificial pond elevated above it. Build a screw pump. Pump in water over his head and either drown him, or flush him out the end.

[mordrax]

The only time I have DF crash on me is if I do something in DT that I haven't pinned down yet. The game by itself is very stable for me.

I've had some crashes, but none on the embark preparation screen (I don't usually view or customize dwarves there, though).

I get constant repeatable crashes when using stonesense and/or assigning 'complex' military squads in splinter-DT. So i quit that fort and started a new one, stopped using stonesense and saved each assignment individually and haven't had any crashes since.

Also, very regrettably my soundsense frequently crashes or java takes up all 4 cores and hangs the system...

[Garath]

I have a friendly marksdwarf (probably from the last dwarf caravan) that won't leave the map. She's just standing one tile from the edge, with a clear path out. Any suggestions?

If it's a leftover from the caravan, the dwarf will leave in time. If it's the trader bug and actually a migrant, dfhack has a fix. If it's not a migrant and will leave eventually (or die), just leave it. It's not causing any problems (or shouldn't at least).

Build walls and an artificial pond elevated above it. Build a screw pump. Pump in water over his head and either drown him, or flush him out the end.

can't build walls that close to the edge, right?

[Cein929]

Trying to train war dogs for the first time and the kennel never has an option to train them.

it only ever has the two options:Capture a live land animal /or/ tame a small animal.

Ive tried only having a pen/pasture around the kennel and ive also have tried only having a train animals zone there. to no avail!!!! halp prease if ya can be so kind

[Argelle]

Hello Cein,
You can now train dogs to war in the (Z) menu by going to "animal".

[Garath]

Trying to train war dogs for the first time and the kennel never has an option to train them.

it only ever has the two options:Capture a live land animal /or/ tame a small animal.

Ive tried only having a pen/pasture around the kennel and ive also have tried only having a train animals zone there. to no avail!!!! halp prease if ya can be so kind

z menu, animals, go to animal of choice, press h for hunting, w for war training. Make sure an animal training zone is available and that an animal trainer is around.

[Cein929]

ahhh! i see it. thank you both soo very much!!

have a good day