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[Garath]

will I get zombie dwarf sieges?

The player is guaranteed Undead Sieges, regardless of embark subregion alignment, if the neighbor is a Tower.  In larger worldgens, more than one mountainhome gets made.  By tabbing at the embark window and using up down arrows, the player can choose which to use.  Some are at war, sometimes.  Those can be a lil more challenging.  Take care, Knutor

however, if it shows mountainhome in the embark screen as neighbour, yes, it's one that is somehow including a necromancer, expect more sieges, similar as if it said "town" or "village"

My outdoor farm plots keep disappearing. Is it the winter weather or is the Kobold and Goblin thieves popping up?

how happy/unhappy are your dwarfs? they might be tantruming and destroying them. Normal goblins and kobolds can't destroy farms, but sieges that bring building destroyers probably can

[FuzzyZergling]

Can ambushing necromancers walk over traps?

[Urist McPenguinhead]

Is there any way to make children become peasants at an earlier age? Due to the recent sieges I don't have many working dwarves, only a crap ton of kids...

[Telgin]

You can change the adult age in the save's raws.  I don't remember the exact tag name, but it should be [CHILD:12] or something like that.  Change it to 1 to make them peasants at age 1.

They will have to have a birthday (or the game advances to the next checkpoint or something, I'm not sure when it checks) before they will grow up however, even if they're more than a year old.

[knutor]

Can ambushing necromancers walk over traps?

A cage trap should catch him.  Not sure where the haulers will put the full cage with the necromancer inside, however.  Back a couple versions ago, Animal stockpiles, didn't list necromancers or the bazillion+1, possible undead entities.

[crazysheep]

Can ambushing necromancers walk over traps?

A cage trap should catch him.  Not sure where the haulers will put the full cage with the necromancer inside, however.  Back a couple versions ago, Animal stockpiles, didn't list necromancers or the bazillion+1, possible undead entities.

Caged necromancers go into animal stockpiles.

[DrKillPatient]

What is the role of the appointable champion in Fortress Mode?

[Trif]

what, exactly, does the champion do? Is there any particular benefit to having the champion be a skilled fighter as opposed to some random Urist McSchmoe (in 40d, a "champion" was any dwarf who reached legendary in a fighting skill (...right? It's been a while...), so I'm assuming high skill would help)?

I'm pretty sure (but can't prove) that BUILD_MORALE is responsible for the "pillar of society" type thoughts that dwarves can have.

Yeah, that's right.  The champ makes the traditionalists happy and the others a little grumpy.  I think the only thing that'll influence how good they are at their job is making them more friendly/gregarious so they chat with more people.

[FuzzyZergling]

Can ambushing necromancers walk over traps?

A cage trap should catch him.  Not sure where the haulers will put the full cage with the necromancer inside, however.  Back a couple versions ago, Animal stockpiles, didn't list necromancers or the bazillion+1, possible undead entities.

Hm. Now if only I could figure out how two of them got through my trap corridor...

[Argelle]

Hello
Why my marksdwarves not shooting the FB?

Z level: forgotten beast, sulcking at a door
Z+1: behind fortifications, squad one, not firing (but equiped since they took off a thief just a minute ago). May be FB close to wall, blind spot?
Z+2: (error on image, it's not Z+3)balcony with fortification, squad two, equiped, bolts, not firing... why?  :' blind spot reported?(

[XXSockXX]

Yes, blind spot. They cannot see something that is only 1 tile away from the wall. To prevent this dig a moat before your walls.

[Inglonias]

How much charcoal does burning one unit of wood give you? I ask because the amount of coke given from lignite and bit. coal was increased drastically in DF2012. Is it still a 1 to 1 ratio?

[FuzzyZergling]

How much charcoal does burning one unit of wood give you? I ask because the amount of coke given from lignite and bit. coal was increased drastically in DF2012. Is it still a 1 to 1 ratio?

Still 1:1, because cutting a tree always gives you a log, while mining out coal give a 25% chance of usable rock.

[DrKillPatient]

What is the effect of caravans' wagons bypassing one's site? Less items for trade?

[monk12]

What is the effect of caravans' wagons bypassing one's site? Less items for trade?

Yes- the Merchants carry a smaller amount of items on their pack animals, while the wagons hold all kinds of crap. IIRC you can't sell them as much (weight) if they don't have the wagons to put it in, either.