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[thiosk]

Can werecreatures infect the biome on which theyve been deployed?  A weremonster turned back to its original form and vanished, after attacking some of the other critters occupying my biome.

Only intelligent and blood carrying creatures can be infected with a werebeast curse, so unless they were attacking animal men you should be fine.

Oh.

Bloody hell...

[Garath]

if the animal people went off the map you're fine, mostly, since the outside embark is frozen in time for fortress mode

[Mr.Pylon]

If I forcefully convict my Captain of the Guard for caving in the skulls of sleeping dwarves (they were all guilty of breaking an export law that got enacted while they were hauling the goods in bins to the depot, and their deaths are showing up as murders in the Justice screen) during Beatings (due to all of the restraints being full from the export fiasco), should I expect a weird loyalty issue, will my Hammerer kill my Captain, or what?

[Garath]

no clue, try it and tell us the results

[BrisoS]

Hi all,

Can someone let me know if/how to remove YOUNG towercaps growing in my fortress? I can chop them down like tree if they are mature but when young they will stop me from building farms on top of them. Gather plants or chop down tree does not work on the young ones.

Thanks!

[Calech]

Hi all,

Can someone let me know if/how to remove YOUNG towercaps growing in my fortress? I can chop them down like tree if they are mature but when young they will stop me from building farms on top of them. Gather plants or chop down tree does not work on the young ones.

Thanks!

Yeah, farms are a little sensitive like that - trying to build above-ground farms is often an exercise in frustration (the number of inconveniently-placed boulders, shrubs, and similar things is amazing), for the same reason.

Depending on where it is, you may have some luck with building a floor tile over it, although if this is on muddied stone this might also remove the life-giving mud your farms need (it'll work on dirt floors though as they don't require more mud on top to grow stuff).

If necessary, mud can be replaced via controlled irrigation.

Alternatively, waiting a few months will allow the tree to mature enough to be cut down - naturally, this has the disadvantage that other plants will pop up in the rest of the farm.

[wuphonsreach]

Hi all,

Can someone let me know if/how to remove YOUNG towercaps growing in my fortress? I can chop them down like tree if they are mature but when young they will stop me from building farms on top of them. Gather plants or chop down tree does not work on the young ones.

Thanks!

Build a paved road with stone blocks, then remove it.  You'll be left with nice ground suitable for creating a farm plot.

[Garath]

you can make a dirt road on it, but then you'd have to wait for it to return to its original state again

[Mr.Pylon]

no clue, try it and tell us the results

It went off not too badly actually, the first murder got the Captain 200 days in prison, and once that's up he's got two doses of 50 hammerstrikes to look forward to for the last two murders. The Captain's subordinates dragged him off to the chain, and though he immediately become unhappy it never progressed past that. I'm looking forward to the 100 hammerstrikes from my very weak hammerer, who also happens to be in the Captain's militia and has no weapons, but so far nothing terrible has happened. That'll teach the Captain to try and be above the law.

[BrisoS]

Paved road worked fine, thanks all.

New question - is there anything in the game that will break built walls? I broke into a cavern like a complete idiot (read: I dug a room of 25x25 right into a cavern wall not the usual dig a 1x1 stairway into a cavern ceiling). I managed to build walls everywhere with only a few crundles (sp?) getting through.

I read that some beasts can break buildings. The wiki itself seems to say that walls are safe though. If that is not true, what is the best way for me to safeguard the area? Are fortifications better?

[wuphonsreach]

Constructed Walls / Floors / Stairs / Fortifications are all safe from building destroyers.  If you're not ready for the "fun" of the caverns:

- If you breached using an up-down stair, then construct an "up" stair on the lowest level.  As "up" stairs are a combination of a floor and an upward leading staircase.

- If you breached horizontally, build a constructed wall to seal it up for now.  You can always (d-a) later to carve a fortification into the constructed wall.

[drivec]

whats the difference between deep and shallow metals?

nvm mind i figured out the answer.

[zhubacca]

how do I build a wall?  all the guides say b + c + w, but b + c just has me place a chair.

[Calech]

how do I build a wall?  all the guides say b + c + w, but b + c just has me place a chair.

b -> C -> w

Capitalisation is important in this case - oftentimes a capital letter will build something different to its lowercase version.

[BrisoS]

how do I build a wall?  all the guides say b + c + w, but b + c just has me place a chair.

note:
b(build)+c(chair)
b(build)+C(Walls/floors/whatnot)

The "C" has to be shift+C (capital C).

Anytime you look at the wiki for keyboard inputs make sure you do two things:

1)watch out for capital letters
2)if the entry does not show the keyboard inputs, check out the earlier version of the same page. I have seen a lot of DF2012 pages that do not list the keyboard inputs when older ones did. KB inputs did not change as far as i can tell.