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[AutomataKittay]

bolts:

The wiki says that density is important for bolts. I assume that's why wood bolts don't do squat to a guy in full iron armor. Does it mean that copper and silver make good bolts against steel/iron armor? I have boatloads of silver and copper I don't know what to do with and am lacking in iron as well as bolts. If the wiki is right and copper/silver make the best bolts, it would solve all my problems.

Maybe not the best, but it'll work pretty well. Pretty much any metal you can make into bolt will do well, the judge's out on the bluemetal, though, since there're conflicting reports. Go ahead and pump out the copper and silvers, it won't hurt

[greycat]

Copper and silver bolts are indeed excellent.  You'll be pleased with the results.

[jarekb84]

Trying to get a draw bridge working. I built the bridge and lever, linked up the lever to the bridge, but now when i go to the lever i can't do anything. The option to promote current task is grayed out, and if I try to link it to the bridge it says "There is nothing that can be linked up".

What am I missing?

[AutomataKittay]

Trying to get a draw bridge working. I built the bridge and lever, linked up the lever to the bridge, but now when i go to the lever i can't do anything. The option to promote current task is grayed out, and if I try to link it to the bridge it says "There is nothing that can be linked up".

What am I missing?

You can't link to same object twice (The link list don't counts what it's already linked up to ), and promote don't shows up if there're one or less tasks. Are you looking for shift-p, the option to toggle lever?

[jarekb84]

Trying to get a draw bridge working. I built the bridge and lever, linked up the lever to the bridge, but now when i go to the lever i can't do anything. The option to promote current task is grayed out, and if I try to link it to the bridge it says "There is nothing that can be linked up".

What am I missing?

You can't link to same object twice (The link list don't counts what it's already linked up to ), and promote don't shows up if there're one or less tasks. Are you looking for shift-p, the option to toggle lever?

Yeah I was, just figured it out after posting. Thanks though.

[Tirion]

How close do my dwarves have to go to a corpse to find it dead? Is line of sight enough, or literally stumbling upon the corpse is required?

[jarekb84]

How do i call all my dwarfs inside. Looking at an old wiki entry from .28 says hit o - i to "Civilians or all dwarves can be ordered to stay indoors," but that option is no longer available. How do I go about doing this in the current version?

[Calech]

How do i call all my dwarfs inside. Looking at an old wiki entry from .28 says hit o - i to "Civilians or all dwarves can be ordered to stay indoors," but that option is no longer available. How do I go about doing this in the current version?

To replicate similar functionality, you will need to define a burrow (w) encompassing the area you want your dwarves to stay inside, and then assign it to an alert via the military alerts panel (m->a).

Once the burrow is assigned to an alert state, you can change the 'civilian' alert level in that screen to confine the general population to that area. This is not necessarily 100% reliable, as some dwarves will continue an existing job until completion rather than cancel it (notably I've had a mayor continue to 'Conduct Meeting' outside in the middle of a siege with... predictable results).

[Tirion]

Quick question: can dwarves eat and drink while swimming in water?

[i2amroy]

Quick question: can dwarves eat and drink while swimming in water?

IIRC no, they get the "dangerous terrain" message and cancel. IF the water is under 4/7 (so 3/7 or lower) then they are fine, but it doesn't train swimming.

[BrisoS]

I'm trying my hand at cage traps on my 18th Trinkling Balls of Angels fortress and having a lot of trouble trapping anything that I don't actually "aim" at.

An ettin came to my fort (above ground, not cave born) and I had only 1 bridge he could cross, so I could easily trap him by placing traps next to said bridge. But I would like those pesky undead ravens and some of the non undead wildlife to get randomly trapped too. I thought the bridge thing would be good but since most of the wildlife flies (on my map anyway) it's not helping. My embark is flat with a forking river. I went for a 7x5 embark so it is somewhat large. I have peaceful biomes to the west, evil in the middle (undead) and untamed wildlife to the east.

I tried to do what the wiki says (crosshair walls, the bridge chokepoint thingie etc...) but with such a large embark the odds of anything even getting close to my crosshair build are quite slim. Unless I make it huge with half my dwarves as masons. Is that what I should do?

Any tips on how to capture more wildlife? Am I supposed to just lay cage traps down all over the place?

[Lagslayer]

Spoiler:  @ BrisoS (click to show/hide)

I'm trying my hand at cage traps on my 18th Trinkling Balls of Angels fortress and having a lot of trouble trapping anything that I don't actually "aim" at.

An ettin came to my fort (above ground, not cave born) and I had only 1 bridge he could cross, so I could easily trap him by placing traps next to said bridge. But I would like those pesky undead ravens and some of the non undead wildlife to get randomly trapped too. I thought the bridge thing would be good but since most of the wildlife flies (on my map anyway) it's not helping. My embark is flat with a forking river. I went for a 7x5 embark so it is somewhat large. I have peaceful biomes to the west, evil in the middle (undead) and untamed wildlife to the east.

I tried to do what the wiki says (crosshair walls, the bridge chokepoint thingie etc...) but with such a large embark the odds of anything even getting close to my crosshair build are quite slim. Unless I make it huge with half my dwarves as masons. Is that what I should do?

Any tips on how to capture more wildlife? Am I supposed to just lay cage traps down all over the place?

You want something to bait the creatures. If they are building destroyers, you can use that to lure them in. Let's just use a door because it's an easy example. If you want the creature in a certain area, build a destroyable door and they will be drawn to it (keep in mind that some building destroyers can't break down all materials). Use walls to limit the direction they can approach from. Build whatever contraption you want around that building. If they have the [CURIOUSBEAST_GUZZLER] tag, then you can use booze to lure them in. If the creature has [BONECARN], then bones can lure them in. If it has [PRONE_TO_RAGE:1] or [LIKES_FIGHTING], then a  nearby chained, tamed creature can lure them in.

Otherwise, just compartmentalize the whole embark. If they want to get somewhere, they will have to go through certain choke points. You can concentrate your trap efforts there. Keep in mind that if you want to trap flying creatures, they need to be on the ground (and you may need to stun them, but not sure), so use ceilings and really tall walls.

Anyways, my question. What exactly makes a mining pick work for the mining labor? I ask because I'm considering making it use the axe skill for combat (for simplicity in training military), and want to know if that would mean it no longer works for mining.

[AutomataKittay]

Yeah, you'll have to lay it all over the place. I see some guides mentioning that wild critters will wander from one edge to another, I've not seen that behavior very often, so I just set out clusters of traps here and there, preferrably near map corners since they seem to tend to pop up near there, or as near the edge as I can.

Occasionally catches goblin ambushes by surprise, too!

[greycat]

If you've got a large above-ground walled area, then you can put traps at the corners and catch creatures that are coming around those corners.

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   +-- goblin wants to go in the front gate here

The goblin (or whatever creature) will calculate the shortest path to your entrance, which will often have to go around the corners of your outer wall.  You can put traps right on those points to catch them.

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[knutor]

Question:  Will a Forgotten Beast spawn, inside a fort?  One just showed up in my up/down stairwell, out of the clear blue.. err, clear dark.  I'm trying to find the spot this little nasty fella came in, and don't see a way that he could have possibly entered anywhere near where he was first reported.  Losing the fortress as a result.  Just curious if they spawn in forts, often.  I did get a discovery message, for large magma sea, while digging, near magma of course, which didn't discover-uncover anything at all. 

I'm thinking something with this world is off sync.  Thanks, Knutor