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[knutor]

@Zwerg, To add to Trif's msg.  I think the key depth to start accumulating water from rainfall is 2/7 or greater.  But I could be off, by +/-1.  Reservoir design, is irrelevant, as long as all edges are watertight, it will grow to 7/7 eventually, unless biome temp is hot+.

@Fluoman, yup.  Peregrine Falcons will. Cats are it tho from the start. Nothing else at embark, correct.  A good way, I've found to keep vermin out is to seperate the food stockpile.  Then guard the prepared meals with a kitty, so as to not lose any time spent in cooking.

[Zwerg]

@Zwerg, To add to Trif's msg.  I think the key depth to start accumulating water from rainfall is 2/7 or greater.  But I could be off, by +/-1.  Reservoir design, is irrelevant, as long as all edges are watertight, it will grow to 7/7 eventually, unless biome temp is hot+.

@Fluoman, yup.  Peregrine Falcons will. Cats are it tho from the start. Nothing else at embark, correct.  A good way, I've found to keep vermin out is to seperate the food stockpile.  Then guard the prepared meals with a kitty, so as to not lose any time spent in cooking.

How do fluids act on Slopes or Ramps? The wiki is not clear to me. For example: What is the best way of building a funnel that collects rain, does it matter if I use ramps?:

      |_             _|              or          |     |
         |_        _|                             \    /
            |_   _|                                |  |
               | |                                   \ /
           

Keep in mind, rain only gets collected in murky pools. A funnel won't help.
But anyways, I don't think that fluids behave differently on ramps than on floors. Both funnels should be equally efficient if you pour water in them.

I want to collect a big amount of human blood rain in an evil biome (for the reason I don't know yet). I hope it will work.

[i2amroy]

I want to collect a big amount of human blood rain in an evil biome (for the reason I don't know yet). I hope it will work.

It won't. Right now the only working "true" fluids in the game are magma and lava, so syndrome rains just coat everything on the surface with their contaminant without actually generating any fluids.

[Zwerg]

I want to collect a big amount of human blood rain in an evil biome (for the reason I don't know yet). I hope it will work.

It won't. Right now the only working "true" fluids in the game are magma and lava, so syndrome rains just coat everything on the surface with their contaminant without actually generating any fluids.

What a let down.

[Aaarrgh!]

Can floor grates be walked on?

[Trif]

Yes.

[vjek]

Can floor grates be walked on?

Yep.  They can also be built over top of downward stairs.  Certain building destroyers will want to destroy them, and can, if they have enough time.  They can be built orthogonally over top of empty spaces and water, too.

[MoridinUK]

Ok so I have a Mason Dwarf in a secretive mood!

He collected a couple of rocks, but is now stuck drawing pictures of a quarry and stacked cloth.

I know this means he needs Rock and Cloth.  As he already collected some Rock does that mean he needs some cloth?  I have some cave spider silk, but he hasn't gone for that?  Any advice please?

EDIT:
I also seem to have a problem, someone/thing keeps kidnapping babies and children, but I can not find them on the unit screen to try to fight them!  I know the game pauses when a snatcher turns up, am I right in assuming this message is for when they get away?

I've no idea how they grab a kid without being seen?  Very very confused!

[i2amroy]

If he has already collected a few rocks then there is a good chance that he needs cloth. Dwarves will want a specific type of cloth mind you, so try to have silk, plant, and wool based cloth around if at all possible.

As for snatchers, snatchers show up invisible and it will only display the message when they are discovered. The easiest way to stop this is to put a series of 1x1 pastures across your entrance with an animal in each so that any snatchers or thieves have to walk next to one in order to get inside your fortress. (Make sure not to use grazers since they will starve to death!)

[Sutremaine]

Goblin master thieves are ninjas. You can spot them on the way in with a high enough Observer skill, but that takes a long time to build up. Try and keep your child hangout areas as far from the entrance as possible, with as many high traffic areas between the entrance and the child area as possible.

Your mason may want plant cloth (comes from pig tails or rope reeds) or yarn cloth. Yarn can be difficult to get hold of at short notice, as you can't open the caverns or go scavenging for the appropriate plants. If you don't have any wool-bearing animals (sheep, llamas, alpacas), you'll have to wait for the human or dwarven caravan.

[MoridinUK]

Thanks both for your help..

I had just enough wool on my two rams to get him his yarn cloth!  Thank goodness as I had no pig tails to make fibre cloth!

Ok so, how do I tell my kids where to hang out?  Zone  or burrow? and I presume they will need food near by etc?  At the moment they get snatched as they run about all over the place!  I'm enclosing part of the river, I know it isn't perfect as swimming bad guys can get in there, but it should make things harder for my enemies?

My fisherdwarfs seem to attract the children and were creatures!

[Sutremaine]

Dwarves with nothing to do will generally hang out in their bedrooms or in a meeting zone. Children have the extra irritation of following their mothers around a lot, but the one child I have in the fortress doesn't do that so much, to the point where I just checked if his mother was actually still alive. You can leave any strictly-outdoors occupations to male dwarves or dwarves that have been widows for more than nine months, though this does leave babies and trailing children vulnerable when their mothers go out to haul. Children can be burrowed, although they're rather slow about going there and frequently wander out. But if the burrow is a retracting bridge over an isolated area with food and drink (and an adult dwarf who's mooded, to be a babysitter), then they only need to go there once. I once burrowed a child for swimming practice. It worked, more or less.

[moosecow]

Would dropping water through a hatch at an extreme height crush whatever is beneath it? Or would it not do any combat damage at all?

[i2amroy]

Would dropping water through a hatch at an extreme height crush whatever is beneath it? Or would it not do any combat damage at all?

It wouldn't cause any harm at all IIRC. Now dropping boulders (or better yet, weapons) from a high height will crush or stab anything they land on working on the same sort of principles as a minecart shotgun, just working vertically instead of horizontally.

[XXSockXX]

Children can be burrowed, although they're rather slow about going there and frequently wander out. But if the burrow is a retracting bridge over an isolated area with food and drink (and an adult dwarf who's mooded, to be a babysitter), then they only need to go there once.

I always burrow children in the living/meeting/stockpile/workshop area deep within the fort, it seems if the burrow is big enough they won't wander out. I haven't had a child snatched in over 30 years with always 100 children around.