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[i2amroy]

There are five deceased of the things in my units list.

Are you playing with any mods? Some mods will add wildlife to below that can get into conflicts with the locals.

Are ballistas worthwhile?

If you build your defense very well around them then they can be very powerful. In general I don't really ever use them though.

[Edmus]

I think I had wanderers friend installed but looking closely it might be double raws, in which case it should be hilarious when I breach the caverns.

[Garath]

I've had the same when some cave swallow people were fighting some kind of monster. They killed the first but got wiped out by the second that was inorganic, their spears and blowguns just couldn't harm it, so I had a list of deceased cave swallow men and women, one of them friendly, the one that killed the first beast. All the time they were fighting I got messages about the beast getting enraged and then not anymore etc...

[Ploder]

Very generally, I'm having a hard time coming up with good ways to make enough beds for my forts when they start exceeding 100 dwarves. No embark has enough trees. Do i just trade for wood, or is there a method of bedroom management that makes it so they share them?

[Garath]

you can set a group of beds as a dormitory, but yeah, I usually trade for wood. It's cheap in any case and after a while I prefer not to go to the surface too much. Once the underground tree farms get working everything is fine

[i2amroy]

you can set a group of beds as a dormitory, but yeah, I usually trade for wood. It's cheap in any case and after a while I prefer not to go to the surface too much. Once the underground tree farms get working everything is fine

Pretty much this. Just trade for all the wood that caravans bring you, and set up a tree farm as soon as you can. Also it's generally a good idea to have a dormitory (I generally run about 20 beds in my larger dormitories) until you manage to get enough bedrooms for all of your dwarves.

[Ploder]

Okay, what gives here. After a full year of successful trading at my depot, the dwarven caravan just arrived and their wagons "have bypassed my inaccessible site."  The depot is surrounded by wagon accessible ground, but the depot itself is being declared inaccessible.

Regular view:



Depot accessibility view:

[Garath]

there is a boulder blocking the pathway. It's too narrow between it and the statue and wagons can't cross stairs

or the stairs are blocking the path, whichever way you'd want to see it

[Ploder]

Ach! Those damned stairs. I knew they were a bad idea.

[Garath]

just get rid of that boulder and the path is open from the other direction. build a floor over it or whatever

[FuzzyZergling]

Or just smooth it.

[Garath]

Or just smooth it.

or whatever

[Ploder]

For my final question--will a succession of 10 stonefall traps actually do any damage to invaders?

[Garath]

depends on the invader, but it's highly unreliable

[Ploder]

For real last question--it looks as if there's a ton of items laying around my trade depot. Haulers don't recognize them. Most of it is wood, some appears to be crafts I brought to trade but didn't end up using. How do I get this stuff out of the depot and into the fort?