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[i2amroy]

How do you make goblins progress towards you in a siege?  My first siege, none of them came at me, but rather they moved for a bit, then hid in a corner.  I sent a squad of marks dwarves after them and that got them moving a bit, and luckily my marksmen killed enough of them to make them retreat before they could inflict damages. 

My second siege has 3x as many invaders as the first one did, and that tactic isn't an option any more.  Used to be the goblins would just come at you unrelenting and you could thin them out with traps before taking on the survivors with your military.  Well, they don't seem to do that any more?  And I can't take on 40 goblins unaided.  So how do I get them to come at me now a days?

The Easiest way I've found to make goblins charge through even twisty passages is to provide them with line of sight on a useless animal like a cat or dog that is located on the other side of the traps. Then once they charge the traps they should be fine.

[Shiv]

I guess I'll be setting up a complex crumb trail of puppies and kittens.

[Ianflow]

I guess I'll be setting up a complex crumb trail of puppies and kittens.

You are the kindest host
Setting out snack plates for your guests
The Elves would be most gracious for such a host to visit
The Goblins, however, are picky eaters usually

[Shiv]

What do y'all do about the masonry bug where the dwarf, even with an unoccluded 3x3 area surrounding him, stands on the wall to complete it, and thus gets a cancellation?  It's specific to the wall, but I can't figure out what causes it. 

[hiroshi42]

What do y'all do about the masonry bug where the dwarf, even with an unoccluded 3x3 area surrounding him, stands on the wall to complete it, and thus gets a cancellation?  It's specific to the wall, but I can't figure out what causes it.

usually canceling the build completely and re-designating it works...eventually.  The biggest problems occur around ramps so I try and use them as sparingly as possible in my buildings.

[Telgin]

Yeah, I always have to actually remove the construction designation and respecify it.  I've never been able to figure out the exact mechanism that causes it, but it definitely doesn't require ramps in the equation.

[Skorpion]

If you're playing on Windows or Linux, there's a binary patch for it. ag left a comment with the changes on the bug page, but if you're not a fan of hex editing you can download the patched .exe.

Tried the patched exe, and it said it needed the index file in the data folder. No index file included.

EDIT:
Wrong DF. Oops.

[Aaarrgh!]

Do floor grates support floors against cave-ins?

[Garath]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Floor_grate#Floor_Grate

A floor grate does NOT count as solid construction. It will not support any buildings or constructions. However, you can designate a construction to be built orthogonally to it with no other supports. This will cause the construction to cave-in immediately after being completed. This can be useful for controlled cave-ins.

imagine that, it's on the wiki

to translate, if required:
you can build stuff next to it, but it doesn't actually support them, so instant cave-in

[Aaarrgh!]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Floor_grate#Floor_Grate

imagine that, it's on the wiki

to translate, if required:
you can build stuff next to it, but it doesn't actually support them, so instant cave-in

I checked the wiki article for cave-ins, but it only stated that orthogonal constructions (walls, floors, stairs) would support a floor, without mentioning what would happen to a building. Thanks for the answer!

[Garath]

now I'm wondering if I understood the question

to prevent anything from falling down in a cave-in, you need either something substantial below (wall, in some cases stairs) or have a solid construction adjectant to it (wall/floor/stairs), diagonals don't count. There are some more things that provide support, among them, surprise, supports. To prevent a cave-in from smashing through a floor, you need a wall (or undug tile) below it. Possibly supports, havn't tried it and am too lazy to look it up

[Aaarrgh!]

now I'm wondering if I understood the question

You did, don't worry. 

[Aaarrgh!]

And now another one - what happens if a lot of objects fall into a minecart? Are the items beyond the carrying capacity ejected, or does it end up carrying more than it should?

[Sutremaine]

Items do not fall into minecarts, only into the tile that the minecart occupies.

[rephikul]

Thinking about picking the game up again. Do we still have problems with trained animal overcrowd at random and fight among themselves?