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[Larix]

The 'base' material for a mood is only listed once in the desired items list, but a dwarf will randomly want one to three items of the type. In the case of a bone carver, that's bones (not 'skeleton' items, but '<creature> bone [4]' or some other number); the same holds for the respective base materials of other mood types - clothing moods will only mention their 'base' cloth once, but will actually want one to three bolts of it.

[Porpoisepower]

It was still weird because I had several bone stacks in my refuse pit... Or are you saying my Carver wanted two stacks of yak bones, not just two stacks of bones?

[Garath]

he should have been fine with any bone afaik. It might be that the other bone 'stacks' are left over fragments from crafting stuff like bolts or otherwise impossible to use

[oxiboost]

No, the hammerer has his/her own squad, I'm pretty sure. Just open up his/her squad and use the equipment screen there.

Well then, I'm lost. The only squad I see in the military menu is the one I created with my militia commander (he's the only one in the squad.)

Have you appointed a hammerer or captain of the guard yet?

A hammerer, yes. I don't have the captain of the guard noble available yet, but I assigned the same dwarf both to the hammerer and the sheriff. Am I doing something wrong?

[Garath]

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that that causes some problems. I forgot what it was and can't find it right now, but I do remember that there was something with a hammerer being the capt of the guard (or sheriff) as well

[slothen]

can liquid flow push items or creatures up or down z-levels, specifically through a floor-grate or even down a staircase?

[monk12]

can liquid flow push items or creatures up or down z-levels, specifically through a floor-grate or even down a staircase?

Definitely yes on the staircase (which can be fatal if the staircase is deep enough.) IIRC Floor Grates should stop both creatures and items, but I remember there being a bug in the past where items could wash through sometimes.

[thistleknot]

I asked a question here about farming, but it hasn't been answered.

Hot biome: low # of alcohol being produced.  I have cave wheat, plump helmets, and cave wheat being produced just 1 z level below surface, I started a few more maybe 2-3 levels below as well.  It seems to be very low output from these farms...  I was wondering would a hot biome have any affect on underground crops?  I'm fertilizing these crops too.

[Telgin]

Biome temperature has no effect as far as I know (aside from it somehow being past the heat damage point or below the cold damage point).  Your farmers must just be low skill level?

[slothen]

1.   What does the option "allow citizens" do for coffins?  Is it possible to bury non-citizens?  I'm guessing non-citizen dwarfs?

2.  I use LNP with phoebus.  I sometimes text or symbols on the menu are blacked out in some kind of graphics glitch.  Any way around this?

[Trif]

• Non-citizen dwarfs can't be buried as far as I know (which would only concern abducted dwarfs who return as honorary goblins). This option just "opens" the coffin for burial, if you don't enable it the coffin won't be used.
• Press F12 to disable TrueType, that works for a short time. If you want to avoid the problem, use an ASCII tileset.

[LordBaal]

Now that the old dwarf therapist has come back to be supported, which one should I use now? The branched? The original (old)?

[monk12]

1.   What does the option "allow citizens" do for coffins?  Is it possible to bury non-citizens?  I'm guessing non-citizen dwarfs?

Basically, once you build a coffin it can just hang out until you assign it to a specific (living) dwarf as a tomb (like making a bedroom and assigning it to someone,) or you can check the "allow citizens" option to allow any old dead guy to be buried there (much like making a free bedroom, first come first served.)

[zooeyglass]

1.   What does the option "allow citizens" do for coffins?  Is it possible to bury non-citizens?  I'm guessing non-citizen dwarfs?

worth adding: if the undead invade, and there are zombie dwarves, your dwarves will choose to bury their dwarf corpse corpses in coffins that are allowed for citizens once you've dealt with them, which can start filling up your masterful crypt with unnamed bodies, if you're not careful. Some people don't care; personally, I have some separate stone coffins hidden away for pets and zombie dwarf corpses. I want to bury those poor damned zombie dwarves, just not in my swanky mausoleum....

[slothen]

when embarking on a terrifying region, what information is available regarding curses (only kind is reanimation, right?) and evil weather?  Do I just embark and see what happens?