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[nightwhips]

Question about dwarves on fire. I found a magma tube, with a space well above it. My idea was to suspend a pod from the ceiling via up/down stairs. This seems like it would work, but both the initial miner and one stoneworker have turn up bled to death and on fire after working here. I've put forges over magma before. I don't get combat reports during these "incidents". Are these fire imps? A rule against working over lots of open magma?

[hiroshi42]

Question about dwarves on fire. I found a magma tube, with a space well above it. My idea was to suspend a pod from the ceiling via up/down stairs. This seems like it would work, but both the initial miner and one stoneworker have turn up bled to death and on fire after working here. I've put forges over magma before. I don't get combat reports during these "incidents". Are these fire imps? A rule against working over lots of open magma?

The temperature above the magma shouldn't be hot enough to torch vanilla dwarves on their own.  Have you been dumping things in the magma?  Magma mist can and will burn your dwarves and is now generated by sufficiently large items being thrown in a pool. 

[nightwhips]

Not intentionally dumping stuff in the magma. The miner was the first one there, and the magma starts 4-5 z-levels down. Unless mining causes stuff to fall (I suppose it could release a rock, or rocks?) then I don't see how, though that is one explanation. And the mason? Just made a few X up/down staircases. No dropping.

There ARE imps in the Units menu, but not that I've seen in the magma pipe, just down in the sea. Do they simply cause dwarfs to burst into flame?

[Sutremaine]

They can throw fireballs at a range of about 20 tiles, and they can throw them at angles steeper than 45 degrees.

[nickbii]

How do you mod the game so creatures grow right?

From various threads I've been able to deduce that when little dwarves/kittens/etc. grow up they only get bigger is the exact second they were born ends in zero, and that the following line of code fixes this:

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unit.relations.birth_time=-1

What I have not been able to figure out is where you put the damn code.

So I have two questions:
1) Am I interpreting these threads right?

2) If so, where does this code go?

[Garath]

if you are using the latest df and don't mind using the LNP, download it, copy your saves to the saves folder there, do the same with any macros or other things you have saved or changed and run the game, it will automatically apply the fix

otherwise I found these instructions quite clear:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Install DF Hack, if it isn't already. 

2. Inside your DF install folder (the one with 'Dwarf Fortress.exe'), navigate to the folder \hack\scripts\fix

3. Inside the fix folder - Right-Click -> New -> Text Document

4. Name the new file growthbug.rb (Windows will probably throw an error here, warning against changing the file-name extension.  Click OK.)

5. Open the file in Notepad, or your favorite text editor.

6. Copy-paste the following into the file:

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# growthbug  enable [#d|w|m] |disable|status|now|help
DAY = 1200
USAGE = <<ENDUSAGE
Usage:
   fix/growthbug  enable|start [#d|#w|#m]
                           start auto fix process with #d (number of days),
                           or #w (number of weeks), or #m (number of months),
                           or the default of one month if omitted.
   fix/growthbug  disable|stop|end     stop auto fix process.
   fix/growthbug  now                  run fix process once.
   fix/growthbug  [help|?]             show this help.
   fix/growthbug  status
                           show auto fix status (running? not running?).
                           status is also shown with help, and when
                           starting or stopping auto fix.
       (all options are case insensitive.)
ENDUSAGE

class FixGrowth
   def initialize()   @running = false end
   def status()      @running ? 'FixGrowth: Running' : 'FixGrowth: Stopped'   end
   def process
      count = 0
      df.world.units.active.each do |unit|
         r = unit.relations.birth_time % 10
         if unit.relations.birth_time > 0 and r > 0 then
            unit.relations.birth_time -= r
            count += 1
         end
      end
      puts "FixGrowth: Fixed #{count} units so that their size will grow/thicken." unless count == 0
   end
   
   def start( time=DAY*28 )
      self.stop if @running
      @onupdate = df.onupdate_register('fixgrowth', time) { process }
      @running = true
   end
   
   def stop
      df.onupdate_unregister(@onupdate)
      @running = false
   end
end   


$FixGrowth = FixGrowth.new unless $FixGrowth
run = :help
time = DAY * 28
$script_args.each do |arg|
   case arg.downcase
   when 'now'
      run = :now
   when 'enable', 'start'
      run = :enable
   when 'disable', 'end', 'stop'
      run = :disable
   when 'status'
      run = :status
   when 'help', '?'
      run = :help
   else
      if arg =~ /^([1-9]\d*)([dD|wW|mM])$/
         time =  $~[1].to_i
         case $~[2]
         when 'd', 'D'
            time *= DAY
         when 'w', 'W'
            time *= DAY * 7
         when 'm', 'M'
            time *= DAY * 28
         end
      end
   end
end
case run
when :now
   $FixGrowth.process
when :enable
   $FixGrowth.start(time)
   puts $FixGrowth.status
when :disable
   $FixGrowth.stop
   puts $FixGrowth.status
when :help
   puts $FixGrowth.status
   puts USAGE
end
Kurik Amudnil's script, from the DF Hack thread.

7. Save the file, and exit the editor.

8. Navigate back to your Dwarf Fortress install folder.

9.  Open the file "dfhack.init" (May be called "dfhack.init-example".  If so, rename it to "dfhack.init".) in notepad/text editor of choice.

10. Add the following to a new line anywhere in the file:

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fix/growthbug enable

[nickbii]

So it doesn't work without DFHack. I thought it did.

I guess I'll have to install DFHack.

[WhimsyWink]

I have yet to see any dwarfs with appraisal skill to make broker?  is it a skill that he will develop?

[greycat]

I recently noticed a "Training Session" with one of my melee squads.  Prior to this, I've only noticed sparring and demonstrations that specified what was taught, like "Shield Demonstration."  What do training sessions actually train?

My understanding is that they show "Training session" as their job for some period of time, and then it changes to a more specific task, like "Watch sword demonstration" or "Spar".  I think it changes when enough dwarves show up in the barracks, or when the organizer has finished organizing, or something along those lines.

[Sutremaine]

I have yet to see any dwarfs with appraisal skill to make broker?  is it a skill that he will develop?

Appraiser skill is gained the first time you open the trading screen for a given caravan, with the dwarf in the depot getting a chunk of XP for the whole caravan. With the default caravans of dwarf, human, and elf, you'll only ever raise Appraiser XP three times a year. But you do get a lot of it -- the first caravan you get will easily give you Novice if it has wagons, and maybe if it's just pack animals. You only need Novice to see prices or fortress value, and additional skill levels do nothing.

[knutor]

Question:  Above my pillar trap, I'm building something heavy, so I ran a retractable bridge over to top of pillar.  Now, I am curious, if the collateral damage result when this wall falls will improve, if I build atop the pillar, a wall out of a raw mined rock(435Γ) or a wall out of a rock block(27Γ), when it caves-in.  I saw or remember from the drop item, armor skill improvement thread sometime ago, something about the mass making a difference, or if height made the difference.  I just cannot remember.  Thanks 

Hoping the collective knowledge out there has an answer, or tip.  I'm looking for the greatest splatter size, possible when pillar trap causes a cave-in.  Right now I'm using Pyrolusite walls.  I'll upgrade this heavy wall to a Building destroyer/Forgotten Beast/Titan corpse/skeleton, if its a higher mass, down the road.  Just not sure how I'll get it up there.  HA!

Thanks, Knutor

[Garath]

Maybe I misunderstand, but if there is a cave-in everything under the wall or floor will be instantly killed, so whatever you put on top of them hardly matters, nor what it's made of. Do you mean the 'dust blast' when something falls?

[knutor]

Maybe I misunderstand, but if there is a cave-in everything under the wall or floor will be instantly killed, so whatever you put on top of them hardly matters, nor what it's made of. Do you mean the 'dust blast' when something falls?

Not everything dies, I just had a Goblin Thief and the IDing cat dance right on through the splatter area after triggering a pillar trap, with a hair trigger pressure plate, adjacent to the pillar, but on the diagonal. 

So sure 'dust blast' effect, okay.  I want the best overall destruction for the buck, out of a 1 z-level high pillar collapse.  I'm guessing its just sticking raw stone in there, heavier the better, what I build up there prolly doesn't matter, but I dunno.  Some corpses way a whole lot more.  So maybe a floor + a corpse?

[Telgin]

What are the rules for determining if a tile of water will freeze?  I have a fort on a map that freezes in winter and that deconstructed my well.  Is it possible to protect it by enclosing it in a building?  Or would a dedicated underground well resist freezing?

As dorfy as it would be, surrounding it with magma is not practical.

[hiroshi42]

Unfortunately if it is in a tile that was ever above ground it will freeze so your best bet is to move the well underground.