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[lechium]

I have the hunch my well isn't working correctly. Is there a way to find out for sure? Perhaps it doesn't work because the water source tile is on a downward slope (with water above and below)?
Or perhaps it doesn't work because i built the well before the water reservoir?

[Laurin]

Query it with "q" - it should be "active".

[smjjames]

Anybody know of a workaround or prevention measure for this bug:  Stacks consisting of a single bone cannot be used by craftsdwarves Bug:5816 ? Because apparently I have LOTS of those for some reason, and nearly all of them are from butchering. I think there's some goblin bone single stacks in there as well.

[Sutremaine]

That's not quite the bug -- the bug is that the last (or rarely, only) bone in a stack is used, but the stack isn't used up and hangs around like an unbutcherable skeleton.

Both usable and unusable bones will be stored in a refuse pile, but the usable ones are in the 'bones' category and the unusable ones are in the 'body parts' category.

Off the top of my head right now, you could try making a 'body parts' pile that takes only from the crafter's. The only things that should end up in that pile are the leftover bones, and from there you can dispose of them as you like.

[lechium]

Query it with "q" - it should be "active".

Thanks, turns out it works fine.

[Farmerbob]

So much for my using a bridge to drop a FB into a pit. However, it doesn't have to be ON the bridge for the drop pit to work.

Eh, you can use a bridge to drop a FB - but it has to be a manually constructed bridge.

I'm looking for a post I created about this a long time ago   Give me a couple minutes for searching.

Found it:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=87165.msg2369781#msg2369781

I'm not sure this will still work - been a long time since I built that.  But I don't remember any game mechanic changes to how collapses of constructed floors works.

[greycat]

That's not quite the bug -- the bug is that the last (or rarely, only) bone in a stack is used, but the stack isn't used up and hangs around like an unbutcherable skeleton.

My understanding is that sometimes the game generates a non-integer number of bones (or wool) in a stack.  When all but the last fractional bone (or wool) is used, you are left with a stack that looks like a single bone (or wool) but is really a fraction of one, and therefore unusable.

The only workaround I know is to atom-smash or magma-dump the offending partial thing.

[Fluoman]

So, my generational fort is in pretty bad shape since every single adult is dead and only seven children are left. While there is enough food and drink to accomodate them for the time it would take for the oldest to grow up, there is no sense waiting for that if all the children are related and won't warry and produce offspring.
Is there a tool out there capable of drawing the family trees in a fortress?

[Garath]

can't you allow a few migrants?

[Fluoman]

I could, but the self-imposed challenge is to get at least one fortress-born child to respectable 13yo dwarf status without external help after the first two waves.

[Crinkles]

Say, what stops relatives from marrying, anyway? I checked the ethics in the raws and it doesn't seem to be in there.

[Sutremaine]

If there are only seven children, you can go through the unit list and look at each dwarf's relations. Dwarves won't marry siblings or parents, but anything else is fine.

[Crinkles]

I think it would be nice if incest was handled in the raws. Something like this to represent your average modern human:
[ETHIC:INCEST_CLOSE:APPALLING]
[ETHIC:INCEST_DISTANT:MISGUIDED]

(INCEST_DISTANT being cousins and whatnot, with INCEST_CLOSE being siblings and half-siblings.)

[Telgin]

Something like that will probably be implemented eventually.  For now it's just hard coded, but I believe it only restricts against siblings and parents / children.  Maybe cousins and aunts / uncles, I'm not sure.

The current implementation also has, if my memory works right, an interesting restriction that the two creatures can't be more than 10 years apart in age.  That makes enough sense for humans and even dwarves, but breaks down a bit for creatures with vastly different lifespans.

I'm sure that will eventually become moddable or otherwise be improved, but marriage and relationships in general are still pretty shallow.

[Putnam]

Romance will be great. Ah, what a little adultery can do to get a big plot rolling.