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[Garath]

is it possible the migrant is listed as friendly and not acting as a regular migrant would (heading for the fort and working)? If that is the case you encountered a known bug

[Serefan]

is it possible the migrant is listed as friendly and not acting as a regular migrant would (heading for the fort and working)? If that is the case you encountered a known bug

You're right, he is being a lazy sack meat. Thanks at any rate. So there's nothing I can do to view his family relations? I've been building a heritage tree so it'd be a shame.

[Garath]

dfhack has a tweak to fix the bug, select the migrant somehow and type 'tweak fixmigrant' iirc and the migrant will join your fort like it was intended to

[smjjames]

Way back in the earlier versions during 2009 and 2010, I recall that having lots of trees causes FPS problems, so I stuck to deserts to try and avoid that. So, I'm just wondering if having a thick forest or whatever on embark causes FPS problems still? Although I don't remember if it was because of the trees just being there or because of pathing problems back then.

WIth this version, there doesn't seem to be any problem with lots of trees (caverns for example), though there is an understandable drop due to pathing through thickly forested caverns.

[Garath]

there may be some drop, but my experience is that pathing is minor comparable to no. of creatures and no. of items. I've embarked on forests, swamps and plains and never noticed much difference. I started playing 2010, so I don't know from before that

[JAFANZ]

I could've sworn that I'd read on the forums (actually, I thought it was in this thread, but I can't find it), that it was possible to get your dwarves to slaughter caged animals, & leave the results in the cage, where they won't rot (thus preventing miasma in a workshop that hasn't been exposed to the surface).

Is my recollection correct? & if so, could someone please either point me at where it was discussed previously, or explain it to me? ('cos my latest attempt resulted in the cage being left on the stockpile & the animal being hauled to the butchers).

[Garath]

never heard of that. I can imagine making an animal bleed heavily and putting it in the cage, where it will bleed to death

[JAFANZ]

It might have been part of the discussion where someone had an animal in a cage die of old age between being marked for slaughter & being butchered, which your proposed methodology would emulate (something to do with the "slaughter" flag not being wiped at death), but I was hoping for something more generally applicable, as "old age", "starvation", & even "bleeding to death" all have complications (time taken, loss of material/size, & of course "potential loyalty cascade" or "accidental gibbing").

But thanks for the suggestion.

Edit: I could've sworn the discussion in question was fairly recent (last 2-3 weeks?).

[Larix]

Animals inside cages which are scheduled for slaughter will be taken out of the cage and led to the butcher's shop.

What has been reported were indeed creatures tagged for slaughter which didn't get their butchering job queued up before they died. Reports indicate that this is a workaround for the "cannot butcher the corpses of tame creatures" feature.

A potentially profitable application would be to pasture large creatures on top of a bridge, block access to the zone, tag them all for slaughter and then retract the bridge and dump them down 30+ zlevels to get more butcherable parts. If you split up an elephant into a dozen parts, you could get a full unit of leather out of every single part, while the normal slaughter job will only ever generate one hide.

[JAFANZ]

Ah, wishful thinking on my part then, got it.

Thanks for the help.

Also, new Question, if I equip my Sheriff/Hammerer with a Featherwood Xbow (in the absence of the ability to make training Hammers & not yet having found the candy) & no ammo, will that reduce his effectiveness in beating down criminals? (i.e. Will he club people with the lightest weapon I have access to?)

[Sutremaine]

Dwarves hand out beatings with their fists now.

[smjjames]

What exactly does the creature seed do in advanced worldgen? The wiki doesn't really say. I guess its for megabeasts and stuff?

[AzeTheGreat]

Is there any way to cap a peaked roof on a tower without building stair scaffolding all the way up the side, finishing the roof, and then deconstructing the stairs from the top down?

[WhimsyWink]

Is there any way to cap a peaked roof on a tower without building stair scaffolding all the way up the side, finishing the roof, and then deconstructing the stairs from the top down?

deconstruct a wall tile on the level below the roof and build out to put the stairs on. 

[AzeTheGreat]

deconstruct a wall tile on the level below the roof and build out to put the stairs on.

Ah, thanks.  That certainly saves alot of time.  Now if I could just designate the order that constructions are erected...