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[Garath]

It largely depends on the civ that is comming to attack you. If the goblins had a notable leader that tamed bats, or cave dragons, giant olms and similar, those may be ridden into battle during a siege. If they don't have anyone who did something special like that, they don't. And if you kill or capture that leader, they won't show up with the mounts anymore either iirc

[Kirkegaard]

Since I have played so long, I guess chances are that I do have killed of the special leaders if there where any :S

Thank you

[WhimsyWink]

I have an embark (vanilla embark with dfhack only) whenever I try to make a squad the game crashes.  I'm assuming I need to reload DF, but was wondering if anyone had heard of it before

[greycat]

Does it crash precisely when you create the new squad (pressing l if I remember correctly), or at some later step when you're changing food/booze settings, uniforms, etc.?  I believe there's still a known bug in there that causes crashes if you change something about a squad immediately after creating it.  The workaround for that one is to create the squad, then exit from the military interface altogether, then go back in, then change things.

[WhimsyWink]

as soon as I have selected the members for the squad.  Not positive if I get to back out to the main screen before it goes

I definitely hadn't gotten into uniforms except to select none at the beginning.  Just need to chase the kea's away from the pile of blocks LOL

[Trif]

I have an embark (vanilla embark with dfhack only) whenever I try to make a squad the game crashes.  I'm assuming I need to reload DF, but was wondering if anyone had heard of it before

Does the crash happen if you create a new squad in the (v)iew interface instead of the military interface? As in (v) - choose dwarf - (p) - (n) - (Enter) ?

[WhimsyWink]

I have an embark (vanilla embark with dfhack only) whenever I try to make a squad the game crashes.  I'm assuming I need to reload DF, but was wondering if anyone had heard of it before

Does the crash happen if you create a new squad in the (v)iew interface instead of the military interface? As in (v) - choose dwarf - (p) - (n) - (Enter) ?

I was not aware there was another way.  I'll check that when I get home.  But if it crashes the next time I get to spend time in front of it, I will probably swap a clean copy of DF & dfhack

[smjjames]

Anybody know a way to coax a FB that's in water to path to the fort? I have this cavern layer which is like, 80% water and I got a bit frustrated with trying to wait for a FB to path through the first one that I made a second one to attempt to get it to path.

Both entrances lead to a single path, which I've secured well with troops.

Theres also this peasant (bird) FB with deadly vapors which is currently chilling in the demon fortress and I'm not sure that one can path through as it's blocked off.

[Sutremaine]

You could maybe sacrifice a dwarf by making them a miner and having them dig around the edge of the cavern until they're spotted. Once the FB clambers up to kill the dwarf, it should realise there's a land path available.

Alternatively, you could turn your single path into a barracks (if you haven't done it that way already), and wait for the FB to randomly stumble on the path in.

[Finn]

Both entrances lead to a single path, which I've secured well with troops snacks.

Fixed that for you.

[smjjames]

You could maybe sacrifice a dwarf by making them a miner and having them dig around the edge of the cavern until they're spotted. Once the FB clambers up to kill the dwarf, it should realise there's a land path available.

Alternatively, you could turn your single path into a barracks (if you haven't done it that way already), and wait for the FB to randomly stumble on the path in.

Apparently the peasant FB had found a way up shortly after I had posted yesterday. While I let my military recupurate, the dimetrodon FB (which turned out to have frikking wings) apparently went up the tunnel and was waiting on the other side of the walled off tunnel.

[Garath]

peasant the bird is a pheasant. Quite tasty, I imagine. It would be kinda too bad if it was made of mist or something like it though

[ed boy]

Is there any way to get DF to generate good/evil regions close together? I'm trying to get a 3x3 embark that includes both joyous wilds and terrifying biomes, but there doesn't seem to be an option in the map generation.

[xcorps]

I'm playing DF off a thumb drive, but it just hit the spring autosave and is stuck there. I tried a quicksave in DFHack and it reported "game should save state now".

Any chance this will work? How many files need to be saved, and are they located in Current or another directory so I can see if it's safe to close and reload DF?

[Sutremaine]

Is there any way to get DF to generate good/evil regions close together? I'm trying to get a 3x3 embark that includes both joyous wilds and terrifying biomes, but there doesn't seem to be an option in the map generation.

Not really. You can turn the minimum savagery up to 25 or so, and ask the game to generate enough good and evil regions that civs are just about able to generate. You might need to have a short worldgen to catch them all while they're still living.