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[Garath]

My guess is that the civilization population cap was reached during worldgen, so the birth rate went way down.

Thanks! That makes sense.

Another question, I just had an immigrant show up with many yellow body parts - limbs/organs/ribs etc, and a blacked-out "throat". No injuries are showing on the thoughts & prefs screen, but Therapist says "Vision Lost". She got about halfway from the map edge to the gate before I noticed, no combat reports, there are snakes etc in the region but were none on the map at the time (and plenty of other immigrants around that would've seen them??). There's no evil rain/towers or anything in the embark, just a nice jungle wilderness.

I noticed a dwarf heading outside with the "recover wounded" task, he took her to a bed and left, where she got up and started to go do a job. I quarantined her to her room and set up a hospital but she's not going there, just hangs around the meeting area if I let her out of her room.

Any ideas? If she's blind, shouldn't the game say so? Is she likely to be contagious, or can I give her back her crossbow and let her out to hunt?

she's an old soldier, a historical figure (instead of randomly generated) come to your fortress. Unfortunately, she didn't escape the fighting unscathed.
She's not contageous and the wounds probably already healed, so there is not much you can do. Blind dwarfs make excellent balista operators.

[fortydayweekend]

she's an old soldier, a historical figure (instead of randomly generated) come to your fortress. Unfortunately, she didn't escape the fighting unscathed.
She's not contageous and the wounds probably already healed, so there is not much you can do. Blind dwarfs make excellent balista operators.

Cheers. Balistas huh. I was thinking chief lever-puller

Edit: She finally found some ammo and went hunting. No problems there... maybe "vision lost" in Therapist isn't totally accurate?

[Lochar]

Well I have those show up too, wants rings,beds,etc made but everytime they show up I always have it showing 1/1 or 3/3

That's 'number of mandated items left to make / number of items mandated'.

ok I misread that then, that makes more sense to me

[Loud Whispers]

Will a wall grate have a chance of blocking arrows and bolts fired from unskilled archers and crossbowgoblins much like a fortification would?

[Incantatar]

When assigning workshops to different dwarves and different purposes, is there a way to still use the manager orders effectively? In my experience the two don't work together.

[Trif]

Wrong thread, disregard please.

[AWellTrainedFerret]

Will a wall grate have a chance of blocking arrows and bolts fired from unskilled archers and crossbowgoblins much like a fortification would?

No, there is zero "aim penalty" for firing through grates, so they offer no protection.

When assigning workshops to different dwarves and different purposes, is there a way to still use the manager orders effectively? In my experience the two don't work together.

Sadly, no. You can have a limited control over a single manager-designated order buy [q]uerying all your workshops and setting the minimum skill/max skill to be the same as the dorf that is to fill the order. The manager's order will be randomly tossed around to all workshops that can fill the order, and your chosen dorf will go to each one to finish it. This however means that those workshops are unavailable for any other use.

[smjjames]

How close does a dwarf have to be in order to admire an artifact that's in a 'display case' (or rather, in my case, a screw press modified to take artifacts)?

I think it might be standing next to, but I'm thinking of making an artifact hall/vault, but I'm not sure whether I want to put them into a meeting area or put them into a vault instead with the display cases.

[Urist McOriginalname]

Is there any way i can coat my spears and swords with venoms? Because i have a cave spider venom barrel and im curious to find out new ways to torture gobos.

[fortydayweekend]

I've had hardly any goblin attacks - just a handful of snatchers, no sieges or even ambushes, about 3 years in now with plenty of created wealth.

I backed up and checked out the Legends viewer and it looks like my only nearby goblin civ is being repeatedly pillaged by elves. They can't even muster a defence of their own towns (it's 1000 elves vs. 0 goblins in every battle for the last 5 years).

Does this mean I won't ever get a goblin siege? Do I need to attack the elves instead if I want some combat? (I'm surrounded by thousands of them ) Also does proximity of civs matter, i.e. if I attack the humans instead will I get less combat because they're further away?

[Garath]

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Is there any way i can coat my spears and swords with venoms? Because i have a cave spider venom barrel and im curious to find out new ways to torture gobos.

Nope, no reliable way has been found, though some work has been done experimenting with coating weapons in FB extract

[smjjames]

How close does a dwarf have to be in order to admire an artifact that's in a 'display case' (or rather, in my case, a screw press modified to take artifacts)?

I think it might be standing next to, but I'm thinking of making an artifact hall/vault, but I'm not sure whether I want to put them into a meeting area or put them into a vault instead with the display cases.

Can anybody answer this question? Or am I correct in that a dwarf has to be next to it to admire it?

[AWellTrainedFerret]

How close does a dwarf have to be in order to admire an artifact that's in a 'display case' (or rather, in my case, a screw press modified to take artifacts)?

I think it might be standing next to, but I'm thinking of making an artifact hall/vault, but I'm not sure whether I want to put them into a meeting area or put them into a vault instead with the display cases.

Can anybody answer this question? Or am I correct in that a dwarf has to be next to it to admire it?

From what I've seen, a dorf has to stand next to (or sometimes on top of....Urist get off the table, I'm trying to eat) an item to admire it.

[Lochar]

Is there an easy way to differentiate clothing sizes? I know humans and others use Large, some have small, but I get thrown off by an animal that is also Large or giant and so not sure if the item of clothing is dwarfable?

Lately I just been selling off anything that says small large giant but was wondering if a quick way to know wether my dwarves can use it or not and save me the trouble of crafting stuff if I dont need to. What throws me is the giant cave spider silk line, as I assume it means a cave spider was bigger than usual not the item of clothing, but the size of clothing doesnt really have a good descriptor unless I am reading too much into it.

[Lielac]

Is there an easy way to differentiate clothing sizes? I know humans and others use Large, some have small, but I get thrown off by an animal that is also Large or giant and so not sure if the item of clothing is dwarfable?

Lately I just been selling off anything that says small large giant but was wondering if a quick way to know wether my dwarves can use it or not and save me the trouble of crafting stuff if I dont need to. What throws me is the giant cave spider silk line, as I assume it means a cave spider was bigger than usual not the item of clothing, but the size of clothing doesnt really have a good descriptor unless I am reading too much into it.

Large = too big; worn and sold by humans in vanilla.
Narrow = too small; worn by goblins (I think) in vanilla.
Small = too small; I think only seen in vanilla if you're a human adventurer who goes scrounging in an abandoned fortress's laundry.
Giant = Preeeeetty sure it's not a clothing size notifier.

Large can also be seen at the beginning of anything made of large rat leather; for that, it's only unwearable if it's "large large rat leather [something]".