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[Fluoman]

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[Urist McRas]

I've got an injured soldier.

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He got a fractured lower spine, cut open upper body and some limb injures. Medical screen says he lost ability to stand, has somewhat impared grasp ability and motor and sensory nerve damage.

He is not bleeding or anything, he is conscious. He sits in the battlefield, obviously unable to walk. He is thirsty and in spite of having booze in his waterskin, he don't drink, probably due to impared grasp ability. Here is the problem: nobody is going to bring him to hospital or give water. How can I save him?

[greycat]

Injured soldiers failing to Rest so that they can be treated is pretty common.  Usually the problem corrects itself, eventually, either by the soldier finally realizing she's wounded and needs Rest, or by her collapsing from exhaustion.

Failing that, sometimes I've been able to work around it by issuing a squad move order, waiting a little while, and then canceling it.  But this is not consistent.

[Sovereign]

How can i get rid of skeletons and partial ones? My embark has a ocean tile and now three dead orcas have washed up on the shore. Dumping doesnt seem to work.
Is there a way to move them?

[greycat]

By default, dwarves will not gather refuse (which includes dump orders) on outdoor tiles.  This can be changed in the options.  I think the keystroke sequence is o r o but I'm not 100% sure.

[scionkirk]

As for the soldier not being rescued - I have experienced, and I believe !SCIENCE! has confirmed, the 'rescue injured' job doesn't have any higher priority than any other job, so if you have a very busy fort, it could take awhile for a dwarf to get around to it.  I've seen dwarves collect goblin loot and reset traps before getting injured troops off the battlefield.  Best way around it is assigned an ambulance squad whose only enabled job is to rescue wounded.

[thesuker]

So, I've created a world and disembarked in an area where there are multiple shallow and deep metals, but unfortunately it's all full of marble and absolutely no iron ore, but quite a bit of lead+silver, which I can't use to make armor.  So here I am, armoring up my military dwarfs in all sorts of bizarre combinations of bone+metal+wood items, and I was wondering, what would be a realistic option to armor them in iron items?  Wait for a dwarf caravan to come and buy it from them?  Keep on digging until I find iron ore?  Wait until goblins start appearing and melt their iron items?

[Fluoman]

Goblinite + smelting everything that is iron/steel from the caravan.
If you're not above exploits, you could smelt one steel bar from caravan goods and then forge things that are melted for more than the material used.

[thesuker]

So, my next question is, how do I 'encourage' goblins to come to pay me a visit? By creating wealth?  Also, I found a cavern deep underground.  Would exploring it increase my chances of finding goblins or iron ore? (Never have explored one before)

[Fluoman]

Goblin time to arrival depends on distance to your settlement.
Goblin frequency and amount depends on wealth.
AFAIK.

[Telgin]

It's also extremely random, seemingly no matter what you do.  I've gone 5+ years without so much as an ambush despite equipping 20 soldiers with full suits of steel weapons and armor that increased my fort's wealth by an order of magnitude.

Exploring the caverns doesn't directly influence that so far as I know, but it might factor into migrant wave sizes.  I've read claims that the number of tiles mined influences that, but have no idea if the game treats the caverns as mined in that sense, probably not.  The caverns might help you spot iron ore, but again, likely not if you haven't seen it anywhere else on the way down to the caverns.  Most iron ore should be visible in the first few layers.

[Snaake]

How can i get rid of skeletons and partial ones? My embark has a ocean tile and now three dead orcas have washed up on the shore. Dumping doesnt seem to work.
Is there a way to move them?

greycat already mentioned checking that your dwarves are set to gather refuse from outside. This affects dumping(?) and should also let your dwarves haul the skeletons to a refuse stockpile with the subcategory corpses enabled.

Since these are wild orca skeletons, you should be able to butcher them for a skull and bones.

[thesuker]

I got all my labor needs covered, a military squad of 10 to take care of problems and about 20 idle dwarves.  What would should I do with them? Form 2 more squads? Leave them as haulers? Goblin-bait?

[Fluoman]

Some people like keeping idle dwarves while others think socialization is a threat to the fort because of tantrum spirals.
Sometimes, there's nothing to do.

[Garath]

how many dwarfs do you have? 20 idle on 40 is weird, 20 on 150 is pretty normal. But yeah, you can set them to train as soldiers if you want. Throwing them away as barely trained goblin fodder is wasteful though