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[WanderingKid]

a dwarf inside my "inside" burrow is spamming the message "cancel store item in stockpile, drop-off inaccessible". He is hauling clay to a stockpile. I've double checked and the burrow is connected. Both sites are underground. I don't know what to do. Help.

Look for a wheelbarrow in a place your burrow doesn't cover.  My usual problem when I can't quite nail down that particular spam.

[Kirkegaard]

I have a minor problem with a undead rodent that have been put on fire by my dragon. It will not die, and my soldiers will not attack it. How do I get it killed of?

edit: solved with dfhack exterminate undead.

[greycat]

I have a minor problem with a undead rodent that have been put on fire by my dragon. It will not die, and my soldiers will not attack it. How do I get it killed of?

edit: solved with dfhack exterminate undead.

Crossbows probably would've done the job too.

[Hetairos]

Are there any quirks of liquid-triggered pressure plates it's better to be aware of? For example, what happens if I set the minimum depth to 0, and other such things.

[sal880612m]

Is there any way to check 1/10th values in your smelter?

[WanderingKid]

Is there any way to check 1/10th values in your smelter?

No.

[§k]

Do boots cover toes? I've heard about that gloves don't cover fingers.

[sal880612m]

Is there any way to check 1/10th values in your smelter?

No.

Thanks.

[Sergarr]

I read that hammers work best vs undead. Do cross bows do any damage?

Bolts fired from a crossbow do a tremendous amount of damage to undead.  Unlike everything else in the game, undead use a "hit point" system, which Toady is not satisfied with but is using as a stopgap.  A bolt (especially metal) traveling at crossbow-fired speeds does a shitload of HP damage, usually taking out smaller undead in a single shot.  Larger ones, like undead yaks, may need multiple hits.

Don't forget that in the next version, HP system will be thrown away in favor of pulpable body parts, which might make undead zombies mighty adversaries again.

[m-logik]

I've been futzing around in world gen looking for an embark region with both a cave and a volcano. No luck yet. Does anyone know which tile will show on the world map?
EDIT: Finally found one. Caves seem to take precedence over volcanos.

Also, how exactly do the cave size min and max world gen parameters translate? The wiki only says that they appear to control cave size, but gives no indication of how much larger a single increment will make a cave.

[GavJ]

Also, how exactly do the cave size min and max world gen parameters translate? The wiki only says that they appear to control cave size, but gives no indication of how much larger a single increment will make a cave.

Probably because nobody knows. This seems less than super important to most people probably, so I doubt anybody has done painstaking research.

If you do care enough, you could. Do a bunch of different numbers and count cave volumes that result in different test worlds, etc.

[Micro102]

I've noticed that the options to include sights with HFS while searching for a site is gone. Does that mean that adamantine is found on all maps now?

Also, what's a dangerous yet fun place to start a fort? I was thinking of a tower but searching for both a tower and some metals sounds hard (wish there was a search feature for more things)

[sal880612m]

I am trying to drain a river but can't remember how I did it last time. I seem to recall it was possible to do so by pumping from each tile across into a cistern of sorts that didn't drain. I tried like this before

WWWWW
W~~~~W
W====W
W . . . . W
WWWWW

W = wall
~ = river
= = screw pump
. = floor

but it seemed to only go until the floor was filled to 7/7. So either my previous successful attempt was bugged out or it is a matter of needing to extend the floor tiles south because of how screw pumps work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Telgin]

I've noticed that the options to include sights with HFS while searching for a site is gone. Does that mean that adamantine is found on all maps now?

Also, what's a dangerous yet fun place to start a fort? I was thinking of a tower but searching for both a tower and some metals sounds hard (wish there was a search feature for more things)

Adamantine is found on almost all maps now, yes.  If I recall, using the standard embark size is almost guaranteed to get you adamantine, but if you use a smaller embark it might be possible to miss it.  I can't remember the specifics, but the adamantine veins are placed randomly in 4x4 world tiles or something like that.  I'm sure someone else (or maybe the wiki) can clarify and correct that.

[Larix]

Just for added precision:
In each 2x2 plot of embark squares - following the main grid - one square is randomly chosen and gets an adamantine pillar placed in it. A grid-aligned standard embark (4x4) is made up of exactly four of these sub-squares and thus always has four tubes, the smallest embarkable area is a 2x2, and will hold exactly one tube if it's aligned with the grid. If you don't follow the base grid and/or work with odd-numbered embark dimensions, the exact number of tubes you get is a matter of luck.

Source:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=69048.msg1677543#msg1677543
(also quoted on the wiki, under "raw adamantine": http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.34:Raw_adamantine#Location)