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[Spinning Welshman]

I'm really excited for this update, finally cleaning up the clutter won't take years!

This is really going to change the labour force in my forts, I won't need 25% of my dwarves dedicated to sock disposal anymore. 

[miauw62]

  Deforest the surface!

I approve.

[Psieye]

Is there some improved farming mod? Or should tweak growth times myself?

Set GROWDUR to 1000 to make crops take a full season to grow. While a lot of mods have improved farming, you'd be hard pressed to find a mod that only does that so grab one and see how it gets the job done, then apply it to your personal homebrew (even if all you change is farming growth times).

[Robsoie]

Sounds so amazing, finally reclaiming a fortress will not take several years to bring back all those very small items scattered all the over the map.

[hjd_uk]

all we need now are dwarven express-lifts to ferry peeps and goods from surface to magma.

[Jingles]

Sounds so amazing, finally reclaiming a fortress will not take several years to bring back all those very small items scattered all the over the map.

Win!  That is always pretty much the only thing I have a hard time with when reclaiming.

But still there are going to be an awful lot of idle dwarfs in my fortresses.  I'm not efficient enough with micro management to keep them all busy.  Maybe if I set up a mass pump/exercise room...

[caddybear]

Toady is the man.

[miauw62]

Sounds so amazing, finally reclaiming a fortress will not take several years to bring back all those very small items scattered all the over the map.

Win!  That is always pretty much the only thing I have a hard time with when reclaiming.

But still there are going to be an awful lot of idle dwarfs in my fortresses.  I'm not efficient enough with micro management to keep them all busy.  Maybe if I set up a mass pump/exercise room...

Moar military drafts?
Excersice would be a good idea, so you have a backup militia to zerg the gobbos.

[SRD]

all we need now are dwarven express-lifts to ferry peeps and goods from surface to magma.

Simple, dump items onto hatch ~50z levels above magma, pull hatch, items are transported (theoretically(Hm perhaps for extra dwarfiness, make them land onto a fast flowing river which flows them into a storage bay (Horizontal Transportation) and the items are stopped by the water flowing into grates?))

[Intro1827]

Lift = dump? Not quite the same thing.

[SRD]

Well he said from Surface to Magma
ie
Surface = here





magma = here

Soo...

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   ...Yeah

[Kamamura]

Somebody pinch me, today has been going far too well to be real.

Kamamura has pinched KodKod in the tongue, and the severed part sails off in an arc. Tendon in tongue has been torn. Several nerves have been torn.

[Sus]

Well he said from Surface to Magma
ie
Surface = here





magma = here

Soo...

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   ...Yeah

...for a broad enough definition of "lift", at least. Although if you take "to magma" literally enough, then falling damage is the least of concerns for all involved.

Oo, Idea™:

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_____+_____ surface, drawbridge (retracts) doubling as dump square, more surface
..... ..... rock, channel, more rock {*n z-levels}
.....c|__ rock, channel (now with more chained kitten(tame)), door, corridor
Theoretically, should you choose to send someone down via Dwarven Gravity Express, they will land on the kitty, thus replacing falling damage with a mere stun. At least if you make sure the kitty isn't trying to wander out of the door during drop (you may want to set the door to forbidden/tightly closed before Pulling The Lever).
As for sending goods and personnel back to the surface with equal haste, that's an engineering challenge yet to be solved...
(I've seen some pretty clever water-based solutions though.)

[SRD]

GENIUS!.







Make it a husk of kitten so we can use him over and over again :3.

[Urist Da Vinci]

I can't find any reference by Toady as to which hauling bugs/inefficiencies he is trying to address, aside from having bins and bags used to collect multiple items. I wonder if a single dwarf puts a TSK on all items that he plans to collect at the start of the haul, or just keeps making the decision on the way.

I hope block bins are exempt from the new change, because I can't think of a situation where multiple blocks need to be picked up, and the hauler would move slowly due to the bin weight.