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[adamandkate]

It looks like i have dwarves sitting doing nothing at all, do they only assign one person to one job? eg i have a dwarf digging, another farming. and the others seem to be sitting around outside.

i have 2 farms and the 2nd plot never gets used even when the first is full

thanks

[Cozmopolit]

Telling the dwarfs what kind of job they should do can be done ingame ( "v" to look at dwarf, "p" preferences, "l" labor), but pretty much everybody uses the program "Dwarf Therapist" to set labors on a GUI. Dwarf Therapist: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=66525.0

For farm plots, you need to set which plants should be grown. ("q" to look at farm plot, "a/b/c/d" to select season, select plant or "z" to not grow anything that season. You will need the correct seeds for that plant.

[adamandkate]

ahhh thanks. thats what i did wrong, set my first farm. but not the second.

on a side note... one of my dwarfs died of dehydration, he had access to the alcohol stores and status says "80?" so any idea why he died?

thanks again

[Garath]

without bookkeeper I don't think records get updated. So if you started with 80 and played for some time, it could in theory be 0 by now. Also check and double check if he could really get to the booze, it's surprisingly easy to destroy stairs or do something wrong with ramps.

[Cozmopolit]

Shit happens, for example dwarfs seem to forget about eating/drinking when they are really unhappy. I just had my duchess die of thirst a couple hours ago which was especially unnerving because

- Stocks of booze were fine
- She went angry about "some lesser pretentious sleeping arangements" when her sleeping room is by far the best around
- it was the first time I took a good look to choose a "good" noble
- when your noble dies, you're not getting another. ever.

[Garath]

Shit happens, for example dwarfs seem to forget about eating/drinking when they are really unhappy. I just had my duchess die of thirst a couple hours ago which was especially unnerving because

- Stocks of booze were fine
- She went angry about "some lesser pretentious sleeping arangements" when her sleeping room is by far the best around
- it was the first time I took a good look to choose a "good" noble
- when your noble dies, you're not getting another. ever.

any chance you burrowed her for a meeting?

[Cozmopolit]

any chance you burrowed her for a meeting?

No, although that might be one of the better ideas actually :-)

[Garath]

any chance you burrowed her for a meeting?

No, although that might be one of the better ideas actually :-)

my duchess died one time cause I forgot to deactivate the meeting burrow :p

[Sutremaine]

without bookkeeper I don't think records get updated. So if you started with 80 and played for some time, it could in theory be 0 by now. Also check and double check if he could really get to the booze, it's surprisingly easy to destroy stairs or do something wrong with ramps.

No, they get updated, they're just not very accurate.

Depending on how many dwarves there are, 70-80 drinks might not be enough. When a dwarf is drinking from a barrel, no other dwarf can get to the other units of drink inside the barrel. On embark drink comes 5 units to a barrel at maximum, but if you start brewing the stacks the traders bring then that's 25 units to a barrel.

[adamandkate]

when a barrel is empty what happens to i? does it stay there for me to refill with more booze? or do i have to make a whole new barrell

[Slayerhero90]

when a barrel is empty what happens to i? does it stay there for me to refill with more booze? or do i have to make a whole new barrell

When you order a brewer to make more booze, they'll use an avaiable empty barrel and a brewable foodstuff to make it.