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[Captain Willy]

In a YouTube comment I witnessed something amazing that changed everything. Stone blocks can make walls. Now it may not sound like much but for a wall fanatic like me this is amazing. First, one stone makes multiple stone blocks. Two, they are much lighter and three, you don't get "rough" stone walls with them.

I thought I would share that with others, has there been a small fact or piece of info that changed your life?

[Xheia]

"Changed my life" is a little extreme for a game... Anyway,
For sparring in the military, you can, for example, have a squad of 5 dwarves and give two "train 2" orders to increase sparring.
Rather than "train 4" or dividing into smaller squads.

[Dwarfotaur]

Most new players never enter the 'nobles' screen.

You can manually appoint a book keeper (will give you a numerical breakdown of -everything- you have in your fortress) and a manager (allows you to use the manager tab, probably one of the strongest tools in the game).

With a manager you can just open it up, say "construct 20 beds" and the dwarfs will figure the rest out. Provided they have the materials. It's especially useful as it has a search bar so you don't have to find your workshop, press q, dig through the menu, find the item and select it. The manager will also load balance between all workshops/available dwarves.

[Captain Man]

One time freshman year of college I found out I had a paper due the next day of a book I hadn't even opened. That changed that semester a bit.

As far as dwarfy things go, probably the usefulness of traps. Specifically cage traps.

[Fluoman]

Danger rooms.
Magma forge + magma smelter + giant steel axe blade = great times.
Custom professions in Dwarf Therapist.
Multi-leveled channeled trap mazes are great.
Four 11x11 rooms set on the corners of a 3x3 central staircase is better than five 11x11 rooms set in a cross shape, which is better than expanding hallways.
Gold crafts make the game so much easier.

Still waiting for the info that will make me save a standard uniform and reuse it in different fortresses.
And for a way to set a military-only clothes stockpile to outfit them with cloaks etc; barring that, an actual effective way to compare fully armored + fully clothed dwarves to fully armored dwarves.
And advice on how to manage fast production of effective traps while setting up the food industry and the bedrooms. I'll probably settle for dormitories.
And advice on hospital managing.
And advice on civilian-to-military ratio.

[thegoatgod_pan]

You can designate by left-clicking with the mouse. You can designate across z levels. You can hit enter, right-click somewhere else and hit enter again and the game will designate the distance in between,

[Shash The Stampede]

Discovering this thread after digging down 85 levels in fruitless search of a cavern.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=93694.0

It was 20 levels down. Funnily enough my central staircase missed it by three squares on that level.

That and mass designations.

[Haspen]

Discovering mass dump designations after playing DF for a year.

[omg_scout]

1. 'D' button shows you wagon accessability. I found that kinda fast, but before that, understanding why wagons always bypass my fortress was pain in the ass


2. When choosing item, you can e'x'pand list to choose by quality.


3. If you left bedroom unassigned, one homeless dwarf will claim it. Yes, it took me 3 years to find out that I do not have to manually assign dwarves to bedrooms.


4. You can grow on sandy cavern floor. Before I found that one, I used to always irigate my farms with a complex floodgates/aqueducts system.

[AutomataKittay]

4. You can grow on sandy cavern floor. Before I found that one, I used to always irigate my farms with a complex floodgates/aqueducts system.

To be fair, underground farming was broken for most of 31., needing to be flooded before farming. I don't know when that changed.

On-topic, learning that bone bolts will kill almost anything if you have enough of them, given enough time

[Callista]

Learning the beauty of a weaponsmith who loves steel. Masterworks everywhere!

[Nostril actor]

"Changed my life" is a little extreme for a game... Anyway,
For sparring in the military, you can, for example, have a squad of 5 dwarves and give two "train 2" orders to increase sparring.
Rather than "train 4" or dividing into smaller squads.

Wait, I always divide into squads of 2, how can you set it so each pair of the 10 dwarves spar?

[Mr S]

Issue your squads multiple instances of sparring training in their schedule, each instance set to minimum 2 dorfs.

[Mr. Palau]

Issue your squads multiple instances of sparring training in their schedule, each instance set to minimum 2 dorfs.

Thank you =):::::

[HiEv]

On-topic, learning that bone bolts will kill almost anything if you have enough of them, given enough time

For the record, while that's true, they rapidly become less effective against full suits of metal armor.  Using pretty much any metal (except candy) makes more effective bolts than bone bolts for both damage and penetration. (source)