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[Thirtyeight]

Q:Have you zoned a wood stockpile for the salvage logs?




If you mean have I made a stockpile specifically for salvage, yes I have, it goes unused. Originally I had just one pile, for both wood and salvage, but eventually I gave both their own piles.

[Lycaeon]

Salvage stockpiles work in the mod, so here's what you can try:
Make sure the salvage stockpile's Wood settings allow it to take salvage logs.
Highlight the salvage stockpile with (q) and make sure it's set to take from anywhere (a).
If it already is, delete it and rezone it.
If that doesn't work, abandon this embark and start again. It may be a save-specific glitch.

Edit to below: No problem! I'm glad to help.

[Thirtyeight]

Naturally as soon I start playing again my entire fort surges out and takes the salvage. Figures.

I really appreciate you listening to me, that's very considerate of you.

[Zangi]

Naturally as soon I start playing again my entire fort surges out and takes the salvage. Figures.

I really appreciate you listening to me, that's very considerate of you.

You had messages about inaccessible stuff cancellations?  You might either have some sort of burrows set and/or civilian alert mode was activated... or more likely the pathways to the outside were locked via doors or something.

Maybe.

[Thirtyeight]

Okay, so far it looks like only medium quality salvage logs are going into the salvage pile. I'm starting to consider trying a regular wood pile again to see what would happen. If still nothing changes, I may try a new stable.

In other news, once when I saved the game to go back to the main screen, I got the Blue Screen of Death. I restarted my computer and tried the game again, and it didn't happen again, thankfully.

[Lycaeon]

If you get a BSOD, delete the song_game and song_title files in data => sound in your DF folder. They're a bit longer than the vanilla music files and may be difficult to open.

Alternatively, the game could have consumed too much RAM. This tends to be limited to older computers, though.

[Replica]

Query: When can the next update with the DFhack syndrome items be expected?
Wondering because I have the week off next week and will be idling a bit, could be a good opportunity to launch something new/test the mod a little.

[Maklak]

> I don't know if Dwarf fortress would allow it, [..] ransom [..] would give poorly secured forts a way to avert destruction, while still at high cost.
Not possible in 34.11, but on DF development list, along with mercenaries.

> My ponies aren't collecting salvage anymore, I keep getting a cancellation message saying the item is inaccessible.
I've run into this myself. I think it is some kind of glitch with sorting the "wood" that comes from linking piles to workshops, but I haven't figured it out.
* Sometimes restarting the game is enough.
* Unmark all your wood and salvage stockpiles and redo them.
* If that won't work, unmark all the wood stockpiles again and remove salvage yard, carpenters and wood burners. Then place all of it again.
 

> Maybe its just my particular world, but I can't get saltpetre on embark or as something to request.
What minerals you can get on embark is random and it depends on the world and civilisation. Sometimes I was able to buy it, sometimes not. I was never able to mine it.

> Is there no way to make stone spikes for placing at the bottom of pits?
Nope.

> Hiring Talon mercenaries is on the development list.
The only way to do this I can think of is giving the slavers some caged Griffins for sale and assigning them as "pet" bodyguards to ponies. To make them citizens, you'd have to do the same as with slave castes.

> Is there anyway to decrease the frequency of irradiated dust storms? Sometimes it seems like I'm playing whack-a-mole.
They are annoying, but I think the least dangerous kind got removed from the game.

> "Hunting and anti-machine rifles use the markspony skill, while combat rifles and pistols use the gunnery skill." This confused me, as markspony and gunnery aren't classes in the game, so I didn't know who did what.
I've written that in my FoE military guide, but this can be confusing and Dwarf Therapist still displays "Bows" and "Crossbows".

[Iceblaster]

Sorry for not wording my question correctly. What I meant was 'Are there supposed to be multiple civs you can select after [Tab]bing enough times?'

[Zangi]

Sorry for not wording my question correctly. What I meant was 'Are there supposed to be multiple civs you can select after [Tab]bing enough times?'

No, so far, without editing the raws, you can only start from the stabletech civilization. 
You can make the other races/entities playable on your own if you want to, but they are not as developed nor do they have nearly as many options as the stable entity.

Also, should only ever be 1 stabletech civilization, unless you edit that yourself.

[Iceblaster]

Thanks, now I just need to figure out how to make Unity playable and Ill be set(As in, can someone tell me what tag is needed for Playble)

[Maklak]

You'd have to change "entity_default.txt". Only the Stable Ponies have all the reactions, but you can also play as Wastelander adventurers. To play as Unity adventurer, add [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE] to it. Fortress Mode requires [CIV_CONTROLLABLE], but you'd have to add a bunch of other things too, I think.

As a side note, I generated a world and was looking for saltpetre by #prospect all on the embark map. It took me at least a hundred tries to find it, but I did eventually. It was in a Tropical Freshwater Swamp in a Claystone layer. I got over a thousand of it, but it is very rare - it is easier to find iron, coal or rich deposits of gems.
With the reduced cost of scrap / antique items, I wasn't able to cheese so much on embark, so the fix worked.
Oh and I used the 0.98c Linux version. Apart from DwarfTherapist only working once, they dying on me, it was working fine. 

[Lycaeon]

> When can the next update with the DFhack syndrome items be expected?
I working towards a Friday/Saturday release.

> Hiring Talon mercenaries is on the development list.
Workshop spawning lets you create 'friendly' creatures, although you can't control them so you have to build the workshop where you want the creatures to be.

> Are there supposed to be multiple civs you can select after [Tab]bing enough times?
As was mentioned, the only civ intended to be playable is Stable-Tec, of which there is only one.

[gzoker]

To avoid boredom, I was advised to settle in the harshest place in the wasteland, but sadly Hoofington was not available. So i looked for the worst hell my procedurally generated wasteland could offer, and i found a site on the border of a terrifying tundra and a savage taiga, with seven levels of aquifer under the frozen soil. Prospect says there are only 15 high quality salvage and 48 medium quality salvage on the surface. There are 144 low quality salvage and 80 wood. It will be enough. Here is the event log of my first half year. Oh and the stable is called Bookfort.
Embark supplies, (1800 points total):

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steel power drill 1
steel anvil 1
steel toolbox 1
raw clear glass 2
disabled terminal 3
medium quality salvage 3 (wagon)
petrified wood 5
low quality salvage 10
wild strawberries 10
wasteland water 15
bighorners 2 female

The team, the Cremated Candy:

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Blaze(12fep), scavenger, appraiser;
Crew(12fup), doctor;
Smile(7fep), herbalist, medic;
Pearl(10fup), medic, fighter;
Tusk(12fup), medic, fighter, expedition leader;
Water(9mup), fighter;
Fog(8mup), fighter;

Event log, spring:

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Granite 1, I have designated the stable before i ever unpaused the game. I wanted something that can be turned into a megaproject if the stable lasts long enough, and what i ended up with looks like a Mayan dwarf. The first actions that took place after that were designating plants to gather, turning off hauling on Smile, and cleaning for everypony. I placed down two food stockpiles. The first is only allowed plants and no barrels and it's linked to give to the other. The second food stockpile is set to only take from links. This will speed up gathering plants.
After this I ordered to build a mason and carpenter workshop near the wagon from the terminals we embarked with, and i ordered to destroy the wagon. After unpausing the game a great horned owl has showed up. Not a threat.
Granite 2, In the finished workshops i ordered 5 blocks, and a scrap training axe. I marked a garbage zone underground and ordered the ponies to bring everything unnecessary there.
Granite 3, I have ordered 3 scrap wheelbarrows.
Granite 6, I have set up two wood stockpiles underground, the first having the three wheelbarrows, and set to give to the other. The second is only allowed from links. I marked the nearest trees to the wagon to be cut down. Blaze also got her hauling duties turned off.
Granite 13, A pink cloud has descended on the camp. I got everypony inside into a burrow, and nopony got caught in it. It was really close though, and the owl suicide dove into it. A butcher and a tanner workshop has been built underground. A few muskoxen has come from the north.
Granite 19, The outside stockpiles and workshops were moved underground.
Granite 24, The original entrance of the stable has been walled off. The pink clouds and irradiated dust storms tend to move around on the biomes borders, so a new entrance on the south edge of the map was opened up. My current project is gathering absolutely everything from the surface.
Slate 1 We have run out of alcohol.
Slate 6, I have ordered 3 more scrap training axes.
Slate 12, Bloodwings. They are not much of a threat in this version so I'm not worried.
Slate 16, A hole has been dug into the aquifer to provide drinking water.
Slate 18, Me and my big mouth. Fog has been attacked by a bloodwing, and it bite his tail off. His heart is got bruised too, I hope he will make it.
Slate 20, Fog's bleeding has stopped.
Slate 22, He is back on his hooves, but he is not happy.
Slate 26, One bighorner have been butchered to provide food for the stable. The other have been pastured outside before she starves to death.
Felsite 1, Smile is already a legendary herbalist and she has gathered more than a hundred plants all by herself.
Felsite 7, Bloodwings leave, and a new, bigger group arrives.
Felsite 15, Blaze have become are customs chief and logistics director. She made herself a scrap chair, and set up an office in the old entrance tunnel. The wealth of the stable after cutting down every tree and gutting every tank and carriage is 7777. Maybe they will be lucky.
Hematite 1, Summer has arrived. Currently everypony is hauling wood inside into a big pile, and Smile is gathering plants. Bloodwings left, and a murder of ravens took their place.
Hematite 16, A pink cloud drifted nearby from the east, everypony burrowed inside. Thankfully there are more snowstorms than pink or irradiated clouds.
Hematite 25, I have forbid all salvage but the ones nearest to the biome's border. I want those inside first, so there is less risk working outside.
Malachite 10, Look at that, all my haulers are on brake. There are muskoxen on the map again, the least aggressive from all the wildlife, and ponies took this moment to procrastinate inside.
Malachite 22, Migrants have arrived. 4 mup, 1fup, 1 fep, 1 mep. A full unicorn squad, yay.
Galena 4, A snowy owl flies around, and a bunch of bloatsprites.
Galena 8, A cloud of pink cloud from the north. It's going to stop at the biome border so who cares.
Galena 17, All the salvage is inside and safe and there are no more plants outside. The ponies gathered 43 medium, 11 high and 127 low quality salvage logs (minus those they bought at embark.) We have 65 wood and 268 tumbleweed.
Galena 26 I can't see any wildlife on the unit screen beside bloatsprites. If there are any hellhounds sneaking on the map we are finished.

[Iceblaster]

Awesome, you plan on naming ponies after us or just their defaults?(If you don't no need to change plans)