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[Lostereadamy]

Some questions about Masterwork specific HFS

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What is the deal with the whole "Miner Staring at the Ore" and subsequent metalwraiths? I am assuming that they are part of the HFS that is toggleable. Is there any way to deal with them or otherwise prevent them? I've lost several forts due to metalwraiths early on and it has become something of an annoyance.

[Meph]

Its "Harder Mining" in the misc section. You can turn it off, but also loose warpstone along the way. Needs a new worldgen.

[Prats]

What is "write fortress history" in scriptorium building?

[Repseki]

I'm pretty sure that just runs the DFHack quicksave.

[Meph]

Correct, it saves the game.

[r4NGe]

I have around 85 dwarves (my cap was 70 or so) and a 20 million dollar fort value. In the nobles screen there is no info on king requirements. I had a baron (briefly) before he berserked and punched someone while surrounded by 30 war mastiffs.

Are there any increased requirements for king? I know he exists.

[Repseki]

The DF Wiki has a pretty clear run-through of the requirements for each level of fortress. It helped me when I was in a similar situation.

[DG123]

Correct, it saves the game.

On this subject, I don't think quicksave works for me. Any ideas why? My guess is because I loaded a seasonal save point earlier on, it's somehow messed up the save filing system (main save folder doesn't stay as Region1, but is always named after a season with the current season at the end of the folder name).

Can I fix it?

[lethosor]

You could rename the folder to something else (any name should work, as long as it doesn't have a season name attached to the end), and DF should accept it. (Make sure you do this while DF isn't running!) If you want, you could also rename each of your backups to match the new folder name if it's different.

[Prats]

I have a few questions about Golem Forge:

1) How to repair/upgrade golem: should I pen\pasture them on buildings to repair or send them as a squad? (can't make them use workshop through Workshop Profile (there are no their names))
2) Where to get Rock Clockwork Part for upgrading golem?

[Sound]

Do others have the problem where the dwarven civilization always dies in world-gen when picking the "Garden of Gaia (many biomes)" option? It has been a persistent problem since v2h for me.

[Repseki]

So an interesting situation is unfolding within my fortress at the moment. Apparently I had a Warlock spy in one of my military squads that was training up as backup. As they were sparring a member of my other squad (full Steel Plate and Sup/Leg weapons) apparently figured it out and he was killed rather quickly. This has of course now started the fun, as it appears either a full out free for all death match has started, or the two squads have decided to kill each other, ignoring the whole one squad not even having weapons thing.

It's rather entertaining to watch, I was just wondering if this is basically par for the course when it comes to spies, or I somehow filled my military with a few to many emotional individuals?

Also any advice on what I might want to do next would be helpful. After watching one of my Leg Miner/Mason/Engravers nearly get mauled when he tried to retrieve a dead dwarf, I figure some of my military might need to be separated out, although he didn't seem to have any actual injuries so he might have just passed out.

[fricy]

Looks like a loyalty cascade, when your soldier killed the traitor he became the enemy of your civilization, so your other soldiers are attacking him now, and are becoming an enemy too, as he is still a member of your civ...rinse and repeat.

Get the unarmored squad out of there ASAP, seal in the fighters and wait it out. I think you have lost all the fighters, but you can still save the fort before it escalates any more.

Someone with more experience with warlock spies could have more to say, I don't know if this is supposed to play out like this or not. Probably yes.

Next time if you have a suspicious dwarf build a temple, burrow the dwarf there, and pray for Armok's help, that should cure him.

[Lostereadamy]

Thanks Meph, I thought it might have something to do with it.

[Repseki]

Hellfire Turrets are basically shooting magma, right? Because I just had one destroy a few basalt bridges, which confuses me, as it should be magma safe.