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[Steforian]

My golem squad acts likes civilians and will not leave the civilian burrows, how can i work around this?

Also, everytime a dwarf goes near my arbalest to arm it he runs away in fear from the enemy... is that a bug? If he is already manning it will he still run away?

[SabbyKat]

My golem squad acts likes civilians and will not leave the civilian burrows, how can i work around this?

Also, everytime a dwarf goes near my arbalest to arm it he runs away in fear from the enemy... is that a bug? If he is already manning it will he still run away?

As for golems, I'm not sure if there is a way around it since golems are 'animals' (for lack of a more accurate word) and last i saw, there's no way to stop animals going to a civilian burrows. Only trick I can see is lock the golems outside by door or hatch or similar. Bit gimmicky, but what I've done.

Arbalest wise, he's trying to 'run a reaction' and is a civilian. Since he sees enemies, he runs and cancels that reaction before he completes it. So not a bug, just one of the limits of the arbalest. You could try to lobotimize and/or blind (sometimes migrants are naturally blind) to fix this.

From my testing, no - he won't run when manning it as he isn't a 'dwarf' with any emotion. I.E. he'll shoot until the process runs out, and he reverts to a normal dwarf. If enemies are near when he reverts, he will run (if not blind) just like normal.

[Tenderroast]

other than making tobacco in the kiln, is there anything else i can do with "Shadowleaf leaves", of which i have nearly 200, because stupid me, didnt use ALT-A to force my dwarves to use quarry bushes only for the reaction.... the ONE friggin time i forget... luckily i had already processed my pig tails to thread

edit: and yes i have tried to cook them, they do NOT show up in the kitchen menu, however the raw bushes DO

[jimboo]

Use them to make oil in the screwpress, for upgrading leather.  Or soap.   

[Tenderroast]

cant press the leaves to oil. The raw bushes yes, but not the bags of leaves. (i hit forbid on the bushes to test, reaction was red.)

[SchDerGrosse]

Hello there.

Bought some scarecrows at embark, but cannot seem to figure out how to place them. : /

[Niveras]

They are animals that don't move. Create a pasture zone (preferably one tile) or build a restraint and assign them to it.

[jomen]

I everybody i'm really new to this mod , and i try my first fortress. I play with diseases . So my newbie question is

Why does my dwarf fight each other ??

Because for a reason i don't figure out , some of my dwarves fight to death . Suddently , some dwarves run disorderely , seeming to run away from something.

I read the reports and announcements to understand what happens. But it seems that everydwarf have a problem and some of them fight and kill each other...

[Delta_02_Cat]

Sounds like something/someone in your fortress started a tantrum spiral:

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Tantrum

[jomen]

Hmm usually you get an alert on your screen when a tantrum arrive. But i have none. Hmm i see that some of my dwarves avec "Schizophrenic" with their names.

[Thelo]

Any idea about why my sawmills can't cut farmed steeloak and ironbark saplings? I wanted to set up a steel/iron farm and moved the saplings from one stockpile to another. When in the first stockpile, they had been moved there directly from the farm plots, and I was able to cut them. After moving them to the second stockpile they were put in a barrel in the process, as saplings have to be in food stockpiles. Now, I can't cut them any more. I have the intuition that they became food items after being barreled. I tried dumping the barrel, dumping the saplings, removing the stockpile and many other things, but without any success.

EDIT: it seems that after moving them to the first wood stockpile, they "became" wood again. Problem solved.

[Thelo]

Now this is a thing I could not resolve. All the reactions for the rune armory have as reagent "improvable rock armor", and I can't improve any armor, I think due to that 'rock' part of the reagent. How can I solve that?

[SchDerGrosse]

They are animals that don't move. Create a pasture zone (preferably one tile) or build a restraint and assign them to it.

thanks mate!

(should have been able to figure it out myself, I bought them along with the other animals after all..)

[Meph]

Now this is a thing I could not resolve. All the reactions for the rune armory have as reagent "improvable rock armor", and I can't improve any armor, I think due to that 'rock' part of the reagent. How can I solve that?

Rock is just a synonyme the game uses for INORGANIC. Metal armors should work. Any burrows around? Check the known bugs section about the burrows bug.

[Niveras]

Can oil shale be used as a coke-equivalent in some way (perhaps after some processing step)?

I presume not, but I wasn't sure since I couldn't find reference to it in the dwarf manual. My embark literally has 0 mineral coal; I guess I'll have to set up enormous tree farming and wood working operations to stock my coal.