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vicwarrior

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So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« on: March 14, 2014, 12:56:33 pm »

A bit after the update that introduced wheelbarrows and minecarts ive had to leave df for a little while and then after than i couldnt play because my pc died and then etc etc its a long story.

Ive seen quite a few new features but id like a full list of em, id also like to know whats going on about on the forums and whats going on.

Ive also had a few questions id like to ask i will just throw in this topic.

- After digging down deep and greedily ive had the issue where a fisherdwarf got sutured with a few thousand dwarfbucks worth of sutures (yeah, that material, if you dont know about what im talking you will know it after digging deep and greedily i wont spoil it for you) is there any way to prevent that waste? Also would it be possible to get back those sutures and use them for the purpose i actually wanted them to? Even if it means salvaging them from his corpse after an unafortunate accident.

- How much time does it take to get knowledge about taming creatures? ive been training 2 dingos and 3 dingo pups for a bit to get some XP for my animal trainer but keeping a few of the dingos around to use them later on would be great and if like to know when i will be able to fully domesticate them.

Edit: i forgot to throw in a lil DF story.

So there was my fortress, the dwarves where building an outdoor building to house an above ground farm and a few windmills to power future contraptions, but a vile force of darkness arrived, 80 goblins and trolls to face 20 dwarves of which 10 were (almost all) axelords leadt by the militia commander and other 10 hammerdwarves ledt by the racently apointed captain of the guard, thus the last 10 hammerdwarves were shabbily trained. Because so far only tetrahedrite and sphalerite was found all of the military were equiped with copper gear with the exception of the silver hammers and salvaged iron gear.

as the goblins arrived i though of just activating the civilian alert to get everyone inside and raise the drawbridge and cower inside the fortress untill the goblins would go away..... But wait would i cower AGAIN? I must say cowering wasnt fun and the fortress didnt have trees nor iron so taking a more advantageous embark would be better so instead i chose for the more FUN option and ordered my shabby military to hold at the bridge, until the enemy got close and then i ordered them to charge as soon as the first dwarves tarted running at them. To be fair i expected the defense to get butchered and the civilians inside the fortress to suffer the same  fate afterwards. But i was wrong, massively wrong, the 20 soldiers held on and killed 60 goblins before the siege was broken and all of them retreated.  Just 1 death in the hammer squad and 3 wounded dwarves were taken during the siege.

I guess me and the goblins learnt something, DONT MESS WITH AN AXELORD, specially if he is in a martial trance, even if he has copper gear.
Sorry for my bad english but it isn't my native language.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2014, 01:18:53 pm by vicwarrior »
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Re: So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2014, 02:04:26 pm »

Welcome back!


- After digging down deep and greedily ive had the issue where a fisherdwarf got sutured with a few thousand dwarfbucks worth of sutures (yeah, that material, if you dont know about what im talking you will know it after digging deep and greedily i wont spoil it for you) is there any way to prevent that waste? Also would it be possible to get back those sutures and use them for the purpose i actually wanted them to? Even if it means salvaging them from his corpse after an unafortunate accident.


You probably want to be making military equips with the candy, so there are a couple things you can do:

-Make sure your hospital is stocked with expendable threads (pig tail)

-Micromanage your candy so that you get it from strand -> wafer ASAP.

-Lock the candy away in a room with forges, crafts shop to make sure it never leaves until its furnished into equipment. You shouldn't have to do this if you do the above 2 points.
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Re: So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2014, 10:10:49 am »

Also another question, what is the fastest way to train blacksmiths, metalcrafters, weaponsmiths and armorsmiths?
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Re: So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2014, 01:25:23 pm »

You should probably take these questions to Fortress mode discussion and/or search for answers there.
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Re: So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2014, 03:20:34 pm »

You should probably take these questions to Fortress mode discussion and/or search for answers there.

I was originally looking for the new features since the wheelbarrow+minecart and hauling overhaul update.
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Re: So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2014, 04:49:26 pm »

Adamantine is not a spoiler. It shows up in literally every stockpile menu, named outright. Acting as if it's a spoiler only invites people to come here asking about it and get spoiled on the actual spoiler.

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Re: So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2014, 05:50:01 pm »

You should probably take these questions to Fortress mode discussion and/or search for answers there.

I was originally looking for the new features since the wheelbarrow+minecart and hauling overhaul update.

Unless I'm forgetting something minor added right after that, there aren't any. The last update was almost 2 years ago, a new one is hopefully not far off now though :P
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Re: So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2014, 07:10:22 pm »

Yeah, that update was the last one with anything outside bug fixes in it.

Also, you can always see release announcements here.

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Re: So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2014, 09:24:33 pm »

tl;dr: No fucking updates yet. Welcome aboard.
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Re: So ive been away from DF for a looong time.
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2014, 04:27:04 pm »

Also another question, what is the fastest way to train blacksmiths, metalcrafters, weaponsmiths and armorsmiths?

Make garbage metal into things for which you don't care about the quality.  For example, after smelting galena for the silver, I like to turn all the junk lead bars into sarcophagi.  I don't care about the weight because they won't be moving once they're built, don't care about the quality because I don't want weirdo dorfs hanging around admiring the crypt anyway, can never have enough coffins, and it's good practice for the metalcrafter.
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« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2014, 03:34:43 am »

For the metalwokers : Smelting tetrahedrite and making copper bolts, copper helmets, silver crafts and silver chains, all on repeat.
Then of course trading the copper helmets along with the silver craft.

And yes, let soldiers spar for a year and you get murder machines if they are armored.
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