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[Redwood Elf]

How do you place chests? my Mayor says he needs two, and I made some, but I don't see them under the build item lists..."Containers" apparently only includes bags and bins?

[Knick]

Look for coffers?  What were they made of?

[Button]

It should be under b -> h . Bags also count as 'chests', if you don't have any and want to fulfill his demands ASAP.

Names for the same thing include:
Chests (wood)
Coffers (rock)
Boxes (glass, metal?)
Bags (cloth)

[Eidre]

It's also possible the ones you produced are still being carried to a stockpile, in which case they won't show up as available to be built.  If you're really curious, go to the z (status) menu, scroll across to Stocks, find 'Boxes and Bags', hit 'tab' to show all of them individually, scroll down to one of the one's you've built, and hit 'z' to center on that specific item (which will send you back to the map, the yellow 'X' showing on the desired chest).

[Redwood Elf]

Well I made them out of gold...this is my first game, and for some reason, the area I'm working in has a crapton of gold, but I haven't found a single scrap of Iron yet (Assuming you can actually find Iron and don't somehow make it from something else)

[thegoatgod_pan]

Well I made them out of gold...this is my first game, and for some reason, the area I'm working in has a crapton of gold, but I haven't found a single scrap of Iron yet (Assuming you can actually find Iron and don't somehow make it from something else)

Might be gold is the only metal you have. But chests can be built from any material to satisfy the demand. Bags count too, if it is for the room demand.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Well I made them out of gold...this is my first game, and for some reason, the area I'm working in has a crapton of gold, but I haven't found a single scrap of Iron yet (Assuming you can actually find Iron and don't somehow make it from something else)

Since DF has semi-realistic geology, gold is found as "native gold" whereas the iron ores are hematite, magnetite, and limonite.

You can also "find" goblinite when you kill goblins and melt down their weapons/armor at the smelter.

If your area has no iron ores, trade gold crafts to caravans in exchange for iron, or mine some goblinite.

[Redwood Elf]

OK, Here's another question: I can't figure out how to give orders to my military...I managed to set them up to train, but that's it...when I try to go into the schedule and change one squad to defend an area, I can't get the schedule to change from "Train" to "Defend" (or whatever that command is supposed to display) - it always says "Train" when I shift-Enter out to supposedly set the command.

[Quietust]

If you want them to defend an area on a schedule, then you'll probably want to remove their previous "Train" order (or at least make sure it's on lower priority).

If you want them to defend an area right now, then you don't want to be in the military screen - press "s" to view the Squads list, select the squad you want to order (e.g. press "a" to select the first one), then press "m" (to order them to Move to a location), move the cursor over the area you want them to defend, and press Enter. When you want them to go back to what they were previously doing, cancel their Station order by selecting the squad (as above) and pressing "o".

[Redwood Elf]

If you want them to defend an area on a schedule, then you'll probably want to remove their previous "Train" order (or at least make sure it's on lower priority).

If you want them to defend an area right now, then you don't want to be in the military screen - press "s" to view the Squads list, select the squad you want to order (e.g. press "a" to select the first one), then press "m" (to order them to Move to a location), move the cursor over the area you want them to defend, and press Enter. When you want them to go back to what they were previously doing, cancel their Station order by selecting the squad (as above) and pressing "o".

Finally managed to get a guard schedule set up...what I did was set one squad (of my three starting squads) to guard "burrow 1" (which is the entry hall to my complex) at a time (rotating between the 3 squads, so each one guards the door every third month) and setting "Minimum" for that task to half the squad (which would, i presume, allow the other half of the squad to eat and sleep and drink while half of them are on duty?)

[Magistrum]

Finally managed to get a guard schedule set up...what I did was set one squad (of my three starting squads) to guard "burrow 1" (which is the entry hall to my complex) at a time (rotating between the 3 squads, so each one guards the door every third month) and setting "Minimum" for that task to half the squad (which would, i presume, allow the other half of the squad to eat and sleep and drink while half of them are on duty?)

Nice, remember that at least half of them will be on duty, dwarves are a bit diligent, if you give them three pieces of food and some boozeskins(Really, who puts water in that?) then there will be aways 7-9 dwarves at the burrow.

Tough... 3 squads through 3 months each... 9 months? You have a entire season where the front door gets no guards?

[Redwood Elf]

Finally managed to get a guard schedule set up...what I did was set one squad (of my three starting squads) to guard "burrow 1" (which is the entry hall to my complex) at a time (rotating between the 3 squads, so each one guards the door every third month) and setting "Minimum" for that task to half the squad (which would, i presume, allow the other half of the squad to eat and sleep and drink while half of them are on duty?)

Nice, remember that at least half of them will be on duty, dwarves are a bit diligent, if you give them three pieces of food and some boozeskins(Really, who puts water in that?) then there will be aways 7-9 dwarves at the burrow.

Tough... 3 squads through 3 months each... 9 months? You have a entire season where the front door gets no guards?

I think you misread it...every third month, a squad will be on duty...so in a year, each squad will be on duty 4 months (Using human months, one squad would be on duty in January, April, July, October, one in February, May, August, November, and one in March, June, September, December.

Are barrels and bins permanent, or do the dwarves eat them? I've been pumping out barrels for about an hour now and for some reason, I STILL can't brew any drinks at my distillery...what gives?

[TruePikachu]

Reserve some barrels from the [p]ile designation screen; they are probably being taken for storage as soon as they are made. Reserving from the [p]ile screen means that you will try to keep at least that many barrels (there are bin options too) availible for workshop tasks.

[Magistrum]

Reserve some barrels from the [p]ile designation screen; they are probably being taken for storage as soon as they are made. Reserving from the [p]ile screen means that you will try to keep at least that many barrels (there are bin options too) availible for workshop tasks.

Exactly that! Make a stockpile near your brewery, deactivate all kinds of stuff and then set the max barrels to the amount of space in the stockpile.