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[Fleeb]

I don't get it. Are plump helmets not distillable? I just started a dwarf fort. I have a distillery, I have like 40 plump helmets in a stockpile right next to it, I have available barrels. Nothing is forbidden. In the kitchen screen plump helmets are set to "brew" and not to "cook" but every time I queue up "brew drink" I get the message that it is cancelled, needs distillable item.

It's winter so my outside water sources froze. Now my fortress is dehydrating to death because they won't brew the plump helmets.

::edit:: yeesh, of course, right after I post this they miraculously start brewing. May be too late to save this fort though. Dumb ass dwarves.

[Innocent Dave]

Large gems? Suppose I need the MDF Gemcutter workshop, the new one.

Large gems are a random by-product of normal gemcutting.  Just keep cutting stuff in the jeweller and they should appear.

[Tirion]

Large gems? Suppose I need the MDF Gemcutter workshop, the new one.

Large gems are a random by-product of normal gemcutting.  Just keep cutting stuff in the jeweller and they should appear.

IIRC you can also make large gems out of 5 small gems in the gemforge, or some other gemworkshop.

Also, my game crashed after my summoned FB (from warpstone pool), some kind of beast made of water with deadly vapors, started fighting. It didn't specify how deadly it is, but I didn't expect dwarffortress.exe to be the first casualty. Does this kind of thing happen often?

[There Is No Vic]

MWDF 5.10, windows 7, Phoebus

Herbalist Lab Extract Perfume from Orchids produces orchid none [5]

[Tirion]

MWDF 5.10, windows 7, Phoebus

Herbalist Lab Extract Perfume from Orchids produces orchid none [5]

Same version, brick oven doesn't use dye to make the painted bricks. Nevermind, it never reads anywhere that it should use it.

Although the Apotechary reaction of Bonesetting learning, which says it needs totems, takes bones instead.

[herocrafter]

How do you build the display case decoration?  I've read its in here but that might of been an older version.

[Guthbug]

Ah. The display case.

It's in the "furnace" list, available from b>e commands. It's at the very tail end.

Takes a block or some other building structure, and then whatever item you're wanting to display.

For best results, build a display case holding your weird artifacts (the bone left shoe or whatever) and put it in a public area where everyone can see how epic the fort they're living in actually is.

For whatever reason, all dwarves will get a happy thought when they walk past the display stand hosting a legendary stone abacus.

[herocrafter]

Yes.  Thank you very much.

[wer6]

Its probably bolted down so that you could play with it but not actually steal it.

[___MeRliN___]

So anyone knows where I can find item and creature raws (in particular the IDs to spawn them in)? The testing arena doesnt seem to work for me for whatever reason (crashes on trying to launch it) and I wanted some testing with a few matchups (Adamantine gear dwarves vs strong enemies like Bronze Colossi or Dragons) before that happens to my main fortress. Its just a matter of time till Uristhesam gets attacked by a dragon and I want to be prepared just in case my Adamantine Repeater Crossbowman wont be sufficient enough. Have created a small world for testing purposes.

[jacketgun]

when i create an acid turret it says that a land mine has been created.
not a major bug, but i thought i would post it anyway.

[thistleknot]

I think adding mechanisms to woodcrafter's workshop or stonecrafter's workshop would add an extra level of difficulty to early embark

[shaver]

I chose the easy start embark profile, and ended up with what I think are the wrong items. I didn't have any animals, I was missing an anvil, and I had wood/granite/coal that I didn't expect. I also didn't have as much food as I was expecting.



The anvil was available to add, and there were no problems listed in the embark screen.

[LMeire]

General suggestion: Would it be possible to add some fake "plants" to gather along coastlines? Like bits of coral and seashells that seem to wash up on the shores of ocean biomes, that could then be gathered and processed (but not farmed) into usable materials for crafts? I think it would make coastal forts a little less boring.

If so, I've thought of a list of such "plants":

Conch: rare, provides a single shell

Sand Dollar: common, very fragile, provides 0-1 shells

Bivalve: rare, provides 1-2 shells

Oyster: rare, provides a small amount of oyster meat and 0-1 highly-valued "pearl" rough gems

Urchin: common, provides a small amount of urchin meat, possibly a source of shell and/or pain-poison

Jellyfish: common, provides a small amount of jellyfish meat, possibly a source of pain+paralysis-poison

Kelp: very common, provides a moderate amount of leaves for cooking, possibly have a reaction that makes it into rope similar to intestines

Large Driftwood: very common, provides a low-valued log

Coral: rare, provides 1-2 high-value rough gems

Shark Tooth: rare, provides a tooth for ivory crafts/decoration



It isn't dwarf-specific, but I wasn't sure where to put this, since to my knowledge, there isn't a "general suggestions" thread.

[Meph]

The problem with those naturally occuring plants is that they could be farmed in farm plots.