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[StrawBarrel]

Built ramps have a floor under them, right?

I'm building the roof of my castle, and trying to figure out if:
WRW
WRW
WRW
WRW
will in fact block flyers from getting in from above.  (I have lots of keapeople and harpy problems).

(top down view, W = wall and R = ramp).

If I'm not mistaken, ramps do have floors under them. I believe your design should work.

[Maul_Junior]

why is this not pinned?

(until the next release)

[Maul_Junior]

Is there a threshold for Tavern/Temple/Library visitors?

My current fort has a gross worth of something like 6M Urists, with easily 500-750k exported, and in 8 years not a single visitor has shown up.

The fort has, at most, 35 people.

[roqi]

Is there a threshold for Tavern/Temple/Library visitors?

My current fort has a gross worth of something like 6M Urists, with easily 500-750k exported, and in 8 years not a single visitor has shown up.

The fort has, at most, 35 people.

No. I had visitors in the first year, when the library was just four squares of dirt and nothing else. There can be several reasons why you're not getting visitors:
- every civ is dead or dying, so there are no possible historical figures to visit you
- the visitors physically cannot get to your fortress, i.e. you're on an island, or on an evil glacier, or your map has more than one ocean edge (i.e. beach fortresses even on the mainland are out of luck)

[Maul_Junior]

Thre are 3 civs for each race in the world (human, dwarf, goblin, elf, kobold), and none are dying out. one or two are getting their asses KICKED, but each race has been seen in the embark site (caravan, caravan, siege, caravan, and theiving respectively).

The fortress sits astride a waterfall that splits into 2 rivers at the bottom (my favored embark)--in the middle of a continent.


Also, if you start your own library and don't have any books--how do you get your dwarves to write books if nobody comes in and shares a book with you?

[Snafu]

Also, if you start your own library and don't have any books--how do you get your dwarves to write books if nobody comes in and shares a book with you?

IIRC you need to assign some scribes as well as scholars, & make sure they have writing materials available

[sunrakhan]

You can also buy some from the caravans. Codices and books are at the bottom of the trade list, before the parchments.

[roqi]

Thre are 3 civs for each race in the world (human, dwarf, goblin, elf, kobold), and none are dying out. one or two are getting their asses KICKED, but each race has been seen in the embark site (caravan, caravan, siege, caravan, and theiving respectively).

The fortress sits astride a waterfall that splits into 2 rivers at the bottom (my favored embark)--in the middle of a continent.


Also, if you start your own library and don't have any books--how do you get your dwarves to write books if nobody comes in and shares a book with you?

I would guess then that they either can't get to your fortress because of some obstacles, or they don't like the fact you have neither books nor scholars assigned to the library.

Also, if you start your own library and don't have any books--how do you get your dwarves to write books if nobody comes in and shares a book with you?

IIRC you need to assign some scribes as well as scholars, & make sure they have writing materials available

You only need scholars -- scribes copy books that you already have. You might want to have a look through your dwarves to see if any has any scholar skills (philosopher, geographer, and so on; also writer), as those seem to affect how productive a scholar is in writing books. A brand new scholar is wont to write a book about his start as a scholar and then hang around for ages only discussing and pondering.

[Snafu]

Fairynuff, but scholars still need writing materials to write books, yes?

[Rusty Shackleford]

The elves stopped sending trade caravans to my fort foe the last few years. I got them to show up once and I uneventfully traded some knicknacks for a couple animals and some fruit. Then they never came back. They still have leaders in the civ menu and there are about 90 or so left in the world still.

Any idea what happened?

[Loci]

The elves stopped sending trade caravans to my fort foe the last few years. ...
Any idea what happened?

There's a known bug with caravans getting stuck outside the map edges; here's a potential workaround.

[Maul_Junior]

What is the cutting power of glass (metal penetration) compared to metal?

Is it iron, steel, bronze-equivalent, or what?

[anewaname]

What is the cutting power of glass (metal penetration) compared to metal?

Is it iron, steel, bronze-equivalent, or what?

See material information in the wiki here. The equivalence would vary according to the type of weapons (slash verse blunt, etc).

[Ziusudra]

Glass is worse than even copper. It has 1/3 the density so it hits with less force. It is 50% "sharper" but it has between 1/6 and 1/20 the ability to penetrate. All told it's maybe 10% as effective as copper.

[Snafu]

May be a stupid question, but are pumps (/not/ pump stacks) required to be accessible from the z-level they're built in?

I'm trying to build an aqueduct (only needs occasional pumping, so I'm not bothered about stacks) to take muddy water from an aboveground pool to another aboveground swimming/watering pool I've channelled. I've given the pump accessibility thru stairs, floors etc. (both pump tiles have orthogonal access via stairs, then floors) from above, but no pump-enabled worker (including a master with no other significant skill) will come & work the pump for a while..

Dammit I need a temporary job priority to give me a clue as to why the job's failing (if it is)!