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[Ulfarr]

There is no good solution on those damn voltures AFAIK.

Marksdwarves need to be given the orders manualy which sucks and hunters seem to ignore birds in general. And even then you still have to deal with them just hanging 20 z leves above your fort where nothing can harm them but your idiot dwarves (well any race actually) still get scared...

After some incidents where I lost a couple of citizens because some volture made them jump from a cliff I got fed up and toned down their spawning rate in the raws. I still get them (along with all the unpleasantness they bring) but it's more manageable now.

[Bumber]

I have extremely little alcohol left, and though I do see some plants and such in my stockpiles, I'm not able to brew any more alcohol. I got dwarves plant collecting like hell but still no luck. Is there another solution or am I just boned.

Are you using the right brewing job? There's one for tree fruit and one for everything else.

[anewaname]

Vultures try to steal plant/fruit/leaves.. use that to lure them to where your cage traps or training marksdwarfs are. Much easier than chasing them.  Keep the rest of your food in barrels, indoors.

For caging fliers, use a roof over the bait food and over the cage traps. Wiki has more about this.

[xZippy]

So I had a werebull attack, and I managed to expel those who were infected. One problem, I have a countess who's infected, and I can't expel her or tell her where to go. Solution for this annoying problem?

[TomiTapio]

I'm getting very tired of seeing job interruptions being spammed and constantly scaring my animals away. That crap is almost game ruining.

Can place animals in a secure soil-cave where cave grasses grow, very safe from critters there. Can dig up from your main food pile, to soil, and park animals & shearing & milking & butchering in the secure soil cave.

[Fleeting Frames]

@Vultures: If you use marksdwarves to kill enough vultures, they'll eventually stop spawning. The effectiveness of them depends on map size but usually if your marksdwarf can see vulture the vulture can interrupt your dwarves. Dwarves do seem to hate item thieves so there's that. Look out for climbing trees afterwards.

Used to be that dot of Discipline was tried in starting dwarves due these issues. Don't recall the results, though.

@Brewing: Stockpile menu lets you reserve barrels to prevent them being used for food storage. Also, if you're linking stuff to still you need to link both brewables and barrels.

@Werebull: Kill her before she transforms. Ideally, without your military (because she might have friends), but can't be choosy and too slow with redirecting them with doors and zones.

[Ulfarr]

For the werebull you can use a combination of barrows, alerts and locked doors/bridges to seperate her from the rest of the population. What you'll do with her after is up to you, my personal suggestion would be to send her in one of the caverns, if you don't use them, and write a chronicle of her exploits.

[xZippy]

Can you assign specific weapons to dwarves?

[§k]

yes it's in the military equipment interface

[TomiTapio]

If I points-purchase certain skills to my starting seven, do they get generated with.. lets say a high agility?

[Ulfarr]

I don't think so, it seems to me that the starting seven have their stats already determined by the time you get at the purchase screen and any skills you give them don't seem to affect them in any way at that point.

Case in point, since I usualy don't bother to adjust my premade embark profile to each dwarf's wants, needs and attributes everytime I embark on a new fort, I often end up with soldiers that have absolutely crap attributes.

[Fleeting Frames]

You can view the dwarves stats and personalities while preparing carefully, so you can assign certain skills to those with high agility. Or high altruism, or low stress vulnerability, or preference for beds.

[xZippy]

Has anyone here had a successful fort (at least for a good chunk of time) in an evil biome?

[Ulfarr]

Define successful 

The first fort that popped in my mind was Sethatos' Archcrystal which is possibly the longest running fort but you might also find others in the DF Community Games & Stories board.

[Schmaven]

Has anyone here had a successful fort (at least for a good chunk of time) in an evil biome?

I've got a 36 year old fort going strong in a reanimating biome with giant undead wildlife.  Getting started was the hard part.   

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Has anyone else had trouble with dwarves getting killed during sparring matches?  I have a bunch of Mace Lords sparring, and one of them just dodged only to end up dead:
The Mace Lord's upper body takes the full force of the impact, but it is deflected by the Mace Lord's *bronze breastplate*!
The Mace Lord's throat takes the full force of the impact and the part splits in gore!
A major artery has been opened by the attack!
The Mace Lord stands up.
The Mace Lord is no longer stunned.
'Soldier' Akrulnosing, Mace Lord has been found dead.