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[PDF urist master]

My marksdwarves have been training for a while. I just noticed that pretty much all of them are legendary dodgers at this point. To put into perspective, my best melee squad, who have been sparring for about 4 months longer, are only profession dodgers. What makes them such proficient dodgers? is it the individual combat drills?

[KingKaol]

Do male animals still breed when they are caged? I thought only females couldn't breed if they were caged in the previous version, but i think something changed?

[Bumber]

Do male animals still breed when they are caged? I thought only females couldn't breed if they were caged in the previous version, but i think something changed?

I think it's always been like that. I remember reading that caging only the males was cautioned against because a single wild animal wandering onto the map could impregnate all your free females at once, not because caged males could still release spores. Breeding isn't done by spores anymore, though.

[Arx]

Currently I think the deal is that pre-impregnated creatures give birth from inside cages but will not become pregnant.

[Uzu Bash]

Can power be transferred through unconnected downstairs with an empty tile beneath? I couldn't find anything specific on this in the wiki.

[Loci]

Do male animals still breed when they are caged? I thought only females couldn't breed if they were caged in the previous version, but i think something changed?

Breeding now requires the male and female to be in adjacent tiles. I don't know if anyone has tested whether a caged male can breed with an adjacent, uncaged female.

I remember reading that caging only the males was cautioned against because a single wild animal wandering onto the map could impregnate all your free females at once, not because caged males could still release spores.

Nope. Caged males could breed quite successfully, so caging only the males was completely ineffective.

[Arx]

Can power be transferred through unconnected downstairs with an empty tile beneath? I couldn't find anything specific on this in the wiki.

Like this?


-o- Windmill
 <  Down stair
    Empty space
 M  Machine


If so, I don't think so. I'm not sure I understand the question though.

[Uzu Bash]

Can power be transferred through unconnected downstairs with an empty tile beneath? I couldn't find anything specific on this in the wiki.

Like this?


-o- Windmill
 <  Down stair
    Empty space
 M  Machine


If so, I don't think so. I'm not sure I understand the question though.

Not exactly, but if you put a vert axle where your empty space is, that's the principle of the question. Will power transfer directly down through an unconnected downstair?

I think I answered my question. I carved a stair over a gear and tried to plant another gear over it. The space was considered  'not at or near machine' until I put another gear beside it on the same level.

[VonCede]

My brain hurts, because of the stockpiles.

I want a small cloth and a small thread stockpile next to my hospital without bins (so I can see if I need to make more). Those two stockpiles are set to take from the another two cloth stockpiles from the crafting center where my loom and clothier are. But somehow my dwarfs are not hauling the thread and cloth in the hospital stockpiles.

Ideal situation is that crafting area stockpiles would give the loom and clothier all the stuff they need, so they would leave items in my hospital alone.

Is this possible? Or is the hospital autostocking fixed enough to trust to it?

[Detros]

My brain hurts, because of the stockpiles.

I want a small cloth and a small thread stockpile next to my hospital without bins (so I can see if I need to make more). Those two stockpiles are set to take from the another two cloth stockpiles from the crafting center where my loom and clothier are. But somehow my dwarfs are not hauling the thread and cloth in the hospital stockpiles.

Ideal situation is that crafting area stockpiles would give the loom and clothier all the stuff they need, so they would leave items in my hospital alone.

Is this possible? Or is the hospital autostocking fixed enough to trust to it?

If you link a stockpile to "give" to a workshop that workshop should take its ingredients only from such linked stockpiles. Note some reactions need more ingredents, like brewing can ask fro both fruit and barrel. Only when no stockpile are linked workshop try to take from those unlinked.

[jrrocks1]

For some reason my dwarves keep on saying "cancels store item in stockpile: Item inaccessible" is there a way to figure out whats wrong or something i should do? Help......

[Uzu Bash]

Not using burrows, not forbidding items or doors, you don't have doors closing automatically? I get this a lot around a hatched ramp with a lot of traffic, due to the hatch closing and someone standing on top for a moment. It's only temporary, the job will resume in another moment.

[Detros]

For some reason my dwarves keep on saying "cancels store item in stockpile: Item inaccessible" is there a way to figure out whats wrong or something i should do? Help......

Not using burrows, not forbidding items or doors, you don't have doors closing automatically? I get this a lot around a hatched ramp with a lot of traffic, due to the hatch closing and someone standing on top for a moment. It's only temporary, the job will resume in another moment.

Beside all that, your dwarves are capable of trying to haul some junk item that is lying in some inaccessible area, like tree top. So rarely it won't sort itself out, when they are still able to see such items from time to time.

[jrrocks1]

Ok

[Ifeno]

Hey guys! So I encountered a strange problem while trying to introduce my GF to the game.  She has two farms, one above ground and one underground planting Prickle Berries and Plump Helments respectively.  This worked fine for a year and her food production was well underway.  Eventually we noticed that she was suddenly down to 1 food and 5 drink.  After checking her seed stocks (as well as the actual food stockpiles) we found that there were still dozens of prickle berry and plump helmet seeds but the dwarves were simply not planting them.  Any idea what the issue is here and how to resolve it?

EDIT:  After further investigation it seems the dwarves are only willing to use a few of the farm plot tiles for farming.  What's going on?

NOTE:  I haven't played the game in about a year or two, so does this have something to do with an update that has occurred since then that I simply don't know about?