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[Loci]

I thought you couldn't stop the first two migrant waves, which should bring your pop to around 20.

Nope. In DF2014 Toady fixed the population caps to apply immediately to (nearly) all migrations, so even the "hard-coded" waves can be blocked. (They are still "hard-coded" in that they still appear regardless of other non-population-cap checks.) One known exception is the king, who can supposedly still appear at max-pop (though most of his entourage may be blocked by the caps).

[Bumber]

Edit: now the elven marchants came. My civilians got scared of them and military immediately attacked them. It looks like all of my dwarves have somehow become evil!

IDK, that sounded like a completely appropriate reaction to an elven caravan. Most overseers seem to prefer the use of magma, though.

[vylaern]

Sleep until dawn - how to wake up?


Hi, I went to sleep at the evening - I took options sleep until dawn. But... the night gone, and I was sleeping all day long, and wok e up... at the night.

[1] What to do to wake up at the dawn?
[2] Is it possible to break the sleep by pressing any key? (when the animations with sun going so fast)

[Nikita]

Another question - I made a bunch of overlapping bedrooms with cabinets in them. The dwarves seem to shuffle and re-shuffle their owned items (job: store owned item) forever, taking them from one cabinet and depositing in another. Additionally, they never seem to actually put the item IN the cabinet, but rather drop it on the ground on the same tile as the cabinet.

Is this a thing that is actually happening or am I just seeing things? Has anyone experienced anything similar?

[NJW2000]

Yes. It is the traditional dwarven game of put-thing-many-cabinets-shuffle-XXtroll fur sockXX-move-ball. This is totally normal, as far as I'm aware, with your setup.

[Sirbug]

Sleep until dawn - how to wake up?


Hi, I went to sleep at the evening - I took options sleep until dawn. But... the night gone, and I was sleeping all day long, and wok e up... at the night.

[1] What to do to wake up at the dawn?
[2] Is it possible to break the sleep by pressing any key? (when the animations with sun going so fast)

For some reason, sleeping before dawn wakes you up just before the dawn. Either wait one more hour or start travelling, and you will see sun rising.

[Bumber]

For some reason, sleeping before dawn wakes you up just before the dawn. Either wait one more hour or start travelling, and you will see sun rising.

The 24-hour sleep is the more confusing part. No idea why it sometimes does that. (Maybe when you sleep after midnight it assumes the dawn of the day after?)

[Amperzand]

Can confirm, I've had that happen to me far too many times.

[pisskop]

You're typically better off sleeping for 3-4 hours at a time anyway.  Any more and you risk oversleeping and then just kind of standing around getting hungry/thirsty.

I think I spend 90% of my adventurer's time with the 'drowsy' condition anyway.

[vylaern]

There is such topic in Armor:
Quality and strange moods
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Armor

So what is it?
a) rope red fiber sock
b) +<<+rope red fiber sock+<<+
c) +<<*rope red fiber sock*<<+

[vexxice]

On the prepare carefully screen after I select a premade startup, sometimes it tells me that some meat is unavailable to bring. Does this mean that there are none in the area, or did they become extinct?

[pisskop]

That means your dwarven civ has no access to that item.

Like iron, copper, or super-duper rare awesomesauce wood.  Try to select as generic as possible stuff for your setups to avoid a civ not having gazelle meat or Yeti torso ribcage or w.e.


---It DOES however mean that your preperations are incomplete, sometimes fatally so if the item is a requirement (say an iron anvil when you didnt bring picks).  The game does not substituite like items when you fail to get an item automatically selected.

[Nikita]

How do you know if you have enough bins/barrels for all the stockpiles that are supposed to use them?

[Bumber]

How do you know if you have enough bins/barrels for all the stockpiles that are supposed to use them?

Keep a barrel/bin stockpile a check if there are any to spare.

[NJW2000]

Ok, so to revitalise my interest, I have started a fort in a sinister biome with a tower and goblins, and have decided to theme my fort on the name. Happily, my civ is called the "Messianic Hammers". Metal as f***. Anyway, my fort is called "Traillanced", according to the RNG. So what do I do for a theme? The trail part seems to suggest hunters, or maybe routes/patrols, and lanced seems to tell me that spears would be a good thing. Any suggestions?