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[pisskop]

Modding lead?  nqs.  Try it and if it doesnt have any effect w.e. and if the game crashes then no.

Rawmancy is tricksy

[PyroTechno]

Thanks, I can do that with a saved world, right?

Modding lead?  nqs.  Try it and if it doesnt have any effect w.e. and if the game crashes then no.

Rawmancy is tricksy

In general, it's a better idea to mod the base raws and then create a new world, so the save doesn't glitch out.

One of the first rules of modding: when in doubt, create a new world.

[Micro102]

My dwarves don't seem to want to use teeth as bone or ivory. Do I just have to dump all the teeth?

EDIT: Also, how do you kill animated remains? I've got severed heads and hair running around and my dwarves cant kill them.

[NJW2000]

As far as I know, caging or atom smashing, maybe godhammer caveins or fifty tile drops.

They're a teeny bit more immortal than was originally intended, I'm afraid.

[pisskop]

Definitely secure you butcher shops in the furture.  and any garbaghe dumps or refuse pits.  Any gabarge pits or corpse stockpiles need to have some means of completely sealing them off.  Say a bridge or being accessed by stone/metal hatches.  Reanimated trolls or ogres or worse will make you have a bad day.

The butchers shops should have a stone doorlock system in place.  2 or more doors that you can forbid, and that won't be all open at the same time.  So you can lock them in the worst cases and keep the threat/job cancellation spam to a minimum.

Consider atom smashing the area if issues.  Set up bridges along a hallway that animated hairs and etc can access without using doors, so that you need only wait for them to trigger a pressure plate or you to pull it enough.

[Sutremaine]

My dwarves don't seem to want to use teeth as bone or ivory. Do I just have to dump all the teeth?

EDIT: Also, how do you kill animated remains? I've got severed heads and hair running around and my dwarves cant kill them.

Teeth that are knocked out are probably not useful for crafting, being too small. Teeth produced upon butchering should be useable, though not as bone. They're not made of bone.

There's a bug with animated small body parts. They're too small to hit, essentially. I think you can get around it in-game by increasing the size of the base creature and waiting a while. Creature sizes update once a week, I think.

[Bouchart]

Teeth knocked loose from combat can't be used in crafting, except possible strange mood cases.

[Sutremaine]

My memory on this might be a little fuzzy because it was a while ago, but I have a recollection of being able to make a whole load of tooth crafts from an FB that got struck in the mouth before dying.

[Bouchart]

Maybe that was true in an earlier version, but it's not the case in the current one.

This is easiest to see with a voracious cave crawler.  They tend to drop a lot of teeth, since they have few body parts and are very easy to hit in the mouth.

[Arx]

Forgotten Beasts might also have large enough teeth to be meaningful individually.

[Bouchart]

It might also be the case that dwarves can't craft with teeth with a stack size of one.  That was the case with bones some time ago.

[Uggh]

If I obsidianize part of a cavern lake at the map edge and later carve fortifications into some of the former water tiles at map edge, will they again produce water? Or will they only drain it off the map?

[DolosusDoleus]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Fortification

Read the "Uses" section. Your answer is near the bottom.

[Sutremaine]

It might also be the case that dwarves can't craft with teeth with a stack size of one.  That was the case with bones some time ago.

It never was. The bug with that was that when you finished with a stack of bone, there'd always be a 'body part' left even though all the 'bone' was used up. I created a few single-bone stacks and observed as they were each made into one set of items.

[Uggh]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Fortification

Read the "Uses" section. Your answer is near the bottom.

You might have misunderstood my question. I was not referring to drainage of water but to the creation thereof. As far as I understand it, map edge tiles of a lake or ocean produce water so that after you drain some of the lake it will be refilled over time. If I obsidianize a lake tile of the map edge and then carve fortifications into it, would said tile somehow retain the water creation property from before or would it just drain water of the map as in the passage you cited?