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[Ulfarr]

Thanks for your answers!

I know that both forests and woodlands need high levels of rainfall to appear, so some rain is inevitable. My problem is when it’s raining all the damn time, with hardly any non rainy days throughout the year.
Shrublands are also a hit and miss situation, where it sometimes rain constantly and sometimes it has a few weeks/months between each rain.

I guess I’ll give World painter a try.

[xZippy]

If magma is only found waaaayy too far down, what is the best way to get it up to where you want it? Are minecarts your only hope?

[Ulfarr]

You can also use pump stack to bring magma up.

[xZippy]

Yeah but that's a lot of pumps if the magma is like 50 levels below my fort.

[Luriant]

Some magma for Magma Forges... use magma-safe minecarts. 2 Minecarts=4magma, enough for 1 magma workshops. You don't need tracks, dwarves carry minecarts with magma without problem, albeit slow.

Filling the surroundings with magma non stop? Magma safe Pump stack.

Bonus: How to kill lots of enemies with a minecart filled with magma? Make 100 levels of stairs in your fortress, put a grate in the ceiling, put the minecart in a Track stops dumping above the stairs. 30+ Goblins melting and falling. Drop some water and mine the obsidian. Magma Safe goblinite without seeing dead people.

Ps. Magma Piston is another option, but pump stacks is a better system.

[xZippy]

You know how you can save your own embark setups? Where is that saved? Like, which folder?

[mightymushroom]

You know how you can save your own embark setups? Where is that saved? Like, which folder?

(DF location)/data/init/embark_profiles.txt

[xZippy]

Don't worry it's not Zippy spamming this thread again. You know how DFhack tells you which animals are starving? How do I find those exact animals in-game?

[Fleeting Frames]

Well, starving livestock in particular are grazers who are either in a cage with no animal caretaker to feed them (i.e. after you got some from merchants), or ones hanging around in your meeting area on normal floors. You can go through 'u'nit-livestock menu to check matching animals one by one.

Iirc it also gives you unit id, so you can paste :lua ~df.unit.find(13749).pos into console to give you coordinates. Note that the z-coordinate doesn't match what you see on right; exact values will depend on your worldgen, region and embark, so :lua ~df.global.cursor will give you current cursor location as a landmark to navigate from.

[Atarlost]

Don't worry it's not Zippy spamming this thread again. You know how DFhack tells you which animals are starving? How do I find those exact animals in-game?

Use the 'z' health screen (needs Chief Medical Dwarf).  Starving animals will have a red H! in the fourth column.  You can then use 'r'ecenter to select the desired animal on the map.

[Magistrum]

What Artalost said.
Also, it is usually stuck on a tree.

[Tarqeq]

Does dead creature set off a pressure plate? Suppose there is a creature restrained on a pressure plate. Can this be used to set off reaction when the creature dies?

[TomiTapio]

Does dead creature set off a pressure plate? Suppose there is a creature restrained on a pressure plate. Can this be used to set off reaction when the creature dies?

"Pressure plates are sensitive to some creatures and uninfluenced by others (see Unusual Triggers). They are not sensitive to inert weight or trapavoid creatures."

so living heavy creature sends signal, corpse does not. Heavy Corpse becoming animated, sends signal.
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Pressure_plate

if (chained guard chicken dead) then (raise drawbridge)?

[Fleeting Frames]

Yes, it could be. When pressure plate goes for 99 steps without a trigger after being triggered and having sent an "ON" signal, it sends "OFF" signal. This signal can be used, for example, to collapse a support, close vertical path via either bridge type, either open (via raising bridge) or close (via door/floodgate) a horizontal path, or stop and/or dump items/water/magma from a minecart.

But note that such delay is enough time to take ~10 steps at normal pace, and potentially over 20 at run, and bridges/floodgates add just as much delay, while track stop has 40 step delay too. So if you're relying on this to capture/kill an enemy with no player action, leave a bit of space.

[xZippy]

1.) Are doctors able to operate/heal themselves or does another doctor have to be present?
2.) Does having matching deity statues in temples make a difference? I've never seen it mentioned in a dwarves thoughts.
3.) Dumb dwarves keep leaving meat in their rooms, leave it there and make their rooms smell like a dead sewer. How to prevent?