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[Demetrious]

Vis a vis obsidian farming - are there pitfalls to the simpler "fill bottom level of room with magma, flood Z+1 level above with water" method aside from the obvious problem that the bridge-drop method solves (i.e. excess water left over causing the odd job cancellations as your miners clean out the harvest)? I'll be using a minecart lift system to deliver the magma, which will require some simple computing/timing devices to ensure no more odd bugs with minecart z-level stacking will muck up the system like in my last fort, so I figure I may as well automate the whole system to some degree, including a timer to shut the water supply floodgates when appropriate. Additionally, are there any reasons to prefer a bridge-drop method from a computing/automation standpoint?

And if anyone has such a system that they're proud of, I'd love to see them!

[Fleeting Frames]

Well, if you bucket water directly into magma, it evaporates. However, I recall one obsidianizing setup that pumped water from an aquifer tile across a hole of magma into another aquifer tile, so if you have an infinite water source I doubt you'd need a bridge; just portable drain.

[xZippy]

When you make a militia defend a burrow, does the militia automatically detect enemies stepping in said burrow? Or does the enemy still need to be within sight range? I ask because I'm trying to find efficient ways to stop tantruming dwarves.

[Schmaven]

Good question about the burrows.  I don't have the answer, but if so, that could be also applied fairly well by making a burrow on the surface for marksdwarves to defend from fortified locations.

For the tantruming dwarves, one thing I've found helpful is breaking up a squad of 10 into 2 - 3 small squads and having more barracks in hub areas of the fort.  It cuts response time dramatically, and anything 2 well trained dwarves can't handle on their own, they can usually survive until the other mini squads get there to back them up.

[xZippy]

Are siege weapons/engines used for missions or just defense? I can't find the thread that describes all of this.

[Ulfarr]

Siege engines are only for defense at the moment. There are plans (iirc) about sieges bringing their own against your fort so maybe in the future we will be able to send out too.

[Stench Guzman]

Siege Engines haven't been updated much since the 2D version of the game and they are largely useless for practical purposes.

I build them as decorations.

[xZippy]

I keep getting this.



I must have this message like 1000 times now. How the hell do I find the source?

[anewaname]

The dwarfs are attempting to haul the kitten to whatever pasture or cage it was assigned to, but they cannot path to it (maybe it is stuck somewhere due to combat?).

You can remove the kitten from the pasture or cage assignment, or you can find the kitten and fix the path issue.

If you have few kittens, it should be easy to 'z'oom to an animal's location from the 'u'nit menu.

[xZippy]

I have an insane amount of kittens, and I have no idea how to find the one that's causing all this.

Edit: There is a cat that died recently, is there a bug where someone can try to handle a cat that's dead/not around anymore?

[Bumber]

The dwarfs are attempting to haul the kitten to whatever pasture or cage it was assigned to, but they cannot path to it (maybe it is stuck somewhere due to combat?).

Most likely climbing up and down the cavern walls just for the lulz.

[xZippy]

Yeah, now this is getting real annoying.

I checked all the kittens, and they're all in normal areas of the fortress. The "Cog" guy who keeps not doing the job is stuck in one spot and is even starting to die of thirst now - even if I remove the animal hauling job for him. What the hell is the issue here?

[Ulfarr]

That the Cog guy is stuck somewhere that he can't path to whatever job he is assigned to??

edit: even if you disable the labor, dwarves will still try to complete the last job that was assigned to them.

[Bumber]

Can you cancel it from the [j]obs screen?

[Magistrum]

Hit Cog with something and see if he snaps from it.
Or just injure he enough that someone can come and take him to the infirmary.