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[ZM5]

Crap, dunno. I only hope you can set immediate dumping orders for certain conditions, i.e "if rotten > autodump" - I often make way too much food and it starts rotting and blowing miasma everywhere - bit annoying.

[Chevaleresse]

Probably standing orders to keep the stock of doors, beds, etc hovering around 20 or so unbuilt rather than just mass producing them two years straight and then hoping that's enough for the rest of the fort's lifetime. Same with coffins.

[TheFlame52]

Right now, civs can live on past their expiration date in the form of refugees living in camps and abandoned sites. Will civs ever hunt down and kill enemy refugees? What about bandits?

[Dirst]

Right now, civs can live on past their expiration date in the form of refugees living in camps and abandoned sites. Will civs ever hunt down and kill enemy refugees? What about bandits?

You can always make a Starting Seven and a couple migrant waves appear out of thin air by embarking in the dead civ's name.

Will a civ ever be "dead enough" that it will no longer be an option at embark, but still appear in Legends?  Can a later group, which may or may not have any blood relation to the members of the dead civ, claim to "re-establish" that civ in the context of cutting ties with its real parent civ?

[LordBaal]

I hope you get back to normal quickly Toady. Do the orders have something like always keep 100 booze on stock, or 30 in this stockpile, and 70 in that other?

[decev]

I hope you get back to normal quickly Toady. Do the orders have something like always keep 100 booze on stock, or 30 in this stockpile, and 70 in that other?

The stockpile part sounds complicated, UI-wise. You can achieve almost the same thing by having a small stockpile take from your large stockpile.

[NW_Kohaku]

Ok... different topic: What kind of conditional workorders are YOU gonna set up every time you start a new fortress once this function gets in?

My main one would be 'if plump helmet > 10, brew', because I always lose track of the still.

Having played both with the DF Hack plugin for workflow and Gnomoria, which has this feature, the simple answer would be "every single order". (Gnomoria has the additional tasty goodness of "auto-order required intermediary products".)

There's basically no reason not to use it for everything.  Order at least X coffins on hand, keep X roasts around, have X steel bolts ready for use, keep X chairs and table and beds around, etc. 

There really isn't anything in DF that you need running round-the-clock, and un-binnable furniture in particular clogs the stockpiles. (Even quantum stockpiling, the additional wasted labor isn't helping anything.)

[Putnam]

god i should figure some stuff out to get that "auto-order intermediary products" thing, i adore that in applied energistics

[Spish]

My first year fortresses are freezing up like absolute crazy whenever a tavern is active, even though the FPS is well over 300 otherwise. It's unplayable with taverns, not even embarking on a neighborless pocket island fixes the problem. Why is this happening, is this normal?

Edit: Ahh, now I see. So I've been out of the loop for a while and was just testing the taverns for the first time, and apparently it doesn't pay to be lazy and throw up a 1x1 lounge . 1x2 and up there are no issues, leaving no room for festivities is rather problematic it would seem. Worth making a bug report?

[Egan_BW]

"And here's the activities closet. Feel free to dance or sing in there, just be sure to close the door behind you, ya damned hippy."

[LordBaal]

Worth making a bug report?

It is intended that every tavern must have such areas? If it is then no report is needed, if not then I guess it's simple a bug.

Personally I would think not every tavern is a The Snuggly Duckling, Prancing Pony or The Whore's Nipple Bar&Grill. Some might be the Swine Face taverns type where the only activity besides drinking is to die gruesomely.

[Spish]

I don't think most people even think to create 1x1 meeting areas, I guess I'm just lazy like that.

[Dirst]

I don't think most people even think to create 1x1 meeting areas, I guess I'm just lazy like that.

Oh come on, it's an entire tile.  Your dorfs should be thankful they get so much!

[Random_Dragon]

Individual spaces for training dogs are literally the only instances I can think of where I use 1x1 zones. :V

[NW_Kohaku]

Individual spaces for training dogs are literally the only instances I can think of where I use 1x1 zones. :V

I use them to keep male livestock that don't need to graze, like boars or ganders in place next to the female animals, also in 1x1 "pastures".  I also use 1x1 pastures for "watch poults" to serve as lookouts and/or bait on the ramparts or cavern entrances. (Surrounded, naturally, by GCS-webbed cage traps...)