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ptb_ptb

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Death by garbage dump
« on: October 09, 2014, 09:28:24 am »
So I was trying out a 'no bag' farming scheme. The intention being to avoid the hauling conflict problems that plague the current version. Simple idea:

Level 1. Workshops
Level 2. Farm/kitchen/still
Level 3. Residential

Empty barrels and seeds are dropped from level 1 to level 2.
Dwarven wine, prepared meals, pigtail plants and quarry plants are dropped from level 2 to level 3.
I used burrows to divide dwarves between the 'general' area and the 'farm' area.

It was actually working quite well with three dwarves permanently on farming duty and 18 in total. Then disaster struck.

Now, most of you are probably thinking 'stupid dwarf hit by multiple barrels while standing under the drop zone'. And you're sort of right. But the dwarf was only in the drop zone because he had fallen through the garbage chute. :( Was he just clumsy? Did the dwarf behind him accidentally push him forwards? I don't know. :/
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Re: Death by garbage dump
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2014, 10:10:20 am »
It was a suicide, the only answer. And what better way to die than from booze barrels
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Re: Death by garbage dump
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2014, 10:12:11 am »
Quote from: Mimodo on October 09, 2014, 10:10:20 am
It was a suicide, the only answer. And what better way to die than from booze barrels
The victim was the husband of one of the other farmers. I think it was divorce, Armok style. "With this barrel, I thee dead." :P
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Re: Death by garbage dump
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2014, 01:44:09 am »
I'm interested in no-bag farming. How do you prevent dwarves storing seed in bag?
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grody311

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Re: Death by garbage dump
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2014, 02:53:15 am »
The workarounds posted on the wiki are fine:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Farming#Bugs

Your method just gives me a headache
« Last Edit: October 12, 2014, 04:17:27 pm by grody311 »
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Re: Death by garbage dump
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2014, 04:05:49 am »
Old issue. In fact, so old, I wondered if we had a Ń wandering around, like we did once before.
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Re: Death by garbage dump
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2014, 04:02:33 pm »
I've run into some bugs with pathing that I think are still live - ought to have reported them but I wanted to play with them more ... never did, sorry.  There's one where I build a three-wide staircase in the middle of the spiral ramp in the reclaim fort and the dorfs set to dump things walk out into the empty space and fall.  Another involved building a trade depot access route through the space where a tree had been and for some reason every dorf ordered to build a certain floor just walked right over the edge.  But I didn't reproduce them when copying the immediate geometry, so I'm not quite sure...
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