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dresdor

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As a player who hasn't played in a while....
« on: December 30, 2014, 05:05:09 pm »
Damn when did trees get so big.
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C27

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Re: As a player who hasn't played in a while....
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2014, 05:13:28 pm »
Lumber is now a plentiful resource, go wild!

Seriously, you'll be looking for applications for the huge piles of logs you end up with after clearing fortress space in a forest. starting with a proficient carpenter is a good idea. You might want to spare some favorite trees from cutting, though, since fruit are useful - some have different applications; you can make booze from most fruit like plums and apples but press jugs of oil from olives instead, in addition to cooking them or eating them raw.
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Gold is for the mistress– silver for the maid–
Copper for the craftsman, cunning at his trade.
‘Good!’ said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
‘But iron– cold iron– is ruler of them all’.

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Re: As a player who hasn't played in a while....
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2014, 05:25:58 pm »
Quote from: C27 on December 30, 2014, 05:13:28 pm
Lumber is now a plentiful resource, go wild!

Seriously, you'll be looking for applications for the huge piles of logs you end up with after clearing fortress space in a forest. starting with a proficient carpenter is a good idea. You might want to spare some favorite trees from cutting, though, since fruit are useful - some have different applications; you can make booze from most fruit like plums and apples but press jugs of oil from olives instead, in addition to cooking them or eating them raw.

how do you gather them?
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Re: As a player who hasn't played in a while....
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2014, 05:53:01 pm »
Dwarf with wood cutting enabled, equipped with an axe of some sort.

d-->t to designate trees for cutting. They are the brown 0 things.
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Re: As a player who hasn't played in a while....
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2014, 06:01:25 pm »
stuff for taking out the oversaturation of wood:

1. use it as fuel

2. make furniture out of it

3. ammo for hunters/soldiers

4. crafts

5. nestboxes

6. hives

7. training weapons/shields

8. armor (?)

10. ramps or structures for no flamable locations

11. bins, barrels

12. caskets

there are many ways to spend that wood, the problem is that just cutting 4 or 5 trees you get enough wood for a long time.
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Re: As a player who hasn't played in a while....
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2014, 06:14:01 pm »
Quote from: Pencil_Art on December 30, 2014, 05:53:01 pm
Dwarf with wood cutting enabled, equipped with an axe of some sort.

d-->t to designate trees for cutting. They are the brown 0 things.
I think he meant the fruit.
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Re: As a player who hasn't played in a while....
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2014, 07:43:17 pm »
You can gather fruit by assigning an activity zone (containing the fruit-bearing trees) to Plant Collection. This also automates any plant-gathering jobs for shrubs that grow on the ground. You can make a stepladder out of wood, which will permit your herbalists to just climb up the trees and pluck the fruits for other dwarves to haul away.
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