Ok, so a friend hooked me up with DF about a month ago and I've been having all kinds of dwarfy fun, but I'm getting to the point where I have some questions I haven't figured out.
Making waterfalls -
I'm really good at pumping water up where I need it, but when I let it fall back down I find I usually get a lot of muddy floors, dead grass, and flooded stockpiles. Nothing catastrophic, usually 1/7 - 3/7 depth, but not exactly something I want to keep running indefinitely. If I get things to the point I have no overflow, I also don't have any mist. So any advice here would be great. Having a mist generator in my common area would be great, but I can't figure out how it works, so a
Magma -
So will one square of magma power a magma forge/smelter indefinitely? I've got a fortress (one of 3) that has a very nice magma pool which I've used for 2 forges and 4 smelters, but I'd like to use some of the magma for other stuff. I think I can cut off a good chunk of it with some creative use of walls, pumps and water, but I don't want to nuke my workshops by doing it because the pool isn't that big and I've got a ton of iron to smelt. I'm all a-quiver at the thought of near limitless steel after being frustrated by my first fortress' inability to do anything with the 1500 units of iron ore I had mined out. (Ran out of coal, and no magma) Do the Fire imps ever respawn? I lost one of my original 7 to a fire imp early on so I have, ahem, notable imp defenses in the work areas, but the imps are all gone now so if they aren't coming back I'll dismantle the defenses and reuse the mechanisms.
Economy -
Does the economy do anything useful for me whatsoever? I got surprised by it on my first game and I'm considering turning it off on this fortress before it starts.
Jewel encrusting/decorating -
Is there an easy way to control what these idiots decorate? I would like to encrust my nice steel plate mail with gems and platinum but I see no way to control it.
Artifacts -
Is there any way I can sell these?
I have more questions, but I don't want to text bomb the forums on my first post.
Thanks!
Economy -