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[Gentlefish]

The flux finder is being stupid this release. DFhack will help you find it.

[Ianflow]

The flux finder is being stupid this release. DFhack will help you find it.

I've been playing since August or so I think. I'm just confused as to why there is a problem now.
Does it automatically update?
Also, I still don't know how to use DFhack

My experiences with this game in terms of game mechanics and modding are my face palms

[Gentlefish]

Large amounts of minerals mess with the flux finder for some reason. It's been that way since the latest release. There's flux on the map, it's just not showing up in the finder. Lots and lots of false negatives.

In dfhack, type "prospect" and it'll give you the layers of the area.

[Ianflow]

Large amounts of minerals mess with the flux finder for some reason. It's been that way since the latest release. There's flux on the map, it's just not showing up in the finder. Lots and lots of false negatives.

In dfhack, type "prospect" and it'll give you the layers of the area.

I'm also guessing I should just go to the second lowest level of minerals?
Thanks. I'm happy the bacon tree didn't cause it all.
With DFHack, I guess I'll have to wait until I enter the game to check for flux?

[GalenEvil]

nah, with DFHack when you are looking for a place to set up shop you get the area you want highlighted and then go into DFHack to prospect. It will give you a rough rundown on everything on that highlighted block. Type 'prospect all' without the single quotes and you'll get a little more information added

[Sutremaine]

You can also embark and look at the Stones menu. Any layer stones you have will be permitted for general use, even if they're economic. Flux stone is economic and appears in layers, so...

[Niccolo]

Latest face-palm moment: telling my girlfriend about dwarf fortress.

I am not a smart man.

[GuesssWho]

New fortress. Lunatics from last fortress show up. A child goes berzerker on me, so I enlist everyone.

. . . did a little kid just kill the commander? Shit.

[Aviator CJ]

A kobold was spotted sneaking into my fort, so I called in my bluemetal axesquad. The commander was the first one on scene. The next thing I know, he goes running the other way leaving a trail of red behind.

"What the... what just happened?" I say to myself, calling up the combat logs.

The Kobold thief strikes the militia commander in the lower left arm with the large silver dagger. The severed part goes flying off in an arc!
The militia commander has bled to death.

Goddammit.

[Snorunt30]

So I tried the Masterworks mod as the kobolds, figured I'd like the challenge. Had issues with lack of wood, metals, and the like, but scrape by until the Elven caravan. Figured I could get all of that off the Elves no issue, since I had plenty of value to trade and they had plenty of each to trade with. The problem? I tried to trade spiked wooden balls and promptly got slaughtered by the Elves due to a lack of a military (no metals), and lack of wood (no arching them) . Gotta love forgetting key details when trading with the various races .

[MaximumZero]

Latest face-palm moment: telling my girlfriend about dwarf fortress.

I am not a smart man.

When I told my girlfriend about DF, she accused me of being on drugs. I'm trying to get her to read Boatmurdered.

[Flanderbland]

So I tried the Masterworks mod as the kobolds, figured I'd like the challenge. Had issues with lack of wood, metals, and the like, but scrape by until the Elven caravan. Figured I could get all of that off the Elves no issue, since I had plenty of value to trade and they had plenty of each to trade with. The problem? I tried to trade spiked wooden balls and promptly got slaughtered by the Elves due to a lack of a military (no metals), and lack of wood (no arching them) . Gotta love forgetting key details when trading with the various races .

Reading this, I just realized why the elves got pissed at me all of a sudden...

My fortress was running low on food and cloth, so naturally I was delighted to see a caravan coming (even if it was elven, I mean, desperate times calls for desperate measures). Hauled all my craft-goods to the depot, and marked all the elves cloth and edible items for trade. However, since my craft-goods were in containers, I think I failed to notice that some wooden items came along (since they were stored in the same containers), because when I tried to trade the elf was like "I will not trade with someone who abuses fine wood in this way".

I was like serious wtf-mode. I mean sure, I tried getting away cheap, but no THAT cheap, and what is all this about wood?

But now I realize what happened... And since they haven't left, I think I'll kill them for insulting my crafts. Yes, that sounds about fair.

[zwei]

So I tried the Masterworks mod as the kobolds, figured I'd like the challenge. Had issues with lack of wood, metals, and the like, but scrape by until the Elven caravan. Figured I could get all of that off the Elves no issue, since I had plenty of value to trade and they had plenty of each to trade with. The problem? I tried to trade spiked wooden balls and promptly got slaughtered by the Elves due to a lack of a military (no metals), and lack of wood (no arching them) . Gotta love forgetting key details when trading with the various races .

Reading this, I just realized why the elves got pissed at me all of a sudden...

My fortress was running low on food and cloth, so naturally I was delighted to see a caravan coming (even if it was elven, I mean, desperate times calls for desperate measures). Hauled all my craft-goods to the depot, and marked all the elves cloth and edible items for trade. However, since my craft-goods were in containers, I think I failed to notice that some wooden items came along (since they were stored in the same containers), because when I tried to trade the elf was like "I will not trade with someone who abuses fine wood in this way".

I was like serious wtf-mode. I mean sure, I tried getting away cheap, but no THAT cheap, and what is all this about wood?

But now I realize what happened... And since they haven't left, I think I'll kill them for insulting my crafts. Yes, that sounds about fair.

Want to sell them back their wooden shield? They get pissed, but it was THEM who made that thing.
They sell you wooden logs, but do not want anything made of them? But THEY felled the tree.
...

etc.

[bobboy555]

When I sent my entire military (3 swordsdwarvesw, 3 marksdwarves) to fight an orc ambush and then another ambush appeared on top of my barracks. then I realised they had gone up though the barracks while the militia were busy being slaughtered. I also had prepared a burrow for this purpose but forgot to stock it...

[Mortis]

Firstly, a goblin siege all mounted on giant bats arrived, and more than half of the bats were called dang. Seriously, what is with the random-name generator?
Also, a goblin in that siege was called Song Hatebottom  I mean, seriously!
Edit: In adventurer mode, the only quest anyone in this town will give me is to go kill a vampire with 2174 kills. That may be a bit beyond my peasants capabilities.
Double edit: never mind that, now I'm being told to kill one with 6894 kills.