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[Arrkhal]

Finally figured out a couple weeks ago how to move past stationary guys in Adventure mode.  Go prone, crawl past.  I already knew that critters have to drop prone to occupy the same space as someone standing, but never put 2 and 2 together.  Doh.

[Carpman]

I recently decided to put a well into my barracks, so wounded dwarves would get water a soon as they needed it. Right? Wrong. Two seconds after the well was installed, a champion wrestler decided to take the first bath of his life and dive into the 3 z-level deep well. As he floundered about on the bottom level, I hatched a daring plan. I sent my best miner to dig a series of ramps down to the base of the well. Then, he tapped a hole wide enough into the tank for the champion to crawl back up onto dry land. The miner made it too, and I decided he would face a grand funeral when he finally fell in battle (I always draft my miners when under siege).

Then he fell into magma and died, setting off a tantum spiral started by the champion he saved.

[Euld]

Still learning how to break through aquifers.

/facepalm /facepalm /facepalm

[xdarkcodex]

I gave up on building well.I tries many times and all the times I fail. One of the fort was around 10 years which is pretty high for me since i like killing my dwarfs. I got bored and decided to make a well but I ended up flooding the stockpile floor than the bedrooms and than the workshop floor...

[Fist_Of_Armok]

I gave up on building well.I tries many times and all the times I fail. One of the fort was around 10 years which is pretty high for me since i like killing my dwarfs. I got bored and decided to make a well but I ended up flooding the stockpile floor than the bedrooms and than the workshop floor...

Errr...alright, how did you fail at this task? Explain to me.

[Time Kitten]

I gave up on building well.I tries many times and all the times I fail. One of the fort was around 10 years which is pretty high for me since i like killing my dwarfs. I got bored and decided to make a well but I ended up flooding the stockpile floor than the bedrooms and than the workshop floor...

Errr...alright, how did you fail at this task? Explain to me.

Well, first he started on a map with water.

Second, he wasn't scared into a corner by it.

[Percival]

I found the blue rock and immediately began preparing for the demands of the incoming king. I have royal apartments and a mausoleum carved out already, but . . . I forgot that my Dwarven Civ happens to be run by a Goblin Queen. Ah well. I can cage her and turn the throne room into a royal zoo.

[Cardinal]

...a royal zoo.

Wow, most royal zoos are zoos for royals, not zoos of royals.

[zchris13]

You haven't seen our zoos.

[xdarkcodex]

I gave up on building well.I tries many times and all the times I fail. One of the fort was around 10 years which is pretty high for me since i like killing my dwarfs. I got bored and decided to make a well but I ended up flooding the stockpile floor than the bedrooms and than the workshop floor...

Errr...alright, how did you fail at this task? Explain to me.

When I dig channel I usually dont check do see whats under the soon to be channel so I dug the channel and under it was my fortress which got flooded by an endless amount of water.

[Grendus]

The way I see your situation (Mephansteras), it seems that it is just serving the purpose of training dummy to your dwarves. Exploit that.

I don't know if it's possible to cause dwarves to break off attacking unless they somehow lose sight of the enemy, which could be a problem. Sometimes they'll even ignore starvation or thirst to keep going.

You can undraft them. When they hit legendary, odds are they'll be able to hurt it.

[darthbob88]

I gave up on building well.I tries many times and all the times I fail. One of the fort was around 10 years which is pretty high for me since i like killing my dwarfs. I got bored and decided to make a well but I ended up flooding the stockpile floor than the bedrooms and than the workshop floor...

Errr...alright, how did you fail at this task? Explain to me.

When I dig channel I usually dont check do see whats under the soon to be channel so I dug the channel and under it was my fortress which got flooded by an endless amount of water.

Ah. I always check first, and lay out my moats and wells based on what's under them. Plus, of course, I build wells over cisterns fed from a river. The only times I seriously worry about being flooded out are when I forget about open spaces and diagonal waterflow.

[GuyonBroadway]

"You know i might just make an obsidian tower!"

La la laaaa oohhh there's the vent!

*Happily sets up obsidian factory*

"Doing all this on the first seven dwarfs. I dunno why people say it's hard!"

*fire imp pops up to say hi!*


*FACEPALM!*

[mal7690]

"You know i might just make an obsidian tower!"

La la laaaa oohhh there's the vent!

*Happily sets up obsidian factory*

"Doing all this on the first seven dwarfs. I dunno why people say it's hard!"

*fire imp pops up to say hi!*


*FACEPALM!*

This is why all of my starting miners are also masons.

[Taco Dan]

I gave up on building well.I tries many times and all the times I fail. One of the fort was around 10 years which is pretty high for me since i like killing my dwarfs. I got bored and decided to make a well but I ended up flooding the stockpile floor than the bedrooms and than the workshop floor...

Errr...alright, how did you fail at this task? Explain to me.

When I dig channel I usually dont check do see whats under the soon to be channel so I dug the channel and under it was my fortress which got flooded by an endless amount of water.

Ah. I always check first, and lay out my moats and wells based on what's under them. Plus, of course, I build wells over cisterns fed from a river. The only times I seriously worry about being flooded out are when I forget about open spaces and diagonal waterflow.

I always make that mistake, and it's cost me 3 forts so far.