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[MaximumZero]

Go into the [m]ilitary screen, set up a squad for "Sheriff" or "Captain of the Guard" (after 50 dorfs), set him up in a squad by himself, and assign him specific weapon and armor from there.

Yeah, that's the thing, I don't see 'Sheriff' or anything in the military screen.

Do I have to assign him as a militia captain, also?

I always do anyway, so I'm not sure.

[xmagicx60]

I just found out you can designate more than one wall to be constructed at once. I'd been designating one by one since... since I started playing DF.

Well, now I just found out. And the worst part is that it took me two days after having read this post to realize...

YEARS, I'VE BEEN PLAYING YEARS!!

yikes, I found that out on my second day, the day I build my first walls XD

[Karnewarrior]

I just found out you can designate more than one wall to be constructed at once. I'd been designating one by one since... since I started playing DF.

Well, now I just found out. And the worst part is that it took me two days after having read this post to realize...

YEARS, I'VE BEEN PLAYING YEARS!!

yikes, I found that out on my second day, the day I build my first walls XD

Likewise.

I mean, I'm pretty sure the directions are right there.

[Tyg13]

I was building a gearshaft to power my pump stack and get magma up from the magma sea (which is about 100 z-levels below my base) when all of a sudden, I'd realized that my mineshaft was flooded. Quickly, I paused.  Turns out that it doesn't give you a wet stone warning if you're digging up. Cue me spending about an hour messing around with DFLiquids trying to get the whole 100+ z-levels shaft dry and losing both of my legendary miners in the process.

[runlvlzero]

Sending 6 moderately trained unarmed, naked dwarves after 3 giant panda's... (wasted an entire season of military training and cross training on these guys)

Amazingly they all lived, one with a severe head wound (Who is still in charge of their squad and recovered the fastest. Think huge scarred head like the crazy old dood from avatar...). Another with a leg crushed. The last with a leg and hand crushed. *Note to self leather armor and a marksman for panda's =) Anyway the cripples have been retired from the military and are now broker, and record keeper respectively =)... oh and the last gets to sit at a desk all day and cut gems. The scarred one gets to give lovely welcome speaches to all the new immigrents... to what I'm gonna call... *cough* PANDora! lol.. nvm...

[amjh]

I suppose due to how massive they are, they are easily capable of wrestling clothes off puny dwarves. They just have some fetish for socks, going as far as beating dwarves to death with them.

This is Dwarf Fortress, everything has a fetish for socks.

[EllisMaestr]

Just realised what was causing the glitch that prevented my miners or mechanics doing anything outside a small area at the middle of the map. The burrow I'd assigned them to, 2 years ago.

[jaxy15]

I forgot that pumps don't deliver water to the Z-level above, they bring it to the Z-level they are in.
All I wanted was to turn saltwater into normal water..

[SquirrelWizard]

just deleted a fortress because there were no bees on it, then just found out that bees could have spawned in on it.

[kotekzot]

Because beekeeping isn't the single most unrewarding and micromanagement-intensive industry there is.

[Eoganachta]

So a giant scorpion FB,  Urnut the night plagues, appears in the first caverns, beware it's poisonous sting. I wait a few minutes before it starts wandering aimlessly around. I think to my self that it'll be a while before it reaches my trap lined corridor with archers above and below, and two squads of 7 (picks and swords). So I log on to the fourms and check Facebook. After a while I suddenly remember that there's a FB in my caverns. I quickly switch back to DF and find the FB dead in the corridor. I check the reports and apparently one guy from my squad of miners decided that the scorpon would be fun to ride so he hits it twice and it dies, once in the guts, once in the head. WTF!

[MaximumZero]

Took 15 bunnies with me on my embark, due to cheapness. Well, turns out that a) bunnies are baby rabbits, and do not breed until fully grown, and b) even when fully grown, rabbits do not give you any food. I'm going to have to mod them. 

[FrisianDude]

You should milk them.

[lanceleoghauni]

I Carved an elaborate series of sewers to channel water up to my hospital for bathing/drinking/cleaning and installed an easy way to control water pressure and cleanliness. Once it was finished, I went and dug out the aquifer tile.

Nothing happened.

I look up one z-level. THREE TILE POND.
 

[MonkeyHead]

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When mining out a deep vein of iron ore near my volcano, i find the magmasea and within the sea, some nice bluemetal. as it is in the sea what is visible is unobtainable. I mine above it, and there is none to be seen. So its there, just submerged in magma. Totally. Ideas?