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[sisok]

I'm facepalming severly right now, the dwarven caravans have just arrived, hopefully with some much needed flux, and my broker is trapped in the bottom of the world in a stupid cycle where he tries to grab some food he dropped but ends up getting freaked out by a dead cat and running away. I really hope he doesn't die from this.

[INSANEcyborg]

A Woodburner migrant got a fey mood.   Good news: He had some training in weapon smithing and claimed a forge.  Bad news: He wants bismuth bars and didn't save any from the last caravan.  Good news: I ordered some more and the caravan should be here soon.   Bad news: I ordered ore, not bars.  Face palm: he went insane after I bought the ore and before I could smelt it.

[Slayerhero90]

A Woodburner migrant got a fey mood.   Good news: He had some training in weapon smithing and claimed a forge.  Bad news: He wants bismuth bars and didn't save any from the last caravan.  Good news: I ordered some more and the caravan should be here soon.   Bad news: I ordered ore, not bars.  Face palm: he went insane after I bought the ore and before I could smelt it.

How do they request a specific metal? I've never had that happen to me.

[Mageziya]

I'm facepalming severely right now, the dwarven caravans have just arrived, hopefully with some much needed flux, and my broker is trapped in the bottom of the world in a stupid cycle where he tries to grab some food he dropped but ends up getting freaked out by a dead cat and running away. I really hope he doesn't die from this.

Two things:

1) The broker doesn't HAVE to trade, you can have anyone trade.
2) Forbid the piece of food, that will stop him from going for it.

[sisok]

Thanks yeah I realized 1), in earlier fortress I stayed away from this because I wouldn't get prices listed alongside wares, though I guess that's not as much of an issue with such a well established fortress. As for 2) I've been doing so for a good while, but the pile of food seems to grow. I don't know if it's just because there are pots there, so dwarves may be pulling more meals out or something, but I'll forbid items only for more to show up later. It seems as if the dwarves are picking up food from the pile two levels below and walking it up to there. Why they choose that specific place to drop their cat tallow biscuits is beyond me.

[huskerman84]

I was a fairly new player and was trading with the second year's dwarven caravan and figured out that when i picked offer in the trade menu that i just gave it to them instead of offering them a deal I had been doing this with all my traders and had wasted loads of trading goods i now make sure to click trade.

[INSANEcyborg]

How do they request a specific metal? I've never had that happen to me.

The dwarf needs to have a preference for that type of metal.  And I think you need to have had a bar of it in your fort.

[Silver Dragon]

1) embarking without setting up my dwarfs at all XD, 2) another time my completely exterior castle fortress was wiped out by goblin lashers riding giant bats that got in my defenses thorough one single hole/wall that kept getting suspended . . . it was made with around 20k stone at least, 3) ah and i almost forgot i embarked in a area that had unholy fog that a barn owl got in to, it then proceeded to attack my dwarfs at which time i made them all military and told them to attack it, so they did and they never stoped, no matter what i did they kept attacking it and eventuly they were all legendary + 5 wrestlers and fighters, then they starved to death . . .

[LordRandomness]

Realizing after as many months playing this game that pressing TAB on the stocks screen brings up a list of all the individual items. GAH!

[weenog]

Realizing after as many months playing this game that pressing TAB on the stocks screen brings up a list of all the individual items. GAH!

Wow.

Pity the embarrassment, but congratulations on discovering a very useful part of the game.

[Slayerhero90]

Realizing after as many months playing this game that pressing TAB on the stocks screen brings up a list of all the individual items. GAH!

Wow.

Pity the embarrassment, but congratulations on discovering a very useful part of the game.

Realizing after many months that ther IS a stocks menu.

[Corai]

Realizing after as many months playing this game that pressing TAB on the stocks screen brings up a list of all the individual items. GAH!

Wow.

Pity the embarrassment, but congratulations on discovering a very useful part of the game.

Realizing after many months that ther IS a stocks menu.

Realizing after many months that you can make stonecrafts.

[Frontestro]

Embarking to a bandit camp with full decked out military fortress prepared to wipe them out only to find out the camp is friendly to my chosen civ.

[lazygun]

Who let that magma crab into the fort? Hmmm... must have managed to move sideways and up.

Why is it a bad idea to have a dwarf engage a magma crab in close combat?

On the plus side, from the amount of job cancellation spam I got, I learned that dwarfs can't even path *adjacent* to the smoke produced by an !!axelord!!

[SandyCaesar]

Going back to Dwarf Fortress after a long time, decided to go mainly aboveground. I'm right between a river and a brook: a year of digging and channeling, and my moat-around-most-of-the-map is nearly completed. Let's see the gobbos cross thi--

Winter has arrived.

...shit. Is that ice?