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[Ziusudra]

what is QSPing?

Quantum Stock Pile - dumping items onto a single stockpile square.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Perhaps there's a reason why people say to forbid outside items during an attack... *facepalm*

[Rose]

I finally find water on the third cavern level.

3 dwarfs die of dehydration on the way there.

[Rockphed]

I finally find water on the third cavern level.

3 dwarfs die of dehydration on the way there.

Why were you trying to have your dwarfs drink water?

[Pvt. Pirate]

what is QSPing?

Quantum Stock Pile - dumping items onto a single stockpile square.

Thanks... i always confuse the acronyms.

I finally find water on the third cavern level.

3 dwarfs die of dehydration on the way there.

Why were you trying to have your dwarfs drink water?

my dorfs always die by dehydration even if i have something to drink - they somehow seem to need water...

[Mort Stroodle]

In my previous fort I set a garbage dump next to a pit into the magma sea, so I could get rid of corpses. What did not occur to me was that, if there are multiple drops adjacent to the dump zone, the dwarves don't know where to throw the garbage, and choose at random. So the up ramp that led directly up to the dump zone, and was the only access route to the dump, was fair game to throw the garbage at. So one of my dwarves hauled a rock all the way to the big pit of lava, climbed up the ramp to bring it right to the edge, then threw it back behind him, killing the next dwarf trying to dump garbage.

[Senator Jim Death]

I'm making a little tunnel to aqueduct river water to an underground well. I dig my dumb ass a stack of up/down staircases just under a river, and set up a nice system of bridges and doors to control where the water goes. I even set up a pressure plate in the cistern so that the water shuts off before it starts to flood the well. It works swimmingly; literally, my miner's able to channel the river from below, then run away through the door before the water gets to him.

So far, it works great, except that it's taking forever to fill. I only notice this after letting it run a while. Why is it taking so long?

It's taking so long because I used an up/down staircase on the bottom of the stack, like an idiot, and it's flooding my trap tunnels that are just below it. I discover this once I already have one level of tunnel full of water. "Where's all that water flowing in from?" YAFacepalm.

[Rose]

I finally find water on the third cavern level.

3 dwarfs die of dehydration on the way there.

Why were you trying to have your dwarfs drink water?

I keep forgetting about booze.

[Astrid]

I keep forgetting about booze.

Make a random head a Manager if it hasnt been the case already, that should open you the manager menu that allows you to set a standing order that keeps so and so much alcohol in the fortress at all times and auto orders production if ot goes below that.

Dwarfes without Beer, poor poor things....the nightmare, the horrible horrible nigthmare for those poor souls...

[Rose]

I actually did do that, but I forgot about barrels

[TD1]

Wait, you can do that?.... how??

[Ulfarr]

"An evil cloud has drifted nearby!"

Another one? Meh, I 'm not going to burrow my dwarves this time. None of the previous clouds ever came near the fortress and we really are behind the schedule.

::Half a minute later::

"Your fortress has crumbled"

[Quicunque]

15 months into a new fortress, doing well, population up to 58 with 2 military squads. Just built St. Sibrek's Fortress Hospital, close to the surface so that the injured can reach it quickly, fully equipped with 6 beds, 2 tractions, 2 operating tables, soap crafting, all the trimmings. There's even a nice well in the hospital for ease of patient care & a deep cistern under the well, fed by an aquifer.

So, it's time to cut the ribbon on the shiny, new hospital... pierce the aquifer to fill the cistern. No worries, there is a drawbridge hooked up to a lever to stop the water flow once the cistern fills. Lever pulled at the perfect time... wait!, the water is still flowing!, the hospital is flooding!, all the lower levels are under water, with many soggy corpses sealed in their watery graves.

The drawbridge was built to retract, not raise. *facepalm*

[Fleeting Frames]

Only 6 beds won't hold even a single squad caught in an accident/AoE weapon. Build a new hospital, and make it even better! [size=8]Flooding can be a optional feature, not bug, for werebeasts.[/size]

[Pvt. Pirate]

Only 6 beds won't hold even a single squad caught in an accident/AoE weapon. Build a new hospital, and make it even better! [size=8]Flooding can be a optional feature, not bug, for werebeasts.[/size]

my hospital was 27x27 with 24 beds and 8 traction benches and 4 OP tables. it never got finished properly.