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[brewer bob]

Just realized you have to construct some instruments. I have been playing for almost 2 years.

This happened to me a few weeks ago.

I was wondering why my dorfs are not hauling certain instruments to my taverns and temples. Then I read the descriptions of said instruments: large/huge stationary instruments. "What's that, huh?", head to the wiki to read about stuff.

"Oh, you have to build these at the location... So, I've been doing this wrong ever since the procedural instruments came into the game. Oops."

[lazygun]

I just realised I accidentally designated some quantum stockpiles with "block all" instead of "forbid finished goods".

With the result that my dwarfs have spent the last two seasons thinking "this x+pig tail sock+x is the wrong material and quality for this stockpile", dragging it back to the feeder stockpile, putting it back in the dumping minecart, deciding it doesn't fit the stockpile, hauling it back to the feeder stockpile...

At least the feeder stockpile was small enough that not all my dwarfs were wasting their time.

[Uthimienure]

I have a vanilla fort that's 8 years in and it has been running at 35-40 FPS (my cap is 40) all along with only 60 dwarfs.
Then all of a sudden it drops to 5 FPS so I investigated and pinned the blame on the obvious: keas flying around.
After the keas stole some stuff, a couple were killed, and the rest left the map... still 5 FPS... what???
So I started fiddling with some DFHack stuff like "autodump destroy-item" which didn't seem to do what it was meant to, and "cleanowned" which did work.
I also did "deteriorate clothes (& corpses) start", but those wouldn't have an immediate effect obviously.
So I tried making "high traffic areas" for the first time, which was cool and I like it, but no speedup.
After laboring a while at the dismal FPS, I looked at the giant mole trying to come through a locked door from a cavern.

So I unlocked the door and voila, the FPS jumped back to the 30's as the mole sauntered through the door to get caught in a cage trap.
Gotta remember that pathing can cause the slowdown!  Duh!

[forumist]

Just realized my library was also a garbage dump. That's where those dead animals were ending...

[Vyro]

My Weapon/Armoursmith has mooded a... lead trinket with pictures of elves. He's now depressed as hell. So am I.

[muldrake]

Just realized my library was also a garbage dump. That's where those dead animals were ending...

Considering the quality of the books my dwarves usually generate, mine might as well be.

[recon1o6]

Was building a megaproject in smallhands over in community games

realised I made 2 grave errors during construction. First, all the walls were not made of solid silver like I originally intended. Second, I made part of it one tile short and had to redo the entire staircase

its in the next overseer's turn now. here's hoping >>

[delphonso]

Keep hoping, recon. I got no promises.

[HMD Majesty]

We have just learned that Furnaces must be designed before Construction, after spend the better part of an Hour wondering what was delaying it.

To make Matters worse, We learned it because We enabled Architecture for an unrelated Project.

[nezclaw]

i thought that updating the game had broken the pumps somehow, only to realize that i had evidently hooked up a lever to the gears at some point and had inadvertently pulled it when i was looking for the one that closes the drawbridge gates during a siege.

i still don't know which ones are hooked to that bridge

[HungThir]

i still don't know which ones are hooked to that bridge

if you have dfhack you can rename buildings (i think it's ctrl-n on the view building screen?)... i like to rename my levers to describe what they do so i don't forget/lose them later

[Schmaven]

I still don't know which ones are hooked to that bridge

Another way you can use DFHack is moving the cursor over the bridge (or other mechanical device) with the 'q' view, then typing "gui/mechanisms" in the DFHack console will show you what it is linked up to.

[nezclaw]

i *knew* there was a way to check links, thanks.

[Bumber]

if you have dfhack you can rename buildings (i think it's ctrl-n on the view building screen?)... i like to rename my levers to describe what they do so i don't forget/lose them later

You don't need DFHack for that anymore.

[muldrake]

if you have dfhack you can rename buildings (i think it's ctrl-n on the view building screen?)... i like to rename my levers to describe what they do so i don't forget/lose them later

You don't need DFHack for that anymore.

I used to be lazy about labeling things but once I had a magma cistern set to dump magma out front or to flood the fort with it.  I forgot which lever was which and had too much fun when goblins showed up.