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[foop]

Also: that's two times in a row that you've misspelled civilization.

The 17-volume set of the Oxford English Dictionary on the shelf behind me claims that civilisation is an acceptable spelling (although it does prefer civilization).

More importantly, though, why are some of my stockpiles full of weapons and armour?   That's three now that I could swear have changed designations at some stage during the game.  The most recent was a cloth & leather stockpile that, on inspection, also accepts weapons and armour.  Which explains why it's full of the bloody stuff.

I'm sure I didn't change them, unless there's a weird sequence of keypresses that I'm likely to use by mistake.  So why are they like that?

[assimilateur]

The 17-volume set of the Oxford English Dictionary on the shelf behind me claims that civilisation is an acceptable spelling (although it does prefer civilization).

Civilization with an s for a z, perhaps, but I'm pretty sure two ls isn't acceptable at all.

More importantly, though, why are some of my stockpiles full of weapons and armour?   That's three now that I could swear have changed designations at some stage during the game.  The most recent was a cloth & leather stockpile that, on inspection, also accepts weapons and armour.  Which explains why it's full of the bloody stuff.

I'm sure I didn't change them, unless there's a weird sequence of keypresses that I'm likely to use by mistake.  So why are they like that?

I have no idea if that's normal, but I think I've seen something similar, namely empty barrels being filled with food, even though they sat in a stockpile which accepted lye barrels and wooden furniture. It looked as though they just put the food they were handling in the nearest empty barrel without waiting for it to be transfered to a furniture stockpile, nor bothering to carry it to the appropriate food stockpile afterwards.

[Cheddarius]

What's up with microcline? Why do some people love it and most people hate it? It's just a blue economic stone...

[silhouette]

IT BURNS PEOPLES EYES OUT!

[Heliman]

IT BURNS PEOPLES EYES OUT!

Trans: it's all of the the bright, blinding blue with none of the circus peanuts.

[Cheddarius]

...so?

[Skorpion]

What's up with microcline? Why do some people love it and most people hate it? It's just a blue economic stone...

Mayday graphics have made you weak. It's not economic at all. It's an 'other stone'.

It's annoying because it pauses and snaps the screen to exploratory mining. And it's bright freaking blue and sudden.

[Cheddarius]

Ah, I see.
In other news, when I open my init files, I can modify them as I wish. However, opening other files like matgloss_stone_mineral gives me some crazy encrypted thing with a bunch of symbols. What could be going on?

[happydog23]

Ah, I see.
In other news, when I open my init files, I can modify them as I wish. However, opening other files like matgloss_stone_mineral gives me some crazy encrypted thing with a bunch of symbols. What could be going on?

Open the one in raw/objects instead of data/objects

[Cheddarius]

All right, thanks!

[silhouette]

What's up with microcline? Why do some people love it and most people hate it? It's just a blue economic stone...

Mayday graphics have made you weak. It's not economic at all. It's an 'other stone'.

It's annoying because it pauses and snaps the screen to exploratory mining. And it's bright freaking blue and sudden.

oh shi-
im using mayday graphics and microcline blinds me...
if i go to use normal ascii graphics i believe ill look something like...

[Retro]

I found that after changing the standard colour scheme to a natural one found on the wiki, microcline and orthoclase become much more bearable / actually nice to look at. Doesn't help how often I strike them (as well as alunite) but hey. You do the best you can with what you have.

[Dendou]

I have a ghost child.  I had 2 babies in my fort and got a message that a snatcher had run off with an Amost Dadokakir.  I check the unit list and I still have both babies, niether are named Amost Dadokakir, and I see no baby snatcher.  I find the snatcher soon after on his way out and my military makes mince meat out of him.  I still don't see Amost Dadokakir.  I check the relationships of all my dwarves and find her parents and check her thoughts.  She is "happy to have been freed recently".  I zoom in to where she is and there is nothing there.

Where is my baby!

[NecroRebel]

The message means that the snatcher already left the map with the child in question. The other infants, the ones that are still on your units list, have not been snatched. The "happy to be free" thought happens when a child gets out of the snatcher's bag due to the snatcher dying, but also happens if the snatcher makes it out of the map.

If you use the unit list to zoom to the other children, you'll find them on the map. If you zoom to a snatched child's location, it zooms to where they were grabbed from. Regardless, that child is lost to you now.

[happydog23]

I have a ghost child.  I had 2 babies in my fort and got a message that a snatcher had run off with an Amost Dadokakir.  I check the unit list and I still have both babies, niether are named Amost Dadokakir, and I see no baby snatcher.  I find the snatcher soon after on his way out and my military makes mince meat out of him.  I still don't see Amost Dadokakir.  I check the relationships of all my dwarves and find her parents and check her thoughts.  She is "happy to have been freed recently".  I zoom in to where she is and there is nothing there.

Where is my baby!

For some reason I feel like saying that I see dead people.   Also, in a couple of days you'll realize you can't find your baby because you are the ghost.