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[assimilateur]

Unless I'm missing something here, the order of picking up ingredients is irrelevant anyway. If you can't get him those gems, he's dead either way, regardless of when he's going to try to pick them up.

[Jack_Bread]

Yeah, after a gem was cut and stockpiled, she went after it and started collecting things.

[absynthe7]

If I build a constructed floor "gangplank" off the edge of a cliff, how can i deconstruct it (sending the gangplank and anything on it plummeting ten z-stories) without putting one of my dwarves at risk of falling with it?

[Keuran]

you can build another floor below it with a support between them connected to a lever, then replace the connecting tiles of the top floor to the cliff with bridge which doesn't support floor, then pull the lever from safety.

Edit: here's sort of a vertical diagram:

Code: [Select]

   FFFFFFFB..S
         I XXX
         FFXXX
           XXX
X is the cliff
F is the floors or walls
I is the support
B is the bridge
. is walkable ground
S is the switch connected to the support

[Jack_Bread]

Will dwarves dump forbidden items if they're forbidden and marked to be dumped? I don't want my armor stockpile filling up with narrow leather items.

[Cheddarius]

I believe only non-forbidden to-be-dumped items are dumped. So no.

[NecroRebel]

Will dwarves dump forbidden items if they're forbidden and marked to be dumped? I don't want my armor stockpile filling up with narrow leather items.

No, but they also won't stockpile items to be dumped. So, your armor stockpile won't get filled with narrow leather items.

Also, avoiding that specific problem is why it is wise to either A) limit your armor stockpiles to accept only metal, B) have seperate stockpiles for usable and unusable stuff so you don't have to deal with specifically melt-designating specific items, or C) both. Myself, I usually build several equipment stockpiles, one accepting only usable masterwork- and artifact-quality weapons and armor (I usualy also have this one accept other masterwork metal pieces), one accepting all other metal items, and a third, binless stockpile to take unusable non-metal armor, clothing, weapons, and non-bolt ammo. This last usually gets dumped into an atom smasher or chasm once every couple/few seasons, depending on how long it takes to fill; I almost never trade away invader clothes, since it's just too exploity in my mind to have that much free wealth.

[Skorpion]

If I build a constructed floor "gangplank" off the edge of a cliff, how can i deconstruct it (sending the gangplank and anything on it plummeting ten z-stories) without putting one of my dwarves at risk of falling with it?

Have the noble invariably included on it do the honours.

[A Dwarven Smokeologist]

Question on HFS and Cave-ins

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I'm about to breach the HFS in a fort I've been working on and need help with an idea I want to use.


I want to set a cave in to happen with the pull of a lever. What I need to happen is for the cave in to pierce the HFS and open it up to the outside world (but not my fortress which I'll have sealed off).

Do I need to have the cave in happen on the exact level the roof of the HFS is on or can it pierce through several unmined levels and through the HFS as well? I've got most of the area around it mined out I believe but don't wanna mine around any more unless I have to.j

Trying to spare this fort from combat / death and just let it grow.

[gopher dude]

So I've been defending my fort numerous times from ambushes from goblins and elves and I've noticed somthing paticularly two somthings about these goblins;

They use trogg, snakemen, etc leather. Leather made from 'beastmen', can I make leather from beastmen? I had some snakemen and lizardmen in my pool but my dwarfs never made any leather from them.

I'm also noticing that there always one or two humans mixed in fighting along side the goblins; wtf? Goblins and humans are not the same animal and I don't remember pissing off any humans.

Are the humans just there due to goblin baby snatchers snatching humans?

[geoduck]

Are the humans just there due to goblin baby snatchers snatching humans?

Yes. Dwarfs will also turn up in Goblin raiding parties.

[Sphalerite]

Question on HFS and Cave-ins

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Do I need to have the cave in happen on the exact level the roof of the HFS is on or can it pierce through several unmined levels and through the HFS as well? I've got most of the area around it mined out I believe but don't wanna mine around any more unless I have to.j

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Cave-ins won't penetrate unmined levels, so you need to have mined down to the level above the HFS chamber to cave-in into it.

Also, sometimes certain of the dwellers in the chamber can fly, and will if they survive the cave-in fly up out of the hole and attack your dwarves anyway.

[Skorpion]

Another sparring death.

Should I just take the clownite weapons off my champions?

[SethCreiyd]

They use trogg, snakemen, etc leather. Leather made from 'beastmen', can I make leather from beastmen? I had some snakemen and lizardmen in my pool but my dwarfs never made any leather from them.

That is normal.  Dark gnome leather is common too.  It has to do with their race's ethics; the Gobbies consider it acceptable to butcher and make trophies of sapient beings.  Seeing those elf bone bracelets always makes me feel a bit warmer inside.

[Cheddarius]

Why not make clownite armor instead, use silver/wood weapons, make a stockpile for clownite weapons in the barracks, and change when you get attacked?