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[Loctavus]

Uh..

Okay. I just had a human seige arrive, which I was not expecting. I was expecting them to bring metal bars.

What the hell?

Or does this have something to do with the accidental death of the liason last year?

[Jim Groovester]

Or does this have something to do with the accidental death of the liason last year?

That would do it. Other civs don't like it when their emissaries die on your map.

[JaaSwb]

Liaisons and such dying does tend to upset friendly civs. If relations aren't already very good, that may well be the reason they declared war on you.

Kill enough of them, and they'll send a diplomat to sue for peace. If the diplomat's dead too, tough cheese.

[Loctavus]

Drat. Oh well. And I'd been trying so hard to start a war with the elves. One (minor I thought) accident and I'm at war with the humans instead.

[assimilateur]

I was expecting them to bring metal bars.

Which they did; I mean, they did come bearing iron equipment, right?

[vorpal+5]

can water be sold by caravans? 

Because I'm on a map which had 2 little ponds, evaporated now and there is ZERO square of water now...

[Corinthius]

Sadly, no. Toady said in DF talk #7 today that that kind of stuff might come someday, but it isn't in now. The best thing to do I guess would be make sure you don't run out of booze and hope it rains.

Questions:
1) My dogs occasionally die in my own falling rock traps. Why is this? =[
2) I have a nice tower cap farm. However, the tower caps sure are taking their time growing. How long til they become big enough to cut down?

[JamPet]

Friendlies and neutrals trigger your traps if they fall unconscious in them.  From being knocked out in cave ins, in battle, extreme drowsiness, cave spider venom or such.

Tower cap trees take a year and a half or so to grow to chopping size according to the wiki.

[Corinthius]

1) A yes, that'd explain. Ok thanks
2) ARGH I read that article but managed to completely miss that. Sorry, and thanks!

[Sutremaine]

Do liaisons trigger pressure plates at all?

[Sphalerite]

2) ARGH I read that article but managed to completely miss that. Sorry, and thanks!

Also, make sure your dwarves aren't walking on them.  Dwarves stepping on young tower-caps can turn them into dead young tower-caps, which don't grow anymore but still take up space in your farm.

[assimilateur]

On the topic of underground tree farms, does flooding destroy saplings? You don't generally need to re-irrigate your farms unless you make a mistake, but it still wouldn't hurt to know.

EDIT:
Grasstrample:0 overrides trampling of saplings as well, right? I'm using that setting on most animals and humanoids, including dwarves and invaders, because having grasslands turn into deserts at the currently implemented rate was fucking ridiculous. I have not yet, however, determined what that does to saplings, but it should keep them from being trampled.

[Skorpion]

Sadly, no. Toady said in DF talk #7 today that that kind of stuff might come someday, but it isn't in now. The best thing to do I guess would be make sure you don't run out of booze and hope it rains.

Questions:
1) My dogs occasionally die in my own falling rock traps. Why is this? =[
2) I have a nice tower cap farm. However, the tower caps sure are taking their time growing. How long til they become big enough to cut down?

1. They're injured and keep passing out, most likely.
2. Year and a half, but they will only mature IF:
- They aren't killed by traffic.
- There's nothing on top of them, like a rock, or spider webs.

[Ashery]

On the topic of underground tree farms, does flooding destroy saplings? You don't generally need to re-irrigate your farms unless you make a mistake, but it still wouldn't hurt to know.

Judging by my experience with my obsidian farms:

Saplings do not die under any amount of water but they will not mature if they're constantly under 7/7 water.

I have several grown tower caps at the end of my water feed where the water regularly goes below 7/7 as it fills the 10x10 water drop. The saplings further back haven't matured despite several years passing since I drained the water supply to fix a mistake. The shrubs seem to die, though.

[NecroRebel]

Does anyone know if there's a compiled list of all of the creatures' reference name? As in, not "grizzly bear," but "BEAR_GRIZZLY," the stuff after the [CREATURE] tag in a creature entry, the stuff the game references if it wants to use a creature as an entity or, more importantly for my purposes, what one would use if they wanted to make a creature's parts part of a reaction?

I'm wanting to expand my animal-hide bedding mod, but going through the creature list entry-by-entry to make sure everything's name is actually right is very tedious, especially with some of the weirder ones like giant eagles, siamangs, and bilous.