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[DarkDragon]

I believe liquids just drop, sadly.

Thought as much. Was hoping for a magma throwing device, but if it was possible I figure I would have heard about it by now.

[The Architect]

It's called a magma cannon. I could be mistaken, but there are blueprints on the wiki if I'm not.

[lordnincompoop]

I'm wondering: Can fortifications melt in magma? I heard walls, ramps, floors and stair are unaffected, but fortifications? Would it matter whether they were built or dug out?

[quinnr]

They can be, it doesn't matter which.

They are constructions, which means no magma power.

[The Architect]

People use fortifications to filter creatures out of their magma supply all of the time; it's constantly recommended and bandied about the forum. I've never had cause to test it myself, but judging by that fact alone I would say no, they don't melt.

[Odd!x]

I filter all of my magma operations with carved fortifications, and I've yet to have any problems arise.  When I (k) over where my fortification was, the fortification is still there, albeit warm and covered entirely with magma.

[Sutremaine]

Only if there's a well over it. Dwarves drinking directly from a water source won't deplete it.

They do deplete it if they are taking buckets to other dwarves.

Oh yes, my bad, it's not the well that's the problem but the bucket.

I don't know about direct drinking.

That doesn't deplete a water source. I know this from experience.

[Rolan7]

No constructions ever melt, or are anyway damaged, ever.  The only exception is the Remove Construction task, for which the dwarves must perform an eldritch dance which exceeds the power of even magma and clowns.  Or maybe they apply grog.

Carved fortifications are also invulnerable to all forces great and small.  Unless of course you have a pick, probably a copper one.

[vorpal+5]

forgotten items!

I don't quite understand, is it a known problem? Sometime I have items left on the floor of my fortress (say an unforbidden bucket) which is never sent back to the furniture stockpile, even with 8 haulers idle in the dining room. This happen for various things left on the floor, and baring dumping them nobody will pickup the stuff to put it in the proper stockpile? Have you seen that? And yes, I'm pretty sure everything is ok: not forbiden, stockpile has room, patch is ok, idle haulers...

(2) I tried to sort my weapons and armors by category, but they are already in bins, and nobody will move them to others stockpiles... Is it normal?

[Particleman]

I don't really know anything about the first one, but as for the 'sorting weapons' one: Set the stockpiles you want to move the stuff to to take from the stockpile they're already in (q over the stockpile, then t, then move the X over the stockpile you want to take from and hit Enter.) They should get on it.

[The Architect]

2: Dwarves won't generally move things from bins onto empty stockpiles. They prefer to put them into other bins on the new stockpile, or move the whole bin. This is to help keep things organized and simplify item tracking where possible. They also won't remove anything from a correct stockpile unless they have a good reason, such as the Take From order Particleman pointed out. You can also disable items in a stockpile and they will be moved to a correct stockpile if one is available.

I don't know what is up with your other problem, but it sounds fishy. I can only tell you that it is undoubtedly some detail that you have gotten wrong, like the work orders {o}, hauling jobs, paths, stockpiles, or something else. The game is so complex that most players have to constantly deal with little frustrations like that when we get details a little wrong. You can find the problem if you work through the possibilities carefully.

[vorpal+5]

hum, this is embarassing, my only furniture stockpile was indeed a good stockpile. 

I'll whip myself a bit now.

[sjaakwortel]

The impertinent Vegetation has defaced a "thing", wat does that mean ? cause i have no clue

[assimilateur]

The impertinent Vegetation has defaced a "thing", wat does that mean ? cause i have no clue

Impertinent vegetation? If you're talking about what I think you are, then that's a damn strange way of saying "your workers".

If I understood you correctly, you're dealing with so-called art-defacement. When you dig out (or possibly pave over) a tile that's been masterfully engraved, it's gonna say "your workers have defaced a {dwarf name}". That's like saying something along the lines of "a Picasso (painting)", only it's gonna be "a Cog Lorbamfastam (engraving)" in the case of DF.

[Sphalerite]

The impertinent Vegetation has defaced a "thing", wat does that mean ? cause i have no clue

A plant has grown on a muddied engraved floor tile, destroying a masterwork engraving.