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[Garrie]

Is it just me, or does the game turn into a battle against partys in the 4th year. party party party party party party party.
Am I just unlucky or does the game get stupid?

My problem is usually by that time I am focussed too much on only 10-15 of my dwarfs and the other 80-120 are partying like mad (except for the millitary ones).

[vorpal+5]

there is a difference in dwarves behavior between meeting areas and meeting zones??

So it seems no zoo either?

[The Architect]

Dwarves will party at meeting areas designated from objects. So never setting those meeting zones will prevent them from organizing parties.

The other option is to simply cancel parties as they occur by removing the meeting area and then re-designating it. It requires a ~5 seconds each time, but it allows you to have your meeting areas as you like without parties ruining your work.

[Garrie]

I didn't think dwarfs would cancel a task to attend a party? ie - keep them busy?

[Sphalerite]

Parties are a sign your labor force isn't being kept occupied.  If you build lots of workshops and have your dwarfs busy churning out goods, or making thousands of blocks for your megaproject, you'll have a lot fewer parties.

[The Architect]

I keep every dwarf busy at all times and go for years without parties.
However, I have occasionally been frustrated when one unoccupied dwarf (say, a Brewer when I run out of barrels for a couple of dwarven weeks) throws a party that involves my busy dwarves. Providing a solution to frustrated players is important.

[mrbobbyg]

You party poopers aren't thinking big enough.  Instead of only having meeting zones, how about you build your dining hall over a retractable bridge that hangs over a pool of 3/7 or 4/7 water.

Pool party!

(FWIW, I have yet to implement this, but it's next on my list now that I've finished my dwarven reactor powered infinite mist loop)

[The Architect]

While the dining room might encompass a bridge, you still need solid ground for the tables or what you designate the meeting hall from.

Has anyone tried a meeting zone in a dwarven swimming pool? Does it work? Does it teach your dwarves swimming? I suspect they might use it if it were shallow enough that they didn't believe the path to be obstructed.

[Taco Dan]

How do you remove corpses from cages?

[Sphalerite]

How do you remove corpses from cages?

Create a garbage dump zone, then designate the corpse for dumping.  Unforbid the corpse afterwards if you want to butcher it or whatever.  This is also how you reclaim seeds, bones, or shells left over after taming a caged animal.

[Randomone]

I have a idea that involves an epic waterfall that open down the middle to let people through.
The questions I have are:

1.Will anything path through "falling water?" There will be a grate for a floor once the waterfall "opens", but I'm not sure what happens with both a floor and a waterfall.

2.If I divide the waterfall up top with floodgates, will the waterfall stay separate or join back up in the fall?

[boyofcheese]

Does obsidian only occur near magma pools/pipes?

[Diablous]

It is possible for obsidian to appear as stone layers.

[Rolan7]

I have a question!
I think I heard that caravans won't arrive if you embark in the middle of a mountain range with embark anywhere.  Maybe if all the tiles are mountain, maybe you have to be surrounded by mountain, doesn't matter to me.
My question is: Will goblins, kobolds, megabeasts, and/or migrants still arrive?

I'll probably try this tomorrow anyway but I'm impatient and I know people have tried it already (:

[boyofcheese]

Sry for asking so many questions, but on the wiki, it says that you cant have a sedimentary and an Igneous extrusive layer in the same map, but on my map, I seem to have stones from both of those layers.