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[Cheddarius]

What does manufacturing obsidian on living creatures do?

[Odd!x]

from what I've heard, firstly it depends on what you drop on their heads first.  If it's water and then magma, their worldly possessions and corpses are neatly preserved in a block of obsidian.  If it's magma first, then only their magma-proof things are preserved in the resulting block.

[DFPongo]

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:Sparring#Target_Practice
The basics
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Marksman#Known_issues
Likely causes for your problem

I hope you don't feel shortchanged, but by directing you to an easily available and easily found prewritten answer, a question-answerer saves themselves many hours over a period of months.

The wiki isn't perfect, but in this case as in most others it can provide an extremely detailed explanation of all possible marksman problems when properly used.

I do appreciate it. And I do look at the wiki a great deal.
All I can think of is that changing weapons in the military menu didn't drop the weapons they had. Of course, I thought it was to do with being legendary champions and looked there.
I am sure you appreciate that the game usually doesn't tell you why something is not happening, and often doesn't really tell you how to accomplish something, an obscure design and bugs on top, makes for some interesting problem solving.

I just recruited two miners as crossbowmen, and all my stone and wood bolts and my existing range worked fine for them. Now I have 1/5 of my 25 adult dwarves under arms, and it is going ok.

[kendo]

Do dwarfs get bored? Do they get bad thoughts from doing nothing?

[DFPongo]

THey certainly get good thoughts from being busy. Bored = parties in my fortress.

[Particleman]

Do dwarfs get bored? Do they get bad thoughts from doing nothing?

Not that I know of.... If they don't have anything to do they'll hang out at a meeting area (or thier rooms, if there are no meeting areas) and talk to each other which is generally bad (they'll make friends, and the death of a friend can very easily lead to a tantrum. When you've got a dozen dwarves tantruming at once...)

So, yeah, it's best to keep thembusy as much as you can. Preferably this would involve traning them in a useful skill, but there are only so many useful skill, so in most forts, by default, they become seige or pump operators.

If nothing else, you can have them shuffle the stockpiles (set food stockpile 1 to take from stockpile 2, set 2 to take from 3, and set 3 to take from 1. They'll carry stuff back and forth endlessly) just to keep them busy.

[Sphalerite]

Dwarves can eventually become upset at "the lack of work last season".  This can lead to them attending meetings with your mayor, who will then mandate jobs of a specific type to be done.

[kendo]

ok, thanks for the replies

[yinyang107]

If I drain a pool with fish in it, what happens to the fish? I'm talking fish I can actually see swimming around.

[Sphalerite]

If I drain a pool with fish in it, what happens to the fish? I'm talking fish I can actually see swimming around.

Air-drown and die, although vermin-size fish might teleport out before the water goes away.  Actual creature fish that can't teleport will die.

[assimilateur]

Dwarves can eventually become upset at "the lack of work last season".  This can lead to them attending meetings with your mayor, who will then mandate jobs of a specific type to be done.

Last time I've read about this, it was claimed this was only an economic feature. Do you know whether this will happen with a disabled economy? I don't think I've ever seen dwarves complain about a lack of work, but then again I usually have a shortage of manpower.

[Cheddarius]

What does "preserved" mean in the context of obsidian freezing? Would that mean something like:
This is a block of obsidian.
In the block is an elf. The elf is screaming.

Or something?

[Flaede]

What does "preserved" mean in the context of obsidian freezing? Would that mean something like:
This is a block of obsidian.
In the block is an elf. The elf is screaming.

Or something?

no. as in if you mine out the block you discover the stuff.
bones, clothes, weapons, etc.

it's fun (also often Fun) when used with eternally freezing water on glaciers to get one frozenwater block containing 100s of "ice" stones.

[sjaakwortel]

im playing dig deeper since my first fort. But since when do orc's die in cages. i know goblins survive a bit longer. (no live target practice for my marksdwarves.) Never mind i killed em with dwarf companion (ye i know its cheating)

[Poot]

Oh hey again guys. Last thread I asked about making my dwarves cannibals; I was told to edit them to EAT_SAPIANT_OTHER and EAT_SAPIANT_KILL, but still I don't see the little guys roasting goblins or other dwarves. What's the deal?