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[Insignificant]

Well I'll double check all that.
Another quick thing what determines the z-level caravans appear on?
Mine appear halfway up the mountain about 3zlevels up.
They get stuck go psycho and die.

[nil]

They pick a spot at random from all the locations that can path to your depot.

So generally they shouldn't get trapped, unless something crazy happened like a tree growing to adulthood at just the right moment to block the path (or if you mine or build something in the way).

Also, this means if you smooth a 3-tile path between the map edge and the depot and line it with enough pits, statues, or walls to prevent a wagon from passing though, you can force the wagons to use a single road.  Use (D) to check for wagon accessibility.

[Hortun]

Hey, my mayor decided to put an export ban on electrum items. Sadly, my whole economy is based off of electrum exports.

I had the goods hauled to the depot and on the wiki it said that all of the haulers would be punished once the items leave the map. My question is should I kill the mayor or trap the captain of the guard to where he can't punish things? I don't want to kill the mayor since he's also my broker, but punishing that many haulers could result in a tantrum spiral.

EDIT: I just let them all get beat up. A couple folks died, but my guard captain wasn't that tough.

[silhouette]

Is there anyway i can change who my mayor is? other than killing him...

[Hortun]

Is there anyway i can change who my mayor is? other than killing him...

No, your leader noble is elected. Gonna have to kill him.

[silhouette]

Is there anyway i can change who my mayor is? other than killing him...

No, your leader noble is elected. Gonna have to kill him.

What decides the qualities for the election?
Couldnt i just train a dwarf up in those skills? if i can?
Cos i cant really kill him as hes one of my legendary miners.

[stolensteel]

But legendary miners are soooo easy (to obtain). Letting go of one shouldn't be a problem.

[nil]

What decides the qualities for the election?
Couldnt i just train a dwarf up in those skills? if i can?
Cos i cant really kill him as hes one of my legendary miners.

You can, but the skills in question are social skills which are relatively hard to train up on a given dwarf.  The best you can do is turn all the labors off of the one you want to be mayor, so he spends all his time talking.

You can also draft a dwarf to make them ineligible for elections.

[atomfullerene]

I don't think this thing about caravans always appearing where they can path to your depot is true.  I tried to take advantage of it once by digging a trench 1 space from my border all around the map except for one location.  Caravans always appeared on the other side of the trench, in areas blocked in by trees.  The walking traders got stuck there, the wagons bypassed the site (even thought my trade depot WAS definitely accessible from the edge of the map).  And my migrants always got stuck on the edge too...and the diplomat.  It was incredibly annoying, and I dropped the fortress.

[Kaiser Reinhard]

If I start with a chasm in my fort and don't have a GCS at first, will one ever spawn eventually? Or does the chasm have to be at the edge of the map to allow a GCS to spawn?

[nil]

/\ Pretty sure the answer is no there, but you might want to wait for someone more experienced with chasms to confirm that; I never even bother looking for them.  /\

I don't think this thing about caravans always appearing where they can path to your depot is true.  I tried to take advantage of it once by digging a trench 1 space from my border all around the map except for one location.  Caravans always appeared on the other side of the trench, in areas blocked in by trees.  The walking traders got stuck there, the wagons bypassed the site (even thought my trade depot WAS definitely accessible from the edge of the map).  And my migrants always got stuck on the edge too...and the diplomat.  It was incredibly annoying, and I dropped the fortress.

I make a trade depot road in nearly every fortress I build and have never had a problem...  but then I've never gone as far as you're talking about, just something like this.  I suspect there was an unsmoothed boulder or something blocking wagon access, which caused everything else--migrants, diplomats, and non-wagon traders may spawn completely at random, given that they will show up even if then entire fort is closed off.

[Skorpion]

I captured a titan by accident. It's got a few injuries, and killed a vaulable military dwarf and a dog.

Should I throw it in the bottomless pit, or the barracks?

[Morsigil]

Here is a small question:

My seed stockpile only has two barrels in it, one of which isn't being used for some reason, while the other has my original seed bag in it, and both are full. Now my plump helmet spawn are covering the floor of that room, and the other barrel is -still- empty.

This is the case even when I have like 17 idlers momentarily.

[SomethingCreative]

^ Do you have enough empty bags for the seeds to be stored in?


I followed the digging examples on the wiki for getting a well with flowing water, but I'm getting stagnant water from my current well setup anyway. Could someone please point out what I'm doing wrong? 

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[INSANEcyborg]

I don't think any water from a well would be considered stagnant, so they may not be using the well.  Did you place a zone over the well and mark it as a water source?