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[Kethas]

Why am I getting caveins while mass-designating ramps to lower large flat areas by one (or more, successively) z-level? I've checked there are no trees above the level I'm designating the up-ramps on to interfere with digging.

[nil]

I want to embark over an underground road, preferably dwarven.  But I can't seem to find any (I changed the init settings so I should be able to see them...I can see HFS, ect, so the other changes worked).  The entity files say dwarves can build them too.  Any suggestions?

Look for large dwarven civs; they have to be pretty developed to start building tunnels.  It's difficult at best to tell tunnels from roads on the worldmap; your best shot is to look for ones that bisect mountain regions.

Why am I getting caveins while mass-designating ramps to lower large flat areas by one (or more, successively) z-level? I've checked there are no trees above the level I'm designating the up-ramps on to interfere with digging.

Workshops, furniture, and stockpiles will do the same thing.  Maybe something like that?

[Kethas]

Why am I getting caveins while mass-designating ramps to lower large flat areas by one (or more, successively) z-level? I've checked there are no trees above the level I'm designating the up-ramps on to interfere with digging.

Workshops, furniture, and stockpiles will do the same thing.  Maybe something like that?

Nope. This was far away from my fortress; I'm positive the terrain one z-level up was a) flat b) empty, e.g. no trees. The particular instance that prompted this post was in a wooded biome but I've had it happen in mountain biomes (with no trees) as well.

[nil]

Why am I getting caveins while mass-designating ramps to lower large flat areas by one (or more, successively) z-level? I've checked there are no trees above the level I'm designating the up-ramps on to interfere with digging.

Workshops, furniture, and stockpiles will do the same thing.  Maybe something like that?

Nope. This was far away from my fortress; I'm positive the terrain one z-level up was a) flat b) empty, e.g. no trees. The particular instance that prompted this post was in a wooded biome but I've had it happen in mountain biomes (with no trees) as well.

Perhaps a sapling grew into a tree at the last moment, when you weren't looking.  Or maybe an ant hill?

I've heard people talk about a bug that causes random cavings with ramps, but honestly I've done a lot of digging that way and every cave-in I've ever had was my own fault.  I can be very easy to miss something...  Do you have a save/picture of the area before you dug it out?

[CognitiveDissonance]

If a dwarf is assigned a tomb, all his possessions will go in there when he dies, if all of them can fit. He will still own them.

If a dwarf dies and is not assigned a tomb, his belongings goes to his next of kin. If he has none, they belong to the fortress.

I experimented with this excessively, and here are the results:
- On death, without a tomb, a dwarf loses the possession of everything he had. Everyone gets a sock.
- On death, with a tomb, a dwarf will retain possession of any clothes they have, which will be delivered into the tomb... onto the floor. One item at a time.
- To compensate for that, you can put cabinets in tombs. You need 2 cabinets for an average dwarf's clothing set.
- Armor and weapons never get ownership, so dwarves never get to keep them.
- Theoretically speaking, any "trinket" possessions (ie. mugs) should be stored in a chest, but I haven't seen that happen yet

Also, on ramps, are ramps considered vertical support? I thought they were anything but that.

[Jim Groovester]

I think they are. The up ramp and down ramp above it provide support, I believe.

[silhouette]

How do i advance time in a worl thats already been genned, i want to fast forward 50 years into the future.
Any possible way to do this without playing fortress mode on a 2x2 site and letting the game play for days on end?

[NecroRebel]

How do i advance time in a worl thats already been genned, i want to fast forward 50 years into the future.
Any possible way to do this without playing fortress mode on a 2x2 site and letting the game play for days on end?

Start a fort, then abandon immediately. Repeat 50 times. Each fort is founded at the beginning of the 1st of spring, so if the very beginning of the first of spring has already begun in a year due to another fort being founded and abandoned, it'll move to the next year.

Mind you, I'm pretty sure that world-gen-type events, like wars, megabeast raids, births, and whatnot don't actually happen after world gen finishes, so it won't do you much good.

[silhouette]

Damn that sucks...

World gen type events should continue after it finishes.
World really make the game more intresting.

[darkflagrance]

How do i advance time in a worl thats already been genned, i want to fast forward 50 years into the future.
Any possible way to do this without playing fortress mode on a 2x2 site and letting the game play for days on end?

Start a fort, then abandon immediately. Repeat 50 times. Each fort is founded at the beginning of the 1st of spring, so if the very beginning of the first of spring has already begun in a year due to another fort being founded and abandoned, it'll move to the next year.

Mind you, I'm pretty sure that world-gen-type events, like wars, megabeast raids, births, and whatnot don't actually happen after world gen finishes, so it won't do you much good.

It should make moss grow on the wall of your abandoned fortresses though.

[Amalgam]

Is it possible to breed vermin or do they just spawn in their biome? (I want to start a moghopper farm for their j00ce ) Is it possible to deplete vermin like with fish and large animals?

[atomfullerene]

I've had this cavein thing happen underground, on a map with no treecaps, and it bugged me so much I savescummed to save my miner.  and it happened again, and again, until I shifted my ramp designations and channeled out the offending area. I'd very much like to know a good way to stop this.

[assimilateur]

Can you add additional parameters to the name generator for group/fortress?
Instead of "Hammerflickers", can I make it randomly generate "of's" and "the's"?

Not only can you do that, but you can pick your own name.  Hit (F) when you're in the "prepare for the journey carefully" screen.

I know you can pick your own name, but assigning parameters to newly randomized names is new to me. I think he's specifically looking for the game to generate random names that are longer than [rear_compound]+[front_compound] (the generator will do that on its own, but not reliably).

[nil]

I know you can pick your own name, but assigning parameters to newly randomized names is new to me. I think he's specifically looking for the game to generate random names that are longer than [rear_compound]+[front_compound] (the generator will do that on its own, but not reliably).

Oh, my bad.

[Yagrum Bagarn]

Is it possible to breed vermin or do they just spawn in their biome? (I want to start a moghopper farm for their j00ce ) Is it possible to deplete vermin like with fish and large animals?

No one seems to know the answer, so, despite that I don't do much with vermin aside from killing them, I'll give my halfway answer and suggest that you try dwarven science.

I'm not sure about breeding them.  Check your tamed ones to see if they have gender.  If they do, it's worth a shot.  Come back and tell us how it goes.

I don't think you can deplete vermin.  They just spawn.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were a max_number of vermin on a given map, though.  I just remembered that fish are vermin, and they can be temporarily depleted, but I'm not sure about other vermin.  I still get fire snakes in a 17 year old fortress, in spite of nearly reaching critical feline mass at one point.  Tame a whole slew of vermin and report results.

Hey, look at that, assimilateur said the same thing while I was editing.