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[silhouette]

also, is there a way to review a trade agreement after the liaison has left so a scatterbrain can remember exactly *what* he needs to make to benefit himself the most?

Sadly, no. I used to take screenshots of the trade agreements before I stopped caring about them


I'm still curious as to whether dwarves will adopt pets regardless of proximity, i.e. a dwarf adopting a donkey locked in a room in the deep forbidden depths of the fort.

HE LIEES.
LIIIIEEEEESSSS.

you can do it.
Press c, then highlight the civ you want to see your trade agreement with. then enter.
then continue on pressing tab till you get to the exports and imports agreement, make it so the exports are at the top of the screen then press enter.
Walla, what the liason wants!
if you do imports you can see what you ordered aswell.

I assume from what you're saying is that a given mason will prefer a stockpile filled with economic stone to a hunk of granite just sitting around?

no i mean this...

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###########
#SSSSS#####
#SSSSS#####
#SSSSS.WWW#
#SSSSS#WWWD
#SSSSS#WWW#
############ is wall
S is stockpile with what stone you want in it or what ever.
. is dug out tile without anything on it.
W is masons workshop
D is LOCKED DOOR (a.k.a forbiddin door)

This FORCES the mason to use the stone thats set in the stockpile as he has no where else to go to collect stone.
Also make it so it isnt economic or w/e, i mean make it so its green not red highlighted.

[Jack_Bread]

Are prisoners adults? Or are they children, too?

[CaptainNitpick]

Firstly, having huge herds of stray watevers bogs the FPS down immensely. If I want to do this, I'll need to pit them somewhere that prevents pathing. I know animals will still try to path through forbidden doors, but will they path through closed flood gates?

They try to path through pet-impassable doors, not forbidden. Anything that would stop a dwarf stops their pathing.

Secondly is pet issues. If I keep the livestock locked in a remote part of the fortress, will I still have to worry about dwarves other than the butcher adopting them? Or do they just sense that the animal is there and claim it like with spore breeding?

Animals have to be explicitly designated as adoptable before they can be adopted as pets. You don't have to worry about your fortress adopting your beef. Cats are a special exception.

I've never actually designated animals for adoption, so I don't know how far away it works.

Lastly is if there are pets, can they be pitted like other animals?

You can't pit pets.

drop pads require the dwarves to walk down ten Z levels to retrieve the meat (or up ten levels to drop them).

Ten z-levels down is exactly as far as ten tiles to the left. Making use of that fact is useful for efficient fortress layout.

[Skorpion]

also, is there a way to review a trade agreement after the liaison has left so a scatterbrain can remember exactly *what* he needs to make to benefit himself the most?

Nope. However, there's no point once you get a fey stonecrafter and bonecrafter, and maybe even a clothier.
You can basically just pile on the cinnabar mugs encrusted with semi-precious gems, goblin skull totems decorated with the bones of the fish you bought off last year's caravan, and plant fiber trinkets you made from the cloth the elves left behind when they mysteriously drowned. They don't care either way.

[ed boy]

At a certain distance from a wild animal/invader, dwarves will cancel their task and run away.

does anybody know this distance?

[smjjames]

Its usually within 10 squares, possibly further than that for hostile critters.

Dwarves often tend to get within a few tiles of a critter before cancelling and occasionally end up pratically right next to the critter before cancelling. Sometimes they will even walk right past without noticing.

It should be easily testable with a chained marmot or something.

[Elvang]

For my training area with captured invaders, I had to built my siege engines a minimum of 20 tiles away, which incidentally is about the range when my crossbow dwarves can open fire on an enemy.

[Time Kitten]

also, is there a way to review a trade agreement after the liaison has left so a scatterbrain can remember exactly *what* he needs to make to benefit himself the most?

(c)iv screen, relevant civ, tab tab, profit.

[Inyssius]

I guess my question slipped through the cracks, or else nobody here knows if it's possible. Just in case it's the former, I'll repost it:

I want to embark in a location with ludicrously fatal weather part of the time. Like, a temperate winter and a thermonuclear summer. Can the game be modded to do this?

[Elvang]

I want to embark in a location with ludicrously fatal weather part of the time. Like, a temperate winter and a thermonuclear summer. Can the game be modded to do this?

Its possible, there was a fort awhile back that had a summer like that. You have to kick up the setttings in in world_gen and mess with the variance, and hopefully the civs won't die out during world gen.

[CognitiveDissonance]

Will magma melt/destroy a locked rock hatch if it flows over it?

[Elvang]

It should.

[Corinthius]

1) My fort can now support a noble. The wiki was helpful as to their function, but my questions is, do I really need one at all? Will my dwarves misbehave more if I don't have one?

2) Magma safe questions: I have heard that not everything needs to be bauxite for the thing to work right. Suppose I wanted a functioning floodgate (not just a  permanent lava block). I would need 1 floodgate, 1 mechanism for the lever, and 2 mechanisms for the linking. Which of these would need to be bauxite for the floodgate to open and close in and around magma?

Thanks!

[absynthe7]

Will a raised drawbridge stop magma?

[gtmattz]

Will a raised drawbridge stop magma?

Yes, even if it is not magma safe.  The problems arise when you lower the bridge and magma occupies the same space.  Then the bridge will deconstruct if it or its mechanism are not magma safe.