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[assimilateur]

I was under the impression that the hammerer didn't act unless there was a captain/sheriff. At least that's how I remember it. Regardless, killing him whenever he arrives, while not terribly realistic (I mean, wouldn't the Mountainhome become suspicious if a noble died like every year in your fortress?) is entirely doable. Just as is putting him under house arrest, only feeding him via airlock.

[ed boy]

In world gen, battles are wars and the like are modelled. In fortress mode, are such battles and things that are completely independent of your fort also modelled? If the liason were to die when not in your fort, would you get another oe#ne?

[dasutin]

Hey, I've got a quick question.
I just started a new game and suddenly my dwarves are seemingly afraid of anything that's in the way of placing other items. When I try and place a bed or a door or build a wall, if there's a piece of stone where it's going to be, they normally move it, right? Now they just suspend the construction and I have to find a way to make them move it. What should I do about this? I made sure all the hauling jobs and whatnot are enabled.

[Sphalerite]

In world gen, battles are wars and the like are modelled. In fortress mode, are such battles and things that are completely independent of your fort also modelled? If the liason were to die when not in your fort, would you get another oe#ne?

I think, though I am not certain, that history no longer progresses outside your fortress once you begin playing in fortress mode.  So no battles or other changes will take place outside your fortress while you are playing, and your liaison can only die at your fortress.

It is possible to have the fortress liaison killed in worldgen, in which case you will simply never get a liaison.

[Sphalerite]

Hey, I've got a quick question.
I just started a new game and suddenly my dwarves are seemingly afraid of anything that's in the way of placing other items. When I try and place a bed or a door or build a wall, if there's a piece of stone where it's going to be, they normally move it, right? Now they just suspend the construction and I have to find a way to make them move it. What should I do about this? I made sure all the hauling jobs and whatnot are enabled.

What is happening here is that the piece of stone is tasked for another job - building a wall somewhere else, being placed in a stone stockpile, being dumped, or about to be turned into a piece of furniture or stone mug or something.  Dwarves will only move a stone out of the way if that stone is not already tasked for a job.  You need to either wait for that stone to be moved (which can take forever if the job that stone is tasked for is also suspended) or find what job it's designated for and cancel it.

[ed boy]

Under what conditions will a megabeast turn into an undead megabeast?

Also, is there any way to be sieged by undead people without creating a whole new civ (is there any way to make undead goblins part of the goblin civilisations?)

[dasutin]

What is happening here is that the piece of stone is tasked for another job - building a wall somewhere else, being placed in a stone stockpile, being dumped, or about to be turned into a piece of furniture or stone mug or something.  Dwarves will only move a stone out of the way if that stone is not already tasked for a job.  You need to either wait for that stone to be moved (which can take forever if the job that stone is tasked for is also suspended) or find what job it's designated for and cancel it.

Hey, that worked, thanks a bunch!

[Zsword]

Is it possible to have an adveturer with the [FLIER] trait to actually fly when PCed? If so, what are the default controls/settings/whatever?

[Odd!x]

two questions:
can you sell furniture?
how do you sell animals?

[Corinthius]

You can sell both of those by doing a 'q' over the trade depot, then 'g' to bring stuff there, then selecting the cages/furniture. Beware that I believe many times the animals escape the cages when bringing them to the trade depot. I believe this is due to some bug. However, if you know them conscience first, I don't believe they escape.

My question: this is embarrassing, but I'm color blind and having a difficult time telling what color this wound is. This archer brought down an entire ambush, but was unfortunately wounded, but I can't tell how badly! Could someone help me out? Thanks!

[smjjames]

Its suppoused to be brown I guess.

In the next version, you can at least change the colors for the wound indicators.

[Zsword]

Left UA is brown.

[Corinthius]

ah ok. Thanks. That's not as bad as I thought... I thought it was lopped off. 

[Zsword]

If it was lopped off the 'border' would of been the same grey as the background and the text the same grey as the normal limbs background... not sure if that helps... I'm not color-blind so I don't know what it's like.

[assimilateur]

I'm not color-blind so I don't know what it's like.

There's different types of color blindness, so even if you were, you might not be able to appreciate the previous poster's problem.

Anyway, I'm not color blind, at least not to my knowledge, but I do am, shall we say, not very sensitive to color. I used to catch myself having problems differentiating between light wounds and lopped off in this game. I really don't understand why they'd use two shades of the same color for such diametrically different grades of trauma.