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[Jack_Bread]

What's the difference between war dogs and hunting dogs? Are hunting dogs faster while war dogs are stronger?

[NecroRebel]

What's the difference between war dogs and hunting dogs? Are hunting dogs faster while war dogs are stronger?

War dogs deal double an untrained or hunting dog's damage. Hunting dogs, if assigned to a hunter, will sneak alongside the hunter, letting the hunter hunt effectively while also giving them the added defense and offense of having a dog along (untrained/war dogs will make prey run away, as will other unstealthed animals).

In my experience, hunting animals seem to spot stealthed enemies from 2 squares away more reliably than other animals. Any animal can spot stealthed enemies from a distance, but hunting animals seem to do it more often. Toady is quoted in the wiki's article on Dogs in the Hunting Dogs section. He claims that hunting animals "notice creatures from farther away" which would appear to back up my experience.

[Jack_Bread]

Thanks.

Also, I have a dead champion, who I want to bury in an aluminum sarcophagus.
I also have a dead hunter and fisherdwarf, who will be buried in iron sarcophagi.
How do I keep the champion from being buried in an iron coffin and the other 2 from being buried in the aluminum coffin?

[Retro]

Also, I have a dead champion, who I want to bury in an aluminum sarcophagus.
I also have a dead hunter and fisherdwarf, who will be buried in iron sarcophagi.
How do I keep the champion from being buried in an iron coffin and the other 2 from being buried in the aluminum coffin?

The only way to control what dwarf is buried in what coffin after they're dead is to have the coffin you want them buried in marked as the only available one, either by making the other free coffins unusable in the 'q' screen or by waiting until all the bodies are buried in whatever coffins, then deconstructing the coffins of the dwarf you want moved and then building the one you want them moved to.

Generally it's easier to mark each special coffin as a tomb, but many players (myself included) forget to do this until afterwards. Kind of a pain to micromanage burial procedures, but eh. DF's like that.

[Flaede]

far as I can tell, it's "claims coffins in the order they died. So it's all int he order they died, and the order you build the coffins.

[A Dwarven Smokeologist]

Ok let's say I build a fortress and place a statue blocking a secret entrance/exit, will I be able to walk through that statue in adventure mode or will it be a solid object?

[Heliman]

It will be a solid object.

[ballisticvole]

I had a cave-in and my miner was knocked out but survived, but I found a stack of dwarf bones at the cave in site even though nobody died, where did they come from?

[gopher dude]

Milking questions:

Has milking been fixed yet? Last I red you could only milk purring maggots.

What animals can you milk if any besides purring maggots?

[silhouette]

purring maggots and purring maggots, also on the rare occassion purring maggots.
Oh i almost forgot, purring maggots.

[gopher dude]

purring maggots and purring maggots, also on the rare occassion purring maggots.
Oh i almost forgot, purring maggots.

HMPHF! and again; HMPHFHFHMMHPHF!!! >=C

How do I catch these..... "purring maggots"?

[assimilateur]

How do I catch these..... "purring maggots"?

Never bothered with it, but I think you do this by setting up animal traps near a chasm or bottomless pit.

[Cheddarius]

Be warned: Purring maggots are a delicacy. If your dwarves catch them, make sure not to let any dwarves run by and eat them up.


EDIT: My dwarves keep stopping work because they're interrupted by goblin X, but the only goblins around are behind three walls and totally unseeable. How are they getting scared?

[Odd!x]

perhaps they can hear their vicious howls and black-tongued curses echoing through the walls and echoing through the fortress?

is there any way to force sand onto your map? short of futzing with the eldritch files of my region?

[silhouette]

no.