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[Jackrabbit]

True that.

[bluephoenix]

You would be even smarter if you enabled at least yearly autosave, and autobackup. With how probable crashes are in general, not keeping seasonal autobackup is downright irresponsible.

    I guess I just got spoiled by v.40d which didnt need anything like that enabled

[G-Flex]

Seasonal autosave and backup have always been a good idea. After all, in a way, every release is a test release, and it pays to have backups.

[blinking icons]

NONONO! BAD TOADY! BAD! Not only do you destroy the beginning summer here for me, you are also interrupting my Master of Magic frenzy! Now I'm completely torn. I have stuff to do in the garden, too, you know. Thats right, real farming.

(as a side node: why is booze cooking still on by default?? There goes most of my stock...)

[Weird Guy]

Thank you Toady!

Bugs or not, this looks like progress to me!

[Zared]

(I can't figure out how to get them to pick up the weapons I assigned them)

Yeah in the military screen it says that they should pick up any prefered melee weapon but when I activate them most of them just walk around as wrestler.

I think you need to have an arsenal dwarf before they'll start obeying their uniform settings.  You certainly need one before all items (as opposed to just a few) start showing up in the "Use specific..." menus. 

Oh, had some more good times with the new HFS:

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Got attacked by a giant blob made of steam.  The thing about steam is it's insubstantial, so its attacks were totally harmless.  But it was also unkillable.  Its body turned red, and the combat log referred to chunks being hacked away (which resulted in harmless clouds of steam jetting out).  So, I could either wait for the patch fixing all these completely unkillable things, or I could think dwarven   Obviously my first choice goes to magma.  But the nearest magma I'm aware of is 100 zlevels down. 

So, option B then, squishing.  Now, I'd guess that like demons, atom smashers don't work on forgotten beasts.  So, what I did was build a chain with a dog on it, then had the military dwarves try to fall back to it.  Then, with the wardog attacking the blob too, I took the squad off active duty.  Since they were all thirsty by then they beelined for the well, and rather than chasing, the blob stayed fighting the dog.  As I said, its attacks were totally harmless so the dog wasn't in danger (yet). 

Next step, dig out a 3x3 square of stone directly above the chain, and channel all around it it!  Of course, the damn miner channeled out the last tile from the wrong side, and rode that stone slab down like in Dr. Strangelove.  But he was only stunned by his zany antics.  The dog and the blob fared somewhat worse for wear, being smashed into paste and all.  The blob turned into a pool of water, if anybody's interested. 

Grumble grumble, I guess it's time to seal off the caverns until I can rig up the 100+ magma safe pumps required for proper dwarven defenses. 

[Mandemon]

Uuhh, toady? Gems are turning into a problem here...

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I did small exploration and I ran into 3 clusters of gems. Found 2 more after this. While digging bedrooms.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Well, what did you expect? They probably still have 100% chances of appearance in the raws, and the geology changes resulted in an immense amount of populable slots.

Btw, is there a Reveal app for DF2010 yet?

[Lord Shonus]

(I can't figure out how to get them to pick up the weapons I assigned them)

Yeah in the military screen it says that they should pick up any prefered melee weapon but when I activate them most of them just walk around as wrestler.

I think you need to have an arsenal dwarf before they'll start obeying their uniform settings.  You certainly need one before all items (as opposed to just a few) start showing up in the "Use specific..." menus. 

You do NOT need an arsenal dwarf to use Uniforms in the early stages of a fort. 

[bluephoenix]

(I can't figure out how to get them to pick up the weapons I assigned them)

Yeah in the military screen it says that they should pick up any prefered melee weapon but when I activate them most of them just walk around as wrestler.

I think you need to have an arsenal dwarf before they'll start obeying their uniform settings.  You certainly need one before all items (as opposed to just a few) start showing up in the "Use specific..." menus. 

You do NOT need an arsenal dwarf to use Uniforms in the early stages of a fort. 

Well I did, when my aresnal dwarf arrived (and I made him an office) he started working on uniform mainfests in his office and soon thereafter all my soldiers were making a beeline for the armour and weapon stockpile which had allready filled up.

[highholyme]

And here I was debating if I should check the site. 

[Count Dorku]

OH YES.

The History of the fortress Mansionboats:

Day 1: Embark.

Count Dorku suspends Embark: Busy saying "Holy shit" at skills list.

Embark resumed, start digging.

Day 2: Try and dig 50 levels down to give dwarves the deepest possible mausoleum.

Suddenly, elk birds! (And Zoidberg a crundle!)

Suddenly, magma! Suddenly early migrants! Suddenly funnonite!

Suddenly I have no idea how to kill the crundles that come staggering up the stairs and disturbing everyone! (I've checked the wiki, so I should be able to see off the blighters now. Then I'm just going to hollow out the funnonite - I haven't had any clownkills as long as I've been playing this game and want to watch some carnage.)

[Skynet 2.0]

My dwarves refuse to make charcoal, despite several of them having the Furnace Operator job. In addition, the mason who makes the workshop seems to get stuck in it, staying on it even when drafted.

[dragnar]

*spam*

Hey look! Spam! That's the first I've seen of it on this forum. Rather incompetent spam as well, not a very well programmed bot...

[Daywalkah]

Yeah, what's with the spam? I've seen this guy post in Threetoe's Zecalo Bronzeflower Story something similar to this. An added note, a forest fire just killed my civilization of satyrs  .