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[Sphalerite]

Is a blowgun any good?
My bowyer just decided to make an artifact weapon, wich is a good thing since my military consist soly of marksdwarves at the moment, so I need his expertise.
Anyway, sadly he didn't end up making an artifact crossbow but he made a blowgun. Does this  thing have any practical use at all?

Blowguns are useless, nobody can use them and you can't make ammunition for them.

[DrKillPatient]

If you embark in a freezing climate, do enemies die of cold, just as dwarves do? I'm beginning to see a feasible anti-siege strategy here.

[FuzzyZergling]

Enemies can die of cold, but it is very unlikely since most are at least armored, if not fully clothed.

[gordy]

Am running lnp .21 - do I or do I not need to irrigate underground soil layer for the purposes of farming?

[xl 4ndre lx]

Am running lnp .21 - do I or do I not need to irrigate underground soil layer for the purposes of farming?

You do not.  Although rock layers still need irrigation.

[Katan Alebread]

I started playing with Quickfort and got it go build a nice bedroom complex for my dwarves. I don't understand how the transformation thing works though.

There is a pattern that I want to rotate 180°, how do I tell it to do that? I get messages about it wanting to join patterns that are not square shaped, but I don't want the pattern repeated, I just want it rotated before it starts.

[Katan Alebread]

Is it possible to assign a single squad to multiple stations?

You can do this by individually selecting the members of the squad. I think you press P in the squad menu, select the squad, then the individuals you want.

Alternatively, you could set up burrows or patrols.

[Roboboy33]

How do i feed my yak bulls? it says there starving, and i dont know how to fed them

[FuzzyZergling]

Make a pasture zone ([ i ]->[enter]->[enter]->[n]) over grass, and assign the yaks to the pasture.
Yaks are actually not too good to feed, as they eat a large amount of grass. If these are stray yaks I suggest just butchering them.

[Roboboy33]

well, i have a bunch of dense grass around. and i need food, so ithink ill leave them.

[Roboboy33]

Ok, um i assigned them to a pasture but there not eaiting. and one already died.

[FuzzyZergling]

They were probably too far gone to save. Unlike dwarves, grazing animals don't reset their "hungry meter" every time they eat. The larger an animal is, the more it has to eat to keep from starving.
Some large animals such as elephants are impossible to feed, as they cannot eat fast enough to not starve.

[wuphonsreach]

And adult yaks are right on the bitter edge of "too large to feed themselves", unless you put them in a big 8x15 area (more or less).

Anything larger then a goat / reindeer / alpaca is butcher shop fodder.

[Katan Alebread]

I've got a an underground lake directly above a magma sea. It would be very easy to channel all the water into the magma. What would happen? Is this advisable?

[FuzzyZergling]

The water/magma would obsidianize, likely caving in and being eaten by the semi-molten rock.
This would cause message+pause spam, and is not advisable.