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[Life Swordsman]

Sorry another question, this time about room value. My Baroness just got upgraded to a Duchess, so now she needs better rooms. unfortunately her room is somewhat small and expanding her room to make it bigger is a problem since most of the walls have masterwork carvings in them. So I was wondering, is it possible to give her another room and decorate it, satisfying the new room requirements? I ask this because she still had her old rooms, and when the upgrade came, I carved her old rooms and they counted towards the value of the bedroom requirement.

[FuzzyZergling]

Yes, giving her a new room will work.
If you have at least a single tile clear, you can also build a trap and fill it with ten large silver serrated disks, or a lever. You can hook up a lever to a bunch of cages, pull the lever, then rebuild the cages and repeat to get as many valuable mechanisms in it as you want.

[Number7]

giving her masterwork gold furniture also helps

[Renzuko]

yeah statues would be what im thinkin...or the weapon trap full of masterful disks, those are REALLY high value...most of my steel serrated disks are like 13k dwarfbucks

[RiderofDark]

Is there any simple-ish method to control the movements of dwarven children? I'd like to have a fortress for a few years with babies/children getting born and growing vanilla-style, but I hate (hate is such a weak word for what I feel) their "pathing" to stay "near" parents.

assign them to burrows maybe?

Pretty sure children ignore burrows.  You need to assign their mothers to burrows. where they'll stay safely indoors.

Actually, it would appear that they do. Finding all of the bloody royal PITAs is a PITA in itself since they're sprinkled through the entire list instead of populating the bottom of it (like in the unit list). I've got 35 dwarven children, none of whom are helping to take down a wall.

[Renzuko]

see, i read SOMEWHERE you could use therapist to tell kids "f*ck you, you are working!" but i have never been able to, is that like, somethin from a previous version?

[RiderofDark]

see, i read SOMEWHERE you could use therapist to tell kids "f*ck you, you are working!" but i have never been able to, is that like, somethin from a previous version?

File > Options > "Allow Labor Setting on Anyone"

[rutsber]

How do you make cloaks?

[rutsber]

I just got a horse bone short sword. Should i equip it to a soldier?

[Lord Shonus]

No. Put it in a weapon trap somewhere. Bone is among the worst weapon materials.

[Fahgo]

i've got a road running from the map edge to the entrance of my fort yet caravans ignore it. does it have to run all the way up to the trade depot? might mean i nned to relocate the depot   

[Lord Shonus]

Roads have little actual use.

[greycat]

How do you make cloaks?

Clothier's workshop, or leatherworker's workshop.  You need appropriate materials and labors, of course.

[Benedict Hardy]

Is there an easy way to move objects from stockpile to stockpile? Choosing the "Take from" option makes all my dwarves cart everything from one stockpile to another, so if I want to move, say, blocks near to a bridge I'm making, what's the best way to get them there without my mason having to cross the map 5 times?

Make a block stockpile near the bridge and have it take from the stockpile where you keep blocks.

I know how to do that, but that's exactly what causes my problem. You can't selectively choose what to cart, so my dwarves end up moving entire bins of bars/blocks (I haven't bothered to differentiate the stockpiles), which is an overkill. I want a way to move, say, two bins, and for me to be able to choose which bins to move. Is there any way to selectively move items around.

Also, I'm assuming dumping is a possible way of moving choice items, but that requires not having any other active garbage disposal sites, and as soon as I unforbid the bins dwarves would move them back!

Basically it's a bit unwieldly.

[Stormfeather]

You can't select what to move around, but if you make the new stockpile small, forbid any materials from the stockpile that you don't want moved there, and set the max number of bins to 2, it should at least give you more or less what you want. Although I guess you still might get some unwanted block materials if they share a bin, I'm not sure how that works.