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[Psilobe]

I need leather! But I used it all making armor for my aspiring army and the only butcher able animal I got are dogs. I got some corpses of some muskoxes, horses, goats etc.. that died in my pit trap can I use them?

[i2amroy]

How do I make sure I have that particular civilization?  Just check the historical map and make sure I have a site within that civilization's area?

If you press tab on the embark screen one of the menus is a civilization select list (not the one that says "Dwarves, Elves, Kobolds, etc.). Simply choose which civilizations you want (+ and - IIRC) and that is which one you will embark from. Note that sometimes being extreme distances away from your civilization can slow down caravans somewhat.

I need leather! But I used it all making armor for my aspiring army and the only butcher able animal I got are dogs. I got some corpses of some muskoxes, horses, goats etc.. that died in my pit trap can I use them?

Dogs work fine for leather in a tight pinch. You really only need 1 male and 1 backup male anyways. As for the other animals, try designating a refuse stockpile that collects corpses near a butchers shop. After your dwarves haul the corpses to the stockpile there is a chance that your butcher will butcher them. If he refuses to do so then you are out of luck due to the unusable corpses bug, however quite a bit of the time he will succeed.

[Sphalerite]

I need leather! But I used it all making armor for my aspiring army and the only butcher able animal I got are dogs. I got some corpses of some muskoxes, horses, goats etc.. that died in my pit trap can I use them?

If they were tame, you will not be able to use them.  Tame animals which died from any cause other than being slaughtered at a butcher shop cannot be butchered.  If they were wild animals, you should be able to use them.  Make a refuse stockpile near a butcher's shop, make sure the dwarves can reach the corpses, and then turn on gathering of refuse from outside if the corpses are outside.

[Sutremaine]

How do I make sure I have that particular civilization?

When you embark, you should be able to choose between various parent civs (or not, if only one was genned). The sites the civ controls are marked as blue omegas (ie. blue statues). If you don't see any blue, your civ is dead. If all the dwarf civs in the world are dead, get to the embark screen with each of them, see what stuff they'd offer in trade if they were still going, and then abort the game. Look up your chosen civ in Legends, see what year it falls, and then tweak the worldgen parameters so that worldgen ends the year before that.

It's less work to bump the number of civs and shorten the world's history though, unless you really wanted that site or those trade goods.

[Garath]

use tab a few times in the area select screen to see which civs are available to you for embark

[Prologue]

If a creature is [FIREIMMUNE_SUPER] does that mean they won't get hurt by magma? Also, if it it on a platform (need to go down a ramp to the bottom z level and up another ramp to get out) while surrounded by magma, assuming it has a breath attack, will it still use it, since it can still path to the enemy?

[Garath]

i tried it myself, breath attacks dont go up or down z levels

[Prologue]

i tried it myself, breath attacks dont go up or down z levels

Not the breath attack themselves, but whether or not they can use them. Since they have a clear path to the enemy, but the enemy can't get to them.

Side view:

1        2
0^MM^00

^ = Ramp         Creatures 1 and 2 are on the same z level and the magma is on the bottom z level.
0 = Walls

[Sphalerite]

I'm fairly certain that tiles full of magma are flagged as impassible, even if the creature doing the pathing is magma-immune.  The game doesn't keep separate connectivity maps for magma-immune and non-magma-immune creatures.

[i2amroy]

If a creature is [FIREIMMUNE_SUPER] does that mean they won't get hurt by magma?

[FIREIMMUNE_SUPER] means that the creature is completely immune to both dragon fire and [FIREBREATH]'s short ranged cone style attack. They might also be immune to the long range "fireball" type attack from [FIREBREATH], but I'm not positive on that one (I know [FIREIMMUNE] alone doesn't grant immunity to that).

[Psilobe]

A moody dwarf just created Gemurliruk,a forgotten beast bone battle axe! This all sounds coolio but can it be used in battle? Any way I can make like a podium or musem showcase of it and other cool items?

[assimilateur]

Bone is an inferior weapon material, but if you're mostly facing easy stuff like goblins then it's probably good enough in the hands of an experienced axe user. You'd have to manually assign it to him.

As regards putting it, or other artifacts you wouldn't want to use, on display, here's a mod for it. Adding buildings won't work in your current game, however. You're going to have to generate a new world for it.

[khearn]

You can "put it on display" by building a weapon trap with it. The entrance to your dining hall is a good place for it. Your dwarves won't trigger it (unless they are stunned are unconscious), but they'll go past it a lot. Your dwarves will get happy thoughts from admiring it. Use a masterwork mechanism for the trap if you have one.

[Garath]

what is better for my new lasher regiment: a scourge or a whip. They are both lasher weapons, but i'm not really good at reading weapon entries in the wiki yet


Scourge              cont area  penetr
size
300, Lash, Edge, 10,           50     ,   2.0x, Whip

Whip
100, Lash, Blunt, 1, (10), 5.0x, Whip

[Kogut]

Whip - lower contact area AND better penetration.