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[zmc]

My Mayor has mandated the construction of certain goods: Make adamantine items (1/1)
Is he telling me I have to make one, rather than forbidding the making of it? How am I supposed to make one without the raw material? How much time do I have?

[DFPongo]

Bucket brigade irrigation, do I have this right
Designate a water source, have 2 buckets
This will work on stone right?
Make a 6 by 6 room.
clear all stone.
channel the innermost 2*2 box
slope the 4* 4 box down(so you can enter the new lower 2*2 room
go down to the new 2 * 2 room below designate it as a pond?(or do that with the whole 4* 4 and the water will go down to the lower room.
The dwarves will try to fill the pond with the buckets.
When they get 1/7 level of water on the 2*2 lower rock floor, it will say muddy and I can then designate it as a farm and carry on from there..
I am going to try this as soon as I get home tonight, so I want to be sure and ready to go.

top level
HHHHHH
HVVVVH
HVOOVH
HVOOVH
HVVVVH
HHHHHH

H is ledge
V is slope down
O is channeled open ground

Lower level

VVVV
VFFV
VFFV
VVVV

V is slope up
F is farm

Do I have it?

[geoduck]

Bucket brigade irrigation, do I have this right

What you have will work, if you designate the pond at the upper level. Be sure and include a place in the designation for the dwarves to stand when they are dumping in the water.

[Pitah]

My Mayor has mandated the construction of certain goods: Make adamantine items (1/1)
Is he telling me I have to make one, rather than forbidding the making of it? How am I supposed to make one without the raw material? How much time do I have?

He wants one.
Don't worry too much about it though, he won't go berserk over one skipped mandate.

[Lord Shonus]

He will, however get more and more upset the more times it is ignored. Either eliminate his mandating ability (once you have the ability to name a Baron, name someone else) or make sure to keep some adamantine in reserve once you find it.

[zmc]

I have a Windmill on the surface that says "Active / Total Power: 20 / Power Needed: 5" and directly below it's center I have a Gear Assembly with the same status. On the level below the Gear Assembly I have a Millstone that says "needs to be powered"... what am I doing wrong?

[Lord Shonus]

Did you channel out the square above the millstone?

[zmc]

Did you channel out the square above the millstone?

:donk:

Thank you.

[Remalle]

How does knapping work?

[EvilTwin]

so i have some goblins in some cages. If let them out of their cages in the caverns below my fortress and lock them in there, will i still get combat reports about the things they're doing/running into/being attacked by as they wander around?

I think you will, but only until they leave your sight. The will be gone from the map pretty fast anyway, hurrying to the open edges of the cavern.

[kilakan]

How does knapping work?

Goblin runs up, shoves child in a bag, and (due to the lack of vans) runs like hell.

[Lord Shonus]

He means knapping, the adventurer skill for making weapons from stones, not Kidnapping.

[Poot]

Anybody have issues with soldiers not eating or drinking anything while on duty. I notice they all get thirsty and hungry, but never eat anything out of their backpack even if they have something.

[Solace]

That mandate question reminded me of something, my current mayor has decided to mandate some copper items to be made. Oh wait, did I say copper? I meant native copper. Is that possible? Follow up, if so, since native ores have the same value as the metal they get smelted into, should I just make native "stone" things rather than metal ones when possible?

Second, I have a long and twisting one-space wide path to the first cavern, may this be the trouble I'm having getting workers down into it?

[Metroid]

In 31.12, do dwarves with assigned bedrooms still just pick the nearest bed to sleep in regardless of who owns it?

yeah...