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[werty892]

Help! Im kinda new, and my new stonecrafters dwarf had a fey mood. I know that he needs stuff, but how do I find out what he needs!

[Lord Shonus]

(q)uery the workshop.

[Richard Nixon]

How do I edit my raws to allow workshops to make stone(marble for example)?

[Ifeno]

[ s ]quads, [m]ove.
They should switch to military mode and attack any hostiles they see.

Need any other help with the military?

phew thanks so much! crisis averted! and nope thats all i needed to know.  i was just confused by the new interface (played a fairly old version of df up until last week)...now to create a standing military rather than this improvised jumble of people

[Chicken Launcher]

Can flying building destroyers destroy buildings, or more specifically, windows, while in the air? As in, if I had a window on the Z-level above the ground, would it be able to be destroyed from outside? Or can they 'target' it while standing next to it on the level below anyway? What if I moved it up out of reach?

[Ifeno]

how do i forbig certain areas for fishing?  my fishers keep walking over to the hydra layer and...lets just say those who have have yet to return....

[FuzzyZergling]

how do i forbig certain areas for fishing?  my fishers keep walking over to the hydra layer and...lets just say those who have have yet to return....

You can set a fishing zone with [ i ], and your fisherdwarves should prefer to fish there.
You can also try setting up the area as a restricted path (in the [d] menu), but that may not force them to fish somewhere else.

[ottottott]

I'm a rather experienced DFer but I just started studying complexer mechanics. So I got a few questions.
1. A simple question. Can I have 2 layers of windmills or does every windmill need all open space above it?
2. Quite a bit harder. I am a tad confused about transferring power. I can manage it just fine but I'm getting the feeling that I could waste less power on it. I'm using the axles and gears so that axles have to end at a gear. So axles through z levels must approach the gear from only the top or bottom and axles from N to S and E to W have to also go straight to a gear. But I saw a picture on the wiki that had them like this:
o
x=====
o=axle through z levels
x=gear
==axle on the same z level
If I can use them like that then I would save a lot of power on the turns.

[Ifeno]

darn it i DO have another question about military...how do i tell them what to wear?  i hit (m) - (e) but im still confused as to how it works...help please!

[FuzzyZergling]

After getting to the [e]quip screen, you can assign body [A]rmor, [L]eg armor, [W]eapons, etc.
You have tp do this with every dwarf, or you could make a custom [ u ]niform, and have all of them wear that.

[MagmaMcFry]

I'm a rather experienced DFer but I just started studying complexer mechanics. So I got a few questions.
1. A simple question. Can I have 2 layers of windmills or does every windmill need all open space above it?
2. Quite a bit harder. I am a tad confused about transferring power. I can manage it just fine but I'm getting the feeling that I could waste less power on it. I'm using the axles and gears so that axles have to end at a gear. So axles through z levels must approach the gear from only the top or bottom and axles from N to S and E to W have to also go straight to a gear. But I saw a picture on the wiki that had them like this:
o
x=====
o=axle through z levels
x=gear
==axle on the same z level
If I can use them like that then I would save a lot of power on the turns.

This is a side view...

[tolkafox]

Are sieges and caravans scheduled to come at the same time in the latest version? It seems almost every time I get a caravan, just as they're getting into my fortress, a vile force of darkness shows up then it turns into some game of how I'm going to get them out before they go insane. I would say the last 4 or 5 caravans straight have all come with a siege moments after.

Are you importing or requesting large amounts of valuable goods? I had one game where I requested valuable gold and silver bars among a billion other things and got ambushed/sieged every caravan arrival. Thankfully they came after the caravans left, oddly enough when I turned the gold and silver into valuable furniture. I figured it was goblin intelligence, or the caravans were passing by goblin territory on their way to my fortress.

[Jacob/Lee]

What does the "(#)" in the FPS bar mean?
Example:
FPS: 200 (20)
               ^

[hagbard]

What does the "(#)" in the FPS bar mean?
Example:
FPS: 200 (20)
               ^

It's like:
FPS: game-fps (graphical fps)

So the first number is how fast your game is running, and the second shows how often the screen gets updated.

[Ifeno]

need help with burrows!

basicaly...what i want to do is as soon as i get an alert, i want my military to rush to the entrance of the fortress and i want everyone else to cram into the dinning hall (so i can lock it).  How do i go about doing that?