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[Ifeno]

So i retracted m bridge and theres a goblin on the other side of the pit.  Why wont my archers attack him from across the pit when i tell them to?  They have bolts.  Also, why do they run up to people when they shoot instead of staying at a distance?  They have bolts, a crossbow, and a quiver equiped.  Help?

[tolkafox]

Retracted bridge acts as a wall, you can't shoot through a wall (retracted bridge)

Archers will opt to hit things with their crossbow rather than shoot 7/10 times, only way to guarantee that they don't is to make it overly difficult/impossible for them to use melee and force them to use range. Archer towers or pill boxes are my favorite way, they shoot bolts and stay out of melee's harm.

[Flaede]

Screw pumps won't build on floor hatches? I read that hatches under a pump in a pump stack is an effective on/off switch, or does there need to be a machine under the hatch in order for it to work?

The two tiles of the pump aren't supposed to be overlapping with the hatch. You need to have the hatch on the "input" tile for the pump.
see here for details: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Screw_pump#Example_layouts

[veok]

Regarding pets -- will a dwarf eventually adopt an available pet even if they do not have an innate preference for that animal?

E.g., I catch 20 wolves, tame them, and put them all up for adoption. Will only dwarves who like wolves for their cunning adopt the pets, or will other lonely dwarves just for the sheer thrill of it?

[mrbaggins]

Once a thief has been revealed, will traps work on them like normal?

[Lord Shonus]

No.

[Sphalerite]

Retracted bridge acts as a wall, you can't shoot through a wall (retracted bridge)

Retracted bridges don't act like walls.  Raising drawbridges act like walls.  If the bridge was a raising drawbridge it's blocking line of sight.  If it was a retracting bridge, it won't.

[ShinWalks]

Once a thief has been revealed, will traps work on them like normal?

For a "Goblin Thief" (a snatcher), traps always work, even before he's revealed. For a Kobold Thief, traps never work, even after he's revealed.

[squeakyReaper]

I've captured a Hydra in a cage trap.  Then I used the Kennel command to "tame" it.  It now says Stray Hydra (Tame), but as soon as it gets out of its cage it tries to kill my dwarves.  I had the same problem with a Giant Olm earlier...  how do I actually tame it?

[Sphalerite]

If it has ever killed one of your dwarves, it will never be tame.  Even if its status says 'tame' it will still keep killing.

[SurfinShroom]

Is there anyway to tell my dwarfs to specifically move a certain stone, its blocking production of a workshop, sure I could build said workshop somewhere else but I want them to move the damn stone :L
I've set it on D for dump, I hav ea dump zone, what gives? Do I just have to wait till someone moves it then?

[Xzalander]

I've bought some Raw Glass, (green, red and clear) from the Dwarven caravan, but I am uncertain as to how to turn them into windows.
Anyone able to point me to the right workshop?

[Lord Shonus]

Raw glass is just a gem. You want to buy or gather sand to make windows. (You can make a gem window with three cut glass gems.)



Shroom: If they suspend the workshop, that means that the stone is tasked for something. You'll have to clear the tasking ere you can build the workshop.

[ed boy]

Is there anyway to tell my dwarfs to specifically move a certain stone, its blocking production of a workshop, sure I could build said workshop somewhere else but I want them to move the damn stone :L
I've set it on D for dump, I hav ea dump zone, what gives? Do I just have to wait till someone moves it then?

Your "blocking production of a workshop" comment makes me suspicous.

If the stone is an item (that is, it was part of the landscape but has been mined out and there now sits a lump of stone on the floor), then it will not block the production of a workshop.

What may be going on is that stone may be flagged for a task (such a building something). In that event, your dwarves will not dump it since it is flagged for use in a task. For example, when you build a wall, you have to select building materials. When you do that, each material is flagged for use with that task. Until it is taken and used for that task, it will not be touched. If a task is suspended after the materials have been selected, then the materials will be flagged for use in that task indefinitely.

Basically, chances are the problem will clear itself up (when your dwarves get round to doing that task). If not, make sure that you have not got any tasks that have been suspended (for example, if you build a wall but an animal is on the tile when the dwarf tries to build).

[Antonater]

Is there any way to force a marriage/relationship between two dwarves? e.g. locking them in a room alone with a meeting area and assigning no job.