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[shlorf]

So i just found a volcano in adventure mode. I could swear it wasn't there when i was last looking at the embark map 20 years ago. The world has probably a lot of high volcanic activity squares due to generation parameters. Will new volcanoes actually pop up on the map as the years pass?
I could have just missed it, because of a nearby human settlement or something but the next hamlet is two squares away on the adventure mode travel map (the zoomed out map).
Is a square on the adventure mode quick travel screen = one embark square?

edit:
I found the solution, there's a cave in the same region tile so it just shows the cave instead of the volcano icon, that's why i missed it.

[Lord Snow]

Soldiers biting, kicking, punching... while they have weapons equipped. Whats wrong with those?

I've just had one go *chop* once with his sword, then bite a giant rat in the head and shake it around five times.

[Samuel]

What's the best trading item to make out of copper?

[Farmerbob]

What's the best trading item to make out of copper?

Depends on the skills of your dwarves.  If you have a legendary metalcrafter, goblets are nice, and if you have a good jeweler, they can improve on the base goblets.

[Sutremaine]

when will dungeon master come?

Unless you have modded your entity raw files, the dungeon master will never come in the current version.  Immigrant nobles are bugged at the moment.  You can mod your entity raw files to make the dungeon master manually assignable like the other nobles.

alternatively you can replace [PET_EXOTIC] tags to [PET] and then any regular dwarf can train it.
I vaguely remember a program that did this automatically.

You have to do both, or just the tag change. Changing the DM position to assignable and genning a world does nothing. I've tested it.

No Exotics topic: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59411.0

What's the best trading item to make out of copper?

Brass. Then make flasks out of it.

Otherwise it depends on which is your best metalworking skill or which dwarf you'd like to skill up in the process of selling off your copper supplies.
Weaponsmith: Serrated discs or spiked balls.
Armoursmith: Leggings.
Metal crafter: Flasks.
Blacksmith: Statues, though even these are quite heavy.
Mechanic: Mechanisms.

Consider upgrading to bronze or bismuth bronze if you have the other metals to spare.

[ltprifti]

i have a LOT of gold and i have the same question, whats the best thing to make?  i made a few statues, i have high master metal crafter

[Ibid Straydrink]

I finally found a mod to embark anywhere, only to discover upon arrival that the soldiers from your own civilizations attack you, as if Toady was anticipated someone would try this and wanted to ruin the funnest thing possible. In time, he will be destroyed for such insolence, but for now...

Is there a quick and easy way to:

a.) Depopulate NPC sites (such as castles)?
or
b.) Generate a world with several abandoned fortresses?

Thanks!

[masonmason]

New question: I have somone in a fey mood standing in one spot no where near anything that could be a workshop

[masonmason]

Id also wonder how pumping works as Id like to pump water up to the main part of my fortress and have my men farm there but  outside is stone and insides dry

[Ibid Straydrink]

Id also wonder how pumping works as Id like to pump water up to the main part of my fortress and have my men farm there but  outside is stone and insides dry

Pumping will create mud.

[ltprifti]

no idea how to pump

but the mood dwarf means you don't have the right workshop press v-g) over him and you will see his skills then make a workshop, if you have them make a craft dwarf workshop

[masonmason]

OK TY does smothing stone walls increase anything other than value

[Imminent]

How do you destroy upstairs / ramps leading from a pit, from the outside of the pit?

Ex: X = wall/floor U = up stair

           
X         UX
XXXXXXXX

I tried caving in constructions on top of them but that did not work.

[Ibid Straydrink]

OK TY does smothing stone walls increase anything other than value

Their smoothness. 

Nothing that I know of, though. Dwarves don't seem to derive anything from it.

[CapnUrist]

OK TY does smothing stone walls increase anything other than value

Besides making it look better IMHO, smoothing walls allows them to then be carved with either engravings (for more value and some history) or fortifications (if you want something like liquid or bolts to pass through it, but not creatures or items.

How do you destroy upstairs / ramps leading from a pit, from the outside of the pit?

Ex: X = wall/floor U = up stair

           
X         UX
XXXXXXXX

I tried caving in constructions on top of them but that did not work.

Short answer, you don't. However, you can dig a path back outside and up next to the pit, and then construct a wall to close it off.