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[Jhoosier]

Why did my war grizzly bear not only lose in melee combat to a goblin crossbowman, but the goblin was unharmed? (built a sheltered corner that the goblin had to walk around to fight)

It seems all my war animals in general were completely unable to harm a goblin ambush. (4 spear 1 crossbow, first attack)  Does war training remove their teeth and claws or something?

It was kind of annoying, I thought that massing war hounds and other elven oddities would allow me to bypass the evil military screen.

Lots of people have said this.  Evidently war dogs can't bite through cloth, even.  Somebody in the mod threads said it has to do with the density/material values for teeth, that they're not right.  Get yourself some horned animals and they should do fine.  Or get a dwarven pig: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=53533.0

[Shiv]

Does Refuse not decay any more?  Haven't had any two-legged rhino lizards (or whatever they are) or any of the other pest skeletons decay yet.  They're just clogging up my refuse pile outside and the corpses inside are building up.

[mblack04]

I didn't see it anywhere so I thought I'd ask here.  In the new version, is it, uh, normal for it to use 1.5 gigs of RAM to create a new world, as well as a full processor?  Beeeecause it does with me.  I can play an earlier version just fine, but not this one.

[madjoe5]

Does Refuse not decay any more?  Haven't had any two-legged rhino lizards (or whatever they are) or any of the other pest skeletons decay yet.  They're just clogging up my refuse pile outside and the corpses inside are building up.

A: Its a pretty common bug that has been added to the bug tracker. I'm not sure what its priority in Toady's mind as far as fixing it.

[nobodynothing]

Can berserk dwarfs no longer be captured in cage traps? I had a Dwarf go berserk, and I left her to wander into some cage traps I had set up (to stop a

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troglodyte colony from invading my fortress after I stumbled into a cavern full of the little buggers

) but she walked right over them...

[Garrie]

Q: Cant you deal with aquifiers by digging next to volcanos, or is it just me who was unlucky?

Nobody answered this the page you asked so my answer is:
volcano pipes are the same shape all the way from bottom to top of the map now (even if the hill stops).

So chances are the aquifer goes all the way up to the 1-tile wide wall of the magma pipe. Hence if you are more than 1 tile away from the magma pipe, you get, water.

Workaround: there's magma, RIGHT THERE! channel + magma FTW

[Garrie]

Does Refuse not decay any more?  Haven't had any two-legged rhino lizards (or whatever they are) or any of the other pest skeletons decay yet.  They're just clogging up my refuse pile outside and the corpses inside are building up.

quantum-dump-zone + hide.
Or just hide, they don't rot so no miasma!

[Askot Bokbondeler]

Does Refuse not decay any more?  Haven't had any two-legged rhino lizards (or whatever they are) or any of the other pest skeletons decay yet.  They're just clogging up my refuse pile outside and the corpses inside are building up.

quantum-dump-zone + hide.
Or just hide, they don't rot so no miasma!

quantum-dump-zone + atom-smasher is the high tech way to deal with it

[Sphalerite]

So I had a dwarf go into a fey mood and demand bones.  A Kobold skeleton was sitting in my refuse pile, but nobody would touch it.  I opened the gates and unforbid a horse skeleton on the ground outside, which was promptly taken to a butcher's shop and processed into bones, hooves, and a skull.  The strange mood dwarf promptly made the horse bones into an iron figurine (yeah, alchemy bug).  Meanwhile that Kobold skeleton is still sitting there ignored.

If corpses that rot away leave skeletons instead of bones now, and skeletons can only be turned into bones at butcher's shops, and sentient creatures can't be butchered, does that mean that it's impossible to make anything out of the bones of sentient creatures?  No elf bone bolts?  No goblin skull totems?  No mermaid bone farms?  Someone tell me what I'm missing.

[Thief^]

Could someone tell my how to make the game screen larger? Not Dwarf Fortress itself, but the little box which you see the Dwarf Fortress world, options and map-looking thing.

Change the 80:25 in init.txt to match the resolution your window is set to.

[Thief^]

Were the skeletons you butchered from animals that had already been designated to be butchered?

My problem is that a cat died, rotted away to a skeleton, and is not taking up space in my stockpiles. Butcher a dead animal doesn't work, I get a message that there's nothing to butcher.

Nick

Pet cat?

[chikago666]

Hi. newbie here. Im was in my first fortress still learning how to play and something weird happened.  One Dwarf intered in berzerk mode, and began to hit the Caravan elf´s Mount. I didnt knew what to do to stop him, so i create my first squad and ordered them to kill the berzerk. They punched him to death, leaving the Equip and some body parts in the floor. Some time after that I created a Graveyard stockpile and the dwarves moved  the body parts to the stockpile.

Some time later (maybe a 1/2 season) blood start to spill from the fortress door, flooding all my fortress (the "look" key gave me "<Killed Dward name> splat of blood" in the blood) and other dwarf got a mood going to the carpentry shop and began to scream "I need body parts"...

I stop playing the game. 

My Little question: how i solve this?

[CaveLobsterShell]

If corpses that rot away leave skeletons instead of bones now, and skeletons can only be turned into bones at butcher's shops, and sentient creatures can't be butchered, does that mean that it's impossible to make anything out of the bones of sentient creatures?  No elf bone bolts?  No goblin skull totems?  No mermaid bone farms?  Someone tell me what I'm missing.

I'm pretty sure sentient creatures aren't butcherable in the vanilla game.

[Sphalerite]

I'm pretty sure sentient creatures aren't butcherable in the vanilla game.

No, but sentient creatures left to rot used to turn into bones that could be used for crafting.  Now we get skeletons that can't be used for anything yet never disappear.  I'll have to atom-smash them or something.

[Dewar]

Hi. newbie here. Im was in my first fortress still learning how to play and something weird happened.  One Dwarf intered in berzerk mode, and began to hit the Caravan elf´s Mount. I didnt knew what to do to stop him, so i create my first squad and ordered them to kill the berzerk. They punched him to death, leaving the Equip and some body parts in the floor. Some time after that I created a Graveyard stockpile and the dwarves moved  the body parts to the stockpile.

Some time later (maybe a 1/2 season) blood start to spill from the fortress door, flooding all my fortress (the "look" key gave me "<Killed Dward name> splat of blood" in the blood) and other dwarf got a mood going to the carpentry shop and began to scream "I need body parts"...

I stop playing the game. 

My Little question: how i solve this?

Sounds like the blood is a bug, and for the body parts, the dwarf needs bones. You can get bones by butchering or otherwise killing a non-scientient creature, and then sending the skeleton to the butcher's shop.