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[Jimmy]

Fluid is destroyed the same as items.

Are the new megabeasts able to be atomsmashed?

[Twiggie]

has anyone found a major/minor river yet? on all my maps there are only streams, all the way to the sea, with brooks further inland...

[LegitMacgyver]

This might be a well known thing but I can't seem to find it.

How do I turn off migrants.  I know I can embark on an island with water on all edges but I can't seem to generate a map with island small enough for that...

Please Help me!

[Kazuhiro]

How do I make pits in the ground?

[Spong]

If on embark there are no goblin civs listed as neighbours does this mean I won't get goblin raiders, snatchers or sieges?

[nekoexmachina]

How do i make my military dorfs eat while training?

[LucasUP]

When creating new uniforms, how do you add (or can you?) general items like "metal armor", "metal shields/bucklers", etc which appear in the default uniforms.

[Garrie]

This might be a well known thing but I can't seem to find it.

How do I turn off migrants.  I know I can embark on an island with water on all edges but I can't seem to generate a map with island small enough for that...

Please Help me!

You can set a population limit in the file
(df)\data\init\init.txt
Search for
[POPULATION_CAP:200]
replace 200 with whatever number you don't want any migrants after.
Note that if you put say "5" then three dwarfs die, you may well get a rush of 80 immigrants because your fortres is worth so much money and you have never had any migrants.

[Shiv]

has anyone found a major/minor river yet? on all my maps there are only streams, all the way to the sea, with brooks further inland...

I've found minor rivers, but no major ones.

The minor ones I've only found in the Large Regions.  Only Streams in the Medium Regions (the default).

[LegitMacgyver]

This might be a well known thing but I can't seem to find it.

How do I turn off migrants.  I know I can embark on an island with water on all edges but I can't seem to generate a map with island small enough for that...

Please Help me!

You can set a population limit in the file
(df)\data\init\init.txt
Search for
[POPULATION_CAP:200]
replace 200 with whatever number you don't want any migrants after.
Note that if you put say "5" then three dwarfs die, you may well get a rush of 80 immigrants because your fortres is worth so much money and you have never had any migrants.

I knew you could set the population cap but then that shuts off pregnancies when you reach the cap.  I simply want my 7 original dwarves to have to mate to build up the population.  I also don't want to be cheap and just kill all my migrants.

I can't seem to generate a small island for a single embark screen but I will keep trying!

[OddProphet]

I can't seem to move up and down z-levels.  I remember pre-2010 it was > and < to move around the z-axis, but that isn't working.

EDIT: I play on a laptop, if that affects anything.

[Shiv]

Pretty sure it's shift + < or >

That's what I use anyhow.  You can change it through the Esc menu anyways.

[OddProphet]

What is the command in the key bindings to move between z-levels?  I'm using a laptop, and I can't for the life of me get it to work.

[faclonwhirr]

Fluid is destroyed the same as items.

Are the new megabeasts able to be atomsmashed?

Well, unless the very mechanic of atom smashing has been changed, it will depend on the size of the creature. 10 or higher will cause the atom-smashing effect to turn back on itself, as before. Since the new megabeasts are amalgamations of various creature types, it may be possible, but I doubt it would work; I really can't imagine having it so that megabeasts can be smaller than size 10. Though I would highly recommend trying this out for yourself; I have 2 of the random cavern megabeasts present in my current fortress but have no plans of dealing with them any time soon; my fortress is sealed off from all the caverns I've dug into.

[Ledi]

I have a large ramp going down to an underground trade depot, but as soon as the ramp is hit from the depot side, it blocks the access (ie red Xs). The ramp is three tiles wide, and each floor has an down ramp connecting straight to an up ramp... Any help?

Side View (although add about 20 intermediate levels)

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___  _
___\  _
____\* _______Depot

* is where the green line stops for depot accessability.

Top view of intermediate floors:

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########
####^v##
####^v##
####^v##
########
Top view of Depot Floor:

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############DDDDD
####^.......DDDDD
####^*WWWWWWDDDDD
####^.......DDDDD
############DDDDD

* is where the green Ws for accessible Depot stop.

Note: the ramps are nearly all from channels, with one ramp in the centre of the bottomost floor a built rock ramp.

is this because of how close the up and down ramps are to each other, or is there something else?

Edit: Strangely, the caravan made it down there. I... am now even more confused.