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[jerank]

If I get sieged, will the attackers attempt to destroy any buildings I have outdoors before anything else? I have some elaborate water supply systems depending on a few key floodgates outside where I cannot defend them, could attackers go after them rather then my dwarves?

Plus, are dwarven caravans supposed to bring +5000 units of food with them? This is how much I sometimes get if I mark out a large ammount of different prepared food types.

[mnjiman]

Jerank, attackers such as trolls path is based on destroyable buildings, so trolls will very likly go for the nearest destroyable buildings.. and they will very likly be your building on the outside.

Goblins on the other hand will go and kill your dwarfs first at the same time.

I would suggest putting a wall around your water supply system..

and in terms of food.. no idk what is up with that. I suggest if you don't want so much food, don't rise it to so high of a priority.

[Nova72]

I assign someone to mining and I have picks in storage but they don't go get the picks and just list as having "No Job".  How do I fix this?  Also, I am in a map with very few trees, is their a substitute for wooden beds, barrels, and crates?

[DangerHelvetica]

Are titans, forgotten beasts, etc vulnerable to upright spikes/spear traps? I figure that they can avoid the other sorts of traps, but since a spear trap is remotely activated, it might work.

[culwin]

I assign someone to mining and I have picks in storage but they don't go get the picks and just list as having "No Job".  How do I fix this?  Also, I am in a map with very few trees, is their a substitute for wooden beds, barrels, and crates?

Maybe you need an arsenal dwarf before they will take the picks?  I'm not sure...  I assume you gave the dwarfs the mining labor?
You can make metal barrels, but beds have to be made from wood.  I'm not sure what you mean by "crate"?

[Halo]

I haven't found any definitive answers on which bugs were fixed in .04.

I know it was primarialy to get some some of graphics improvement and there weren't a lot of bug fixed, but then there were some bug fixes too, and it doesn't hurt to double check. I checked the 'known bugs' page on the which, but most of the updates were from April.

Specifically I'm wondering if the following bugs still exist:

Melting Objects can crash the game

Marksdwaves do not train/pickup ammo

Training demonstrations don't happen/keep your dwarves occupied forever

Nobles beyond the mayor never appear

Wagons are MIA

Stone traps do negligible/zero damage

Hunting is borked

Blood/vomit spreads and spreads and spreads, especially around wells or other places dwarves clean themselves.

Dwarves in hospitals occasionally die of thirst when there are idle dwarves to water them.Doctors perform their tasks on wounded dwarves nonstop until they give up and go eat/drink, without healing the dwarf.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Specifically I'm wondering if the following bugs still exist:

Melting Objects can crash the game

Toady One has marked this as fixed for the next version (.05, I suppose). So not fixed yet.

Wagons are MIA

Still no wagons with the traders.

Stone traps do negligible/zero damage

That is probably not a bug. So I don't expect that to change.

Blood/vomit spreads and spreads and spreads, especially around wells or other places dwarves clean themselves.

I am not sure since I had a lot of idle dwarves. But I think it still spreads quite happily.

Dwarves in hospitals occasionally die of thirst when there are idle dwarves to water them.Doctors perform their tasks on wounded dwarves nonstop until they give up and go eat/drink, without healing the dwarf.

Allegedly partially fixed. However, there are still reports of this occurring.

In addition, the deadly rain and missing fish bug still seem to be around.

Deathworks

[gordy]

My fortress site has tons of wildlife  (elephants and chimps mostly), and I managed to catch and import a ton from the elves. However, the taming process leaves seeds and food behind in the cages. How do I collect those seeds again? Once I transfer the tame animal out for training or slaughtering, the seeds sit there in the cage (which sit in my animal stockpiles) - how do i get at the seeds and stop the incessant blinking?

[Internet Kraken]

I have another problem. Recently my cook received a fey mood, but all they have done is stand outside my fort doing nothing. I assumed this meant that I lacked the proper workshop. The problem is I have no idea what workshop my cook needs. His skills are in brewing, soapmaking, liar, cook, and fish cleaner. I'm not sure how any of those translate to a fey mood, aside from maybe cooking but I already have a kitchen built and he hasn't done anything with it. How do I figure out what to build?

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Internet Kraken: If a dwarf has no skills in anything obvious like masonry, they usually pick a craftdwarf's workshop to create some nice earring or something :)
At least that is the usual default.
However, the easiest thing is to simply build all missing workshops and see which he claims (Leatherworks, glass furnace, and clothier are also targets of moods).

Deathworks

[Osmosis Jones]

Build a craftsdwarfs workshop. All the skills you listed are non-moodable, so as a result, the dwarf will default to one of bone, stone or wood crafting.

Ninja'd by deathworks.

[Aklyon]

I assign someone to mining and I have picks in storage but they don't go get the picks and just list as having "No Job".  How do I fix this?  Also, I am in a map with very few trees, is their a substitute for wooden beds, barrels, and crates?

Are you using Dwarf Therapist to assign mining (or woodcutting)? that doesn't work at the moment,and gives the same problem.

[Halo]

Just for clarification, a forgotten beast that is a leech with no organs, and only consists of a body and a shell, is unkillible? Should I just wall up that cavern, sent in the military?

[The Architect]

Conventional attacks won't kill it. However, "unkillable" is a bit of an exaggeration. It's not immortal by any means. You can cause a cave-in, drown it, boil it in magma, or as a last resort encase it in obsidian.

[Osmosis Jones]

I'm not sure about drowning, I know most of the beasts I have encountered seemed amphibious at least.