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[Passive Fist]

Is there anyway to make someone do something they're not trained in?

Eg. Immigrant McImmigrant arrives with no skills. I want him to mine. Turn on mining. Stand about doing nothing for a year.

For mining specifically, and woodcutting, there must be a free pick or axe. It's no use telling someone to mine with their bare hands.  Copper, despite its malleability, makes a perfectly fine mining pick, plus it's cheap and common. Make a pick at a metalsmith's forge.

Question:
How can I make my world deeper? I keep embarking in worlds/sites that are only about 40 floors deep, often with only one or even zero levels between cavern levels. I'd rather have maybe ~20 to the first cave, and another 10-15 between cavern levels, and then even more, maybe, between the last cavern and the surface of the magma sea.

[Fergusbarker]

For mining specifically, and woodcutting, there must be a free pick or axe. It's no use telling someone to mine with their bare hands.  Copper, despite its malleability, makes a perfectly fine mining pick, plus it's cheap and common. Make a pick at a metalsmith's forge.

But I mean even with a veritable wealth of unused picks it seems that no one wants to use them!

[Passive Fist]

For mining specifically, and woodcutting, there must be a free pick or axe. It's no use telling someone to mine with their bare hands.  Copper, despite its malleability, makes a perfectly fine mining pick, plus it's cheap and common. Make a pick at a metalsmith's forge.

But I mean even with a veritable wealth of unused picks it seems that no one wants to use them!

Well, gotta do the normal troubleshooting then. Are the picks physically accessible? Are they forbidden?

[LtGreeneyes]

Question:
How can I make my world deeper? I keep embarking in worlds/sites that are only about 40 floors deep, often with only one or even zero levels between cavern levels. I'd rather have maybe ~20 to the first cave, and another 10-15 between cavern levels, and then even more, maybe, between the last cavern and the surface of the magma sea.

Possibly try embarking in the mountains?

[Osmosis Jones]

Question:
How can I make my world deeper? I keep embarking in worlds/sites that are only about 40 floors deep, often with only one or even zero levels between cavern levels. I'd rather have maybe ~20 to the first cave, and another 10-15 between cavern levels, and then even more, maybe, between the last cavern and the surface of the magma sea.

You can set it in the advanced parameters when you gen a world. Best of all, from posts I've seen around here, changing the underground does not change aboveground features. So, if you have a nice embark, when you regen, it will still look mostly the same.

Is it possible to stop the digging designation canceled damp stone notification?

Sort of. You can make it stop the pause and recentre, so it just tells you at the bottom of the screen.

[Timst]

I'm sure it has been answered multiple times, but I can't find it and it's not easily searchable due to the very common word used, but...



What are these colored letters on the side of the screen ? (the red "C" and the cyan "S")

[StrawberryBunny]

Combat is 'C', there's one in between the two to denote hunting events, and the 'S' denotes sparring events.

[Osmosis Jones]

Means you have combat reports, for combat and sparring as mentioned by Strawberry bunny. Press r to view them.

[Timst]

Thanks

[Poochyfud]

Oh, I didn't see this thread. Nice.

Anyway, I already posted a topic, but maybe I'll get an answer here. Does anybody know how to change the max fortress population in this new version of DF?

[Aklyon]

its still in the init.txt, or d_init.txt.

[Particleman]

For mining specifically, and woodcutting, there must be a free pick or axe. It's no use telling someone to mine with their bare hands.  Copper, despite its malleability, makes a perfectly fine mining pick, plus it's cheap and common. Make a pick at a metalsmith's forge.

But I mean even with a veritable wealth of unused picks it seems that no one wants to use them!

Are you turning on mining and woodcutting with Dwarf Therapist? For some reason they don't work right with DT and you have to toggle them manually fromt he game itself.

[Tokeli]

After resorting to pumping out my accidentally over-flooded farms (I got distracted by the sudden arrival of my first caravan when we were starving, and a dwarf going insane. For some reason this fortress is a ton harder than any before), I noticed that the water flowing into the brook disappeared. Can a brook or river be used like an aquifer in that manner, just be able to drop as much water as you want into it and have it flow off the edge without overflowing the thing?

[Saposhiente]

The tiles at the end of the brook will take in an infinite amount of water, so as long as you don't fill it too fast you can use it as a drain.

[Tokeli]

Haha, I think I'll dam up the river and divert it through my fortress, and have it pumped back out on the other side of the dam right back into the brook, then.