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[JoRo]

Is there some way to cycle through activity zones? When I'm finished using d-b-d to clear my storage rooms of stone and move it into a quantum stockpile, it's not always easy to remember whether I've turned that garbage dump off. Sometimes the first hint that I get that the zone is still active is when a later dump order, which is supposed to move expensive materials next to the moody dwarf's workshop, instead starts hauling the rough-cut emeralds clear across the fort to the old, forgotten-but-still-active, quantum stockpile I had left by the entrance. If I could get a list of all my activity zones, active or not, I could at least check all of them.

The 'R'ooms list has all the zones in it, there's a 'zoom to building item' option or something that will center you on the zone.  It doesn't differentiate between garbage, fishing, meeting, hospital or whatever zones so it's a little tedious to go through but it's something.

[Passive Fist]

Question: I can't make my adamantine strands go into the cloth stockpile. How can I make it go in there?

[ottottott]

Um... Enable adamantine strands from the stockpile settings?

[Gabrus]

I've read about how military duty screws up dwarves for normal work... my two dwarves keep turning mining and woodcutting completely off right after I've switched them on. Anything I can do?

[ottottott]

Well... For some reason you can't be a miner and a woodcutter. Is that the problem?

[Gabrus]

But they seem to be shutting off both skills...

[ottottott]

Well I don't know why that is happening but now that you know that they can't both be on just set 1 on. Or does it shut it off even with only 1 on?

[Passive Fist]

Um... Enable adamantine strands from the stockpile settings?

If only it were so simple! Adamantine strands do not appear in the stockpile settings.

[ottottott]

Heh! I don't deal with adamantine after the horror it caused me 1 time. My 1st and only loss.

[Scrippy]

So I just got a tame Jaguar and a Giant Jaguar from those *$&#damn elves and I'd like to train them to be war animals, but I cannot get them out of the cage. How do I handle this?

[ottottott]

Build the cage somewhere. (You can see what cage they are in while building if you expand the list. Then it will tell it's a jaguar cage.) After the cage is built choose assign and unchoose the jaguar.

[bowie]

What do all the letters in the new barracks menu mean, namely: t, i, q and p

[The Grim Sleeper]

If Temperature is turned off, magma will no longer fry goblins, but does the same go for fire based traps? (like the Dwarven incinerator described here:http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Trap_design#Dwarven_incinerator)
How bad are fire-traps on FPS?

[Khift]

Can underground trees grow on muddy constructions? In my last fort I paved the floor of my entire reservoir, but it took literally years for the architects to design all of it so I'm looking for an easier solution for my new fort. If I could just build floor constructions along the whole thing it would be a hell of a lot faster and simpler, but I want to make sure that will prevent tree growth before I do it.

[Sphalerite]

Trees will not grow if there is any building or construction in the tile.  This includes floors, roads, and bridges.  They will also not grow in spaces zoned as stockpiles, so if you don't mind a borderline exploit you can designate an area as a stockpile to prevent trees from growing there.