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[Sphalerite]

Kill orders don't seem to work at all reliably in my experience.  It's more reliable to order your squad to move to a point near the goblins.  They should automatically attack when they get within line of sight.

[Medicine Man]

Is it possible for demons/Forgotten Beasts etc to be made out of

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adimantine or slade?

[greycat]

Burrows issue.

Suddenly two of my better craftsdwarfs head out to replace traps in the path of the goblin invasion and Urist McWFT? (fish dissector) heads out with no job to wander the wilderness.

What am I doing wrong? How do I make them just stay in the burrow?

I've heard it said that what a burrow actually means is "Nothing outside of this burrow is usable for any jobs you need to do."  Rather than "You must remain within this burrow."  So, a dwarf with No Job can still go wandering randomly anywhere his stupid little heart leads him.

Clearly the answer to that is to give them more work.  Lazy little nuggets.  For example, it's obviously extremely vital to your fortress that this whole quantum stockpile of mica be moved over there.  Immediately.

[Spaghetti]

Is there a way to melt snow in my buildings?

Im in a freezing climate and nothing thaws.

[Lord Shonus]

Is it possible for demons/Forgotten Beasts etc to be made out of

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adimantine or slade?

I'm pretty certain that this is impossible.

[Impudence12]

How dense is bone? Also are artifact weapons always better? I ask because I got a marmot bone war hammer and I am wondering if it's better than my masterwork silver ones.

[Dwarfotaur]

How do I clean up my militarys normal clothes? They seem to have streaked down the hallway and left spiderisilk clothes everywhere. I told them to store items in the barracks and now it's messier than my room at college in there. I gave them a cabinet but they're not using it!

[JAFANZ]

How dense is bone? Also are artifact weapons always better? I ask because I got a marmot bone war hammer and I am wondering if it's better than my masterwork silver ones.

Not very. Yes. Being an Artifact probably doesn't make it sufficiently better to compensate for the complete inappropriateness of the base material, I suggest you whack it in a weapon trap in your dormitory, barracks, or dining hall to make your dorfs happier (by increasing Architectural value) instead of allowing it to be used in combat, or put it somewhere behind a chained animal as bait for thieves.

[Pukako]

Burrows issue.

Suddenly two of my better craftsdwarfs head out to replace traps in the path of the goblin invasion and Urist McWFT? (fish dissector) heads out with no job to wander the wilderness.

What am I doing wrong? How do I make them just stay in the burrow?

I've heard it said that what a burrow actually means is "Nothing outside of this burrow is usable for any jobs you need to do."  Rather than "You must remain within this burrow."  So, a dwarf with No Job can still go wandering randomly anywhere his stupid little heart leads him.

Clearly the answer to that is to give them more work.  Lazy little nuggets.  For example, it's obviously extremely vital to your fortress that this whole quantum stockpile of mica be moved over there.  Immediately.

Thanks.  Could explain things. Still, lost 4 dwarves (two militia, two random fisherdwarves) in the battle, and immediately got 23 migrants, so am actually ahead of where I started....

[Seriyu]

Are wrestlers worth the training time taken? Or would just equipping them with a bronze weapon be better? basically, do they actually manage to do damage to invaders, or just run up and get the crud kicked out of them?

[vassock]

Does the top of fortifications need a floor? If I build a wall one z-level below, the upper z-level shows a floor. What about fortifications? Do I need to add a floor on top of the fortification to make my fortress airtight? Is there a test for airtightness?

[INSANEcyborg]

How do I clean up my militarys normal clothes? They seem to have streaked down the hallway and left spiderisilk clothes everywhere. I told them to store items in the barracks and now it's messier than my room at college in there. I gave them a cabinet but they're not using it!

Try forbidding anything that already in the barracks.  I've noticed dwarfs tend to store the same clothes over and over instead of getting different ones from someplace else.  Same goes for the cabinet, forbid anything on the same tile.   

Does the top of fortifications need a floor? If I build a wall one z-level below, the upper z-level shows a floor. What about fortifications? Do I need to add a floor on top of the fortification to make my fortress airtight? Is there a test for airtightness?

If you build a Fortification, the level above it won't have a floor.  But, you can build a wall, then carve a fortification into it, and it will keep the floor above it. 

[vassock]

I know it has no floor, but does that make it not airtight against flying enemies?

[INSANEcyborg]

As far as I know, a flying unit won't move into a tile with a fortification, either from above, or from the side like any other unit.  Falling creatures will land in the same tile, and if they survive, will move to any valid tile next to them. 

[vassock]

As far as I know, a flying unit won't move into a tile with a fortification, either from above, or from the side like any other unit.  Falling creatures will land in the same tile, and if they survive, will move to any valid tile next to them.

Can they move diagonally through z-levels?