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[Wnderer]

I used to build skylights in 40d for growing strawberries and rope reed but a Titan just flew in and reeked havoc. How do you build safe skylights in DF2010?

Also I used to forbid dwarfs to go outside during a crisis. How do you forbid dwarfs to go outside in DF2010?

[Sphalerite]

I built a windmill, and it worked great (power 40). I bulit a second windmill 5 tiles away, and its completely unpowered. How can i tell before I build if there will be wind or not?

Wind will be constant across a biome.  If your embark site is all one biome, it will have constant wind everywhere on the surface.  If your site is across multiple biomes, it may have different levels of wind on different parts of the site.  There does not appear to be any way to tell how much wind each biome has before you embark.

[Shiv]

I used to build skylights in 40d for growing strawberries and rope reed but a Titan just flew in and reeked havoc. How do you build safe skylights in DF2010?

Bwahhaha!

Sorry, but to answer your question, I'd imagine build a grate over it or build a bridge.  As far as I know, if you expose a tile to light it's light forever, even if you build floors over it, so there's another option.  Grates if you want realism (though archers can still shoot through them I believe), bridge/floor if you just want to get it done.

Also I used to forbid dwarfs to go outside during a crisis. How do you forbid dwarfs to go outside in DF2010?

Burrows (w), then assign civilians to burrows in the (m)ilitary (a)lerts screen.

[toue]

What is the tag to make a creature butcherable and where do I put it?

[AlphaKoala]

This may be a pretty noob question, but my dwarves refuse to build any craft workshops. I have already built a masons and carpentry workshops, and they built the trade depot and walls I designated. However they just don't want to build the craft workshops. (V 31.13)

[toue]

Do you have stone, wood, or bone crafting labors turned on for one of your dwarves?

[AlphaKoala]

Yes, I have huge stocks of obsidian and ash wood, and I have turned on the labours for all of my dwarves. They just sit around the wagon being lazy!

[Sphalerite]

What is the tag to make a creature butcherable and where do I put it?

It is not a tag but a lack of a tag.  Your dwarves will refuse to butcher anything sentient, which seems to mean having [CAN_SPEAK] or [CAN_LEARN] or [INTELLIGENT] or some combination of them.  Alternately, you can edit your dwarves civilization ethics to have [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:ACCEPTABLE] so they'll butcher and eat sentient creatures.

The creature also needs to be made of normal flesh-type materials, so you'll never be able to butcher a fire man or bronze colossus or whatever.  There may also be some additional as yet to be determined factors since a lot of people have said they can't butcher buzzards, which should be butcherable.

[toue]

Would ethic changes work on a world that was already genned?

[Sphalerite]

Would ethic changes work on a world that was already genned?

In my experience once the civ is created changes to the entity raws no longer have any effect.  Changes to the creature raws should work however.

[bcd1024]

I always over do my food production. I have 3 planters, and 2 4x10 farm plots. I planted helmets at first, then switched to pig tails and cave wheat solely for the booze. Last year and a half I didn't plant anything because I ran out of food stockpiles. Fortress is just about to turn 4.

My 88 dwarves have about 5000 booze, 2000 prepared food, and I constantly have to dig out new food stockpiles.

I think the problem is my guys are too well trained. Near Legendary workers plant one seed and get 5 plants back. Brewers brew 5 plants and get 25 booze. Cooks then make lavish meals of 50+ food. Two or three seeds plus a piece of meat usually gets me 60+ food.

What food ratios do you guys aim for?

[Kurouma]

I used to build skylights in 40d for growing strawberries and rope reed but a Titan just flew in and reeked havoc. How do you build safe skylights in DF2010?

Bwahhaha!

Sorry, but to answer your question, I'd imagine build a grate over it or build a bridge.  As far as I know, if you expose a tile to light it's light forever, even if you build floors over it, so there's another option.  Grates if you want realism (though archers can still shoot through them I believe), bridge/floor if you just want to get it done.

Also I used to forbid dwarfs to go outside during a crisis. How do you forbid dwarfs to go outside in DF2010?

Burrows (w), then assign civilians to burrows in the (m)ilitary (a)lerts screen.

As far as I can tell, building a floor over a once-exposed tile will make it [Outside] [Dark]. If you build the farm plot before you cover it up again, though, that would probably work.

Also you could build a glass floor; they let light in. Like a greenhouse

[Sphalerite]

Any spot which has been touched by light will be flagged as Light, Above Ground, forever.  Building a roof over it will cause it to become Inside, but it will still be Light, Above Ground.  You can build a farm on a Light, Above Ground farm and aboveground plants on it, but only on soil - I'm pretty sure that muddied rock will never grown aboveground plants even if you've dug it out and exposed it to the surface.

[fivex]

Any spot which has been touched by light will be flagged as Light, Above Ground, forever.  Building a roof over it will cause it to become Inside, but it will still be Light, Above Ground.  You can build a farm on a Light, Above Ground farm and aboveground plants on it, but only on soil - I'm pretty sure that muddied rock will never grown aboveground plants even if you've dug it out and exposed it to the surface.

Nope.
I'm pretty sure it's(muddying rock) also the only way to farm aboveground plants if you have no soil

[vassock]

What happens if I flush water into the magma sea or a magma pipe?