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[FuzzyZergling]

Could I designate obsidian as an economic stone to stop masons from using it?

Maybe, if you edit the raws.

[Sphalerite]

In my new fort I don't have much lakes around, so instead of flooding a room with water to make a farm I channeled out a pit and got the dwarves to dump water in it so the ground would be muddy. Well the ground's muddy now and I built a farm plot, but, even after building a floor over the pit it says that all the ground that makes up my farm is above ground so my farmer won't plant anything. Is there any way to fix this?

Once ground has been touched by the accursed sunlight, it can never again return to the state of underground darkness it once was.  Those farms will never grown underground crops.

[Remalle]

Could I designate obsidian as an economic stone to stop masons from using it?

Maybe, if you edit the raws.

As far as I know obsidian in vanilla is economic by default...

[FuzzyZergling]

Could I designate obsidian as an economic stone to stop masons from using it?

Maybe, if you edit the raws.

As far as I know obsidian in vanilla is economic by default...

Yes, but for some reason it does not show up.
This could have been fixed, though.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Remove its MAX_EDGE tag and it will show up.

[Bobbias]

I've got a possessed dwarf that took over a clothier's shop. When he asks for leather and cloth, do the leather and cloth have to be a specific type? I've got some free cloth and a bunch of free leather in my stockpiles. And he's just sitting there.

[Urist Imiknorris]

What type of cloth do you have? He's asking for either plant fiber or silk cloth. He will only accept one, and only fey dwarves will tell you which one.

[Bobbias]

Plant fiber only. I guess he wants silk... A caravan left just before this happened, so no chance of me getting another by the time he goes mad... I guess I'm gonna have to wall him in, and wait out his death :/ (and no, I haven't breached a cavern yet, so I have no cave spider webs to get.)

What pisses me off is that he's my militia commander :/ I hate posessed moods.

[glitchpop]

Plant fiber only. I guess he wants silk... A caravan left just before this happened, so no chance of me getting another by the time he goes mad... I guess I'm gonna have to wall him in, and wait out his death :/ (and no, I haven't breached a cavern yet, so I have no cave spider webs to get.)

What pisses me off is that he's my militia commander :/ I hate posessed moods.

Dig I say! Dig like the dickens! (and build a loom) You should hit a cavern. Then your weaver will collect silk and weave it into thread. I love crazy creative dorfs!

[proxn_punkd]

Well, I thought that area looked too good to be true... then when I was making spear traps for a danger room, it kept telling me I had more pokey things than I'd counted...

... then I went to hook my pokey things to an outside lever.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Turns out I've got a very fancy pokey thing, about 60 z-levels directly below my fort. I've spoiled myself on the wiki about what this means, and since I can't even handle goblins reliably in numbers greater than one, this could be the start of a whole lot of fun. Should I worry, or try to avoid it, or what?

[Spaghetti]

whats the easiest way to get my guys to stand on the wall rather than the floor one z level down when i station them?

[JAFANZ]

Could I designate obsidian as an economic stone to stop masons from using it?

Maybe, if you edit the raws.

As far as I know obsidian in vanilla is economic by default...

Yes, but for some reason it does not show up.
This could have been fixed, though.

Nope, not fixed.

Obsidian is supposed to be Economic(red) by default if you don't embark on a volcano, Non-Economic(green) if you do.

To change it, you need to make it visible in the Stones list, which is done by setting Max_Edge to a value lower than 10k, presumably removal equals zero, but using an actual number makes it easier to change back. Once you've set it to what you want, save & revert the max edge value.

Remember that you need to be fiddling the stones_layer.txt for the save, not the defaults (though my default has Max_Edge at 9999, so I only need to alter each save once).

[MycoRunner]

Plant fiber only. I guess he wants silk... A caravan left just before this happened, so no chance of me getting another by the time he goes mad... I guess I'm gonna have to wall him in, and wait out his death :/ (and no, I haven't breached a cavern yet, so I have no cave spider webs to get.)

What pisses me off is that he's my militia commander :/ I hate posessed moods.

Dig I say! Dig like the dickens! (and build a loom) You should hit a cavern. Then your weaver will collect silk and weave it into thread. I love crazy creative dorfs!

I agree! Dig! You have time to save him!

The exact thing happened to me. Some moody dwarf wanted silk thread right after the caravan left. So I dug. I hesitated and procrastinated and he lost his marbles RIGHT as I breached the cavern. But if you dig straight down, poke a little hole in there grab some webs and wall it up, it's like nothing ever happened.

Which leads me to my question:

on the Z-Stocks screen, I was searching for silk thread, and found it. It was red, so not owned by me, and 60z levels down where the caverns are. So am I right in assuming that this points out where exactly the webs are before you even breach the caverns?

[sebs]

Hitting "D" gives me an all red map, even when I have a perfect 3*n road from map edge to trade depot. On the other hand, caravans do reach the depot without problems.

So is access checking just deactivated due to bugs, or will this cause problems?

[JAFANZ]

Hitting "D" gives me an all red map, even when I have a perfect 3*n road from map edge to trade depot. On the other hand, caravans do reach the depot without problems.

So is access checking just deactivated due to bugs, or will this cause problems?

Access checking is testing for a Wagon-accessible path, so whilst I don't know why it's failing for you, it's also irrelevant because DF2010 Caravans don't yet bring Wagons.