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[Lord Shonus]

What is the knife user skill?
One of my military dwarves in legendairy'+5 in it.
But he's using an Ax not a Large Knife.
Should I try and obtain a large knife for him?
How did he get trained in it ? He is in a sqad with a guy who is high master at it, and who is uising a large iron knife but he has no ranks in student...

It's not uncommon for dwarves to have high ranks in odd weapons when they show up.

[Inglonias]

How do I use artifacts as furniture?

[LoSboccacc]

How do I use artifacts as furniture?

'b'uild them as usual. you'll find them in the relative furniture item (beds, statues, tables) under it's own name.

to know artifacts names, 'l'ist them

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

How can I make a creature only available to a single race?

[FuzzyZergling]

You could change the creature to live only in a biome that the target race lives, maybe?

[Uristoteles]

1. Clothing my dwarves have "lost" is lying around in my fortress. Via order I set to reclaim all the stuff, but it does not count for stuff before I set the order. So, how do I get my dwarves to pick up clothing from dead dwarves? They dont touch it, nor dump it.

you're looking for a Cabinet
it must be 'b'uild into a room assigned to a dwarf, who will then store his clothes inside.
for more information about 'Container'

edit: nvm, it seems I missed the 'dead'-part; no other way but to burn those damn socks with magma, I'd say

[Akivara]

Remember my dwarf who lost his hand?  Several years have passed, and he suddenly started spewing blood all over a part of my fortress.  I checked him though and he doesn't have any new wounds.  Do untreated lost limbs spew blood from time to time or something?

[Executer]

Hopefully that's all it is, and hope that he's not infected with some long-term disease from some fb he's fought, or your whole fortress may be doomed.

[Akivara]

I haven't even broken into the caverns yet, so no worries there.

However, speaking of caverns, I've got a magma pipe extending all the way up into the first cavern and with a couple of levels of empty air above it, at around 12 levels below ground level.  Is that kind of thing normal?  I've never seen it before.  I'm not far from a volcano, if that has anything to do with it.

(I play with Stonesense and it has a thing that shows you hidden tiles, so that's how I know it's there.)

[celem]

Yeah its fairly common to have a magma pipe extend partway to the surface.  Not sure which version this arrived in.

Having it run all the way to the first is a bonus, i usually find these 'failed' volcanos down by #3.

My turn:

How much water is needed to form ice?  will 1/7 form a full block like 7/7?
How much magma do I have to drop water on to form an obsidian tile?  same deal...1/7 work?

[Lord Shonus]

Hi there, I have 2 little questions. Answers or pointers in the right direction are welcome:

1. Clothing my dwarves have "lost" is lying around in my fortress. Via order I set to reclaim all the stuff, but it does not count for stuff before I set the order. So, how do I get my dwarves to pick up clothing from dead dwarves? They dont touch it, nor dump it.

The clothing is forbidden, which is signified by the {brackets} outside the name when you "k" over the tile. To reclaim (unforbid) individual items, you can use the "c" key in the k menu. There is also a mass-designation tool in the designate menu.

[zhxb]

Hi there, I have 2 little questions. Answers or pointers in the right direction are welcome:

1. Clothing my dwarves have "lost" is lying around in my fortress. Via order I set to reclaim all the stuff, but it does not count for stuff before I set the order. So, how do I get my dwarves to pick up clothing from dead dwarves? They dont touch it, nor dump it.

The clothing is forbidden, which is signified by the {brackets} outside the name when you "k" over the tile. To reclaim (unforbid) individual items, you can use the "c" key in the k menu. There is also a mass-designation tool in the designate menu.

Sorry, but no. The clothing is not forbidden. It is just the (imported) stuff from a dwarf who died. I can not dump it either - no one is touching that damn stuff. Also there is clothing laying around from other dead dwarfs and lots of clothing from children. It seems that everything a dwarf drops, regardless the reason (death, madness, unhappyness), is forever damned and can not be picked up by anyone.

[Lord Shonus]

According to your earlier post, the behavior changed with the order menu upon future deaths. Forbidding is the only possible way for that to happen.

[madjoe5]

Is there a utility that heals dwarves? I just embarked and spent a lot of time digging out a near perfect landscape. Then my monitor got unplugged. Once I plugged it in; I was greeted by my expedition leader, unconscious and surrounded by gargoyles .

[Crashmaster]

will adding water to a murky pool by designating a corner of it as a pond stop it from collecting rain anymore?

I added water to the murky pool I had tapped for a water source to keep the rest from evaporating after taking too much from it at once and it has never caught a drop of rain again in ten years while just next to it a murky pool is working just fine.