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[TolyK]

I just designated a lot of ponds (I know only a single dwarf will fill a pond , so I made a lot of 1x1 ponds next to eachother), but my dorfs aren't filling it. I'm pretty sure I have buckets, though.

Also, how do I get my dorfs to take like, splints and thread and cloth to the hospital?

1. Try making 1x2, with one walkable and one fillable tile.
2. Put chests, coffers, bags there. Other than that check that you made a hospital zone.

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My own question:
How aggressive are angry goblins?
*translation*
I'm at war with the goblins and want to know their ETA.
*translation*
when will goblins I'm warring with come?

[shlorf]

I just designated a lot of ponds (I know only a single dwarf will fill a pond , so I made a lot of 1x1 ponds next to eachother), but my dorfs aren't filling it. I'm pretty sure I have buckets, though.

The pond zone has to be over open space (or a down ramp). You don't need to (and probably shouldn't) extend it to the place the dwarf will be standing on as long as any space next to it is walkable. Do you have a water source? If you're not getting any cancel fill pond: <reason> messages there must be something wrong with your zones. (i) over them and make sure they are set to pond with shift-p and are set to be (f)illed.

[c-106mc]

Is there some way I can utilize the corpses of the unbutcherable (sapient creatures, like Kobolds and Goblins for instance)? I figured I could line up their corpses by my entrance, but I was hoping I could actually get something from their bodies.

[rephikul]

Is there some way I can utilize the corpses of the unbutcherable (sapient creatures, like Kobolds and Goblins for instance)? I figured I could line up their corpses by my entrance, but I was hoping I could actually get something from their bodies.

Nothing you can do unless you mod the game. Atomsmash and forget about it.

[TolyK]

when will goblins I'm at war with come?

[Kat]

I have helms, breastplates, greaves, boots, gauntlets assigned as uniforms.

Can you assign anything else, such as cloaks and hoods, for the bits the armour doesn't cover?

Or does it clash?

[Arphahat]

That should be adequate. Either you've found a bug, OR two dwarves with very simiar/identical names have died on your map.

Only two dwarves have died total on my map, so it must be a bug.  Could someone direct me to the instructions on how to report it?

[shlorf]

I have helms, breastplates, greaves, boots, gauntlets assigned as uniforms.

Can you assign anything else, such as cloaks and hoods, for the bits the armour doesn't cover?

Or does it clash?

You defintely want to add mail shirts, as breastplates only cover the body and gauntlets only extend to the lower arms. That aside, you can add 6 cloaks and 3 hoods and a pair of mittens on top of everything else.

[ColonelTEE3]

by any chance, your food are claimed by militias?

No i dont think so. My militia hardly ever take rations. And if this is the case, why can most of my dwarves eat?

Another thought is that everything in the barrels is alcohol. Have any animals to butcher, or bushes available for plant gathering?

Like i said, most of my dwarves can eat. They're finding food from my stockpiles, but not these few in the minority. Its not like im running out of food.

[Ahasver]

Question: I'm slowly amassing a pile of bodies, including several kobolds, goblins, elves, racoons, unicorns, and even a cylcops. I have free space in my refuse and corpse piles and all of the bodies are claimed, so why won't my dwarves move them to their respective piles? I messed with the stockpile settings a bit, making sure "remains" are turned on, but that just fills my stockpiles with dead rodents.

[Poindexterity]

sometimes my dwarves, usually soldiers, will drop a piece of clothing like a hat or shoe or something inside the fort and no matter what i do (dump, claim, etc) no one will pick them up. they just lie there the whole game.

advice?

[Sutremaine]

Most common problem is that the corpses are outside. Dwarves ignore outdoors refuse by default, so you need to press [o ], [r ] and make them pick up outdoors rubbish. There's an option to ignore vermin remains too.

Owned clothes will be left where their owners drop them if they don't have a cabinet to put them in. The clothes will exist forever unless you find a way of destroying them, but at least they're out of the way in a cabinet.

[lotopius]

I forgot to check the neighbour civilisations pre-embark. Is there a way to do that once I embarked or do I have to re-embark?

[TolyK]

if you haven't saved, run DF again and try almost embarking there.

[Noctriate]

So it can be
1) bug
2) you made mistake somewhere, this should work
3) glitch - try to restart DF, computer, universe
3) you disabled mine labour for them
4) ?

Restarting DF didn't fix this, but restarting my computer did. So, yay! Thanks guys/gals for the help.