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[agatharchides]

Any particular reason I can't give the order to make steel at the smelter? I can do it just find from the manager, so it isn't a big deal, but it doesn't seem particularly logical...

[Urist Imiknorris]

I may have found the cause of a bug.

I've been churning steel out aboveground for a while now, and recently struck magma.  I removed the bar and ore stockpiles, and as soon as my first megma smelter and forge went up..
I don't have Pig Iron or Steel as options!

After rebooting, using some cleartasks, and such.. no luck.  PLENTY of iron, pig iron, and some steel laying around, too...

So I make a new bar and ore stockpiles.  FIXED!

It seems the 'missing stuff' bug in menus is caused by items being inside containers that are not in a designated stockpile (even if they're not being moved or used by a dwarf).

Can someone test this theory and verify?  If so i'll hit the bugtracker and/or toady.

Experimental !!Science!!, handle with care.

[RiderofDark]

Any particular reason I can't give the order to make steel at the smelter? I can do it just find from the manager, so it isn't a big deal, but it doesn't seem particularly logical...

You have to make pig iron before you can make steel.

[Mister Always]

What should I do with all this platinum and native gold that I have?

[Fellhuhn]

What should I do with all this platinum and native gold that I have?

Build a golden platinium dome over your embark area.

[Mister Always]

I think I'll just sell it.

Also, I have just been made a county. My countess now wants a throne room. She has an office, how do I turn that from an office into a throne room?

[Flaede]

I think I'll just sell it.

Also, I have just been made a county. My countess now wants a throne room. She has an office, how do I turn that from an office into a throne room?

At least make it into things and decorate it with green glass before you sell it?
Or quantum stockpile it somewhere, and use it for moods.

[mrbaggins]

I think I'll just sell it.

Also, I have just been made a county. My countess now wants a throne room. She has an office, how do I turn that from an office into a throne room?

Add value to it. Smooth the walls, get the best engraver to put masterwork engravings through it, replace dodgy chairs and tables with masterwork ones, add gold statues.

Cheaty type ways include adding a lever and a cage, and linking them together repeatedly. Each time the lever gets an extra mechanism, the value of the mech is added to the room.

Make the room bigger?

[Audrais]

Question:
Is there a way to prevent my dwarves from gathering around my chained animals?
I have a gathering hall and a meeting zone, and idle dwarves continue to cluster around my watchdogs.

[Mister Always]

I can't seem to find any caverns...I'm sure I must be deep enough. I keep digging 2x2 tunnels to the edges of the map about 12 z-levels down, but nothing.

Why?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Question:
Is there a way to prevent my dwarves from gathering around my chained animals?
I have a gathering hall and a meeting zone, and idle dwarves continue to cluster around my watchdogs.

You probably marked the chain as a room.

I can't seem to find any caverns...I'm sure I must be deep enough. I keep digging 2x2 tunnels to the edges of the map about 12 z-levels down, but nothing.

Why?

How deep is your map? I've had the caverns start at z-level -40 or so.

[Mister Always]

...somebody told me they started at 11.

People suck.

[Urist Imiknorris]

In my current fort, they start at level -6. It's fairly random.

[Kogut]

My fort have SMR at -29... It is really random.

[PainRack]

Help.... I re-equipped my dwarves with a new uniform and now they refuse to pick up their old weapons.
How do I retrigger a pick up equipment command?(My plate uniform did not include a weapon default, relying on me manually editing them to get a weapon as I wanted a customised squad and was too lazy to create two seperate uniforms.)


Similarly, if I wanted my dwarves to pick up their old weapons which had kills registered to it, how do I do that?