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[Mister Always]

I now have a water wheel, connected to a gear assembly, connected to a STRAIGHT LINE (n-s) of horizontal axles (three of them).

The axles. Are still. Not being. Powered.

[Big Bee]

Embark problems!

My dwarves embarked with the wagon on top of a frozen river.  Obviously, I do not want the items to fall into the water when they melt.  In order to move them away quickly, I created an active garbage dump zone and then tagged all the items from the deconstructed wagon as (d)ump.  They won't (d)ump.  They just stand around (d)umbly.  Any ideas what I did wrong?

I made a work-around with an everything stockpile, but I'd like to know what the exact problem was.

[Remalle]

It might be that you designated the dump zone on level ground.  You're supposed to have it next to at least a 1z drop so your dwarves can actually dump it.

[Sutremaine]

Not true, dwarves will dump things straight onto the ground.

The default for garbage collection is for dwarves to ignore refuse outside. You need to press o - r - o  to change this default.

[Kogut]

-ignore this please-

[Remalle]

Not true, dwarves will dump things straight onto the ground.

Um, is that a new feature, because I've never seen that happen before.

[Noctriate]

I'm at 255,000 created wealth, 6,000? food 2,000? drink, and 88 dwarves and still haven't had any

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megabeasts

show up. This is my first fort to even make it to 100,000 created wealth, let alone 50+ dwarves. I usually have ambushes and other forms of fun happen, but so far, only kobolds.

[rephikul]

dont you need like 100k export.
nvm

[Noctriate]

Well, as I went checked back for any replies,

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"Disuth" the giant gray haired skin-winged slug

appeared.

I hope my 20 Axelords can win.

[Lord Shonus]

Not true, dwarves will dump things straight onto the ground.

Um, is that a new feature, because I've never seen that happen before.

Nope. It's never not been that way. If your dump is on level ground, they'll just pile stuff there. If there's a drop next to it, they'll toss the stuff down.

[ColonelTEE3]

My game keeps freezing, all of a sudden. Temporarily, though.

I'll get maybe 5 or 6 seconds of "20 FPS", then everything stops for maybe 10-15 seconds, it says Dwarf Fortress is not responding, but if i wait long enough, it always resumes. When it resumes, it says the FPS has dropped to 4 <4> or something low like that, then maybe goes back to <20>, for a few seconds, then freezes, ad infinitum.

I even just recently destroyed all the animals on my fort. I had all of them in two cages and atom smashed. This problem persists even through that.

How do i fix this?

[ltprifti]

I'm at 255,000 created wealth, 6,000? food 2,000? drink, and 88 dwarves and still haven't had any

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megabeasts

show up. This is my first fort to even make it to 100,000 created wealth, let alone 50+ dwarves. I usually have ambushes and other forms of fun happen, but so far, only kobolds.

i have 2.5mil wealth lots of food fish plants and brews.  no sieges or MB yet just 5 FB

[Sutremaine]

My game keeps freezing, all of a sudden. Temporarily, though.

Got ghosts?

Cloaked ambushers will also cause dips in framerate, but the stop-start behaviour is typical of ghosts.

[monk12]

My game keeps freezing, all of a sudden. Temporarily, though.

Got ghosts?

Cloaked ambushers will also cause dips in framerate, but the stop-start behaviour is typical of ghosts.

Memorializing or interring the dead will solve this problem, if ghosts are indeed the cause.

[Flaede]

My game keeps freezing, all of a sudden. Temporarily, though.

Got ghosts?

Cloaked ambushers will also cause dips in framerate, but the stop-start behaviour is typical of ghosts.

Memorializing or interring the dead will solve this problem, if ghosts are indeed the cause.

That is exactly th behaviour I got the first time I had an infestation of the undead.