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[agatharchides]

I can't figure out why my aboveground farms say 'no seeds available at this location'. I have them unforbidden in my stockpile and dwarves are walking over them to do other things so they can certainly path there.

[FuzzyZergling]

You can also fix the seed problem by only allowing experienced growers plant/harvest.
That way, you get several quarry bushes from one rock nut.

[Sphalerite]

I can't figure out why my aboveground farms say 'no seeds available at this location'. I have them unforbidden in my stockpile and dwarves are walking over them to do other things so they can certainly path there.

Is the farm on actual dirt, or muddied rock?

[RiderofDark]

Is the ethic tag [ACCEPTABLE] required to allow dwarves to process sapients and their skeletons in fortress mode, or would something like [JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON] or [PERSONAL_MATTER] work just as well?

[agatharchides]

I can't figure out why my aboveground farms say 'no seeds available at this location'. I have them unforbidden in my stockpile and dwarves are walking over them to do other things so they can certainly path there.

Is the farm on actual dirt, or muddied rock?

Muddied rock. I guess that doesn't work aboveground then? 

[Sphalerite]

Aboveground crops won't grow on muddied rock, even if it's aboveground muddied rock.  You need soil.

[assimilateur]

If I change the raws for quarry bushes from [SPRING][SUMMER][AUTUMN]  to [SPRING][SUMMER][AUTUMN] [WINTER], can I get quarry bushes to grow in winter?

Yes, that's how those tags work. I'd recommend this mod even without that seed-wasting bug you encountered, as realistically I'd expect an underground environment to be pretty climatically stable over the seasons. Way I understand things, if anything should be limited to specific seasons it's the aboveground crops, not the underground ones.

[PainRack]

If I change the raws for quarry bushes from [SPRING][SUMMER][AUTUMN]  to [SPRING][SUMMER][AUTUMN] [WINTER], can I get quarry bushes to grow in winter?

Yes, that's how those tags work. I'd recommend this mod even without that seed-wasting bug you encountered, as realistically I'd expect an underground environment to be pretty climatically stable over the seasons. Way I understand things, if anything should be limited to specific seasons it's the aboveground crops, not the underground ones.

What about underground "light"? Plump Helmet, being a mushroom can grow all season, but perhaps cave wheat and etc require higher quantities of light dwarves can't manipulate in winter.

[assimilateur]

I didn't exactly pay much attention to that, but I think all underground tiles are marked as dark and you would expect any and all light to be supplied via torches, which don't function differently depending on season. Whether they use light at all is another question.

[Mkombat]

How do you release an animal from a cage? Sad to admit, I read the wiki and I'm still confused. I bought a bear that's tame, what will happen if it's released?

[Lord Shonus]

Okay i started a new fort and i've run into some problems i've not run into before, or maybe i just wasn't aware of these problems with my bigger forts:

I have one military soldier i use as a hunter to kill all wildlife -- he VERY frequently forbids his own crossbow after he is done with his orders. Why does he do this and how can i stop this?

Also, i -cannot- get him to keep his weapon and gear on him when he is not stationed or ordered to do something actively. How do i get him to keep his weapon, quiver, ammo etc, all on him, all the time?

Never, ever, ever enable the hunting (mining and woodcutting have similar problems, but only with weapons) labor on a military dwarf. Hunting has a non-editable hidden uniform, and it is impossible to force both it and the military uniform to use the same equipment. What happens is, he goes into civilian mode and says "This isn't my hunting uniform" and takes everything off.

[assimilateur]

How do you release an animal from a cage? Sad to admit, I read the wiki and I'm still confused. I bought a bear that's tame, what will happen if it's released?

You have to build the cage (press x when selecting the cage to be built in order to see where your bear is, assuming you have more than one), go to the building properties and unassign the bear.

What will happen is that you're going to get an animal that can be butchered, bred, made available for adoption or trained. This is only because bears are non-exotic pets. If they were exotic, you would need the bugged Dungeon Master to do anything other than butcher them, though you could always mod your exotic pets to be non-exotic. To do so, replace any appropriate creature's [PET_EXOTIC] tag with [PET] in its respective creature_*.txt file in your raw\objects\ folder. This also works post-embark if you apply the change to your given save's raw folder.

[Magentawolf]

I only use custom-made uniforms, so I'm not sure about how the default ones work. For all I know, "metal armor" might mean "any metal armor", as in, if you also have mail shirts in stock then they'll equip those and call it a day. Try making a uniform template where you specify breastplates and assign it to them.

Yep, that's exactly what it means. Dwarves with the default 'Metal Armor' uniforms will grab mail shirts instead of breastplates at times. First thing I do is generally edit it so that they're wearing a mail shirt and a breastplate as part of the uniform.

[Mister Always]

sorry, nvm

[Sutremaine]

There is a certain size at which creatures are immune to bridges.

That's all that's known at the moment? Like, there's no information on whether or not the bridge size or the quality of the mechanisms matters?

I know I could test it myself, but it would take ages to do it thoroughly and I'm spending my DF time on something else.