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[Urist Imiknorris]

What does the ◄ mean?

[Mister Always]

So, from a side view, I have a pit like this.

XOX
XWX
XXX

X is solid stone, O is empty space, W is water.

If I assign vermin like rats and lizards to this pit, will they drown?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Vermin teleport and don't drown.

[Mister Always]

Damn. Guess I'll have to wait for the caravan to bring me that cat I asked for.

...I could sell the vermin to the caravan IN EXCHANGE FOR THE CAT.

Yesssss

You can trade traps with animals in them, right?

[krisslanza]

Since .19 kinda redid the little embark note... things... does shallow metal mean the metal is close to the surface, thus easier to access, but only near the surface? And does deep metal mean the metal is all really far down, or does it mean metal extends from the surface deep down into the ground?

[myrkul]

Since .19 kinda redid the little embark note... things... does shallow metal mean the metal is close to the surface, thus easier to access, but only near the surface? And does deep metal mean the metal is all really far down, or does it mean metal extends from the surface deep down into the ground?

I just embarked with "deep metals" and actually found some ore a few levels above my wagon. I think it measures from the topmost level of dirt/rock. But, yeah, shallow metals mean ore near to the surface, and deep metals means way underground, usually.

[uzumaki102]

I have a question. Whenever i start a new map, the depot view says that caravans can't access the map. Why is this?

[myrkul]

The "Depot Access" screen looks for a 3-wide path from your depot to the map edge. It doesn't matter at the moment, since nobody brings wagons, but you probably have it behind narrow paths or stairs.

[BishopX]

I have a question. Whenever i start a new map, the depot view says that caravans can't access the map. Why is this?

You also have a build a depot first.

[myrkul]

You also have a build a depot first.

Well, yeah. that does help.

[Remalle]

Are non-vermin creatures milkable now?

[Buttery_Mess]

Are non-vermin creatures milkable now?

Yes, in .19. It's great. Delicious yak cheese.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Wasn't that in .01?

[Thundercraft]

I suggest that while you're poking around looking for local metal, you make plans based on finding none...

That sucks. Does Toady have any plans for improving the availability of ores to at least 40d levels? I don't want to trip over a vein on every step like in .18, but if the fucking caravan can have all kinds of metal in large quantities, then I'd better be allowed to have some too! Trading is undwarvenly!

You must have missed all the passionate "debate" about metals just after .19 was released. There was considerable heated exchange over this issue in the Dwarf Fortress 0.31.19 Released thread.

Anyway, you might be interested in reading some of the Missing Metals thread. In particular, Toady One posted there to calm things down and explain his position:

Once we have trade, some assurance that a reasonable amount of ore is being brought to the surface in world gen and better local mineral veins, I imagine it'll be less of a problem, but we don't have any of those things yet.  Even after that, I think we should end up with some world gen options for different play styles.  As people have mentioned, an over-abundance of metals will essentially remove that element of the economy (and warfare etc etc), but not everybody is going to be playing for those reasons.

So, yeah, hopefully we will see some sort of option in a future release for more abundance and less importance on trading for metals. (Though, besides this issue, I have little objection to the planned expansion on trade.)

In the meanwhile, you may be interested in trying one or more of these mods:

• Bog Iron Mod
• Anvils from rock
• A Little Bit More Mod

Note: The A Little Bit More Mod hints that there may be a certain risk in your mining dwarves contracting the Black Lung disease every time they mine (certain types of?) coal. However, looking at the files, it does not appear that this feature has been implemented yet.

[Rude]

I was looking for an evil tundra embark to have a little fun. I found a nice sized glacier covered in purple.  I noticed a couple places had different biomes but looked identical (same soil/aquifer/trees/stone/etc.) The only difference was the shade of purple on the map. How do shades of purple (and blue for that matter) differ? Could it be one is for undead and the other for fleshy 'normal' evil? All biomes in the area were listed as 'haunted' if that helps.