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[plisskin]

A few questions about civs I couldn't find on the wiki: what happens if you constantly reject, kill or seize from the mountainhomes caravan? What determines who your "neighbors" are? If you're a long distance from other civs, will it affect the reliability of caravans and migrants? Are there any simple ways to encourage war between civilizations in world gen or does it require modding? And is there a particularly good guide to editing the DF raws floating around?

[PainRack]

Anyone knows whether caged animals still need to graze? I have a donkey that's stuck in my cage displaying a !!!! sign. Dumb elves, when are they going to come so I can sell my pets.

[PainRack]

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.

The new grass and trees have different colours. Glumprong in particular is purple and not found in all evil maps.

[ZackTheGreat]

I'm having a problem. My announcements is being spammed with "Kratos" Cancels Hunt: Could not find path. Is this a bug or is there something I am doing wrong?

[Urist Imiknorris]

You probably have a hunter assigned to a burrow that doesn't contain the animal he's hunting.

[Diverso]

How do i pit migrants so my doctors will get some practice? How much z-levels the pit should be to injure them a little, but more importantly make them reusable(migrants)?
How do i train weapon skills more effectively? Danger rooms are good for that? How do i make a good one(danger room)? Can i train crossbowdwarfs with danger rooms?

[Urist Imiknorris]

How do i pit migrants so my doctors will get some practice? How much z-levels the pit should be to injure them a little, but more importantly make them reusable(migrants)?

Make the fort entrance a meeting area over a retracting bridge. I think three or four z-levels should be perfect. Broken bones, but nothing too life-threatening.

How do i train weapon skills more effectively? Danger rooms are good for that? How do i make a good one(danger room)? Can i train crossbowdwarfs with danger rooms?

Danger rooms are basically upright training spears linked to a lever or repeater that your military stand on. Just keep it out of the way of civilians. Marksdwarves will train hammer skill with it (as crossbows' melee attack is based on the hammer skill).

[Diverso]

Uhm, do i need to pull that lever linked to crapload of upright spikes 1 time for 1 poke, or the speas will poke a lot of times?

[Sphalerite]

Anyone knows whether caged animals still need to graze? I have a donkey that's stuck in my cage displaying a !!!! sign. Dumb elves, when are they going to come so I can sell my pets.

Tame animals in cages will still get hungry and starve, and when tame animals die of starvation you won't be able to butcher their corpse.

Uhm, do i need to pull that lever linked to crapload of upright spikes 1 time for 1 poke, or the speas will poke a lot of times?

Pull it once, the spikes extend and poke once.  Pull it again, the spikes retract.  So two pulls are required for one poke.

[mszegedy]

Double doors: how?

[Diverso]

Alright, and about that repeater thing. What exatly i need to link my spike at?

[krisslanza]

Regarding some of the more 'exotic' metals that normally don't get used. Such as say... aluminum. How good a weapon/armor metal is it really? I can't tell much by looking at the raws as all the values... I just don't get any of them. They confuse me.

[agatharchides]

Double doors are just a 2 tile wide hallway with a door on either wall as I use the term. When I want to use a spike trap I usually just connect the spikes to a lever and set it on Pull/R. You can't use most weapons for metal. The rule of thumb I use is that for armor and edged weapons steel>iron>bronze>silver>copper. Blunt weapons are the same but silver is at the top.

 My magma sea appears to have started draining off the side of the map and I suspect it is behind a drop from 80 to 40 FPS and may strand my magma forges before long. Any idea what's doing on and what to do about it?

[Hellmoob]

Regarding some of the more 'exotic' metals that normally don't get used. Such as say... aluminum. How good a weapon/armor metal is it really? I can't tell much by looking at the raws as all the values... I just don't get any of them. They confuse me.

Most can't be used as armour, only for crafts/furniture etc. The armor/weapon viable metals (ignoring strange moods) are: copper, silver, bronze, bismuth bronze, iron, steel, adamantine. As for quality, silver is currently good for bludgeoning (circumstantially), everything else follows the progression copper-bronze-iron-steel-adamantine. Bismuth bronze is identical to bronze, apart from in value and general coolness

[krisslanza]

Regarding some of the more 'exotic' metals that normally don't get used. Such as say... aluminum. How good a weapon/armor metal is it really? I can't tell much by looking at the raws as all the values... I just don't get any of them. They confuse me.

Most can't be used as armour, only for crafts/furniture etc. The armor/weapon viable metals (ignoring strange moods) are: copper, silver, bronze, bismuth bronze, iron, steel, adamantine. As for quality, silver is currently good for bludgeoning (circumstantially), everything else follows the progression copper-bronze-iron-steel-adamantine. Bismuth bronze is identical to bronze, apart from in value and general coolness

I was going to mod them to be usable, it's just I don't know what the values all mean to figure out if they're good or not.