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[Concrete]

I haven't really played with the agrarian aspect of the game up to this point, so help me out here

I've begun to process rock nuts at a windmill powered millstone, and have built the necessary screw press to mash the resulting rock nut cakes into oil. My question is that the order to "Press liquid from paste" is blotted out in red for the screw press, meaning it cannot be done; so, what exactly else to I need?

[Hellmoob]

I haven't really played with the agrarian aspect of the game up to this point, so help me out here

I've begun to process rock nuts at a windmill powered millstone, and have built the necessary screw press to mash the resulting rock nut cakes into oil. My question is that the order to "Press liquid from paste" is blotted out in red for the screw press, meaning it cannot be done; so, what exactly else to I need?

If you're playing 31.19 (it's possible that the problem still exists in 31.20, but I haven't tried yet) you need to remove your rock nut paste from its stockpile, by undesignating the stockpile that it's on and forbidding it from your remaining food stockpiles. There was, or is, a bug that won't recognize certain items as being present for use when they're stockpiled.

[tolkafox]

Is it no longer required to update savegames? I didn't want to abandon my Terracotta dwarf collection, but I don't see the savegameupdater :/

[Chattox]

Are oceans and lakes crucial to gameplay? And, if not, can they be removed? They take up valuable land space that could be full of stuff that's actually interesting and useful!

[RiderofDark]

Are oceans and lakes crucial to gameplay? And, if not, can they be removed? They take up valuable land space that could be full of stuff that's actually interesting and useful!

No. I usually gen advanced worlds with elevation jacked to 100 as a minimum. However, that means there won't be wetlands or deserts, either.

Is it no longer required to update savegames? I didn't want to abandon my Terracotta dwarf collection, but I don't see the savegameupdater :/

DF doesn't have a savegame updater. Generally porting a save to a newer version will work just fine (copy/paste from old to new). However, some features from newer versions require genning a new world.

[tolkafox]

A flying forgotten beast of poisonous fun went right by my defenses and rampaged through my fortress :/ The resulting mess killed just about everyone...

I'm trying to generate a world that doesn't go from +28 to -157, how would I do this? Would setting cavern layer to 1, Z levels above ground to 5, maximum openness to 40, and levels above layer 1 mean my worlds would be (mountains excluded) +5 to -40? 100 Z level pumpstacks are rather tiring to build, and 100 spaces is too far for a dwarf to make regular hikes.

I need help with learning custom embark, I just generated a world and I have 6 different biomes cut and pasted in 6 nice little squares. Or close to squares. My ocean is yellow.

Or is there a way to just generate a world with 1 cavern layer without using custom parameters?

[Diverso]

How do i use mineral_scarcity worldgen paramets in .21? The more the number the more minerals i get? Default is 2500. IS there any other pecific numbers, like 5000 etc.

[Diverso]

A flying forgotten beast of poisonous fun went right by my defenses and rampaged through my fortress :/ The resulting mess killed just about everyone...

I'm trying to generate a world that doesn't go from +28 to -157, how would I do this? Would setting cavern layer to 1, Z levels above ground to 5, maximum openness to 40, and levels above layer 1 mean my worlds would be (mountains excluded) +5 to -40? 100 Z level pumpstacks are rather tiring to build, and 100 spaces is too far for a dwarf to make regular hikes.

I need help with learning custom embark, I just generated a world and I have 6 different biomes cut and pasted in 6 nice little squares. Or close to squares. My ocean is yellow.

Or is there a way to just generate a world with 1 cavern layer without using custom parameters?

I thing you can mess with world_gen.txt a lil', helped me a lot.

[RiderofDark]

How do i use mineral_scarcity worldgen paramets in .21? The more the number the more minerals i get? Default is 2500. IS there any other pecific numbers, like 5000 etc.

From what I understand, the lower the number the more minerals there are.

[Sutremaine]

My Bowyer created an artifact crossbow... and is still only a talented Bowyer. I am fairly certain it was a mood, not a possession.

Can happen if the learning rates are messed with, but in a vanilla game you probably got a possession and didn't realise. Check the gamelog (it's in the same folder as the DF exe) to be sure.

[khearn]

How do i use mineral_scarcity worldgen paramets in .21? The more the number the more minerals i get? Default is 2500. IS there any other pecific numbers, like 5000 etc.

It's mineral_scarcity, so the higher the value, the more scarce minerals will be.

  Keith

[monk12]

A flying forgotten beast of poisonous fun went right by my defenses and rampaged through my fortress :/ The resulting mess killed just about everyone...

I'm trying to generate a world that doesn't go from +28 to -157, how would I do this? Would setting cavern layer to 1, Z levels above ground to 5, maximum openness to 40, and levels above layer 1 mean my worlds would be (mountains excluded) +5 to -40? 100 Z level pumpstacks are rather tiring to build, and 100 spaces is too far for a dwarf to make regular hikes.

I need help with learning custom embark, I just generated a world and I have 6 different biomes cut and pasted in 6 nice little squares. Or close to squares. My ocean is yellow.

Or is there a way to just generate a world with 1 cavern layer without using custom parameters?

Go to Design New World with Advanced Parameters
Scroll to the base parameters you want to edit and press 'e' (I prefer to use Medium Regions myself)
Page down to Cavern Layer Number and set that to 1.
Back out and save the parameters- I recommend also hitting 't' to change the name of the parameters so you remember which ones you've altered.

I play those settings myself for similar reasons as you. Default z's above ground level is 15, and the very bottom of the map (not counting mountains) is at -33 on my current fort. I've hit the first cavern layer at -8 and the magma sea at -18.

Having only one cavern layer means that that cavern will have creatures/plants that appear in any cavern layer, so its a rather dangerous place in there. I also set my Cavern Openness Min to 90 and Passage Density Max to 10 to create big, open, flatter caverns.

[BishopX]

A flying forgotten beast of poisonous fun went right by my defenses and rampaged through my fortress :/ The resulting mess killed just about everyone...

I'm trying to generate a world that doesn't go from +28 to -157, how would I do this? Would setting cavern layer to 1, Z levels above ground to 5, maximum openness to 40, and levels above layer 1 mean my worlds would be (mountains excluded) +5 to -40? 100 Z level pumpstacks are rather tiring to build, and 100 spaces is too far for a dwarf to make regular hikes.

I need help with learning custom embark, I just generated a world and I have 6 different biomes cut and pasted in 6 nice little squares. Or close to squares. My ocean is yellow.

Or is there a way to just generate a world with 1 cavern layer without using custom parameters?

Go to Design New World with Advanced Parameters
Scroll to the base parameters you want to edit and press 'e' (I prefer to use Medium Regions myself)
Page down to Cavern Layer Number and set that to 1.
Back out and save the parameters- I recommend also hitting 't' to change the name of the parameters so you remember which ones you've altered.

I play those settings myself for similar reasons as you. Default z's above ground level is 15, and the very bottom of the map (not counting mountains) is at -33 on my current fort. I've hit the first cavern layer at -8 and the magma sea at -18.

Having only one cavern layer means that that cavern will have creatures/plants that appear in any cavern layer, so its a rather dangerous place in there. I also set my Cavern Openness Min to 90 and Passage Density Max to 10 to create big, open, flatter caverns.

You can also turn down the maximum cavern levels in the world gen, makes flatter caves. Default in min 5, max 25 levels, I turn it down to three and ten respectively.

[Samuel]

A warhammer in a weapon trap can knock it's victim away, right? Same as when hammerdwarfs send enemies flying?

[TolyK]

A warhammer in a weapon trap can knock it's victim away, right? Same as when hammerdwarfs send enemies flying?

nope, afaik they stay on the square.