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[Double A]

I'm trying to embark but for some reason there's no iron anvil. There is a steel anvil though. Any reason why?

Is an iron anvil already selected? You start out with an iron anvil already chosen.

If your civ has iron, then you start with an iron anvil (100 points), but if not, then you start with a steel anvil (300 points).  Those 200 points can make a huge difference in what you have to sacrifice.

...how do they get steel if they don't have iron?

[Lord Shonus]

When the game checks to see if a civ has an alloy or other reaction-produced material, it does not check to see if it has access to the necessary ingredients at present. It merely checks to see if the needed reaction is civ-legal. This is an obvious placeholder until things start being tacked more accurately.

[Sutremaine]

...how do they get steel if they don't have iron?

Because they have the reaction to make steel but the game doesn't check if the reagents are available. Same for the alloys, plus pig iron, since they're all made via reaction instead of being smelted from available ore stone.

Flavourwise, maybe they turn it all into steel, although this doesn't explain why pig iron is available. Maybe they're short of carbon as well.

[DrKillPatient]

My dwarves are depressed/enraged by long patrol duty. They're set to train for three months, then nothing for one month, then another three months of training. However, when I let them go, they get angry at NOT being on patrol. What do?

[AVE]

Some simple noob questions:
1. How to make civilian dwarves wear armor, or at least cloaks? I do removed CLOTHING and SUBTERRANEAN CLOTHING tags for the sake of inevitable fps hit. Also I made ARMORLEVEL:1 for one and every clothing, to further restrict dwarves from wearing it.

2. How to gather clay effectively? Currently one job from one workshop produces only one clay (and the dwarf is taking it out really slow). Creating multiple workshops helps, but the speed of collection is awfully slow. What skill improves the collection time?

3. Idlers:22. Yes, that much (for a noob). I've no idea where to put them in use. I'm running multiple magma smelters already (for military), but I have no flux (or it is too deep for me), so no steel. Food and drinks seems to be ok (in counts about 400-500 each, variety of drinks is about 60-150 each).

4. Regarding previous question. I've made several (30) large serrated copper disks (of varying quality, but many of them superior and exceptional) for (planned) trap corridor and that alone jumps my fortress wealth over 200k! After that I received not the usual 8-10 migrants, but a whole 21 of them! Is there any other method (10 disks per trap seems to be too much?) of making effective weapon traps? Or another trap defence perhaps?

5. About traps including retracting bridge and a pit below it. How deep must it be to be of any use? I've dug about 10 z-levels deep, but the 2 falled goblins survived pretty well, just some yellow wounds. It is really strange...

[Mcducks22]

How can I stop this:


Please?

[Kogut]

4. Regarding previous question. I've made several (30) large serrated copper disks (of varying quality, but many of them superior and exceptional) for (planned) trap corridor and that alone jumps my fortress wealth over 200k! After that I received not the usual 8-10 migrants, but a whole 21 of them! Is there any other method (10 disks per trap seems to be too much?) of making effective weapon traps? Or another trap defence perhaps?

Dodge-this trap:

Spoiler: Single weapon trap above drop - enemies will try to dodge an splatter on ground below. You can use channels instead of constructions (click to show/hide)

Red square: trap

[wuphonsreach]

Some simple noob questions:
1. How to make civilian dwarves wear armor, or at least cloaks? I do removed CLOTHING and SUBTERRANEAN CLOTHING tags for the sake of inevitable fps hit. Also I made ARMORLEVEL:1 for one and every clothing, to further restrict dwarves from wearing it.

You would have to put them all into military squads to force a uniform (don't do that to miners, woodcutters or hunters).

And I don't do clay industry.

3. Idlers:22. Yes, that much (for a noob). I've no idea where to put them in use. I'm running multiple magma smelters already (for military), but I have no flux (or it is too deep for me), so no steel. Food and drinks seems to be ok (in counts about 400-500 each, variety of drinks is about 60-150 each).

2-3 miners, 2-5 masons, 1-2 engravers (not until the 2nd spring), 1 weaponsmith, 1 armorsmith, 2-3 furnace slaves, 2-3 farmers, 1 butcher, 2 tanners, 2 hunters, 1 tailor, 1 leatherworker, 3-5 mechanics, 1 broker/manager, 2-4 doctors/nurses, 1-2 stonecrafters, 1 woodcrafter, 1 bonecarver, 1 bowyer, etc.

The rest get drafted into squads (if male, otherwise assigned to hauler duty if female w/ no special talents).  My fort is sitting at 60 idle right now with 140 total dwarves.  I really need to start another mega expansion...

4. Regarding previous question. I've made several (30) large serrated copper disks (of varying quality, but many of them superior and exceptional) for (planned) trap corridor and that alone jumps my fortress wealth over 200k! After that I received not the usual 8-10 migrants, but a whole 21 of them! Is there any other method (10 disks per trap seems to be too much?) of making effective weapon traps? Or another trap defence perhaps?

Early on, stick with a simple 1-tile wide path filled with wood spiked balls (and a few wood corkscrews) that everyone has to successfully cross in order to get into the fort.  This can simply look like:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

5. About traps including retracting bridge and a pit below it. How deep must it be to be of any use? I've dug about 10 z-levels deep, but the 2 falled goblins survived pretty well, just some yellow wounds. It is really strange...

12Z+ for a sure kill, and 15Z is not unusual or over the top.

[greycat]

How can I stop this:

(Hunter cancellation spam, "Could not find path")

Please?

Either seal off that cavern, or finish exploring it.  An open, partially-revealed cavern leads to this spam.

[tolkafox]

If I ask a human in adventure mode about the surroundings and he says "Blah Blah Dragon Blah Blah cave NW", and then switch to fortress mode and embark where the cave is marked, can I expect a dragon?

[Kogut]

If I ask a human in adventure mode about the surroundings and he says "Blah Blah Dragon Blah Blah cave NW", and then switch to fortress mode and embark where the cave is marked, can I expect a dragon?

AFAIK - yes

[Sphalerite]

If I ask a human in adventure mode about the surroundings and he says "Blah Blah Dragon Blah Blah cave NW", and then switch to fortress mode and embark where the cave is marked, can I expect a dragon?

Yes.  And because that dragon is considered a resident of the site, traps won't affect it.  Bit of a surprise if you're embarking there with plans to cage-trap the dragon.

[Reelyanoob]

My dwarves are depressed/enraged by long patrol duty. They're set to train for three months, then nothing for one month, then another three months of training. However, when I let them go, they get angry at NOT being on patrol. What do?

They're angry because they become "peasant" i think. Train them in a profession, even pump operator, so they gain stats and have a "day job" (make a special pump room with pumps pumping nothing at all, and set to always be on). Similarly, dwarves with no weapon skill don't like becoming soldiers, those who become "recruit" rather than "marksdwarf" or something. Having at least 1 good military trainer helps speed up the training, and some real life battle experience, e.g. against captured but disarmed goblins (leave their armour on, and use training weapons to prolong the combat / gain more XP).

[greenskye]

I have a miner who has become stuck. I was digging a pit for a dodge trap. He channeled out all of the tiles except for the last one that should drop him 1 z level. Since he refused to channel this tile I built stairs up to him (and he built down stairs) so he can get down. However he refuses to leave. I tried drafting him and giving him the move command but that didn't work either. Anything I can do to get him to move?

*Edit* Figured it out... upstair/downstair were misplaced. Just one tile off

[NorrecV]

How tall can a tower be and still have dwarves with crossbows shoot down from it?