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[FrisianDude]

Okay, thanks. I'll try to keep bone and wood restricted to training and maybe hunting, though.

[Sphalerite]

I cannot do that. No Dwarf can get to the spot to perform those actions. I used to build a down stair, then an upstair underneath it. Now, it says I can't build the upstair because it's blocked.

Are you trying to build an up stair, or designate one to be mined out?  If there's open space there you can build an up stair, but if it's solid rock you need to use the designation menu to designate an up stair to be mined out.

[DrKillPatient]

Will a chained animal/dwarf still be able to swim in 4/7 water or below?

[vorpal+5]

Okay, thanks. I'll try to keep bone and wood restricted to training and maybe hunting, though.

Is it confirmed? So a copper crossbow firing copper bolts don't work at 2/3 x 2/3 = 4/9 but at 2/3 efficiency? This is MAJOR for me!

[Lord Shonus]

crossbow material is irrelevant unless you hit the enemy with it.

[PremierMeridian]

Is there any way, without the use of burrows, to 'bookmark' a location on the map, so that with the push of a button, the player can quickly zoom to a location?

[Sphalerite]

Is there any way, without the use of burrows, to 'bookmark' a location on the map, so that with the push of a button, the player can quickly zoom to a location?

The Hotkey tool allows you to do exactly this, linking specific map locations to function keys.  Press 'h' to access the hotkey menu.

[ferok]

crossbow material is irrelevant unless you hit the enemy with it.

Ergo copper is the preferred metal for crossbows, having a higher density than the other options.

[Jelle]

Or you could opt for a marksdwarf squad equiped with a bone crossbow shooting bone bolts, armored in pieces of bone armor. Asides from the lacking protection of the armor it works fairly well and ofcourse is just morbidly cool.


I do believe chained animals will have no problem sitting in anything below 4/7. I'm inclined to guess 4/7 shouldn't be a problem either but don't quote me on that.

[Sphalerite]

The main risk with having chained animals semi-submerged in water is that the water movement can push the animal off the chain.  Moving water can push animals.  Chains will do nothing to prevent animals from being pushed, and if the animal is pushed more than one square away from the chain it will detach from the chain.

[FrisianDude]

crossbow material is irrelevant unless you hit the enemy with it.

Ergo copper is the preferred metal for crossbows, having a higher density than the other options.

I never realized copper was heavier than bronze, iron or steel. Interesting if true. Edit; I read the raws on the magmawiki. The Solid_Density of copper s indeed higher than that of iron, bronze or steel.

[ferok]

I never realized copper was heavier than bronze, iron or steel. Interesting if true.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Metal
It is, and it also has excellent (read: low) impact elasticity.  However the testing thread at the bottom of the wiki indicates that it doesn't seem to much matter what material you make hammers/maces from if it's not silver.

[tolkafox]

Queens consort/drunk? O.o

Does this mean our king is the queen's drunken whore?

[FuzzyZergling]

It means that while your Queen has no King, she does have a concubine. Who is also a drunk. >;]

[DrKillPatient]

It means that while your Queen has no King, she does have a concubine. Who is also a drunk. >;]

One would think a sober dwarf noble would stand out as the anomaly. Maybe sobriety is what causes the uselessness of noblehood.

Also, my question somewhere above seems to have been missed:

Will a chained animal/dwarf still be able to swim in 4/7 water or below?