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[nanomage]

I have like 10 levers and all of them are in the same room. Is there a way to label the levers?

Use 'N' -> 'p' -> 'n' to put notes.

[OpiumHerz]

Allright. I have a lower level which I have flooded with water. I installed a pump next to a channel so the level above will be flooded too. After I found out that the pump usually is worked manually I build gear assemblys and put them next to the pump, but it still doesn't work (I connected them to a lever, but it just said that the gears are disengaged or inactive, depending on if the lever was on or off). All I want is that the pump pumps all the time without a dwarf standing there. How can I do that?

[shadenight123]

was playing genesis mod to try it, started digging down for magma.
[...]
Found sea of magma, something like -40z below.
question is...it's normal?
usually i find one quite more high, and cavern layers aren't separated by an underground "sea".

How far below the surface were you?
Magma is usually about 120 z-levels down from the surface, I believe. Maybe more if you have mountains.

surface was at 140.
i reached -40z, which means 180 levels down, passing through an underground ocean, a cave, two diorite layers, another cave. another ocean, and then finally magma. it wasn't "mountain" area, it was quite near plains level.

[VonCede]

Allright. I have a lower level which I have flooded with water. I installed a pump next to a channel so the level above will be flooded too. After I found out that the pump usually is worked manually I build gear assemblys and put them next to the pump, but it still doesn't work (I connected them to a lever, but it just said that the gears are disengaged or inactive, depending on if the lever was on or off). All I want is that the pump pumps all the time without a dwarf standing there. How can I do that?

You need power to make that pump work. Either by dwarf-powered or bu some other means. That gear next to pump just transmits power from outside source.

[vorpal+5]

I have some sheep cloth, some extra threads, even a crutch. While this don't get added to my hospital?

[stabbymcstabstab]

you dont have room or they are full on the hospital manger so increase the numbers there

[Sphalerite]

I have some sheep cloth, some extra threads, even a crutch. While this don't get added to my hospital?

Make more chests/coffers/boxes and build them in your hospital zone.

[vorpal+5]

but the Hospital reports tell me I have say 0/75000 threads... so I have room!

[celem]

If threads are 0/75000 but other resources are present then those others are taking up the space. 

You can pretty much ignore the #/# stuff.  While it shows whats present the caps dont work properly and dwarves can and will fill everything with one item type.

If in doubt always try building more bags/coffers.  Its generally best to build one or two at a time with breaks between to ensure fortress supply is balanced.  If you have no soap or crutches or splints when you add a container itll get stuffed with only thread/cloth immediately.

[Fredd]

 You really don't need to add extra chests. The hospital zone acts like an invisible stockpile. When you set the amount of material for it, cloth, thread, soap, it reserves these items, forbidden except for hospital use. The chests act like bins in a custom stockpile. So as you place a chest/coffer, the dwarves store as many of the goods reserved into it, as the coffer can hold. The chest are for convienence. The docs can still go to your cloth, soap, etc stockpiles, and get the reserved goods not in the hospital.
 I finally realize now the old soap bug was not a bug. Was that I would reserve so much soap for hospital use, dwarves wanting to clean self could not, since all was reserved for the hospital.
 Be careful about the amount of materials you reserve. Could forbid cloth you need for making ropes, bags

[Sphalerite]

but the Hospital reports tell me I have say 0/75000 threads... so I have room!

That isn't what that means.  That tells you that your hospital wants to have 75000 threads, but actually has 0, probably because there isn't room to store them.  Build more chests in your hospital.

[vorpal+5]

I see once again that Toady surpassed himself, user-interface wise! 

Oh well, I suppose I'll have to live with that, and my dwarves die without it! 

On to another problem I'm encountering. I have soldiers adjacent to an harpy. They have order to kill her. They have weapons... Yet the 2O last attacks were all made by this single harpy, not by my soldiers. What is that? She is ultra uber super fast or what? Last time I encounted harpies, they were sliced easily even by recruits.

[Farmerbob]

I have like 10 levers and all of them are in the same room. Is there a way to label the levers?

Color code them, or organize them by relative position.

In a really complex fort, I'll use a sheet of paper to make a chart of lever functions so I can reference it.

[FuzzyZergling]

Try using a move order instead of a kill order.

[vorpal+5]

save & reloading made the trick.

I notice that my wounded dwarves rest in armour. How can I free up this valuable good for others vic... soldiers?