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[Zhaine]

Damned Dorf hasn't collected anything left and I have plenty of all 3 cloths as well as copper (as is his like both in block bar and ore form...)

As I said it usually doesn't bother me but this time I cannot figure out what it is I am missing, once I figure it out I wont care so much... I dislike not knowing why I failed it though -.-

[HammerHand]

Hmmm... Square Blocks, huh?  Stone and Metal are fine, but they aren't the only kind of blocks.

Did you have any wooden blocks?  Glass blocks?  Clay bricks?  I don't know if any of those show up as square blocks, though, or if they're claimed for moods at all.  Never seen a Dwarf claim a kiln, for instance.

[Endiqua]

Is there an easy way to see a list of the things a dwarf owns?

Related to this: is there any quick way to find out where a dwarf's bedroom is?  I sometimes find owned clothing lying around the fortress, and I'd like to find the owner's bedroom so I can give him another cabinet if need be (or verify that he already has one, and that it's not "full" whatever full means, and that therefore he's just a lazy elf-lover).  The only way I know to find the owner's bedroom is to go through all my bedrooms manually until I find it.

The (R)ooms list will give you a list of the designated rooms and who owns it (note capital R), and once you find your dude in the list, press t to zoom to building items (the bed for a bedroom, the chair for an office, etc.), or q to zoom to building tasks.  Pressing q for a bedroom takes you to that room ready to Assign, Free, Resize, and so forth.

[Zaphod]

I forget how to check what a dwarf has in its inventory.

[Conan]

[v]iew the unit and press [-i-] for inventory.

[nickbii]

A related question. My Dwarves are insisting on loading something into a bin outside. I don't know what, but I have received the message: "Urust cancels store item in Bin, drop-off point inaccessible" seven times today.

Is there any way to preempt this god-damned job?

Nick

Forbid the bin?

Easier said then done.

I have no idea where the bin in question is. Presumably it belonged to a merchant who died in an ambush, and only got unforbidden when I decided to mine the goblinite from his ambusher's corpses. So it's almost certainly covered by several pools of goblin and troll blood, and probably buried under a couple dozen corpses, etc.

Fortunately that error seems to have disappeared, presumeably because whatever needed putting in the bin got something else done to it. Now I;ve just got spam from idiot dorfs who have claimed goblin socks. They're not gonna get 'em for a long time -- there's a siege, and it has a page and a half of goblin bowman.

Nick

[Zaphod]

How do I set eggs as forbidden so I can actualy breed my chikens instead of having the bastards eat all the eggs? I figured i could hit q and forbid. but the next box is currently unclaimed and has no option to forbid.

[Rafatio]

You can forbid them from cooking once you have some from the stocks-kitchen menu. They might still get hauled, so I usually put nest boxes in locked rooms to keep the dwarves away.

[Jhoosier]

How do I set eggs as forbidden so I can actualy breed my chikens instead of having the bastards eat all the eggs? I figured i could hit q and forbid. but the next box is currently unclaimed and has no option to forbid.

I forgot how, but CapnDuck's video tutorial for the latest version tells how to do that.  It's 2.5 hrs long, though, and I don't feel like going back through to find it.

Maybe forbid eggs in your food stockpile?  Then no one would touch them.

[Sphalerite]

First, don't have any food stockpiles that accept the eggs of the type of creature you're trying to breed.

Secondly, go to your Kitchen menu and disable cooking of the eggs of that creature.

Forbid the eggs of that creature when they're laid to make sure they don't get moved anyway.

Optionally, lock the door to the room the egg-layers are in.

[monk12]

Technically, you only need to do number 3 on Sphalerite's list, but it can be damn tricky to catch the eggs while they're still in the nest box before a dwarf nabs'em. If you really want to breed birds, you can also have zero built nest boxes (common when first embarking, or by manually removing them later,) wait a season or two, and then rebuild them. At this point all the lady birds will rush towards them, and you can easily forbid eggs as they are laid.

Bear in mind that, given 0% infant mortality rate, unrestricted bird breeding can be like an early, unexpected catsplosion of delicious proportions.

[evileeyore]

First, don't have any food stockpiles that accept the eggs of the type of creature you're trying to breed.

Secondly, go to your Kitchen menu and disable cooking of the eggs of that creature.

Forbid the eggs of that creature when they're laid to make sure they don't get moved anyway.

Optionally, lock the door to the room the egg-layers are in.

There simplified it.

[Maklak]

A Dwarven diplomat visited my fortress, and this time I accepted becoming a barony. I nominated my mayor, but not before pimping his bedrooms to what would please a Duke. After that I normally requested wood and leather from next year's caravan, but my mayor is still mayor, and I don't have a baron. How come?  Oh, I don't think I bothered to wait for diplomat to tell me what they want, and leave. They're getting crafts, roasts, goblin trash and large gems anyway.

[Niccolo]

My mayor is still mayor, and I don't have a baron. How come?

Give it time. The diplomat has to get home. I'm not entirely sure if it only occurs next autumn, but I know that it certainly doesn't happen instantly.

[Dr. Hieronymous Alloy]

Is there any way to set a batch file to generate worlds while I'm afk?

I used to use the following :

for /L %%i in (10,1,30) do start /wait /high "" "dwarf fortress" -gen %%i RANDOM [worldgenparameters]

But now, it pauses with every world and I have to hit enter to make it accept. Any way to turn that off or make it auto-accept so that I can generate lots of worlds at a go?