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[FuzzyZergling]

How do I give crutches for the dwarf that lost the ability to stand up?
I have crutches in the "Hospital Screen" but they don't give for the poor kid that need it.

Your doctors should supply crutches to dwarves that need them automatically.
The problem may be that they don't "know" that the dwarf needs crutches/is injured. Try deconstructing their hospital bed.

[BodyGripper]

Body, it seems like either your coke supply is forbidden, or has been reserved for another job. Make sure you have not designated a big construction project accidentally assigning coke as the building material. If you did, just fire the construction foreman.
 If it is still acting weird, forbid coke on stock screen, then claim it
 Look in your stockscreen, make sure coke has not accidentally been forbidden.
 If you are using quickfort, it might have hijacked the coke for building materials.
A bad mistake i made was designating a burrow at the foundry, no one assigned, just to be able to go look at it quickly. Bad idea.

I tried forbidding and reclaiming it, but it didn't make a difference.  However, the smelters are all still functioning, so I don't think fuel is the issue.  For example, I've smelting limonite ore (on repeat), and it's still doing that job, but I can't give that smelter or any other the task of smelting limonite ore. 
I tried destroying and rebuilding the smelters, and I was briefly able to give them tasks again, but after assigning a few, they went red again.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

How do I find out what the symbol of my civilization is?

[Tiruin]

How do I find out what the symbol of my civilization is?

Either check in Fortress mode and press tab to see your civ, then go to legends under civilizations and see the small image to the far right next to the name.



How do you give dwarves with XxclothesxX new clothes?

[Nil Eyeglazed]

Either check in Fortress mode and press tab to see your civ, then go to legends under civilizations and see the small image to the far right next to the name.

oh hey, that's cool, never noticed that before.  thanks!

[MrShovelFace]

nm derp

[Sutremaine]

When a dwarf is interrupted by some creature, is there a way to easily locate it? I can zoom to dwarf and manually look around, but is there a better way?

You can zoom to the location of the announcement by pressing z in the Announcements screen. If there are other announcements being spammed then the delay between interruption and announcement might be long enough for both parties to move away.

[Dr. Hieronymous Alloy]

If I make a food stockpile that will accept nothing but meat and prepared food, willit only accept meals prepared out of meat?

[Sphalerite]

No.  It will accept uncooked meat and prepared food made of anything.  There's no way to filter prepared food by ingredients.

[FuzzyZergling]

How do you give dwarves with XxclothesxX new clothes?

Dwarves will claim new clothes automatically. Unfortunately, they won't actually ever wear them.

[Turnoverman]

If I were to build a wall across a frozen lake while it's still frozen, would the wall collapse when it ceased to be frozen?

[Sutremaine]

Depends whether or not it's supported. If it would remain stable with the ice replaced by empty space, then it's good.

[cpt_williarsk]

does obsidian stone mean there is a magma pocket nearby, or does it just appear in places sometimes?

[Turnoverman]

Every once in a while obsidian is just a layer, but it surrounds magma stuff with exactly one tile... so if the obsidian isn't warm it's probably just a layer.

[Skorpion]

If I were to build a wall across a frozen lake while it's still frozen, would the wall collapse when it ceased to be frozen?

If it's unsupported, yes.