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[Kay12]

Are caravans working correctly? Before embarking i made sure humans, elves, and dwarves (using a custom race) were nearby but in my second year I haven't seen any of them show up.

Caravans are working properly at least for me, save for the fact they won't bring stuff in wagons. You sure you're not at war with them, or that your mod isn't breaking it?

[xelo]

Hello you dwarves out there

I'm pretty new to Dwarf Fortress... very nice game.

I have some questions regarding a few smaller problems I stumbled upon (sorry for my weird english *g*)

1st:
Urist McCook got a strange mood and entered a craftsdwarf workshop.
After I [t] the workshop I recognized several items he seems to ask for.
What is the meaning of the symbols [ B ] and TSK in the right information paneel:

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chert [B]
galena TSK
magneitite TSK
orthocllase TSKI read the wiki but could not really find an helpful answer. Since I have ALL those rocks listed above I wonder what will be the difference between [ B ] and TSK?

Furthermore he asks for yarn thread. How can I get this?

2nd:
I do not really understand the way a "mass pitting" room is functioning. I read the wiki with the hint to build two rooms and to dig holes in the upper room.
I have to cover those holes with hatches so my dwarves don't get afraid of any beasts down there... allright
I placed the cages around those holes into an animal stockpile... ok
I have to declare an activity zone with status "pit"... ok

What to do next?
Probably it's way toooo simple but I can't get the idea and I'm afraid the prisoners escape.


3rd:
Many images(icons?) of dwarves are blinking from normal colour to black&white and vice versa. What does it mean?

4th:
After I embark my world was nice and beautiful... green grass everywhere...
After 3 years now the whole map is a ugly mess with grass-less paths all around and way too much mud everywhere.
Is there any possibility to get rid of this ugly mud?
I know I can remove mud inside,.... but what about outside?
Why isn't grass growing again or otherwise regenerating?
Removing blood was succesfull with the help of the DFHack tool dfcleanup.exe... thank you

5th:
I build a dwarven reactor with 2 water wheels. It is functioning very well so far.
How can I prevent evaporating water because I got often lost of power because of not enough water.
After I ordered my dwarves to fill the "pond" with buckets again it works.... but not for long.
Any help?

6th:
If i dug a very big hall I wondered if it is possible to get a cave in?
Would it be better to keep several pillars? Or is there no danger no matter how large the digged/dug(?) room will be?


Until then I survived half a dozen ambushes, 3 sieges, 1 Titan and 2 forgotten beasts (both can't reach me)... all with minor losses or no losses at all.
I'm very proud of me *g*


Thank you for helping

xelo

[Kay12]

Hello you dwarves out there

I'm pretty new to Dwarf Fortress... very nice game.

I have some questions regarding a few smaller problems I stumbled upon (sorry for my weird english *g*)

1st:
Urist McCook got a strange mood and entered a craftsdwarf workshop.
After I [t] the workshop I recognized several items he seems to ask for.
What is the meaning of the symbols and TSK in the right information paneel:

Code: [Select]

chert [B]
galena TSK
magneitite TSK
orthocllase TSKI read the wiki but could not really find an helpful answer. Since I have ALL those rocks listed above I wonder what will be the difference between [ B ] and TSK?

Furthermore he asks for yarn thread. How can I get this?

The B is short of "Building material" - that's what the shop's made of. The TSK is short of Task, meaning that the material is being used for something (in this case, crazy mood).

You can get yarn, if I recall correctly, at a farmer's workshop by processing threads.


About mass pitting, if you want to play it safe just build the cages where you want to release the creatures and open them with a lever. Takes a bit of work but is otherwise simple.


About status icons, see if this page describes what you see. It could also be that you have another dwarf in the same tile, in which case the display will cycle between the two at short intervals.


About the cave-ins, even a single pillar will be enough to hold up your meeting hall. The gravity is very naïve. Of course, you *can* get a cave-in if you accidentally disconnect a piece of floor from the supporting pillar altogether, but if you have a large hall, you're unlikely to do that unless you're doing it on purpose.

I'll leave the rest of the questions for others to answer.

[dr_random]

Geez, my little fortress worked up fine until the elven caravan got swamped by an ambush. There were many things littering around and I claimed some of them. Biggest problem is apparel. It was stored in my stockpile until it was full. I tried to sell stuff and could only access some of it. Tried with another caravan and it didn't work. The stuff in that stockpile is as if it was forbidden, which I didn't. I deleted the stockpile, made a new one, marked the items for dump, de-dumped, forbid and de-forbid them: The dorfs won't touch it.

I noticed items to be ignored when they were lying around where somone died - but not once they were brought intop a stockpile.
Is there a strategy to effectively handle the masses of apparel that drop when someone dies? Get rid of this excess?
I think it's just too much stuff. Can it be disabled altogether on everyone, including goblins and the like?

[xelo]

About status icons, see if this page describes what you see. It could also be that you have another dwarf in the same tile, in which case the display will cycle between the two at short intervals.

Great... this page is very helpful. Those dwarves are already legendary

Thank you very much

[RAKninja]

yarn is from a farmer's workshop, and then a loom.  (q)uerry the building, (a)dd the task of (s)hearing if you need to shear some animals, then (S)pin the yarn into thread.  standing (o)rders on the main menu are to spin all thread into cloth.

[Proteus]

Are caravans working correctly? Before embarking i made sure humans, elves, and dwarves (using a custom race) were nearby but in my second year I haven't seen any of them show up.

Are you sure they arenīt extinct?
In  my game I also always get signs for "humans available" in the embark screen,
but from all I know about the history of my world, humans went extinct very early in history,
which explains, why I never get any human caravans. 

[Particleman]

Are caravans working correctly? Before embarking i made sure humans, elves, and dwarves (using a custom race) were nearby but in my second year I haven't seen any of them show up.

Caravans from races besides your own don't start showing up until your second year.

[xelo]

yarn is from a farmer's workshop, and then a loom.  (q)uerry the building, (a)dd the task of (s)hearing if you need to shear some animals, then (S)pin the yarn into thread.  standing (o)rders on the main menu are to spin all thread into cloth.

I see... I have to re-configure my standing orders. Thank you soo much

[Niccolo]

I really should know this by now...

My combat reports don't seem to list specific names - or, indeed, who was the lucky bastard to shove his axe through the sasquatch that just wandered into my fortress.

Is there any way (short of searching by hand) to find out who dealt the final blow?

[krisslanza]

Are caravans working correctly? Before embarking i made sure humans, elves, and dwarves (using a custom race) were nearby but in my second year I haven't seen any of them show up.

Caravans are working properly at least for me, save for the fact they won't bring stuff in wagons. You sure you're not at war with them, or that your mod isn't breaking it?

I, more or less, just copy/pasted the whole dwarf code and tweaked the bits for me so I don't think I should've broke anything. I know I wasn't at war with them and got as far as my third or fourth year, without a sign of any caravan except the home civilization.

The only thing I could think of, is that perhaps since I set worldgen to only gen up to 5 years of history, that by the time the 2nd year rolled around all three neighboring civs had died out or something... I ended up abandoning the place, since without those caravans I simply couldn't get enough wood to build my town.

[Nobu]

If you set the number of years that low, they may not have many settlements, or any nearby.  Distance to the nearest settlement has been theorized to be a factor in how early they can show up to attack in some cases.

[Sutremaine]

4th:
Is there any possibility to get rid of this ugly mud?
I know I can remove mud inside,.... but what about outside?
Why isn't grass growing again or otherwise regenerating?

Grass on a mountain biome won't regrow at all. Mud can be removed by building a bridge or floor over the offending tiles.

5th:
I build a dwarven reactor with 2 water wheels. It is functioning very well so far.
How can I prevent evaporating water because I got often lost of power because of not enough water.
After I ordered my dwarves to fill the "pond" with buckets again it works.... but not for long.

More water? Use multiple pond zones over the tile that the pump draws from, if you're not already. I know that a one-wheel reactor can be filled to the brim and still function, but I'm not sure about the two-wheel model.

[proxn_punkd]

Geez, my little fortress worked up fine until the elven caravan got swamped by an ambush. There were many things littering around and I claimed some of them. Biggest problem is apparel. It was stored in my stockpile until it was full. I tried to sell stuff and could only access some of it. Tried with another caravan and it didn't work. The stuff in that stockpile is as if it was forbidden, which I didn't. I deleted the stockpile, made a new one, marked the items for dump, de-dumped, forbid and de-forbid them: The dorfs won't touch it.

I noticed items to be ignored when they were lying around where somone died - but not once they were brought intop a stockpile.
Is there a strategy to effectively handle the masses of apparel that drop when someone dies? Get rid of this excess?
I think it's just too much stuff. Can it be disabled altogether on everyone, including goblins and the like?

I'm betting your dwarfs claimed the clothing items. Once something is owned by a dwarf, no other dwarf will touch it.

Do your dwarves have bedrooms? Give them chests and coffers, and they'll start putting away their claimed clothes.

[nightwhips]

Hi. Just getting started. Can anyone give me a very simple description of how to make multiple saves? It hasn't been obvious to me thus far. Thanks much!

Nightwhips