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[FuzzyZergling]

1) The "Diagnosis Required" message never disappears. One of the soldiers has been evaluated twelve times already!
2) I used to have almost no thread in my hospital. Then some merchants arrived, so I was gong to trade for thread. To my surprise, when I checked again, I was up to my eyes in thread! Even over the limit that it says in the description of the hospital zone!

1. An inexperienced diagnoser may need several tries to get the right diagnosis. Try waiting it out, or replacing your Medical Noble.
2. What the "Move x to hospital job" is generated, it generated enough jobs to fill every available space in the hospital. Build your coffers 1-2 at a between stockings to get the proper levels of supplies.

[Sutremaine]

Also, for the Stocks screen. Sometimes items are in red. What does that mean? It's only seen when expanding the list to show individual items.

Red items are trade items in the possession of the traders.

[Dundar]

I got a question about mandates. My baron loves drums but I can't seems to get anyone to fill the production orders. Are drums toys or instruments? Soon he will have three craftdwarves rotting in jail for days on end if I can't figure this out. Without help the noble will begin exploring how deep the magma sea is so I dont have to hear his demands for drums.

[FuzzyZergling]

Drums are instruments. Just keep cranking them out, and you should get a few drums eventually.

[nightwhips]

Quick question? I don't know... I've got a similar situation to the leather worker above. I need more miners, so I designated one guy a miner and cleared all his other labor types. He won't mine. I've got picks in inventory somewhere, but I can't find them (my bookkeeper is still working on his precision, I think?). I have two iron picks I traded for and five copper picks I got around to making. He isn't holding a pick, so that seems to be the issue, but... why not? How can I get him to go find his pick?

-Nightwhips

Eh, I figured it out. Low on picks. I just didn't realize that many dwarves were mining.

[Dundar]

Ok looks like a noble magma bath if these lazy bearded dwarves dont produce drums, if I let the baron explore the magma sea in a suit of kitten leather will I be able to get another baron? Will the diplomat from the moutain home just ignore that I killed, Sorry had the baron EXPLORE magma for the betterment of dwarven kind?

[FuzzyZergling]

I think you only get one Baron, unless they have next of kin.

[Stormfeather]

Look on the bright side, chances are good that eventually your baron will switch from "make drums" to "don't export drums."

Probably right after you've traded some, and before the traders leave the screen.

[Proteus]

Hey, somebody here can probably answer my questions.

I have several soldiers in the hospital, which isn't a problem in itself. I just have two concerns...
1) The "Diagnosis Required" message never disappears. One of the soldiers has been evaluated twelve times already!
2) I used to have almost no thread in my hospital. Then some merchants arrived, so I was gong to trade for thread. To my surprise, when I checked again, I was up to my eyes in thread! Even over the limit that it says in the description of the hospital zone!

Where did this thread come from, and will my soldiers ever not need to be diagnosed?
Many thanks!   

Not sure if this is still the case (well, your experience hint at it being),
but in former versions of DF as soon as a caravan arrived (and your hospital was low on thread),
your dwarves would "confiscate" any thread that the traders brought with them
(AFAIK in contrast to manual "real" confiscations without there being any diplomatic problems being caused by it)

[Buttery_Mess]

If memory serves not all material types produce drums. I think it might have to be made of metal; you'll have to check up on that though.

[Graebeard]

Is there anyway to make the 'rock' on aboveground tiles into soil/mud so you can build a farm plot on top of it? I like to make nice rectangular farmplots, but with the random bits of rock and stuff in the way...

I hadn't found a way to do that either.  I have been cheating by carving off the top soil layer, and using the soil layer underneat, since you never randomly get stone tiles or boulders that way.  You can get rid of grass, dry murky pool tiles, and things of that nature by building something like a road then deconstructing them away though.

Building and then deconstructing roads/stairs/walls/etc. will sometimes replace the tiles you've built on with other, random tiles.  Sometimes it's peat (farmable), sometimes it's diorite (not).  I haven't been able to figure out a method to what tile is created.  I've even had the same tile transform to different materials at different times in the save.  But take a shot, it may work for you.

[Shiv]

Is there a way to tell which civilizations are able to come to your fort after you've already embarked?  I forgot to check on the embark screen and don't want to play a year in to find out that I don't have any elves or humans to trade with. 

[Kay12]

Quick-and-dirty solution - copy the region and abandon the fort. Then you can check it when reclaiming.

I guess there's some better way as well.

[Shiv]

Always been a fan of the quick and dirty:  worked like a charm.   Thanks.

[ed boy]

How much compatability is there between releases? If I have a fort that I started and played with  in one release, would I be able to copy the save folder to another release?