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[onarum]

thanks for the help guys, one more question came up though.

I recently acquired a Tiger from a elven caravan, he is already tame, I changed PET_EXOTIC to PET in the text files in the world save raws, I did this for all the creature_xxx.txt files, but I still don't get an option to train him on the kennel, what else is needed? I don't have a dungeon master yet but as I understand it he doesn't make any difference because it's bugged, hence why changing the PET_EXOTIC to PET, so I need to change the raws in the main folder as well?

The [TRAINABLE] tag allows creatures to be trained.

but the TRAINABLE tag is already there, so do I actually need a dungeon master for the option to train a tiger to be enabled?

[Urist Imiknorris]

No, it just needs to be tameable and trainable. The "Train a <hunting/war> dog" task doesn't actually mean dog - it means any animal that can be trained.

Also, it can't be caged or chained. It can be pastured, but if it is it will only be available for training if the kennel's also in that pasture. The animal has to be able to actually get to the kennel.

[Arekis]

Here's one I haven't seen before.  My best armor gets a mood (yay!) but it's a possession (boo!).  Claims a forge, grabs a single bar of gold and begins a mysterious construction.  Months pass and he's still in the forge mumbling about his artifact.  More months pass and he goes insane.  What the...

Is this a bug or did I miss something?

[Lord Shonus]

Did it say he began a mysterious construction?

[FuzzyZergling]

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If I put my marksdwarves up on a wall or a small tower so that they are on a higher z-level than the enemy, would they still be able to shoot them?

And does a higher z-level give a better "view range" (i.e, does it allow ambushers to be spotted further away?)

Yes, they'll still shoot, but their range will suffer. If your dwarf is one tile up, the enemy will have to be one tile closer for your dwarf to shoot.

Does it give any advantage over the enemy, though? Do they have to shoot from closer, or have accuracy reduced? And if dwarves are sufficiently high enough, can they shoot over walls? Say if they are shooting from a tower built behind walls?

I know of no real advantages that being up high gives a marksdwarf. Yes, they can shoot over walls down at enemies, but enemy marksmen can also shoot over walls up at them.
The only advantage I can think of is preventing enemy marksmen from getting close to fortifications, giving your dwarves the advantage since they're right up next to them.

[Arekis]

Did it say he began a mysterious construction?

Yeah.  Grabbed one bar and I immediately got the message "has began a mysterious construction!"  Upon further viewing of the forge, he did not make any requirements such as "needs rock bars..." or whatnot.

[Urist Imiknorris]

He just kept muttering a name?

Was the workshop cluttered by any chance? That may have an effect.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

Here's one I haven't seen before.  My best armor gets a mood (yay!) but it's a possession (boo!).  Claims a forge, grabs a single bar of gold and begins a mysterious construction.  Months pass and he's still in the forge mumbling about his artifact.  More months pass and he goes insane.  What the...

Is this a bug or did I miss something?

Is it possible that you forbid the bar or the workshop after construction began?  Because that's what happens when you do that.

[Arekis]

I'm pretty sure there was no clutter.

When he got his mood, I forbade all metal bars except for gold.  After he started his construction, I unforbade them.  Maybe I inadvertently hit forbid on gold again.  That has never happened before...

I also may have set the stone type of the workshop to economic while he was building his artifact.  Though I wouldn't have expected it to have that kind of effect.

One last thing I thought may have caused it, though unlikely, was the magma level at the forge mystically dropped at some point during construction.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

I've accidentally forbid things when unforbidding a long list.  That'd do it.  But magma drop would also do it.  If it's ever too low during construction, the mood ends in insanity.

[krisslanza]

After posting in Mods, I realize this is a better place to bring this up.

Did .25 change things alot? I haven't seen any kobolds in any of my embarks, also I'm noticing significantly fewer goblins trying to snatch children.

I even lowered titan requirement down to 30 population I think and 60,000 created wealth. Yet my current fortress is at about 61 population and 120,000 created wealth and... well, nothing has happened. Do Good biomes really scare off things THAT much? I just want my military outfitted in unicorn leather 

[FuzzyZergling]

Kobolds usually all die out right around year four now, because they don't produce they're own food.

[krisslanza]

Kobolds usually all die out right around year four now, because they don't produce they're own food.

Anyway to help the poor guys survive? Just make it so they don't need to eat?

[Urist Imiknorris]

I also may have set the stone type of the workshop to economic while he was building his artifact.  Though I wouldn't have expected it to have that kind of effect.

This wouldn't have any effect - moody dwarves completely ignore economic restrictions.

[FuzzyZergling]

Kobolds usually all die out right around year four now, because they don't produce they're own food.

Anyway to help the poor guys survive? Just make it so they don't need to eat?

Adding [NO_EAT] and [NO_DRINK] to their raws is supposed to help get them through world gen. (I don't know exactly where those tags should go, sorry.)