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[FuzzyZergling]

Bookkeeper, manager, and engraver spring to mind.

[Stoup]

I've never used wooden bolts but I can say from experience that bone bolts are very much worth the production effort. They mostly chip bones, but you only need to have one chipped bone to have a goblin scream for his mum before passing out in a puddle of his own vomit, and assuming you have decent marksdwarves a headshot from there's not much of a far fetch.

[Kay12]

I've never used wooden bolts but I can say from experience that bone bolts are very much worth the production effort. They mostly chip bones, but you only need to have one chipped bone to have a goblin scream for his mum before passing out in a puddle of his own vomit, and assuming you have decent marksdwarves a headshot from there's not much of a far fetch.

They do have plenty of broken bones already... I don't think DF handles internal bleeding too well so it's unlikely they'll just die now. I need to cause them to bleed...

[Tirion]

Help! How do I assign a cabinet to an individual noble? For some reason, even when I put it into his room and set the room it's still not him, and while [q] on the cabinet itself offers an [a]ssign option, it disregards whoever I pick from a loong list of dorf names and and still only lists organizations when I'm [q]ing it to see WTH it did not satisfy the noble's demand.

[Reelyanoob]

Make sure the room covers the whole space? Use the resize option, or delete and re-create the room?

[Sphalerite]

You don't need to specifically assign cabinets (or chests, armor stands, and weapon racks) to nobles.  Just build them in a room that's assigned to the noble and it should count towards that noble's required furniture.

[Major SNAFU]

How do you sell food?  I see this mentioned, but I haven't figured out what to move to the trade depot to be able to trade food.  Is there a way to see which barrels have food on them before you move then?

[Kay12]

How do you sell food?  I see this mentioned, but I haven't figured out what to move to the trade depot to be able to trade food.  Is there a way to see which barrels have food on them before you move then?

It should be in the barrel name - "Prepared food barrels" contain food, and I think you can examine the barrel ('v', I think?) to see the precise foods inside.

[Deamonpies]

Is it possible that the reason i'm getting spammed by cannot access item: item inaccessible is that my staircase is only 1 wide and I have lots of dwarves trying to path up and down it?

[greycat]

How do you sell food?  I see this mentioned, but I haven't figured out what to move to the trade depot to be able to trade food.  Is there a way to see which barrels have food on them before you move then?

Sufficiently large stacks of prepared meals will not be stored in barrels.  Barrels only hold 10 units of food, so a stack of 37 roasts will be stored without any container.

So, if you're searching the depot's list by name, you can search on "roast" to get the big ones, and "prepared" to get the barrels full of little ones.

You can also sort the depot's list by value instead of by distance; this puts all your valuable stuff (bins full of finished goods, roasts, barrels full of roasts, platinum statues, ...) at the top of the list.  I think you press (d) for that.

[Zeebie]

What is the difference between inactive and suspended?

[Urist Imiknorris]

What is the difference between inactive and suspended?

Inactive means your dwarves aren't doing it because they're either doing other things, can't path to it, or just haven't picked up the job yet. Suspended means they won't do the job until you unsuspend it.

[eastc]

Reading the "Cave Challenge" thread...

I see a lot of posts about people bringing things on embark (logs, stone, metals). How do you do that? My embark just has animals and in the unfortunate event I accidentally delete all my axes I can't get them back. What obvious thing am I missing?

Do corpses rot in the garbage dump or only in refuse piles or does it not matter?

How do you find a surface cave to start in?

[Urist Imiknorris]

You press [n] on the embark screen to add new items to your embark supplies.

They rot anywhere, but they'll only produce miasma underground.

There's an option in world gen parameters to show caves.

[eastc]

I will never cease to be amazed by how often I can miss instructions on a screen with only 6 instructions. -_-