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[crekit]

Will grass grow if I roof the ground over? Will cave whatever grow instead?
Can I make an underground, roofed over grass zone?

[Endiqua]

Will grass grow if I roof the ground over? Will cave whatever grow instead?
Can I make an underground, roofed over grass zone?

Yes, you can channel from the top and roof it over and grass will indeed grow as long as you've got dirt there.  I'm pretty sure that cave moss/fungi will grow, as well, once the caverns have been breached.

[Tirion]

Will grass grow if I roof the ground over? Will cave whatever grow instead?
Can I make an underground, roofed over grass zone?

It will still be grass. For purposes of vegetation and miasma (or luck thereof), once it was open to sun, it'll always behave so. So, yes you can, but imho cave whatever would work just as fine for pastures, tree farms and plant gathering.

[San-A]

4 questions:

1- Can a dwarf use a battle axe and a shield without being penalised ?
2- Is it possible to channel down though several z-level without having to dig a up:down stair case besides?
3- I have some goblin equipment in the main corridor of my fortress (near of the entry) that my dwarves would never pick up, either for storing or dumping them. They are not forbidden. I have the same issue with some other items in the fortress (a bed, a bucket and some more...)
4- there is a wall tile that my dwarves refuse to smooth. Its position is as follow:

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s s u
    s
    s
where the s's are the smoothed walls and the u is the unsmoothed wall.

Thank you!

[Sphalerite]

1- Can a dwarf use a battle axe and a shield without being penalised ?

As far as I know, a dwarf will only be penalized if he's trying to wield both the axe and the shield with the same hand, and possibly not even then.

2- Is it possible to channel down though several z-level without having to dig a up:down stair case besides?

Yes, if you don't mind stranding your miners.  Make sure to only designate one layer for channeling at a time, and dig a corridor at the bottom to get them out.

3- I have some goblin equipment in the main corridor of my fortress (near of the entry) that my dwarves would never pick up, either for storing or dumping them. They are not forbidden. I have the same issue with some other items in the fortress (a bed, a bucket and some more...)

The goblin equipment is probably claimed and belongs to some dwarf in the fortress.  Make sure each dwarf has a bedroom, preferably with one or more cabinets in it, and they'll eventually pick their owned items up and put them away.  Make sure the owned items you want put away aren't forbidden or designated for dumping.

4- there is a wall tile that my dwarves refuse to smooth.

Is there anything which blocks passage, such as a statue or impassible workshop square, blocking their access to the corner?

[Xen0n]

4 questions:

1- Can a dwarf use a battle axe and a shield without being penalised ?
2- Is it possible to channel down though several z-level without having to dig a up:down stair case besides?
3- I have some goblin equipment in the main corridor of my fortress (near of the entry) that my dwarves would never pick up, either for storing or dumping them. They are not forbidden. I have the same issue with some other items in the fortress (a bed, a bucket and some more...)
4- there is a wall tile that my dwarves refuse to smooth. Its position is as follow:

Code: [Select]


s s u
    s
    s
where the s's are the smoothed walls and the u is the unsmoothed wall.

Thank you!

Just as Sphalerite says.  For trivia purposes, the only negative effect of equipping an axe and shield that I know of would be that the extra weight of the shield will slow you down (by a very, very small amount), though this can be negated by increasing your Shield User skill.  Ditto for armour. 

If you become fed up with owned items (since it can be a real pain), you can always cheat and use DFHack to confiscate/dump/delete them (Also came with Lazy Newb Pack)

[San-A]

1- Can a dwarf use a battle axe and a shield without being penalised ?

As far as I know, a dwarf will only be penalized if he's trying to wield both the axe and the shield with the same hand, and possibly not even then.

2- Is it possible to channel down though several z-level without having to dig a up:down stair case besides?

Yes, if you don't mind stranding your miners.  Make sure to only designate one layer for channeling at a time, and dig a corridor at the bottom to get them out.

3- I have some goblin equipment in the main corridor of my fortress (near of the entry) that my dwarves would never pick up, either for storing or dumping them. They are not forbidden. I have the same issue with some other items in the fortress (a bed, a bucket and some more...)

The goblin equipment is probably claimed and belongs to some dwarf in the fortress.  Make sure each dwarf has a bedroom, preferably with one or more cabinets in it, and they'll eventually pick their owned items up and put them away.  Make sure the owned items you want put away aren't forbidden or designated for dumping.

4- there is a wall tile that my dwarves refuse to smooth.

Is there anything which blocks passage, such as a statue or impassible workshop square, blocking their access to the corner?

Thanks for the quick reply

1- OK
2- OK
3- indeed these were equipment belonging to dwarves. I'll see they got a room
4- Nothing blocks the passage. It seems they wouldn't smooth a corner...

[Sphalerite]

Is the square they won't smooth rock, or soil?  Soil can't be smoothed.

[San-A]

Is the square they won't smooth rock, or soil?  Soil can't be smoothed.

It's rock

[San-A]

If you become fed up with owned items (since it can be a real pain), you can always cheat and use DFHack to confiscate/dump/delete them (Also came with Lazy Newb Pack)

Which tool of the DFhack can I use for that?

[Xen0n]

If you become fed up with owned items (since it can be a real pain), you can always cheat and use DFHack to confiscate/dump/delete them (Also came with Lazy Newb Pack)

Which tool of the DFhack can I use for that?

For the new version, I believe it would be:
'clearowned' - removes ownership of claimed items, solving problems with worn clothing and military starving out the fort.

Although I've only ever used the old version that was packaged with the Lazy Newb Pack.  In that case I would go to the DFHack folder manuualy and run something like "dfconsfiscate.bat"

The readme will probably explain it better for the new version.

[FearfulJesuit]

My expedition leader went into a strange mood during negotiations with the dwarven diplomat. That means I'll never get another diplomat, right?

[San-A]

If you become fed up with owned items (since it can be a real pain), you can always cheat and use DFHack to confiscate/dump/delete them (Also came with Lazy Newb Pack)

Which tool of the DFhack can I use for that?

For the new version, I believe it would be:
'clearowned' - removes ownership of claimed items, solving problems with worn clothing and military starving out the fort.

Although I've only ever used the old version that was packaged with the Lazy Newb Pack.  In that case I would go to the DFHack folder manuualy and run something like "dfconsfiscate.bat"

The readme will probably explain it better for the new version.

All right I am discovering that DFhack needs a bit of attention to work properly.

I am running DF with the LNP under Windows. How am I supposed to use the "clearowned" command? I am sorry for this stupid question

[Sphalerite]

My expedition leader went into a strange mood during negotiations with the dwarven diplomat. That means I'll never get another diplomat, right?

I assume you mean the Liaison?  You should get another one next year.

[Xen0n]

Spoiler: Quote quote quote (click to show/hide)

If you become fed up with owned items (since it can be a real pain), you can always cheat and use DFHack to confiscate/dump/delete them (Also came with Lazy Newb Pack)

Which tool of the DFhack can I use for that?

For the new version, I believe it would be:
'clearowned' - removes ownership of claimed items, solving problems with worn clothing and military starving out the fort.

Although I've only ever used the old version that was packaged with the Lazy Newb Pack.  In that case I would go to the DFHack folder manuualy and run something like "dfconsfiscate.bat"

The readme will probably explain it better for the new version.

All right I am discovering that DFhack needs a bit of attention to work properly.

I am running DF with the LNP under Windows. How am I supposed to use the "clearowned" command? I am sorry for this stupid question

Not a stupid question, took me a few days and asking a bunch of people in the DFHack thread to figure out  . 

Spoiler: Long and poorly explained roundabout way of using the old DFHack bundled with LNP (click to show/hide)

For most of the basic DFHack tools, you can run them straight from the LNP window.  Make sure Dwarf Fortress is running and paused.  One of the tabs (Utilities, maybe?) has alist of all the extra utilities like Dwarf Therapist, SoundSense etc.  Scroll down on that list and you'll see a whole bunch of DFHack tools, that you just doubleclick to activate.  Now the one there for owned items (near the top) I believe only affects owned food by default.  To remove ownership of all owned items, you can click the "Open Utilities Folder" button in the bottom right hand corner, or manually find the DFHack folder in your Lazy Newb Pack folder > Utilities > C Hack > DFHack in File Explorer.  Now, in the DFHack folder, there is a list of all the tools, plus a few extras, one is right next to the owned items tool, but ends in .bat (dfconfiscate.bat I think).  Double click that, and it should remove all ownership tags.  To do more fiddly things and use more advanced commands, you can add options to the different tools, as described in the Help / readme in the DFHack folder.  To actually use those, though, you'll need to do the following:

To do this, open up a command console.  Type cmd into "Run..." or the "Start Search" in the Start Menu if you are using Windows.  Then, navigate to the directory that contains the DFHack tools.  for example, type "cd C:\Games\Dwarf Fortress\LazyNewbPack[0.31.25][V9.2]\LNP\Utilities\C-Hacks\DFhack 0.5.15"  , depending on where it's located.  If your installation is in a different partition (as it was for me) you'll have to add "cd /d" instead of 'cd'.  Once you have changed to that directory, type the name of the tool, a space, then the option.  For me it was "dfcleanowned.exe -a", to use the dfcleanowned command, with the 'a' option (the 'a' option sets it to 'all items'.  The list of options is in the readme/help file). 

Phew.  Complicated, long, difficult, and very picky.  In other words, absolutely dwarven.

Or you could install the new DFHack and it'd probably be way easier.  I just haven't bothered updating.