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[Box]

Whenever I use k to examine the results of an ongoing battle with an ettin, the game seems to crash.  Mainly whenever the beast's blood or vomit shows up.

I'm looking through the wiki but I don't see any noted bugs regarding this.  Am I doing something wrong?

[Sphalerite]

Probably this bug:

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=3762

[Box]

Looks like it, thanks!

Guess I'll just have to be wary and use DFHack's cleanup tool after every battle with legendary beasties.


Another quick question, are there any modding tools or utilities out there that allow you to edit tiles directly to change them into different materials and such?  DFHack has a tool named "tiletypes" but it doesn't seem to work for me beyond making obsidian things.

[Chattox]

I swear you used to be able to build cages on bridges, and then retract the bridge to have the caged creature plummet to it's death. Am I imagining things?

[Sphalerite]

I swear you used to be able to build cages on bridges, and then retract the bridge to have the caged creature plummet to it's death. Am I imagining things?

Yes, this has never been possible.  You can't build a building (such as a cage) on top of another building (such as a bridge).

What you can do is build a constructed wall over a pit, build the cage on top of the wall, link a lever to the cage, then deconstruct the wall.  The cage will remain floating in midair, until you pull the lever, causing the cage to deconstruct and the creature inside to fall free to its death.

You could also build a floor on top of a support, then build the cage on the floor, then link a lever to the support and pull it.  I suspect that will only result in the cage falling while the creature inside is uninjured.

[i2amroy]

Of course if you also linked the same lever to the cage as well it might work.

[Imminent]

Is there a way to clear furrowed soil from floor tiles?

[Sutremaine]

Build over it. If a stone tile changes from 'muddy stone' to any kind of soil, then that's the way it will stay, and you can't remove the soil from it any more than you can remove soil from surface areas that have it.

You can do this deliberately by muddying a stone tile and waiting for cave moss (or whatever) to grow over it. If you want to be able to see the colours instead of a uniform brown, you have to create a farm plot and then put a dirt road over the furrowed earth.

[Zeebie]

I have a ghost whose name does not appear in the engrave memorial list. He is causing negative thoughts for haunting. Any way to get rid of him?

[Grumbledwarfskin]

A ghost that doesn't appear in the memorial list is usually a caravan guard (they don't have a historical record entry, so they can't be engraved). Only way to get rid of the ghost is to bury the body, if it still exists.

Well...in the bug report thread, ag reported that they'd worked around the issue by using a memory hack to give the ghosts the historical record of a goblin invader. But that solution is not generally available as a utility, as far as I know.

[Matoro]

Is there any good mod where you can play as humans? I tried search from DFFD and forums, but I couldn't find anything.

[Ifeno]

Can dwarves "dodge" flying rocks (from a catapult)?  Ie. can i train them in dodging by bombarding them with siege weaponry?

[deknegt]

How can i keep prepared food out of barrels?

It's probably an easy question but I hate it that when i thin out my stocks of plump helmets and make it into meals, the dwarves continue to toss em into barrels (which are there for BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZE).

Problem i am facing is that i can undesignate barrels on one stockpile, but they just haul it to the other one.

How can i keep my prepared noms on one stockpile without the use of barrels whilst the other foods get put on my general stockpile?

[ZeroSumHappiness]

Use stockpile -> reserve barrels to keep barrels open for brewing purposes.

[deknegt]

Use stockpile -> reserve barrels to keep barrels open for brewing purposes.

I see, do i need to replot my barrel using stockpiles now?