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[Table Turning]

Ergh.

Now I'll never drown these stupid cats in the waterfall.

[ZeroSumHappiness]

I always prefer making an artificial river path:

1. Dig out the alternate path, but don't connect it to the river yet.  It can lead to a large lake, off the map, farther downstream, wherever it'll stay out of the way for a while.  Make it end next to the main river such that there's one tile of ground between the new path and the river.  The new path has to be high enough upstream that it'll significantly or completely prevent any water from reaching the dam point.
2. Add a valve to the alternate route if you want to shut it off later.  A raising bridge is destroyer-proof and easy.  Floodgates are not, but can be protected with floors and fortifications if you want to use them.
3. After you can use the valve, channel out the dirt between the river and the new path so that water flows that way instead.
4. Dam the original river however you want.  Walls or a valve.
5. Close the valves.  River is now trapped.

Another way of doing this is to use pumps instead of a valve in step 2.  I've found pumping perpendicular to the river from both sides is most effective.  A benefit of pumps is that if you do it right you can remove all evidence of any pumping afterward.

[i2amroy]

Another more simple way is to simply diver the river downwards, I believe somebody here mentioned it when this question was asked, but it might have been in another thread. What you want to do is figure out which end of the river is the input and dig beneath it. You then want to dig down until you hit stone and then carve fortifications on the map edge to allow for an outlet drain. Make sure to build a bridge here so that you can turn the river back on when you want to. Then simply dig up into the bottom of the river. If done right, the river water should enter your map and immediately flow down a hole in the bottom of the river to a drain that takes it right back off the edge of the map. This should then proceed to eventually drain the entire river out, allowing you to build in it. Then all you have to do is pull the lever to flip the bridge up that blocks the drain, and the river should proceed to fill itself back up again.

Side view    ~=river  X=undug stone  F=fortification on map edge   B=raise/lowerable bridge

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[tryrar]

k have a little question: When using upright spikes/spears connected to a lever for repeating perforation traps, what actually does better? Spears or Menacing Spikes(assuming same quality/material)?

[Xen0n]

Alright, all of these suggestions sound out of my reach besides maybe the natural wall one.  How would I go about doing that?  I'll throw in a picture of the waterfall.

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Sorry to give the same advice twice, but I'll explain a bit more thoroughly just in case I did a bad job explaining the pump method earlier.  That you have a waterfall actually makes it even easier.

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You will need:
at least one pick
about 16 stones
about 8 wood logs/metal bars/bags of sand

• Make 4 pipe sections and 4 enourmous corkscrews using metal bars / sand / wood, depending on what you have available.
• Make 4 stone blocks.
• Make 4 stone floodgates
• Build a 8x2 tile walkway across the river at ground level just before it bends, so that you cover the

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• Channel out the square of dirt NW of the '2' part of the river.  (Channel the X)

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• Build 4 screw pumps along the walkway, set to "pump from the South." 
• Give at least 4 dwarves the "Pump operator" job.
• Set all the pumps to start pumping manually.  (The water will be sucked up from the 5343 part of the river, and dumped onto the next level down the waterfall.)
• You should now have a rougly 4x3 area of dry riverbed to install your floodgates/drawbridge/constructed wall or whatever.  Just channel/mine stairways/build stairs down from the edge of the river to get down to the riverbed.

[fluffhead]

So I was playing around with DFAUTODUMP and I go into my stocks menu and designate a lot of clothing for dumping.  I then place my cursor in my fort, and run the program (through the lazy newb pack interface).  I successfully dumped a lot of items on to my dwarven atom smasher spot.  I then operated my bridge and smasherzed all that junk.  My question comes from the fact that after doing so, I went back into the stocks menu, and saw that there were still items which were marked for dumping, that didn't get dumped.  Any ideas why this didn't happen?  are these all items that are equipped still?  whether on goblins/trolls/dwarfs?  If so is there a way to dump these items too without assigning everyone to a military unit and assigning no uniform to them?  (and manually de-equipping my enemies?)

[Tirion]

So I was playing around with DFAUTODUMP and I go into my stocks menu and designate a lot of clothing for dumping.  I then place my cursor in my fort, and run the program (through the lazy newb pack interface).  I successfully dumped a lot of items on to my dwarven atom smasher spot.  I then operated my bridge and smasherzed all that junk.  My question comes from the fact that after doing so, I went back into the stocks menu, and saw that there were still items which were marked for dumping, that didn't get dumped.  Any ideas why this didn't happen?  are these all items that are equipped still?  whether on goblins/trolls/dwarfs?  If so is there a way to dump these items too without assigning everyone to a military unit and assigning no uniform to them?  (and manually de-equipping my enemies?)

Stuff on caged prisoners and in weapon traps get marked for dumping but won't be affected by autodump.

[kardwill]

k have a little question: When using upright spikes/spears connected to a lever for repeating perforation traps, what actually does better? Spears or Menacing Spikes(assuming same quality/material)?

Spikes are deadlier.

[fluffhead]

So I was playing around with DFAUTODUMP and I go into my stocks menu and designate a lot of clothing for dumping.  I then place my cursor in my fort, and run the program (through the lazy newb pack interface).  I successfully dumped a lot of items on to my dwarven atom smasher spot.  I then operated my bridge and smasherzed all that junk.  My question comes from the fact that after doing so, I went back into the stocks menu, and saw that there were still items which were marked for dumping, that didn't get dumped.  Any ideas why this didn't happen?  are these all items that are equipped still?  whether on goblins/trolls/dwarfs?  If so is there a way to dump these items too without assigning everyone to a military unit and assigning no uniform to them?  (and manually de-equipping my enemies?)

Stuff on caged prisoners and in weapon traps get marked for dumping but won't be affected by autodump.

but it will take it off of dwarfs wearing the items?  or are those not dumped too?

[Table Turning]

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Thanks a bunch, it'll help me once I get enough time to pull it through.

[CapnUrist]

Someone's pet poult (baby turkey) apparently received some sort of stigmata, because it randomly bled to death. No combat reports, nothing in gamelog.txt about it beyond "Goden UgoshŠrith. Poult has bled to death", no magma or traps sitting around. Most that could have happened is it randomly got hit by a speardwarf practicing, without any combat log coming up. Any idea what happened here?

[Xen0n]

Someone's pet poult (baby turkey) apparently received some sort of stigmata, because it randomly bled to death. No combat reports, nothing in gamelog.txt about it beyond "Goden UgoshŠrith. Poult has bled to death", no magma or traps sitting around. Most that could have happened is it randomly got hit by a speardwarf practicing, without any combat log coming up. Any idea what happened here?

First thing that pops into my head is a Titan / Forgotten Beast Syndrome from deadly blood / beast extract that infected it somehow.  Not sure what other options are, though.

[tyrannus007]

When I gen a new world, there are tons of humans and elves and goblins, but few dwarves. Using Legend Viewer and historical maps, I've found out that dwarves always rapidly decline about two years before the world finishes generating. Is it possible to change this? I know this doesn't have much of an effect on Dwarf Mode, but it bugs me.

[CapnUrist]

I suppose that's possible, though that's the first anyone's reacted to the only FB's "poisonous vapors" beyond the two militiadwarves' livers going cyan for a short time before healing.

[AWellTrainedFerret]

Right now I'm getting spammed by "A masterwork of Armorer Urist McDorf's was lost" because I'm melting down all the copper caps he made while in training. Will this piss him off the way lost artifacts piss off their creator?