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[assimilateur]

Because most things such as food can't actually be utilized by a workshop until it reaches the right stockpile.

Food that is just lying on the floor can be used in workshop tasks. It's just that it rarely sits around before being hauled into a stockpile, and it's unavailable for use while being hauled.

It's easy to get confused since, unless I'm missing something here, what he said was accurate for corpses: they won't get recognized as butcherable unless they're in a refuse stockpile.

[i2amroy]

FacePalm!

Sorry about that, I've been playing with huge forts where pretty much everything is designated for hauling, it just takes forever for the haulers to get there that my brain completely broke down. (Of course the fact that I posted during the middle of a Electrical Engineering Lecture probably didn't help much either )

[assimilateur]

It's been pretty long since I stalled a siege, so refresh my memory: how long does it take for them to get bored and leave? I'm talking about sieges without the sieger tag which none of my invaders use.


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I found my axe users woefully inadequate for dealing with helmet-wearing giants, counter-intuitively enough. That is because they usually fall unconscious long before sustaining a mortal wound after which my dwarves keep hitting them on the head, seemingly oblivious to the fact that their blows always glance off. This is doubly frustrating since their throat and limbs are unarmored and any somewhat lucid fighter would know to target them. I am now changing their weapons to blunt ones, and am wondering what my chances are of still catching the siegers.

[Kogut]

It's easy to get confused since, unless I'm missing something here, what he said was accurate for corpses: they won't get recognized as butcherable unless they're in a refuse stockpile.

Untrue.

[assimilateur]

It's easy to get confused since, unless I'm missing something here, what he said was accurate for corpses: they won't get recognized as butcherable unless they're in a refuse stockpile.

Untrue.

None of the war elephants and war rhinos the elves rode on got touched by the butcher. But that changed as soon as I made a refuse stockpile that accepts corpses.

[i2amroy]

Corpses do seem to be a little messed up as they tend to depend on how the creature was killed almost as much as where it is currently located. Also keep in mind though that the scenario we are talking about here is one in which there is a stockpile that accepts that item, the item is just not currently located in it.

[Kogut]

It's easy to get confused since, unless I'm missing something here, what he said was accurate for corpses: they won't get recognized as butcherable unless they're in a refuse stockpile.

Untrue.

None of the war elephants and war rhinos the elves rode on got touched by the butcher. But that changed as soon as I made a refuse stockpile that accepts corpses.

Well, maybe it helps. AFAIK there is bug/poor design that butcher will refuse to use certain corpses - what probably depends on distance.

[xordae]

Does nature change if you play over a long period of time? I've got a 40 year fort in a freezing biome where only pines used to grow. Now I see larches coming up everywhere.

[Kogut]

Maybe there is difference between worldgen climate and fortress climate?

[PainRack]

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong with my catapults and ballista?


I have a bridge/tunnel that has engines defending it.

....................b....................  EEE
....................b.................... EEE
....................b....................EEE
.=floor/bridge
b=moat
E= engine

Depending on the site, it may has a wall on the top to cut off access or foritications in front of the engine, also, the bridge/fortification doesn't cover the entire tunnel, just the middle.

So, what am I doing wrong? They simply don't fire.

Orders are set on prepare, and they don't fire.
Set on fire at will, and it doesn't attack gobbos
The direction is set correctly, as during fire at will, the stones/ballista is aimed at the right direction.

So..... what am I doing wrong?

[greycat]

corpses: they won't get recognized as butcherable unless they're in a refuse stockpile.

False.  I never make refuse stockpiles, and my butcher shops do their thing with corpses just fine.  The corpse just has to be sufficiently close to the butcher shop to be recognized.  This can be accomplished either by dumping the corpse (and then claiming it), or by building a temporary butcher shop near the corpse (e.g. if it's a fallen beast corpse that's too heavy to haul around in less than a month).

[tryrar]

how easy is it to take down a Green Glass FB with archers? Being a Deadly Dust monster,with no idea of what effect even after watching it take down the Bat Men(killed them too fast), I do NOT want to get within range of it...

[Sphalerite]

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong with my catapults and ballista?

Siege engines fire indiscriminately when set to 'fire at will' and don't fire at all when set otherwise.  That's simply how they work.  There's no setting to tell a catapult or ballista to fire when they see a goblin.

[assimilateur]

corpses: they won't get recognized as butcherable unless they're in a refuse stockpile.

False.  I never make refuse stockpiles, and my butcher shops do their thing with corpses just fine.  The corpse just has to be sufficiently close to the butcher shop to be recognized.  This can be accomplished either by dumping the corpse (and then claiming it), or by building a temporary butcher shop near the corpse (e.g. if it's a fallen beast corpse that's too heavy to haul around in less than a month).

It looked like a problem with stockpiles from where I was sitting but I'm going to take your word for it. Either way, I don't expect this "butcher shop has to be close to the corpse" business is WAD.

Speaking of which, either I missed something, or I had trouble spinning wool that was in a refuse pile right next to the farmer's shop. It worked again when I got rid of the stockpile.

[Tirion]

I've set my pop limit to 80, got about 40 more dwarfs coming as migrants and anouther 20 home-bred, giving me the option of becoming the capital. My fortress if presently a Duchy and has been for a year if I'm correct, and all the requirements of becoming a capital are fulfilled. Will my monarch come, even if there is no way a migration wave would come, or I'll have to set a new pop cap while a liason is in my fort and hope for the best?