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[Moth Bones]

Is there a way to fine tune dumping? What I have are large areas filled with granite (useless) and dolomite (flux) which look the same; I'd like to be able to designate just the granite for dumping.

[assimilateur]

Is there a way to fine tune dumping? What I have are large areas filled with granite (useless) and dolomite (flux) which look the same; I'd like to be able to designate just the granite for dumping.

d->b->d designates a mass dump and under z->stocks you can designate or undesignate items wholesale for dumping or melting, or forbid or hide them. This includes dumping all the granite you mined out with just a couple of keystrokes.

[Moth Bones]

Aaaaaahhhh... so if I designate granite for dumping in the Stocks menu, does this automatically mark all granite? Or do I still have to mark out a zone as well?

[knutor]

How can I carry magma, from the lower regions up to the top regions, without screw pumps.  I want to put 6 magma 2 levels above my gatehouse.  Such that, I can pull a lever and open 6 steel hatches and pour it all down on invaders?  I'd like to first put 6 alcohol 1 level above my gatehouse, in line with the magma, so that it falls before the magma.  Drop that first, onto the invaders, and then light them up with magma.  But I'm having difficulty finding a way to put magma up there in the setup.  I've got the hatches and booze all setup.  Is there a container that holds magma?  And if so, how do I put magma into that container?  How do you achieve this?

Sincerely,
Knutor

[Drago55577]

why is this thread so popular?

[Greiger]

Aaaaaahhhh... so if I designate granite for dumping in the Stocks menu, does this automatically mark all granite? Or do I still have to mark out a zone as well?

The stocks screen will mark all the unused granite in your fortress for dumping.  No need for marking anyplace else if you did it there.  But you will need a bookeeper with records high enough to have individual objects in that category.  Anything with a ? next to it you can't do it with until your bookeeper is set to higher detail.

why is this thread so popular?

Because it's a helpful, obvious place for people to post questions without having to make a new thread.  Some people don't like posting new threads. 

Take me for instance. 4.4 thousand some posts, only 29 threads started by me.  I do not like posting a new thread unless it is the only way to do what I want, and even then I'll usually just not bother if it is.

[Zeebie]

Once a dwarf is in a coffin, is there any way to rebury them? I'd love to move some of my important dwarfs into nicer tombs.

[i2amroy]

Once a dwarf is in a coffin, is there any way to rebury them? I'd love to move some of my important dwarfs into nicer tombs.

I believe if you destroy their coffin they will return to the "waiting for burial" line in which case they can be reburied in a new coffin. Other than that though there isn't a way sadly.

[assimilateur]

Aaaaaahhhh... so if I designate granite for dumping in the Stocks menu, does this automatically mark all granite? Or do I still have to mark out a zone as well?

You select an item type (granite, larch logs, pig tails, corpses) and mark it for dumping without expanding the category or whatever, then all of it gets marked that way. Even what you've already dumped or used in buildings, neither of which should worry you.

An exception to this rule is the melt designation, but even that will only omit items that are already built.

Disclaimer: I don't know if doing this requires precise records (i.e., bookkeeping), but if it does then you just need a bookkeeper with an office and some time on their hands.

[Garath]

you usually want a bookkeeper anyway. Nothing is worse than finding out that you dont actually have that 100 store of alcohol anymore

[Grumbledwarfskin]

Once a dwarf is in a coffin, is there any way to rebury them? I'd love to move some of my important dwarfs into nicer tombs.

I believe if you destroy their coffin they will return to the "waiting for burial" line in which case they can be reburied in a new coffin. Other than that though there isn't a way sadly.

You can just order their casket deconstructed by using (q)->(x) over the tomb, so it doesn't have to be a mega-project. Just pick a time when there aren't any dwarves awaiting burial, set the tomb you want them in as the only one permitted for burial, unbuild their casket, and you should have them transferred in short order.

[evillevi]

What jobs pair well with the bookeeping skill

[Sutremaine]

Doesn't really matter, since once the records are fully accurate the bookkeeper barely needs to do anything. I have fortress over half a century old where the sole bookkeeper is only Talented. Since bookkeeping is a high-priority task you want someone who doesn't have other skills you might want to use.

[Garath]

something you use occasionally, shearing, milking, stuff like that. Not fishing or hunting, since it lets him/her run off for long times, smithing will soon take up too much of his time etc


some questions of my own:

if i put a ballista behind fortifications, will it still fire fine? if its elevated, will it still hit ground level troops without problems?

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if I floor over my ground level, will the murky pools still refill as normal? I would guess not, since no rain gets there then

[Tirion]

Siege engines fire through fortifications without a problem, but only on the same level.