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[Katan Alebread]

I'm trying to build a magma pump stack. I have dug out the various areas and I wanted to start channelling the holes for the magma and the power but my miner decided to channel from the left hand side of the tile and got stuck on the reservoir side. I built a floor to save him, tried to disassemble the floor and the same thing happens. I tried to fill the left tiles with suspended constructing walls, but my mason just stands there anyway. Is there a solution for this?

Seems the alternative is that I make a tonne of magma-proof doors and make the chambers connect to my staircase, but block them off with a door.

[assimilateur]

It's a slight pain in the ass but ordering two walls built - the one you want them to make and another in the exact spot you expect them to stand and strand themselves - and immediately suspending the "decoy". Walls like that probably won't help you with deconstructing floors per se, but I guess you can always dig around the problem and then replace walls using the method I have described.

[Katan Alebread]

It's a slight pain in the ass but ordering two walls built - the one you want them to make and another in the exact spot you expect them to stand and strand themselves - and immediately suspending the "decoy". Walls like that probably won't help you with deconstructing floors per se, but I guess you can always dig around the problem and then replace walls using the method I have described.

Cool, thanks. It's weird that this works for constructions but not deconstructions.

I dug through to the magma chamber, then walled it off again.

[Katan Alebread]

I believe he will use the closest rock if no stone stockpiles exist, and the nearest stockpiled rock if any stone stockpiles exist.

I'm fairly certain this is incorrect: he will use the closest non-busy rock to wherever he is standing at the moment he accepts the job, regardless of whether it's in a stockpile.

I can confirm this is the way it works. They will take the closest non-forbidden rock, regardless of stockpile.

My mason was all the way down a mineshaft (de)constructing stuff when I told him to build a door, he picked up the nearest block of marble and started walking all the way back up to his workshop

[knutor]

Is there anything besides bad timing that would cause a Weapon Trap to kill a Hunting Dog?  Like a Gremlin?  I just lost an artifact, and at very close time saw this.

Knutor

[rhesusmacabre]

If any creature falls unconcious on a trapped tile, it will trigger the trap. Was the dog injured?

[Tirion]

Is there anything besides bad timing that would cause a Weapon Trap to kill a Hunting Dog?  Like a Gremlin?  I just lost an artifact, and at very close time saw this.

Knutor

Anything that passes out activates weapon traps.

[Katan Alebread]

One of my soldiers took some spine damage and has lost the ability to stand. She's starving and dehydrating and no one wants to take her to the hospital or feed/water her. Anything I can do to save her / get her to the hospital? I've got 64 idle dwarfs so that's not the problem.

[Kogut]

Known bug. 0004830: Dwarves in Hospital die of Dehyrdration / Starvation ( http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=4830 )

[Sutremaine]

Unless you're worried about trying to keep a 3 tile wide path open, you don't need to worry about this.  Trees won't grow densely enough to make an impenetrable, solid wall of trees around your fortress.

There is an advantage to having wagon access even though there are no wagons. Depots with wagon access will cause caravans to spawn as though they do have wagons, which means you can reduce the number of edge tiles with depot access until caravans spawn in very specific and easily-guardable areas. Liaisons use an access map which is generated at embark and lights up all edge tiles accessible by foot from the wagon, so if your site is cut in half by a stream or larger that's frozen on Granite 1 and thawed in the middle of Timber your liaison will cheerfully spawn on the wrong side of the map. In 40d this map was also used by the traders -- if you had a map that was split in half at embark and you limited depot access to tiles on the side not initially accessible, the depot access map would show a false positive. Presumably this is still the case in .31, but getting depot access isn't as important as it once was.

The highest number of trees I've seen in a row is 4, but only a few times and on very long-lived fortresses. On open ground you're not going to have any problems with trees blocking foot traffic.

[fergus]

My embark is scatered with things labelled "dense bubble bulb", does anyone know what they are?

[monk12]

My embark is scatered with things labelled "dense bubble bulb", does anyone know what they are?

I do believe you've embarked on a good biome- what you are seeing is good aligned grass. Good gets bubbles and feathers, evil gets eyeballs and tentacles- all of them function identically to regular ol' grass.

[fergus]

My embark is scatered with things labelled "dense bubble bulb", does anyone know what they are?

I do believe you've embarked on a good biome- what you are seeing is good aligned grass. Good gets bubbles and feathers, evil gets eyeballs and tentacles- all of them function identically to regular ol' grass.

OK, thanks.

[DrKillPatient]

I've got the Fortress Defense mod (adds several hostile civs) and one of them is listed as at War rather than the usual red line (------), which means 'hostile by default' if I recall correctly. Does this change anything, such as whether they'll show up earlier?

[Urist Imiknorris]

I think they'll show up to attack you as soon as they possibly can, rather than wait for their time.