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[Sutremaine]

Make one of your axedwarves the captain and hope all your sentences are jail time.

You could also use the graphics option to overwrite the default ASCII, but making one graphic tile and using it for one position is a great length to go to if you don't know off the top of your head how to do it.

[Valthero]

Make one of your axedwarves the captain and hope all your sentences are jail time.

You could also use the graphics option to overwrite the default ASCII, but making one graphic tile and using it for one position is a great length to go to if you don't know off the top of your head how to do it.

Hmm..the first solution sounds good for the now. I think I'll save the second for a rainy day. Thanks for the ideas.

[Lord Allagon]

How do you make uncivilized creatures be elegible for adventure mode? Or do you need to make them civs first?

[Garath]

for improving my animal stocks, what is better in the description? enormous or gigantic (she is quite fat, she is enormous/gigantic oerall)

my guess is gigantic, but i'm not entirely sure

[Stormfeather]

I have a question! (Er, which is fairly evident, given that I'm posting in this thread and not with an answer... bah!)

Anyhow... when you gen a world, will the z-levels be the same all over that world? Like, if the first cavern is in a certain z-level range in one area of the world, will it be the same z-level range in all other parts of that same world? Ditto the magma sea, etc.?

I figure the answer is yes, but I'm not sure! And I'd kind of like to know, in case I have a world that I either really like or really don't like the z-levels I've found in one embark, so that I can know to either use or not use that world for further embarks...

[Pray_for_Snow]

I have a question! (Er, which is fairly evident, given that I'm posting in this thread and not with an answer... bah!)

Anyhow... when you gen a world, will the z-levels be the same all over that world? Like, if the first cavern is in a certain z-level range in one area of the world, will it be the same z-level range in all other parts of that same world? Ditto the magma sea, etc.?

I figure the answer is yes, but I'm not sure! And I'd kind of like to know, in case I have a world that I either really like or really don't like the z-levels I've found in one embark, so that I can know to either use or not use that world for further embarks...

Caverns can be randomly placed at any z-level.

Number, size and z-position can be altered in the world generation parameters.

[Plutocrat]

Certain things would affect it, like embarking on the side of a mountain on one embark will add that many z layers to the depth you will have to dig in that place. But comparing flatlands to flatlands on the same map, they should be the same rough z level down.

[el Indio]

After about 15 forts, I am slowly getting to understand the basics of the game, however there is a few things i don't understand.

1)  Most of the dwarfs that get sent to jail end up dying of thirst/hunger.  Even with 50+ idle dwarfs in the dining hall (which is right next to the jail and well), no one will give food/water to prisoners.  The hospital is right next door and everyone gets food/water there.  So I tried to set up a booze stockpile and food stockpile next to the dwarf so they could feed themselves.  The food stockpile got filled up immediately, as my food stores were overflowing, but the booze stockpile just had an empty barrel in it.  How do I ensure that a full booze barrel is placed in the stockpile?

2)  Around the fort I have been noticing forbidden weapons lying about, i'm thinking it has something to do with dwarfs who become attached to an item, but i'm not really sure, I thought that once a dwarf picked up a weapon they just kept it with them at all times.  Is it okay to unforbid these items, with no flux I don't like having steel weapons laying about in the dining hall not being used. 

[rhesusmacabre]

1) Stockpiles with barrels always seem to have an empty placeholder barrel. If you make the stockpile bigger, this should fix it. What I do is define a large stockpile over the entire jail, then delete all but two tiles of it from each cell. Alternatively, you could build a cistern under the jail, with a well in every cell.

2) When a weapon gets stuck in its victim (see combat reports) it gets forbidden. I've never been sure why this is the case, although it does make sense for bolts I guess.

[Fishbulb]

1) Stockpiles with barrels always seem to have an empty placeholder barrel.

Actually I noticed something recently. I set up a booze stockpile (with barrels, duh) but designated that it should take from the main booze stockpile, and I don't think my dwarves hauled an empty barrel to it. Perhaps stockpiles that take-from don't get that tile-waster empty container?

[Neyvn]

So I am getting frustrated again...
Trying to equip my Military with Bronze armour.
I open Equipment page, Assign new Uniform, create a Uniform Template which is Mail, Breast, Gauntlet, High Boot, Greaves and the Choice of Weapon. Make sure that this Uniform is set.......
AND THEY DON'T TOUCH IT! I even set it to all of it being Bronze. Which is was. And nothing. They wouldn't go and wear it. So I tell them to replace. Nope, they just dump their Civie clothes there and now thats cluttering up the Barracks. How do I get them to put the shit back on?

[shadenight123]

So I am getting frustrated again...
Trying to equip my Military with Bronze armour.
I open Equipment page, Assign new Uniform, create a Uniform Template which is Mail, Breast, Gauntlet, High Boot, Greaves and the Choice of Weapon. Make sure that this Uniform is set.......
AND THEY DON'T TOUCH IT! I even set it to all of it being Bronze. Which is was. And nothing. They wouldn't go and wear it. So I tell them to replace. Nope, they just dump their Civie clothes there and now thats cluttering up the Barracks. How do I get them to put the shit back on?

maybe they grew attached to their equipment.

or maybe they can't reach bronze.
OR you could try and de-militarize them, then after they drop their armours, have them re-militarized.

[Dynastia]

So I am getting frustrated again...
Trying to equip my Military with Bronze armour.
I open Equipment page, Assign new Uniform, create a Uniform Template which is Mail, Breast, Gauntlet, High Boot, Greaves and the Choice of Weapon. Make sure that this Uniform is set.......
AND THEY DON'T TOUCH IT! I even set it to all of it being Bronze. Which is was. And nothing. They wouldn't go and wear it. So I tell them to replace. Nope, they just dump their Civie clothes there and now thats cluttering up the Barracks. How do I get them to put the shit back on?

Change "Partial Matches" to "Full Matches". With Partial Matches they'll settle for any mail, but with full matches they'll require Bronze mail. Give them a station command to trigger their upgrading.

[Neyvn]

I restarted the game, now they are equipping like normal...
So far I have had Smelters that no longer work, Soldiers that wouldn't equip.... Sigh two bugs that have forced me to restart...

[Tirion]

Do attributes still increase as dwarves gain skill? I'm asking because several of my miners went from dabbling to legendary without any visible attribute change in their descriptions...