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[Neowulf]

For the clay collection spot, it's best to use squares adjacent to natural clay walls that you plan on leaving untouched. Same with sand.
Collection tasks on repeat always reuse the exact same tile to collect from, even if you change your collection zones around. The tasks also use the zone only for standing, and actually collect from an adjacent tile. You can collect through floor grates too if you don't mind the look.

[Duntada Man]

Okay, I have about 10 trolls and a giant just sort of sitting around in cages.

I want to use them in traps, but every time I try to put them into another cage, they break free, kill the poor bastard who went to move them, then get caught in the cage traps I have set up just in case that happens.

I've seen lots of other people use these beasts by moving them from one cage to another, or into pits. What am I doing wrong?

[FuzzyZergling]

Okay, I have about 10 trolls and a giant just sort of sitting around in cages.

I want to use them in traps, but every time I try to put them into another cage, they break free, kill the poor bastard who went to move them, then get caught in the cage traps I have set up just in case that happens.

I've seen lots of other people use these beasts by moving them from one cage to another, or into pits. What am I doing wrong?

Don't move them to another cage, just [ b ]uild the cage where you want them to go.

[i2amroy]

The only creatures that can actually be moved safely over a distance are captured goblin invaders, everything else will break free. What you need to do instead is simply build the cage that you want them in where you want it in the first place, instead of attempting to move them into an already built cage. The drawback is that you can only have one creature per cage, but it works well enough in most cases. you might also consider looking into mass pitting on the wiki as well.

[proxn_punkd]

I've got a hundred dwarves and the mountainhome wishes to make me a barony-- they won't let me negotiate for more goods until I appoint someone! Is there a quick way to look over my dwarves' preferences, or should I just appoint someone I like/at random?

[Garath]

(u) and scroll through your dwarfs with (z) (entr) to see who is nice, use dwarf therapist to see which dwarfs you'd rather sacrifice if they get unreasonable, and whether they'll be unreasonable

[Sphalerite]

The first time the liaison offers to make your fort a Barony, decline the offer.  The liaison will depart, but return next year and make the offer again.  Take that time to look at the personality screens of all your dwarves and see who has preferences for materials and items you can easily make with local materials.

[htabdoolb]

I'm trying to trap a wide variety of the vermin inhabiting my current fortress, but my trappers seem to prefer to patrol only a single stockpile deep inside my fortress. The stockpile they all cluster around isn't even a food stockpile, just a cloth bag stockpile. How can I encourage my trappers to widen their search? There are tons of vermin flitting about on the surface, but they almost never search there.

[Callista]

1. What determines which designated spot a miner will go to first?

2. Anybody know where I can find a good guide to traps?

[i2amroy]

1. What determines which designated spot a miner will go to first?

2. Anybody know where I can find a good guide to traps?

Dwarves perform designations from the top-left corner of the map, with things farther left taking more priority then things farther north. As for the trap guide, you might want to check out the trap design page on the wiki for some ideas. Personally I like the goblin grinders myself.

[Sarlare]

For whatever reason my dwarves won't haul dead pets to either the corpse pile or to a designated coffin. It's getting to be a problem now, as migrant's pets end up starving to death in the dining hall, leaving skeletons behind and rotting. Am I missing something obvious here?

[fergus]

Have you set the coffins to be used for pets in the query (q) screen? It's not on by default.

[Sarlare]

Have you set the coffins to be used for pets in the query (q) screen? It's not on by default.

Yep, the coffins are open to anyone(anything?). I have burial jobs for several inhabitants, as well as having a refuse pile that should accept the decaying bodies.

[fergus]

Are all the coffins tasked for citizen burials? That would stop pets being buried. I'm not sure why the refuse stockpile isn't being used.

[Garath]

I'm trying to trap a wide variety of the vermin inhabiting my current fortress, but my trappers seem to prefer to patrol only a single stockpile deep inside my fortress. The stockpile they all cluster around isn't even a food stockpile, just a cloth bag stockpile. How can I encourage my trappers to widen their search? There are tons of vermin flitting about on the surface, but they almost never search there.

first, why do you want vermin?
set an animal trap with some kind of bait. it will trap vermin