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[i2amroy]

Constructed and natural walls are immune to melting/heat damage, so just the natural ground will hold them magma fine. (Unless they are natural ice walls, those will melt and then turn into obsidian when they mix with the magma IIRC)

Tundra and Taiga are both fairly cold areas, but it might still be possible for liquid water to exist above-ground in the middle of the summer. If it can then you should be able to combine water and magma above ground with a little bit of effort to cast your fortress. If water is frozen year-round on your map however, then it will take much more work in order to get the water to where you want it above ground so it can mix with the magma.

[Urist McEngineer]

I considered pairing the magma and water stack so the water stack won't get frozen and create constructions so I can minimize the waterdrop to 1z level at a time.

[i2amroy]

I considered pairing the magma and water stack so the water stack won't get frozen and create constructions so I can minimize the waterdrop to 1z level at a time.

As long as the water and magma are always 1 tile away from each other you shouldn't have any problems with freezing. The only way that I know of to do this is by having one on top of the other though (since walls take a full tile), which though it's very dwarven to do will take a lot more work as I said before. So yeah it should be certainly possible for you to do even if water is frozen year-round, it's just a matter of how much you want to work for it.

[Urist McEngineer]

I'll try it and have fun I suppose. At least I get to try to kill some elk and muskox along the way.

[i2amroy]

I'll try it and have fun I suppose. At least I get to try to kill some elk and muskox along the way.

Well that's what DF is all about isn't it? Having !!FUN!! that is. If you do succeed in your efforts be sure to let us know about it. It's always awesome to see someone pull off something that takes a bunch of work.

[Ms4k]

Just an update, my dwarves started training now that I filled up the squad and set it to 9 minimum. Thanks for the help.

[Ms4k]

Just an update, my dwarves started training now that I filled up the squad and set it to 9 minimum. Thanks for the help.

[Urist McEngineer]

If I would like to make chimneys for my tanners and butchers, is channeling out the central tile enough? Or is there a special tile that needs to be vented then?

[Sphalerite]

Why do you think you need to make chimneys?  If you are worried about rotting animal products creating miasma, you would be far better off actually having refuse stockpiles for everything so the workshop isn't getting cluttered with animal products.  And that only applies to the butcher's shop, nothing created in the tannery gives off miasma.

[Urist McEngineer]

It seems it isn't necessary then. I like the idea of making them. So I'll do both. Refuse stockpiles and constructed 3x3 chimneys with the middle outer squares grates and a hole in the middle. Sealed off with a floor.

[Lokathor]

Why does the embark screen always tell me that it can't complete my embark saved prep because there is no cave fish or cave lobster, when i can indeed select said food and bring it with me?

[Sphalerite]

I've noticed that too.  It seems to be a bug - the game doesn't think you have those foods available even though you do.  It's probably due to them being from underground, from cavern lakes, even though dwarves have no problem having underground plants available at embark.

[Prologue]

Is it possible to re-equip invaders? For example, removing copper weapons and armor and equipping steel and stuff?

[rephikul]

Is it possible to re-equip invaders? For example, removing copper weapons and armor and equipping steel and stuff?

If you send a dabbling militia wearing nothing but a weapon to fight them one on one then there's a chance they'd wrestle the weapon from the militia then use it against him. That's the only method I know of.

[Kalphoenix]

If you embark on multiple binomes (say, a tropical shrubland and a tropical marsh that abut one another), do you gain the benefits and penalties of each?  Can you only farm certain things IN that specific area?  Do you have multiple biomes of animal types?  Just curious, thanks.