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[Drago55577]

how do i get my dwarves to eat fish?

[FuzzyZergling]

how do i get my dwarves to eat fish?

Do you have a Fishery and a dwarf with fish cleaning enabled?

[Prologue]

Does the population cap setting in the init file actually work? I've set my limit to 120 Dwarfs and it worked fine, reached exactly 120. Then another migrant wave appeared, what gives? 

[Nil Athelion]

So how does this facing madness work?  Reading the combat report files, I see people being attacked from behind.  However, it's not like the tiles rotate to indicate facing direction - in fact, I can find nothing that indicates which direction something is facing...

But despite that, people have faces on the front of their heads.  Body parts seem to have relative position, etc.

So... how does this work?

Also, is it harder to hit the face of a quadruped from behind, due to distance?

[Garath]

So how does this facing madness work?  Reading the combat report files, I see people being attacked from behind.  However, it's not like the tiles rotate to indicate facing direction - in fact, I can find nothing that indicates which direction something is facing...

But despite that, people have faces on the front of their heads.  Body parts seem to have relative position, etc.

So... how does this work?

Also, is it harder to hit the face of a quadruped from behind, due to distance?

you can indeed not see where enemies are facing, but generally they are facing in the direction of their last attack, or they direction they just moved in

and body parts, how does it work out? well, like in your example, a long creature that you attack from behind, don't try for the head, front legs or upper body. You can see this at work in adventure mode. Another example is for particularly tall creatures, where hitting the head would require you to jump higher than a multistory house. It really works that way, making the attack "impossible", but I don't know how it works exactly

[Garath]

I genned a new world, and it has some vulcanoes, in the oceans.... do-able to embark there? I'm a bit afraid I'll either drown or burn the moment the seven dwarfs land

[greycat]

Does the population cap setting in the init file actually work? I've set my limit to 120 Dwarfs and it worked fine, reached exactly 120. Then another migrant wave appeared, what gives? 

Your population is reported back to your parent civilization when the Liaison leaves the map after visiting you in the fall.  Migrant waves start moving toward you at that point, unless the Liaison reports that you were over the limit.  Those waves will take time to reach you, and reach you they will, regardless of what your population is by the time they get there.

[Telgin]

I've read that several times, but in my case the liaison didn't seem to have a whole lot to do with it.  It just took a few seasons for migrants to stop showing up after I turned the pop cap on.

Seems that it's just a matter of migrants already being on the way to the fort, and turning the pop cap on doesn't affect migrant waves in progress.

I genned a new world, and it has some vulcanoes, in the oceans.... do-able to embark there? I'm a bit afraid I'll either drown or burn the moment the seven dwarfs land

I don't know, never embarked on a volcano, but why not give it a whirl and find out?

[Garath]

I'm ready to try my hand at my first magma pumpstack, but my experience with water is that it has a tendency to flow back, or at least that is what seemed to be happening. Can it flow back through the "exit" tile of the pump

[nukularpower]

Can a dwarf civ regain a king if the current one is dead?  My civ in my fort atm has "no signifigant leaders" but my leader is still being promoted (countess atm) and I still get caravans, so I assume the civ itself isn't dead.

[i2amroy]

Can a dwarf civ regain a king if the current one is dead?  My civ in my fort atm has "no signifigant leaders" but my leader is still being promoted (countess atm) and I still get caravans, so I assume the civ itself isn't dead.

Due to the way that kings are set up if a king is dead at the end of world gen I'm fairly certain that you can't get another one. You might be able to get one by playing a year or so of adventure mode and then switching back to fortress mode, but even that I'm not sure about.

[Telgin]

I'm ready to try my hand at my first magma pumpstack, but my experience with water is that it has a tendency to flow back, or at least that is what seemed to be happening. Can it flow back through the "exit" tile of the pump

I don't think it can flow backward through the pump or anything strange like that.  What you need to do is to build cisterns at the exit tiles of the pumps to catch the water / magma.

Check this out for some help on how to build them.  If you build cisterns for the pumps, you shouldn't have any problems with magma flowing in places it shouldn't.

[TheLazyPool]

i have a 1tile wide "bridge" going north-south, out of constructed floor and i need to deconstruct one tile to break it up; the problem is that the northern part becomes unreachable after that and i cannot get my dwarfs to deconstruct it from the south, so the deconstructor will end up stranded. I have already tried traffic designations and burrows, but that didn't make any difference. A solution that does not involve lots of adhoc construction and impromptu scaffolding to realize would be much preferred...

[FuzzyZergling]

i have a 1tile wide "bridge" going north-south, out of constructed floor and i need to deconstruct one tile to break it up; the problem is that the northern part becomes unreachable after that and i cannot get my dwarfs to deconstruct it from the south, so the deconstructor will end up stranded. I have already tried traffic designations and burrows, but that didn't make any difference. A solution that does not involve lots of adhoc construction and impromptu scaffolding to realize would be much preferred...

Are the northern tiles constructed floor? If not, try assigning walls to be built there, but suspend them before they are completed.
If that doesn't work, build one wall directly north of the bridge tile and then try deconstructing it.

[TheLazyPool]

Are the northern tiles constructed floor? If not, try assigning walls to be built there, but suspend them before they are completed.
If that doesn't work, build one wall directly north of the bridge tile and then try deconstructing it.

It's all constructed floor, so i can't build a wall on it. I solved it meanwhile with a single tile temporary wall on the level below, so the floor-deconstructor could get away.