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[Yaotzin]

Speaking of shells, why do I *always* get turtles when fishing? Can I mod it for some more variety or something?

Because your fisherdwarf is fishing in a biome where turtles are the only fishable creatures - presumably murky ponds in a swamp biome.  If you have a river or brook, you can set create an activity zone for fishing on it and then set the option to force zone-only fishing, and then you should get river/brook fish instead.

Sweet that worked, thanks. Real fish at last!

My entire bone/skull etc stockpile was filled with stupid shells :p

[Imp]

My entire bone/skull etc stockpile was filled with stupid shells :p

I assure you there are starving children in.... err, there have been many new players (and a few not so new, who did not embark upon an environment that hosted turtles) who really would have appreciated that problem!

[nickbii]

) How can I find a cave spider, fast? I have no silk and he demands it I don't think I've ever seen a cave spider.

You'll rarely actually see them, because they're vermin.  Mostly you'll see the webs they left behind.  Try the caverns (all 3 layers).  If you see webs in one of them, you can issue a "collect webs" job from a loom (the game automatically issues these if you didn't turn that option off).

You may need to send the military to explore the cavern and reveal all of it, lest you get spammed by pathing failures for webs that the weavers want to collect (they have X-ray web vision) but which aren't pathable (they can only see un-revealed webs, not un-revealed cavern tiles).

In my experience the best way to find cave spider silk for early moods is to have a) a really good bookkeeper, and b) have some miners handy.

Step one is the part that requires the book-keeper. On the stocks menu Spider Webs are listed, with the thread. If your book-keeper has done his job you can hit tab, to switch from listing quantities to listing individual items. Then you select a web and hit z. Now you know where the Cave Spiders in your map live.

It is very very important you picked a cave spider and not a Giant Cave Spider, because cave spider are vermin, which means they teleport anywhere in their home biome. Now all you have to do is dig a room somewhere in that biome, Cave spiders will magically teleport to that room, and leave their webs. Add a spare loom, and a guy with web-gathering enabled, and you should have at least one silk thread gathered in a few weeks, which you can spin into silk cloth if that's what your moody dwarf needs.

There are a couple caveats. You may need to have opened up the caverns before the webs show up on the screen. And you have to be quite careful in how you dig your room, because if you create a way into your fortress you'll be constantly invaded by cavern-dwellers.

Nick

[Neowulf]

Once you've found a cavern, you can explore the rest from relative safety by channeling through the roof at the edge of your explored area. Then just floor off the hole.

[Yaotzin]

How does the max pop in the init work? Does it just stop immigrants at the set point, or does it stop all births too? I'd like to be able to stop immigrants relatively early, but maintain pregnancies.

[orius]

What's the difference between the Core Quality and Total Quality categories in the stockpile menu?

Items themselves have quality levels, but so too do decoration levels.  And when you're working with clothing, you have both the quality of the woven cloth and the quality of the tailored clothing.

Core quality is the item itself - an 'exceptional mace' is core quality exceptional, end of story.

That same mace could be decorated with masterful decorations, changing its total quality upwards.

Once you've found a cavern, you can explore the rest from relative safety by channeling through the roof at the edge of your explored area. Then just floor off the hole.

Or better yet, you can carve fortifications in the walls that let you look into unexplored areas.

to quote the wiki:  So if you have *«+steel battle axe+»*, you have a +steel battle axe+ with *decorations*

Yeah, I'm aware of these things.  I asked because I set up some stockpiles for trading that are set to Total Quality masterwork hoping to get either core masterwork items or items with masterwork decorations, but it appears the dwarves are only putting the core masterwork stuff in there and ignoring stuff that isn't masterwork but has masterwork decorations.

Once you've found a cavern, you can explore the rest from relative safety by channeling through the roof at the edge of your explored area. Then just floor off the hole.

Or better yet, you can carve fortifications in the walls that let you look into unexplored areas.

[orius]

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[FuzzyZergling]

How does the max pop in the init work? Does it just stop immigrants at the set point, or does it stop all births too? I'd like to be able to stop immigrants relatively early, but maintain pregnancies.

It stops migrants from coming if the population is over the max population. It doesn't stop births, and a migrant wave can send it past the max.

[Lockem Shoto]

Is there any way to encourage mating with all of the dwarves?

I understand that, with the LazyNewbPack, that you can change the ratio between children and adults, but is there some sort of ingredient that can create a baby boom?

The reason I'm asking this is because my dwarf army of 100 dwarves armed with wooden axes are slowly about to die of old age (I don't know the actual avg life span of a dwarf). I've been turning new migrants into recruits for a new generation, but I kind of want a new generation of new generation children.

[Neowulf]

Or better yet, you can carve fortifications in the walls that let you look into unexplored areas.

Bah, the mental image of your miners breaking through a ceiling, sticking their heads down for a quick look, then plugging the hole back up is much more amusing and dwarfy. Like a group tunneling around near the surface and occasionally popping up to get their bearings.
Plus it doesn't leave any holes your civies can get scared through, or FB gasses/dusts/ect... to accidentally penetrate.

[Sphalerite]

Is there any way to encourage mating with all of the dwarves?

Give them free time and a very small meeting room.  They'll spend a lot of time in close proximity with each other and become friends, then hopefully lovers, then eventually married.  Once they're married you can put them back to work full-time, they'll pop out kids every year even if they never have a moment of free time.

[Loud Whispers]

Is there any way to encourage mating with all of the dwarves?

Give them free time and a very small meeting room.  They'll spend a lot of time in close proximity with each other and become friends, then hopefully lovers, then eventually married.  Once they're married you can put them back to work full-time, they'll pop out kids every year even if they never have a moment of free time.

Or lock them in a 3x3 room together. Takes a while, but they become ecstatic lovers and eventually marry much quicker.

[greycat]

Bah, the mental image of your miners breaking through a ceiling, sticking their heads down for a quick look, then plugging the hole back up is much more amusing and dwarfy. Like a group tunneling around near the surface and occasionally popping up to get their bearings.

"Where are we, Bembul?"

"Urist, I don't know, but it's damp and it smells like elf piss!"

"I knew we should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque."

[Bobbias]

So, a woodcutter got a Fey mood, grabbed a ton of stuff, and is demanding leather... I've got plenty of leather sitting in a stockpile and he's just sitting there like I have none.... What's going on here?

[Farmerbob]

Speaking of shells, why do I *always* get turtles when fishing? Can I mod it for some more variety or something?

Because your fisherdwarf is fishing in a biome where turtles are the only fishable creatures - presumably murky ponds in a swamp biome.  If you have a river or brook, you can set create an activity zone for fishing on it and then set the option to force zone-only fishing, and then you should get river/brook fish instead.

Sweet that worked, thanks. Real fish at last!

My entire bone/skull etc stockpile was filled with stupid shells :p

Decorate your crafts or items with shells.  If your metal industry is weak, make armor from shells, then decorate them with shells