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[Psieye]

Yeah that's the Nuclear Quantum Warthogs - they had so much stuff it took them 6 months to just pack up. Presumably about as much time to lay out their goods unless you made good use of the "they still do it even while paused if you designate" feature.

[Osmosis Jones]

Toady fixed surgery! YESSS! 

[Hippoman]

Yep, I can't wait for .07

[smjjames]

Now if Toady fixes the farming in .07, I'll definetly feel like playing in fort mode again.

[Hippoman]

whats wrong with farming?

[FuzzyDoom]

whats wrong with farming?

That...

And Toady, please, fix Military! I haven't even tried embarking in a dangerous area because of so much of the bugs associated with it.

[Hippoman]

whats wrong with farming?

That...

And Toady, please, fix Military! I haven't even tried embarking in a dangerous area because of so much of the bugs associated with it.

I'd be fine with a buggy military for a bit longer, if Healthcare was just much better. Which it is in .07!

[smjjames]

whats wrong with farming?

That...

And Toady, please, fix Military! I haven't even tried embarking in a dangerous area because of so much of the bugs associated with it.

This.....

As for the military stuff, its getting there. He's chipping hammering away at the military bugs one chunk at a time.

[FuzzyDoom]

whats wrong with farming?

That...

And Toady, please, fix Military! I haven't even tried embarking in a dangerous area because of so much of the bugs associated with it.

This.....

As for the military stuff, its getting there. He's chipping hammering away at the military bugs one chunk at a time.

Hm, never had that problem. I stick to irrigating stone. No matter what anybody says, it's simple and easy.

[Hippoman]

whats wrong with farming?

Oh yeah! I did that on my first time playing 2010!
Cept after some picking of plants I planted prickle berries there.

That...

And Toady, please, fix Military! I haven't even tried embarking in a dangerous area because of so much of the bugs associated with it.

This.....

As for the military stuff, its getting there. He's chipping hammering away at the military bugs one chunk at a time.

[Footkerchief]

And Toady, please, fix Military! I haven't even tried embarking in a dangerous area because of so much of the bugs associated with it.

He's been working on those.  If you want to get them fixed faster, the best way to help is to upload saves for the persistent training bug, other problems with training, and the equipment bugs.

[smjjames]

whats wrong with farming?

That...

And Toady, please, fix Military! I haven't even tried embarking in a dangerous area because of so much of the bugs associated with it.

This.....

As for the military stuff, its getting there. He's chipping hammering away at the military bugs one chunk at a time.

Hm, never had that problem. I stick to irrigating stone. No matter what anybody says, it's simple and easy.

You can do it that way, but I'm used to starting off with a subsurface area with soil farming, and its problematic for new players to DF.

[Hippoman]

I don't get these problems. If you position a dwarf to the barracks, then press 's' and then turn them to active, they will train.

But then if you turn them inactive, they won't train, unless they are positioned to the barracks.
Then whether or not they are positioned, they will do station and kill commands.

But when positioned and if they have nothing else to do, and they are inactive, they will train.

[FuzzyDoom]

whats wrong with farming?

That...

And Toady, please, fix Military! I haven't even tried embarking in a dangerous area because of so much of the bugs associated with it.

This.....

As for the military stuff, its getting there. He's chipping hammering away at the military bugs one chunk at a time.

Hm, never had that problem. I stick to irrigating stone. No matter what anybody says, it's simple and easy.

You can do it that way, but I'm used to starting off with a subsurface area with soil farming, and its problematic for new players to DF.

I'm a new player (started like 2 days before .04), and I didn't have any trouble figuring out the farming...though, to be fair, I've watched all of cptnduck's tutorials...

[palsch]

Yeah, farming is pretty easy to set up in a year, even with irrigation.

1) Pick a murky pool (or several in a group).
2) Count how many squares. Multiply by 7, divide by 2. This is the absolute maximum size of your farm.
3) Dig out a farm area at least a bit smaller than this size.
4) Add floodgate(s) where you are connecting to the pool(s). Connect to lever and open.
5) Mine to the pool(s), either directly (see miner run) or by channelling from above.
6) When farm area completely flooded, close floodgate.
7) Wait.
Build farms.

The only tricky parts are if your pools evaporate or freeze at different times of the year. I find digging this out in the first spring and summer leaves you ready to flood in Autumn, when rains refill the pools and freezing hasn't set in yet.

One 70 square murky pool can support two 10x10 (maximum size) farm plots, which should do for anyone. I managed six 10x10 plots by Autumn of the first year, so that's more than doable and I probably don't have to think about farming again unless I want to grow something aboveground.