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[The Merchant Of Menace]

You need one in each hand or a pile on the ground. Piles will only occur if you drop the stone in an area different to the one you collected it in

[ext0l]

How do I loot coffers/bags of the bandits I killed. Also, where can I get steel and better weapons, apart from making it from my own fortress?

[TolyK]

How do I loot coffers/bags of the bandits I killed.\ [ g ] if from the ground. They're not built.

 Also, where can I get steel and better weapons, apart from making it from my own fortress?
Buy them at shops (yellow-looking hamlets on the map) or take them off your enemies ([ g ] them off the ground)

in bold above. hope it helped!
also: press Shift-? for ingame help in all modes.

[eepkeep]

Is there currently any way to treat infections?

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Adventure mode? No.
Amputation (Read:Enemy lucky shot) may work.

[Knigel]

How do I loot coffers/bags of the bandits I killed.\ [ g ] if from the ground. They're not built.

 Also, where can I get steel and better weapons, apart from making it from my own fortress?
Buy them at shops (yellow-looking hamlets on the map) or take them off your enemies ([ g ] them off the ground)

in bold above. hope it helped!
also: press Shift-? for ingame help in all modes.

But while shops can give you some quality weapons (I don't believe you'll ever find masterful goods, and even exceptional is extremely rare) and some really strong bandits will have quality weapons, you're not going to find steel anywhere except on ambushing dwarves.

[Knigel]

If you're in a cavern layers one does anyone have any tips on how to either go back up to the cave entrance you came from or down to cavern layer two?

For some reason there isn't shit here but some giant cave spider webs (my adventurer was even completely undisturbed for 8 hours of sleeping), so it's pretty boring here.

[Flaede]

If you're in a cavern layers one does anyone have any tips on how to either go back up to the cave entrance you came from or down to cavern layer two?

For some reason there isn't shit here but some giant cave spider webs (my adventurer was even completely undisturbed for 8 hours of sleeping), so it's pretty boring here.

Up - use the Q menu to find out roughly where you are.
If you have an exported map of your world (a pic can create at the end of worldgen or in legends mode), and you had "show caves" on in the worldgen, then use it to figure out where the closest cave is. (The only ones showing on that map will be ones that went down to the caverns, I think)

You can use these two resources to figure out where the closest cave access should be, and then get there.

Bonus tip: if you do get deeper, don't go anywhere near the gas bag things. Floaties. Them. Don't touch 'em. Early last year Toady had H1N1. If you get anywhere near the floaties, your adventurer will know Toady Of Last Year's pain.

[Knigel]

If you're in a cavern layers one does anyone have any tips on how to either go back up to the cave entrance you came from or down to cavern layer two?

For some reason there isn't shit here but some giant cave spider webs (my adventurer was even completely undisturbed for 8 hours of sleeping), so it's pretty boring here.

Up - use the Q menu to find out roughly where you are.
If you have an exported map of your world (a pic can create at the end of worldgen or in legends mode), and you had "show caves" on in the worldgen, then use it to figure out where the closest cave is. (The only ones showing on that map will be ones that went down to the caverns, I think)

You can use these two resources to figure out where the closest cave access should be, and then get there.

Bonus tip: if you do get deeper, don't go anywhere near the gas bag things. Floaties. Them. Don't touch 'em. Early last year Toady had H1N1. If you get anywhere near the floaties, your adventurer will know Toady Of Last Year's pain.

No, I've already found the cave (using the "show caves" option), gone in, and worked my way down to cavern level one. I'm asking for advice in navigating the thing: I can't get any lower than a certain point, which I think it on the same z-level as these couple of pools I've found.

[Flaede]

Sorry. was trying to give advice on the "getting out" part.

Any time you discover a way to go down lower than your current cavern level, you'll get a message, even if the way down isn't readily apparent and you have to hunt around a bit for it.

The only advice I can give for getting lower other than "picking a direction and zig-zagging", is to cheat and mod in flying, at least for a bit. It lets you go down the steep drops and "you have found a deep hole" type situations where you can see the way down but it'll kill you.

[Knigel]

Are there any utility programs I can use to see anywhere in the world and thus where I need to go?

[ext0l]

Press Q and then z to see where you need to go.
Also you can use m to view the map.

[Knigel]

Press Q and then z to see where you need to go.
Also you can use m to view the map.

No, not to a mission, I meant a utility that can give a detailed view of the interior of a site, in this case a cavern.

[TolyK]

reveal might work...

[Knigel]

reveal might work...

Reveal and the DFHack reveal option only seem to work in Fortress Mode.