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[janglur]

I have just begun steelmaking, and have a dwarf who refuses to wear my outfit of steel.
i have 'replace clothing' set, and 'exact matches only'.  Noone else is wearing the armor, so I know it's available.  Everyone else is in leather, just to be sure.

Here's the outfit:
Steel Helm
Steel Cap
Any Hood
Steel Chainmail
Steel Breastplate
Any Cloak
Steel Gauntlets
Any Mittens
Steel Greaves
Steel High Boots
Any Socks
Steel Shield

HWAI WHONT HE PUT IT ONG!?


Tips, tricks, suggestions?

[Urist McUristy]

Did you assign the uniform to everyone?

[janglur]

No, only one guy.  Haven't enough steel for everyone yet.  They're fine in leather, they're expendible.  He, however, is a decent metalcrafter and an accomplished military skills extroidinaire.

[janglur]

Fixed, now that I set EVERYONE to steel.

I dun think it mattered, tho.  Shortly after, I got hit by the biggest siege I have EVER seen.

Six parties:
6 ogres
5 ogres
8 goblin macemen lead by a cave swallow master swordsman
6 goblin pikemen lead by a master lasher
2 goblin master theives
3 kobold theives


FFFFUUUU-

[nordak]

How are your defenses?  Traps, Killzones, chokepoints and how many layers do you have to your defense. I prefer having 4 entrances (chokepoints) before reaching the fort proper, and 6 killzones along the way. 60 cage traps, and 40+ war elephants.

[Lord Dullard]

Fixed, now that I set EVERYONE to steel.

I dun think it mattered, tho.  Shortly after, I got hit by the biggest siege I have EVER seen.

Six parties:
6 ogres
5 ogres
8 goblin macemen lead by a cave swallow master swordsman
6 goblin pikemen lead by a master lasher
2 goblin master theives
3 kobold theives


FFFFUUUU-

That's a fairly tame siege compared to some I've gotten. But I've noticed that the newer versions of DF tend to ramp up siege difficulty MUCH faster than old versions did. Despite a few years of playing the game, this actually caused me to have 'Fun' several times before I realized I couldn't expect to start up at the same pace I'd been doing in 40d and earlier releases.

2010 is all about getting a military and traps up and running very quickly. Traps, especially, can be vital in saving your butt from earlier sieges.

[MantisMan]

I usually make the first project to wall in a courtyard in front of my fort entrance, with a drawbridge and a one-tile wide five-tile channel to make sure building destroyers can't get in. Right now my only secondary defense is a door. From what I've read on the wiki, this is pretty much an air tight defense assuming I can get the drawbridge up in time and assuming I don't run into any fliers.

[gopa4]

I usually make the first project to wall in a courtyard in front of my fort entrance, with a drawbridge and a one-tile wide five-tile channel to make sure building destroyers can't get in. Right now my only secondary defense is a door. From what I've read on the wiki, this is pretty much an air tight defense assuming I can get the drawbridge up in time and assuming I don't run into any fliers.

You could just floor over your entire courtyard, you know.

[MantisMan]

I was going to do that, but I set up a statue in the middle of it to avoid cave-adaptation. I don't know how long it takes to set in, but I'm doing what I can to make sure that all the dwarves get a little bit of sun once in a while. I also need to have an access ramp in case of a siege, so that I can get some goblinite. I don't have many weapons-grade metals on the map.

[gopa4]

Maybe build the roof out of glass blocks, would that work? And if you have a raising draw bridge presto you have easy access to the outside world. But you remain completely safe as well. Yay. If you wanted a dwarfy excuse you could say that the raised draw bridge was simply you buying time to assemble your forces to rush the hordes of evil or some such.

[Shrugging Khan]

I'd happily wall myself in, but there's caravans to consider.

[MantisMan]

That's where the drawbridge comes in. Have a channel just in front of your main entrance (make sure to wall off the other areas of the fort from the outside), and build the drawbridge so that it crosses the channel, like as follows:
.r.....
.hhhhh.
wwbbbww

.r.....
.hbbbh.
wwbbbww

Legend:
. = ground
r = ramp (because after removing the ramps from the channel, your miners need to get out  somehow)
b = drawbridge
h = channel

[gopa4]

Does anyone know if a roof made out of clear (or any?) glass will stop or slow down cave adaptation? Like if your house was made out of a glass dome you could still get a tan. Heck I would imagine that it would end up an incredible tan, maybe even if it was built wrong like how little ants get burned up. Maybe !!science!!?

[cog disso]

Does anyone know if a roof made out of clear (or any?) glass will stop or slow down cave adaptation? Like if your house was made out of a glass dome you could still get a tan. Heck I would imagine that it would end up an incredible tan, maybe even if it was built wrong like how little ants get burned up. Maybe !!science!!?

Add a floor of glass windows. Decorate liberally with sparkly gem windows. Hold a parade.

[gopa4]

Or just the Gem windows over a marble flour and we could have a disco.