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[Sarda]

Hm, scorching desert......

Makes me wonder if you could mummify a dorf in hot sand as punishment.

...I'm not the only one contemplating sarcophagi traps for thieves and ghosts becoming mummy guards, am I?

[Girlinhat]

That would be fairly awesome, except that it doesn't get that hot without adding !!Fun!!  A desert is treated like a warm beach, really.

[Sarda]

Yeah, I believe it was done by putting corpses in the sand. It's not the heat, it's the lack of moisture and bacteria, so the body is preserved while it shrivels.

[lanceleoghauni]

Masons, endless masonry teams. that and miners and haulers. a few get recruited into the agricorps.

[Bo]

Stone detailing. Can never have too many engraved walls and floors.

[agatharchides]

I usually make fancy stuff at workshops. You can cram a lot of decorations onto one object, so I can usually use my items and dwarves. If you focus on industries that produce light things like cloth it is easy to offload any surplus on caravans.

[Tanelorn]

Haulers, haulers, and more haulers to make life easier for the productive dwarves.

I use haulers to bring stone to the stonecrafter's workshop, so the crafter doesn't waste time walking. That means he works faster, making many more crafts. And it takes haulers to all take those crafts to the crafts stockpile.

And I also use haulers to bring stone to the custom stone stockpiles (accepting only one color of stone) near my construction projects, so that the masons need only walk 10 tiles to grab their construction material. The mega projects get built pretty darn fast, and the limiting factor is always how quickly the stone is brought to the stockpile.

There is just never enough haulers.

[greenskye]

I tend to not build very efficient forts so I usually need lots of haulers to compensate. Just recently my 30+ haulers spent a few months doing nothing but bringing ore to the forges down ~50 z-levels below my fort while I was building my pump stack. It used to bother me that I would have huge numbers of idlers at random times, but now I just think of them as my quick reaction team. Plus, if you have so many haulers, when one of them dies its no great loss.

[GrizzleBridges]

I let them live their lives. I know what you mean, once a fort is established I only need a few dwarves working to keep the whole fort happy. Then Ive got all my military kitted out and trained, and the king has set up home in my fort.
I just think of it as if the dwarves are now allowed the luxury of spare time, so they socialise and get drunk and do whatever they like. The life of a dwarf doesnt have to be work, work, work!
Maybe if the economy worked I would give them all jobs.

If all else fails and i get too bored, Ill go and let the clowns out, but that usually ends in FPS death.

[Urist McGyver]

Let me ask something COMPLETELY out of context...(Mister lich's comment strung a doubt)

Are Upright Spear Traps toggled? As if I put one in my Pit O'Doom, will a falling elf be spiked?

[zilpin]

Enlist all the males, give them uniforms of nothing but a robe, and send them on a suicide mission to hell.

Having nothing but females, train them to legendary speardwarves.
Mod in helmets with wings on them.
Make lots of mead.
Play Wagner very very loud.

[proxn_punkd]

Enlist all the males, give them uniforms of nothing but a robe, and send them on a suicide mission to hell.

Having nothing but females, train them to legendary speardwarves.
Mod in helmets with wings on them.
Make lots of mead.
Play Wagner very very loud.

This is a good post and you should feel good.

I've begun organizing my dwarves by useful skills and giving them new profession titles. That way, I have a general idea who should be working on what, and who has no immediately useful skills and should be cannon fodder.

[bucket]

I just let them do what they're good at.
Unfortunately, none of the local traders seem impressed by my exploding Potash & Cheese industry.

[dirty foot]

Enlist all the males, give them uniforms of nothing but a robe, and send them on a suicide mission to hell.

Having nothing but females, train them to legendary speardwarves.
Mod in helmets with wings on them.
Make lots of mead.
Play Wagner very very loud.

This is a good post and you should feel good.

I've begun organizing my dwarves by useful skills and giving them new profession titles. That way, I have a general idea who should be working on what, and who has no immediately useful skills and should be cannon fodder.

This interface (among a few others), is pretty much the exact opposite of intuitive and streamlined. There really needs to be a way to look through a list of dwarfs on the left, with a list of their skills/inventory/etc on the right. There's plenty of room on the screen to do it, manually selecting every champ to cycle through the aforementioned is insanely time-consuming, not to mention counter-productive.

While we're at it, a more informative military screen would be nice as well. Maybe even merge the two screens somehow. I'd like to be able to see the 15+ fisherdwarves on my military screen when I'm drafting all the redundantly-skilled champs. No one needs 12 bone doctors. Not with a 200 pop cap.

Also, is there a way to equip civilians without drafting them? My hunters and fishers should be wearing "hazard gear" since they're often out in dangerous areas. I don't really want to give them a bad thought from being drafted, just so they won't get gored to death when they're out casting a line into the water.

[krenshala]

Also, is there a way to equip civilians without drafting them? My hunters and fishers should be wearing "hazard gear" since they're often out in dangerous areas. I don't really want to give them a bad thought from being drafted, just so they won't get gored to death when they're out casting a line into the water.

You will have to draft them, but its actually a pretty easy method.  Make a new uniform, call it "Hazard Gear", and assign the items you want your outdoorsdwarves to equip (with no weapons, unless you want to).  Next set it so the uniform is worm while off duty (I forget the exact wording). Then draft your guys into squads with that uniform assigned (i'd make the captains one of them, by the way).  Then leave those squads on permanent inactive, unless you need to throw them at something in an emergency.  They will still upgrade gear as it becomes available,  but should in all other ways act as normal.