flax should grow everywhere. my ancestors back in the prehistoric ages have planted flax in a SWAMP, on MOUNTAINS (where there was enough ground, and the trees still grew) and on PLAINS and FORESTS. so flax should be everywhere-growing fiber plant.
speaking of flax, I can't seem to plant it. I looked over raws and flax seed doesn't do anything.
Done + fixed
and there's the alternative: the pistol crossbow!
Oh I see! I could add that. Great find!
or you could just remove pistols, as they do nothing. and add carbon recurve bow or composite bows
I actually enjoy the pistol, it adds some variety to the game. Plus they come in handy, especially early on. I suppose I am willing to put all guns in a 'firearm' skill and then all bows/crossbows into a 'Marksman' skill. But that's a little detail that can go unnoticed until well into 1.0.8
P.S.
I just got invaded by 48 scrawny infected. and they failed to murder any of my men but they did kill my FPS. It dropped to 18.
thus making nearly unplayable.
Was it raining? dfcleanmap helps.
Hmm, is the cigar reaction broken at the moment? I just checked the Changes/Fixes page and it said something about fixing some issues with cigars. At the moment it wants "leaves" and tobacco leaves. Is this the doubling issue mentioned?
No, the doubling issue came from cigar smoke being called cigar smoke smoke. The reaction is just fine and works as expected, despite the weird wording.
one question, IT, how much plants per square does barley have? i really haven't gotten into the cereals thing, but now my fortress is hungry, and it is the beginning of the season? also, can you also tell that for wheat and rye?
After a quick glance at the wiki Patchouli is right
Necro, CLUSTERSIZE only affects plants gathered via herbalism, not farming.
Did not know that...
otherwise, just remove the cereals, cause they do not pay up, except you're into the flour seller thing.
Cereals are staying in. If I removed everything because it didn't pay up half the game would be gone :p Additionally, flour is actually very handy. One thing of cereal creates multiple things of flour, which can be used in meals. Easily sustaining a fort.
So...I'm kinda lost, could you answer some questions?
1- What is the easiest way to get metal?
2- Is there any rock safe to be mined?
3- Is the dojo not working, or the experience gain os way too slow?
1- The easiest way to get metal is to dig down to the bottom soil layer, and dig out with down stairs. This way you can see the rock layer below you and you can just dig down again once you find metal.
2- In regular Corrosion safe rock is rare. Rigid Rock can be mined out, but is only in small clusters. You could use the Safe Stone mod that makes all stone layers safe.
3- It works, it's just as useful as a workshop (aka not very). Using Army Humans maximizes the effectiveness, but besides that all you can do is make a carp load of dummies and hit the repeat button.