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[simonthedwarf]

I thought of PMing you, but others might benefit from this posed question: how does the mantis reaction work? I keep doing the job "assemble iron mantis" but nothing happens, the stuff just gets used up. I've tried having a slimer pastured right next to the MDL, caged and chained. How is this supposed to work?

Also LFR seems to be spamming the command "gate" to DFhack, what is this?
Also Also, what job type does the MDL use?

Note: I'm using the iron mantis reaction

[simonthedwarf]

was able to do it by pasturing slimers directly on top of the workshop

[astianax]

the 'gate' command that's being spammed to dfhack isn't lfr, it's you. 'gate' is where your dwarves set their wagon right when you begin, and f1 takes you to it every time you hit it. also, every time you hit f1, dfhack checks that as a command, realizes it's the 'gate' in df and not a dfhack command and then announces it tried to run it, but can't.

that's not quite how it works, but figured it'd do well enough for explaining. if you set up hotkeys to quickly visit other areas of your fortress (usually, for me, at least, that's bedrooms, dining area, deep mining, crafthalls, and magma forge areas. if not more) then every time you try to zoom to one with one of the f keys, you'll get a message in dfhack about that not being a valid command. annoying, but you get used to it

[narhiril]

I thought of PMing you, but others might benefit from this posed question: how does the mantis reaction work? I keep doing the job "assemble iron mantis" but nothing happens, the stuff just gets used up. I've tried having a slimer pastured right next to the MDL, caged and chained. How is this supposed to work?

Also LFR seems to be spamming the command "gate" to DFhack, what is this?
Also Also, what job type does the MDL use?

Note: I'm using the iron mantis reaction

It currently works as a boiling stone, meaning it doesn't always succeed.  This will be fixed in the autosyndrome release.

[nekronuke]

what ammunition does the void hurling staff use?

[Jilladilla]

what ammunition does the void hurling staff use?

the same as the void energy projector iirc, the projector is much better at firing them however...

[nekronuke]

got an artifact one at the beginning of my fortress

[Stirk]

got an artifact one at the beginning of my fortress

You got to kill some vodies if you want to use it as a ranged weapon. Still might make a decent whacking stick, depending on the material.

[nekronuke]

Darn. I hope the don't trapavoid, so i can just strip them, and dump them into a 6-7 story spike pit

[Stirk]

Darn. I hope the don't trapavoid, so i can just strip them, and dump them into a 6-7 story spike pit

(They are trapavoid. And explode when killed.)

[simonthedwarf]

what job profession is fabricate magnetic dart launcher? it never seems to get done.

[narhiril]

what job profession is fabricate magnetic dart launcher? it never seems to get done.

Bowyer.  I figured bowyers were pretty useless, so I gave them something to work on.

[simonthedwarf]

My policy of executing bowyer prodigies may have to be changd

[Jilladilla]

My policy of executing bowyer prodigies may have to be changed

..... WHY?

they make good cheap crossbows!

the material doesnt matter much as they turn into metal ones once you put a bayonet on it (which ALSO requires bowyering)!

[SanDiego]

Well, once you have the fifth bow prodigy, you really start to run out of ideas for what to do with them. Also, my crossbowdwarves need support of non-ranged military and in my fort the mortality rate among recruits hovers around 90-95% with each of the more hardcore ambushes/sieges (so far it was one bog troll ambush, one Shedim siege -which made four soldiers unfit for duty due to them being ROTTEN ALIVE, some lizardmen, one goblin ambush with tungsten/silver maces, one gob siege and one full voidwalker ambush), so I'm struggling to build a military that won't dissolve immediately before I expand on my marksdwarves.