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[CognitiveDissonance]

How the heck were dwarves able to smelt alumnium when it took us until only a couple of centuries ago to pull it off?

It's easier to smelt than adamantine, and then they just worked backwards

Why are roasts so valuable?

[tahujdt]

How the heck were dwarves able to smelt alumnium when it took us until only a couple of centuries ago to pull it off?

Aluminum has always been around, it's just native aluminum is extremely rare. The aluminum we have today is refined from bauxite.

Answer to above: Because dwarves can't taste, so any food that looks good is extremely valuable.

Why don't dwarves accept necromancers as part of a fort? The ability to raise the dead would be great for building megaprojects. (That's actually how necros build their towers.)

[Demdemeh]

Because part of mastering the secrets of life and death is shaving off your beard, and the other beards can't have him spreading the idea around.

Why does only fat respond to heat?

[Mr Space Cat]

Fat tends to sweat a bunch. The sweat boils in the heat, making the fat even hotter,so it sweats more, then next thing you know your dwarves are 50% thinner and resemble charcoal briquets.

Why do dwarves insist on abandoning their stations to go whack the enemy with their crossbows?

[evictedSaint]

Why do dwarves insist on abandoning their stations to go whack the enemy with their crossbows?

Because long-range combat is for sissies and elves and sissy elves.  You can only please the God of Blood by beating the tar out of goblins up close and personal.

Why is it dwarves will ignore orders to seal up the fortress when a siege arrives if there's a party going, or if they're on a break or drinking or eating or sleeping?

[zzedar]

Why is it dwarves will ignore orders to seal up the fortress when a siege arrives if there's a party going, or if they're on a break or drinking or eating or sleeping?

Union rules.

Why did the founding dwarves travel aboveground to found a new fortress?

[Bumber]

Why did the founding dwarves travel aboveground to found a new fortress?

Easier to survey.

[Em3rgency]

Why do my dwarfs insist on placing individual body parts into tombs, when we don't even have enough coffins for the piles of FULL dead bodies that are busy away haunting the fort?

[Komra]

They are trying to hint that you should begin ritual cremation and memorialization. They've been wanting to pave the halls with the memories of their honored dead for so long...

Why do extremely over-simplified screw pumps purify water so well, especially of nigh-magical toxins?

[Catsup]

Why do my dwarfs insist on placing individual body parts into tombs, when we don't even have enough coffins for the piles of FULL dead bodies that are busy away haunting the fort?

i made dwarves NOT_LIVING during world generation so they will never appear as undead in necromancers' sieges, that should help if you are getting massive amounts of dwarven corpses due to those sieges. You should be able to keep coffin production up quite easily though, because those can be made from stone, wood, and glass and its usually easy to get alot of stone and sand for glass.

[pisskop]

They are trying to hint that you should begin ritual cremation and memorialization. They've been wanting to pave the halls with the memories of their honored dead for so long...

Why do extremely over-simplified screw pumps purify water so well, especially of nigh-magical toxins?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Dwarven screw pumps are magic as well.



Why is bringing water to bedridden patients such a low priority?

[lazygun]

Why is bringing water to bedridden patients such a low priority?

Because of the undocumented, hard-coded [ETHIC:GIVE_WATER_TO_DWARF:UNTHINKABLE]

How can a lever affect a floodgate 100 tiles away and 30 tiles down?

[acetech09]

Quantum entanglement.

If caverns are fed with geothermal energy, then why are the magma-filled ones more deadish than others?

I left the community for almost a year and my god this thread is still alive.

[Demdemeh]

Fire imps and magma crabs eliminated the competition.

Why are nether caps always the same temperature?

[Komra]

Their temperatures are capped in the nether sections of the temperature scale, and entropy keeps them at said cap. Hence, the name.

Why doesn't sound emanate from most activities?