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#1: Put the Alarm Siren in the Military Garrison, it fits and is one buildings less.

#1: Keep the Alarm Siren seperate, I want to have it near my other levers.

#2: I have traded with Gnomes, build Artificer and Weather Control Station.

#2: I have NOT traded with Gnomes, did not have the chance to build their buildings.

[Altaree]

Couple of questions:
1) I have two melancholy traders (different caravans) wandering around my fort.  They aren't doing anything bad, but they aren't dieing either.  Any ideas?
2) If I pit caged warlocks, will they use there spells on the way to the pit? Or are they docile?
3) How do I set up a stockpile for bifrost?
4) How do I set up a stockpile only for armor plates?

Thanks!

[Marshbaboon]

Two moar questions from me too.

I can't seem to buy the battle picks at embark, or forge them at a metalsmith. How do I get them?

With feather wood gone what's the best super light material to make bins with?

[Zeebie]

I have never managed to set up a stone decoy. I make them, set the spawn point, and then all the decoys vanish without being set up. I've set up gargoyles, so I know I'm doing it correctly.

[ioi101]

Bifrost is under stone. Don't think armorplates are anywhere.

I think your only choice for material lighter then wood is... mithril. Or better yet, patterned mithril. Needless to say, not exactly a good use of it lol. But yeah, light woods would be great.

I'm now planning on making my furniture out of hellwood through the use of the ash-> hellwood reaction at the altar. Should be.. interesting hehe. Can't really see another great use for it though, except maybe trap weapons.

[Meph]

Excuse  my shortness, but Hellwood = Ballista Bolts = FUN.

Stone Decoys work the same as Gargoyles, but sometimes the boiling stone doesnt work... it is random, unfortunately.

@altaree:
1. Kill them ?
2. They wont make trouble.
3. Stone stockpile
4. No idea. ^^

@borsch:
In the crucible. (Will be changed next update, doesnt really make sense, realisticly speaking.)

[ioi101]

Since I have to butcher alot more with the fortress defense mod, I messed around some more with giving from stockpiles to be certain that:

You cannot get blood from meat or other butchery organs

You can get blood from prepared food, presumably one containing meat/butchery organs. And vermin remains. And probably parts of corpses although I butcher those instead.

You can also get rid of all the annoying organ products from butchery by sacrificing them in an altar, for at least a small chance of a nice drink. Better then having them get in your prepared food and messing up it's value though. I'm still looking for a use for tallow though.

I've actually never played with siege engines. I might try

[Marshbaboon]

You can use tallow to make candles in the craftdwarfs workshop. They're good for trading.

[cAPSLOCK]

If you use the great magma forge to compress two boulders to slade, and then use the magma arc furnace to grind it down to powder, then smelt it, then use the transmutation chamber to turn it into mithril, its basically like:

2 worthless stone --> 2 mithril bars.

Was this intended at all? Seems a little bit OP. 

[HandFullOfCheese]

I maybe missed it, but was there a change made along the way that makes stone have a low chance of dropping ore/stone? My legendary miners are only getting like 40% of what I mine (not stones like sandstone that go to dust, either. Granite, gabbro, diorite, etc) and it's making it really hard to supply a fortress with furniture and armor (especially since I use the harder smithing/smelting options anyways) and such like I normally would. An option I would appreciate being able to turn off if it's a change that I missed sometime along the way.

I wouldn't mind like a 75% or 60% ratio or something, but this is kind of ridiculous imo.

[cAPSLOCK]

I maybe missed it, but was there a change made along the way that makes stone have a low chance of dropping ore/stone? My legendary miners are only getting like 40% of what I mine (not stones like sandstone that go to dust, either. Granite, gabbro, diorite, etc) and it's making it really hard to supply a fortress with furniture and armor (especially since I use the harder smithing/smelting options anyways) and such like I normally would. An option I would appreciate being able to turn off if it's a change that I missed sometime along the way.

I wouldn't mind like a 75% or 60% ratio or something, but this is kind of ridiculous imo.

Yeah, but now smelting an ore gives 4 bars instead of one. There is now a flat drop rate for mining, so it balances out pretty nicely. Less management needed.

[HandFullOfCheese]

Oh okay, great. I was getting annoyed just trying to make tables and chairs and such that I didn't get as far as smelting much and looking at the numbers. Thanks!

[smakemupagus]

Oh okay, great. I was getting annoyed just trying to make tables and chairs and such that I didn't get as far as smelting much and looking at the numbers. Thanks!

Also just fyi, it's a vanilla DF change, not masterwork

[Marshbaboon]

Are there surface monsters that can create fire in the mod? Twice now I've hotkeyed from the surface to the trade depot and back, only to find the entire world burning, and all of the dwarven merchant's goods lying in a neat little pile over their charred corpses. There's nothing in the logs to show what the hell caused it.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Since I have to butcher alot more with the fortress defense mod, I messed around some more with giving from stockpiles to be certain that:

You cannot get blood from meat or other butchery organs

You can get blood from prepared food, presumably one containing meat/butchery organs. And vermin remains. And probably parts of corpses although I butcher those instead.

You can also get rid of all the annoying organ products from butchery by sacrificing them in an altar, for at least a small chance of a nice drink. Better then having them get in your prepared food and messing up it's value though. I'm still looking for a use for tallow though.

I've actually never played with siege engines. I might try

Tallow boulders for catapults... A use for tallow.

[HandFullOfCheese]

Oh okay, great. I was getting annoyed just trying to make tables and chairs and such that I didn't get as far as smelting much and looking at the numbers. Thanks!

Also just fyi, it's a vanilla DF change, not masterwork

Yeah, I thought about that after posting. I haven't played a vanilla game in so long that I didn't even think about it at first.