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[Stargazer]

Now, I haven't exactly played for a while. The last time I did, I recall that crutches were broken and that, even when made, amputated dwarves refused to use them. Is this fixed in the current build?

My second question involves roads. Other than using them to pave areas so that tress and shrubs don't grow on the tiles underneath, is there a purpose for using roads? Does connecting them to the edge of a map tile caravans in any way?

[Xelanthol]

Crutches are fixed in the latest version (hospital got a tiny touch up) but as far as I know roads don't do much of anything yet.

[ayoriceball]

My second question involves roads. Other than using them to pave areas so that tress and shrubs don't grow on the tiles underneath, is there a purpose for using roads? Does connecting them to the edge of a map tile caravans in any way?

Roads keep grass and moss from growing on sand or clay you want to be collected. You can also build them for aesthetics, since the cave grasses can be quite ugly.

[o_O[WTFace]]

I don't think they still have a real purpose, especially now that wagons are gone.  You can use them to train architecture, prevent tree infestations, dispose of blocks and nice roads might give happy thoughts (im not sure). 

[Quietust]

I don't think they still have a real purpose, especially now that wagons are gone.

Wagons aren't gone, they're just missing in action (specifically, civilizations never think they have access to them) - once the next version of DFHack is released (or if you download the sources and compile it yourself), there'll be a plugin which brings back caravan wagons (and just needs to be run once in each world you generate).

[Babylon]

I don't think they still have a real purpose, especially now that wagons are gone.  You can use them to train architecture, prevent tree infestations, dispose of blocks and nice roads might give happy thoughts (im not sure).

You need a certain amount of road wealth to get the monarch to move in according to the nobles screen.

[Nameless Archon]

I don't think they still have a real purpose, especially now that wagons are gone.

Wagons aren't gone, they're just missing in action (specifically, civilizations never think they have access to them) - once the next version of DFHack is released (or if you download the sources and compile it yourself), there'll be a plugin which brings back caravan wagons (and just needs to be run once in each world you generate).

Will this also increase the accessibility to goods besides the 'light and easily portable' ones? I mean, I like bins of cloth, but wagons full of bins of cloth is probably not going to help me much more than pack animals full of bins of cloth - there's only so much of it I need, after all. On the other hand, being able to request bins full of iron bars or bins full of serrated discs means being able to rid myself of surplus 'trash' and still get something useful - in quantity.

[orius]

Roads use up less building material than floors as well, but you can't build them over open spaces or put traps on them.

[Quietust]

Will this also increase the accessibility to goods besides the 'light and easily portable' ones?

No - they'll continue to bring exactly the same kinds of goods, but now they'll be able to bring more of them before running out of room. Of course, since the trade capacity values are way too high, they were never running out room in the first place - when the caravan departs, pretty much everything is going to get loaded onto the first wagon.

[dbay]

they have one neat use. If you can rig it so that there's only one path from your trade depot to the edge of the map that a wagon could use (even though there aren't any wagons) then the caravans will almost always spawn there on the edge. I use roads to keep the path clear.

[Zaik]

I've got a one legged miner hobbling around on crutches just fine, so those work now for sure.

[knutor]

Roads are handy in sewerage systems, too.  That long drain tunnel off the mapside, that vents your flood trap will get blocked up by veggies, if its not roughly paved.

I never had much luck running a road off the map.  They don't seem to link across zones.  One level change, and the road is unlinked.  I guess if I build a 2nd Depot out in an unsafe area this might be possible, however.  Something to try the next fort. 

Lost my last one, to some wierd starvation fluke.  Out of the blue, my dwarfs just started dying of thirst.  Was wierd, I just figured it had something to do with all the undead miasma around the fortress.  Wierd tho, I had buckets, water access open to anywhere, and an opperational well, and 6 stills. 

Dunno, but I'm starting a new one outside the evil regions, that miasma cloud is just too annoying to play around.  If it were a little less obstructive, visually, I'll try it again, but my lord, it goes up and down zones, and spreads way too far. 

Zombies need mini-miasma clouds, IMHO.  Too cruel on the end users using tilesets, otherwise.

Sincerely,
Knutor