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McMagma

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HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« on: January 26, 2012, 09:36:44 am »

HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM ? :o

because i want my dwarfs in the fortress when there's a siege or a ambush i lost 20 dwarfs in a ambush because they didnot went to the fortress  :'(
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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2012, 09:38:02 am »

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Burrow

You already posted this in the Question Forum, you don't need to post this again in another board.
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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2012, 02:36:54 pm »

Anyways, set burrows to wherever you want them to go, and come ambushes/GDS tea parties/sieges/Titan raves just set civilians to that burrow

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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2012, 05:11:25 pm »

You really need to read the wiki more and stop spamming the discussion board with topics.
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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2012, 06:49:59 pm »

fill the first hall (if your entrence is 3*9 then it will be 3*1 pressure plates (3 pressure plates)) , then make flood gates of notable color all around the fort, hook up the flood gates to the pressure pad in the entrance of the fort and when the lets say goblins enter the fort you'll see the floodgates change, maybe fill the entrance of you fort with flood gates to prevent more enemies from entering your fort
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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2012, 08:04:29 pm »

Posting in allcaps is like screaming at the top of your lungs. It's impolite!
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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2012, 08:16:25 pm »

Posting in allcaps is like screaming at the top of your lungs. It's impolite!

Or it can indicate urgency. RESIST THE URGE TO SPLURGE YOUR SHIFT KEY

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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2012, 08:28:20 pm »

Posting in allcaps is like screaming at the top of your lungs. It's impolite!

Or it can indicate urgency. RESIST THE URGE TO SPLURGE YOUR SHIFT KEY

Urgency usually justifies screaming. This was not particularly urgent, considering OP could have looked it up on the wiki instead of wasting all our time telling OP to look it up on the wiki.
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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2012, 02:55:46 pm »

You're like a russian. In russia, every words appears to be in capitals, so its like if they yell at you, even for nice things. Like "KITTENS FOR SELLS!!!!!"
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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2012, 04:47:21 pm »

To be fair alarms aren't exactly easy:

step a. make a burrow via the "w" menu, remember you can designate burrows across z-levels, call the burrow "safety" or something similar.

step b. declare an alarm by hitting m, s and then moving the highlight over the burrow safety and hitting enter--this should move a little green CIV over to it, designating it as an active civilian alert.

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Re: HOW DO I MAKE A ALERT ALARM?
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2012, 05:35:55 pm »

Actually, this does remind me, in the last update did anyone else have trouble getting marksdwarves to stand specifically in a burrow when you assigned them to protect it.

I used to just make a burrow right up against my fortifications so they would stand there when I told them "defend burrow STAND HERE MAGGOTS!" now they just sort of gather near the burrow, and sometimes don't even arm up first.
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