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[knutor]

17.  The minute the game pauses, to alert you of a cavern breach, go to that 3x3 up/down stair, and turn all nine into up stairs, well you might only have 6 or 7 left to convert into up stairs, after a breach.  Then when those are done, build right overtop the up/down breaches, up stairs, by way of the b,C,u menu.  Use the nearest rock, so its done fast.  This is the fastest way, that I have found to seal up a cavern.

Deep contstuctions are prioritized over those fortress walls on the surface your masons are building, so don't worry about suspending those, to free up a laborer. 

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Many times however, if my 3x3 up/down has a pillar reaching down, I'll cut an up/down into it, and keep building a shaft right down thru the cavern.  Unless E's or B's are flying about, that is.  The dangers are on the walking level, that touches the cavern floor.  Trolls, trogs, and mole dogs can enter and come up there, so I tend to wall that up ASAP, west walls first, to safely keep mason inside.  If ya wanna try something different, push on thru.  Then wall it up, from bottom up.

Don't try that spoiler strategy if ya have to go thru a cavern lake.  Sincerely, Knutor

[wuphonsreach]

17. I drilled down with up/down stairways until I got to the cavern. How can I seal it off now, so that nothing crawls up? I tried with a floor hatch (I even have an artifact hatch, lol), but it won't allow me. Perhaps I am using it wrong?

The best way is to dig a 1x1 tile next to the lowest level of the stair that you want to remain accessible.  Then build a constructed "up" stair in place of the dug-out up/down stair.  From below, a "up" stair looks like an impassable ceiling.

[chronicpayne]

If your swimming in gold, make some of that into furniture at a masons. Your dwarves will love it if they have such valuable items in their meeting hall, bedrooms, or even just walk past them in the hall.

For example since my barracks were in a soil layer close to the surface, they werent able to be engraved.
So to provide happy thoughts, I used all my excess gold to line the floor tiles with gold hatches.
You can also place extra hatches on your central stair column, (3x3 or whatever you use) this will prevent dwarves from falling down more than one flight of stairs if they get bumped. (which ive never witnessed, trusting wiki on that one)

[Stormbuilder]

18. I keep getting the error message "Farmer cancelled seeding: no available seeds". Even though there is plenty of them. I think the problem lies in the fact that even though I have isolated the seeds in a specific stockpile, they are in barrels, and when someone comes to get 1 seed he makes the entire barrel unavailabe to all. Would disallowing barrels on the stockpile solve the problem?

[knutor]

18.  Don't take any drastic measures.  Is the error spamming?  Or is it an isolated occurence?  If its the later, let the dorf AI rethink and leave em in the barrels.  I'm thinking what you thought, and that is, that his quiver was out of ammo, and he told you so, in complex techno verbage.  Got all alerts on or some? Herbalist prolly was just ninja'd by another herbie and complained. 

[Garath]

seperate seed stockpiles without barrels is the way to go. If you check the barrel, you'll see it's stored in bags too, 100 seeds per bag. So after some time you have two seedbags per seed type (200 seeds per type max). If 5 farmers go to plant plump helmets you'll still get cancelations, but they can plant different crops no problem.

So yes, no-barrel seed stockpile, and a correct identification of the problem +1 dwarfbucks

18.  Don't take any drastic measures.  Is the error spamming?  Or is it an isolated occurence?  If its the later, let the dorf AI rethink and leave em in the barrels.  I'm thinking what you thought, and that is, that his quiver was out of ammo, and he told you so, in complex techno verbage.  Got all alerts on or some? Herbalist prolly was just ninja'd by another herbie and complained. 

going from farming to quivers to herbalists?
I don't know what you used, but can I have some?   

[Azure]

Dig ditch > walls & bridges up. > outer courtyard up > a hojillion cage traps > build roof > Teachers train militia >  > profit?

Where's the problem?

For your seeds, have a custom stockpile only accepting seeds for that farm plot. If you haven't already, ALL stockpiles need to be customized. Meat, plump helmets & fish as well as 2 booze piles by the dining room, seed piles by the farm, fat piles by the soapers, raw materials by what processes them etc. Have a couple food only haulers to keep things going smoothly. GLHF

[Finn]

LOL, are you having fun yet, Stormbuilder?   

You gotta love this game!