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[Superdorf]

It is possible to build a door when there are walls on all 4 sides. But if there is an item on the ground, the dwarf will suspend the job claiming there's no path.

And thus was the dwarven revolving door invented.

Although it does mention that butchering things like elk-birds can yield a renewable source of them.

Notably, it lists crocs and gators as yielding gizzard stones. Engineer a crocsplosion, and you could have a very nice source of decorating supplies... and think of the training bolts!

[methylatedspirit]

It is possible to build a door when there are walls on all 4 sides. But if there is an item on the ground, the dwarf will suspend the job claiming there's no path.

I have a bunch of Quickfort blueprints on my computer that I made myself, and they all rely on diagonal doorways. It's something to do with minimizing the distance that my dwarves have to walk, but I don't know if that actually works.

[pamelrabo]

Oh, wow, you people are right, maybe they came inside other animals, not birds. That would explain why no more chickens or turkeys gave me platinum.

Or maybe the whole platinum stones thing it's just a bug, and [pun] that's why the birds ate it [/pun] bdm - tsssss.

Hope I can edit this pist later when I regret the terrible joke.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

Strange I just found a fungiwood tree inside the stone.  There is no opening into the small space, before the miner uncovered it while following a gold vein.

[AngryAboutElves]

I went through the list of goblin(/HFS) literature in a world I generated some time ago and I found out that some goblin literature can be really depressing.

I wish I made a screenshot of it, but there was a particular masterwork produced in a dark pit called After the Trenches, written in a rather sad tone, which was probably written by the Goblin counterpart of John McCrae or Erich Maria Remarque.

[methylatedspirit]

While assigning a weapon to one of my dwarves, I saw this:

What do they mean by foreign?

[bloop_bleep]

While assigning a weapon to one of my dwarves, I saw this:

What do they mean by foreign?

I think because picks are not listed somewhere in the dwarf civ entity raws as permitted weapons, picks are considered foreign, meaning that no auto-generated military dwarves from that civ type (such as merchant guards) can spawn wielding picks. This also means that your fortress mode game will treat picks as weapons from another civilization, same as whips that you loot off goblin invaders, despite you being able to craft them yourself.

This is largely a guess, though, so take this with a grain of salt.

[Bumber]

This also means that your fortress mode game will treat picks as weapons from another civilization, same as whips that you loot off goblin invaders, despite you being able to craft them yourself.

I'm not sure if that actually amounts to anything. Maybe that they don't appear as weapon categories for squad equipment? (I don't have DF installed to double check if whips show up there. I know picks don't.)

[anewaname]

Regarding picks, note the Skills wiki page. Mining is a non-military skill, but it does govern how well a pick is used as a weapon (wood cutters unfortunately use their Axeman skill if they need to attack or defend with their axe). So, a legendary miner will block or attack excellently with their mining pick, and an ex-miner can start their military career with legendary skill with their weapon.

[Dunamisdeos]

I found a quarter on the floor today. It's trivial, but also, I found it.

[Bumber]

I found a quarter on the floor today. It's trivial, but also, I found it.

Do we need a "Trivial things you found today" thread for General Discussion now, too?

[pikachu17]

I found a quarter on the floor today. It's trivial, but also, I found it.

Do we need a "Trivial things you found today" thread for General Discussion now, too?

Why not? "Small, yet interesting things I found out today" sounds like an interesting thread.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

Cannot expel:
Child is
not present

Can't expel a dwarf striken by melancholy, because his children are not here.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Cannot expel:
Child is
not present

Can't expel a dwarf striken by melancholy, because his children are not here.

Yup. An unfortunate bug caused by the game checking to see if a baby is being carried by a parent on a mission. Bug causes it to check the whole world for existing spouse/children.

This is really annoying when a guy turns up who is stressing about his kidnapped children. Stress from being away from family combined with inability to expel. Not good. Toady's acknowledged the bug though, should be blasted when the bug fixing starts up again.

Most annoying was trying to banish a stressed Monster Hunter visitor. Cannot expel, spouse not present. Well, yeah. Urgh.

[methylatedspirit]

I've never really tried to work with magma before, so I was fascinated when I saw this:

while filling my magma pool to power my magma workshops.

In more !!FUN!! news, bridges used to contain magma will deconstruct if the mechanism attached to it melts.