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Well I was looking in stocks and noticed I have 117000 bees.  Seems like I could use them for something mean.

So I've got a little room full of hives in my fortress with bees buzzing all over.  My beekeeper kept going in there and doing his job and he and his dog kept getting stung, which is pretty funny.  But what I'm wondering is, is it possible to do a sort of Wicker Man (hilarious Nick Cage version) thing where you set up a bee corridor to funnel invaders through so that they get stung a whole bunch?  I haven't been able to test it and figured somebody would probably already know by now.

First WTF in *this* version was when every war dog I trained in one fort got some kind of infection causing every part of its body to swell with blood until they died in a rotting mess.  Still haven't quite figured out what that was about.

Second one was just yesterday when a dwarven caravan showed up and *somebody* was shooting bolts at the vultures that decided to swoop on them.  The bolts were coming seemingly out of nowhere and the caravan had no marksdwarves.  Eventually I realized that the liason has a damn crossbow and was taking the vile birds out with bronze bolts!  Awesome.

Is it the 800X600.png not seeming to be sized the same that is throwing you off?  Back with the 40d# versions I was having that little odd size thing was bothering me as well.

Back in one of the the 40d# threads there should be a .png 800x300cursesold that is has the old proportions.  But I think you can still use the old .bmp files with this version, which could simplify matters.

Found the post in case it is more useful. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=40349.msg889535#msg889535

Yes, thank you, thank you very much for that.  It's not quite exactly the same, but it's close enough that it does not bother me.  Now to just remember to copy that file over every time an update comes out.

EDIT: Now to just figure out which of these print modes to use so that it isn't slower than the other version!

Are all future updates going to be like this?  I can't get mine to look right in this version, and am just reverting to 31.03.

Dunno, didn't test it.  I'm just putting some orthoclase walls in underneath the remaining floors so that my fortress doesn't get flooded when they melt.

EDIT: Aw, hell.  I'm gonna go ahead and stop the pumps, open the gates and construct some ice block walls just because I want to know.  More as it develops.

Yeah, that's what I had to do with my high quality mason's workshop.  I haven't used the bug tracker to register the bug or whatever, because I figured someone else has already done it by now and I was worried about bogging it down with redundant stuff.

So my fortress has 90 dwarves (arctic, seaside, aquifer).  I have completely dug out the first three levels of underground (only a 2x2 so it's not that large).  My masons have made enough blocks to completely floor/wall 3x4 rooms for 50 dwarves (plus two of our three mayors' quarters/offices/dining rooms...weird multi-mayor bug all on its own), each with a coffer and cabinet plus a native gold statue.  I also have a wall outside and two stories above that, the top contains the windmill array for the 120-story magma pump tower I'm working on and the one beneath it all the mechanisms to gather power.    Trade depot made of blocks.  Couple drawbridges.  Couple trash compactors.

Anyway, the point is, all masons have stopped producing things in workshops!  I can't figure out why.  Nothing is forbidden/dump, and haulers will still put the stones in the stockpiles near the workshops.  The profiles are set open so that anyone can use them.  Every one of them has the stoneworking jobs enabled.  Even when there is nothing else for them to do, they just sit around with "No job" next to their names.

Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it?  I couldn't find anything in the wiki.