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Name: SquirrelWizard

I want to see more interactive mechanical interaction beyond traps. Perhaps mobile artillery for war or combines for farming. Heck, why not simplify and make combine artillery, harvesters of death....

also, I'd like to see more interaction with your homeland beyond the suicidal moron who they send as a trade liason.

I'm looking at the possibility of embarking in a colder biome, I'm aware of the "fun" involved, the question I have is. If I build a building on the surface, does it insulate the area inside to prevent damage to dwarves from cold weather? My understanding is that clothes only do so much to keep them warm.

just deleted a fortress because there were no bees on it, then just found out that bees could have spawned in on it.

okay. This is just a guess in the dark, but by looking between your first and second pictures there, it seems you have some down ramps leading into the cavern, but I'm not seeing any up ramps leading to the seed stockpile room. In order for a ramp to function it has to have an up exit on the lower level, and a down exit on the upper level. Could this possibly be whats preventing your dwarves from planting seeds?

if the elves act like they did in 40d, then they only count lumber lying about as "felled" trees. This means if you have cut 200 pieces of lumber since they last arrived, but have used all but 10 of it, you've felled 10 trees according to them.

First, this should have gone into the game play questions forum.

Second, people really... really.. do not like all cap titles. They will definately make this known.

Third, to take a snapshot of your fortress. You want to export the local image, which can be done from the exit menu.

You should see a list of the layers of your map, as you move your cursor down the layers you'll see a small snapshot of the layer to the right. by pressing enter you can select that layer to be exported as a bitmap file. By selecting multiple layers you can export multiple slices of the map, and with the DF Map converter, you can sandwich the slices together.

Word of Warning, if you export many layers at once, it will lock up DF as it exports the files.

I try to furnish beds for my dwarves, but typically I spend alot of time getting my logistics up. IE getting the food production up, getting booze production up, tapping a water source, and walling off the outside. All of which stave off the immediate danger of having your fortress die, rather than worrying about the luxury of your dwarves' living conditions.

As for Fikes's question. Dwarves cannot claim a cabinet or chest unless they are part of a room. Designating a room from a bed allows a dwarf a place to store his stuff. As for economy, you can go into the init.txt file and turn on the no rent option. Another option would be to keep them busy. I'd also suggest not engraving the bedrooms of your common dwarves. Remember the more value a room has, the more expensive the room is to rent.

As a final note, you do not need to manually designate owners of a room. If you designate a bedroom, the next dwarf who sleeps there will claim it. The option to manually desginate a room is there so you can give specific rooms (high value to nobles, clustering military types together..) to dwarves.

Wall = Solid obstruction on the same level + floor on z+1 level.
Floor = Floor on same level.

you can have a wall on z-1 and a floor on z0 as well. As pointed out, this prevents any further construction on the z0 square. Typically you would floor an area like this if you want to go about making a mosaic or upping the value of the room by flooring with high value materials.

As for fixing channels, it depends on how you went about and dug it in the first place. Some channels will be very inaccessable without further digging.

Apart from using magma and water to obsidian cap the channel you can...

Build a wall to fully block off the channel from inside the channel.
Build a floor or bridge on top of the channel to close it up from the outside.
Build a floodgate or door if you dont want to build a wall (forbid pets and dwarfs from using it)
Cave in some natural walls ontop of the channel (dangerous, and a tad destructive but it works)
Sacrifice as many elves as possible in the channel in the vain hope that their blood will clot and fill the channel.

For a hole above you, try building an up stairwell in the channel, then build a down stairwell on the level above. then cap it with a hatch cover and remove the constructions (remember, start at the top when removing constructions.)