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@azrael: How about the building guides ? They would tell you that this is the place where you can set up/spawn creatures you build in workshops.

What's a building guide? I thought it was something in the raws.

*checks folders more thoroughly*

WOO! There are building guides!!! Thanks!

Hello again! Anyone else had problems with turret industry?

After a near-disaster of an ambush by clockwork men, I decided it was time to get me some turrets. After some research I found what workshop makes them and how and got the industry going to get me the resources for 3x slade, 1x bullet and 1x warp. Only there's a problem!

The warp turret fails to create. The bullet and slade turrets create fine and get put in my tool pile. But when I use a spawn location workshop to assemble them, instead of a badass defense emplacement, I get a puff of "Bullet turret" or "Slade turret" smoke and naught else. Drat!

Is this a known issue? I tried searching the thread but came up empty.

I've been playing 1.8, and I can't seem to make a guild hall! I checked the changelog and it seems they've been removed. Is there another way to add dwarves to castes, or am I limited only to what dwarves arrive pre-casted?

Also, I suppose it's probably not possible to simply copy over my save into 1.9 and have it all work cozy-cozy?

Woo!

Well I'm happily dwarfing along, trying now to get a book industry going so I can start educating some of my dwarfs with the neat new scriptorium. It's going well enough so far; tannerdwarf is making some bookcovers, presser's making sheets of paper and a dwarf is deeper down making ask for ink.

It's spring, the 14th of Felsite, and Dwarf Fortress crashes! It's been slightly crashy up until now, lost a few months a couple times before, but since I've been saving regularly not I'm not too upset. But this one always happens! I'd managed to save seconds before it all went wrong.

Since the time that I posted I've been systematically testing to see what could be causing the issue. I cancelled everyone's jobs and I seemed to stabilize the game. I narrowed it down (I think, at least) to the dwarf making book covers. I cancelled his job from the Jobs screen and the world continues on! I then reassigned someone else to the job and he finished the job, but something strange happened; he made a chitinplate mining cart! O_o

Then he tried again, and the world ended. I'm guessing that since it seems to be generating random leather somethings, it also randomly generates something which is extremely problematic.

Oh, wow! Thanks! I'd missed that entirely!

Excellent. They've dropped all their clothing, but altogether it's better this way. More armor means more protection.. now I can really stack it on, too, because there'll be no clothing conflicts at all. Mind, I'll bet all that iron and steel chafes a bit.. maybe I can put in a shirt, some pants and a pair of socks as part of the uniform.

A search turned up similar issues, but older, and with no resolutions or resolutions which did not work in my case. Here is my tale.

I have three squads, two of them stuffed full of axedwarves I am quite proud of and one set of two marksdwarves for flavor. They all train for glory and skill in their wonderfully appointed and massive barracks complex near the entrance to the glorious city of Ikuddastot. Adjacent to their main room are storage departments where all of the city's arms and armor are stored. Specifically here, we are looking at the armor storage.

All was going quite well for the longest time. For a couple of years by my reckoning the armor storage had blossomed into one smaller, closer pile and a supporting rear pile to hold more shtuff. The smaller pile fed from the larger. Fine. ..Until recently. Don't ask me exactly when, and certainly not why, but several of my otherwise honorable and sane wardwarves decided to take it into their minds that they much preferred running back and forth across the armory to constantly 'pickup equipment'.

From what I can tell, they fiddle with some mail\breastplate or combination thereof and then walk away a few steps. They either then return immediately to do the same again or, because they've dropped the equipment onto the pile rather than into a bin, come back after a helpful' peasant has come along to tidy up and stuffed the equipment back into a bin. I surmise that this causes existential dread in the wardwarf who, attached mind body and soul to all armor he has ever witness and no longer able to see it, fears he may vanish from the world.

Frustrating\amusing theories aside, I developed a headache. It was late and I wanted sleep without nightmares of running dwarves, so I tried various things to stem the flow of madness from the dwarves into my mind:
-Assign other orders, both through schedule and\or through the squad menu (orders unheeded, too busy fondling equipment);
-Forbid the entire disastrous pile (dwarves frozen in place, with either 'pickup equipment' or 'no job' until the equipment was reclaimed);
-Remove the stockpiles entirely (same effect as forbidding; without a stockpile, dwarves can't see the armor at all?);
-Remove the use of bins from the pile (same effect as forbidding; for some reason dwarves in this fortress will never under any circumstances store anything in any stockpile without a bin if it can be stored in a bin. Don't know if this is related somehow, other than I think that the dwarf who is performing the 'pickup equipment' is I don't think so much putting the equipment onto the pile under him as simply dropping it where he stands when he's done.)
-Alter the uniforms (no change);
-This morning, utterly disband all squads, wait a while, create new ones manually (to my horror, no change);

Now, this city I am extremely proud of. I deliberately embarked into a frightfully haunted forest, found that the trees do NOT regenerate, lost many a brave dwarf to skeletal beings and a Collosus, have survived ambuses and near-famine.. Despite all this, the dwarves flourish, and I have grown attached to their simple little lives. But at this point I begin to contemplate.. surrender. :\

I try one last hope. I remove the secondary pile and replace it with a seperate pile each for each segment of armor, leaving the original mix-all pile. The dwarves do a lot of fiddling around while I bite my nails, but.. it settles. .. NO! NO DON'T GO BACK TO THE PILE! NOOOOOO! The issue seemed to be isolated to the pile with the body armor, so I forbid that pile in a fit of pique, making sure none of the dwarves were seeking their dread equipment at the time.

...It worked. BY ABOD THEY ARE TRAINING! I'm afraid to do anything else. I've looked through the other bins in the other piles and can see that, despite my orders, they're mixed. There's body armor in the shield bins and greaves in the helm bins. My next experiment will be to dump all the armor out of those bins and see what happens. Then I will unforbid the body armor pile and do the same, and see what happens then. If it breaks again, I will attempt creating a uniform which does not incorporate body protection. All the while I shall pray that an ambush does not strike, as I have been lucky this far...