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A new Monarch was appointed and she is AMAZING! she just wants hoods to be made and is still living in a decent quarters with nothing else and she is one of the happiest dwarves in the fort!!! JOY!

Hello everyone! It seems no matter what I do, meet her mandates, give her gold everything, lavish meals etc. She always has a meltdown/tantrum. It just gets so infuriating. She killed my legendary blacksmith, a legendary farmer and beat up one of my pigs....for no reason. After that I just had to quit and take a break. I just cant seem to get her mood above the worst one lol. I am thinking about locking her in her golden mansion and letting her starve. Does anyone have any tips on how to keep them happy? I might have to start over and try and edit monarchs out. It's just too much for me.

Thank you.

Hello everyone! I have a question about dumping items. For some reason my dwarves decided to stack skulls in the corner of a room and they are marked as forbidden. When I try and claim the stack to dump them it looks the dwarves walk over attempt to pick one up but then drop it and it becomes forbidden again. Does anyone know what is going on? I even have Skulls set to be dumped in the standing orders tab. Any help would be appreciate because the pile keeps growing and growing lol.

Thank you.

Do they replace the clothing automatically when you make replacements? I having a problem right now with dwarves becoming increasingly unhappy. Trying to figure out why.

Are old clothes the ones with an x in front of the name? Will the dwarves ever take them off or do they only take them off when they have a replacement? A lot of my dwarves are still wearing old clothing.

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Hello everyone! I have a quick question for you. I usually turn Auto update off because I don't want my saves to get all weird. With that said, do you think its safe to update to 50.03 from the initial launch version? I am currently playing a Fort right now and was thinking of waiting until I am done with it to update, that is, if everyone thinks that is the right move or can I update now and continue my current game?

Thank you.

How do you turn auto-updates off in Steam? Do you mean you just stay in "offline" mode?


As I'm pretty sure Steam removed all "official" ways of not updating automatically like 5+ years ago. Usually the only workarounds these days are the offline mode, or devs that provide the old versions in the beta channels via right clicking on the game in the Steam Library.


If you are talking about the standard options presented in Steam, none of those are "do not auto-update", they are all variations of "how fast should it auto update?"

What I do is go into Settings / Downloads / Download Restrictions and set it to only update at some crazy time that you will never be online haha. I use that method to keep 7 Days to Die from updating. It will queue the download but wont download anything until the desired time.

Ah, a nice workaround. Just doesn't work if you leave your pc on at all times, lol. (Or I suppose setup some router rules to turn off internet access for that computer at that time as well)

Just log out of steam when you are sleeping or not at home and log back in when you wake up/back at home. I'll be honest, 90% of the time I'm in offline mode anyway but it is a nice work around if you wanted to log in.

I had to figure out this little trick when I lived in a cabin in the mountains in TN. I had satellite internet, which was capped, it was only uncapped from 12am-4am or something like that. So I set it up that way so I could leave my computer on to update/download games that would otherwise go WAY over my cap lol. Now I use it to keep certain games from updating haha.

Quote from: TDSS02 on December 20, 2022, 10:54:53 am

Hmmm, I wonder if it even matters if I kill her in some way. Wouldn't another Queen be appointed and the cycle of pain and misery would continue lol.

Just take note of her likes, demands and export bans. If they are simple its best to keep her lest risking to get someone else as queen that would demand annoying things or ban exports on things you would like to sell.

That's a good call. I actually don't know what she likes and dislikes. I'll check it later when I load up the game. 

Hello everyone! so, while playing my game I noticed that I had a queen...no idea how or when that happened. I capped the pop at 100. Honestly I thought my fort was a shit hole to be able to get a Monarch lol. I say this because honestly I am having a hard enough time as it is trying get everything in order and re-learn the game while at the same time trying to not die a horrible death from just about everything haha. I really don't need a snooty Queen breathing down my neck making me do things. So, how do people "deal" with Monarchs and other high ranking nobles? Do you kill them? If so how? What are the implications of killing a Monarch? Some kind of civil war lol.

Thank you!