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Beauty, thanks Anathema and Mike that was the problem.  It is a succession game and the first guy didn't use a tile set and I was lazy when I added them for my turn.  Internet forums make it easy to be lazy on things like this, just post a new question every time instead of looking around for 2 minutes. 

34.08 is the first release in the new hauling release, so the last one before that.

You only need to designate the room as a bedroom once when the bed is in, anything else placed  in that room at a later date (a chest etc) will automatically become part of the room and owned by the bedroom occupant - at least in my experience.

That is correct in my experience as well.

Never, ever allow barrels into your seed stockpile.

I either use a 1x6 stockpile that allows all subterranean seeds and no barrels, or individual 1x2 piles that allow one particular seed and no barrels.

I haven't tried the minecart release yet though.

injuries via sparring no longer occur at all regardless of weapon, armor, or dwarf skill level.  Its simply no longer an issue.  Training weapons then have a very few uses such as:

-you want your captain of the guard to beat someone without killing them
-you absolutely want dwarves to learn a skill but have no metal versions (note, a military dwarf going into combat with a training weapon is a complete death sentence.)
-train dwarves by having them beat unarmed prisoners with training weapons.

Thanks, that makes things much easier.  Almost too easy.

Quote from: sbr on April 29, 2012, 01:44:04 pm

I have dwarfs who are supposed to be in active squads, with orders, running around as idle civilians instead of going to their station/train.  I have the minimum number of dwarfs set below the number in the squad

Setting the number of dwarves that must follow the order to less than the full squad means the others won't be on duty.  In other words, they will be off duty -- civilians.

If you want X dwarves to patrol and Y dwarves to train, at the same time, then put them in different squads.

Ah ha I think we have it.  I misunderstood what the minimum meant, I thought if there were less than the minimum number available the whole squad wouldn't follow the order.  Now that I think about it that doesn't make any sense though.

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Does anyone use training weapons?

They only serve 4 purposes:
1) If you have no metal weapons yet, you can practice with the wooden ones while you get your metal industry up.
2) Wooden training axes can be used by civilian wood-cutters to fell trees.
3) Training spears can be used in a danger room.
4) Extended live, disarmed goblin training.

I use wooden training axes to train my first recruits into Axelords. But, as soon as my metal industry has started churning out metal axes, I throw away the wooden training axes.

How much of a worry is there about training dwarfs getting hurt by sparring with metal weapons?  I know that was alway a big concern in the previous versions I have played and I planned a lot of my training regimen around preventing that.  Do you use softer metals or just let them beat each other up with real combat weapons and let them sink or swim?

Thanks to everyone who has answered so far.

Howdy all.  After playing the hell out of the 2D and first 3D (2007) version of the game I really haven't played much since the big 2010 update.  I am now getting back into the game again and have some questions about how the new military systems work.  I have done a quick search here and have read the wiki but am not finding answers there.

I have dwarfs who are supposed to be in active squads, with orders, running around as idle civilians instead of going to their station/train.  I have the minimum number of dwarfs set below the number in the squad; alerts and schedules all look fine.  Is this just more Dwarven Free Will^TM or am I doing something wrong? 

Does anyone use training weapons?  If so what is the best way?  I just had my first ambush and all of my soldiers ran outside with their wooden weapons. 

Also my dwarfs seem to grab weapons that are different than what they should based on their skills.  That is mostly my fault because I had forgot to assign them the proper weapons, but it seems they should still default to what they know best.

Also is there any way to tie uniforms/equipment to schedules or alert status?

I think that's it for now.  Thanks in advance.

I'm having a similar (maybe) smelter problem.
I am able to smelt things, but I can't create any pig iron bars. I have iron bars and refined coal and marble stone. All sorts of smelting options show up in the menu except make pig iron bars (and make steel bars, but I have to have pig iron for that first).
Do I have to do anything special with the marble first?
Do I have to do it a a magma smelter instead of a normal smelter?

No to both questions, AFAIK.

Is there too many options to show on the screen at once?  Can you scroll down and see more?