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In all of my fortresses, I like to make one "mega" stockpile for every resource, and then have little stockpiles around the base, where that resource is necessary. For example, I'll have a big stone depot somewhere, and then I'll have smaller stone stocks nearby my masons workshops.
Whenever I try to tell multiple stockpiles to take from the same primary-stock, the newest assigned taker erases the old stockpiles "take-from" orders.

Is there any way around this? I would rather not make a chain of piles, each taking from the one before it, because that's inefficient as fuck (and just a pain in the ass).

With the new arena feature coming in the next version of dwarf fortress, I think we need a place to compile everyone's ideas for fights and challenges.

Play as a crocodile, and see how many elves you can eat (not a challenge, but just for fun).

If you can edit the arena terrain, then fill the bottom layer of the arena with water and build a series of small islands around the lake. Play as a carp, and see if you can kill the increasingly more powerful enemies of each new island: elves, dwarves, armed dwarves, bears, elephants, dragons, and so on.

Play as a fire imp in an elven forest retreat or a human town.

Play as a dragon and see how many novice wrestler dwarves you can fight at once and survive.

Share yours!

The past couple forts of mine, I've noticed an odd trend. I haven't been making beds or bedrooms (modded quick-start dwarves to not sleep, eat, or drink), and I have never gotten migrants the first year every time despite ridiculous wealth for a new fort (450,000 or so).

And I was wondering, is this just pure coincidence or do I need bedrooms to get immigrants?

So, my current world has 4 aggressive races that are active every season. Obviously, I'm going to have a big meat grinder on my hands.

I decided to make my fort a big death trap, with tons of different manual trap systems that invaders must get across. For example, simple things like bridges dropping invaders down shafts, to more fun things like massive drowning towers (yes, towers). Any invaders that are let past the traps will just be caged or shot.

However, my creativity when it comes to DF traps is fairly limited. I was wondering what kinds of things you guys could come up with? I'd prefer nothing that involves a bunch of pressure-plate and water systems.

Still, I'm gonna be uploading this map whenever I'm finished with it so please post any ideas you have. I don't have magma, sadly.

However, I have a river and I love working with water, so any traps involving water are greatly encouraged. Currently my drowning chamber will function like this; baddies enter at the bottom of the tower, the exit is at the top. Water is pumped from a reservoir below the tower up above to a hole where it can shower down into the chamber. As the baddies move around a spiral staircase to the top, the water level slowly increases till it drowns them. Once it reaches a certain level near the top, a grated off pressure plate will activate the trap doors which will let the water back out into the reservoir.

If the baddies can outrun the water they get to live for a bit longer.


Anyway, what other ideas do you guys have? I'll also be making a massive flooding machine which can flood my whole fort just in case anything bad happens (I get bored).

I hate myself for having to ask this, but could anyone help me with creating a desert world? I tried the world painter and kept getting either rejects or missing civs and certain features.

Basically, I just want a very flat sandy-desert world with a few brooks for a water source. I'm making a tower fort and I'd like a flat desert to work with glass and such (for crafts and aesthetics).

Really, those are the only requirements; mostly deserts, very flat (except for a few peaks for dwarve civs to start at) and at least a few brooks.

If anyone could assist me I'd be grateful.

Is there a way to tell what side of the screen caravans and migrants will come from before they appear for the first time? I'm building a gatehouse type thing with a ramp leading down to my depot, and I would prefer that the gatehouse is facing the right direction.

If this belongs under gameplay questions, I apologize.

Anyway; I'm trying to channel out a rediculous amount of stairs, and I was wondering if there was any way to script some sort of plugin (like the DTil scripter) to remove all up/down stairs on a z-level for me.

Is this possible? If so, is there anywhere I can get some example of how to do this?

I can't use the AutoHotkey tool because as far as I've seen, it cannot tell what kind of tile the cursor is on; if I made a script for it, walls as well as stairs would be channeled.


Alternatively, is there any way to designate up/down stairs for removal similar to ramp/up-stair removal? Or, is there some utility for this?

Thanks in advance.

Well, currently dwarves eat food with their hands straight from barrels and off of tables.

What if you could make forks, knives, plates and glasses/mugs (we already have goblets) out of wood, metal, and in the case of plates etc, rock?

It wouldn't be required to eat, but it would greatly increase the happy thoughts given to dwarves (Zaneg Thazor enjoyed drinking rum from a finely crafted marble mug, and eating a cat tallow biscuit off of a masterpiece iron plate.).

Tables could either be assigned utensils etc (for nobles) or there could just be a new type of cabinet, for the kitchen, where utensils etc are stored for everyone. After eating, perhaps someone with the cleaning job enabled comes by and collects the utensils, then washes them off in a well with soap (new use for soap and wells), or miasma has a smalc chance of appearing in a small cloud around the utensil.