Bay 12 Games Forum

so i pulled it out and gave it a try..
only things I'm noticing are problems with alt tabbing and harvesting.

Some times when i alt tab to something, and tab back, it no longer takes any input from my keyboard.. I have to tab to something under it, than back up before it will take input again.

also, cant turn the harvesting job off. I'm tired of my miners stopping to harvest plump helmets every 2 digs seriously, this is why i have a farmer.... who is idling.

this isnt so much a bug as a 'feature' if there is a free bag anywhere.. a random dwarf will put a seed in it (one seed, might later have 2.)

I'm trying to curb this.. by putting one bag for every seed type, and dumping these bags without barrels in a stockpile.. of course.. one little mistake, the bags go in a barrel.. and then multiple bags start building up again.. being thrown in that barrel instead of just in bags.. and you CANT no matter what, get the bags out of that barrel.

so all my extra bags, right now, are forbidden (since one bag of seeds got placed in a random barrel when i was making a new seed stockpile, and it took only 2 seconds before I set it to 0 barrels.. but in that time.. poof)

this really does need to be fixed.. it makes using bags for things other than seeds almost impossible.. such as sand for glass.. or quarry leaves.. and so forth.

Alright, so, I get this farming thing, i do alright at it.. but the fertilizer thing has me baffled..

every single farm ive made in dwarf fortress has always had a fertility of 0/1

this means nothing to me and there is no explination.. and i can never seem to fertilize the plot..

well.. I designated a dump point... then designated a whole pile of stone to be dumped as well as a few other objects... then 2 years later.. none of it had been dumped... another season.. a narrow sock was dumped.. i had the stone scheduled to be dumped from the moment after unloading it all! so i gave up, and instead forbid it for use except the one or two stones i wanted used at the time.

(aquifer map with no stone to be found at first)

this was included even after i had 70 dwarves.. still no one would dump the items.. except that single narrow sock.

not exactly a bug, but.. just something defenately wrong with the random generations of artifacts.

Well.. this latest game here i got the best map ive ever been on.. magma.. adamantium, river, plenty of trees, more ore than i could shake a stick at.. alot of sedimentary rock and every other rock type.. both igneous and metamorphic..

so I carve my home out of chalk (something seems so very wrong with that, but whatever... all my chalk doors and chalk chairs chalk tables...)
then I get two strange moods.. first is a fey mood, and she runs off to the leatherworks and makes a shield.. encrusted with the lowest grade coal and agate... then with menacing spikes of muskox leather... >.> coal... and muskox leather..
i think a few more variables need to be added here there is just something wrong there.

the next guy is my mechanic.. runs off posessed and has me slaughter a horse real quick for some leather.. (id just gotten finished making some quivers, backpacks, and water skins)

im all excited.. oh whats he going to make?.. pity he wont be legendary... and then he makes it.. Tada! more chalk.... a chalk mechanism that is worth 10,800P... something is so very completely wrong with that.. a chalk mechanism lined with horse leather... its a gear... an artifact.. thats a gear....

-.-

well.. if the forum has this, I havnt found it yet most forums I use, have something like "show all your posts" or "show most recent replies to your posts" and what not..
so i can at a glance, see if anyone has replied to anything ive said.. less likely for conversations to get lost after they leave the first page.

of course, I know how much hell it is to do a forum i ran one for a while, complex little programs they are.