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Specifically, I'm asking if it's worth it to the community. I'm just getting into pixel art and think making a tileset would be worth it for my own progress, so I'll probably be working on one anyhow, but more generally, is there a future in DF tilesets with the Steam release coming out? How many of you intend to still play classic DF over Steam?

I want to give back to the DF community, but tilesets aren't the only way to do so.

I had a few peaceful plump helmet men from my caverns come up to the surface to check things out and two of them got caught in my cage traps. I have installed the cages elsewhere and unassigned the plump helmet men from them, but all my dwarves do are bring over other cages to refill the traps and move the PHM cages to the side, with the PHM still in them. How do I release peaceful creatures from cages without resorting to levers?

I've followed the basic military guides on the wiki and youtube, but they all seem to end at setting up the military on a training schedule and equipping them, which is what i've done in the few fortresses i've had so far. i know how to activate them to fight when needed, but beyond that what should I be doing with them? I catch comments about military members doing their regular jobs when not training, but I swear I've never seen a recruit do anything but train and drink/eat/sleep. I see all the other orders, for patrols and stations and such, which are obviously there for good reasons, but I'm not sure how to best utilize them.

I also know about the training fun! which is something I'm working my way toward, but there has to be more to do with them than barracks training and fun!

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm still pretty new to DF and I tend to learn a few new important things in a playthrough and restart a new fort to apply what I've learned. I took this strategy with Rimworld and it worked pretty well to get me where I felt like I was good at the game.

I'm feeling pretty good about my recent DF play as well, but one thing that still has me feeling shaky are progression strategies. I've tried forts where i just dig and expand as needed to grow, which makes things pretty messy as far as layout goes. I've tried building a basic temporary fort and have my miners dig out my dream fort elsewhere. longterm that could be nice, but it takes forever.

No matter how I build, I tend to find I never feel comfortable enough to really start my industries until after the first year (that could be normal, most of my exposure to other players comes from kruggsmash).

I know in the end how I progress is up to what I want and somewhat the random nature of the game, but what strategies do you all have? How does a typical early-mid fort progress for you?

In normal biomes that is...

I'm still pretty new to DF but every at the start of every fortress I plant all my plump helmet seeds, set up my stockpiles and brewing, and then never have to touch it again. I have branched out a little with pig tails for thread, but I'm currently running into the issue where I have too many plump helmets and have to keep expanding stockpile space. I have been cooking some of them, hoping to bring my seed stockpile down a little, and I've sold some batches as well, but Urist McFarmer catches up quite quickly.

This is sort of the opposite of a problem, so I'm fine with an abundance of food rather than a deficiency (as opposed to my first bit of time with rimworld where everyone starved...a lot), but any tips on better food and farming management?