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DF Gameplay Questions / Soldiers Training at Snail's Pace
« on: December 15, 2010, 12:51:14 pm »
In my first foray into the new version of DF, I eventually built a squad of 5 dwarves, disabled all of their civilian labor, and gave them a barracks set to "sleep" and "train". I hadn't equipped them with any arms or armor yet, so I assumed they would be busy training wrestling. When I pop in to check on them, they do seem to be in the barracks doing "individual drills" or whatever it's called, but when I took a peek at their military skills a year later, I saw that they hadn't gone up a single rank in Wrestling, or any military skill, for that matter. I took a look at Dwarf Therapist and saw that, while they had a smattering of experience in wrestling, it was still 1/3 the amount needed to upgrade one "level" in the skill. Is there something in the squad or military menu that I missed? Has anyone else's dwarves behaved like this before?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Making Magma Feasible
« on: December 15, 2010, 12:46:01 pm »
So I'm coming back to DF after a long hiatus, and I was pleased to learn that magma is available on pretty much every map. I was saddened to learn, however, that this magma is usually about 100 layers down in the earth, too far from my fortress sites to be of much use. Climbing up and down 100 z levels takes a lot of time for any dwarf.

I saw the "pistoning" method for raising magma on the wiki, but I'm not very familiar with cave-in mechanics and don't trust my skills to handle a project of that size without collapsing the whole thing halfway through. Also, I'm not certain how I'm supposed to "catch" the magma once it's pushed upwards by the collapsing piston. The only alternative I can think of is to pump the magma up, but I would probably need to cover the surface with windmills to get enough power. Are there any other methods to make magma workable again?

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