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So... i had two 2 story towers with fortifications guarding my entrance.  I noticed that my dwarfs don't shoot through the fortifications, i recall a while back that they wont shoot through forts unless they are elite, not sure if that is still the case.  So for round two, i removed the fortification, and instead of shooting the incoming gobbies from up high, they all jump off the fucking tower and break their spines, legs and arms and shit and just lay on the ground waiting for a troll to come and beat them to death.  I can't believe they all jumped off the tower.  They all have ammo and quivers and some of em shoot, but i've re-ran this now 3 times and sooner rather then later, they all decide this is the time.....  https://youtu.be/Q86Rn4jETVk reminds me of that movie. 

Any way to get them to stay up there and shoot, or is about time for my strength to be broken.

So after playing DF for a good long while i think I've gotten down exactly how i want my awesome palace to end up.  I've ran into the problem of there not being enough things to kill.  I open up the caverns, sometimes there are megabeasts, sometimes there aren't.  I rarely see titans, more epic goblin invasions would be awesome.  I don't believe I'm setting up my world correctly.  I tried the world gen thing i made it evil everywhere but sometimes the caverns still don't have people in them.  I've embarked in evil lands, still not evil enough for me.  Also i read something about evil fotressi's in mountains how do i get into one of those bad boys, i've never seen one.

So how do i make the game more challenging.  As i said im pretty sure im not making the world correctly. 

Thanks again for all your help as usual!

I have 4 military dorfs stuck in cages that i cannot open.  For some reason in all of my games the only cage i have ever been able to link up..... is my giant animal cage, other then that i cannot link a cage to a lever.  Also i don't know if this is normal or not, but when i try to add anything to levers i get a list i cannot select it manually, i have to choose from the list.

I thought it might of been a bug on my last map because i reclaimed.  My last 3 however i have been unable to open up cages with levers, and before i just left goblins inside forever because i could never figure out how to link it up........ now i am doing pretty well again and i'd really like to get my 4 military dwarfs out.  I looked on the wiki how to link up things and i can do it with floodgates so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.  I have researched the forums and the wiki and for the life of me cannot figure it out.  edit*  upon removing my giant animal cage i get the message "There is nothing that can be linked up" yet there is a bunch of cages filled with goblins and dorfs.  Halppppp

Thanks in advance everyone has been gloriously helpful although the wiki does answer most questions i have one that i haven't been able to figure out.

My surgeons go straight for the adamantine strands for sutures i had 20 cut up dorfs eat up all my adamantine whats the deal with that, they had cloth n strands in the hospital room, but they went for the good stuff, those damn dorfs are worth more dead now then alive.  How do i stop them from doing that?

Second question which i've seen answered before but i did a search in the top right there looking for it but i couldn't find it, i blame the jack.  How do i move cages?  I have 10 goblins in a cage, i know that i can (D)ump them and it snatches all their stuff off, but how do I just move them into the area i want them to go, do i just have to disable the nearest garbage dumps untill where i want them to go is the closest? or is there an easier way.  Problem i have is it took a bunch of them to my massive stone garbage dump half way across the map, i want them to go to my goblin rehabilitation center i've mined out behind my barracks for "treatment".

Thanks in advance you have been way more helpful then any forum i've ever seen with newbs.

I currently have 170 or so dwarfs.  a duchy and a mayor.  I have yet to get a tax collector which i guess is what i really need to advance up to an economy.  They continue to mandate a ton of trumpets and junk to be made but from what i've read the first mandate should of gotten me a tax collector which it never did.

Also i picked an area goblin free and im getting a bit bored now. i wiped out the first cavern in quick form with one squad (all decked out 100% plate adamantine)  They blew threw a bunch of blind ogres and a few forgotten beasts.  I think the only time i lost someone out of that squad was a titan in the plains, he kicked my dorf in the head and it exploded.

Anyways thanks for your help once again, i tried the wiki and the forums no mention of why he wouldn't show up.  I think a few of my positions might be shared too.  I think the mayor might be the medical dwarf.

Sooooooooooooo i just started playing and having watched 40 tutorial videos i think i have a good grasp on how to get things up and running.  However i ran into the no training dwarves problems which was fixed with this patch.  So how do i get to .11 with all the graphic and tile sets.  The reason i never played before now is i never got the desire to learn how to install 50 different things and edit ini's ect ect.  Is there an easy way to patch to .11 and keep all my mods operating?

On a side note this game is indeed an epic time vampire, but I sure would like to get my dwarfs training. 

Yes i am a newb, and no, i do not know how to read. 

Thanks for your help and thanks for making this glorious game that i've just discovered!