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DF Gameplay Questions / The amazing power of goblins.

« on: September 11, 2010, 03:33:15 am »

So...can someone explain to me how, 5 goblins, all equipped with melee weapons are able to keep 20 dorfs pinned down on a rampart?

I just had 20 idiot dorfs die from fucking thirst, because of 5 goblins, 11 zlevels above them, without a clear path to them, threatened them so much, they couldn't go down the stairs to the courtyard. Seriously...its shit like this that makes me hate this fucking game at times.

(However, knowing that when they die, I'm just going to stick everyone into a magma pool and let them all die slowly and horribly, restores my love for the game.)

EDIT: And to add insult to injury, their deaths just kicked off a spiral of madness, death and destruction. I want the ability to kill shit from afar with just my presence.

DF Gameplay Questions / I hates the pump stack!

« on: September 04, 2010, 04:03:16 pm »

So, I've been reading everything I can get my greedy little eyes on pump stacks. Trying to get my little mini water-fall to work. And yet, it refuses.

I've got a 3 wide hallway coming into the fortress. I've got a channel above, land a channel below. Both channels go across the hallway fully. The channel below is covered with floor grates so people can walk through the mist. The water below runs off to the south. At the run off I have a pump stack, pumping from the south to the north, atop this, one zlevel up, I have another stack pumping from the north to the south, and then I have a series of walls that basically duct the water over to the top channel, so that the water-falls down, and we start the process again. I covered the top pump stack with a windmill, and the rest of the whole contraption with a roof, (So no bird poop gets into the waterfall.)

The top pump, is active, works fine, requires 10 of the 40 power I'm drawing.
The bottom pump is NOT active at all and refuses to play nice.

If I set a dorf to pump the bottom pump manually, the whole contraption works great. That tells me the pump stack is built correctly, it's just that power doesn't seem to be transmitting down from the top pump to the bottom pump, and I'm at a complete loss as to why.

Any ideas oh mighty brains of dorfy goodness?

DF Gameplay Questions / Frozen water in Warm Climes

« on: August 24, 2010, 12:43:31 am »

So here's a weird noob question.

Is it normal to find frozen rivers/water in WARM climes?

I've had to re-embark 20-30 times now because I'd get to a warm climate, and the water will all be frozen solid.

DF Gameplay Questions / WTB Jackhammer

« on: August 21, 2010, 10:47:41 pm »

Is it just a fact of dorfy life that we'll spend the first decade doing nothing but hauling rocks out of the various rooms and tunnels we've carved out of the earth?

Aside from taking up storage room, and preventing various thing from being built, it also just kills my FPS. There HAS to be a better way to clean up after digging.