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In this game, I have a lot of woodcutters... So I decided to give them both the wood cut and wood hauling jobs, since they are cutting thru the forest way faster than my haulers can get to the wood. Since there is a lot of elephants on the other side of the river, I am cutting wood only on the fortress side of the river.

What I have figured out so far: I am pretty sure that I got the message pretty late, the wood cutter probably hauling one piece of wood before returning back to fell another tree. That would be why one of my haulers (pic 3) got the time to get to the axe and is onward to haul it back to my depot.

My question is, what would make a woodcutter drop his axe in the first place? I'm sure I didn't draft the woodcutter, nor did I play with his job list. There is nothing which could have made him drop the axe to do something else and it's the first time in about 10 forts that I ever notice something like this happening.

Basicaly, you have the exact same "curses" default tileset but with some shading done to the lower right of each letters and items. I've left alone everything which was related to mining or was meant to be plain, for example the smoothered tiles and the plain tiles in the demo. The reason behind that is that I didn't find much logic to have those graphics shaded as they could possibly connect on any direction on the screen, which would make the shading a little strange.

I tryied it pretty fast, looked pretty nice at first glance (demo and first screen).

For those who are interested in trying it out, please advise for annoyances/further improvements.

Usually, even at dabbling, I manage to throw stones, hit and seriously maim the target(s). Once I reach the "Great thrower" status, the adventurer can't seem to be able to hit an elephant in a corridor. Sometimes, the object thrown even go in the opposite direction or away at a 90 degree arc than where it is supposed to go, and it is just as if my adventurer didn't know how to throw at all.

My guess would be that there is a bug somewhere which switched the Great Thrower and the Dabbling levels together...

As you can see on this image, I have quite a lot of rocks in my fortress. And it's far from the end of it, since my miners are still mining exploratory shafts to find ores...

I used to check this screen to know exactly how many ores I have and how many I should queue in the manager screen. It seems now that there is so many rocks to count in that menu that the game take several seconds (easily up to about fifteen) to count, and there is so many the game don't even show me the listing!

I'd suggest, beyond the bug, that rocks and economical stones (or at least ores) should be sorted in different submenus...

[ January 08, 2008: Message edited by: Eagle of Fire ]

It seemed like the lower lever I got, the slower the game became... Even though nothing was dig out there yet.

After a while I thought it was probably because of a graphical issue, having too many things running on the screen would cause slowdowns... But then it turned out that it was mainly in areas already fully excavated/populated/discovered that the lag had less impact... I can keep my screen to a certain place and have the max FPS I've set for the game (45) for eternity, and yet when I move only one button press in a given direction, I'll fall to 20 or sometimes even 15-10... And yet the view on the screen change very little.

I'm pretty much baffled by this behavior. Oh, and I'm always playing fullscreen, and it seems like I lag less when I remove the right map but I keep the command screen open to the right.

Anybody have any idea of why the game would react this way? Is there some hidden stuff in the lower layers of earth which slow the game to a crawl until I discover it?

Made by a mechanic at an mechanic's workshop, the chute would be a furniture item which are to be installed by mechanics next to workshops. The whole purpose of this item is to set a new drop point for workshop workers to drop the items they are creating. Output resulting in only two hauling jobs for 10 items instead of 10 for 10 like it is already.

For the chute to work after installation, or be "enabled", a dwarf with the haul item job enabled must first haul a bin under the chute. After a number of items, equal to the number or normal items stackable in a bin, is achieved, again a dwarf with the haul item job must come fetch the bin to bring it to a stockpile and another bin must be "loaded" under the chute for the dwarf working at the workshop to use the chute again.

The chute could be made to spawn several levels, every single chute item being used for half a level like the way staicases work currently. The sole purpose of a chute being to allow steady and slow but safe delivery of items from top to bottom, items would not be harmed in this way even if the chute spawns a big drop.

I'd suggest that it could be made from anything already coded to be able to make bins and barrels, and that several chutes could be installed next to the same workshop. For coding purpose, a workdwarf would first check if there is an available chute attached to his workshop to drop the item he's working on before qeuing to his next job, and drop it at the right place if one is available. If no chutes are available, the workdwarf should act like it is already currently done and jump immediatly to his next job.