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I was kinda curious about the different ranged weapons.

Looking for sort of a breakdown of the weapons. Went into the manual but the descriptions not huge on differences in combat between them besides hands used, ammo, skill and speed and all of them as fast anyways besides some trade only bows. So whats the difference, is there a range increment? Like crossbow can shoot farther then hammer sling?

The MecAxe throwers look cool and dwarfy but with hammer, piercing and broadhead ammo I can get all damage types with crossbows where as only one with axe thrower so it feels like a handicap if anything?

New question, hope you dont mind me being a pest, just trying to learn.

Is there a section of the manual that covers hive-keeping and if not think you could do a quick explanation on how to control what kind of colony inhabits them?

Oooh, that sounds fun, wonder if decorating the parts with gems carries over since they count as finished goods at first. Gonna look into that later. One last question, know its probably not Masterwork related but kinda want to throw it on since gotten good help so far.

Tried to get miner I had to trade from a copper pick to a silver battle pick menacing with spikes of goblin bone, not sure if would really help with much but wanted to anyways, felt more dwarfy. So dumped the pick he had and hoped he would claim the new one with no luck. He refused to mine with the the other pick, are battle picks not for mining?

Oh, thats not good, might be a different problem then, sitting in the same bin is a Large Black Bronze dagger and Repeating Bronze Crossbow. With some Mechanism in the same stockpile and the reaction is still redded out at the Fletcher's Workshop like I don't have the proper materials avaliable. Am I just boned in that case?

The (o)rders menu has nothing to do with the manager. How the manager works is that you go to the jobs screen and then (m) for the manager screen, here you can set up orders for large amounts of workshop jobs (30 max per order, so if you want say 50 of something, you need to make an order of 30 and then another of 20) and after the manager rubber stamps the orders (or whatever he does), the workshops that do that particular job will automatically queue them through.

Blerg, so much to keep track of. Got it open now and your right, got orders mixed with jobs. Thanks for the help though smjjames.

Couple last question I'm just gonna tack onto here for now, does the concept of incumberment exist in DF? I.e. Should a crossbow dwarf wear the strongest/heaviest armor avalible or is there an advantage to giving them lighter armor like leather?

Second, can scabbards be used to allow a crossbow dwarf to carry around a dagger for personal defense if he gets in close combat?

Oooohhh, still not using orders enough, sad to say but I haven't gotten far enough to fully furnish an office and such for a Dwarf. Thanks for the help though Garath! =]

So got a newbie question and looking for a little advice. Been playing around with DF and been great fun except one thing. Hunting. Using the Masterwork mod btw, not sure if that changes the mechanics enough to be noteworthy for this.

Twice now I've had a Dwarf go hunting after something they REALLY shouldn't of. First time was a Wyvern, which when I saw it sparked a bit of worry but a quick check of the combat log showed he was tearing it a new one so thought. Hum, maybe over estimated Wyvern and nothing actually to worry about. No, no, there was definitely something to worry about. The other Wyverns on the map didn't take kindly to this and shook all of his limbs off before eating him. =/ Tantrum Spiral->Gave up on fort.

Decided to try an area that was kinder and found a Mirthful Mountain, surely nothing could go wrong there. Sent the hunters off to chase some Pegasus, contemplating if the elves would get angry if I sold them Pegasus sausages when Dwarf has died message popped up. What foul thing had wandered onto to the map while there were hunting I wondered? Nothing, it was the Pegasus....it had bitten him in the head, gave it a good shake and torn it off and proceed to eat it, then his body, then choked out a hunting Mastiff with its wing(What?!), and ate that as well. Poor Rozagura.

1. Tarn, your definition of Mirthful is my definition of Nightmare fuel

2. (Enough of the sillyness, this is a genuine question) How the heck do you stop this sortta thing from happening? Do you just have to do a unit list scan before sending your hunters out every time and keep an eye on them while they are hunting? Cause that seem tedious. Or is them some option I'm missing to tell hunters not to hunt dangerous creatures that I'm just missing?