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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Cannot build waterwheel on brook
« on: October 30, 2021, 04:49:47 pm »
Quote from: Bumber on October 30, 2021, 03:09:57 pm
Use a horizontal axle. Vertical axles connect between z-levels, not sideways.

THANK YOU. Confused "vertical" with north/south. It's working great now.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Cannot build waterwheel on brook
« on: October 30, 2021, 02:52:07 pm »
I am baffled as to why I cannot build a water wheel on a brook.

My first attempt was to build an east/west wheel (since the brook is flowing westward) and two vertical axles to hook up to my mill. However, the wheel was "inactive."

I learned next that brooks have a floor that you have to channel out, so I channeled a 3x1 area on the bank of the brook (downward slopes are shown). Now I'm told "Blocked" and "Needs ground or near machine" when trying to place the wheel over the channel. I tried to build some vertical axles adjacent to the wheel, but the same error persists. I also tried just channeling out one tile and the same thing happens.

What do I have to do?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Hive Toppled?
« on: September 12, 2016, 10:20:31 pm »
I have a bunch of artificial hives set up, and just now I started seeing a few messages in red I haven't seen before:

Hive Toppled.

There's now been three of these.

Does this mean my hives are being destroyed? If so, what causes hives to be destroyed?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Vampire bone decoration?
« on: September 02, 2016, 12:59:41 pm »
My dwarves have standing orders to collect refuse from the outside, and they've normally been doing so (I have a huge boneyard as a result). However, there are some oddities.

On two occasions, I've had visitors show up plainly announced as vampires. In both cases, I sent the dwarves with torches and pitchforks to do away with the unwanted guests. The first vamp was an axedwarf that caused much slaughter defending his life. He also arrived at the same time as a minotaur (not sure if they were in cahoots or if it was a coincidence), which also caused some damage.

The second was a human, apparently pacifist bard that hilariously just ran away and took weeks for my dwarves to finally surround and kill.

For some reason, neither of the vampires nor the minotaur corpses have been hauled away, and now there seems to be permanent skeletons standing around my fortress. Dwarves are often horrified by or moved to grief when seeing them, yet they do nothing in bringing them to the refuse pile. I even explicitly selected them to be dumped, and they still haven't been disposed. The skeletons blink menacingly (probably just because they're laying on top of other things, but still, spoooky).

What's going on here? Do dwarves ignore the skeletons of sentient races?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Elf citizens not doing labors
« on: September 02, 2016, 12:41:53 pm »
So are there multiple levels of citizenship then? They definitely petitioned for citizenship, and I granted it, and they show up under "citizens" in the units menu. I do see that others ask for citizenship in a different prompt, and they seem to allow assigning of labors.

Edit:

Just read through this again, and seems this is the case: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Citizenship. They're residents but not full citizens. Glad they'll start contributing eventually.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Elf citizens not doing labors
« on: August 29, 2016, 11:01:23 pm »
OK, did a bit more digging. Though woodworker and bowyer are shown by their names, under "labor" no labors are available (but that just means you cannot command non-dwarves, right?) I also just noticed under occupation for both, they are "resident performers," and I seem unable to assign them to a squad.

So are they just going to socialize until they meet catastrophe? Any creative uses for them?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Elf citizens not doing labors
« on: August 29, 2016, 10:26:44 pm »
Are elves lazy, or could I be setting them up for failure?

Two elves have asked for citizenship in my metropolis, and being tolerant chaps, my dwarves allowed it. However, they're always being idle or just shooting the breeze in the tavern. They aren't contributing to society otherwise.

One is a woodcrafter, another a bowyer.  I could kind of understand why the woodcrafter isn't doing anything; normally the woodcrafters work with cut wood, which is repugnant to elves as I understand it. But even the bowyer does nothing, even though I'm only having them craft bone crossbows.

Do elf citizens normally loaf around, or is there something I can do to motivate them?

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