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Messages - MrDannimal

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DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarf cancels Construct Building: could not find path
« on: August 20, 2006, 04:11:00 pm »
I'm getting tons of these too, and there's no forbidden doors in the fort.  There are two that border the cave river, but the only buildings are in the fort proper.  

It seems like it's coming from metalsmiths mostly, fwiw.


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DF General Discussion / Re: Furnaces and such
« on: August 20, 2006, 11:24:00 am »
Sure enough, the charcoal is in the bar/blocks bins.

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DF General Discussion / Furnaces and such
« on: August 20, 2006, 11:04:00 am »
Some fire related questions:

- Where does charcoal go?  I have the wood furnace set to make charcoal.  The guy comes in with the wood, leaves without the wood and without the charcoal.  Do I not have the right stockpile set up for it to get there?

- What's the path to make coal?  Is it just charcoal?

Is there a general guide for dealing with fire/furnaces?  smelting/ashery/minting coins...


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DF General Discussion / Re: give water path finding
« on: August 20, 2006, 11:12:00 pm »
It does seem like they figure out where the river has the shortest horizontal distance fom the cliff-face, and go there to fill a bucket instead of finding a path that is the shortest # of steps.

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DF General Discussion / Re: My mining stockpile keeps collapsing
« on: August 20, 2006, 10:55:00 pm »
So far, I haven't been so successful that I need to blow the entire fortress myself.  I've found that the game and my lack of skill often takes care of that before I'd ever get that far.   :)

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DF General Discussion / Re: My mining stockpile keeps collapsing
« on: August 20, 2006, 09:53:00 pm »
Just to double check...

As long as you can't fit a 7x7 "block" inside an open space, it won't collapse.  Correct?

So you could take a 13 x 13 area, and clear it such that you leave the stone in place at the exact center and be sure it won't collapse (assuming no bugs)?

Is there a difference between building a support and leaving the stone unmined?


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DF General Discussion / Spider Silk - collecting?
« on: August 20, 2006, 11:17:00 pm »
What is it classified as?  That is, what skill needs to be active for a dwarf to collect cave spider silk, and what pile would it go in?

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DF General Discussion / General planning/thinking
« on: August 20, 2006, 10:05:00 pm »
How do you group time periods in the game, and what do you expect to accomplish in each period?  In a very general sense, I mean.

For example:

1)  Arrival - Build a carpenter/mason/fishery shop, collect wood/stone/fish and start pumping out essentials (beds/chairs/tables/food).  Lay out all the stockpiles.

I've seen people either dig a single tunnel right for the river or build a temporary pseudo-fort (common bedroom and such) while they search for the river.

2) Flood recedes - You've found the river and are ready to get serious.  Add a mechanic for floodgates (if you want to go beyond river-adjacent farmlands), maybe a craftsdwarf to make stuff for the impending caravan.  Start building individual bedrooms, a well...

I haven't gotten much past that stage with any coherent plan (each time I learn how to better handle the period I just hit for the first time).  

A rough guess of other periods/markers to expand on:

- First winter
- Migrants arrive

Some thoughts/questions:

- When do you start adding the "advanced" workshops (metalsmith/forges/cloth/leather...

- Do you ever move entirely indoors, or is that not possible because of the need for wood?

- How do you plan/defend against intruders from the cave river?  I've tried putting "locked" doors between the main fort and the river, but I don't know if that works or if I just haven't been unlucky.  Can random baddies pass through closed floodgates?

Feel free to add...


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