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Oh man I should have given you my old raptor mod...

It was stupidly unrealistic but totally awesome. Packs of 40 or 50 raptors would come on screen at a time, and mill about outside your base. If they were alone or few in number, they would scamper away from dwarves but if there were enough of them, or they were attacked, they'd rush any dwarf in sight and tear them to pieces.

I may download this mod, I need more aggressive animals.

Ok, so I made a bunch of custom reactions to create wood, iron, or stone from one stone and one coal. They work fine, I've seen them work as planned.

However, whenever there is some other possible action in the smelter besides the always-present "melt an object", such as "Smelt magnetite ore," these reactions disappear.

I've made every basic stone count as a flux item, and I have both stones and coal at the time of the disappearance, and whenever I smelt all the magnetite ore (or whatever the option is) the reactions will reappear.

Here are the reactions.

[REACTION:MAKE_FREE_5_IRON_BARS]
[NAME:make 5 iron bars]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:REACTION_CLASS:FLUX]
[PRODUCT:100:5:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:IRON]
[FUEL]

[REACTION:MAKE_FREE_5_WOOD]
[NAME:make 5 wood log]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:REACTION_CLASS:FLUX]
[PRODUCT:100:5:WOOD:NO_SUBTYPE:WOOD:CEDAR]

[REACTION:MAKE_FREE_5_MARBLE]
[NAME:make 5 marble]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:REACTION_CLASS:FLUX]
[PRODUCT:100:5:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:STONE:MARBLE]
[FUEL]

Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

Pumps.
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Pump
Go there and read, my description would just confuse you.

Get two sets of pumps; one pulling water from a river or something, and another pulling that water above the chamber.

To get water into the chamber, I recommend floor-hatches on the z-level above the chamber hooked up to levers.

Are you kidding me!? Pumps can power eachother!!?!?! AUGH! I wish I had known this when I was making that damn shower for my dwarves...

Ok, so I made a bunch of custom reactions to create wood, iron, or stone from one stone and one coal. They work fine, I've seen them work as planned.

However, whenever there is some other possible action in the smelter besides the always-present "melt an object", such as "Smelt magnetite ore," these reactions disappear.

I've made every basic stone count as a flux item, and I have both stones and coal at the time of the disappearance, and whenever I smelt all the magnetite ore (or whatever the option is) the reactions will reappear.

Here are the reactions.

[REACTION:MAKE_FREE_5_IRON_BARS]
[NAME:make 5 iron bars]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:REACTION_CLASS:FLUX]
[PRODUCT:100:5:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:IRON]
[FUEL]

[REACTION:MAKE_FREE_5_WOOD]
[NAME:make 5 wood log]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:REACTION_CLASS:FLUX]
[PRODUCT:100:5:WOOD:NO_SUBTYPE:WOOD:CEDAR]

[REACTION:MAKE_FREE_5_MARBLE]
[NAME:make 5 marble]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:REACTION_CLASS:FLUX]
[PRODUCT:100:5:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:STONE:MARBLE]
[FUEL]

Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

I'm not talking about challenge or theme fortresses.
Since there's nothing in the DF Wiki about this thing, I decided to make a thread.

Discuss any unique types of architecture you base your fort around, whether it's the whole fort or just a certain room (meeting hall, barracks, etc).

Here are mine:
Alcove: Find or dig out a semicircle into a hillside. Build into the inside of the semicircle, wall off the two tips of the C shape, and make the middle part something cool (military tower, meeting hall)
Pit: Channel out a very large round cylinder straight down. Build workshops into the sides, and either have stairs going around the sides with a walkway against the wall, or have a column of stairs going up the center with walkways branching out. Optional: flood the pit so that the center stair column breeches the surface, and drawbridges connect it to the “mainland.”
Crater: Dig a “reverse pyramid” into the ground, and then either have a massive tower in the center or walls on the outside. Make it possible to flood the crater in case of siege.
Cavern: Dig out a big chamber and build into the ceiling, floor, sides, and inside of the space. Also: build a tower going up the center, flood a lake-shape above the whole cavern, and have the tower breach the ground and the lake, with drawbridges.
Chasm/valley: Make a long, twisting cut into the ground, and build into the sides, with walkways joining the two sides and towers up above. Alternatively, don’t leave it open to the world, and seal it in, but instead have the entrance built into the side of a mountain.
Cave: Make a bunch of big tunnels snaking all over the map, and a few cavernous spaces. Build into everything, with walkways and spiral staircases going to different levels. Give it an organic feel.


I'm starting a new fort since my pit fortress "failed" due to inefficiently long distances between workshops and stuff, and my severe case of impatience after the first year yielded no immigrants. Now, I'm looking for unique ideas.

Anyway, please post any unique ideas you have and feel free to critique or add on to the ones I posted.

Awesome! Thanks for the quick replies, I was worried I'd have to restart my fort. I found a great place where I'm going to flood a huge pit/shaft in a desert with water, then build bridges connecting rooms in the sides of the pit together with sealed off and clear-glass-windowed walkways, with a big staircase leading up the center of the pit, and a drawbridge at the top with a massive marksdwarf tower to shoot down at goblins.

If I had to find a new spot and start all over I'd probably kill myself.

I embarked into a desert, and at this site, under the embark "neighbour" list thing I saw goblins, dwarves, humans, and elves. Goblins and elves had little red dashes next to their name.


Now, in the game, when I go to the civilization screen, I only see dwarves. Does this mean I will not get sieges?