Bay 12 Games Forum

Yes, you can cram an engraved room full of beds amd make each one its own maxsize bedroom... but that's just not fun for RP. If I want my dwarves to get royal bedroom happiness boosters, I challenge myself t give them royal bedrooms. It does cost a lot more in platinum than the more exploity route though. Basically if I were doing a megaproject or utility fort of some kind I would do the communal "bedrooms," but for proper fort forts it seems wrong.

Even tiny undead are terrifying opponents, and will kill dwarves with ease. I'm talking reanimated chickens' feet here. And they will eventually get pulped and become permanently useless.... but I guess acquiring new reanimable corpses is no great issue for any healthy fort.

Just be careful, because my experience with undead is eiher that you curbstomp them or a single undead goblin kills 15 fully armoured soldiers.

PS do your kids just obey the burrow restrictions? I remember that mine in the previous version completely ignored them. If they don't, then hoe do you get them all in the daycare?

I recommend a 2z deep moat with water on the lowest level. That way hey have to be able to both swim and climb to get through. Make it at least 4 tiles wide too.

DF is playable right down to 15 calculation FPS. Setting your graphical FPS cap in your init settings to 10 will seriously help your calculation FPS, without negatively affecting anything for you.

Also, core count is completely irrelevant when playing DF, at least past twin-cores. DF isn't multi-threaded, so a single core with a higher clock speed is much better than a quad-core with a lower clock speed per core, so in some cases an i5 is actually better than an i7. That said, multicores will shuffle DF from core to core as they overheat, which can mean better performance for long sessions.

Skin can be very lethal. It seems that it retains the original creature's mass without taking into account all the missing bits when it wrestles. Water buffalo bull skins are particularly lethal. Best just to animate some horse hair or something.

You can just set the minecart stop to always dump in the direction of the chute. Whenever the dwarves put an item in the minecart, it will be instantly autodumped. If you want to make it so that stuff only gets dropped with your say so, put a hatch 1z down and link it to a lever. This way the dwarves won't try to pick up things that have already been dumped, unless you open an access corridor 1z down.

AFAIK dwarves only clean "underground" tiles, nothing "aboveground", even if it is inside (this is a bug)

Yeah the micromanagement is why I'd go for the dogs. Less attacks per second and less consistency means less skill gains but also zero chance of death or permanent injury, and without oversight too. I'll be building the combo in my fort soon.

Honestly the main childcare thread just needs everyone like you there to divert it away from the let's kill the kids mindset, as you say. Also I'm afraid this thread will get buried, along with all its useful info. I mean once a thread hits 37 pages it's there to stay.
The other thing is that it feels wrong to build on your progress in that thread when you reject it, which I'll have to do if I want to include any military training, however light, since you don't want that sort of thing in your thread (Read: the dogs).