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Well I managed the plug version after accidentally drowning one miner while trenching out the plug drop point...I guess that even with ramps up out of the wet trench, dwarves just aren't sensible enough to dig from the landward side...

When I increase the size of my window, the mouse stops working to designate areas anywhere outside the original size of the screen when it first pops up (the extreme upper lefthand corner) - I assume this is a bug? Is there any way to fix it so that the mouse will work in the entire screen?

If you want them to defend an area on a schedule, then you'll probably want to remove their previous "Train" order (or at least make sure it's on lower priority).

If you want them to defend an area right now, then you don't want to be in the military screen - press "s" to view the Squads list, select the squad you want to order (e.g. press "a" to select the first one), then press "m" (to order them to Move to a location), move the cursor over the area you want them to defend, and press Enter. When you want them to go back to what they were previously doing, cancel their Station order by selecting the squad (as above) and pressing "o".

Finally managed to get a guard schedule set up...what I did was set one squad (of my three starting squads) to guard "burrow 1" (which is the entry hall to my complex) at a time (rotating between the 3 squads, so each one guards the door every third month) and setting "Minimum" for that task to half the squad (which would, i presume, allow the other half of the squad to eat and sleep and drink while half of them are on duty?)

Real Life bronze may hold a better edge than iron, but it is MUCH more fragile (which is why the "Bronze age" comes before the "Iron Age") - Iron weapons needed to be resharpened more often, but didn't break nearly as much, and of course led to steel weapons later on.

How do you place chests? my Mayor says he needs two, and I made some, but I don't see them under the build item lists..."Containers" apparently only includes bags and bins?

Yeah. Water needs to be underneath it or else the dwarves have nothing to drink. Try routing some water from a lake towards it.

EDIT: Hit "u" and then use the arrow keys for any dwarf. Then hit "c." After that use the + and - keys to go down to "Other" and hit enter. Hit enter again. Hit escape twice and boom, instant architect.

After 'c'. the + and - keys appear to do nothing, but there is a list of apparent "jobs" in which nothing can be selected...there does not appear to be any "Other" in the list, and no selection to hit "enter" on.

Example: I pick a Miner who's not doing anything at the moment...the list under 'c' for him is:
No Job (Yellow)
Dabbling Persuader
Dabbling Negotiator
Dabbling Judge of Intent
Dabbling Intimidator
Dabbling Conversationalist
Dabbling Comedian
Dabbling Flatterer
Dabbling Consoler
Dabbling Pacifier

That's it...no "other" and no apparent way to scroll in the list.


Aha! Figured it out...had it in General and I needed to go to Professions, then pick labor, THEN pick "other jobs" and so on....

Oh, right... You need to dig a hole on the ground my son, this is how wells work!

Don't see "Make hole" in the designate or construct menus...(Isn't the entire complex a "Hole in the ground?")

I can't get them to build a well at all...it says I need Blocks and mechanisms...I've had the mason shop assigned making blocks, and the machine shop assigned to make mechanisms, for about an hour of run time, but with dozens of dwarves running around, the workshops are sitting idle and making nothing...