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First of all, i'd like to say that i'm really totally ignorant on DF modding, and computer programming in general, so please keep that in mind when you answer and try to be as clear as possible (imagine you're explaining it to your grandma).

Here's my question :

Is it possible to alter the game files in order to make sieges and megabeasts happen when my fortress wealth hits 1 million (or another value), regardless of how many dwarves are in it?

On another topic :

Is it possible to replace lousy wild animals such as groundhogs, horses, foxes, raccoons, and so on with bigger, meaner beasts such as minotaurs, giant cougars, and such (so that, basically, any starting location is turned into a "Terrifying" area)?

Thanks for any help

Sorry if this has been adressed before, i searched and didnt find anything about it...

Here's my problem, pretty simple :

I've caged tons of animals with cage traps, which i later tamed, to get a huge herd of walking steacks

Problem is : the animal trainers bring food to the caged wild animals, to tame them, and then the bones/shells/seeds remain in the cages

The only way i found so far to get those back was to go 'k' into the cages, order the dwarves to dump the bones or seeds, and then rush to the inventory of the "dumpers" to "undump" the items... Pretty harassing

There has to be a more clever way, right?

To be complete, my stockpiles are like this :
Animals stockpiles next to the kennels, just outside,
Bones/Shells stockpiles down in the fortress,
And the dwarves are allowed to gather refuse from outside in the 'o'rders menu

Thanks in advance
Bog'

I was wondering if it's possible to modify some files in the game so that you can start with dwarves on higher skill than Proficient?

I'd like it if i could just start with a bunch of legendary mechanics, siege engineers or whatever for testing purposes (there are lots of features in the game i havent explored yet)

I know of Rick's Utility called Adjust Start but it doesnt allow to start higher than Proficient, so i need something different

I'm well aware that this is cheating, i'm not asking for an ethical response, just a technical one ;-)

Thanks in advance

My mayor thinks he's so big he just demanded me an adamantine throne...

Problem is : i haven't even found any trace of adamantine yet

Hence, couple questions :

1) Is the adamantine necessarily on a z-level i already dug to or can it be below the lowest place i ever dug?

2) My fortress is still fairly young (56 dwarves in total, 10 crappy armymen wearing a few steel items, no weapons, some of them are not even trained enough to called "wrestlers") and i've never ever had adamantine in any of my forts before... If i do find the adamantine, and dig it, will it necessarily unleash those crazy demons on me?

I'm seriously considering telling Mr Mayor to go impale himself on a *Mudstone Scepter*... What do you think?

FIRST : This thread is about something you may or may not have discovered in the game yet. Stop reading if you don't wanna know    
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I'm talking about underworld creatures and demon pits...

I wanted to test my army squad so i unleashed the pit demons on my fortress :

1 Mace Lord died, 4 other soldiers were injured, not too badly, luckily, the rest's fine, all the demons/spirits are dead

Now, i've noticed something really really weird...
Three things even..

First, demons stopped spawning. C'mon, you wusses, don't tell me you're scared !

Second, some of the soldiers now have exotic nicknames, such as :
Monom Adiltath Shinilbad Enas (used to be Monom Adiltath)
There doesnt seem to be a link between this new name and the names of the fallen demons...

Third, and most interesting imo, there were humans/elves/dwarves on the last level of the pit...
In the unit list, it said "Whateverhisname, human-------From the underworld"

At first, i thought they were held captive by the demons, but when my soldiers saw them, they mercilessly slaughtered them, so i was pretty confused

Not all those underworld guys were killed by the soldiers though, some were "protected" by a little channel of magma, so i figured i'd dig another bit so my soldiers could reach and butcher the rest of them, (especially the elves, god, i hate elves)... A minute after the path was clear, i noticed a hauler bringing a cage there, for no apparent reason, except wanting to cage one of these elves/humans.. What else could he possibly be doing with a cage, walking TOWARDS the pits and away from the cage stockpile?

But then, i think my soldiers finished off the last elf, and the hauler went back with his cage.. Really too bad, i'm really curious what he would've done with it

Wouldn't it be great to have tamed elves, breeding in a zoo? I think i'd like that      

So the question now : does anyone have a clue what that guy was doing down there with this cage?

And further : if he wanted to cage one of the elves/humans that remained alive, what the hell for?

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Alright, scratch all that, i just went back to look at the game while i was typing this : I actually have 4 caged humans/elves...

Well then, the only question remaining, i guess, is : what in the world can i do with the "prisonners"?

Funny stuff, anyway, this game won't cease to amaze me      :p

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Here's my situation :

I've been training 12 soldiers for eleven years now, they are all ultra mighty, perfectly agile and super dwarvenly tough, and legendary in every possible military skill

Since i have a LOT of steel, i figured i might as well give an armor set to everyone, including civilians, and have everyone spar a bit so they're not completely retarded when it comes to using their shields/armors/etc...

The thing is : i'm afraid if i have all dwarves, including the "real" soldiers, spar in one single barracks, the legendary soldiers will end up injuring the civilians, if they don't simply kill them off with one punch...

So what i wanna do is this : order the regular soldiers to keep sparring in their barracks, and build a new barracks for the newbie soldiers
Of course, i dont want the real soldiers to go spar in the newbies' barracks..

Is that even possible?

If not, can you think of a better solution than "putting the real soldiers on duty so they stop sparring while civilians are training in the barracks"?

Thanks in advance
Bog'

I'm having a new problem since i'm playing with the new version of DF :

I tend to get a whole lot of messages that my carpenters' (and only theirs) masterworks have been lost.

I have no thieves stealing them, i have no tantruming dwarf destroying anything, i'm wondering if this is just a bug or if i'm missing something...

For a while now, my carpenters have been making nothing but bins and barrels,so the only possible explanation i see is : when they make a masterwork bin, and some dwarf takes it to a stockpile to stuff it with stone crafts or whatever, the game considers it has been lost....

Any idea on what's going on here is highly appreciated

Thanks

I started tonite a whole new fortress (my old one didnt have any flux   ) and when reading the "Your first fortress" article in the wiki, there was this advise to dump the initial anvil cause the first dwarven caravan would bring one anyway.. so i did

Since i had so many points to spend, i thought "Hey lets bring a whole army of dogs for fun", so i embarked with 12 dogs and one of my miners also set to "Proficient Animal Trainer"...

After a month or two, i trained the 12 doggies into War Dogs, who took out a bunch of kobold thieves in the blink of an eye, life was bright...

But now, i realise that the damn doggies follow their trainer everywhere, no matter what he's doing (usually, mining), and so do their 20 or so puppies... So i got this guy followed by about 30 dogs anywhere he goes, and it causes much slowing down of the computer...

I was wondering how i could maybe station those dogs, or at least the war dogs, to a position (a zone? a stockpile?), so they would quit harrassing the poor miner...

Thanks for help
Bye