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Quote from: Deboche on December 16, 2014, 12:18:00 pm

When my population reaches a certain point - about 60 - I have women do all the work and put all the men in the army. Women are best left working because you don't want them to go into battle with their babies.

From a different thread.

Any one else see a problem with this?  It's not really cool that the women do ALL the work and the men hang around and wrestle with each other. 

Makes perfect sense, not blaming Deboche don't want babies going into battle.

I play this game extensively, and I have never, not once, had a baby killed in combat. I have had plenty of children get killed inside of my fortress by all manner of creatures, but never has a female soldier lost a baby while carrying it. As far as I can tell, if the female soldier gets killed, her baby just crawls away or hangs out until someone else picks it up.



Often times people enjoy using DF to create worlds which make them feel powerful, feel historical nostalgia, or otherwise peak their interest. If people choose to make sexist forts, they probably harbor similar prejudices in real life.

Toady said the new version is backwards compatible, so how do I download the latest version, whilst ensuring I keep my old saves. Can I also keep the old world?

I'm guessing I just somehow drag and drop the old save files into the newly downloaded folder?

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[POPULATION_CAP:7]
[STRICT_POPULATION_CAP:150]
[BABY_CHILD_CAP:100:1000]


The liaison has already come, so should I get a lot of migrants next year? I can handle a handful, but a dozen may cause problems.

Presumably you'll get the first hardcoded migration wave, and that's it. I don't think you'll get any more because of your pop cap.

Right, even just switching their weapons requires them to go to the stockpile to get it. As far as I can tell, it's slightly buggy, because I've done this and then stationed a squad, and had multiple dorfs show up with no weapon at all.

Also, getting attached to weapons just means they get a little happiness boost if they are fighting with their favorite weapon as far as I know, they won't refuse to part with it anymore...

I did not know this however. I thought it was a major blow to happiness if a dwarf lost possession of a favored weapon?

You can't take away only weapons, it's everything or nothing. Also, since they don't have full suits of armor, they'll be horribly crippled.

Hmm, are you sure? I seem to recall designating a goblin's weapon to be dumped in an older version. Regardless, they would remain fully equipped while in the danger room.

Embark:
-I refuse to play an embark without a river and iron, and I like there to be lots of trees.

Fort:
-I generally build into a hillside, but in the new version am building an above ground castle. All outdoor buildings must be made of the same rock, with wooden floors.
-My main gate always has a raising bridge between two 7x7 (5x5 room space) towers, which house barracks on the first floor.
-Dorfs always have tiny rooms with just enough space for a door, bed, chest, cabinet.
-I have somewhat separate "work" vs "living" areas. For example, in my current fortress all workshops and animal pens are roughly dug into a hillside. The rest of the fortress inside in a large, monolithic above-ground complex, and includes bedrooms, hospital, wells, dining halls, final product stockpiles (cooked food, booze, clothing, armor, soap, etc.), and barracks in the towers.
-I never use cage traps IN OR AROUND my fort. I often place them in far-flung corners of the map to capture wildlife.

Dorfs:
-I like to restrict my military to using swords, spears, and crossbows.
-A nickname is bestowed upon any dwarf that achieves legendary in a skill.

Your farms are HUGE.

For comparison, I feed my 120 dwarves with 5 different 4x4 plots, plus a handful of animals.

Thank you