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Quote from: Parhelion on July 31, 2014, 08:03:18 pm

I haven't seen a single caravan bring wood anymore, and you can't grow forests.  Embark someplace with short trees or no trees, and it really gets FUN.

You should be able to order wood from your civ's liaison, at least.  Elves don't seem to bring me any logs, but that may just be a transient thing, who knows.

My embark happens to be quite heavily forested, and trees seem to grow above ground.  I haven't seen any underground trees in my soil layer since moving the save to 0.40.05 though.  (There were definitely some ceiling-pokes in .04.)

I have had caravans bring wood, but I haven't gotten a liaison in this fortress. Probably due to the mountainhomes being invaded or something... Stupid gobbos. Why do you always win by default? ;~;

Uhm, well, that's nit surprising, is it? Trees take a lot of time to regrow, the Elves are uppity about it for a reason...

Well yes but... a sapling does not stay a sapling for two whole years! It should at least be a single trunk by now or something ;~; I'm running out of wood and someone was just killed in the caverns randomly and there's no combat log... I am afraid.

Is this bug actually fixed now? The wiki does not yet say it is, but I made a candy minecart just to test it and it took the full 6 wafers of the stuff.

Welp... since it's been necro'd already I would like to post my findings!

A few months have passed in the ice wastes of Azmokol, "The Obscure Wheel". Within the first few days we made it into the caverns with minimal casualties on the sock front. We embarked with a band of 6 miners and one woodcutter, all armed with copper tools. We also brought along a steel anvil and a heaping pile of 29 dogs. We've been surviving on gathered plants and the butchered remains of a Yak. We have a Water Buffalo in reserve, but I think we may try to keep her alive for her milk, if it doesn't freeze before being of use. No cavern beasties have caused much uproar and the biggest threat overall has been a giant toad that we startled when we broke into the caverns. It quickly hopped away into a nearby lake and hasn't been spotted since. If you get this message, send more migrants. And socks.

What material was the support made out of?

It was made from a stoneware brick (brick made from fire clay). Those count as normal stone blocks (I think) so it shouldn't have been any different. 

Yes I believe this is a fairly common way of dealing with FBs.

Thanks for the reply, I just didn't know whether I would need a lever or just to let the thing go about its business and kill itself. Hurrah for supports being breakable!

Well crap

**** you, Murphy, for invoking your law.

Just loaded the save for the first time after posting the previous reply. And now my very topmost entrance ramps to the fort stopped working

It's not the ramps in my case. It seems weapon traps block caravan access now.

Yeah, when I came back after a little (at least half a year) break from DF, traps blocked caravan access. I thought I was going to cry at first haha.

So, I genned a fresh world for 40.05. I was all set to spit in the elven diplomat's face when I saw on the changelog that elven diplomacy had returned (or something to that effect). But it turns out my civilization is at war with elves, so I have no idea if the elven diplomat is reinstated. So my question is: Does anyone know for sure whether the elven diplomat who asks for a tree quota has returned, and is this the cause for my civilizations war with them?