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It's a known bug that when military dwarves drop food from their backpacks, it's still marked as "owned", and thus no dwarf will move it. Only way around it is to either not have your military dwarves carry food, or else once they are carrying it, never change the order.

Generating world maps with savagry set to "high" can backfire, because possible opponents may get killed during worldgen in the more dangerous world. It's more reliable to use a standard worldgen, but then choose a dangerous location within that world.

But the news is coming from different settlements, implying that he was kidnapped from different settlements.

This requires legends-digging.

Really? But I've seen a siege of 300 in another game....does the cap only apply to gobbos already and not any trolls and beakdogs they bring?

I think there was a comment saying it didn't count mounts. There was a second cap (80? I think?) for accompanying trolls, etc.

Not sure how it works in practice -- the fort I started after discovering and raising the parameter is still too young to get large sieges. (Though 120 gobos, 80 trolls, and 100 beak-dog mounts would bring you up to 300 without the parameter lying.)

The param is new to 42.x, I think; not sure if it's new to 42.3 or if it was in the .1 and .2 as well.

I forget where I saw it, but I think there was a comment from Toady somewhere speculating that he may have overdone the drunk=fearless when implementing drunkeness in 42, and that he might scale it back a bit in a later release.

1. Prior to .40, DF would generate invading armies out of thin air based on your fortress characteristics. Now, invasions happen when a nearby dark fortress or tower decides that you are the most likely target.

in .40, there was an error with army pathing that caused this to mean you almost never got attacked. in .42, this was fixed. Getting a big invasion so soon means you likely picked an embark very near to a goblin dark fortress.

2. Yes, you can wait out a siege.

3. You can look at the civilization info screen (sorry, don't remember the key combo off the top of my head) to see who the major players in your civilization are, including the trade liaison. If the location that your liaison is coming from is "The Goblin Mountain Home of..." (which it sounds like from your description), that would indicate your capital has been conquered and is under goblin occupation.

4. As others have said, this is a known bug in 42.01 and 42.02, fixed in 42.03. (Of you're already in .03, might want to file a bug report).

Quote from: BesorgterZwerg on December 22, 2015, 08:15:15 am

Guys, i need your help.
I got my first vampire and i dont know who it is.
One of my dwarfs was found "completely drained of blood". How do i find it out who it was?

Look for a dwarf with great social skills, a huge list of former civilization memberships, and most likely a prominent position in your society.  If you have a mayor, that's your first suspect.

Vampire has more details.

Another hint is if despite their social skills and possible prominence, they don't have more than a "friendly acquaintance" relationship with anyone in the fort.

Also, no happy thoughts about sleeping in a good bedroom or eating in a good diningroom -- they don't sleep or eat.

Come to think of it, I haven't gone into the build menus to try to build bookcases that way at all.  Does your manager screen have bookcases?  That's how I built all of mine.

I generally don't bother with the manager, because they botch up my method for assigning tasks to workshops and gum up the works by sending tasks to places where they can't be made. I'm at work, so I can't open up the game right now to check if it's visible there.

Quote from: MobRules on December 19, 2015, 12:47:08 am

What is the functional difference between designating a room with a bunch of beds as a "dormitory", vs just having a room full of roomless beds?

I think (not 100% certain) that Dwarves will only use a bed which has been designated in some fashion, be it room or dormitory.  I've never actually left a bed 'blank', so I don't know for sure.

In my experience, dwarves seem just as happy to sleep in an undesignated bed as in a dorm -- I stopped designating dorms, because the designation didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever.

I usually get them all bedrooms eventually (sometimes with walls, sometimes without), but a room full of undesignated beds is a useful stopgap.