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Hoard of undead lead by an elvish necromancer have been  hanging out at the edge of the map for the past six in-game months. Refuse to come attack, even though there is a (not ungaurded) path into my fortress. Instead, they just hang out at the edge, shamble towards wildlife when they see it, when the wildlife outruns them, they shamble back to the edge of the map. One unfortunate flock of turkeys spawned right on top of them. They outnumber me, and my army isn't strong enough yet to meet them out in the open far from shelter. I could handle them in my fort entrance, but for some reason they are smart enough not to engage me on my terms =^p

Guilty on the CLA (sorry, used LNP to switch, & was in such a hurry uploading that I forgot to change it back. ) No idea about the modded objects though -- other than seeing a few odd things that made me wonder if the save did have modded raws.

For plants-to-mill-into-dyes

Set the stockpile to be a food stockpile, then hit 'b' to block (forbid) everything. Go to 'plants' in the middle list. In the right list, scroll UP to wrap around to the end of the list. "Dimple Cups", "Hide Root", "Blade Weed", and "Silver Barb" are all together at the end of the list. Hit 'return' on each of them to enable. You now have a stockpile that only allows dye plants.

Back in the q-select for the stockpile, click 'g' (for 'give'), and it will prompt you to select (via moving the cursor and hitting return) the stockpile or workshop the stockpile should give to. Select your dye-quern.

For bags:

On a furnature stockpile, 'f' for 'forbid' 'type' from the middle list. This forbids all types of furnature. Then, find "boxes and bags" and enable it. [f]orbid all of the material type items in the middle list. Then, in the right-hand list for 'other materials', turn on cloth, leather, yarn, and silk.

same procedure to link it to your dye-quern.

Note that as others have indicated, once you link a stockpile to a workshop, that workshop will ONLY take items from stockpiles that link to it. It took me forever to get a dye-only-quern working, because I didn't realize that once I linked a plant stockpile to it, I would also need to link a bag stockpile to it.

You will also want to set your dyeworks bag stockpile to [t]ake from your dye workshops, to keep it a closed-bag loop. This means that you will also need to set a cloth/thread stockpile to [t]ake from the dye workshops, or else the dyed items will never be removed. Another quirk I tripped over: turns out that the seed created by the milling process is left in the bag rather than in the quren, and so it will get left in the dye-workshop when the bag is emptied. Therefore, if you set any stockpiels to [t]ake from your dye workshops, you need also to have a seed stockpile [t]ake from them, or the seeds will never be removed and will eventually clutter up the workshop until they are too full of seeds to be used (something else I figured out the hard way.)

So I'm not sure if that helps a lot with balancing zombies, it'd feel like kind of a waste to give revenants the current zombies physical attributes only for them to be easily skippable.

Having a purpose doesn't mean they're always easily skippable. Sure, sometimes you might be able to help one out. But they might not always able and/or willing to communicate what they need to accomplish, might not always be interested in your aid, and might have goals diametrically opposed to your own.


(In fact, it sets up the possibility of something you kill coming back at a future date as a revenant with an agenda against you, personally, and hungry for revenge.)

Turns out that the undead are a lot tougher than goblins.

I mean, I knew this from reading the forums, but I underestimated how quickly they would dispatch my military.

Survivors:

• Three undead, trapped in the fort by the drawbridge that was supposed to trap them outside of it
• One vampire, saved by being walled off from everyone
• Two necromancers, in cage traps
• Three dozen undead, in cage traps

Plus, lots of scattered gore (the remnants of former citizens, pets, and undead).


But, when the next bunch of immigrants arrives, I can just have them start afresh, since the surviving undead are trapped.

Except... for the ghosts of five dozen umemorialized citizens. That could be a problem. Note to self: Next time I need to lock a vampire up, make sure to lock a bunch of boulders up with him, in case of emergancy.

Edited to add:
Dear Urist McVampire: Yes, prohibiting the export of warhammers is the solution! That will solve all our problems!

Quote from: MobRules on August 28, 2015, 08:01:23 am

Think about making a road to the fort gate.

Oh, so if you build a road with 'b' 'o', it shows up on the world map?

I take my GRE this Friday.  With any luck, I'll be getting into grad school.

Sorry about the unintended hiatus, everyone, the Adventures of the World's Greatest Cheesemaker™ will continue as soon as possible.  I even put a loading bar in the title so you can see how close the next update is to being finished.

Appreciate the loading bar, that's awesome. Best of luck on the GRE!