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Hm. I thought when riding the minecart tehy would avoid collisions with other Dorfs? Now I need to try this, make a rollercoaster to mow down trogs or so, which should make the dorfs used to witnessing death. Too bad the caverns are sort of off-limits at the moment, there's like four FBs in them (and they slaughtered the trogs, so I have to wait until new ones come in). My military is really low level, I had a few migrants after almost succumbing to an invasion (one dorf left), and I'm tring to clean up the mess and at least bury the dead that lie inside. Outside we have a necromancer siege again. *sigh*

FP: Digging a ramp up and not checking that there was a workshop on top. Removed workshop now and did not check that when ramping up under a workshop there seems to be no hole at that z level. Minecart went up, bounced, went back, smashed my engineers hand and arm. *sigh*

Quote from: Thisfox on November 18, 2014, 04:02:53 pm

Quote from: Kumquat on November 18, 2014, 03:55:24 pm

Dear rest of the hauler corps,

Stop gathering all those plum and cherry pits and apple seeds. They cannot be planted anyway; they are just a waste of bags. The titan silk farm is not for making infinite bags.

Yours, the overseer of Sprycanyon.

I'm at the point where I'm selling my bags of pits and treeseeds to the merchants, and buying empty bags in their place. It's very annoying. I wonder if I can forbid the pits and move the bags? Would that work? {wanders off to find out}

Maybe just try to use apples, cherries, and other fruits producing useless seeds for cooking, and forbid brewing so they don't produce any seeds?  Unless your nobles have a strong need for the associated booze, I'm guessing you have more than enough variety of booze in your fort without brewing apples and cherries.  Any unless dwarves for some reason really like raw apples/cherries, they don't tend to eat raw food if prepared meals are available.

Actually, as I was writing this an even simpler idea occurred to me - can't you just enable cooking of all the useless seeds?  I haven't actually played a fort in the new version yet, but by default cooking of all seeds is disabled, but can be enabled in the kitchen menu.  Then you can turn all those useless apple seeds into tasty apple seed roasts.

Edit - based on the raws, it looks like apple seeds and cherry pits aren't edible, so that won't work.  Oh well.  I think you could make the annoying seeds go away by just removing [GROWTH_HAS_SEED] under [GROWTH:FRUIT] for the offending plants.  I haven't tried this, so I don't know if it would actually work or cause any other problems.  Or just don't brew them, as described above.  Or you could add [EDIBLE_RAW] and/or [EDIBLE_COOKED] to the seeds.  Or it would be probably be pretty easy to add a reaction to process them into oil, like with rock nuts.