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Ohgodwut. Hmm...how deep can the layers go? Make a little wooden figurine of elves looking offended at a little wooden figurine of elves looking offended at a little wooden figurine.

Yeah, sadly I've lost about 4 or 5 in this fort so far to them getting stuck and me not realizing it in time.

Man, I hadn't played in ages, saw a new release and came back. Also hadn't checked the site for a while, so I'm way behind. Some questions I had:

1) I saw in my searchings that books are just sorta barely-implemented, and mostly for entertainment/flavor. What about "poetry" and "dancing" and other things that I'm seeing in my dwaves' descriptions. Do they really do anything?

2) One of my trained emus is now "Distracted," which looking at the wiki is a dwarf personality thing. Anyone know what's up with that, and how to stop it?

3) I've made a few worlds between .04 and now one on .05, but I seem to have a big problem getting an embark with all the neighbors, which I like. (Humans, dwarves, elves, and goblins). I assume turning up the 'civilizations' on the world creation helps, any other suggestions? (I also tried making a slightly younger world than default, but don't know if that helps.)

4) Likewise, for a while now I've noticed that I have no bees that I can find in my embarks. They used to be all over the place in older versions, so that I ended up always having at least one beekeeper and setting aside a default area for hives. But I don't think I've seen a single wild hive or swarm of bees in .42 yet. Is this some sort of bug? Is it some weird biome thing that coincidentally I might have always been in the right biome before, and am not now? Any way to get them if they're not "native" to your embark?

5) Likewise, I've seen that there are junk seeds, like some of the fruit seeds - is there anything you can do with them other than hunt them all down and dump them, somehow?

6) Are vampires still a Thing? I know they had been made rarer than they were when they were first introduced, but I don't think I've seen a single one in .42

ETA:

7) I meant to add: is there any way to stop getting my dwarves stuck in trees? They keep getting up in there somehow, I'm not even sure how. Not the ones that are picking fruit with a stepladder or anything - like, my patrol dwarves and such. I've had a few die of starvation now before I caught it, and it's getting really old.

Anything else anyone wants to add that I should really know about, and that isn't obvious, in the newer releases?

• Dwarves have various needs, poetry and dance can fulfil some of them. Dwarves try to satisfy their needs instead of just standing around with "No job" and sometimes even instead of more important jobs. Satisfying needs helps with keeping them happy.
• No need to worry, it doesn't seem to have much impact. Specifically for emus, I have got that question answered.
• I would try more sites in smaller world rather then more civilizations.
• There is 8072: No bee colonies in temperate biomes (only in warm/hot) and maybe other problems.
• Sell them or use them as weak projectiles
• I myself haven't seen a vampire yet, too. Possibly they can now also come as visitors. There have been recently nerfed in big cities a bit, though.
• Dwarf seem to be able to use some paths only sometimes, some players reported dwarfs getting into trees during combat and being unable to get out of there once combat ended. See more in 9252: Dwarves get stuck in trees.
• You can add long term residing mercenaries into your military but not as squad captains. You can add all fully citizened visitors into your military on any position. You cannot assign staying visitors to locations because they are still in the core fortress location though they sometimes attend to these location posts anyway (9444: Full citizen petition not full, can't assign to locations)  Weapons that visitors carry may currently need to be encrusted to be able to be used as military equipment. (9442: Visitor equipment available for assignment to military)

Quote from: PatrikLundell on February 04, 2016, 04:07:36 am

There is one thing you can "build" to withstand a cave-in, and that's a solid block of obsidian.

The other thing you might try is to build something up to where the sky tree is generated to provide something for it to stand on, and thus not fall. This is pure speculation, though.

Well, I can tell exactly where the chunk of reality will land, but I'm not sure I want to try to pump the magma the 100+ z levels it would take to reach the surface.

Looking at it later on, I don't know if I can see exactly where the sky tree comes from, since the first thing that appears is a large multi-z-level debris cloud of black sand. I don't think there's anything that's particular different about the sprite in question except for that one special time of the year when it goes off, kind of like an inverted Old Faithful.