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What is "Potato wine" Surely, if you use potatoes in a still, the end product is VODKA!

Maybe Bloated Tubers could become "Dwarven Vodka"?

I have a fairly young fort, trying to get a sable water source. Around 8 Z levels below my temple, hospital, tavern and other nice places for dwarves to spend time, I have dug a 3 z level trench. Plan is to dig some holes down, fill the trench with water, then construct some nice wells.

Problem I have is that miners are scared of the fall. I figured they would dig the channel down, take a 3 Z level fall, and maybe spend a week in hospital recovering. A 3 Z level fall should produce minor injuries at most. My hospital is ready! The miners however, just stop with a "dangerous terrain" message.

How do I get my minors to dig out that last bit?

Quote from: Splint on December 08, 2014, 08:29:34 pm

Smoke inhalation is a thing.

Must. Weaponize. Just think: A whole new type of trap is within our grasp.

How about if you can burn some hemp, and have dorfs inhale that? Or maybe it would only work on humans?

You might end up with dorfs that get happy thoughts looking at random objects, suddenly get hungry, sleep a lot, and develop strange moods.

Werebeasts can also be locked in a small room with a table, and assigned Bookkeeper role. They do not need food or booze, and can somehow manage to keep inventories up to date from within their little cell.

Hi

I have a fortress started up and thriving nicely, a couple of years old now, and 80 odd dwarfs. The area is wooded, with a lot of fruit trees, and a smattering of willow around lakes. Running 0.44.12 

Problem I have had since embark is that my dwarfs just won't pick fruit. I verified that several trees have fruit on them, I have 6 stepladders. When I designate an area as plant gathering, dwarves will collect from shrubs, so I get potatoes, spinach etc, but no fruit. This is not my first fortress, and I have not had this problem until now.

I am about to give up on fruit trees and just chop them all down for beds and charcoal!

Any ideas why this could be happening?

I have found werewolf dorfs to be pretty slow at breaking stone doors. I tend to set up a corridor with 6 or so in it, usually only loose 2 at most. Plenty of time to rebuild.

I once walled in a Weredwarf and had him be my bookkeeper. Seems Dwarfish bookkeepers can somehow count event sock in  a fortress from within an enclosed, dark cell.

Hmmm, OK.


My fortress has a 25 long x 5 "entry hall" with a trade workshop to one side, and a barracks to the other. The doors "inside" are behind the catapult.  Along the sides and near the exit are a heap of traps. Idea is, when under siege, to have my military, (a squad of 10) assemble near the catapult, and mop up any nasties who avoid the traps and flying rocks.

If I include the catapult in the civilian alert burrow, I guess I will have a shitload of planters, woodcutter, herbalists etc gathering there as well.