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im pretty sure that dwarves wont use muddy water to clean wounds, they only accept fresh or salt water, statgent but non muddied water can be used but will cause infection

it seems to be tied to how famous your fort is

increasing wealth, population, and making the tavern nicer should all increase the number of visitors

i think if you just disable bins in the stockpile you want them to move to they will take the items out from the bin and move them to the pile, once all the flasks are out of bins you can enable bins in the flask stockpile again

im not sure if this is true but i read somewhere that a dwarf has to be a master in any weapon skill before they will pick up artifact stuff to wear unless you explicitly tell them to wear that exact item

if a dwarf stands on the trees tile when it grows from a sapling to a full tree they will get stuck up there

Quote from: jwest23 on February 05, 2016, 03:01:26 pm

If a bolthole as previously described on the wiki was part of the civilian alert burrow but disconnected from, say, the "Inside" burrow which encompasses most of the fortress, would the dwarf go to the bolthole instead of running all the way back to the other burrow?

Or, more generally, do dwarves select the closest matching burrow for a civilian alert?  I can't test just now, but if I get a chance before someone answers, I will.

I have a sneaking suspicion that's what the author had meant but didn't quite capture it correctly.

If you make a burrow that has several noncontiguous areas, dwarves will take jobs in one and move there from the other. They're allowed to pass through non-burrowed space as long as their destination is in the burrow, and if you aren't careful with your burrow design you can end up with them in places you didn't expect them to be. Also, some dwarves - like children - will only respond to a burrow under a civilian alert, or if there is something for them to actually do in the burrow to draw them there.

i tried that in 0.40 but i got the job cancellation message "area forbidden"

some troll put it up on the wiki, dwarves assigned to a burrow will not leave the burrow for any reason, even if that means they have to stand in one spot and starve to death
one of my prefered ways of killing, its slow and horrible

Quote from: HungryHobo on February 03, 2016, 12:08:23 pm

There's been a few people reporting similar. The theory I've seen is that the game is spawning trees where the ground used to be which are then collapsing and causing a cave-in.

That does make sense. Though it's interesting that the cave in happens in the same location with pin-point accuracy.

its exactly correct, i had the same issue while i was roofing over a place i just dug out for farming
every time a tree grew i got a collapse message
thankfully nobody got hurt all those times, usually there wasnt anyone around

still at 1 death in 10 years (failed artifact due to lack of animal thread, no shearable animals)