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dualwield axe/mace with a spear.

Great, in the future nobles will demand for masterwork adamantite socks.


Also, about the thing about leather being more adept to rough use but unconfortable and cloth or silk being more comfortable but not that good against wear... What about using silk/cloth gloves for comfort, and leather mittens over those to withstand the wear and tear?

Otherwise it would be like complaining that a boot is rough because you forgot to wear socks.

A work around this would be making sure at least one or two dorfs (in case one of them is asleep) have the building labor enabled and nothing else. Gives peasents an use.

But yeah, this would make things easier.

More or less what it says on the title. An option to add details to a cooking job to select ingredients, like in masonry where you can specify the type of stone and image of a statue, or smithing and choosing the size the item is going to have.

I know randomly generated recipes are going to be included some time in the future, but for now I'd like my forts to be known for their dishes of fish, turkey eggs, dwarven wine and quarry bush leaves; not for whatever it is my cook found first and threw together in the oven.

(Also, for some reason google translator [I use it to check for typos because english isn't my first language] kept saying I should write "fart" instead of fort.  )
(Is there any use for the "message icon" option? Like, I wanna put a ! because I like MGS, but I don't want people to think this is overly serious. So I went with the lamp because this is an idea, more than anything else.)

Also make sure that if you're using custom food stockpiles, you enabled them to use the max ammount of barrels they can hold.

Nothing sucks more than wondering why your dwarves wont haul the booze when the wine cellar still has tons of space left.

What version is this? Recently I have had issues with dwarves not using pots/barrels unless I also permit them in the furniture menu in the stockpile list.

Does that work? If you enable the stockpile to keep empty barrels/pots/bins besides food, will the empty barrels be filled with food as it is produced? I have a couple of dwarfs carrying metal bars from the smelters all the way at the bottom of my fort to the wood bins nearer to the surface, and then carrying the bar filled bin back down to the bar stockpile.

how did you get zombies? evil weather or necro tower? If the later, you could set up a pretty wicked training room for your militia. instead of "live" training, UNliving training!

If you catch a necro, you could have him raise your training dummies for as long as you need.

Also, I read that a dwarf's sanity is greatly affected from fighting the undead, so with careful and well measured training you may get them to have that "doesn't care for anything anymore" thing-y that I've read many many players want their dwarfs to have.



Or you could go for the conventional and chain them to your entrance. Chained things wont attack your dwarfs. If you go for this route, I've read that first you have to build they cage they're in near the chain, to minimize the time the zombie/BC/sea serpent is outside the cage.

I've been sieged only once before by goblins, and they ran away with the season change before I could finish my traps, so my experience with sieges is pretty low (I do know how to set civilian alerts and stuff to get everyone in), and now I'm building a "fort" in an embark that's within reach of everything, elfs, humans, goblins and a tower.

I want to try and capture everything... because of reasons (Also I cant make a military force to save my fort. Literally). I've read that goblins charge blindly and tend to run away if they're losing, so I see little problems with capturing them. I've also read that the undead tend to just linger around, that humans actually besiege you, camping around and stuff, and I couldn't find much on the war ways of elves, just that they bring pretty sweet rides and that they wear wooden armour.

So... How do you guys catch the undead? or elves or humans? How often does the necromancer him/herself show up and how do you campture him/her? How many cages should I have at the ready for elves? I've read they can bring some large numbers...

I'm not at war with the humans or elves yet, but the threat of a goblin or undead siege worries me and the fort just hit the summer of its second year. Resources avaiable: the embark has a volcano with lots of space to build inside the mountain, so no accidentally breaching the caverns for me (it happened once with a prototype vertical layout fort...), its on a heavely forested biome, so lots of wood, no aquifiers but no rivers as well, so not much to generate vast amounts of power with...

So, I guess that's about it, I wanna capture all what I can, but dunno how.
(out of curiosity, do humans die of thirst/hunger if they're chained somewhere for too long?)