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turtles are vermin, not animals, so they spawn and dissapear randomly... and they are in every water patch. all the things that can be fished are vermins, other fish (carps) cant be fished.

if you want shells, just dump the raw turtles (or prepared ones, if you want), and they will rot, so you'll have shells.

but there is no problem whith getting turtles...

if I fish on a pool, I get turtles. If I fish on the river, I get turtles. If I fish on the aquifer, I get turtles. If I fish on the 1x1 ponds I made on the dungeon so criminals can drink, I get turtles.

then this gives more questions... dwarves have turtle eggs in the pockets?

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Originally posted by Forumsdwarf:
<STRONG>First the fertilizer question: farmers won't fertilize land they can't seed.  Check your seed stock against the number of tiles you're asking your farmers to plant.

Now my question: Is there any way to check the fertility of the soil?  Is there any way to check the fertility by plant species?  (Look it all up in the Wiki isn't my preferred answer, but it'll do I guess.)</STRONG>

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you have a "FT: X" marker when you look the plot info (with (Q)). ft stands for fertility, i think.

i will try to explain it better:

in the last version, where mud tracked, i comstructed 4 farm plots in black sand. its ft was 1. plants growed as usual, and i got stacks ranging 1 to 5.
then a little "accident" with a pool and inmigrants made some mud that started to track everywhere (before it was only blood... but it dont got to the farm zone). when i noticed ALL the black sand zone was covered in mud, y saw that the farm plots had a ft of 5, ann there where more 5-plant stacks.
so sand is bad soil for agriculture, but if you make it muddy, its a good soil, like ANY surface (as muddy engraved obsidian).

i got the most severe injuries while spear training... a unskilled dwarf with a silver spear turned red the brain of my legendary hero... and six gray necks to other dwarves... i think the spear got stuck and the speardwarf took joy spinning it...
spears are overpowered. with silver hammers the most severe injury i have seen is a gray hand.

look at his skills... maybe he throwed the blowgun.
if the dwarf has thrower skill, he has thrown the blowgun to the enemy and killed it. if the dwarf has blowgunner skill (o wathever skill is related to the blowgun).

well... the "dwarf throws the artifact and kills someone" is better than the "dwarf used a blowgun"!

i think the block % is material-related, so an iron shield will block less than a steel shield.

if you enable dump corpses on options->refuse options, all the corpses will be dumped on the dump zone.
but it destroys the butchery economy (all the corpses all dumped rather than butchered...)

or you can manually tag the corpses to be dumped...

"enough" cage traps are required to trap the colossus. and "enough" is 1. if the colossus step on a cage trap, is caged, no matter the material or cuality of the cage or the mechanism.

my defense system consists on 2 1 tile passages with 4 weapon traps full of masterwork obsidian swords, and then a 3 tile-wide passage covered with cage traps (arround 30). goblins invaders come, have his limbs removed on the weapon traps, and the survivors are nicely caged.

i think is related to removing the stairs in the top... but it was when dwarves removed items standing on them.