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How would you create a 3d-printer? Which mod would you use?

The only data members of t_building I see are x1; x2; y1; y2; z; material; type; a union of df::civzone_t, df::furnace_t, etc.; custom_type; and origin. I'm obviously missing something here. I realize I didn't mention I'm writing a DFHack plugin in C++, not a script in Lua, so I want to make sure we're on the same page there. If you were talking about the C++ library, you're probably looking at a different part of it, so can you tell me the location of this in the Github source?

What do you mean by "items"?

If you look at the default raw file for a minecart on the DF wiki, there is this line:
[TOOL_USE:TRACK_CART]I can only suppose that there's a correspondent [TOOL] or something somewhere, but I'm too lazy to check. What is a tool?

EDIT: I'm interested in how minecart mechanics is implemented, which is why I'm looking at this. If someone else can explain how to mod an object that moves like a minecart (but isn't a creature), I'd be much obliged.

Okay, so I'm a newbie, and one of my miners found a cavern. Having read about the creatures that might dwell down there, I decided to seal it up pronto with a wall. So maybe a month passes, and only then do I notice an announcement saying "Urist McWallBuilder cancels Eat: Could not path to item" or something like that. Turns out, the cavern entrance I sealed was also part of the up/down stairway used to get between the mining levels, so my builder was stuck down there for a month. So I got a miner and decided to dig a down stairway to the level the dwarf was stuck on. To do this, I think you know, I have to build a U/D stair on that level, which again opens a path to the caverns. The dwarf was rescued, but I still had to seal up that entrance. I did so with a wall. Three guesses to what happened then.

Okay, so I decided to risk it and destroy the wall sealing the entrance for now, and again the builder dwarf was rescued. A miner then dug an up stairway on that level, and a U/D stairway on the level above it, which I should have done in the first place, since it doesn't reveal a path to the cavern. The builder dwarf then built the wall sealing the entrance a second time, and then proceeded to exit through the aforementioned up stairway. So, happy ending, I guess.

Precisely! I position the suspect on a raising bridge surrounded by stone. I also place a bucket of magma on the stone right next to the bridge. Any legitimate dorf will immediately run off the bridge for the magma so he can stumble into it when fighting goblins, so when I retract the bridge, any impostors will be flung off the bridge! It's genius!

Also, I might have found the problem. I have a bunch of raw fish barrels that my fishers bring home. I don't have a fishery workshop yet, though, so can the fish barrels actually be reserved, leaving no room for the booze?

Hello, I have a problem. I have a fortress with a still to make booze for my obese slackers dwarves. Somehow, though, I get cancellation spam saying "Urist McBrewer cancels Brew Drink from Plant: Needs empty food storage item." I have set the "Reserved Barrels" setting to 30 in the stockpile menu. (And yes, I did create a lot of barrels after I did that, so the problem can't be that all the barrels were already reserved for something else.) Help?