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DF Gameplay Questions / Do I Need To Gather Plants to Get New Trees?
« on: February 28, 2008, 10:51:00 pm »
Will new trees sprout where there are gatherable plants, or do I need to pick the plants to get maximum tree growth?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Can I Execute the Incompetent?
« on: January 11, 2008, 01:01:00 am »
My butcher just slaughtered a bull then walked away from the butcher shop. He didn't cancel a butchering job -- HE NEVER GOT A BUTCHERING JOB! HE KILLED AN ANIMAL WITHOUT GETTING A BUTCHERING JOB! HOW CAN THE AI BE THAT GO**AMNED STUPID?
He has no other job but to butcher, but he stood around with "No Job" until he decided he was tired and went to his room. Then he had a drink, stood around with "No Job" again, had a snack, and 9 chunks of beef rotted in the butcher's shop creating a stinking miasma. Naturally none of the part-time butchers volunteered to help in the meantime.
I want him dead. Anyone stupid enough to kill an animal without butchering it -- without even thinking it's his job to butcher it -- deserves to die.
Ok, seriously, is making the AI that stupid considered "challenging"? It's f**king retarded. Is it a test of player skill to turn "Butcher" on and everything else off on 20 people in hopes that one will actually follow orders and do a CRITICAL TIME-SENSITIVE JOB within the time it must be done? Why can't we control the priorities of tasks? Why are the time-sensitive tasks prioritized right below a$$-scratching in order of importance?
So ticked off right now ...
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DF Gameplay Questions / 5 Miner Limit?
« on: February 25, 2008, 03:35:00 am »
When I try to run 6 miners the 6th grabs a pick then stands around. Is there a 5-miner limit?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Berserk or Manic-Depressive?
« on: January 08, 2008, 05:56:00 am »
My expert marksdwarf hunter stopped using her crossbow either for hunting or combat.
When I activate her she follows orders, except she doesn't arm herself, and when I take her off-duty she goes to her room. If I deactivate her she resumes hunting bare-handed.
In her "thoughts and preferences" page she's ecstatic, but at the very bottom appears the suspicious phrase, "She doesn't really care about anything anymore."
Is that why she won't use a crossbow? Is she manic-depressive, berserk, or just bugged?
When I activate her she follows orders, except she doesn't arm herself, and when I take her off-duty she goes to her room. If I deactivate her she resumes hunting bare-handed.
In her "thoughts and preferences" page she's ecstatic, but at the very bottom appears the suspicious phrase, "She doesn't really care about anything anymore."
Is that why she won't use a crossbow? Is she manic-depressive, berserk, or just bugged?
I just watched her hunt. She bum-rushed a marmot -- faster than I thought a dwarf could run -- and beat it down with her bare hands, then hauled the corpse back to the butcher. She's one to stay out of the way of.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Best Category of Melee Weapons
« on: January 08, 2008, 02:35:00 am »
I've learned how to train up my Marksdwarves, but I'm curious first what the best class of melee weapons are and second what the best practice weapons are of that category.
And if hammers aren't the best, since I still need to train Marksdwarves in hammering what's the best practice hammer? Stone? Rubber mallet? Nerf bat?
And if hammers aren't the best, since I still need to train Marksdwarves in hammering what's the best practice hammer? Stone? Rubber mallet? Nerf bat?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Where Do Humans Come From?
« on: January 04, 2008, 03:09:00 pm »
Well, the stork brings them, of course, but I mean how do you know which direction their caravans will be coming from when they visit your fort?
Road-building is a very labor-intensive task which pulls a lot of dwarves off of a lot of very important tasks. Once you start building roads your security problems escalate, mining slows down, and it becomes impossible to get anything else done.
It would be nice if I knew which direction the humans would be coming from. Then I'd only have to build 1 superhighway instead of 4.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Legendary Blowgun?
« on: January 03, 2008, 09:55:00 pm »
Do I set "Crossbow" under the "soldier weapon" options to get my newly-strange-mood-enhanced Legendary Crossbowman to use his fancy new blowgun?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Bauxite! W00t!
« on: January 03, 2008, 08:24:00 am »
Oh, wait, the technology to extract aluminum from bauxite doesn't exist yet. My bad.
Imagine the catapult operator's disappointment upon learning the uranium enrichment project has also been put on indefinite hold.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Newbie Needs a Lever Linked
« on: January 02, 2008, 05:11:00 am »
I've had a "Link Lever" task queued up for months now but nobody is coming by to connect it.
I want to grab one of my guys and turn off everything except the "Link Building to Trigger" task, but I need to know which job category that is. Mechanic? Architect?
Everyone's going to starve unless I can get that floodgate linked. Well I exaggerate, but it's still really frustrating. I have 1 job that is critically important, so important I'd be willing to shut down all production by all personnel until this 1 thing gets done ("Request Trader" was similarly frustrating.)
I'll also need to dig out 1 block behind the floodgate, where the 7-level-deep bed of the brook is. Can I even do that? Will my miner be hit by a wall of water and drown, or will the water flow slowly enough for him to get clear and close the floodgate?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Needs Lye-Bearing Item?
« on: April 04, 2008, 07:13:00 pm »
I can't make soap because I'm getting the error "Needs Lye-Bearing Item".
I have a stockpile next to the Alchemy shop with 3 buckets of lye sitting there.
What do I need? A fourth bucket of lye? More empty buckets? More barrels? More vials? What?
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DF Gameplay Questions / How Watertight Are Glass Windows?
« on: April 03, 2008, 07:59:00 pm »
Will glass windows hold pressurized water?
Are they watertight to low-pressure water or mist?
Are they airtight against miasma?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Where Do You Store Value?
« on: February 11, 2008, 03:46:00 am »
It's all well and good to construct items for trade, but what do you trade them for?
I'm buying all the metal I can get my hands on based on the philosophy that it will last longer than, say, cat meat roast.
Where do you store your fort's value?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Do Roofs Kill Outdoor Plants?
« on: April 01, 2008, 06:16:00 pm »
I'm building a "Trade Tower" over my Whip Vine farm plot. I'm noticing that under the elevated roads and floors there's an "indoor" tag on the floor below.
Is that going to kill my outdoor plants?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Do Fishing or Wells Make Noise?
« on: March 26, 2008, 10:36:00 pm »
I'm thinking of putting my housing close to the well to shorten the distance for First Aid. There's an indoor fishing hole near the well.
Do either fishing or drawing water from wells make noise? How far does it travel?
What's the longest-range noise in the game and how far is it?
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DF Gameplay Questions / What Good's a Chasm?
« on: March 26, 2008, 12:27:00 am »
I just uncovered a chasm. Besides waste dump and drainage what's it good for?