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WHAT HAVE I DONE?

I tried claiming if, forbidding it, marking if for dumping. It's stuck there and it's not rotting (if it even rotted before). It's named though. Not sure if it helps. And I did have a cemetery and refusal zone.

Hmmm.. I think I've got it. Maybe they're trying to use a material they can't acess and since the bridge will take them to it there's some weird bug at work. I'm building a wooden bridge to see if it works.

Nope, still wasn't it. Now I've got a stuck dwarf. I've lost about 3 so far because of this crap. I did find out dwarves won't build from bridges.

[ January 21, 2008: Message edited by: Crushy ]

HOLY CRAP THEY DID IT! Thank god that guy was a soldier carrying rations and water. They came in hordes to build anything they could, then they went away and don't look like they're coming back.

[ January 21, 2008: Message edited by: Crushy ]

Well, after two consecutive reclaims my old fortress is a mess. I'm mostly having clothing problems, but what annoys me the most is an old goblin corpse on one of my main access tunnels. EVERYONE runs over the damned corpse on the way to get food and then back when they go to the dinning hall. The corpse won't decay either, it's been here for about a year.

Also, I have a main access tunnel filled with traps and a huge removable bridge leading to a bucketload of spikes. Since I have to build the traps at the bottom of a chasm and perform maintenance after the sieges, I thought I'd build a small access tunnel and some bridges to get down there. For some reason, they HATE going down there for anything besides removing buildings. Getting something dug is hard enough and I've ordered countless bridges which no one wants to design. And yes, the architects aren't busy, they've designed about 20 bridges so far (massive hunger/trauma problems, don't ask). Not even floating floors get built, only if I set them on cave floor.

Please help me, I can't survive a goblin assault unless that bridge gets built.

Update: And now for some reason the engravers started smoothing those maintenance tunnels about a year after I ordered it...

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Originally posted by OverrideB1:
<STRONG>I've got the same problem as the OP -- my dwarves have dug to the magma (the location of which I knew since it shows up on the surface). I got no warm rock warning: in fact my especially created "never held a pick before peasant" just dug straight into the magma vent without hesitation and turned into dwarf-roast.

Now I've a huge tunnel for channeling the magma with trenches dug out on the z-level above so I can access the magma... and the furnace keeps telling me that I need magma under one of the boundary-tiles of the furnace before it'll work!!

Since I'm on a very tree-light map I guess this fort is scuppered and that the inevitable dwarven-doom came a little sooner than was expected... and from a totally unexpected direction</STRONG>

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I'm facing almost the exact opposite, I detected the magma just fine, I just can't build anything :S Are you sure you're trying to build over a full channel? I think they need to be full

I tought iron was magma proof.

Besides, it's just floating in the magma besides an old iron pick. Shouldn't it have melted?

Edit: I'll try to clarify it:

I used an iron floodgate and connected it to a lever before digging to the magma. I just noticed the floodgate is now a "floating" piece of furniture about 1 square east of where I placed it.

[ March 07, 2008: Message edited by: Crushy ]

I just DISCOVERED magma on one of my forts and I can't build smelters either  

The problem's not just the range, I also had at the most about 5 ice blocks. And I think I hadn't started digging the ice until after that screen shot.