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I had a child go into a strange mood and claim a craftsdwarves' workshop. No worries, I thought, until he started requesting shells. Problem was, I hadn't caught a turtle for about 5 years, and all my shells had long since been used up. Desperately hoping for the merchants to bring some turtles with them, I waited in vain. This meant I just had to wait until the child went insane, which I thought was pretty harsh. Not as harsh, however, as the next bit - the child threw a tantrum and started chasing after my dwarves. There happened to be a dog wandering past at this point, which ran up and started tearing mouthfuls out of the child, leaving dwarf CHILD chunks all over my fortress floor. The kid wasn't having any of that, so he (incredibly) managed to kill the dog, and ran off to attack more dwarves. Well, next thing I know one of my marksdwarves, wandering past to pick up some equipment, whips out his crossbow and fired about 10 bolts into this little kid, then just wandered off to get back to what he was doing. There I am, horrified, as I see this poor kid being summarily executed in front of my eyes. Left me feeling pretty odd, I can tell you...

On a somewhat related note, does anyone know why dwarves will sometimes grab some wooden bolts and stand in front of an archery target, but not actually shoot anything? It's a bit odd but they seem to be ready to train, but don't actually go ahead and do it...

-FD

Ah thanks for the quick reply, I'll give that a go and report back!

-FD

I think the quickest way would be to pump it, maybe with several pumps all working together? Put a water wheel in the river, and then connect that up to two or three pumps with a channel guiding the pumped water into your moat. It sounds like you have a big moat if the water is evaporating too quickly, so maybe add more pumps as needed

       
           ==
..........%%=
          *W=
          *W=
          *W=
..........%%=
           ==

So the ='s are the river, *'s are gear assemblies, % are your pumps and .'s indicate a channel, leading to your moat. If you set that up, hopefully the water should pretty quickly head to your moat. Note that the pumps each have one tile hanging over the river (see Water Wheel and Pump for further explanation on how to use the pumps and water wheel, they can be confusing to get right the first time you build them )

Hope that helps!

-FD

Hmm, bugger. I don't want to offend you by asking this, but have you unpacked absolutely everything? (I'm just thinking that because sometimes like in WinRAR if you have a file in the archive highlighted, it will only unpack that one file). You did say you had fmod.dll there though, so I would assume that that's the case. From a quick google, it looks like it's related to sound and audio. Maybe open the init file for DF and turn the sound off using the relevant option? That's all I can think of at the moment, let me know how that goes!

Ah thanks Lord Dullard, I'll keep that in mind for future reference!

FD

When you guys organize your soldiers, whats your preference?

I tend to put all my dwarfs into individual squads. While this requires a bit more management, it prevents the squad leader from going off to have tea or sleep, and the entire squad following so they can stand around and watch him - thus leaving my fortress undefended. At least, this used to happen - I must admit I haven't tested it recently, so I've stuck to my old habit

FD