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Fortifications make no difference to firing or receiving fire- they simply block melee attacks.
You can improve the marksdwarfs chances of surviving bow attacks by giving them shields and letting them wrestle for a while.
But I still have a wild purring maggot in a constructed cage but any tame jobs get cancelled :mad:
I also tried training the lil bugger but the dungeonmaster says I have no trainable small animals
[ April 30, 2008: Message edited by: RickiusMaximus ]
I see some posts about purring maggots being dropped on the floor after being milked and having to be re-caged so it must be possible somehow- anyone?
When I add a milking job it gets canceled immediately.
I have no milk in stock at all so the maggot hasn't already been milked this season.
I've searched the forum and the wiki to try and figure out what I'm doing wrong...
Any ideas? Do I have to actually release the maggot into the workshop room?
In the end I ran reveal.exe rather than strip mine the whole map.
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Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>"Stay inside" orders are not really that effective, as they don't actually prevent a dwarf from picking up a job that's outside. However, once he's outside, the job will get cancelled so he'll go back in. Once he's safe inside, he looks for a new job and hey, isn't that a pretty narrow sock lying out there? I think I'll go stash it.</STRONG>
There's a fairly easy way to avoid this- if you build glass ceilings in the first 5 or 6 squares of your entrance tunnel the dwarfs count this as outside and turn back before they reach the front door, its really useful if you want to be able to lock the doors at a moments notice.
It can actually be a pain in the ass to have glass ceilings elsewhere- my main dining room/drinking wells room has a glass ceiling and it means when I issue a stay indoors order the dwarfs cant make it to the well.
Another pain in the ass is in winter when the water in the wells freezes through a glass ceiling and four z-levels down into the mountain!
Brainwave- I wonder if I can build a drawbridge over it to act like a storm shutter???
I also cant find any magma...
How deep do you normally have to dig before you find this stuff?
Is there any difference whether the chained animal is tame or wild?
platinum, statues
In less than a year the cave spiders had filled every single square of the pit and moreover had managed to scale the walls and fill the chamber above it as well.
Once I unlocked the doors for harvesting the cave spiders did disappear though.
I would suggest hollowing out a big cavern, sticking the spiders in it and just lock them in for a while- its not hard to catch new ones to replace them come harvest time anyway, just don't forget that the little buggers can climb walls!
[ May 23, 2008: Message edited by: RickiusMaximus ]
