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I've noticed that when you start reclaim mode, ALL your dwarves (Or at least, all the dwarves I started with) are related by friendship. This lead to a very troublesome episode where a goblin ambush killed two Marksdwarves. The deaths of these two dwarves sent so many negative thoughts into the other dwarves that they started tantruming, which caused more negative thoughts, which caused a few of them to go insane (Most notably the woodcutter, who decided his friends looked a lot like trees), which caused MORE tantrums, which caused MORE insanity, and yeah, it was a mess.

So the moral is, dwarves having a lot of friends is a pain. Long live the hermits!

The funniest thing about the whole escapade was that a bunch of migrants arrived half way through it, and since they didn't know anyone in the fortress, they were just happy as clams the whole time. Dwarves were smashing bridges, jumping into wells, dying of thirst, and here these migrants were, absolutely ecstatic with their new home. Makes me wonder what the Dwarven mountainhomes are like if this is an improvement.

[ February 25, 2008: Message edited by: greenest banana ]

If skeletal carp come on land, doesn't that negate the main danger with carp? If they can't drag you into the water, are they as much of a threat?

Of course, I haven't had too much experience with carp. All I've seen is a carp drag a lion into a river, and from all the blood, maybe they are an equal menace on land or sea.

Thieves are opportunistic. I was once ambushed and I ordered all my dwarves inside. There, I raised the drawbridge (As I didn't really have a good military at the time). As soon as I raised the draw bridge, three raccoons made a beeline for my trade depot and stole the gems that my dwarves hadn't bothered to take in over the past 6 months. It was really pretty hilarious how determined they looked as they made their way to the site of the deed.

After that, I decided the main courtyard should also encompass my trade depot.

I keep all my levers in the designated meeting area. That way, any lever I designate to be pulled is activated within seconds and I don't need to bother with some igor isolated in a control room. I build any really important levers with brightly colored mechanisms, and the other ones I just remember (Since it's no big deal if I get it wrong anyway, live and learn).

Actually, I find that organizing the levers in chronological order works best for me. I can remember when I build partiular constructions, so I just start building levers at the top of the meeting room and work my way to the left and down over time.

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Originally posted by Kaelem Gaen:
<STRONG>You can store plants in bins?  And I thought that "Reserved Barrel" Option in stockpiles allowed you to set barrels to be used with only Workshops (Such as Stills, though maybe also Process Plant (Barrel))</STRONG>

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As far as I know, it's impossible to store food in bins. You have to store them in the open air or in barrels.

My understanding is that food stored in barrels lasts longer (And takes up less space). Plants in the open air rot faster and will also lose quality any time a dwarf walks over them. Is that still true?

If that's the case, you'll probably want to have ample walking room in your food stockpiles to keep the food from getting kitten leather shoe prints on it. If you eat it fast enough it shouldn't be a problem anyway, though. I guess it all depends on how scarce wood is around your fort. If you've got plenty of wood it might not be worth having food scattered everywhere just to save a few barrels.