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First post, nice project you got here.  

I find I cannot use the stairs of a dwarf fort (as a native dwarf) using the default (/,*) keys.

Is there a trick to this I am missing or is this a bug?

(Look states that the plot I am on also contains a downward stairs.)

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Also some suggestion for stairs in Fortress mode.
Why not automatically transform stairs sandwiched between two floors of stairs into Up/down stairs?
(I may be missing the point, but are all stairs usable as up/down stairs if layered in a vertical column?)
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Would you considder increasing the resolution / reducing fonttype+line heigth/width in the 'world view' window if technically feasable or is this agains the aestetics (ASCII) of the game?

A reduced map containing only colour pixels denoting terrain height/ evt. vegetation overlain by enemy/friendly creatures, (surface)structures.

On another tangent:

I designated all narrow iron items to be molten down, but they have now been placed inside bins, which removes the dump/forbid/melt tags.

It seems this is not just a GUI thing, because my smelter has cancelled the repeating 'melt object' order now that all visible objects are molten.

This seems a bug to me.

Are items inside bins invisible to search routines?

I think it was the squad.
but as it was not recorded under the [a] log, I can't be sure.

I am sure it was a stray dog that became leader of something though.

ok. sorry to be unclear, it is rather puzzling.

I'll tell you what the situation is:

The fortress is several years old, no features have been found yet (except for the volcano), but we have a dungeonmaster.
Lately we have missed some caravans due to unwise fortification planning.
Several large projects are underway, an outdoors arena, a large vaulted underground cathedral and a second well.

The arena construction orders were halted as should be when I ordered all inside for a siege and could be reset to resume building.

The cathedral however got terribly delayed, as my smoothing designations were ignored, miners just hanging around, going off to dig only freshly designated areas.
undesignating and redesignating finally got the ceilings smoothed.
the well was completed years after designation similarly.

I'm not entirely sure it is the sieges that 'pause' the designations, I may have been confusing the halted arena construction with this designation problem.
I have been training my miners a bit too and they have been recruited during a siege at some point. hat could be a factor, but only to the tile they were planning to mine at that time, not the entire project.

reproducing the effect...I could undesignate everything, then designate a single tile, use the stayindide and watch the jobs.
or recruit the miners while they are going for a job, then release them.

It's the monitor setting for sure.
I had the same problem with a labtop AND PC with an old(defunct) screen,
I replaced the screen (wow colours!) and now it works fine.
The labtop required some tweaking of the dimensions.

I just installed a few weeks ago...on PC.
with an alternative tileset- but that shouldn't affect a game mechanism.
...I'll browse the directory.

one sec...
[strikethough]0.27.176.38b the releasenotes say.[/strikethough]
NO! it is 38c, so the download file sez.

I have the game saved at the point of the dwarf being in the shop and the shop being slated for completion.... you want it? ('ll make a copy just in case)

[ March 15, 2008: Message edited by: Areyar ]

sounds like a loophole/cheat to create an unlimited watersupply.