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I've tried forts where i just dig and expand as needed to grow, which makes things pretty messy as far as layout goes.

this is the correct way to play it. Until you get to max population (your planned max population) you will be constantly renovating existing areas of your fortress and expanding them. If it's too messy then you aren't doing it right, try to minimize your digging of rooms and plan more early on. The only area that should be expanded to max size from the start is your central stair or ramp, design that with your max population in mind. renovate everything later; dwarf fortress gives you the ability to completely change an existing fort at the cost of materials and time and effort, use that

i think the only part of my fort that has seen the least change since the beginning other than the central stair was the tavern/dining room and bedroom

change the inebriation syndrome to significantly lower chance of tantrum and other negative symptoms. i consider the ability to drown your citizens in booze (and give they more happy thoughts) at the expense of booze depletion to be a feature

I have most labors disabled on him because i need him to be available to interrogate every visitor and to dole out justice. Glassmaking is enabled to fulfill his need to craft. Since he has so much free time sometimes i also made him one of my scribes.

The squad activates at the end of the month and his elf deputy happily trains archery but i noticed my sheriff didn't activate (or maybe activated and then deactivated for some reason). i forced him to station and he started training a bit after but then reverted back to civilian and stopped training after less than a day.

He has his own archery range along with the deputy, no one else is an archer yet because they don't have 1k strength to wear steel mail yet except him and the deputy. I have 2 archery ranges out of 6 maximum made into independent rooms so they both get used.

never seen a sole dwarf out of a scheduled squad play hooky like this. What is wrong?

my minotaur breeding project has become a failure. I was lucky enough to cage both a male and female minotaur a few years ago. Chained them both in a dungeon area below the third cavern layer with cage traps on the outside.

The plan was they make babies, i open the hatch and those get caged while the parents remain chained, then i wait for the babies to grow up, then i toss them into my upright spike execution chamber for living things to kill them without mangling, then let the undead biome resurrect them, let them out again into more cage traps, and then pit the new undead minotaurs into a spiked ball only weapon trap execution chamber so them become mangled generic minotaur corpses i can butcher (my game is modded so sentients are butcherable, but my dwarves wont butcher historical figures, i ended up using reanimation as a way around this instead of the cannabalism fix).

but a while after chaining the minotaurs instead of making babies they decided to go insane instead and my dwarves were constantly forced to give them food and water. i let this go on for a while because it was fulfilling their need to help someone and giving them good thoughts but i eventually got tired of dumping buckets back up (i don't make a stockpile for certain things, such as buckets or other things used by workshop tasks); plus it was a long way to go from the reservoir and food stockpiles near the surface to the dungeons below so it was wasting their time and my fps.

now it's time to put two stark raving mad minotaurs out of their misery; they'll serve DeadBerries better as minotaur roasts

edit: also my game is modded so most creatures grow up faster, including minotaurs, so this is viable

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My history doesn't go back many versions (to 44.12 iirc), but in 47.05 there have been many trolls destroying doors.

were those trolls a part of a siege?

can anyone else confirm building destroyers which didn't come as part of a siege, aren't functioning properly.

What do you define as working properly? As of 0.47.04, the game was patched so only sieging building destroyers destroy buildings (I think, the log is a bit ambiguous - are "large visitors" specifically people travelling to locations, or any LARGE_ROAMING creature?):

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Stopped large visitors and residents from seeking and destroying buildings even if they do so as invaders

So building destroyers that aren't part of a siege not destroying buildings should be an example of the game working as intended.

Apparently there is also a long-standing bug where building destroyers can't break buildings they're adjacent to, but I don't play enough fort mode to know if this is still the case or outdated information.

not a good change IMO but who am i to complain, it's less micromanagement since now i can lock things in with doors.

former building destroyers still keep their building destroyer pathing tho so it causes them to camp doors.

Assign it to a display pedestal in your library, then unassign or deconstruct the pedestal after the book has been stored.

doesn't show up in tools or artifacts for my display cases or pedestals.

The "foreign" flag indicates whether the item isn't fortress made, but doesn't have much of an effect apart from that. Selling things with the foreign flag doesn't count as sold products or fortress production values, I think. Thinks marked a forbidden and/or trader won't be affected by being dump marked, i.e. they won't be touched (and "artifacts" can't be dump marked using the vanilla DF interface). Thus, xpi0t0s' report sounds odd based on my experience.

I believe you can "disguise" foreign "stolen" goods (such as the junk from scuttled caravans) by modify them via encrusting, and melting them down won't retain the origin of the metal. These activities require the dorfs to handle them, though, and thus can't be performed if they won't even touch the items.

how do you guys advanced trouble shoot items using dfhack? how do you run custom scripts in dfhack? also what is the one used to remove foreign flags?

is anyone else getting a bug with scrolls like this or is it just me? (also for some reason it doesn't seem to affect codices, only scrolls)

can't mark for dumping. couldn't find a dfhack script to make it part of my fort's possessions so my dwarves will store it in the library. currently eating at my already low fps and interfering with some stockpiles