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quote:
Originally posted by Solara:
<STRONG>After you build a bed (or whatever), just 'q' over it. You should get the option to make it a bedroom and then assign it. (I don't have the game open at the moment so maybe someone else can tell you the exact keystrokes if you're still having trouble...)[ May 21, 2008: Message edited by: Solara ]</STRONG>
The exact keystrokes are 'q' and then 'a'.
quote:
Originally posted by Samyotix:
<STRONG>As far as I know yes, foals yield slightly less meat and bones than grown animals.Not sure about chunks. The amount of skulls you get for butchering foals and adult animals is the same - one
</STRONG>
Yes, chunks is the same. An animals size creates the number of meat/chunks you recieve from butchering it.
quote:
Originally posted by kaypy:
<STRONG>If you would rather a pit than a cage, here is how I currently do it:code:
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key
o: drop critters here
X: door, dwarf passable, pet impassable, restricted traffic
r: passage, restricted traffic
+: door, dwarf passable, pet impassable, high traffic
,: passage, high traffic
<: exitCritters will try to get out via the short, restricted passages (because they check for dwarf passability in pathfinding), but be blocked by the doors.
Dwarfs will enter and grab critters by the long, high traffic passages, but critters will ignore those open doors.
Hence, if you designate a critter for 're-ponding' a dwarf will just go down, take it for a short trip, and return it. You can also easily get out meat without releasing the horde.</STRONG>
[ May 21, 2008: Message edited by: i2amroy ]
quote:
Originally posted by Samyotix:
<STRONG>Only some changes to those TXT files require you to start over, as far as I know.
I have no idea which though.So maybe you can get sieges just by this:
1. open entity_defaults.txt
2. delete [babysnatcher]
3. save
4. play and pray it works :-)[ May 21, 2008: Message edited by: Samyotix ]</STRONG>
Yes, it would work. When editing anything in the object folder, it is o.k. to edit things and then keep playing on the same world. The only exception to this is if you add or delete something. Doing that can cause some pretty big and annoying errors.
quote:
Originally posted by martinuzz:
<STRONG>Then why is it that I can order my bins of artefact weapons, armor, and finished goods to the trade depot?
I haven't actually tried trading them, but you can select them to be moved to the depot..
I don't know of that goes for loose artefacts as well, for I tend to keep em binned and safe.</STRONG>
Whenever you try to move a bin that contains an artifact, the dwarves move the bin but the artifact is taken out and placed where the bin was before they move it.
Top Room view
code:XXXXX
XE..XXX
X.C.F^G
X..^XXX
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code:XEXXXXXXXX
X.C.F^G...
XX_XXX_XXX
XXG...G...
XX_XXX_XXX
Steps
1. Militarize the dwarf you wish to train and station them in the room
2. The pressure plate outside the room triggers when the dwarf steps on it and activates a method to make its effect permanent. The permanent method then makes a screw pump activate to fill the room with water and closes the floodgate and floor hatch.
3. The room would fill with water and the dwarf would begin to drown, training swimming skill
4. The pressure plate inside the room would trigger when the water reached level seven and then activate a screw pump to turn off the permanent method.
5. This allows the water to drain out. (make sure to use high quality mechanisms on the floor grate and low quality on the floodgate)
6. The grate in the tunnel beneath the floor grate stops the dwarf from following the water to the chasm or whatever if he is sucked down the floor hatch tunnel. The grate in the corridor is an overflow tunnel for any water that escapes through the floodgate.
7. If the dwarf falls down the floor hatch tunnel, then they follow the side tunnel back to the fortress.
8. The dwarf leaves the chamber with an upgraded swimming skill.
9. Repeat as often as wanted.
A little complex, granted, and probably it would take some tweaking to get it to work right, but if it worked it would be a wonderful thing to have for those levels where you are dealing with lake fortresses and waterworks.
quote:
Originally posted by HungryHobo:
<STRONG>try magma under the water. magma will melt water 1 zlevel above it i think.</STRONG>
Ya, magma will melt any ice that it one z-level directly above it.
quote:
Originally posted by Tanelorn:
<STRONG>
Pumping magma makes the magma pressurized - it will behave like water and fill any reachable tile that is at a z-level inferior, or equal to, the z-level of the pump.
Magma flood are therefore highly likely if you are not careful</STRONG>
Ha, I have done that one before! 
quote:
Originally posted by Forumsdwarf:
<STRONG>Citizen militias have also reduced casualties. I've had a single civilian take down an entire ambush of pikemen. Turn on "Hunting", "Crossbow", and "Leather Armor" for your civilians to make a militia. Militia will actually "kite" enemies, firing and retreating toward the fortress. You can't even get your regular soldiers to employ this devastating tactic.</STRONG>
You have to be very careful to only do that on a map with no wildlife or only when you are being attacked, because if not then any dwarves that are set up to be militia will often go wandering off to kill some tiny squirrel on the very edge of the map.
