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I remember from the DF 40d that you could designate what rock could be used and not used by flipping it from green to red in the stocks screen.
I'm playing DF 2010, and my Chalk (which I have lots of) is currently green. But when I go to do masonry, I'm told I have no non-economic rock.

Whats up? I want my stuff made of chalk!

I have a list of specific burrow questions. I am hoping that if they are all answered, I can try and take use of this.


1. All paths between different parts of the same burrow do not need to be connected to allow dwarves to move between them, yes?

2. Dwarves assigned to a burrow number will not enter any space not in that burrow unless its to go to a different part of the same burrow. So they will not go to any stockpiles not in the burrow, or fish in any Zone not within the burrow, yes?

3. If I want to mine out a new area, I have to remove my miners from any burrow. Because otherwise they will constantly be at risk of leaving the burrow area. The same goes for woodcutters. This means that woodcutters and miners can -not- be protected in the event of a siege or ordered inside other then by assigning them to a civilian burrow.

4. I'm not sure what alerts do. Under military -> Alert ---> Burrow, I currently have my 'fortress' burrow set to 'no burrow restrictions'. Despite that, my dwarves do NOT leave anything not set a burrow. I'm not sure then, what turning on an alert would do as they don't leave the burrow anyway!

Burrows are a pain in the butt. I don't want to have to worry about spending an hour or two looking where every last dwarf needs to go to live and work for all of his jobs and making sure he has his own damn burrow set.

But unless I do that I can't order all dwarves to stay inside, because toady removed the command because we have burrows now.

Bring back order all dwarves to stay inside!!!


In fact, I'll go a step further and say the burrow system needs a complete overhaul, or at the very least an Official Instruction Manual, because right now it seems worse then useless. The only thing I've found a use for it thus far is not using it at all, and the only thing that has forced me to use it is the need to set my -entire fortress- as a burrow so as to keep my dwarves from going outside to meet their death.

Which makes having burrows completely useless. Especially since, given the new migrant system, most dwarves do multiple tasks and there is no real way to ever hand sort through each and every dwarf to make unique burrows for them.

Despite having -50- empty barrels, my brewers always insist they cannot brew due to not having any empty barrels.

I suggest there be an option to have Migrants automatically killed and processed into dwarf bones/skin/skull. As in, an option you turn on, and any new arrivals to the fortress are auto-designated for butchering, as if they were an animal.


Also, the ability to put skulls on spears, which would function identically to statues.

So, considering its been a year and a half, and the release always seems to be 'just a day or two' away, and I've gotten to the point where I've checked the Dev Log about 20 times in the past hour...I figure we should have a support thread. The problem, clearly, is not that the release has been so long, but we are way too addicted to this game.

So, lets have your thoughts on this, and strategies for coping. Or perhaps we can just laugh at the whole premise of this thread. Because seriously, its been a year and a half, if anyone needs a support group, its us.

I have a fortress on an area with Zombie and Skeletal mammoths. Unfortunately, since I had abandoned it before, a ton of crap is -everywhere-, and they keep killing my starting armies. To make it worse, whenever I do manage to kill one group of undead, another just -instantly- appears elsewhere. What do I do?