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try digging a hallway under the affected area int eh rock to the edge of the map, then carving a fortification in the edge of the map rock tile. once your drain pipe is carved you can dig up to where the flood is. i have heard about a minecart system for ridding of unwanted water, but i haven't any personal experience with that.

check the colour which it says they are participating at the tavern. it may be due to prolonged period without that need being met. pink means its an intense need that must be met. i found that when i set up my taven, and temple the majority of my dwarves buggered off to meet these neglected needs. but after a while it settled back down into a rhythm. i always have more than 2 planters. usually about 6. i like to build up a stockpile of pigtails for emergency clothing replacement, so have always had extra farmers. once they had thier initial fill of the tavern or temple, my farmers were back into swing, and i didnt have any troubles building supplies back up. i do however import raw food ingredients for variety. the majority of my food is still unbrewed plump helmets and quarry bush leaf roasts

I had noticed larger worlds seemed to take quite a while to gen.  When I did small ones  they zip along.

When I went to bed, I set a max everything world gen. , when I got up, and took a look.. It was at year 500 or so. And was taking so long the game was being reported as not responding.

my most recent fortress, I kept running out of wood, so to curb my use I ordered every kind of leather under the sun..  unfortunately I didnt have much use for leather at the moment (was unprepared for goblins that took out 4 of my founders and a couple slaves.) so to free up some bin, I had my current for leader/ manager set with only leatherwroking and sew leather image on the mounds of cloths I had produced(slaves take care of all the mundane tasks.) when looking for stuff to toss at the merchants I decided to check out the images on the clothes in one of the clothes bins.  what first caught my attention was that on one of them was an image of 3 dwarves. (coincidentally I have only 3 founding members left) as I went through the stack of clothing in the bin I noticed it can almost be read like a log of what happened in the fort. apparently  Cag  has been bothered by the presence of the flies, and misses the mountains. not sure what the square would be about. also depicted was Cog's assention to leadership, and the death of one of the dwarves i sacrificed in an attempt to rid myself of a golbin archer in my "air lock". it was actually kind of neat to read / interperate.

edit: >.>  so thats where it went .. I could have sworn I put this in dwarf mode discussion

I noticed something similar using the craftsdwarf station. I was decorating coffins for future use, once getting them to a certain value I would forbid them in the workshop. for some reason the dwarf goes back tot he forbidden item to continue decorating. its only after dumping the item does he leave it alone with its forbidden status

I startted a new fortress, with immigration turned off (still ended up with 3 immigrants ) one of my starting immigrants was given the skill of axedwarf for dealing with thieves and babysnatchers before my airlock and traps are up. I set him to hunt to start to develope his axe skills (bugger kept bringing me partial goats) once I had enough leather gathered I made him his initial set of armor, each piece decorated with a leather image   I then set him to wear it so the goats dont hurt him too bad (havent found the water yet  ). with the lack of labor I had with no immigrants,  I made him a  mechanic as well. so while he was setting up a batch of cage traps he gets ambushesd (had to turn off hunting to make him do the task at hand, meaning he was stuck without armor) he only had 1/3 the traps set up roughly 6 or so, all of them on the wrong side so none of the gob's were caged when he got attacked. he managed to kill none of them. bastard. I had to use my miners to dispatch the few that made it past my internal flood gates.  so I hastily crafted a coffin (once the threat was eliminated) and encrusted it with a couple gems I had laying around. later whenI looked at the coffin after another disaster (and 4 more coffins) I looked at his coffin and saw:

"this is a superior quality chert coffin. this object menaces with spikes of morion.
on the item is a finely-designed image of a dwarf and a leather armor in green zircon by Bembul Duradlikot. The dwarf is admiring the leather armor."

I thought it was a nice touch. having his coffin engraved with what i assume is him and his armor. wont really know unless I got back in adv. mode and look at it.

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yeah my typing is bad. often my spacebar misses whenI use it.
and sometimes I forget to  check.

not too sure how efficientyou could keep this with reguards to raw materials. (especially stone as the more  you dig, the farther the stone will end up, and it seems the algorithim uses LIFO. last in first out)

I did some playing around with this with an assigned animal to the workdwarf. I managed to get it semi-functioning. delivery of raw mats gave me too much drouble for automation though.

using your requirements:
bedroom
workstation
dining room
food
meeting area
dwarf to be segregated.
output/input

problem:
1)auto assigning work. if you are compartmenting to ensure proper stone use for task, and you have multiple mason W/S's the jobs willbe spread accross all the mason shops. means manual task assignment, reducing automation.

2) input I coulnt manage to automate. seems water doesnt push raw stones. couldnt get hauler to reset gates to stockpile when hauling is finished. 

3  using pressureplates, if dwarf leave for a break, or to eat/drink/sleep, s/he will closee off access to stockpile and will cancel the work assigned. if eat/sleep/meeting area isnt together you cant guarantee the workdwarf wont  leave meating area for food/drink or sleep.(again blocking acess (which would switch the gates, possibly trapping a hauler)

4) trap synchronization. I had read somewhere before about having alternating gates from a pressure plate. but for some reason I couldnt get this to work. ended up using multple plates in a row to get the job done.

5) wandering pet. >,<  stupid pet (used a donkey) tended to wanter quite some distance from its owner sometimes tripping the switches for acess gates/output shute.once the pressure plates bug fixed. this wont be an issue.


output shute view from top

top floor:
  X  X
  X^X
  X  X
  X  X
  X  X
  X  X
XX+XXXXX     
X_=%%_XXXX
XXXXX*-----*X
XXXXXXXXX|X

Bottom floor (with aquifer undereath):
XXX  XXXXXXX
X#XXX   X
X+XX*%X
X  XX  %X
X  XX  # X
 
X=wall
_=open space
%%=pump
*=gear
-= horizontal axel
+= door
#=grate
^=pressure plate (connected to gear to activate/deactivate pump)


dwarf speed will affect timing for output shute. pet tends to tail behide dwarf as thedwarf moves.so the pressure plate needed to be 5 steps from door to output shute. (as the dwarf gets more agi, this may have to change) again this problem is solved withhte pressure plate fix.

gears touching the pump are directly over/under each other

I used an aquifer for water and drainage.  if you arnt using an aquifer you will need to find some reliable way to get rid of the excess water without flooding the fort. especially if the dwarf finishes production line before hauling.

2 flood gates controll access to stockpile. when the dwarf is working the gate to give access for work is open, the gate to give access to  haulers is closed. I had to use 2 preasure plates in a row to keep gates synchronized to have 1 on and 1 off.  bottom floor pump is for watersource only.  the grate behind the door is where the end product will show up for hauler to pick up.

for materials other than stone an input shute similar to the output shute may be a solution to automation. (say weaving thread into cloth, with next in chain cloth into clothing)