Bay 12 Games Forum

The first thing I would check is if the well is setup correctly and that the zones are right.

If it is a priority problem, you can also set them to only use drinking zones by [/b]o->z->d, where d toggles between "Prefer Zone Drinking" and "Zone-Only Drinking".

Prepared meals aren't listed under any of the sections except for "All", which is kind of annoying but there are ways to work around this limitation.

Well made prepared meals with good ingredients are worth horrendous amounts, like buy out a whole caravan with a half-dozen or so.

Dwarfs must be the ultimate culinary masters, yet they seem to have some of the strangest tastes for donkey tallow and dog meat....

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-4421-pillarsnarling-sum-204

Entrance is only half finished, the fortress is about a third done overall.

I might restart from my earliest save for this spot knowing what I do know about the geography.

-----------

My primary purpose for the odd pattern at the ground level entrance is to force the pathfinding routine to always path the shorter route where I can station my defenders so they will be safe from arrow fire and still allow a caravan to approach.  I find the pattern does not cause traffic problems and makes for a nice choke point. 

Once the entrance is done, raising the draw bridges allows the dwarfs to continue the use of the dump above the entrance.  Below the entrance is the sparing and archery areas which when completed gobos would have to path below the the trade depo and through the sparing area in times of distress, at the moment there are no soldiers as I don't have the population for it.

The rows of catapults facing nothing are part of my "training and reeducation" program, by the time my dwarfs have completed their regime of training they usually have nearly maxed status(busy dwarfs party less...).  The purpose of the intensive training is to ready my fortress for a huge population influx by training 30 or 40 dwarfs really well in the necessities and everyone else gets to be commoners/soldiery/fun killing time. 

Not the issue.

That better? I just have a very low tolerance for replies that are so blindingly obvious you'd have be an idiot not to notice. Such as the entire screen going black and saying "A vile force of darkness has arrived." or however it is written.

Then again, I have a 'hate club' in an online game...so I probably just naturally rub people the wrong way. Much like they rub me the wrong way.

For me, the response I gave you is an improvement over what I used to reply with.

Thank you, that was much better.

It was probably either a bug or a task priority problem.

As for blatantly obvious solutions being suggested, usually in problem solving, it is best to start with the obvious(considering what you know) and work toward the obscure or unlikely.  Usually, this method leads to the quickest and most certain solutions.

Besides, I think most of us can confirm--I can at least--that sometimes it is the answer that is staring at you right in the face that you miss the easiest.

The obvious question to ask is if you designated a well.

And please don't respond with "...stop treating me like an idiot..." it discourages answers and is a little rude.

1. Cage all stray cats and all cats as soon as they are born, be sure to turn on animal hauling for everyone until they are all caged.  Note, it takes less time to cage a cat than to butcher them as the process of butchering generates several haul jobs.

As nothing can reproduce until they are fully grown, and no animal can reproduce inside cages(though they can give birth still), that should prevent exponential growth. 

2. Only set the stray female cats to be butchered.

These two actions should stop all growth of your cat population(though you will still get kittens from pets but you are caging them). 

3. Build one or more of the previously mentioned door/spike trap death chambers(again, focus on the female cats), until you have about 2 cats remaining as pets.  Note, that you may have to do the killing slowly(maintaining 1. and 2.) as the dorfs take tend to take the death of their pets kind of hard.

Tweak has to be updated to the current version by the author and that isn't likely to happen soon.  There are a few out there who have managed to get parts of it working.  You can find them by searching the forums a but(just search: "tweak").


I have had this problem before.  My solution was to dig two 2 tile wide channels parallel(but not in contact or the destination) with the original and let them fill to ~7/7 magma.  Once this has happened channel out a few tiles right near the destination.  This should provide enough of a surge to overcome the evaporation rate.  Also, in the future, when you are moving any fluids, try to have it be at least two tiles wide as the resistance to flow very large for a single channel.

He must have been pretty unhappy for some time because the bad thought associated with not meeting a mandate/request isn't that large according to the wiki.

As for "...Duke's mandate has ended." messages, I don't know.  Probably what happened is Companion stepped on some part of DF's programming toes and DF is doing its best to keep maintain business as normal.

Likely the only way to fix it would be to replace the Duke....

Though, there is a chance even that wont work, but I doubt it.