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"The default mental state of a living being is madness. Sanity is a temporary condition - a PRIVILEGE you have to EARN!"

Since human also seems to have this problem...

Maybe it's the mayor complaining about the lack of mining job.  I think the complaint might be link to older complaints (someone else complained about lack of mining job a while ago, maybe even the mayor himself).

It is kinda suckish if you can walk through armies, slay dragons (Whos firebreath is easier to block then arrows), and survive having your legs chopped off by will alone... if you can be stopped by any Joe Shmo with a bow and arrow.

You are aware that in medieval, Pope Innocent II tried to ban the use of crossbow against knights because a simple Joe Shmo with a crossbow can bring down a fully armored, well trained knight?

Although yes, the firing rate should be drasitcally reduced for crossbow.  Nor should crossbow deal multiple internal injury.  Although crossbow should severely damage any organ they hit (a one shot kill if it hit any vital organ such as brain or heart).

Nah, carps are awesome.

For one, I agree that crossbow reload rate should be drastically reduced.  However, crossbow shots are very powerful, a single well placed shot should do a heck more damage then just arrow (250 may be good).  Arbalest (metal crossbow with metal pull-string) can punch through metal plate armor, no other weapon in the dwarf universe (those listed) can penetrate armor.  Except for bludgeoning weapon, which can probably concuss whoever is wearing said armor.  Of course, the quality of the crossbow should effect the damage it can do (higher quality can impart more energy for bolts).  So a low quality crossbow would have an equivalent power of a normal bow.  A high quality crossbow would be a devastating weapon (barring the reload time).

I think there should be a new rain intensity that's similar to a monsoon.  Even in a desert they will get an occasional REALLY heavy rain.

Also the current rain drop should simply generate a 1/7 tile of water everywhere they hit, regardless if it's a muddy pond or not.  This would be an interesting challenge for underground fortress to prevent them from being flooded in a heavy rain.

Hi!

A few points about the situation:

At the moment, you can't directly specify the material used in masonry or carpenter workshops.

Actually, in the old 2D version, you could at least specify white, grey, or black stone, allowing at least for visual consistancy, but that feature has since disappeared.

Currently, you have to use a trick to get that obsidian door:

Designate an obsidian stone stockpile (use custom settings on the stockpile to deactivate all other stone) exactly one z-level above or below your mason's workshop. Add two orders at the mason's workshop, the first one of which isn't important, but the second one should be the door.

When a dwarf takes on a job, they will get the closest material fit for the job. Currently, z-level changes are not thoroughly computed, but instead seem to count as one tile per level or something similar. So, the stone right above the workshop is closer than the one 2 tiles away on the same z-level, even if the dwarf has to walk 60 tiles to fetch it.

The first job is used to lure the dwarf into the workshop. Thus, you can be pretty sure that the closest material for the second job (your door) is the obsidian in the stockpile you designated (of course, there is still the risk of the dwarf doing one job and then going to bed, but that is minimal).

I am not 100% sure whether you need to use the luring in the current version, but I think it is better to be on the safe side.

Good luck!

Deathworks

I think it only take into account x,y coordinate, no z at all.  I have a mason willing to run the entire length down a mine shaft a dozen tiles away to grab a stone right below the mason shop then to grab one sitting 3 tiles away.