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DF Gameplay Questions / What stockpile do books/codices go in?
« on: February 22, 2021, 02:24:03 pm »
Every time I buy books from merchants they sit at the Trade Depot.  I figured they would be finished goods, I don't mess with Types that much.
I noticed Sheets is its own category but I made a stockpile of those and they weren't hauled.

Is there a trick to get my purchased scrolls/codices and whatnot out of the rain and away from Keas who like poetry?

They do get hauled to bookshelves when I construct them, but many times I'm not ready for a library.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Tricks to force patients to stay?
« on: February 17, 2021, 08:34:47 pm »
My dwarf patients consistently get up and leave before they are all done.  Usually it seems if one leg ends up getting a crutch/cast , then they get up and go, with other parts still torn open.  I wish there was a "Confine to Bed" option on the Health screen somewhere ... forcing the dwarf to get reevaluated by a doctor and retreated.

Any tricks to keep them in the hospital until they're fully healed?  I'd rather not do burrow tricks.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Multiple chances for guild halls ?
« on: February 05, 2020, 11:22:36 am »
I'm finding the time between the accepted petition for a guild hall, and them getting fed up and removing the request to be a little short.  So I've failed a couple guild hall requests as I was mining/smoothing/decorating a hall for them.   Do you know if a guild will request a hall later on again, or is it a one-shot deal  ?   I'd hate to miss out just cause I wanted them to have good first impressions.

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DF Gameplay Questions / how to counteract / defend against webbing
« on: April 16, 2018, 08:16:23 am »
How do you mitigate the webbing FB's and clowns?
I feel like shields should have a good chance of blocking webs.

Webs seem over-powered to me.  :(
Wondering what people do to avoid them.

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DF Gameplay Questions / encouraging scholars to write books
« on: January 23, 2018, 04:32:30 pm »
Hello everyone I checked the wiki and didn't see much on this so I thought I'd ask.

How do I encourage the scholars to write new books?  I have a library with all the materials available, and I have accepted 20+ scholars to join my civ.  I have about 4-5 scholars/scribes from my main fort population.   Are the travelling scholars likely to write a book or just there to talk?

How often do you guys get new books?  Are they announced as artifacts?

Also all the travelling scholars I've accepted into the population are assigned as scholars for the location of my entire fort, and not for the location of my library.  I can't seem to switch them over.

Thanks for any help!

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DF General Discussion / Toady talk about Emergent Narrative at Progression Mechanics Sep 16 2017
« on: September 18, 2017, 10:36:50 am »
Didn't see this posted anywhere...  for those of you Tarn Talk Junkies like me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L67Xb4tgVv8

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DF General Discussion / link to PAX West Dev panel video ?
« on: September 14, 2016, 04:19:30 pm »
Does anybody have a link to a stream or video of the recent PAX West panel that Toady participated in ?

I'm a Tarn junkie and could listen to him talk about procedural generation all day long.

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DF Gameplay Questions / outdoor well gets deconstructed sometimes
« on: February 19, 2016, 02:05:59 pm »
I've had a fort running for many years and every once in a while I find my outside well gets deconstructed and I have to build it again.  No alerts on anything funny going on.

It is outisde the fort but it is enclosed in a constructed room.  There is an underground channel coming from a stagnant pond with a wall grate.  It seems to get refilled every spring.  Any ideas?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Can't look at statues
« on: February 05, 2016, 09:06:17 pm »
I made a bunch of gold statues for my dining hall and blinged them out with gems.
But I cannot look at them via 'K' once they are placed.  I could have sworn this was possible before.
Did something change?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Patients leaving AMA
« on: February 01, 2016, 01:24:12 pm »
I have had this happen several times and I'm not sure how to prevent it.  I have had injured dwarves who go to the hospital and leave before full treatment.  These were military and non-military dwarves.  I had full stocks of medical stuff.  A few times the doctor was coming to do something for the patient.

I don't mind slow dwarves hobbling around, but I hate the blinking +'s ...

Any tips on how to prevent this from happening?
I wish we could just tell a dwarf to "go see the doc" and get that left toe sutured ...

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DF General Discussion / who is the dwarf fortress.txt twitter feed ?
« on: October 22, 2014, 04:52:41 pm »
Like the subject says.  Who is in charge of the "dwarf fortress.txt" twitter feed?
I couldn't find any info on it.

It sounds to me like Three-Toe tweeting about his testing of current Dwarf Fortress versions but I'm not sure...

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DF Gameplay Questions / trouble dumping
« on: October 02, 2014, 08:11:00 pm »
I'm having trouble dumping in the latest version.  I've done it many times before but for some reason the dump jobs are not generating.  People have haul stone labor active.  Anybody else having this problem?

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DF General Discussion / Maybe Tarn & Zach can do an indie film ?
« on: August 06, 2013, 08:23:14 pm »
Tarn and Zach are mentioned in comments for this I wonder if they are going to be interviewed?  Perhaps they could make their way into this film !

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studiobento/gameloading-rise-of-the-indies

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DF Gameplay Questions / how to mark specific goblins for pitting
« on: January 22, 2013, 03:39:02 pm »
I hid this in another thread but it went unanswered so I'll try on my own.

I have a sweet pit where I throw disarmed goblins down a 3Z depth chute and they fall down stunned and then get hacked to pieces by my recruits.  I follow the guidelines on the wiki for mass pitting but I feel I must be missing something.

In the i,P menu I see a big list of ALL the caged animals on the map, which includes goblins I have in the Animal zone right above the pit, and the goblins waiting in the traps.  I can't tell the difference between the two in the lookup and my people are bringing disarmed goblins from the traps throughout my fortress, upsetting the children.

I tried forbidding but that seems to just forbid the traps/cages and not the contents inside them.

How do I make it so I will only Pit the goblins outside the actual floor traps?  Thanks for any help!

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General Discussion / Documentary on Dwarf Fortress?
« on: February 20, 2012, 08:06:21 pm »
Hey folks-

Long time ago some documentary film maker (female?) was going to do something on Bay12 and Dwarf Fortress.  Even going to one of the meet-ups.  Did anything come about that?

Someone pointed me to this link and I got very excited, but it does not have DF.  Just some 3 popular indi platformers. 
http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/
I'll still buy it, sure, but I wish there was a film on DF.  The New York Times article last year was awesome, but I want more.

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