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Quote from: YAHG on July 24, 2014, 09:51:56 pm

... every once and a while I pull the bridge's lever ...

There is no point if its not automated imo.

For these 'every once in a while' things I've put a pressure plate in a dwarf's bedroom. Permanent military dwarves are good, as they go to their bedrooms only when they need sleep.

Edit: There was a bodge job in a much earlier fortress that actually turned out quite well.

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High-speed minecart comes in from the right, skips the gap and slams into the wall, shotgunning its contents into the wall. Cart and contents then fall down the shaft, where there is a non-linked links-only minecart stockpile (=). One dwarf has the job of manually lugging the cart back to its starting position, and by the time that's done the cart contents have been moved to final storage (===).

I have an idea for an automatic pressure plate system, but I'm not sure if it'll work with minecart physics. The basic idea is that the pressure plate opens a hatch above a down ramp. When the hatch is closed, the minecart can pass over it to the drop area. When the hatch is open, the minecart drops down the ramp into a loop that returns it to the path passing over the tile with the hatch. The tricky part is keeping the speed correct. I've never had much success controlling cart speeds with ramps and track stops alone.

I have 2750 drinks and people keep dying of thirst. WTF???

Are the drinks accessible?

Are you a troll?

Man, no wonder those night creatures keep kicking my butt.

Low population cap. I try to set mine before embark, just so it's done.

all my more long-lived adventurers so far were elves

Elves have average to positive stats in everything but Patience, which an adventurer doesn't care about anyway. They also have a flat 5000 Memory stat, which makes navigation a lot easier, and they're really fast movers.

If the sobriety hasn't kicked in yet you can get some good armour out of your vampire. Keep going until the quality really starts dropping, then melt the rubbish ones and use the reclaimed metal to train a smith who drinks alcohol instead of dwarves.

You know, the one that looks like stairs.

I've tried doing it myself, but there's a stair / hatch combo that messes with my kiting and results in my head getting kicked in and my corpse smeared across the floor.

If you can eat it, it should follow the 'three meals and you're full' rule. Artichoke hearts seem to have the same edibility tokens as spinach leaves, and spinach leaves count as a meal. Spinach is also much lighter than meat. Haven't really checked out any other plant foods.

Are skin and bones even worth anything?