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i'm currently playing on an aquifer and not gonna even try and pierce it until later when i wanna get some candy, so no stone unless i trade for it and everything is made of wood. the village is a sort of martial commune where 64 out of 95 of my dwarves spend half the time training on archery targets or at an armor stand, and the other half doing village work (construct buildings, make bolts etc....). so far everything that's wandered onto the map has met a quick end, but only had the first goblin visit a few seasons ago after 6 years or something and a couple legendary beasts. most forts though i just let whatever hunters migrate onto the map wander around hunting or doing whatever, and don't bother training them at all other than that

damn, i think you're right. it's cause my mayor's in a coma (cue Urist McMorrissey)
thanks. sorry for the newbish question. hah!
she's even got company now, isn't that nice?

naw don't say such a thing about yourself, it's a small mistake

there's certainly nothing obstructing his path outside

edited any raws? using a mod? I havn't seen this before.

LNP vanilla

Sounds like she's not actually part of your fortress's population.  Maybe she's a werebeast who transformed back to dwarf shape?  Or somehow she got dragged in by a caravan and never left... don't know what other possibilities there are.

I was thinking caravans too, though do dwarves with regular labor titles come in with caravans?

She's not in legends, at least not under that name, but she's been around for quite awhile now and no bloodless corpses have turned up... no corpses at all.

Werebeast is possible... they usually get immediately mauled mercilessly by my military, if they don't run off the map, though I suppose it IS possible that I missed an alert and unpaused it without reading

So this one dwarf, Erush Treegem (sounds pretty elfy to me!) was standing in 3-4 deep water in the public bathing hall (combined meeting hall/water source) forever, and though she's listed as a "mason" she has no labor screen or skills. She's not a ghost, she has an inventory. I flushed all the water out of the pool and she just stands next to it now (or sometimes goes and hangs out in a statue garden. I can't find her in dwarf therapist, either. Is this a known bug??

Also unrelated, but I just had a dwarf murder one of my doctors in his bed. They were "passing acquaintances" but apparently they had an argument about something! I went and took a look and the murderer has a poor sense for social relationships.... go figure. I love this game. RIP legendary doctor (sigh)

I usually stop the game and read info on the dwarves one by one of the new migrants looking for vampires as they arrive.

I do too (did even before vampires, just to designate labors specifically), but it's annoying to have to put everything else you're in the middle of sorting out aside just to spend forever sifting through a huge wave of immigrants. It would be nice if there was the option just to let the bastards haul stone for awhile and not worry about it until it was more convenient.

Dwarf Therapist does let you do that, but it doesn't help navigating within the game itself; and anything that helps to reduce the need for 3rd party applications can't help but be a good thing. Specifically because that change in particular would more than likely be very very simple to code in.

Originally, the idea was that they could be tagged X in front of their name until their labors had been modified or until they had been drafted, but that would probably get quite a bit more complicated and Toady has more important things to worry about....

I searched and couldn't find anything so forgive me if these have been suggested in the past, but i've been playing DF since around .23 and have always wondered at the absence of these features that would have saved me and many noobs a lot of frustration

1- Auto mark immigrants... just an on/off toggle (maybe in the Orders menu- i'm not sure) so that, for instance, all new immigrants will be nicknamed "X" automatically once it's turned on
     (this will help things stay organized... i actually once quit the game for a few months after going from 45 to >120 immigrants in 2 waves)


2- Hide dwarfs from the (U)nits list and idlers... this is especially feasible now that that menu is split up into sections... you could just have a seperate section for hidden stuff... I've never cared about what my janitors/food deliverers/etc are doing