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One possibility is that you accidentally turned off mineral hauling in the {o}rders screen. 

That was it.  Thanks.

What the symbols mean:

> is a down stair
< is an up stair
X is a stair that goes up and down
▲ is an upward slope or ramp
▼ is a downward slope or ramp

How to use them:
In Fortress Mode, dwarves will move up and down them by themselves.  You don't need to do anything yourself.  Use the > and < keys to change the level you are looking at.

In Adventurer Mode:
You move up and down slopes by moving horizontally in the direction that leads to the floor above or below.  For example, if there was an upward slope, with a higher level adjacent to the east, then standing on the slope and moving east would move you on to the next level.


                      @
    @▲███   →      ▲███
█████████     █████████


@ = adventurer
▲ = slope
█ = solid ground

To move up or down stairs, stand on the stair and use the > and < keys

My main food source is farms, suplemented by herbalism.

The main benefit to hunters IMO is having an armed dwarf wandering around the map dispatching any buzzards, badgers, and theives he encounters.  Any food he brings in is just a bonus.

I normally draft them in to my militias as well, so I can send them where I want them in an emergency.

Quote from: Lectorog on July 15, 2011, 11:29:36 pm

What's the problem with dwarves spontaneously sprouting shields in the middle of battle?

there wouldn't be anything wrong with it if using those shields as shields didn't result in
tantrums that end with my marksdwarves all turning on each other...

If your dwarves aren't at least content (and preferably ecstatic) after being hospitalized
and losing a child and a spouse to tragedy, then you evidently are not feeding them enough
☼roasts☼ and ☼booze☼ in legendary water-fall-enhanced dining rooms.

Oddly enough, I have got fortress mode to run. All of my dwarfs are towering feathered bristleworms with wings. They have barrels made of turkey tallow and chests made out of human hair.

Also, the wagon appears to have been hauled by turkeys.

Yup, duplicate raws. The gift that keeps on giving (you insane amounts of insanity)!

It's like HP Lovecraft took some particularly good (or bad) drugs...

Just got attacked by a Bronze Colossus.

It waltzed over all my weapon traps taking negligible damage, then spent several minutes chasing a peahen around my courtyard (and then demolishing some buildings after it had killed it).

I activated all my militia and stationed them at the far end of the entrance corridor behind the second set of traps.  And waited, while the colossus stood around doing nothing for several minutes.

Eventually, one of my recruits decided to run outside to pick up some equipment from next to the colossus, who woke from whatever metalic daydream it was having, killed him, and then charged into my fortress.

It got past my traps with minor injuries, whereapon my militia zerg-rushed it.

Early in the fight, the colossus managed to KO my longsword-wielding cook, but after that was barely able to even hit anyone, let alone wound them.  Meanwhile, my dwarves layed into it with enthusiasm, with my two marksdorfs causing several fractures by shooting at it; one of my axedorfs attempting to bite it in the head several times, and everyone else just whaling on it until they had broken off both its arms and one of it's feet.

And then continuing to hack, bash, kick, punch, and bite it for several minutes as it lay on the floor, until one of my hammerdwarves hit it in the lower body so hard that it flew off in an arc.

(Regretably, my longsword/cook died shortly after of suffocation before anyone could treat him).

The statue that was left behind was of two leopards, which makes for quite a mind-screw when trying to envisage exactly what the colossus looked like.

Does the [TRAINING] token have any effects other than forcing the weapons to be made from wood?

I'm thinking of adding some weapons like quarter staves, clubs, pickaxe-handles, etc, that would idealy be made from wood.

I know all the existing training weapons are useless in combat, but is that just because of their stats (and the fact that they are wood), or does the [TRAINING] token itself automatically nerf them?