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Report from my fort with no water on the surface: Kuletfer "VaultBeast"

So after the first year, I got two Military units with effective training, I decided to dig below 5 Floors.
On the 6th floor, I hit an Underground Cave System, with a HUGE OCEAN! So I was thinking, I shall flood the surface so I can farm!

Problem: I never understood Pumps and crap, So I guess this will be the REAL map that I will have to work with Pumps, can anyone give me some advice about pumps and stuff? I read the Wiki, but it still confused me.

I just noticed there's no Ammunition section. It's a huge part to getting hunters to go hunt (besides having a crossbow AND A QUIVER). Crucial detail: never bin your ammo - dwarves don't know how to assign ammo that's binned.

Oh yeah. Wow I got some stuff to add when I get around to it (prob after the FIFA game.) Plus I am still testing some other stuff so give me some time folks. Thanks for the help and response too!

Quote from: Biag on June 13, 2010, 02:31:11 am

Quote from: Meanmelter on June 12, 2010, 10:19:16 pm

I saw the Elves have a battle with the Elves, but they never declared war so I did not count it.
The Elves won.

The elves beat the elves?! Then that means everybody lost...

The reduction of elves in the world with no casualties is whose loss?

I never thought two civilizations of the same species would ever dish it out...

Nope, but you can make it where they don't have to eat at all.

A few points that jumped out at me.

1) Colours are more distracting than anything, IMO. I had to highlight the text to read it. At least use less of them or it loses any emphasis effect. Also the blue font has zero contrast against the grey. Try a lighter one, not darker.

2)

Quote from: Meanmelter on June 12, 2010, 05:18:01 pm

I think they even mess up, because some units will run around with Leather armor when I told them to have Metal Armor

Actually, I think that this is deliberate behaviour.

If you have them assigned to equip with partial matches (as opposed to exact) then they will grab whatever they can that fills the same role as what they have been told to equip. I have dwarfs with wooden gauntlets and leather armour when they are told to equip steel. As better (and closer to the listed) equipment becomes avaliable they upgrade.

3) I'd make it very clear that the Arsenal Dwarf position opens up but isn't automatically filled. At time you speak about them arriving, which might lead some to believe they turn up like a Hammerer or other noble.

4) The existing equipment bugs need to be discussed a bit more in depth. For example, assigning a uniform to an equipped dwarf will cause them to carry multiple items (eg, 3 axes in one hand, 4 sets of leather armour, 2 right gauntlets but no left, etc). There are plenty of workarounds floating around. Check the bug tracker.

5) I need to check training, but there are ways to get an entire squad to run individual training at once without too many problems. I think you just set the squad to inactive and give them a barracks assigned for training. They will stay as civilians, but still run individual training drills. Until group training is fixed I think this is the best method of actually building a military.

6) As far as hunting goes, I've never gotten a hunter to work from my existing dwarfs, but immigrant hunter/rangers already carrying a bow and ammo will hunt as long as that ammo lasts.

1) Again, I am not good with setting up things.
2)I always put EXACT MATCHES
3)They are a Noble...Just in a Military role.
4)Will Mention, never really though they would do that though
5)Again, I can get training to work 60% of the time, I have seen entire squads demonstrate dodging.
6)Really? Well I seem to be reading different things, guess It is time to generate a fort. FOR SCIENCE!

I saw the Elves have a battle with the Elves, but they never declared war so I did not count it.
The Elves won.

Skill Exp goes away? That might explain where my high Master Metal Blacksmith went.