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QuantumSawdust - your fort is ... holy grail of dwarven skills.

PLEASE, post your map on DFMA, so we can look at it in detail.

Yeah, it has to be 40d#, not 40d. For instance, I'm running 40d6, but I think the latest is 40d9, or something. You'll find them on the dev page rather than the main download page.
Anything older only supports BMPs.

Ah-that is the problem. l was using 40d. Thank you

In my last fort (started today, ended today) I accidentaly deconstructed trade depot when traders were still standing on it. Immidiately my dwarves started to store all goods traders have brought. And they just stand there and cry "we need trade depot to unload our goods". And then dwarf who failed to make artifact went berserk.

What would happen if I just deconstructed depot, stole all goods and let traders wait and eventualy leave? Would they be angry?

Quote from: DennyTom on February 08, 2009, 09:08:14 pm

Exactly - I could not make anything worse

Urist: Ha! They cannot get us if we are IN MAGMA!

I am not sure - once I tried to flood my fort with magma. I channeled some from magma pipe to my dining hall/meeting area.
Magma flows sloooooow. So slow that when it was spreading across my dining room, it took certain space and evaporated so quickly it could not spread more. Dwarves and puppies were just chilling right next to magma puddle. Circa every month one dwarf or kitten get caught by magma and burned. But legendary dining room beated all those bad thoughts.

In my last fort I sealed entrance with a bridge. All my fort died because of its stupid placement:

sidewiew of my entrance (enter is top-left):

___...x___v
v_________^__FFFFFF

_ - floor
... - open space
x - raised bridge
v - downward stairway
^ - upward stairway
F - finished goods store for trade

Goblins attack, so I order "Pull the switch!". Bridge raises, everything is fine and suddenly dwarves start to die from bleeding. As my dwarves stored goods, they became practice targets of goblins standing above them. Few died, then tantrum spiral.

I think I should have mentioned this:

The throne is made of TOAD bones

Only Toady may sit upon it

What? Thats like "Welcome my king! Here, sit on this legendary throne I made you from bones of your daughter and your uncle Bob!"

Quote from: Maric

I always have to create barrels to hold my dwarfs drinks however whenever the ones I create become empty of drink they fill them with food. Is there a way to set some barrels to only accept liquids/drinks?

Is there a different way to manage food and drinks without having to always create a never ending supply of barrels to hold them?

You can't make a certain barrel accept only drink.  However, you can make separate stockpiles for your food and drink, and limit the number of barrels in your food stockpile.  I also recommend making a separate stockpile for seeds and limiting the number of barrels in that.

Limiting use of barrels in seed stockpiles is not so necessary, is it? How many types of seeds will you ever have?

Quote from: tigrex on February 08, 2009, 12:19:30 pm

and possibly might need a power source as well.

Why?  A lever is one of four basic machines.  It works by being pushed on one end and pushing the opposite way on the other end.  That is its power.

Not the suggested type - this would need no dwarf to control it