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Lots of military failing is going on in my fort. It can't be right that a military of 20 dwarves is defeated by a single fucking axegoblin without him sustaining injury at all. I can only conclude that the new training fails and/or my dwarves are too stupid to pick up the correct weapons.
For example, the marksdwarves prefer to hit the goblin with their crossbows, while the swords and mace-dwarves just can't hit anything. Sad, sad, sad.

From what I understand, they should switch out to training materiel on their own. I don't know if this is functional though, I'm still waiting for mac version. /sigh

How do you mean? They definately kept the wooden weapons when I made them attack, but perhaps if I give them both wooden and normal weapons?

But you are all using mechanics to do it. I was a bit desperate for food since it took some time for me to pay attention to the food stores and were already running low.

didn't really wanna make a thread but i can't work it out. so after im done lets keep this thread as a big questions and answers so we can all help eachother with new freatures.

my problem is, my dwarfs seem to just refuse to hunt any animals on the map.. i want some glorious feasting of underground meat..

I got the same problem and don't really know why. There's ammo, hunting is enabled...

I also have another issue: The dorfs wont fill my pond when I wanted to irrigate some ground for farming, despite having loads of buckets, lots of rivers outside and a lot of idle dorfs.

I'd also love more info. I can't figure out how to set alerts to whatever... Meaning, I can create a new alert, but have no clue how to make settings for it. I wonder if I need to make a burrow first...

I've seen some talk in other topics, but couldn't find one for it, so...

What should a Vault look like? I'm planning to make one (or a couple), so I thought we could bounce ideas back and forth.

As Fallout 3 is in most recent memory, I was going to make the same basic shape. A hallway with 2 z-levels of rooms, with an overseers office looking out over it and a hatch with an emergency exit in that office. As a vault, it needs a farm (or hydroponics, I guess), and a kitchen to process it. Considering a farmers workshop, too, but it really only needs to sustain itself.

I also want to stick in a small power plant, although I havn't thought up much use for the power, besides maybe a millstone and a pump for the entrance - Blocking it with Magma might be the best solution to isolate the vault, so powering the pumps are a plus.
Maybe it could be used to control a plumbing system, but I've never implemented one before so I don't see the use.

How many people should be in such a vault and how much extra room should be allocated in preparation for the kids that will inevitably come? How large a security force should be kept?

These are important questions. It would be fun to experiment with the vaults, too, like the original purpose in Fallout. Making a vault without beer, for example, or with wild animals.

I have no idea how to do that. I can look at biomes and such, but... Also used the feature finder to get the spot.

At least you got orcs. I used the Dig Deeper mod, too, pumped to see some action... And then nothing. Five years in, no sieges. I havn't used Legends before, but as far as I can tell the orc sites havn't died down, they're just not coming. :I