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It seems that my fey mood dwarf wants bars of rock. Does that exist and is it possible to make them?

it's an error, he wants metal bars

and i forgot to correct the label to say 65, while drawing the damn grid. I SLEEP NOW

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/aquilae/circles2copy.jpg

EDIT; hold on a second photobucket did something to it. goddamn.

i'm too tired to think offhand on how to put them on nice graph lines or find the center tile for you but zoom in on that and you've at least got a start

[edit] and the one labelled 67 is in fact 65. just a typo

do you have photoshop? it'd be quite easy to make an exact design to copy from with that for any size you might need (and i'm sure other graphics editting programs but photoshop is the only one i could post the steps for offhand)

My fortress is rather messy...It seems my cats on bend on killing any small animal that moves, not much of a problem but this causes there to be refuse everywhere!!! I just don't have enough space to keep it all in one area.

I've tried building a Dump but for some reason my dwarfs are using it. Any ideas to help me?

a dump is a zone where items you have specifically marked for dumping (or get automatically marked for dumping by your Orders) get taken. what you want is a refuse stockpile somewhere outside. also keep in mind dwarves by default are set to 'ignore refuse from outside', meaning if your cat kills a small animal outside they'll just leave it there, even with a stockpile. you can also change that in the refuse section of the orders menu.

1. a single small plump helmet farm will feed a massive number of dwarves. be sure to brew alot of them so you get seeds (brewing them gives seeds back, cooking doesn't). just give one of your starters proficient growing, bring maybe 20 plump helmet spawn, and set the farm to grow them year round.

2. i think you're getting mixed up between using the trade depo, and the meeting with your outpost liason. the menus that pop up all on their own, where you select priorities for different item types, is the meeting, and is basically you asking the traders to bring specific items -next- year.

in order to trade at the depot, hit q and select the depot. set it to 'trader requested at depot', and then use the menu to bring the items you want to trade to the depot. once your trader and the items have arrived, go back into the menu and hit 'trade', and you can begin selecting what you're offering (on the right) and what you want from them (on the left). if your trader has enough appraiser skill you'll be able to see the 'value' of each item in the list. (let the traders have plenty of profit, if you offer them an unprofitable deal a few times (they'll refuse) they'll get fed up and leave).

3. they just stumble across it. there are strategies for 'exploratory mining' but this essentially just means 'digging holes and hoping to bump into it' in the most efficient ways possible.

4. don't bother trying to accomodate their skills, unless one arrives with something you wanted anyway. just slap masonry or whatever you need onto that cheesemaker and he'll be good at it in no time.

5. don't bother focusing too much on individual dwarves (especially while you're still learning the game). it doesn't really matter if you've got a bunch of idlers. focus more on what you want to get done at the moment, rather than trying to keep all your dwarves busy. if something's going too slow, like building a big section of wall or something, feel free to turn a bunch of your idlers into novice masons, even if that's not what they usually do.

this is really disappointing, i thought this was one of the things that was supposed to be in this version, that liquids would actually be treated as liquids.