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Quote from: Flying Dice on May 30, 2011, 07:51:01 pm

If it is nerve damage, then your only solution is magma, to prevent an endless tide of message spam.



Wait, cancel that. Replace the danger room spears with steel ones, and then send him in for some "special training".

Alternatively, retire him from active duty and have him live the rest of his life as an engraver.

Wait you can engrave without hands?

Flux does not always show up on the embark screen, but it will be there.
The site finder ignores the fact that it isn't on the embark screen, and just cuts to the chase and points you to a site that will have it.

The problem being, that site finder is pointing me to sites that do not have any flux stone. I'm using the dfhack utility to check what is there, and none of the flux stones are turning up.

Yea, I'm having the reverse problem. I have iron, platinum, and gold three levels down, but no flux to make steel with.

Addendum: Were you using an Old World, or a young world? I was using an Old world, but I regenned a young world, and immediately found areas with Flux Stone.  Could it be that world age impacts the mineral content heavily?

Addendum 2: Strike that. It did not have flux, it merely said it did. To top it off, the most common workable metal was adamantie, followed by tin, and lead.

Oddly enough, all three games that I've played haven't had microcline.

On building Cisterns, I've found that if you have to put it in a region you've already dug out, you can channel out one row of tiles at a time on each layer, so the dwarfs don't drop the roof through the lower layers.  Alternatively, you could try and provoke the roof dropping in order to punch multiple holes, but be sure to get the corners first.  After that, I'll start building walls from the bottom floor up, along with an interior stairway for retrieving dwarves that fall in.

That's what I did on my last fort, when the first Cistern Project got captured by Goblins, and I had to build an alternate through my workshop floor.  It wasn't pretty but it seemed to work.  Didn't get to do much with it though, since that fort suffered SUFoDS around the time I completed it.

Harry Voyager

Found that a couple bodies were still forbidden, but I have no ghosts out.  Clean Map didn't help either.  Anyone have any ideas?  I really don't want to lose a second fort in a row to gamecrash.

So of course, just before I finally get the well started, the game frame rate takes a dive and starts hanging.  Some time ago I revealed the first cavern level, and dropped some cats in to explore it.  At some point soon, one of them will reveal a new chunk of it.  Also, I've got dwarf bits scattering the countryside, and a berserk Elf on the loose.  Last save was before the deployment of the 'Dwarf Harassment Suit'  I've just banned Soap in an effort to cut down on the "Dwarf Cancels Cleaning: Area Inaccessible" spam.  For whatever reason, the butcher isn't butching, despite both a butchery, designated animals, and assignments all being active.  The DF.exe is also taking up 1.7GB of ram.

Basically, I've saving every 5 frames or so, just to keep going forward.  If I wash the world, will that delete all the mud?  Remudding my farm region could be problematic.

Harry Voyager

Addendum:  At this point the fort has a hang after about ten seconds of run time.  Sometimes the hang frees up in a few seconds, sometimes it doesn't.

Addendum 2:  Now the fort hangs 1 second of game time after the most recent save.  This may be the 2nd for to die due to perma-crash

Oh there are quite a few people out there who could understand DF if introduced and they had time to get interested. Out of personal experience, people who can understand my one-line description of DF can get into it: "it's a Monte Carlo fantasy novel simulator - push button, generate world, then step into it". Given that one-line is in the language of experimental particle physicists, you won't be finding such people on the streets with much frequency.

Actually Monte Carlo's are common in most of the science and engineering fields.  Given how most Monte Carlo simulations turn out, that is a surprisingly succinct description of Dwarf Fort.  I'll have to remember that one for the next time I try to explain this thing to someone else.

Harry Voyager

Just rock, or can you lose a river in there too?