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I keep hearing about "Civ Forge". What is it? Also what tileset is this, I keep seeing it.

Civ forge is a mod, look for it in the modding section, and, that's Maydays tileset and graphics set, it seems.

No problemo, man.

...and this is a great improvement from the casual gaming that I used to do at Kongregate.com.

Re: sand. Unless sand can be discovered underground, there is no sand on the tutorial map. Believe me, when every single one of your nobles mentions that he LOVES windows, it'll encourage you to look for sand.

I am tired of having my game paused and concentration interrupted when the miners find Olivine... there are a LOT of sections of it, down there in the tutorial map. Is there any way to turn off that particular alert?

I want to start a Tower-Cap forest; the wiki seems to indicate that you must find underground water. The underground Z-levels from the aboveground pools of water don't seem to do the trick; is there a suitable location on this map?

1: Sand is only found in soil layers(as the soil itself, no less.) it's been a while since I was on that map, but I don't believe there's any sand on it.

2: At the moment, the only way to do that is to use the Vein Helper utility(which comes packed with the Dtil utility.), however, this will turn off any and all vein messages, so when you find out you struck native platinum 4 years after doing it, tis not my fault. =P

3:The tutorial map does not have an underground river, sadly, and that is what you need to start growing tower caps, note that all you need to do is actually discover the river itself, then get some muddy underground tiles and voila.

Are cages really pocket universes and impervious to the effects of time/space/heat?

Because

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Those elves, dwarves and humans imprisoned in the the glowing pit that were pre-caged by the demons sure did die pretty good in their cages after about half a season pretty sure they died from starvation/thirst because the ones running around my fort had that status effect

whats up with that?

They are pocket universes for animals, kobolds, and goblins.

It won't prevent cave adaption, Cave adaption has to do with the inside/outside tag from what I know.
The only way to really fight cave adaption is to have a lot of outside areas, but this can also make some areas of the fortress inaccessible, unless you build access tunnels as well.

Quote from: Smew on April 08, 2009, 10:56:43 am

That's odd.
But that also brings me to asking another question:
Do mugs not count as "crafts"? Is it only items in stockpiles that make an option in the caravan list? or is there something I'm missing?
I ask this because in my most recent fort my mugs weren't listed as crafts, and were only listed in the -all- section of the 'bring good to depot' list.

Also, culling on mandates is automatically on, so that could be the issue, but it's not likely.

Far as I know, mugs show up just fine.  Most likely they're in a bin, and so you'd have to look in the individual bins to find the mugs specifically.

I didn't have any bins yet, they were all sitting inside the craft workshop, that may have had something to do with it.
Well, it's not a huge issue until I start trading what should be 20 bins worth of mugs. hahah

Sadly, lack of foresight is your doom at the moment, unless you undertake a HUGE project, which would be diverting the river in such a way that it drains the part that's by your fortress.
Though, I haven't looked at the map, so I'm not entirely sure what your set-up is EXACTLY like.
Just know, next time you divert a stream at all, use a floodgate just in case.

I do my cave-ins the manly way, one constructed floor, one random denizen, see if he survies, FINAL DESTINATION!
I should also yell "YOUR PICK IS THE PICK THAT WILL STRIKE THE EARTH!" because any other reiteration of that wouldn't work as well.