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I'm trying to make a trap corridor to quickly convert goblins into goblinite, but I keep getting hit with this frustrating message:


I've been getting this message every time I try to make a weapon trap (with two exceptions, as you can see) despite having plenty of both mechanisms and weapon components. Everything else in the "traps" category works properly, it's just the weapon traps that are causing me trouble.

I've been considering replacing my current boots for a while, since they're going on 14 years old now. However, finding a good pair is pretty difficult because the website reviews that I've seen have been wildly inaccurate. I've bought a pair in the past that fell apart pretty quickly, so now I'm asking for advice to avoid wasting my money again.

I currently have a pair of black Belleville (I think - the logo has worn off over the years) combat boots similar to this pair, and I'd keep using and occasionally refurbishing them if I could, but the interior's been worn down a lot and my local boot store only fixes soles and exteriors.

I'm looking for a pair that's similar to the one I currently own - that is, combat boots with thick soles and the quick-lace eyelets, and high enough quality to last me a while.

Due to a perpetual zombie siege, my entire fortress is a mostly self-sufficient underground complex. However, due to the lack of migrants my population isn't very big, so my military is very small and undisciplined. After a FB interrupted my attempts to get underground lumber, I trapped it in a box with a cave-in to leave it at the mercy of my marksdwarves. Unfortunately, they run away in horror every time they see it, and are taking forever to kill it because they are too busy fleeing to shoot.

Is there a way to get my marksdwarves to stand and fight? I'd like to kill this thing sooner rather than later.

While traveling across the landscape in the zoomed-in view (to avoid ambushes), I frequently run into the problem of darkness. I usually travel alone, because my adventurers are almost always really fast and companions can't keep up. Because of this, I have to stop every now and then to check the weather to make sure I don't end up being surrounded by bogeymen.

To solve this (admittedly minor) irritation, I suggest that in the zoomed in map should have a daylight meter like the travel map does, to let the player know when they need to start looking for a shelter.

So my current character is the Queen of Navarre, and she has two sons: one from a previous marriage (while she was still a princess) and one from her current marriage. The elder of the two sons, also the heir, is the duke of a small area in Lithuania, and is also the subject of the current King of Lithuania. My question is: when the Queen dies, will I gain control of both the throne of Navarre and his duchy? Or will I lose control of the duchy and just keep Navarre? I ask because my subjects are always really assassin-happy and the throne could be transferred at any time.

A seemingly dumb question, sure, but I ask it regardless. A few days ago, it was my understanding that the internet worked like this: Websites and their contents are stored on servers, and accessed by users (like me) through a request sent through my ISP. My request would arrive, and the server would show what I asked for (most of the time, anyway). After watching A recent Ted Talk, that explanation seems... incomplete somehow.
In the video it's mentioned how one creative ISP decided to block Youtube by claiming to be Youtube, then just not doing anything with the incoming requests. What gets me is that their shenanigans somehow rippled out of their country and effectively took down Youtube for millions upon millions of people. I don't quite understand how that could work, and it doesn't really fit my previous assumption very well. Help me out here?

I always provide a variety of alcohols to keep them going, but still my smiths and miners and craftsdwarves insist on sitting on arse every now and then and holding up important work orders. Back in 40d I could just draft and undraft them and they'd get back to work, but the new version doesn't let me do that anymore.

This is seriously becoming a problem early on since I always play with small populations to promote FPS.

Preferably a very dark, depressing one. I'm not sure why, but I have this sudden urge to read a depressing story, be it novels, comics, manga, or whatever. A google search brought up only depression help sites and this one story about a missing hat, so I was hoping the B12 community (which is known for its madness and death) could suggest some good ones.