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I think "Journeyman" would be more accurate. Might be a more modern word than desired, though.

Are you asking how not to get caught or how to regain some productivity?

For the latter I haven't figured it out yet. Even if I'm not playing the game I'm planning out my fortress in my head or lurking on the forum.</posting from work>

You can set skill levels in the workshop profiles.

Just setup a 'training' area with workshops that only allow "talented" or less or something like that for training up new guys.

I'm working on transforming an underground pool into a towercap forest/dining hall/statue garden recreation area, and my first attempt at a waterfall has gone poorly.

Since I'm not really in the mood to work today I thought I'd solicit advice.

Here's the setup. Top pic is Z+2 where the water comes in. Bottom pic is ground level of the dining hall where I attempted to have the water drain.

As you can see from my mspaint skillz the primary problem is the water fricken splashed all over the place, muddying up my polished floors.

The original plan was to have the dwarves walk through the waterfall to get to the dining hall, and I may still do that, but I want ideas on how to avoid the splashing. Hopefully the grates aren't the issue because one of them is an artifact Hematite grate that I'd like to incorporate into the design.

I tried to look through DFMA for designs but I didn't find any that were quite like I wanted. Lots of waterfalls *near* dining halls/stairs, etc but I didn't find a waterfall that dropped right into the hall.

I'm not tied to that particular entrance, either. I may open up holes in the wall on all 4 sides eventually as the whole cavern is the 'room', I mainly wanted the walls for aesthetic effect and to help define the dining hall room size.

Thanks!

Quote from: Untelligent on June 19, 2009, 04:51:32 pm

Woo, just noticed the update for 40d9 and similar versions.

I'm working on a project that's not quite as awesome as teta's but I'm certain it's a fair bit taller.

What update? Where is it? I'm trying to get 3Dwarf to work with the Mayday version and Mike Mayday told me in an email that 3Dwarf doesn't work with 40d11 which DFG is based on.

I don't know about anything official but I got it working on d11 using some memory offset information from other utilities and posted the changes earlier in this thread:

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=608.msg572535#msg572535

Only criteria for adamantine is a mountain biome, I think.

I am fairly certain it's not tied to a specific layer or cluster of stone.

I think I'm going to setup a siege trap with these guys. My plan is to dig out a room directly above the demons, then dig a long winding path to that room. Some well placed bridges, supports, constructions, levers and one chained kitten will serve to trap the goblins in with the demons and then I can see who wins.

I have dealt with been annihilated by SoF before, so I'm pretty sure I can take these frog guys as long as I'm prepared.

I have a map with the HFS pit in the opposite corner of where I'm building my fortress. I've just finished my curtain wall and have an underground river and a magma pipe so I'm pretty much completely self sufficient at this point and have no real need for trade, immigrants or anything else from outside.

What I want to know is how HFS behaves if you breach the pit from outside your fortress. One scenario I'm thinking is to send a sacrificial miner glassmaker out there to dig a set of stairs straight down into the pits after I've sealed up the fort. Will I then have a force of demons running around the map destroying everything they see?

Another idea is to dig the staircase down to just above the pits, then install a lever operated hatch over the stairway before breaching them. Then when a siege comes I can use the lever inside my fort to release the 'shock troops' as it were.

Will either of these ideas work?