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Don't set Numbers too low though, or you might end up crashing more often.

Just curious, has anyone figured out what governs the time dwarves need to finish Jobs, like mining, building and the like?
I so far only managed to accelerate the movement of my dwarves, not the speed with which they mine for example. Is that controlled by the picks attack/prepare numbers?

well the new militia system is still a bit buggy. but the wildlife and enemies tend to die very slowly. I had my 10 dwarfs, all equipped with admantine short-swords, and clad in adamantium Armor, they were like tiny wolverins and I sent them, all 10 against 2 raccoons.

An epic battle occurred where my dwarfs battled the evil beasts bravely for 3 months without food, water or sleep. They were rampaging all over the area, splattering the soil with blood, but the raccoons did not die. they were wounded, had broken teeth, paws, dent bodies, unconscious, but they were still there and my soldiers were standing around the fainted beasts hacking at them in vain as it could not die at all. And no, it was not an undead, it was a normal raccoon....
On the bright side, only two of my soldiers died. One dodged the attack, which his armor would have absorbed mind you, and dodged into a hole, that lead several z levels down into a nice pond of Lava where he slowly melted away.
The other one fainted due to exhaustion of stabbing an unconscious raccoon for months and dropped prone in the shallow river, leading him to drown slowly.

So far: Squad: 0, Racoons: 2. And they are still fighting... Guess I will have to kill them with traps in the future

I have rope, I have an iron table, I have mechanisms. I even have a legendary mechanic with everything else turned off but mechanics.

My dwarfs did not use rope, they said they want chains (Iron), a table (stone table worked fine for me) and a mechanism (again, stone). They had no problem, building them, now I only need to find a way to get my dwarves hurt so I can test my hospital.

To mod the running game, try your Dwarf Fortress folder, then: Data -> Save -> Region -> Raw

At least it works for modifying the reactions of the smelter and speed of the dwarfs without having to create a new world, so popcaps should work too.

As I understand it, Barracks are for military use, Dormitory would be for people to sleep in when they have no own room.


you can only equip hunters when you go (m) for Military, then f for Ammo, there you can decide what kind of bolts they use, they will however use whatever weapons and armor they please, as much as I get.

you might need Splinters for the bone setting, or a traction bench.