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Except I had a tamed snakeman once, he had some interesting things to say. Like how all his buddies starved to death.

Screenshots or it didn't happen.

actually if ya look theres a couple of down ramps in the huge dug out area that look like they're within wave range, i'm not sure how much time passes between an abandon and a reclaim but that could've caused it mabe?

I don't believe so. I played the fort a few years without any flooding problems.

Bait...

...launched with retracting bridges...

...from a tower.

Well, I made an attempt. Hit some problems.

Aquifers. Stone was limited.

Poor living accommodations. Dwarves weren't the happiest.

Food/Alcohol problems. Made too much beer to start. All food was turned to alcohol. Then the dwarves had problems getting food. Tried mass-plant gathering. Eventually, they ran out of alcohol before enough food was grown to produce beer. Tantrum spiral.

I must say though, the most amusing thing in this fortress was when I promoted my woodcutter to Sheriff. Dealing his "beatings" on sleeping dwarves... with a steel battle axe...

Anyway, no way did I get close to an embark screen wide bridge... I didn't even make it halfway across on a 9 tile wide bridge.

Tried to reclaim, but everything I dug out was completely flooded somehow. Decided to abandon the project for now. Another time, perhaps.

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-7677-bridge

Also, I found it is amazingly difficult to build support underneath the bridge. Wasn't going to be there for any particular reason. Just to make it look good in 3d images. But I couldn't manage a way to build them in. I'm sure someone else could, with enough screwpumps. But I wouldn't be able to.

It seems some more testing is needed.

Quote from: Amalgam on December 18, 2009, 11:51:09 pm

EDIT: Who else thinks this deserves a place on the eternal suggestion list?

Oh hell yes.

It's kind of "Meh". The problem is not really gamebreaking. This answer is not a full on convenience. Just a minor convenience.

I always get the "Dwarves cancel farmplot due to stone" message even when there is an a tile where they can dump the stone...
Freaking dwarves.

The dwarf constructing the farmplot won't touch the stone on the spot if it is set for dump. But if you don't set that stone for dump and place the farmplot, the dwarf will remove the stone as it builds it.

At least I assume so, I know this works when constructing ANY other construction.

I know Toady wants to allow dwarves to carry multiple small objects (and the use of wheel barrels and mine carts for larger objects), but that's a ways off.

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