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No, but on further examination I know what happened; apparently the advisor in question is an elf from a captured and conquered elven civ. At the next siege, he'll be murdered to death, as is only proper for an elf like him.By any chance did your Liaison get killed before the Queen arrived?When the king arrives you will have both a king and a duke, the king will want better rooms than the duke he will also have an advisor with him.Quoted for truth, though I didn't see an advisor with my monarch, just the Queen and King Consort.
No such cheats, and I don't mean grower; Queenie's a Great Thresher, Miller, Milker, Dyer, Butcher, Brewer, Cook, Herbalist, and Grower, Professional Tanner, Accomplished Cheese Maker, and Competent Swordsdwarf, aside from the social skills. "All dwarves harvest" is off. The King Consort, meanwhile, is a Great Siege Operator. Somehow I get the impression these monarchs were promoted from the ranks. Must remember to check the legends.That or he just switched on the labours via Dwarf Manager or something.but I got a monarch who's actually useful; competent farmer in all fields, swordsdwarf of some skill, and quite willing to throw animals in cages for me.It sounds like he came disguised as a peasant wich will happen if you strike a certain fun vein
Nah - "All Dwarves Harvest" is probably turned on, which includes nobles; also, caging animals is one of the few things that any dwarf will do. Additionally, it's not uncommon for the King to have combat experience and actually be wielding a weapon - while you can't activate him into the military, he'll probably be happy to attack any enemies he sees.
When the king arrives you will have both a king and a duke, the king will want better rooms than the duke he will also have an advisor with him.Quoted for truth, though I didn't see an advisor with my monarch, just the Queen and King Consort.
side note- if the dukes room is too good, the king will be... upset.Entirely correct, though I have avoided such by the simple expedient of making the royal residence godlike in its awesomeness. Nobody can object for long in a room with three artifacts, carved into obsidian, and engraved with masterpieces.
always be careful with nobility rooms, if you make em too good the higher-ups make more demands. ive seen a queen throw a tantrum, it is not pretty.
Would still be helpful to things like linking to doors. Scrolling through 90 mostly identical doors is mind numbing.Well, they do show you the location of the wossname in question, so you can make sure you link the right wossname.
Perhaps the game doesn't look at the results of smelter reactions for the purposes of determining farming availability. Maybe it only looks at what the caravan brings or what turns up from plant gathering.An eminently reasonable possibility, but not one which will get me sunshine.
Maybe removing the [GOOD] and [EVIL] tags on sun berries and sliver barbs might let caravans bring it. However, I'm speculating. I'm not sure whether what materials a civ has access to can be changed midgame.Possibly, but I haven't seen it either way. I tried removing those tags and they didn't show up anywhere. I tried removing those tags in the hope that they'd grow here, as shrubs, but no sign of either. Possibly I could send my herbalists on a campaign to pick everything everywhere, but I doubt it would do much.
1) How likely is it for them to break out of the cages if I were to remove them from the traps? I plan on placing them in a walled off out door area both for possible use as bait and/or target practice if they escape.Impossible. Caged creatures are caught, no matter what the cage is made of; titans will stay caught in glass cages, and fire imps will not escape wood cages.
2) Can you sell humaniods to traders?Not in my experience, though I've never tried. See my answer to no4.
3) Can you take their weapons and armor away while they're still caged? And, if it's possible, how does one go about stripping their prisoners? Still haven't hit any iron ore yet, so I really, really need more iron things to melt down...Yes, you can. I like to mass mark the cage for melting with d-b-m, though I usually don't bother with such things, considering my use for prisoners.
4) Any suggestions on amusing things I can do with my prisoners?Well, your military will get more experience from live fire training than from simple sparring, hint hint. Make an arena and pit gobbos against your trainees who will get experience or champions who get kills.
The farm plot planting screen scrolls, as you may or may not know, though I think sun berries show up near the top of the list when you can plant them.Did, and checked for other seasons as well. No sun berries, no sliver barb.
In any case, see if there's anything on a second page of the plot menu.
You know there are Biome restrictions on certain plants like Sun Berries, Sliver Barb, Whip Vine, Valley Herb, Kobold Bulb, Muck Root and Bloated Tuber?I know that I've never seen them growing naturally outside their chosen climes, but I'm sure I've gotten sun berries to grow in an evil climate, alongside sliver barb, and I've gotten whip vine seeds, that I bought from a caravan, to grow in non-savage localities. I don't see just how that could make such a difference, especially since I've got the seeds and the space.
It's a rather annoying oddity with the way Farm plots work - in order to plant the seeds, you must first obtain something made from those seeds, either by purchase or by plant gathering.I've seen that myself, when I got fisher berries and rat weed to grow around here. It's also annoying to have a plot claim to be able to plant blade weed and longland grass simply because we have dye or flour. That's why I also cheated to get the plant, on the assumption that that would count towards "We have acquired a new crop", especially since I then converted the plant to its product.
