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Thanks for all the work that goes into maintaining this utility -- it's probably my favorite Df utility to date. I would say it's saved me untold hours of time, but frankly it's just enabled me to spend untold hours "perfecting" my fortress layouts in successive and near-constant re-drafts.

Speaking of which, is it just me, or is the old quickfort .csv repository now down? I've got a fairly standardized fort layout I usually use (largely based on the fractal patterns in the wiki, modified for useability and efficiency etc.)  and I'd like to upload it, but I'm not sure where to upload it to.

Quote from: Root Infinity on June 18, 2011, 06:56:12 pm

If you attach non magma safe-mechanisms to a magma safe-whatever, will the building/support/et cetera also deconstruct when the mechanisms melt?

Yes, if the mechanism installed at the device isn't magma-safe, the device will deconstruct when the mechanism melts.  Note that when you connect a lever or pressure plate to a target, two mechanisms are requires, one of which goes in lever or pressure plate and the other in the target device.  Only the one in target needs to be magma-safe.

If you *want* the whole mess to deconstruct, can you just use non-magma-safe mechanisms throughout?

second question:

Is granite magma-safe? I'm relying on a granite door to eventually burn, but apparently it just won't.  I placed it north of a constructed fortification, to keep the dwarf building to the south, on the theory that the magma would just flow through the fortification, incinerate the disposable door, onwards. But the door seems to be holding the lava like it's perfectly magma safe, even though the wiki lists granite is non magma safe. What's up?

If I run magma under a frozen brook to melt it, how much water will that generate? Will the brook tiles keep generating a constant water flow, or will I just get the few tiles I un-freeze?

It's marsh biome that makes water stagnant, right? Maybe try running the water to a different biome, *then* running it through a pump in that other biome, see if it becomes clean.

I've been a fan of this layout for a long time:

The rooms from my circular based fort.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I made a quickfort dig plan for it, which you can get here:
http://drop.io/quickfort/asset/caramel-s-circular-bedroom-plan-csv

Found this thread in a search trying to find if a few specific bugs have been fixed, so apologies if I'm necro-bumping.

There are a few bugs I'd really like to see fixed though.

First, there are a couple of weapon-balance bugs that I feel break the combat system as it's currently implemented, at least for fortress  mode, specifically

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=2712 (whips cut through masterwork steel armor like butter)

and

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=2327 (blunt weapons not effective at all)

Second, there are a few bugs that just seem to have essentially "turned off" major game features. For example,

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=2036 means that exotic animals are untrainable, since the Dungeon Master doesn't work.

or

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=4133  (good/evil plants don't exist any more).

Finally, there's the lag bug described here:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=4207

Where the game is apparently checking every thought every dwarf has for expiration, every frame. So as dwarves accumulate thousands of "talked with a friend recently" thoughts, lag skyrockets.

There are a lot of other areas that need general work -- for example, interaction between military & civilian equipment -- but those few bugs right there are the ones I find particularly saddening, either because they can undeservedly kill a fort (one goblin lasher squad taking out an entire masterwork-clad military) or because they turn off game features I really enjoyed playing (I still want a fortress with an army of tame giant war eagles. One day!)