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Yeah I'm using ramps, and that sounds right, my miners only started to screw up after I started using ramps, thanks man.

Ok, so WHENEVER I decide to expand downward, ie. I've built into a wall, or I dug one level into the ground, and I've built my preliminary fortress, but I want to make my fort go deeper into the ground. When I dig down into the ground with my miners (2 usually) and dig out the level, or parts of it, the asses don't want to come back up, however far down the get is where they stay, even if I give them jobs on the higher level. Wtf is up? Also, when I give them new orders on the same level, they follow them, then they go back to the exact same spot they were in. It's not a meeting area, and I've tried digging out new shafts to get them to go up, but it doesn't work. I know that they can go up. But they won't. This is also kinda a big deal because I they're 2 of my starting 7. RAWR. This isn't the first time either. Or the third, or fourth, or fifth. Probly the sixth or seventh. And the only solution I can ever find is abandoning the fort.

I don't know what that means, so I would assume that I'm not. Is there an alternative stone menu?

My 6th entry is Hematite... Z->Stone, right?

EDIT:: Limestone is also at the top, and I don't even see claystone

I'm in a map with lots of Rocksalt, 3rd layer to the 6th layer is rock salt (Probly further, only got down to lv 6) but I can't build with the god-be-damned stuff. I looked in the Z-Stone menu to enable it for non-economic use, but I can't find it, and I have NO stone, just sand, loam, and wood. I have no glass makers but I'm not even sure if you can build with glass, and I need stone for mechanisms. What am I supposed to do?

EDIT:: I did check the wiki, but I am unclear as to whether or not it works.

Ok, so I'm trying to figure out how to make the world generator spit out an embark area like this: Temperate (<---Important) lake, with an island in the lake, some amount of trees on the island (Not that important), and no aquifier on the island. How would I get the world generator to make a map like that? Or if the island bit isn't going to happen, along the coast of the lake.

Alternatively someone could point me to a map like that, and I could download/copy it's seed.

EDIT:: Is there a place (website?) where you can download maps? Without any fortresses on them that is?

So yeah... I've had this game for a week now and have been playing it in every bit of my spare time, but I am getting nowhere. I have been reading the wiki (I usually have it open while playing) but it's kinda confusing, so I was wondering if people could awnser specific questions that I have... I'll even number them fo you 

1. How do I make the play area bigger, it seems like I'm only ever playing a small part of the huge game world I generated.
2. How do I get metal, ANY metal?
3. And then how do I smelt it? The smelter says I need fuel, where do I get that? (Besides magma)
4. I have never seen a season change (I usaully die quick...) how long does it take? Is there a calendar?
5. How do I get more dwarves? I've only ever had the starting 7.
6. I usaully dig a 2 square wide doorway and put wooden doors in the spaces, dig a short hallway (10 squares long?), and have all my stuff off that. Is that a good/decent defense?
7. When should I start to worry about having water?
8. How do you embak with more stuff (While picking choose carefully) , I only ever get the option to add/remove amounts of what the game gives me, and add animals, besides setting skills.
9.Ok, last question, I promise, what are the apsolutley ecential skills you should embark with?

Excuse my bad spelling, and sorry if this is a bit much, but I figured if I put all my questions here I wouldn`t need to ask any more questions for a while.

                                                         Urist McNoob, signing off.

I always try to find a place with lava, and hopefully water. The problem is whenever I try to embark near a volcanoe (red ^ right?), I can never find the darn thing! I can't see it on the map. So I want to know if there is a map out there that has a magma pipe, unlimited water, and some decent stone layers, and mabey some other cool stuff?