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[SIEGER] makes them wait around a camp fire a while before attacking during a siege. It has nothing to do with causing them to siege, they do that anyway.

To make them hostile, you need: War (occurs randomly during worldgen based on ethics), [BABYSNATCHER] tag, or to remove their ability to speak (no speak = no treaties = inability to make peace, so it shows a red -------- and they fight without ever declaring war).

To make them actually come, you need at least one of the PROGRESS_TRIGGER_ tags to go off. Production is probably the easiest one to trigger, since you can just make some things and cause it. This is also required for the peaceful civs to send caravans, and is the reason that humans never come on the first season. Trade triggers them, so until you trade with the dwarves or elves the humans won't come. Elves cannot come since they are set to Spring and you start in spring, but if you set them to summer and produce enough goods to trigger them they will come in the first year.

The seasons that they come are controlled by ACTIVE_SEASON tags. If you set them only active in winter, they'll only siege in winter. If it's year round, they will likely come every single season - sometimes stopping the caravans from coming due to the siege.

ZA Firewall or ZA Antivirus? Antivirus has things like On-Access scanning that can mess with programs. I don't believe the Firewall does anything to programs unless they attempt to access the internet, while the Antivirus constantly checks *all* programs for viruses when you run and close them and can stop them running if it thinks they are a virus. I could be wrong, but I have never had just the firewall portion mess with a program that doesn't try to access the internet.

This is what makes ZA slow down switching users and such, since it's scanning every single file that Windows alters (quite a few during the logging off process).

Maybe try turning the intro off? It could be failing to load the videos and crashing or something.

You don't need holes to make a garbage dump. The only thing that you need holes for is pits/ponds to dump animals or water in.

Did you make sure that dwarves are collecting outside refuse? Thats (o)rders (r)efuse and o again to toggle it. They won't dump items from outside unless they are told to gather refuse from outside.

As far as not being in the list, did you unforbid and unmark them for dumping before trying that? Having them set forbidden or to be dumped makes them unusable in constructions.

You should be able to use the stocks screen to mark it for dumping. I can't remember if you can mark it for dumping from the cage's contents screen or not, but it should definitely be in the stocks screen.

Theres a "deblocker" mod floating around somewhere, I believe. It has reactions to de-block all stone types.

Personally I just made a little file of reactions that deblocks things that I need for other uses, all the ores and the fluxes. That way I don't get forge clutter for deblocking every single type of rock I happen to have made into blocks.

Theres also an 'uncut' mod out there too, it's the same thing for gems.

You're obviously just complaining to be complaining. You like the game without the economy? Then turn it OFF, as you already knew how to before you posted. ONE FORT is miniscule compared to what you can do with the game. Spend another couple hours and build the fort again, this time without whatever you dislike.

MANY MANY MANY games and products and all kinds of things in the real world have bad default settings. The camera that I bought didn't live up to its full potential until I did some serious work on the settings. Did I just give up and say "The fact that settings that don't work exist mean this camera sucks!" and trash it? No, I set it correctly and have used it for years, it's a really nice camera.

The settings are there, everyone has explained how to use the settings, and yet you still complain just because things that you don't like EXIST in the game. Oh NO, the game isn't exactly and completely and 100% fully perfect in your eyes? It's the end of the world! Everyone delete the game and jump off the nearest bridge!