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Press t to look at the trap and see if there's a corpse in it, if so it's jammed.  They don't reset immediately either.

Yes.

Dig down!    Some caverns tend to be more like lots of tunnels than big open spaces so it is possible to mine down and miss some because you tunnel right through some rock formations and you dwarfs don't see the cavern itself.  There should generally be three separate cavern systems, then the magma sea then other stuff.  Quickest way is just to designate up/down stairs d->i, click your mouse where you want the stairs to go, hold the button down then just move down levels as normal, > for me, and you'll designate a massive stairwell to be dug.

I can't see a way to tell dwarfs to not enter a burrow, easiest way is just to make your entire fortress a burrow, just press enter on the top z level, scroll down to the bottom level and make a rectangle to cover the area you want them to use, hit enter and you're done.  Takes 10 seconds, you can add on extra bits after if needed.

Or just lock your main doors outside, don't give them any reason to go out?  The only reason mine go outdoors is hunting, fishing if I had water and to dump refuse in the stockpiles outside but that could all easily be stopped.

Quote from: JimboOmega on August 03, 2010, 08:49:24 am

My dwarves spend all their time stuck in wrestling demonstrations.  Even though they all have swords and all have futures as swordsdwarves, they seem to cling to that novice or adequate kicker/striker/wrestling that they came in with.  Is there any way to stop them learning useless skills?  I don't mind the dodging, but a lot of these are just not going to help against the goblin horde.

I don't think we have any control over what demonstrations the dwarves choose to do.  Having said that, I don't mind too much because it seems to me they learn very well from demonstrations--it seems much faster than the "indiv combat drill" now.

Interestingly, I had a squad of marksdwarves (immigrants who came with some skill) before I had any crossbows ready.  They occasionally did "crossbow demonstration" even without the crossbows.

KD

For marksdwarves I think you need to do it slightly differently in order for them to train their ranged skills rather than more kicking and striking lessons.  Rather than setting up a barracks from a bed/armour rack etc build archery targets and make that your barracks.  I think you need to set each target as a barracks, I tried just using one and having the designation cover the whole room with the other targets but that didn't seem to work.

The dwarves will then shoot at the targets and skill up their archery and marksdwarf skills.  They seem to skill up fairly quickly compared to my melee squads but then they are a lot more focused on what they are training.  On the downside they do seem to die very quickly, but that's probably down to leather armour and only their initial defensive skill levels, mosty rusty for me as well.

They seem fairly effective once they are done though, I always forget to check them during an ambush but my legendary marksdwarf/archer hunter was headshotting most of his hoary marmots so that can't be bad. 

I think they won't transfer it if the lye is in a bucket along with water as seems to happen a lot to me.  Just 'k' over the bucket to check.

You should be able to check the combat reports for sparring, press r if you don't know how to check.  It's filled with Urist Mcaxelord lightly taps Urista Mcexfishdissector with his *Adamantine battle axe*.  I don't think it's even possible to hurt anyone while training now.  Unless you channel pits into your barracks so that dodging dwarfs will randomly fall into them.

Lucky military is best military.

I was thinking of mining a shaft from the top of my fort where all the coal, iron and flux are down to the magma sea where my metal industry will be so I can mark all the required materials for dumping down the shaft which should be an awful lot faster than hauling everything ~100 z levels down.  Is this going to turn out to be the ultimate stonefall trap and kill all my furnace operators as they haul the ore from the bottom of the shaft to the smelters?

I could train them all in the military until they are legendary dodgers...if you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a hurtling lump of lignite?

I think Store Owned Items is a pretty low priority job for dwarfs so that might be the problem if they are busy doing other tasks, they will also store the items in their rooms and you might need a cabinet for them to put the items in.  Sometimes they just dump their clothes on the ground of their rooms though.