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@Torgan: The generic drinks shouldnt happen anymore... do you know which plants produce it?

I don't think it's any of the underground plants as far as I can tell, I usually buy out all the food from caravans so I suspect it's one of the aboveground plants but I've been sieged every season since I noticed it so haven't had any trade.

Couple of other food issues I think I've found

I'm also able to cook with Shadowleaf leaves once they are bagged like quarry leaves, according to the wiki they are meant to be inedible.

I picked some Nether Vines and there's no reaction in the still or brewery to turn them in to booze, however just using the normal Brew Drink task at the still does use them to make booze.

Nightwing sieges have been bring their dreaded War Camels but I think they got the hump when they were sliced apart, took seven war dragons last season. The Champion of MirroredFord, Nalthish Chainfurnaces the Wrathful Flukes of Shielding (fitting name?), charged out of the darkness at them in the entrance tunnels, blocking and dodging the fiery breaths. His superior welded mithril battle axe took down five while his squad mate Vucar NettedGifted the Mechanical Holiness of Distances claimed two. I have now got loads of dragon scales so awesome cloaks for everyone \o/ Or possibly they came from treasure finding, I didn't really notice.

Cheers for the library help, I did have a look at the manual but it doesn't mention them. Also massive thumbs up for doing the new manual, I did use the old one but this one is even better and I <3 the Warcraft icons used for everything.

Found a tiny wee bug that baby drakes in Phoebus tileset are just a black square.

Warlocks still make me cry. My legion dwarf milita commander, (legendary shield from a relic platinum essence, and legendary armour and axe from two years training), just got killed by a couple of warlock thieves, there wasn't even a combat report to explain what happened but I assume he got hit from behind if he didn't block. Lost another legion dwarf to paralysis suffocation from a Myconid in cavern 2 last season. Not complaining, just moaning. I need to be more careful!

Haven't been keeping up with the thread so not sure if Meph is around but is it possible to update the changelog on the dffd/dropbox page? At the moment it just goes up to v2b so it would be nice to see the changes up to 2f without raking through this thread. Thanks.

It's a Tears of Armok gem, a 1 square aquifer until the gem is mined out. You can safely remove it by channeling it out from above but I have used a few to make wells or waterfalls by just mining out the rock at one side of it. The flow of water isn't too strong through, I made a channel about a screen long to empty out near my main corridor and the water had nearly all evaporated by the time it dropped down to make the waterfall.

The gem can be used for a few reactions as well I believe, haven't really played around with them that way. Try Ctrl-F in the manual to see stuff.

I'm getting some very bizarre results from the "Make steel armor plate" job at the Magma Armory.

It's created zero armor plates so far, but a strange assortment of other steel objects as seen in the screenshot above.

Looks like the reaction is bugged like Putnam said but there's no need to waste steel forging armour plates, the plate armour created is the same material as the armour consumed to make it, not the plates. Ie copper armour plates+adamantine armour gives adamantine plate armour.

It's the opposite for bayonets, steel bayonets combined with a wooden crossbow give a steel crossbow.

@Halox
Your justice system will only sentence a dwarf if they fight or break stuff during a tantrum afaik. If you can see the crimes are being reported in the justice screen maybe make sure your sheriff isn't busy with other jobs so he can go beat them up.
@Melzer
Blast furnace has been removed.

I have just tried to create a golem. I have a steel long sword and a steel golem cast. Meph I took your advice and placed a squad of dwarfs on the workshop (golem forge?) and have yielded no results. It is still the same I only get a flash of blinding light and my dwarf comes out the same. I put it on repeat and my dwarf working the golem forge became an apostle of armok. What should I do to get golems?

The golem forge does work for me but it doesn't have a 100% success rate so you may need to try a few times, the weapon will be consumed but the cast is not so it's not too bad. You might need temperature turned on if you don't already, otherwise...just set it on repeat until it works. If your dwarf has skilled up strand extraction then he must at least be trying to do the reaction.

There is a post about the fish farm every couple of pages so I think if you go back or search the thread you should see how to correct the file.

I would check where the seeds are via the stocks menu, as I have managed to use a bag containing something to build my archaeologist's workshop. Or maybe the bag that contains them all is on the move as a hauler is putting seeds in to it and your farmers can't get to the seeds. I have had no farming problems so sounds like it's maybe a problem in your fort somewhere rather than a bug.

The plate armours made at the (magma) armoury are listed as armour choices, they are just described as foreign. I have my guys wearing plate helms, greaves and platemail (upgraded breastplate). Can't get plated boots and gloves as per the building guides because of hardcoded issue.

As far as I know there's no point updating the wiki as Meph is working on Masterwork 2 as the next release and he's said it will come with documentation, and in either case will probably obsolete anything you do just now.