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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Marksdwarves given necessities, but only one practices at a time?
« on: October 11, 2010, 10:19:12 pm »
I created an archery range with 5 targets, and assigned my marksdwarves squad ZTIQ.  Also on the military page, they all have checkmarks next to "crossbow" and the squad has 200 bolts assigned to them (but only one set of bolts shows a checkmark - maybe that's what's wrong).

However, they take turns using the archery range.  I know they shouldn't share a single target, but only one dwarf will practice in the room at a time.

Any ideas?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Nonremovable up/down stairs?
« on: October 11, 2010, 07:40:17 pm »
So, I initially dug a tile out as "Down Stairs", but later wanted it to be up/down stairs.
I went one z-level up (the surface), and dug some "Down stairs", then did a b-C-x to construct an Up/Down Stair on top of my dug out Down Stairs.

However, the Up/Down Stairs don't connect for some reason with the surface Down Stairs, and I can't remove the stairs by a d-n "Remove Construction".

Am I missing something here?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Animal pits
« on: October 11, 2010, 03:54:43 pm »
When you create a zone, you can designate it as a pit, and throw animals in it.

Why does this feature even exist?  I've never seen a reason to throw animals in a pit...

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Why don't constructions work like designations?
« on: October 11, 2010, 11:31:48 am »
I can designate any rectangle I want to be mined out, channelled, or trees cut, by marking two corners.

However, when building a wall, I have to use umkh to resize it (with a maximum size), and then place it.

Of all things, I think, making constructions work like designations, would be at the very top of my development list, so I feel like I am missing the whole reason that it works the way it does.  Anybody know?  Is it possible this may be changed in the future so I can build my 50x3 tile walls faster?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Site finder only gives first result?
« on: October 11, 2010, 09:59:24 am »
The site finder is really neat, when I am trying to find a site with no aquifer, and having flux.  However, it appears to only be giving me back the first site that matches my search, which usually happens to be way up in the north pole where the snow never melts.  Is there a way to cycle through all the sites that match my search?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Is the wiki military page outdated?
« on: October 11, 2010, 09:55:18 am »
I'm coming back to DF after a few months of break since I got married.  When I left, it was practically impossible to make marksdwarves actually train, and difficult to get anybody to train at all.  The wiki says:
Quote
Barracks are still necessary for training, but due to a bug it appears that your dwarves will only train when Inactive, despite what the Train command may have you believe. Marksdwarf training also appears to still be a bit glitchy.
Are either of those sentences still true?  Will my marksdwarves train if I get them crossbows, bolts, an archery range, then set them to active duty (training) and hit assign the squad to "T" (train) at the specific archery range?

What are the other assignments at the barracks that you can assign to squads?  I know T means train, but what about I, Q, and the other one?

If somebody could help me out here, I'd be happy to update the wiki myself.

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DF General Discussion / What's Toady doing?
« on: April 28, 2010, 11:53:45 am »
Looking at the bug tracker, he released 02 on the 8th, 03 on the 12, and started 04 immediately afterward, but then the dev log hasn't changed since then.  I heard he is working full time on this project... so is he on vacation, or does he just working on the merge and ignoring bugs for now?  Some of the military bugs, and even the ones that are already fixed in 04, are starting do drive me nuts, so I guess I am just wondering when we'll get another release.

I haven't followed this project for long, so I'm not sure whether to expect one any day now, or check back every couple weeks.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Marksdwarves
« on: April 24, 2010, 01:30:41 pm »
To train marksdwarves, do I have the following steps right?

1. Assign a militia captain
2. Create a squad
3. Create an archery range
 3a. assign the squad to the archery range
4. Make sure there are crossbows and bolts available
5. Set the squad to active/training

Is there anything I'm missing?  They don't seem to be practicing anything but "striking".  How will I know when they really are practicing?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Advanced irrigation techniques
« on: April 15, 2010, 10:54:26 am »
Does anybody have a link they can direct me to for advanced irrigation techniques?  I don't like the channel the tile above and fill pond method, because it leaves one of the farm plots as non-subterranean.

I heard there are forum discussions for stuff like this, but searching the forum for "irrigation" gives lots of results unrelated to what I need, so I'm not sure what to search for.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Make a farm plot subterranean
« on: April 14, 2010, 11:36:33 am »
I created a channel above my farm plot to water the ground, then built a floor over the channel to make the plot subterranean, but it didn't work, the plot still shows as above ground.  How do I make it subterranean?

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DF General Discussion / Workaround for squad bug/have you seen this bug?
« on: April 13, 2010, 04:46:33 pm »
Setting squad order selection to personal freezes program on re-entrance to squad menu. 
The following keystroke freezes my dwarfort.exe (save your game before reproducing!):
s p b a ESC ESC s
Annotated:
 s(quad) p(select individual) b(first squad) a(first member of squad) ESC ESC s(quad)

It doesn't seem to reproduce if you select a member of the first squad, only the second squad.  I haven't tried selecting a member of a third/fourth/etc squad.

Do I need to enter a bug on this?  Where are the instructions to do so?

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DF Gameplay Questions / How do I seal a hole into a cavern?
« on: April 12, 2010, 02:09:03 pm »
I dug down stairs and they enter into a cavern, but I want to seal it closed so creatures can't come into my fortress.  How do I seal the hole?  Do I need to remove the stairs?

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DF General Discussion / Is there any recovery for me?
« on: April 10, 2010, 02:36:26 pm »
Every time I try to load my save, I get this message:

"One of the compressed files on disk has errors in it.  Restore from backup if you are able."

I don't have a backup, but will be routinely making them from now on.  Is there any way to recover from this without starting with a new world?

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DF Gameplay Questions / What is that "C" on the side of the screen?
« on: April 08, 2010, 11:24:03 am »
In the margin on the far left side of my screen there is a red "C".  What does that mean?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Military won't start working again!
« on: April 08, 2010, 09:18:36 am »
I created a military of 3 dwarfs, and had them training and all, but now I can't get them to go back to their regular job.  I have freed all barracks and areas used for training, so I don't have any barracks anymore.  I also disbanded the squad, and changed the militia commander to VACANT, but they won't do anything but Eat, Sleep, and No Job.

Any ideas?

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