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So I just downloaded Legendary Lands, and I'm trying to get Ironhand's graphics to work, at least as much as possible. I put everything in the correct place, as far as I can tell, but I obviously can't change the LL raws to Ironhand's raws. What do I need to change in the dwarf raws to get them to use Ironhand's dwarf graphics? They're currently stuck on the "marshmallow man" example graphics that come with DF. Thanks in advance.

Edit: Never mind. I'm an idiot. Changing files in the main raw folders does not affect the saved game.

So, you train your starting 7 up to legendary before doing anything else, including make food/drink? Good luck making it past the first year.

You can use D-O-R to make it a restricted zone. This will cause the dwarves to see it as being twenty-five times longer than it really is when pathfinding. That will prevent dwarves from wandering onto it. That being said, if they have a task where the only route to that task crosses the bridge , they will use it. If it's the only way outside, any dwarf who needs to go outside, whether to chop a tree or pick up a XXsockXX, will do so.

If you need to keep your dwarves inside, but still need caravan access, make a burrow that covers every single area of your fort and assign all your dwarves to it. If your woodcutters need to go outside to cut wood, unassign them from the burrow. If your miners need to expand your fort, unassign them. This is probably the best way to do it, though it is time-consuming.

To get more z-levels above the magma sea, bump up the "Z-levels above Layer 1" parameter to however many you want. Keep in mind, though, what Quietust said: Removing all caverns will eliminate all subterranean plants from the game. Not only will you not be able to farm them, but the dwarven civ won't be able to either, meaning you will not be able to bring booze on embark.

More importantly, a few updates ago, (.14? .15?) Toady changed moods so that the only time shell is needed is when a dwarf has a specific fetish for shell, as opposed to potentially being an ingredient in any mood. I've never needed a shell for a mood since.

It is possible to embark on them, but with Dwarven sprawl as screwed up as it is, they generally appear as only a one-or-two region tile long mini-tunnel, deep in the mountains. So you'll probably wind up with a 2x8 embark or something similar, if you can find a viable location at all. The Just Embark tool may be your friend here.

Just to clear up confusion, the first couple of releases of DT were unable to get dwarves to pick up picks or axes for their jobs. That got fixed with the 31.04 or 31.05 release. It was a problem, but hasn't been for months now.