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In my experience, decorating a mercenary's equipment makes it a "fortress good" available for use by the militia, including mercenaries.

The fact that its owned doesn't prevent it from being decorated?

Quote from: slothen on August 15, 2016, 04:06:55 pm

If a miner will voluntarily climb out of a hole to go do something else...

They won't. When channeling a single-tile chute, the miner removes the ground under his own feet and starts falling. He then attempts a wall-grab; if successful, he starts climbing and will try to path to a "safe area".  If he fails the wall-grab and ends up at the bottom of the chute without any more digging designations he will be just as stuck as a dwarf in a tree.

Basically, dwarves only use jump/climb pathing under specific circumstances: repathing after a previous path was blocked, chasing or fleeing enemies, and maybe a few other special cases.

This would make sense, except that after observing this behavior twice, none of my miners had gained climbing experience, and I had thought that it was the "grabbing while falling" action that gave experience, while "climbing out of a hole while never falling" did not grant experience.

Anyway, to avoid this behavior you can create your garbage chute using up/down stairs instead, then channel out just the top tile--items will continue to fall all the way down. You could also put a stairway next to your chute, or dig out the 2x1 pattern described here.

Using a tall stairway is interesting.  This would make it pretty easy to smooth the walls of the entire chute.  Then I can remove the stairs anywhere I want to be able to chuck stuff in.  I still have some aesthetic issues with that however.  The 2x1 shaft method is also interesting.  I might however just go with my old method, of building a complete staircase, digging out all levels of the chute, and only then using channeling to remove the floors, and then walling-off or removing the access stairwell as necessary.

On things falling down vertical stairwells inadvertently, this does happen to be pretty rare.  I think I've seen melancholy suicidal dwarves throw themselves down central staircases.  I'm wondering under what circumstances this is a safety risk.  For instance, I don't think dodging over an downward staircase (or even falling unconscious on one) will start the "falling" status.

Yes, you're correct.
Miners climb out of their work shafts, but won't climb back down again (which is the reason I always dig stairs as well). Similarly, dorfs scared by birds climb trees to get away from the birds(!), and are then unable to climb down.

Is this because you literally can't climb down a tree or otherwise something special about climbing up?  If a miner will voluntarily climb out of a hole to go do something else, there must be something special about being in a tree vs being in a hole.

I would copy the save, retire the fort, then check the map using the legends viewer.  It used to be that as long as you had a goblin civ on the same landmass you would get attacked.  Not sure how goblin army pathing will play into it.

And yes, chained things breed.

Unless you have very little in the way of architectural wealth, I would say that wealth isn't your problem.  The problem is likely the goblins themselves are having a hard time forming sieges and getting to you.

I'm sad, this is my favorite tileset!  Thank you for contributing to my joy in this game and I wish you well.

I only ever find this is an issue with seeds, so I use a double stockpile system for those.

I rely on barrels and bins because I don't use quantum stockpiles.

If you're having issue with plants you can do the same with a feeder stockpile for the farmers shop, millstone, and still.

Although unlike seeds which can literally fit all in one bag/barrel, I've found you don't need to mess around with plants if you just increase the volume.