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There are quite a few outstanding bugs with marksdwarves. If you post a save on http://dffd.wimbli.com/ someone can figure out what's going wrong and possibly confirm one of the ammo-handling bugs still exists in v0.40.x.

Can confirm issue still exists.  Its looks much like it has for years.  Hundreds of bolts, only like 4 stacks available in ammo selection screen.

Here's some screenshots.  I'd made a ton of bone bolts, most of them got binned.  Had to use dumping to empty the bins, moving the stockpile and such did not convince the dwarves to unbin the ammo.  Still, newly  made ammo will get picked right up.




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RELATED: Consider not stocking your hospitals, in 0.34, there was a bug that essentially resulted in stocking a hospital at all resulting in it ultimately gobbling up your whole fort's supplies of thread, buckets, plaster, etc

Pretty sure this is fixed.

bins are pretty good for collecting lots of goblin clothes at once.

Protip 1: Use several different dining rooms to avoid mingling among all dwarves. When ONE dies, it affects NUMEROUS ones. With 6-8 dining rooms, When ONE dwarf dies, it does not necessarily affect ALL.  Do the same with bedrooms as well.

Or do this, but with wells, zoos, and statue gardens instead of multiple dining rooms.


PROTIP:  Learn how to use the workshop profile

PROTIP:  Make several masons workshops, queue up "make rock blocks" to infinity, and set the workshop profiles so that only dabbling, novice, and adequate masons can use the workshop.

NOOBTIP:  Once you have lots of dwarves, turn off the hauling labors for critical dwarves, ie broker, skilled smiths if you have few, Chief Medical Dwarf, the expert planter, etc.

PROTIP: Make one corner of your refuse stockpile a dump.  If your stockpile gets full, dump the things you don't need or are waiting for to rot.  They will go the short distance to the dump and be quantum-piled, clearing room. They'll also be forbidden, and since they're still on the refuse stockpile, they will rot faster.  Easy way to get workable bone items from dismembered sapient creatures.

NOOBTIP:  When using levers for defensive barriers or to control water flows, don't place the levers too close to the mechanisms they operate.  Would be silly if you couldn't close the bridge/floodgate because a breach prevented you from getting to the lever.

PROTIP:  To keep track of levers and mechanics, leave a notes with matching patterns on top of the pair-wise joined mechanisms.  The note title and text give you additional ways to describe the mechanism.

don't bring stone blocks, that's dumb.  Possibly bring stone itself and turn it into blocks, but better just mine the stone yourself and still do the same thing with mason enabled for everyone.  You can have one mason with a few levels of skill, have him make blocks, then have the others with no skill levels but the labor enabled to just do the building.

burrows are the best way.  You will get some cancellation spam from stockpiles if you don't forbid things that are outside and there are unlocked doors allowing dwarves to path to it.  Make liberal use of forbidding items in dangerous areas.

wells can reach down quite a bit.  They're wells!

5 z levels is not much, so just do that.  The long delay in lowering and raising the bucket can be an issue with 10-20 z level wells.

Fun fact, you can have wells stacked on top of eachother drawing from the same source, provided they line up and there are no floors/walls/grates/hatches/whatever in between.  When I make a cistern to serve the fortress (that is not just using water where i happen to find it), I tend to stack the well room and the hospital on top, and have the hospital have its own wells.