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DF General Discussion / Re: How do you retreat dwarves during a siege?
« on: July 14, 2010, 12:50:24 pm »
If you're playing .31.xx you need to define some burrows. This is done with the "w" key. You want to define at least one burrow that's considered a safe area for your civilian dwarves.
Then you need a way to tell the dwarves to use that burrow. That's done through the military screen.
Hit "m" to bring up the military screen, then "a" for alerts. Now you want to hit "c" to create a new alert, "n" to name it something like stay inside, and set that alert to restrict folks to the correct burrow.
When you want to keep everyone inside you need to go back into the military screen, to alerts, and set that stay inside alert as the active civilian alert. When you want to let folks go outside, you set the "Inactive" alert as the active civilian alert.
It's a little more clumsy to just keep people inside, but it gives you a lot more control. Rather than just keeping people from setting foot outside, you can keep all your civilians several levels underground, in some barricaded saferoom.
Then you need a way to tell the dwarves to use that burrow. That's done through the military screen.
Hit "m" to bring up the military screen, then "a" for alerts. Now you want to hit "c" to create a new alert, "n" to name it something like stay inside, and set that alert to restrict folks to the correct burrow.
When you want to keep everyone inside you need to go back into the military screen, to alerts, and set that stay inside alert as the active civilian alert. When you want to let folks go outside, you set the "Inactive" alert as the active civilian alert.
It's a little more clumsy to just keep people inside, but it gives you a lot more control. Rather than just keeping people from setting foot outside, you can keep all your civilians several levels underground, in some barricaded saferoom.
