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Erm.... My war dogs just got into a fight, and they took some injuries..

"... His right front leg is dented, his upper body is dented..." and etc...

as far as I know, they were regular flesh dogs before...

Hit (M)ilitary -> (F) Ammunition -> and choose 'Bolts' for your hunters. There is still a slight equipment bug with hunters to watch out for though, if they run out of ammo in their quivers, they won't go get more. You'll get a notice about it, and just toggle the hunting labor off, unpause, wait a sec, then toggle it back on.. if they still won't hunt, make sure they have x-bow/quiver/ammo, and if they still won't, hit 'u' and scroll down until you see some 'Wild Animals.' If there aren't any, you know why they won't hunt.. if there are, then highlight the animal, and hit 'c' to zoom to it. Make sure it's in an accessible location. And if even that won't do it, you're screwed.

Ah, yeah, Gotcha!

And I'm was planning on around 9 levels of water, but thinking about it, I could make use of the area that would be underwater to cast a 'Hidden' extension to the dam, to house more fort.

@Bronze Dog: The generators will, indeed, be internal to the dam, and will run off of a controlled water flow from the reservoir, just like a real world hydroelectric dam does. I really couldn't, in good conscious, NOT have that sort of system. Especially since the falls from the generator shafts will looks SO cool! Also, not sure what you are referring to with the desert... there is no desert on this area.

@forsaken1111: Kinda thought those might be the case.. Just figured I'd ask those with more XP.

@Rotten: I was planning on using the mold as a scaffolding to allow my miners/inscribers access to the exterior of the obsidian plug, so deconstructing it tile by tile won't be an issue. I also plan on casting the towers in the same mold, and I don't think I have enough z-levels above the cliffs to accomplish this with a hanging mold. Good idea though, and it may come in useful later. I'm already going to be damming the river, as close to the source as it'll let me build. I'll be waiting until the winter freeze, and using constructed walls, and I'll be going up to one level below the cliff tops, to allow for the reservoir. I don't believe that the river will flow to higher z-levels than it's source tiles, so I'll be using the brook from the cliff tops to fill the reservoir. If only I could figure out a way to build a plug that actually meets the map edge, and build it just 1 z-level lower than the cliffs. This would allow water to overflow the top of the wall, and drain off the same tiles that it enters from, just 8 z-levels higher. That would make it look like the river is filling the reservoir, instead of leaving a gap. Any ideas in that regard?

Q: I remember reading somewhere that water washes away engravings.. Is this correct? Would I need to not engrave areas where water will be flowing?

If I read correctly, your river freezes, right? You could build floodgates, ect. while the river is frozen, then you don't have to deal with magma pumping.

Actually, this brings up another issue.. As forsaken1111 says, it's not the river flowing that's a problem, but the lack of a GIANT FRIGGIN OBSIDIAN DAM. However, one thing I'll need to know, before I release the dam holding back the river at it's source (and more importantly, the brook) Once my reservoir is full, and the winter freeze comes, will my entire reservoir freeze, or just the surface layer? If it's the whole thing, I may need to build some magma pipes below what will eventually be the surface of the lake to keep it thawed.

Sounds like that other site may be a matter of elevation.. For your first site, you are going to either have to magmafy your river, as described earlier, or turn temp off when the water melts.. I'd go with the first solution, as it also give you access to magma forges. It would probably be best if you considered the 15 prior years an interesting heat wave/weather phenomena, and just move on. Besides, a hot-tub river is a very dwarvenesk mega-construction.

Superheated steam doesn't kill now? Well, there goes my plans! I was going to vent the steam from my obsidian works, directly into the entrance (lever operated of course) but I guess that's impossible now

Yep, DF is turing complete, as the construction of a working, fully programmable 8 bit computer shows.

A fully programmable 8-bit computer, that runs on kittens and liquid MAGMA!

EDIT: Ok, well that one doesn't, but it SO COULD!!

Is she on a laptop, or using one of those crappy keyboards with the 'soft-keys?' If it's a laptop/notebook/etc.. check that numlock or the LT's soft-key switch is in the correct state. There is a 'Fn' button on mine (Fn == Function) and if I should accidentally hit it twice, it locks.