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After countless fortresses, Iīm utterly frustrated for not yet getting a Baron (even after reading some people telling me to be happy about that). Guys, could you help me on this?


1- The DF2010 wiki entry says that I need 20 population to be eligible to a Baron, while the 40d wiki entry says 80. Can you confirm if it is really 20 or not?

2- The DF2010 wiki entry says that I need ">1 road value". How do I know that? In terms of roads, what do I need to build to be eligible for a Baron? Do I need to connect the road to the edge of the map? How long must it be?

3- According to this Toadyīs post, I would need to do "4 of the following:  25 crafting jobs, 25 metal-related jobs, 25 wood-related jobs, 10 gem jobs, 25 stone jobs, 25 food jobs". Does this is still a requirement for DF2010?

3a- If so, what is a "crafting job" for the sake of completing the requirements? "Make Wood Crafts"? "Make Stone Crafts"?

3b- What about "25 metal-related jobs"? Is it necessarily smelting or just any job that uses metal someway? Does creating a metal door counts to this number?

3c- If I create 25 "iron rings", would it count both to the "25 crafting jobs" as well as to "25 metal-related jobs"?

3d- For the "10 gem jobs", would it be enough to just cut 10 gems or would I need to encrust something with them?

3e- Is it enough just to create these items or must I sell them to the dwarf trader?

4- Do I need to have a suitable room for the Baron before he actually comes? If so, should I create it and leave it vacant or can I use it for the mayor while I wait?

5- The 40d wiki entry states that the previous yearīs dwarven caravan must have survived. Does this apply to DF2010? If so, does it mean that if the dwarven caravan survives and I complete all the craft requirements this year, next year I will certainly get a baron?

6- After starting a fresh fortress, how long do you usually take to be promoted to a Barony?

Any other tips would be greatly appreciated. If the thread goes well, I can enter a link for this in the wiki.

Thanks in advance!

Hi!
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Why not we just post a link to the bug you wish to have fixed? It is probably already explained there, and maybe, just maybe, Toady can have a look on this thread and easily see what was suggested.

Just curious to know which bug (as reported in the Bugtracker) would you like to see fixed first.
Personally, I would like to see this and this .

BTW, considering the "DF Eternal Suggestion Voting" page, wouldnīt it be nice to have something similar to see which bug is the most annoying according to the players, so maybe it could have some priority?

The arsenal dwarf was obliterated

That was the most useless piece of nobleness on my fortressness. No wonder Toady "obliterated" him instead of politely "removing" him.

Iīd rather have a  Wardrobe Stylist to manage my XXsocksXX.

This all makes perfect sense in programming terms, it is simply that you are refusing to understand it in programming terms.

Some possible ways to overcome it:

Programmatically, consider that a floor is kinda "the top of a wall in the z-level bellow". If you place something over a floor, and "k"īing it, you will see, for instance, a chair and a floor. If you decide to remove the chair with "q"/"x", fine. But when you "q" over it, you would have the option to toggle (with + or -) between the chair and the floor, and if you picked the floor, it wouldnīt allow it while the chair was still there.

The game is already able to handle different things on the same spot (for example, clothes on the floor). It would be just a matter of adapting it. It would be more complex, but DF has accomplished things much more difficult until now.

I support this idea, because ince I miss-channeled a single tile in fortress entrance. Because of that, I could not use that tile for traps since there was no way for me to create a wall on the z-level bellow and obviously, I could not build over floors.

Can also cover two separate locations with one burrow, it doesn't need to be continuous.

How would that work?

I have 2 major areas in my fortress. The one on the first z-levels and the one at the botton, with the magma forges. I created a new burrow enveloping the two areas (and that included all the stairs in between). Had I set the burrow this way without eveloping the stairs, would my dwarves travel between the 2 areas?