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I am having a similar issue, with Elves and Humans. After two years I haven't seen any caravans. I almost aways check when I go to pick a site that everyone has access and that no one is at war. Any ideas?

What I have found with burrows is that when a dwarf is assigned to the burrow, he is not forced to stay in that burrow.  Rather, he is prevented from taking any jobs that deal with objects outside that burrow.  So he won't go pick up a stray sock on the surface, or cut down a tree, but a dwarf who is already on the surface when the underground burrow alert is sounded will not immediately be forced to run underground, and won't run underground unless there's a job for him there.  So if you set a small empty room inside and assign all your dwarves to that burrow, anyone outside it will cancel what they're doing, but will then just idle around or fall asleep where they are unless there's an urgent job for them to do in that burrow.  Essentially burrows act as a selective forbidding of materials and jobs outside them, but don't restrict movement or pathing at all, and don't compel idle dwarves to move into or stay in the burrow.

Quote from: existent on June 29, 2010, 12:32:37 pm

.... yet you stalk the forums?

O.o

Stalking?  Not at all.  If the UI was fixed, I'd play the game and donate.  That's what this thread is about, donating for a UI fund.

Had a world generated a while ago with something around 120-150 volcanoes. After a lot of rejects (not sure if i got any from the volcanoes though since there were all kinds of other extreme settings giving rejects). Got a message and selected something like "accept all rejects and continue". Been playing two forts and a couple of adventurers on that world. So I don't think a high amount of volcanoes break the world.

edit: By the way, on the topic of volcanoes. Do all of them have such high cliffs around them? Even when on grasslands or forests. Looking for a way to get a reasonably flat map with magma at ground level.

Maybe carving the mountain off the volcano is the way to go. . . 

Quote from: SkyRender on June 27, 2010, 07:50:54 pm

He said impenetrable, not Dwarfy.  Here's how to make a completely Dwarfy fortress:

1. Dig down until you find magma.  If you don't find magma, you didn't dig far enough down; and you call yourself a Dwarf?
2. Build an overly elaborate system of collapsible ceilings to exploit hydraulics and force sixty metric tonnes of magma to the surface.  Who needs pumps?
3. Set up an elaborate series of traps involving said magma, complete with recapture system.  No Dwarf worth his beard wastes molten rocks!
4. Conveniently "forget" to build a front door before your trap halls.  Goblins fall for it every time.
5. Make damn sure the traps can potentially backfire and flood your base with magma.  Dwarves love a good fire-and-brimstone bath.
6. Have the whole thing go to hell during a siege some time around year 5 because you forgot about that back tunnel into the fortress you built in year 2 to get rid of all the rotting Goblin carcasses.  Oops?
7. Reclaim, of course!  Dwarves never surrender!
8. Repeat steps 5, 6 and 7 as many times as it takes to fill an overly elaborate catacomb system (buried in magma, because that's the Dwarf way) with Dwarf corpses.  Strike the earth, then become one with the earth!

You forgot to sacrifice elves to Armok every year, as thanks for the blessing of mamga.

No. I stopped playing after I got tired of reading "lol" and l33t-sp34k. Immersion is impossible with that kind of interference!

That, and the art was ugly.

art

It has been 8 years. 11 adults, 14 children now.

No caravans. No contact with outside world. Only other living things we ecountered are hippos in river, cougars and groundhogs.

We are strong, we will rebuild. Eventually.