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How do animal powered watchtowers work?

You can even use the cavein method to get through two layers of aquifer. But that method only works if you have at least two additional layers of soil above the aquifer(s) if the aquifer(s) are in the first or second layer then pumps and wooden walls are your only way to go. Note that this is very slow and time consuming.

All paired items are made in pairs.  Or, I assume, however many limbs your race has.  If your people have 4 arms, you probably get 2 R and 2 L gauntlets.  Testing will be needed.

Regardless, when assigning individual gear, make sure you aren't assigning the same gear, and that you're assigning two gauntlets and boots.  If told to "Equip this left gauntlet" then they will do so, and not wear a right, unless you ALSO specify them to wear a right gauntlet.  Same for boots, assign them two boots.  This seems to only hold true for manual equipment.  If told "Any steel boot" they'll grab a pair correctly and wear two.  Also be careful that you don't have two soldiers who've been assigned the same glove.  This is hilarious and frustrating.

This is wrong. Only one boot and one gauntlet assignment is needed.

Quote from: Deon on February 20, 2011, 08:00:12 pm

Well, the blast furnace is there, and it can mass-smelt. Is it not enough yet? .

Yeah i want a blast furnace for production.

I disagree. If anything forging is way too easy and fast already. Forging quality armor takes a long time and alot of work in reality. Maybe you need to train more armorsmiths if you want it to go faster.

Just to put this here, Toady said from the very beggining that he wasn't going to add digging invaders. See the back to the dwarf game thread accessable via front page.

I think you need to check your facts.

# Improved sieges

    * Eliminate remaining edge-of-map exploits
    * More highly trained attacking soldiers when approprate
    * Many trap exploits are handled above by requiring more to produce a trap, things like cage traps should make more sense vs. large creatures etc. (respect strength/ability vs. material, large cages might be separate object)
    * Coming up with a plan to overcome pathing obstacles to reach fortress innards
          o Ability to dig (optionally, default on)
          o Ability to build bridges/ramps
          o Ability to use grappling hooks/ladders/climb
    * Learning from mistakes if first attempted assault plan fails badly
          o For instance, if many siegers are killed, caged, etc. in a given hallway, they shouldn't generally go that way again, even if that means building/climbing/digging
    * Siege engine improvements depend on state of boats, lifts/moving fortress sections, since these should all use the same framework

Actually dwarves can't see the honey in containers still if it's in a stockpile. Which is apparently why it's so difficult to make mead.

Nope. I checked that. Also the barrels that already have food in them are getting stored fine but no new barrels are being used.

Sad. Well thanks for the info.