Bay 12 Games Forum

Leather armor is much cheaper and lighter than metal for a peasant militia. Besides, why waste metal on haulers when all you really want is a pair of boots to stave off rotblooded foot fungus?

Sadly, cavern lakes don't have flow unless you're pumping out of them.

Ah yeah that was worded badly. And now that I think about it, I was wrong anyway. So don't do that. I just meant for drainage, you'll want something like:

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Pump from the canal through carved fortifications off-map to drain. Just block the output tile with a floodgate or lever-operated door. It will still take ages to drain and dry out, but my first plumbing experiment was a gravity drain because I didn't know better. When I said submerged I just meant power it by an axle because if you're draining the bottom Z of a 2-Z canal the walkable tile will be submerged.

Those are my second favorite FB's. I imagine they just wander around for hundreds of years, then when they see something moving for the first time they get excited, and sneeze themselves into a wall, splattering.

My second favorite is the more sedate ones that stand still long enough for me to drop a cave-in torpedo 12 stories onto their heads. Bonus if they had rotblood too.

Relative to other trade goods (in particular, stone crafts) food has a lot of effort required. The best explanation I've heard is: stone crafts require 1 dwarf to grab a rock and whittle it into a ring. Meals require a planter to till the soil, grab seeds hauled and stored by peasants, plants harvested, hauled to a stockpile, then cooked. Meat takes more effort than that. Roasts cooked with masterwork booze take even more. A stack of 300+ roasts from two different forgotten beasts marinated in masterwork booze and breaded in whip vine flour, all getting the X12 masterwork multiplier... gets silly.

Food seems overpriced because it's something you're doing anyway for happiness, but it's not a simple process.

..... Ninjas. They are everywhere.

That's the working text of a possessed mood. He's making an artifact with that name, probably a bone ring or something equally amazing.

For one, I know they're fond of storing ONE GODDAMN SEED PER SQUARE quite often.

Bags store uhm... 15 seeds per bag I think... then the seed bags cap be up to 10 per barrel on a seed-only stockpile.

I had similar problems before. Booting them all to civilians helped me, when they put all the gear back in the armory and re-enlisted they got it right the second time, no fuss.