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If you build a carpenter's shop and try to make some beds, will the carpenter go out and fetch some logs? Or does he cancel the production?
Are the logs forbidden? Did you use burrows?

'Loverocks'

A fort where I atom smashed almost every child, pet or useless immigrant.
An entrance hall framed by dozens upon dozens of slabs - countless engravings telling about crushing bridges. Names can be decieving.

Pump Pump Hatch
Wall   Wall   Water Water
Wall   Wall   Wall    Wall 


Pump Pump Hatch
Wall   Wall   Ramp Water
Wall   Wall   Wall    Wall 

The yellow ones will support the hatch.

Logs are like money, you have to spend logs to get logs. If you use up all your logs (or forbid all your logs) then the traders will bring A LOT of logs. You can easily get 80-100 logs per year if all three caravans visit, and more if you request max logs from the outpost liaison.

They need to be forbidden before the caravan enters your map, if I remember correctly. Excellent advise though, managing your log supply so the traders think "zomgs they needs logs!" will yield enough wood for bins, beds and even steel fuel.

(p) and (e) gives a list of animal to assign

Doesnt it say "X animals assigned" (to this dwarf) when in that menu, somewhere on the bottom of the screen? It used to...

Quote from: DTF on June 09, 2012, 02:35:10 am

Now lets get some dwarven quantum entanglement going to achieve quantum teleportation.

We already have minecart teleportation...

Bug #5996: Minecarts can teleport through walls.

Nah, thats tunnelling.
To short of a distance covered. Need to teleport the enemy right into our deathchambers.

Yeah copper bolts should be sufficient against gobs. As are often bone bolts, but if you have surplus copper on your map, make copper bolts.


Dwarves are stupid. They will not follow orders exactly and as soon as they see an enemy they'll never respond to your orders until the enemy is dead. When you design your defenses, you have to take that into account.

A very simple solution to shift the odds in your favour would be to construct a couple of bridges so that you can split the enemy into smaller groups. This way you can focus all your killing power on a few enemies and if some of your dwarves get injured you can recover them and depending on the status of your military lower the next bridge and keep fighting or let them rest up.
Also: make a staging area for your soldiers out of line of sight to the enemy, so you can group up before you head into battle.

If your equipment is top notch (and it is, apart from the wooden bolts) then the fault must lie with your soldiers.
Traits like agility, willpower, toughness and strength are very important for a soldier:
- if half your army is 'flimsy', they will suffer injuries a lot
- no agility means very slow dwarves means often times death; note that agility influences the general speed of a dwarf, not only his movement!
- no willpower: they give in to pain quicker which is basically one step away from being killed
Marksdwarves are somewhat easier to handle in that regard, but your melees should have at least a few of these traits. Also of high importance is "quick to heal", obviously. Having your frontliners 'cross train' can increase stats.

Other than that, look throught the wiki and search the forums about improving the dwarves' training, since, as the others have said, skill is more important than anything else.
As ultima ratio (heh, always wanted to use that... I'm smard now) there is also the danger room - its effectiveness can range from outright exploity and cheesy to mild and passive skill improvements. Everyone has a different opinion whether it should be regarded a legit way of training or not, you'll have to see for yourself if it floats your boat.

Yes, windows count as furniture and thus a nice crystal glass window will make dwarves happy when they pass by it. They have the same value mulitplayer as statues too, so building some of these in your dwarves' rooms will boost their happiness even further.