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Stockpiling them on a bridge, then retracting or raising it should still work (think "Coinstar Danger Room"), & also be cheaper.

Does Obsidianisation no longer work on the Clowns? or would that be too cheaty? (sorry, I'm still back on on DF2012).

I am a total retad when it comes to computers (and have bad English) so bear with me plese.

I have 3 cores. It seems all 3 are checked as an option for all processes by default.
If I set DF to use only no 3. Will everthing else automatically use the first 2 until those are at full capacity. Ensuring me that DF most likely is uninterfered with?

does this make sense at all?

I suspect you actually have 4 cores, numbering in Winblows (at least) starts at core #0.

If you really only have 3 cores, I suspect there's something wrong with your computer as computers are usually designed around multiples of 2 (it's a binary thing).

@Salithus, JAFANZ - sadly I have no idea.

Oh well, thanks anyway (& it's stopped doing it, but only after a reboot caused by a Steam CTD when I wasn't even running DF), & thanks for maintaining this massively useful game pack.

On Windows 7 Ultimate x64 the symlinks script fell into some sort of infinite loop, repeating so fast it was unreadable, so whilst I can add another "It didn't work", I can't say why or even which part.

edit: The r64 "Copy data from my old install" batch-file also didn't work for me just now, I did see at least 2 instances of not recognising "do" as a command, & didn't actually see anything copied (I just did it all manually).

Speaking of Obsidian, & Crossbows...

Is it just me or is weird that dwarves don't have Stonebows & Slings? (I mean sure, Obsidian wouldn't be the ideal ammo, but at least it's plentiful).

If you have a bookkeeper set to sufficient precision (& with enough office assigned), you can track your seeds, plants drinks & meals.

If you have too much booze, & need food, enable cooking  of plump helmet seeds (if you've been growing & brewing you should have plenty) & Dwarven Wine, but disable all other solid foods. ensure your plump helmet seed bag(/s) is(/are) further away from your kitchen than your booze stockpile (or just create a temporary food stockpile that only accepts from links it does have, put a garbage zone over it, then dump a bunch of plum helmet seeds on it).

Then instruct you cook to make Easy Meals, you want lots of stacks rather than large ones (probably a few more than you have dwarves).

IME seeds are never stacked, so each seed in a meal is a stack of 1 (so if they don't use booze, you'll get 2 biscuits), add booze & you might turn a given stack into 26 (as such I have been known to identify & forbid the barrels/pots with larger booze stacks until I can use them in roasts), just be sure you specify how many biscuits you want.

A stack of Seed/Wine biscuits is unlikely to ever be valuable enough to impress a dwarf who doesn't have a preference for wine (IMO), but you should have plenty of food stacks of sufficient size to be going on with for a couple of seasons, by which time you'll hopefully have set yourself up to make huge roast stacks of valuable materials intended to give happy thoughts, & buy out entire merchant caravans. (as a bonus, biscuits means your chef trains a bit faster).