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Can you no longer split a stack of bolts with marksdwarves, archery targets, and a channel dug in front of them? They don't appear to use the targets at all while the channel is there. And if that's the case is there any other method for splitting the stack to do the whole infinite metal thing?

So I made a successful impulse ramp. Sort of. I have a long, winding minecart track all the way down to my magma forges. I built impulse ramps to launch a minecart back up to the surface. And it works. Except I can't seem to get the last bit of it right.

https://ibb.co/qJhPR52

On the left is the last segment of my track. The three curved pieces are 3 track-ramps. That's what I've been using for the rest of my track and it's been working fine. On the right is the level where I want it to pop up and end. Except that no matter what combination of tracks/ramps/lengths I try the cart just keeps bouncing back down instead of rising up that last z-level. I tried impulse ramps and no impulse ramps, I tried adding walls, I tried carving out the top as you can see, and each time the cart just bounces back. What's the solution here?

Anyone else have the issue where you designate items for melting, but they remain on your stocks screen even after you smelters say there are no objects left to melt? I have a ton of weapons, armor, ect... with the little red M symbol by them, and yet my dwarfs are telling me I have no more meltable items, so I'm assuming they've all been smelted back down into ingots. But they're all still on the stocks list.

Well derp. I thought that thread was in this forum but it had disappeared. Apparently it's in the other one. -_-

Is there a in-depth guide for this mod somewhere? The manual that comes with it just doesn't do all that great a job at explaining things, especially the PLETHORA of new armor and weapons. One of my dwarfs just created an artifact Falcon Knight Arms. What the heck is that? What ammunition does it use? The manual explains nothing! :c Not to mention the massive list of foreign armors. How the heck am I supposed to create a uniform if I have no idea what Rigid Shellplate falls under? Is that plate armor? Leather armor? Hardened leather auuuuuuugh.

So, yeah, any guides for this thing? =/

So, my fort is littered with bins that the dwarfs just don't seem to want to pick up and put in stockpiles. They're filled with assorted crap, from crafts to soap to pilfered clothing from sieges, sometimes all in the same bin. Even when I enable collecting refuse from outside, none go to pick them up. I have bins littering various parts of my fort inside, as well, and these too just sit where they are with no one coming to haul them around. Is there a particular reason? None are forbidden that I can tell. I have bins allowed. There's plenty of space. I even just made a catch-all-stockpile inside that accepts everything just to see if the mixed bins were the issue, and they still don't get moved. And I tried cleanowned with DFHack to see if a dwarf had claimed the things and just weren't moving them, and this was still a no go. I'm at a loss, really.

Also, a secondary question: I'm trying to use minecarts to setup a quantum stockpile of mastercrafted furniture. I have two stockpiles, one that takes from the stockpile full of furniture, but only the mastercrafted beds, doors, cabinets, ect., and one that the minecart just dumps it onto another stockpile that takes from links only. For whatever reason, the dwarves refuse to fill the first minecart with furniture even when there's clearly items there that meet the criteria. I don't know what the deal is.

I go to the trouble to find a site with no aquifer, flux stone, a river, shallow AND deep metals, soil, clay, trees, in a temperate yet savage environment. I start carving out a grand fortress from the mountainside, start setting up my farms, workshops, ect...

Then I decide to check DFHack and see what shallow and deep metals I actually -have-.

Tetrahedrite and nickel. That's it, not counting Adamantite. No iron, gold, platinum, not even any lignite or coal, Nothing.



This happens to me ALL the time. I get a perfect embark site and the only metals it has is copper or something else equally as crappy.

Now, I've used burrows for a while, mainly of the "Red Alert" type where I just order all my civilians to GET TO THE CHOP...er, I mean, order all my civilians to stay indoors.

I was wondering how effective or efficient it would be to, instead of creating one or two large dormitory levels, split the quarters up so that the workers are closer to their respective industries? I realize that there would still be the whole 'noise' issue to deal with (If that's still in effect? I assume that a 4 floor buffer is still required between a workshop and living quarters in order to eliminate noise causing dwarves to become grouchy? How much does these really effect their mood?).

And, if I did split up residential districts, is it worth confining the dwarves to their specific work areas? I'd expect I'd still need a food/booze stockpile, water source, and dining areas for each burrow, so I'm just not sure if this would be more effective than simply having a single giant living complex somewhere in the middle of my fort.