Bay 12 Games Forum

Quote from: Zaik on September 21, 2010, 08:50:49 pm

set a 1 tile prepared food stockpile and 1 tile drink stockpile in each room.

1-tile drink stockpiles don't actually work - they get filled with a single empty barrel (like any food stockpile), but that barrel will never actually be filled with booze. Any booze stockpile must be at least 2 tiles.

Crap, just checked my jail and you're right.

I know they put booze in it when i first set it, but it looks like they never took the empty barrel away. If idiots wouldn't go in there to drink it wouldn't have been nearly as big a problem :/

Make sure you can either melt the corpses or butcher them for metal ore/bars.

Go to the (m)ilitary screen, then select "Captain of the guard" and hit c to create the squad. Select their uniform(i recommend not setting one). Then assign a dwarf to the first slot and he will be your captain of the guard. He'll arrest and drag to jail or beat criminals. I recommend either setting a REALLY weak captain of the guard or waiting until you can set up a very good jail. I don't know what it matters, but the game seems to want enough jail capacity to handle 10% of your dwarves at any given time, so dig out enough 3x3 rooms for all your dwarves. Then make the most expensive metal chains you can(if you have lots of steel that works, otherwise grab random non-weapons metal from a caravan), smooth + engrave the whole thing, put a bed, table, chair in each room, and set a 1 tile prepared food stockpile and 1 tile drink stockpile in each room.

Dwarves can go to jail pissed and come out ecstatic that way.

The same way a legendary axedwarf can get killed by a single GCS biting him and swinging him around by his cheek or eyeball. Total shit luck. Stonefall traps can jam skull through brain though iron helmets, i've seen it numerous times. However Stonefall traps also have TERRIBLE accuracy, even using masterwork mechanisms. Your goblin could have dodged and blocked enough to raise his skills enough to dodge and block the rest. Crazy RNG screwyness, but it does happen.

One thing to watch for(just happened to me, actually) is if an archer picks a stack of ammo and you forbid it before they get to it, they won't select a different one, instead just standing around the barracks like an idiot.

The only way i could fix it was removing their ammo and then setting it again.

to specify, it is o, W, then whatever letter is next to "Auto Collect Webs", i think w.

Took me FOREVER to figure that out. I used to just forbid all the webs.

I'd try it on the elves.

If they don't like it, just steal all their stuff anyway.

That's better than nothing, how do i work that?