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Quote from: Pukako on September 10, 2010, 07:05:25 am

Burrows issue.

Suddenly two of my better craftsdwarfs head out to replace traps in the path of the goblin invasion and Urist McWFT? (fish dissector) heads out with no job to wander the wilderness.

What am I doing wrong? How do I make them just stay in the burrow?

I've heard it said that what a burrow actually means is "Nothing outside of this burrow is usable for any jobs you need to do."  Rather than "You must remain within this burrow."  So, a dwarf with No Job can still go wandering randomly anywhere his stupid little heart leads him.

Clearly the answer to that is to give them more work.  Lazy little nuggets.  For example, it's obviously extremely vital to your fortress that this whole quantum stockpile of mica be moved over there.  Immediately.

Thanks.  Could explain things. Still, lost 4 dwarves (two militia, two random fisherdwarves) in the battle, and immediately got 23 migrants, so am actually ahead of where I started....

Burrows issue.

I thought I finally had the hang of them, and for the previous two sieges, all dwarves head inside and are safe.  Now, alert activated, confine civilians to burrows - sweet.  Suddenly two of my better craftsdwarfs head out to replace traps in the path of the goblin invasion and Urist McWFT? (fish dissector) heads out with no job to wander the wilderness.

What am I doing wrong? How do I make them just stay in the burrow?

Just managed it, actually - no idea how.  Issue now is when I order the nicely assembled squads to kill the goblins just over there, they all sprint inside, away from the goblins, except for poor old Dekol, now mincemeat.  Suggestions?

Quote from: Pukako on September 04, 2010, 12:05:49 am

Hi

Not sure if it's a bug, a feature, or something already covered (searches gave me nothing), but whenever I zone a hospital greater than about 5x5, the game crashes.  Any ideas if this is a normal thing, or if I've got something weird happening?

Just lost a 5 year old fortress after fighting off a siege in a cunning network of tunnels - sigh...

5 year old fortress and no backup files?

Yes, but the anguish of going through the siege again isn't worth it.  Started a new fortress on the side of a volcano. Magma = Awesome!!! I'm thinking of going all Boatmurdered on the next goblin siege...

Thank you! 

One axedwarf had wandered near it, in a mined out section of the forges, and spent a long time being wailed on by the FB (I think he's lost a leg or two, but she's one of the few with full steel armour).  10 seconds after the squads got near the FB, the cook is hauling it away somewhere.  Hopefully not straight to the kitchen, but it wouldn't surprise me...

Hi - not sure if this should be here or somewhere else.

Third forgotten beast rampaging through my fortress.  Last two have been sorted by my squad without too much problem when I order them to kill it.  Trouble is, they are not attacking this one, and all have the "Soldier; cannot follow orders" tag.  ALL of them are conducting individual training drills, despite me having a maximum of 4 at a time training.

I just turned off the barracks, and now they are going emo in their rooms with the same order while one animal trainer is going toe-to-toe with the beast.  Tried cancelling and reissuing the order, everything I can think of, but they are not doing anything. Very annoying.  Seen this complaint a few times but no real answers.

Any ideas how to get these axedwarves moving in the right direction?

So the lever is now linked to a door next to it.  The door states it is controlled by mechanisms (good) but no option to do any actions with the lever.

Which means I dug a 7 level deep pit under my entrance bridge for no reason.  Oh, well.  But I would like to be able to use the odd levelr...

Hi everyone

I've tried searching various forums for help, but any search with the term "lever" in it only gives me thousands of post-game stories about releasing water/magma/elephants/kittens...

My problem is that I can't link any levers to my drawbridges, or if I do, they don't work - haven't been able to for the last few fortresses.  The bridge opens the right way, the setup with the lever goes well, the mechanisms are used and in place, but using the 'q' option on the lever doesn't give me an option to pull it, but I can't re=link to the bridge.

Anything obvious I've missed? I'm a beginner but seem to have most of the basics sorted, and this one is annoying me.

Cheers