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Are they set to be dumped or forbidden?

My best guess is that you're lacking the right kind of metal, wood, and shell, which is not very helpful. Cut down trees. Try to create any kind of bar you don't have. Hope that your mass fishing will lead to finding the right shells. Buy from a caravan.

As long as I keep seeing their military skills go up every month and as long as they keep training like they're supposed to, I'll just leave it at 10, then. If there is no functional difference between Train 10 and Train 2...

On that note, two questions:

1. Have any of your pump operators died of thirst? I periodically checked in on my outdoor pump hall, and cancelled the pump jobs for all the dorfs so they could eat. One fine upstanding dorf decided to Hunt For Small Animal instead of moving literally one square south to the food stockpile, and then died of dehydration when he refused to go to the drink stockpile 3 squares south.

2. Barely trained meat shields - what do you armor them with? How often do you train them? Do you give them any off-time duties aside from "Haul ALL the things!"

I have a werebadger cage.

Obviously, I need werebadger soldiers.

...that's odd.

Check your orders regarding bodies? Try to D B C claim it? Go through the Stocks menu and see if it's frobridden?

A pump stack will drain the river quickly. I once used pumps to power an artificial waterfall, and had to re-engineer a solution to get the river running downstream of my pumps.


I'm not sure about this, but couldn't you build a staircase 2 squares away, a support 1 square away, and then build a series of floors and walls before taking apart the stairs and pulling the lever to cause a cave-in dam?

Quote from: Ross Vernal on February 28, 2012, 04:03:13 am

In (almost) every fort, there is THE LEVER.

OMG. I forgot to put THE LEVER in my fort! How can you forget something like that?! Armok curse me. (If this Is really going to curse me, I'm going be sorry I wrote so.)

It's also more fun when you don't label any of your levers, and put them all right next to each other.

Dwarven Nic Cage has to be a beekeeper.

And a vampire.

The Nic Cage Song

Nic Cage Losing His Shit