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DF General Discussion / Re: Fortress Overseer v0.25 Visualizer/Exporter - now bumpmapped and shaded!
« on: September 15, 2010, 06:10:02 pm »
My computer doesn't want to know at all. I'm using integrated laptop graphics - is that it?

It seems to load fine, but then all I get is a black screen, with a few grey tiles on it every now and then, and I can't navigate around.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Visual Fortress: another 3D visualisation app
« on: September 15, 2010, 08:55:56 am »
Do you have a link for Dwarf Overseer? Can't find it anywhere...

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DF Gameplay Questions / Is platinum only useful for crafting stuff to trade?
« on: September 14, 2010, 05:24:18 pm »
is it?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Bedroom - not being used properly
« on: September 14, 2010, 03:29:07 pm »
oh, great, thanks

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Bedroom - not being used properly
« on: September 14, 2010, 12:06:12 pm »
Sorry, should've said, some are sleeping in the bedroom on the floor, some are sleeping in other rooms on the floor, or in beds in the hospital which I haven't defined as a room.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Bedroom - not being used properly
« on: September 14, 2010, 11:31:11 am »


is it because all the furniture is so close together they can't get to the stuff at the back?

edit: bedroom is top centre of image

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DF General Discussion / Re: Visual Fortress: another 3D visualisation app
« on: September 13, 2010, 07:07:06 am »
"Unable to detect supported DF version
Memory read aborted"

any ideas why?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Why aren't my dwarves sleeping in the bedroom properly?
« on: September 10, 2010, 10:02:51 am »
I've noticed that when there was training going on in the barracks, some soliders would sleep in the civilian bedroom, on the floor. I've started building a hospital, got some beds in there but not assigned it to be a room yet, and there are dwarves sleeping in those beds out in the unfinished hospital rather than the bedroom - why?

There's easily enough beds, cabinets, chests in the bedroom.

I do have one big communal room for all my 42 dwarves, rather than lots of small ones like I've seen on captnduck's video tutorials, could this be it?

oh - and there is undumped limestone over a lot of the floor, will this stop them wanting to sleep there?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Argh! I can't find a source of water for a well.
« on: September 03, 2010, 09:38:05 am »
Woohoo! I found a cavern with a lake, but on the tile there's listed: 7/7 water, the floor but also - A pile of mud.

Isn't mud a contaminant? Can I use this source?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Argh! I can't find a source of water for a well.
« on: September 02, 2010, 10:38:36 pm »
Does a tile that I can't dig through cause it's damp, labelled "Damp rough-hewn Kaolinite wall" count as an aquifer?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Argh! I can't find a source of water for a well.
« on: September 02, 2010, 07:07:22 pm »
I don't understand! There's no river in my map, there are no lakes underground, I've not gone far down enough to uncover a cavern, I'm certainly not in a position to explore a cavern, or even defend myself against what might come out.

How can I build a well? Do I just have to go without one until I get to the point when I can explore a cavern and empty it of bad guys?

edit* - I've read the wiki article and various posts on wells, I know how to build them, I just don't know how to get a source of water.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: trouble building wells (yarr)
« on: September 01, 2010, 12:33:07 pm »
Sorry to bump an old thread but I have this same problem. I understand about the open space requirement but I don't understand - how can I create open space?

Channeling creates a downward slope on the top level and an upward slope on the level underneath. How do I create an actual hole?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Farming is so SLOW! What am I doing wrong?
« on: September 01, 2010, 08:40:27 am »
I've got 21 dwarves in my fort, 2 of which are dedicated farmers, (all other labours disabled), and another 2 which have farming enabled but have other stuff to do.

I have farms built on muddy silty clay loam (about 120/130 tiles), and am farming plump helmets all year round, I've got 100s of spores sitting in barrels.

I would've thought this would give me more plump helmets than I could eat, but I never have more than 2 or 3 in stock, and that's when I'm not even brewing them.

I've just had two dwarves fall unhappy because of lack of booze (plump helmets are my only source ATM).

I don't know what I'm doing wrong!

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DF Gameplay Questions / First visit from traders, what do YOU use it for?
« on: August 31, 2010, 04:44:40 pm »
Just found out about this place, and won't abuse it with endless questions, this'll be my last for a while.

Just started my 5th save on fortress mode, and this time finally rushed crafting and jewellery early enough to have something to trade, but realised that this time, there isn't actually anything I desperately need.

So, is there something somebody here always tries to trade for? Something that I can only get by trading? Any ideas...

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Keep getting killed by troglodytes etc before I can get a proper military
« on: August 31, 2010, 02:01:14 pm »
Won't my own dwarves set off traps?

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