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I'm trying to train some recruits using training weapon and found out they are actually very good vs unamoured opponents. Slug men snail men etc dont survive much then couple hits.

So let my dwarfs eat juts plain plump helmets then right?

As for planting, yes each farm plot grows a single crop for the first 3 seasons and fallows for the winter season ( i've heard bad things about the winter season )

what bad things? My crop grow just fine.

I do that, but some are more passive than others. Some marksdwarves sit around and shrug, others immediately start shooting whatever they see. I wonder if this is a personality thing.

It seems well trained markmen tend to have further firing range and thus are more proactive. Also, if they got no bolt they just sit there.

I did see a suggestion about renaming squads, and I support that one.  With random squad names, I keep getting names that all look alike and it drives me batty.  It'd be nice if we could rename them to something we'll remember or be able to tell apart, at least.
For now you can keep rerolling squads so their name start alphabetically. That way you have to remember just one character.


Elaborating on this, it would also be keen if we could give nicknames to buildings as well (levers, workshops, bridges, etc).  I realize the note system is handy for this, but that doesn't help when you have five mason's workshops and are going through the Buildings menu (although since it points out the location in that menu, the point is moot... BUT STILL!).
Shouldnt your 5 manson workshops like, next to each other and neatly lined up? Might as well put all workshops at one place. Very easy to find them then.


The important part of my nicknaming suggestion is items.  It seems that the only reliable way to get my dwarfs to use the weapons/armor I'd like them to use is to assign individual weapons/armor.  When you have five adamantine axes of the same quality, you start to lose track of what got assigned to who (especially since it seems that items aren't always in the same place on the list every time).  Naming the items ("Urist's Axe," "Ral's Axe," etc, for example) would really really be keen.  And nifty.  Maybe even groovy.
Assign them to use cotton axe instead of just "axe" They'd pick the appropriate item then.

Not really a question for this topic but... I see most of the people here putting quotes in their sigs. So I was wondering... Why? What kind of quotes should be put there? I want a sig too but I don't want to be different...

The best sigs are the one that's worth the extra time it take to load it on everyone else's screen and the time it take for them to read it, intentionally or otherwise. Assume they do read them every time, and make it worth.

Quote from: Internet Kraken on October 27, 2010, 10:36:14 am

Provided zombie whales don't burst into the dining room again.

You know, before I discovered Dwarf Fortress, that sentence would have seemed very strange to me.

On the contrary, I've seen that before

Quote from: rephikul on October 27, 2010, 03:21:19 pm

When I assign stuff to be taken OFF the depot but they dont get removed in time before the traders go away, they seem to NEVER get touched by haulers. There're 6 idlers now but they wont pick up those damn star saphires o.O Is this some sorts of bug?

Do you have a gem stockpile with free space in it?

Also make sure you bought 'star sapphires' and not 'large star sapphires'.  Large Gems go in a finished goods stockpile, and are mostly useless.

I'm pretty sure it's depot-related issue because when i individually mark items for dumping and undump them when they are being moved they get moved to the proper stockpiles. I've fixed the problem by rebuilding the depot, tho.