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Back in 40d I had a fort where I kept finding goblin limbs wedged in the fortifications on the second and third floors of my guard tower. It was kind of annoying because nobody would collect them.

Did you have collect outside refuse on?

I was once doing a test in the arena pitting 50 dwarves against 50 dwarves with moderately better shields to see what effect quality had.  I decked them out in cotton candy armor, except I didn't know that you had to give them two gauntlets and two boots in the item list, cause each line only gives them one.

So all the dwarves went at each other completely armored except for their left hands and feet.

I had a pile of about 80 severed left hands+feet when the carnage ended.

Quote from: Urist McTaverish on October 18, 2010, 04:37:21 am

Quote from: Drakeero on October 17, 2010, 10:41:49 pm

As for stone management, it just bugs me.  I'm kinda OCD about it.  I don't want to use hide, and I don't want to leave them laying around.  They just have to be filed away for use later.

Best thing you can do is just mass dump them into a custom garbage dump one square wide, preferably nearby the shops that use them the most.  It'll be a bitch to reclaim all that stone (unless you set up a macro) but it'll all be much more easily managed.

You can mass reclaim, you know that, right? You can't even mass dump without being in mass reclaim mode, it's the default setting after you hit d-b

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So... Wallpacked... the idea to cave-in past the aquifer didn't go so well (Read: complete disaster).  The poor suicide dwarf that was the first to remove the construction died, along with a dog that was too close.  Unfortunately I had to cave in past my food stockpile, so there's now a bajillion submerged plump helmets that are going to rot, but that's not too big of an issue.  There's also a SECOND dwarf skeleton here, but I can't even find the announcement proclaiming his death.  My last hope is to either expand my original breach in the first layer of the aquifer to a 7x7, which would require a lot of drowning and pretty much rebuilding the entire system and starting from scratch at an entirely new site... or abusing the fact that the map freezes for all of like 20 days in winter, where I get to frantically work past the ice and pray that no one gets entombed or drowned.

EDIT: Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.

There's a file in the same folder as the init.txt, called announcements I think.  Find the Cave-in message and remove the P from it

Do you have two levels of aquifer? You could just drain one into the other and that would get your flow.

If you can steal a whip, and are using the default RAWs, lashes are extremely powerful.

Back on topic.  From my experience (and mostly my opinion) the more important skills are defensive than offensive.  Dwarves can also spar with their preferred weapons and both will get skill in their own individual choices (Just don't give them weapons that are really good.)

Ah... didn't think of that... not near the ocean at all though.  There is a lake upstream of the river, but I didn't even embark in that region.

Do pumps still desalinate?