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Ranged or a stray kitten should do it.

Do Not. DO NOT use your melee unit. They will one shot it, but as soon as it dies, it will explode killing all of them.

Backpacks are mandatory.  Period. If you play adventure mode, you know why: a backpack allow you to switch items without dropping them.

Without a backpack, a dwarf has a lot of trouble equipping anything that takes more than two hands, especially if you, say, order it to equip five shields, twelve cloaks, an artifact boot and a pair of silver daggers in addition to its normal uniform.

If you've been cranking out steel masterwork and your militia commander is going to war wearing a helmet and civilian clothes, it is likely because you didn't make backpacks.

How does one reform a pagan tribal nation into a merchant Republic? have absolute authority, port city as capital.

odds are he climbed out somehow, especially if you were removing stairs. Since climbing is in the game, isolating an area is harder

NOO! They do not have to be set to inactive. That piece of bad info has been floating around forever, but it's not true.

For marksdwarves to train at the targets, the following must be true:
An archery target must be set as a room, and assigned for the squad with the marksdwarves to (T)rain
The archery target must be set for the correct direction (Fire from north, fire from south, etc)
There must be bolts available, and the squad must have bolts assigned to them.
The squad needs crossbows.


I am less sure about the following items, but I always do these things:
Put a bed in the room with the archery targets, set that as barracks assigned to the marksdwarf squad.
Make quivers for all the dwarves.

When I do those things, my Marksdwarves do a lot of target practice, while on active/training duty.

Alternatively, forget about the targets and order your marksdwarves to kill the local wildlife.  Live practice works very well!  You might get annoyed with all the bolts laying around everywhere though.

Really odd, the inactive trick is how I trained my marksdwarfs just a few versions ago (40.19), worked for me then...

I really like the design, the art and the powers.

I worry about the sanity stuff though, because while the code of of honor is interesting, it might lead to a snowball effect. E.g. you get hurt bad in a fight and run, which hits your sanity, which summons a shadow monster who hurts you, so you run, losing sanity etc.

I got attacked in the .19 fort, I think they just take longer and don't have the same scripted conditions for coming.

Quote from: Dorsidwarf on December 25, 2014, 07:11:38 pm

HFS is the reason you mine adanantine. Do NOT GOOGLE OR WIKI IT
, it's for your own enjoyment, okay?


The HFS is by far the biggest surprise I ever had in DF.

So I cleared up all the lava issues. You don't have to answer this, but do you think "HFS" is something 10 markdwarves and 32(EDIT:22) war dogs can handle?

Having once lost a fort with three full candy legendary melee squads backed by eighty dwarves with crossbows, I cringed reading this question.