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"Tweak makeown" fixed the problem, thanks everyone. Now he's happily sitting near a pool and providing my camp with a stable supply of pond turtles.

Also, seriously, an elf-friendly fortress? Cleanse it with magma.

Magma? Who needs magma when you can play Kobold Camp and repel warlock sieges using sticks and mud? 

Upon embarking I've discovered a lonely elf standing on the map. He doesn't move at all and is listed us "friendly" on the unit list. Is it possible to make him a fort member using dfhack or any other plugin?

I've started my first Kobold Camp today and now I want to protect it with traps.
Becaus I dont have rocks for mechanisms  I wanted to use this new traps from the trap setter, but how do I plant them?

If you have clay on the map, batch clay oven is the best way to get mechanisms. 1 clay + 2 logs + 1 fuel = 5 mechanisms. You can use scrap logs to make it even more material efficient.

Did you get those 60 goblins because of the secret thieves tunnel?

Are crayfish shells used for anything? My kobolds use turtle shells just fine but crayfish shells just stay in the refuse stockpile. When I try to order something like "make shell crafts" or "decorate with shell" I get the "no mat available" message.

I've got a moody dwarf who needs cloth. I've got a cloth stockpile that has both plant fiber and silk cloth. The Dwarf is roughly 20 squares from the cloth

Why won't he use the cloth?

Nick

Wiki strange mood article says there are three kinds of cloth and according to the Murphy's law you probably need yarn cloth.

Quote from: Mechlin on April 25, 2011, 05:15:39 am

And btw is there a 100%-reliable way to postpone the meeting with the outpost liaison?
For some reason the don't-get-a-barony-until-caravan-leaves bug is still present in .25.

Nobody else is seeing that bug in .25.  Why do you think that the behavior you're seeing is caused by a bug that has already been fixed?  It would be much more reasonable to look for other causes.

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I'm trying to get a barony in the first year

Well, let's look at the requirements:

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20 population
100k created wealth
10k exported wealth

The second one is the only one you can directly control.  Let's assume you manage to make 100k worth of stuff in the first week.  This causes (relatively) huge migrant waves to come to you in summer and autumn, and you manage to hit 20 population before the autumn caravan (and liaison) arrives.

But now what?  You've got 0 exported wealth.  So when you talk to the liaison, you are not eligible to become a barony.

You are therefore delaying the meeting with the liaison not because of an old bug that's already been fixed, but because you are trying to delay the tallying of your exported wealth.  The caravan has to leave the map with your exported goods in order for them to be counted as exported wealth.  Therefore you have to delay the meeting with the liaison until this accounting tidbit has been registered.  This is not a bug.  This is simply the only way to meet your stated goal.

I know that it has been fixed and I know about the wealth counter. But it still happened to me in vanilla .25 - I hadn't been offered a barony even after three years with 6000k created wealth, 50+ population and about 300k exported wealth (I gave tons of goods to each and every caravan). The diplomat left after usual trade agreements... until I delayed the meeting and it worked like charm.

I dunno, maybe I'm just that unlucky.