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You could also have a one-tile-wide corridor leading to the sand-collecting room, with a pressure plate a few tiles from the end (where the sand is droped) that operates a hatch one z-level above the bottom. You need to add the hatch first, of course.
Or, if you feel dorfy:

Throw sand tiles down to the magma.

Quote from: Reese on August 18, 2012, 01:23:07 pm

about the closest thing to making workshops use wheelbarrows that you can do is make a 1 tile stock pile (no room even for that?) that takes from links only and takes from your main pile, gives to the workshop in question, and give it one wheelbarrow (then have plenty of idle stone haulers to keep the 1 tile pile filled)

The stockpile would have to be at least 2 squares.  Otherwise, if it were 1 tile, a dwarf would move a wheelbarrow onto that square, and then the game would think the stockpile is full, and would never generate any move item jobs.

I'm pretty sure stockpiles get filled on wheelbarrow squares. It's happened to me.

What I do is make a fort, set up basic defenses, make a militia from migrants (I do this whenever migrants come), then dig down to find magma. And caverns, but that's mostly on accident.

Where do you store said gems? Could a similar hauling problem be the case there--say, if all the gems are in a bin being hauled out to another gem?

I don't believe that he has contributed personally (i.e. actually edited any pages), however he has answered questions before of various subjects that then have the answers or quotes placed on the wiki for access by others.

Quote from: weenog on August 18, 2012, 04:02:03 pm

I suddenly wonder how much of the code is comments to remind himself what the hell is going on.

Probably a large percentage of them. 

The raws seem to indicate that a fair portion is. Look at the CREATURE:DWARF entry. There's a lot of others, too, but the dwarf has most of the comments.

Quote from: dwarfhoplite on August 13, 2012, 06:37:50 am

If you could set animals goblins nobles for sacrifice from the animals menu for spesific altars.

Fixed that for you.

You can't designate nobles from the animalsmenu.

Moving onto serious stuff...

Ah, but what about worship levels?

A more deceitful/uncaring dwarf could gain "levels" (dubious/normal/ardent) slower than more open and trusting dwarfs. Dwarfs who ardently worship a certain god would be more likely to receive miracles or "blessings" from them than a dubious worshipper. Even better, enemies have gods too, who also grant bonuses to them. Perhaps worship could even function like a skill - being possessed and completing an artifact instantly levels the possessee's worship level of the god most closely related to their artifact to the maximum (It menaces with spikes of wax [...] Ardim was associated with wax, love and revenge.), making them more eligible for miracles.

Dwarves should tend to gain faith faster if they agree with the teachings of the god--e.g, a deceitful dwarf would enjoy the company of the priests of Dorf!Loki, and would therefore become faithful to him/her faster than a normal dwarf would.

Well...
1. Once the player's role is better-defined, then we can start. Until then? No.
2. Once that happens, commands should be able to be given by any noble who can see a dwarf, and can be spread from dwarf to dwarf. These commands can be things like "Station Squad X here" or "There is an order to make 30 rock mugs, get on it ASAP." Once a dwarf who heard the message could, one would run to an appropriate dwarf and inform them. Once one, for instance, mason was informed, the job would be known to all; they put it up in the Mason's Guildhall or something. This just makes it easier.
3. Children can be runners. This makes them less useless.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on August 17, 2012, 04:41:58 pm

No, dwarves should be hurting each other in ways OTHER than throwing. Or not throw in training, either way. Wrestling is the least lethal martial art a dwarf can learn for the battlefield, why is it the only one dwarves can hurt each other with while training?

Because they didn't put down soft mats for them to throw on.

Then other martial arts should also offer risk.