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No wooden door can hold a dwarf who wants to pass!
Actually, in my turn exactly these doors were working fine. Somehow someone screwed the game mechanics!
Agreed. It HAS to be a glitch. And a very dangerous one at that. :S
So those doors now have a mind of their own don't they?
I really couldn't say. They lock perfectly fine and they act normal in most cases. But if a dwarf wants to go through a door he goes through the door. Doesn't seem to be any way to stop them barring a burrow. It locks zombies etc. in just fine. I assume what happened initially is that a dwarf got injured and was taken to the hospital which resulted in the 3 zombies locked inside getting out.
Hmmm. Is it just me or is this fortress a weirdness magnet?
I had heard it mentioned that the game keeping track of deceased creatures actually means that butchering huge amounts may decrease performance?Dead things don't pathfind, so while it could be worse than without any animals, it will be better than with them alive.
I'd love to get an answer on that, as I only recall reading it in passing on these forums, and it could affect many peoples decisions on food supply, etc.
It might be [LIKES_FIGHTING] and/or [LARGE_PREDATOR] that makes a creature scare Dwarves away.Then why do dwarves get spooked by cavies and ducks and such?
I have embarked next to a river. A big one. And i'm not happy that I don't have complete control over it. I want to dam it with walls and floodgates with one floodgate every three tiles. Each floodgate will have it's own lever and I want a master lever to control every floodgate at once. My questions are:1. No, but you can link your master lever to all of the floodgates. And the danger room, too.
1. Can I link my master lever to the floodgate control levers instead of the floodgates themselves?
2. If I dam the river completely, will my upstream water wheels stop working?
3. Since the river freezes every winter, will this damage the dam at all? I'm pretty sure it won't but there's still that bit of doubt that makes me ask anyway.
