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Suggested, discussed (Dozens of times), declared a good idea. On the eternal suggestions list #203 with 2 votes....Well, then.
They may not be herbivores, but you can still tell them to stay in a pasture when they're tame....Metal is a nothing-vore.
OP: I'm surprised nobody mentioned it, but make sure to turn the mineral scarcity setting down. The default of 1,000 is very, very limiting in my experience. It would be a shock to you coming from .18 to have such few minerals. Most people seem to play around ~500 scarcity (lower is better).Gotcha.
and five alligators with yellow and brown wounds, one unconscious-all the more reason to stay hidden until someone makes them venomous.]; therefore it seems to be to attract a mate. However, that would imply that only the males (or maybe only the females) are garishly colored; for females (or maybe males) there is no reason to be garish, and in fact it is a disadvantage-how many swamps do you know that are rainbow-colored?They're so badass, they WANT everyone to know they're comin'.Makes no biological sense, but this is DF.)
Once something dies, the function it fulfilled is gone forever. The game is built on a massive amount of entropic decay. Societies cannot function, they can only collapse....That is really dark.
Butchery of dead corpses is automatic?A.) So that I don't have to remember to butcher it when it decays.I thought butchery of eligible skeletons was automatic as well?
Global.
A. The horse and buggy has some advantages over cars. Ask any environmentalist
Off topic, but this is very wrong.
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/578.html
"The normal city horse produced between fifteen and thirty-five pounds of manure a day..."
"Citizens frequently complained about the "pulverized horse dung" which blew into their faces..."
http://www.banhdc.org/archives/ch-hist-19711000.html
"Benjamin Franklin complained in the late eighteenth century of the “thundering of coaches, chariots, chaises, waggons, drays and the whole fraternity of noise” that assailed the ears of Philadelphians."
http://www.skytran.net/18EnergyEff/Relative%20Pollution.htm
"Feeding each horse consumed 5 acres of land per year."
"In 1880, an average of 41 dead horses (1,300 pound each) had to be carted from the streets each day (15,000 annual)."
A. No, I have dwarves that refuse to swim several z-levels in salt water to fight a fish.Squad of 3, train minimum2, means 2 dorfs will do military things (indiv. combat drill, dabbling biter demonstration, maybe spar) while the third will be a civilian. Which 2 will be "training" will vary, unless you set 2 of them as preferred under the "Active/Train" alert in their schedule. If you set the squads alert level to inactive, or change the order to no scheduled orders, then all three will do indiv. combat drill.They can't find a path to the halibut.
You might want to try setting a kill order on some easy wildlife like foxes, rabbits, and groundhogs. It will give them much more experience.
JMZ
Oddly enough, though, that's how I normally train military.
Wait, you have dwarves that refuse to jump in a river and fight a fish?Are you SURE you're playing Dwarf Fortress?
JMZ
Channel out a second path for the water to take. I had the same issue you have and that solved the problem.I now have a use for that aquifer-pit!
However it created a new one, as it hasnt stopped raining on my map all year. Now a large portion of it is covered in water. But at least the fortress is safe.
I read somewhere that they're supposed to be based on shriekers from Tremors.Beak dogs are basically big velociraptors. With beaks. So they're more like beak velociraptors, really. Beak dogs is shorter though."Raptor"?
Squad of 3, train minimum2, means 2 dorfs will do military things (indiv. combat drill, dabbling biter demonstration, maybe spar) while the third will be a civilian. Which 2 will be "training" will vary, unless you set 2 of them as preferred under the "Active/Train" alert in their schedule. If you set the squads alert level to inactive, or change the order to no scheduled orders, then all three will do indiv. combat drill.They can't find a path to the halibut.
You might want to try setting a kill order on some easy wildlife like foxes, rabbits, and groundhogs. It will give them much more experience.
JMZ
