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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves

« on: November 28, 2010, 02:08:37 am »

Dear Urist McFisherdwarf,

I appreciate you and the other 10 migrants who came to help my fortress this summer. However, respectful as your fishing skill is, I question the wisdom of coming to a desert with fishing as your only marketable skill.

From, the Overseer.

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Dear Engravers,

Yes, I realize that this site was settled for a few days in year 103 before it was abandoned, you do not need to engrave this event over every single wall in the fortress.

From, the Overseer.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: My Dwarves Wont Chop Down Trees?

« on: November 28, 2010, 01:11:28 am »

careful, DT gets buggy around mining and woodcutting, it assigns them the labor without assigning them a pick/axe to do it with. Mining and woodcutting have to be designated within the game.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Melting Ice

« on: November 28, 2010, 01:10:19 am »

you need to bring magma up to heat the ice to melting point.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: My Dwarves Wont Chop Down Trees?

« on: November 28, 2010, 12:07:32 am »

make sure they have woodcutting turned on?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Dealing with an Aquifer

« on: November 28, 2010, 12:06:31 am »

what are those yellow X's in your tileset? knowing that could help me figure this out.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Face Palm moments you had

« on: November 27, 2010, 11:13:32 pm »

Quote from: Urist McUristy on November 27, 2010, 10:59:23 pm

Quote from: twilightdusk on November 27, 2010, 10:58:07 pm
Getting distracted halfway through embark, and as a result giving two of my dwarves woodcutting in terrain with no wood.
Theres always caverns.

doesn't reduce the level of facepalm I had when I started looking around for trees to chop...

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Face Palm moments you had

« on: November 27, 2010, 10:58:07 pm »

Getting distracted halfway through embark, and as a result giving two of my dwarves woodcutting in terrain with no wood.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Dealing with an Aquifer

« on: November 27, 2010, 10:26:16 pm »

Do they have any picks? If your miners got frozen...maybe they had the only picks?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Dealing with an Aquifer

« on: November 27, 2010, 10:04:24 pm »

anyone frozen in ice is dead, no two ways about it. On the bright side, metal items are preserved, including those pickaxes, if you mine out the square they died in.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Digging down instead of hillside

« on: November 27, 2010, 09:20:56 pm »

I think the ramp has to go in a certain direction, my dwarves get confused and wont use ramps if I build out from them a certain way.

- = floor
\ or / = ramp
x = solid wall

----- ----
-----/ xxxx

works fine.

------ xxxx
xxxxxx\-----

works fine

----- xxxxx
-----/ xxxxx

confuses my dwarves. I think you have to be able to go in a certain direction while going over the ramp (if the only direction you can move is east, you have to be able to keep moving east down the ramp).

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Urist McKillNobles or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lever

« on: November 27, 2010, 09:10:29 pm »

Quote from: LuckyNinja on November 27, 2010, 09:03:38 pm

Okay, in the end I've gone with both of TwilightDusk's suggestions on both accounts (so many thanks to you good sir), but thanks to all for your suggestions. I can now drop my nobles down an 80-storey shaft into a spike pit with impunity >