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(v) to select units
(p) for preferences and labors
(e) work "dogs" (they can be any hunting or war animal)
(r) to assign animals
You can assign the number of animals but not the type.
Both are done in pairs.About making boots and gauntlets.I'm pretty sure they are made in pairs, but not assigned in pairs.
Does my armorer make pairs automatically? As in, I tell him to make 4 gauntlets, and he automatically makes 4 pairs of gauntlets, instead of 4 gauntlets?
Basically, do I need 40 or 20 gauntlets/boots for my 20-dwarf army?
Much obliged.
P.S. : Also, and this part is just curiosity, how does the armorer, and the dwarves wearing the armor, distinguish between left and right versions of items?
Like, if you assign a low boot to a dwarf, they only put on one low boot, so you have to assign two.
I could be wrong.
Anyhow, my question this time is why are my dwarves not cleaning up the dead dog corpse or the dead kobold theive? I have a large number of them purely hauling and most have cleaning on but no one is doing anything about it...
Hmm, I've no clue how to do that. Does it have to do with "export local image"
I don't know how we've gone so long without having a tutorial for that, but we shall go without one no longer!
Export the worldgen parameters and such, write down where the site is, then save it all in a folder somewhere and come back to it someday when you're ready.
Alternatively, it's pretty easy to savescum and find a [redacted] whenever you want.
One thing to note about the sword:
It hugely boosts your fortress value, which attracts thieves. A large number of thieves. This quickly leads to ambushes by kobold bowmen.
So if you see the sword, you'd better focus on your defenses even faster than before.
Just to let you know: you don't need soap, plaster or splints for a working hospital. A lot of wounds are just cuts, so these only need thread and cloth for suturing/bandaging. While washing with soap reduces the chance of infection, it's not such a large chance that you need worry about it.
this is just my top floor. imagine this with 120 dwarfs (i don't know the exact number (...)
Water won't freeze if it's covered by natural stone.
If you have a murky pool or stream, what you can do is dig out a reservoir right next to the water source, possibly with a floodgate, and then break through. If you're tapping into an infinite water source like a stream or river, make sure you close the floodgates and read up on water pressure. If not, closing the floodgates will allow you to refill your reservoir if it ever gets low.
