Bay 12 Games Forum

So much for selling all these skull totems to elves....

You're supposed to have something like one chain per 10 dwarves of population, otherwise the number of chains available will show up red on the justice screen. It pretty much takes a tantrum spiral to fill up all of the cells at that ratio in my experience though.

I usually make individual 3x3 cells with a chain in the middle, door, bed, table, and chair, and a food stockpile in the hopes that inmates will recover happiness faster. Table/chair also comes in handy if someone who needs an office ends up in jail (approving work orders from jail and such). Gold table and chair might not be a bad idea, even if the little bastards don't deserve them. Don't forget to use q on the chain to make it into a room used for (j)ustice.

If you want to get fancy, create separate food and drink stockpiles in each cell. I find that busy (or yelling and screaming) dwarves will in particular tend to let prisoners die of thirst. Expect random dwarves to randomly raid jail cells for their food though that isn't much of a problem.

I have read that the demonic fortress will show up in the architecture value of your fort, which (in addition to looking to see if you have an adamantine sword in z Stocks) is one way to tell immediately if you have a demonic fortress in your embark map. So it seems quite possible that attackers would show up faster because they're psychically valuing your fort by including the demonic fort.

They sure don't seem interested in killing the puppy or war giraffe that I tossed over the wall....

I guess it could just be considered "cheating" since you might learn about new stuff going on that the dwarves wouldn't really know about, but I'm really not sure what kind of useful response your dwarves could have to any of that yet....

Don't forget you can buy up every useless steel thing caravans have and then melt them down. I got a few steel bars melting down steel toy hammers and other random useless steel crap. Kind of expensive especially if the steel items are high quality but at least it means you get more steel and I could make a few nice steel items with the resulting metal.

The complexity of pathing up 3 dimensionally through twisty caverns reduces the FPS to almost 0 for a while, but get them into an area where the only path is a single hallway to the fort or something and the FPS goes back up to something thats still slow as hell but much better than 0.

And once they slaughter all of your dwarves FPS is great again. I didn't need that fort anyway.

I think the problem is, how would the game synchronize the state of the world if your adventurer were to, for example, visit your currently operating fortress while your fortress game is suspended? Even if you didn't visit your own fortress, what timeline would your adventurer be experiencing compared to your fort and how would any conflicts be resolved?

The only ways I can imagine this working are if you could play adventure mode and fort mode simultaneously, or if you could clone a world into an "alternate dimension" (timeline) starting at the last save point.

Actually I guess you probably could clone the world, but you'd need to duplicate the save folder, then resume the fort in the duplicate, then abandon your fort and start adventure mode in the duplicate....