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I have had very good success using squads of two to very rapidly train up skills. Soldiers in a 2-man squad set to do nothing but train do almost nothing other than spar day and night. Once they're up around hero-level, condense them into a squad of 5-10 for easy deployment, depending on how many entrances you need to cover and how many soldiers you have.

As far as weapon makeup goes I've been playing around with that a little bit lately. The current setup I have is that the militia commander and his captains get axes, the two seat uses a short sword, and any others use hammers. I have entire separate squads of marksdwarves, who use crossbows exclusively. However, from what I've been seeing in combat, the hammers aren't lethal enough for how many there are. I'm going to shift this later on so that the commander and his captains use hammers, the two seat uses an axe, and everyone else gets swords. That should allow the leaders to jump in first and incapacitate things, while the rest of the squads follows behind and starts lopping off arms and legs.

I figured as much. I would rather have gotten the werebeast than a peasant though.

I've been building into the sides of mountains with my last few forts, going for kind of a World of Warcraft / Skyrim type Dwarf style.

Current top level, the hospital, with trade depot one level above that for easy caravan access.

Most of the current surface bedrooms, with tombs behind.

One level below that, a barracks, the meeting hall, and bulk storage.

Current bottom level, more barracks, and the beginnings of some militia bedrooms.

And in Stonesense

Eastern watchtower, and all four main barracks.

The beginnings of the kitchens and developed farming industry to the left, most of the area at the top will likely be bedrooms.

Wood. Wood bolts, wood traps.

Is it weaker than metal? Yes. Will wooden traps and wooden bolts still kill things? Also yes.

On the non-military side, comically oversized rooms with smoothed floors are more than enough to keep nobles happy, and anything else you need can be made out of stone, clay, or glass, instead of metal.

Problems arise when you have no wood, though.

I had some titan parts laying around for my last strange mood, apparently.

Quote from: Gahagan on April 17, 2012, 05:54:36 pm

It was suggested that I post this here, from the Fortress Mode forums.

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I'm doing some work on attribute gains, changes, and decays, and need a quick way to export lots of attribute values out of DF and into something like Excel or SPSS, or even Word or Notepad.

I'm aware that Dwarf Therapist gives access to attribute values, but I have found no way of copy-pasting them, and manually transcribing them destroyed my frail arm. I also seem to recall Runesmith also having that functionality, but that's defunct now.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

dwarfexport is what you want. Then, just write a script to process the XML to a csv and import it into Excel.

Where does dwarfexport place the XML file it generates? I'm not able to find it.

I'm doing some work on attribute gains, changes, and decays, and need a quick way to export lots of attribute values out of DF and into something like Excel or SPSS, or even Word or Notepad.

I'm aware that Dwarf Therapist gives access to attribute values, but I have found no way of copy-pasting them, and manually transcribing them destroyed my frail arm. I also seem to recall Runesmith also having that functionality, but that's defunct now.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

I've got an embark with the following neighbors:

Town
Forest Retreat

I'm not seeing these show up as neighbors, even if I try to embark right on top of a town or forest retreat. My current civilization isn't at war with humans or elves. What am I going to see if I embark here?