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So my military in this fortress is of the copper variety. I've assigned them a copper armament, and made it. I have 10 copper helms sitting in my forges. My [m]ilitary->[e]quipment screen says the dwarves have their helmets, but clearly they do not. I've taken them off their uniforms and readded them, forbid and unforbid, and while they are still claimed [even after and during the forbidding.], they still refuse to actually put them on. Thoughts?

Alright, so I know all [read: most] about how to find old vampires. Best being that they have a bazillion 'former member' tags, bunch of children, etc. My current problem seems to be that, among the two vampires I know about an currently have defending my caverns, I have a third vampire skulking among my populace. I've checked everyone's [read: some] of their thoughts and preferences,  but I see none that either don't have food/drink/sleep thoughts, or any with a million kids or former citizenships. My world is only 251 years old, so a lot of my dwarves are fairly young. I've concluded that this vampire, whomever it may be, is clearly someone young.

My question is, how the hell do I find out who it is? I've had a legendary miner, a great woodcutter, a master axedwarf and some random craftsdwarf fall victim to this bastard. And I think he bit my speardwarf too, because he's wandering around wounded and [Pale] but has no injuries whatsoever. So I'm tired of his nonsense and I want him dead.

So, after so long of playing with the default tileset for DF, I've decided to give one of these tilesets a go. I don't know which one to get, or where to get it, but google can handle that if I could get a name. Which tilesets would you recommend? I know there's one that a bunch of people on the forums use.. I see it in screenshots from time to time.

This isn't really a problem or anything, but it definitely suprised me. I was busy building the floor of my castle when, I guess by some strange stroke up weirdness, I went to check was a craftsdwarf was doing outside the walls when suddenly I made the camera follow him. I don't know how I did it and I couldn't [easily] figure out how to recreate my screw up.

What did I do?

Nevermind.

So, my fortress was recently taken down by a bad case of the ''Oh god their body parts wont quit moving.''

So I made an adventurer and went to investigate, when I came across a necromancer tower. I killed something like 60-70 undead, and started making my way up. I got to the second floor, to the stairs up... and can't use them. Why is this? Is that fool locking his hatch or something?

Nevermind. Apparently the other two hundred zombies were blocking the hatch.

Time to go for a delightful stroll. These dwarves are above ground, too. A tribe of eternally blood soaked dwarves. Time to have some fun.

So my fortress is above ground, wood only. My military wears leather and bone, and uses training spears. My military commander has an iron spear the dwarves traded me, because he's the military commander and has that privelege. I've noticed, however, that the training spears seem to be by far the more deadly. Because I'm on the surface of a flat area, I generally get to see combat when it happens. Wolverine Men attack all the time. While my commander is all about skewering like a boss, my other troops are more about getting as much pain as possible out of the target. While they generally kill in 1 or 2 hits, they -constantly- slam every single tooth out of their opponent first. I just watched them kill a wolverine man and about 15+ teeth exploded into the area around him right before he died.

So are training spears supposed to be like this? Even when my other forts had Hammer/Macedwarves I didn't see this many body parts.

Also, why is there a 'decorate with ivory/tooth' option in the craftdwarves shop, but they won't use all these 100+ teeth I have laying around? I'm just gonna start dumping the things.

Figured that would get your attention.

Anyways, I am living the surface dwarf lifestyle while I take a break from my stressful 'main' fortress, just seeing how long I can survive without precious commodities such as walls, stone, or an end of the world machine. Right now I'm trying to design a decent uniform for the military. Nothing over the top, I'm not a fan of stacking 30 breastplates onto one dwarf, just something that, in my mind's eye, doesn't look retarded. I opted for a combination of Bone and Leather armor.

Leather leather armor [wut]
Leather cloak
Bone Helm
Leather hood
Bone Greaves
Bone Gauntlets
Leather high boots
shield
training spear [i wish I could make bone spears, but alas.]

Anyways, while in my head this looks neat, the problem I'm having is about assigning the bone impliments. I understand that they are considered 'metal' as far as uniforms go, but I fear this will conflict with the fact that I don't want to use -actual- metal. Since, instead of ''bone helm'' I have to choose ''metal helm'', how will I solve the issue that I'm sure will pop up the second I stab a goblin to death to was wearing a copper helmet? Is there a way to assign them bone specifically without having to actually choose the individual helmet? My experienced with that ended up assigning the same Silver Scourge to four different dwarves, and not knowing it at first.

Second, thoughts on my uniform? Anything I can add, you think, without it seeming like my dwarves are wearing eighty-three different animals in breastplates alone?