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DF Gameplay Questions / No King
« on: May 31, 2011, 07:00:43 am »
I jsut managed to becoem the capital. But when I got the "The King has arrived" mwssage, I find no king.

I do not see any changes at all in the noble menu.

I did get 4 legendary weapon users, and a lot of other dwarves.

Am I missing something, or is it a bug?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Dealing with lag
« on: May 27, 2011, 05:47:41 am »
My last two forts I have more or less abandoned due to lag. I am note sure what really makes the lag roll in, but I have tried making wide corridors (3 in width) and a large 3x3 central staricase in my forts accessing things straight from them. 4x4 embark.

I even used DF Hack clean once in a while to remove old and uneeded blood stain on the battlefields and such. But non the less, my fort does get laggy.

I even try not to have running water, or pumps at all due to lag. As well as killing off spare kittens and dogs.

Is there any good tips on fortress design for anti-lag? My processor is faitly new and should be OK. Should I try and limit my dwarf count severly?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Barracks design
« on: May 10, 2011, 02:53:29 pm »
Currently I have made 1 barracks for each squad, but I can not help think this is ineffective. Is one big room better, or does it work well at all?

I was thinking putting 2-3 squads per room, and just make the rooms a little bit bigger, and add a few more beds.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Glass Industry
« on: May 10, 2011, 02:08:57 pm »
I am trying to get some glass production going, spesifically some large serrated discs.

However, I alwasy get complaing aobut not having sand bearing containers. I bought a few, and I still get complaints, and I am triyng to make some leather bags, but sitl lget complaints. Is tehre some trick to this?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Captian of the guard
« on: May 07, 2011, 09:17:52 pm »
How does he really work? I get hat they are the ones that uphold law and such, but sometimes it seems rnadom.

I just assinged one, and the first thing he did was hack two other dwarves to bits. Goodbye my only legendary jewler, and other random guy.

It might not have been a good idea, but I gave him a clownite axe. It was very effective at severing limbs...

I am thinking of taking him off the captain of the guard and putting him in my axe squad, since he came with osme decent skill (new immigrant).

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DF Gameplay Questions / Military not using items
« on: May 07, 2011, 02:11:22 pm »
I have assigned my squad to wear clownite mail shirts and breastplates. The plates are ok, but I have assigned 3 mail shirts to each soldier. 2 made form clownite, and 1 metal one. However, only my first 2 squads are using them, despite me having 80 avaliable. I checked my armor stockpile, and they are just lying there, and my troops are training next door and nor evne pickegn them up.

What do I need ot do to make sure they wear the armor I assgin them?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Axes or Swords
« on: May 05, 2011, 05:08:05 am »
In my current game I have been metal starved my entire 8 years. Only importing the odd piece of metal I get my hands on when the caravans come along. Stupid elves bringing me wood just to spite me. As a result my army have been badly equiped, except for their awesome silver war hammers.

Despite awesome weapons, I have lost 50 military dwarves, and 30 civilians to sieges. And spent 2 years almost perma sieged and locked inside my mountain. Seems that regardless of how good your wepons are, a storm of bolts will kill you non the less, and the leather I use is only for show I discoverd.

Fianlly tho, the mountainholm has sent some proper metal bars. But more importently, I have found
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And I have dug up enough of it to make 30 breast plates, and 1 mail shirt for my militia commander. I got some steel mail shirts as well, and some assorted lower grade metal gear for the legs and arms.

Now, I got two squads with silver warhammers, and thoose breastplates. But seems I got some to spare. I am thinking about making weapons. Will battle axes of it be good, or should I go for swords, for my soon to be 3. squad?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Military uniforms, and cages
« on: May 01, 2011, 08:28:07 am »
Just recently started to get a hang of military and squads. Got em training and everything. However, my fort has been starved for metals, all I have found is silver, lead and zinc. So no steel battle axes (except for that one guy that I bought one for, since he had 8 in skill already), but I got some pretty awesome silver war hammers, so the weapons are coverd. No good armor however.

When/If I do find iron however, can I assing metal amro to the whole squad? And is there some things I should add? Like cain shirts in addition to breastplates?

I assigned war hammers manually to all my dwarves in squads, but can I do this form the uniform menu as well, for new squads, and new squadmembers when some on my current ones dies?

I sent my two squads against 4 goblins in a siege (most of the goblins decided to get trapped in cages), but I lost 2 of my 20 dwarves. That is kind of weak I think, and I guess it is the poor armor  I have. So I mut step up my digging to find some decent metals.

On the topic of cages. I have trapped some goblins, and a giant in cages. But they are just standing there outside. Can I use them for anything? or move them? I guess the giant could be fun to do something with, but the cage has been standing on the trap site for years.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Possible to hold back Fun? (Spoiler)
« on: April 28, 2011, 03:39:37 am »
So, during my first first real game, were half my fort died to thirst and I had no clue how to make my infrastructure at first, I was finally getting up a decent fort.

Then a Forest Titan (steam humanoid with some poison) came along, and having a totally rubbish army (I had no metal, and the little in weapons I manged to trade to me was hardly of any note). So I did the sane thing and raised my drawbridge and closed the fort. Hopeing to strike metal soon on my digging so I could make some equipment. That platinum I had was just not cut out for weapons :P. I am also still fumbling with my squad management I think. not sure if they are training at all.

Regardless, I was digging down when I suddenly found a magam sea. All was good, but my legendary miner burned himsellf to dead. I had a few more. Also adamantium was found! Figuring that was what I needed to get my army up and running to kill the titan (btw, adamantium battel axes or short swords?) and keep my fort safe in the future I tunneld to it and got a fair ammount hauled up for extraction and melting,
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DF Gameplay Questions / Military Start
« on: April 16, 2011, 02:28:58 pm »
I am new to DF, but I think I got a fairly decent fort going for a first time game, despite loosing half my population early on due to thirst and no knowledge on how to build wells or farm/brew properly.

Regardless, I not got 70 more or less merry and well fed dwarves, even a few wee little ones. But with my current population I fear a siege or ambush or monster, or digging into something dangerous since I have started to dig deep and just found a very large cavern.

So I created a 6 dwarf squad from a bunch of skilless imigrants and set them all to be marksmen. I set the schedule to train all year. However I am not sure I actually did any good, or did it right at all.

I made some crossbows tho, that I am fairly sure off, but for the rest of the equipemtn I am not sure. I have not found metal yet, so I traded a large deal of leather to try adn make som leather amror for now.

But, how do I set it all up? Is 6 trained dwarfs OK? Should I have a more relaxing schedule? I guess I need to amkea  barracs as well?

I am clueless ;)

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DF Gameplay Questions / Mechanincs Workshop
« on: April 12, 2011, 02:14:00 am »
I have been trying to build a mechanincs workshop, but nobody wants to build it. Do I need some kind of special mechanincs dwarf to do it?

I also made a craftsman workshop, and it was immidiatly claimed by a master fish disector that made me what I assume is an articaft stone piccolo... can I use this for anything?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Starting in the snow
« on: April 05, 2011, 05:25:17 am »
Hey all!


Finally, after lurking on and off for a few years I decided to teach myself Dwarf Fortress after watching the youtube tutorial by Fogey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3pg25RPtvM). Seen 13 episodes and started my own game yesterday. And the Lazy Newb Pack (kudos to whoever made it) also helps me a bit with the easy to install graphics and settings. Years of easy UI has made me less sharp in remembering keys ;)


Anyways. I picked my embark spot, and apparently it is all coverd in snow. Would this be a bad start for a noob? Or should I try and find a better spot to embark with lush green vegetation? I saved my starting setup, so a new embark is easy enough, but if snow is no real trouble I am good to try it out :).



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