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Quote from: PenguinHero on June 08, 2012, 06:36:14 am

I checked my stock and there are lots of crowns and sceptres and alike, but I can't see them anywhere in the list to move to the depot.

What's going on? Has something changed in this area?

Has your mayor banned the export of certain craft types? Bins containing any banned items are excluded from the transfer screen, but can be included with [m]. If not, crafts etc. will be in "Finished Goods" bins which you can find by [s]earching for "fin". You can examine the exact contents of the bins in the transfer screen.

If you set up a stockpile next to your depot that takes only your intended trade goods, this will save you time in the long run.

I don't even have an Mayor yet, its too early. Just an expedition leader who hasn't made any bans and alike.
It seems quite odd, but if no one else is having this problem it must be something I did, or didn't do, relating to the storage piles?
But why they are not visible to transfer to the depot at all is strange. Even if they are stuck in the workshop then they should be available to move to the Depot? *sigh*

Edit: Okay, an elvish caravan just showed up (the previous was dwarven) and my my crafts were all sitting in bins under the craft category in the transfer to Depot list. Very odd. Oh well. its better now.

I used a different approach that took a little preparation - divide and conquer.

I made a series of linked rooms, each separated by a lever-controlled drawbridge.
I then opened all the bridges except the closest one and let the demons wander in and spread out reasonably evenly - maybe six per room.
I then closed all the draw bridges and opened the closest room with my 4 squads of well trained and fully steel armoured dwarfs waiting on the other side.

When one room was cleared I would move on to the next.
Sometimes a dwarf would die, and commonly a couple would end up in hospital, but it works quite well.

I had to repeat the entire process many times before there were only scattered demons beyond the discovery point, rather than a angry horde trying to get to me through my initial defensive drawbridge.
And I had lots of reserve dwarves in training all the time to take up the places of the fallen.

Are they on a stair or ramp or something?

Yes, looking more closely the flashing ones are all on ramps. That will make them flash?

The flashing items are probably corpses of megabeasts. Corpses of normal creatures won't blink, I'm not sure about elite goblins and the like.

No, its early in the game right now. All I've killed is wild animals, tame critters, and vermin. Its the little "z" characters that are the left over bits that are flashing. But there is no pattern to them either as the original source or the current item. Some are just "remains" some are skulls, etc....

Known issue:  Bug #4692.

Ok, thanks Dwarfu. It looks like I'll just have to ignore them and hope they don't get too unhappy with having no throne room etc...
If I can assign them to the military then they may have to have an "unfortunate" encounter with something big and nasty.

Have you created a burrow recently? Or changed alert status to one linked to a burrow?

I accidentally penetrated an Adamantine tube thinking it was a solid vein... I got the expected entertaining "messages", but then nothing.

I was expecting some flying visitors to come and pay me a visit, but nothing has happened. Every time I have done this before I have had many visitors that have inflicted a great deal of fun on me.

What's going on? I had assumed that there were always at least some visitors that would fly up the tube to say hello...

Quote from: PenguinHero on July 31, 2011, 09:23:02 pm

I'm creating danger rooms which are barracks, and using 10 wooden TRAINING spears (and yes I have confirmed, more than once, that they are training spears that were used), I assign a squad or two, and some of them die, often within a minute or two.

What do you mean by "ten training spears"? Is that ten total in the whole room, or ten in each trap? If it's the latter, you're increasing the damage the trap causes, which may be the problem. I put one wooden spear in each of my traps, and it seems to work fine. Although it it still possible for a dwarf to get skewered. And beware of pets/children wandering in as well. It's safer to put the danger room behind an always-closed/not-locked door.

Yes, 10 in total in the one Spear Trap. Will just having one be as effective? I guess not killing dwarfs would have to be better.
And I already have the room behind a door that is no-pet, but that doesn't stop some slipping through and meeting a nasty fate, along with the babies that are carried in...

I just disassembled the trap and rebuilt it with one spear. All but one of the training spears was of Masterful quality, and one is only Superior, so I put just that one back in the rebuilt trap. Lever pulling has just recommenced... Stay tuned for possible casualty reports.