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DF Gameplay Questions / My Queen is a pet?
« on: October 15, 2011, 06:02:19 pm »
I finally got around to bribing the King (actually a queen) to come and make my current Fortress their home.

I got the message about them arriving with their entourage. And looked in the noble list to see they are now there. All good so far.
I tried to assign the nice throne room and alike that I had built for them in advance, but they didn't show up in the list of dwarves. Odd.

So I checked the unit list, and next to their name, it says "tame" instead of whatever task they are currently doing. More oddness.
I did the zoom to them from the unit list, and found that they don't appear as a dwarf symbol, but as the human symbol. Even odder!

Is there anything I can do? They are likely to get upset since they won't have the rooms and furniture which they are expecting...

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DF Gameplay Questions / Finding Magma and warm onions
« on: April 29, 2011, 05:41:27 pm »
Hi all,

My fortress is going quite well, so I thought it would be time to try using magma for the first time.

I built stairs down to level 75, expecting to find some (too optimistic?) and when I didn't I started exploring out from my stairwell.

After a few minutes a miner found "warm stone". Great. I checked the DF Wiki and it advised going up a level and mining into it to see if I found more warm stone, or could tunnel over the top of it.
I did this for five or six z levels until I could go over the warm stone area. So I put a channel down in the middle of it expecting to find magma. But no, none was found. Just stone.
When I started mining again it indicated the squares around the lower (channeled) single square were surrounded by warm stone.

Getting suspicious I designated the outer edge of the next lower warm stone level for digging. It let me do it and miners went ahead, stopping to tell me that the next inner layer had warm stone.
What ended up happening is I mined the warm stone layers like an onion, and ended up with a large empty room.

Where is the magma? What was making the stone warm? Where should I be looking?

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