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It most likely means that yoru GPU (graphics card) does not support GPL.

To "solve" this, you need to change a few things, in the launcher:
1/ Disable "Item graphics"
2/ Set your "print mode" to "2D".

This should remove any need for GPL.

If this doesn't work, then you'll need someone more competent than me (along with your GPU's name).

I don't know about that, because it would mean that it would be very hard to acquire vast amount of materials that are required for any above ground buildings.

Even the current humans have a hard time getting basic rooms and a wall around the base, with the 8 blocks per stone boulder.

If you are basically penalized by getting materials normally, then you would need a way to get a whole lot of wood easily through other ways, which could also be seen as a balance breaker later on, unless you make a special material with 0 value (to prevent wealth from nearly nothing).

Oh, then by all mean, give me your tips to have multiple stacks.

I even tried to up the number to 1000, and they still were only bringing one stack, no matter the actual stack size (meaning even only 1 when I unforbid some by accident).

Do your gouls have meat to eat?
I was under the impression that it was what prevented the mass rotting.

I also tend to use copper arrows for military purpose, but I have to disagree with the bone ones.

If you are not short on wood, wood and bone arrows are very similar in damage, but bone ones come in very small stacks.
It is OK for legendary hunters or training (either on live targets or when it works on target practice), but early hunters would often not kill their prey in 5 shots, making them cancel and come back to fetch an other 5.

An other thing I tend to do later on is to use ironwood or steeloak to make iron/steel grade wooden arrows, but that's only when I have enough bars of the respective metal.
It is slightly better than 'normal' metal arrows, because it doesn't require fuel to make (as humans often don't have a good access to lava).


Also, not sure if it can help you, but I tend to make a 3-4 squad for my archers (rather than hunters), and put them with an order that is "At least 1" and "Station", targeted on a guard tower above my entrance.
That way, there will be someone ready to shoot any hostile without delays.
I let the other train normally, to gain the other skills (shield/armour, mostly).

All in all, it all comes down to your specific fort, but most human forts gain access to quite a vast amount of copper early on (with the quarry digging), and appart from very early military, weapon traps or training your smith(s), there are not many uses for it.

While I like the idea of the elven race being playable, I think MDF elves are not quite the same as their vanilla conterpart (just like humans were quite a bit different).

For starters, they use a metal as their primary weapon/armour material (no wood armour).
The human race also has a few interractions with the elves, mostly around growing plants faster, it might be nice to see a magic user of sorts that does this kind of things (maybe not just on nature, but also on farm plots?).

As for wood, one of the features of MDF is tree farming (basically growing logs in farm plots), so you might want to reuse it.

Aw, there goes the plan of fixing the outstanding issues before bringing more.

Anyway, RL always comes first, and it would make very little sense to start such project with very little free time.

I don't know about a proper list (the best place to look might be the wiki), but you can definitely open the raw files to easily get the name for the item you want.

All you need to do is to go to the "raw/objects" folder (from your df folder), and use the normal search.
The good thing about txt files is that the default windows search will be able to search the text inside the files too, so you just need to search for "wheelbarrow".

For this case, you will have "entity_default.txt" and "item_tool.txt".
The wheelbarrow is a tool, so open the corresponding file, it will tell you that the right name is ITEM_TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_WHEELBARROW

That's about the easiest way I can find to have an easy time with that.

Be aware that without using the other tool mentionned in the other post, the specific material might prevent the workflow to be linked to an actual job, resulting in blue messages about being unable to produce the item.
Unless this problem is somehow not present with the command line entries, when it is definitely there with the GUI.