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I mixes methodical and impulsive, my fortress focuses on decently efficient parts of industrial chain with huge links between the well-functioning clusters and I takes way too long to get metalworking up and running. It can take a few decades before I figure out I want to go INTO first cavern, and that's without missing them. I've actually ran into cavern more often by accident while expanding my fortress' industries than by intentional digging down

Oftentime there'll be decades where major parts of farming and other industries are scattered around the fortress or crammed in niches that was put in decades earlier before being moved around. Dwarves' rooms tend to end up being scattered around before I put a major project to build way too big bedroom complex enough to hold a few hundred dwarves with only a hundred beards mostly married using them ( I like to set popcap to 50 and natural birth rest of the way, limiting it to 10% of population being babies too ).

I like to keep my dwarves taken care of and specialize training as much as I can, I like having experts without hauling supported by haulers and movers. Too bad there're not really much to import, I exports so much that I suspect that my exported wealth might be higher than my actual fortress value with some of my older ones with barely any imports. Though I probably should be taking a look at drink and food supplies sometimes, they've been complaining of being plump helmeted out for a decade or two...

coins can be theoretically used to farm candy.

apparently it takes 1 wafer to make 500 candy coins and gives back 1.1 wafers when you melt them all.

one wafer to make a stack of 500 coins, which gives 110% return, or splitting it at the merchant for much higher return. Though I've not figured out that rate, other than it's not worth the effort with clunkiness of merchant screen.

We won't know exactly how it'll work in the next update until it comes out.

Currently history outside of the fortress is frozen in fortress mode. No idea how it works in adventure mode.

Clothings works for me, but they won't take off part ( over, cover or under) that they don't have a change for and let it rot off.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Armor#Types_of_Protection

I makes at very least socks, trouser and dress. Armors can't be claimed as clothings either. Other problem I can think of is that they're not accessible either through burrow restriction or not pathable to.

I usually have some luck just having traps lying around or making small towers with trap on it around where I see them stick around if I really want them. If they're aggressive, having cage traps with ceiling over it and pastured bait does the trick too.

Quote from: 0cu on August 13, 2013, 12:34:12 am

Yes, assign them specific armor. Instead of metal breastplate, you got to choose, which specific breastplate they'll wear. It's a hassle to assign all that stuff to every military dwarf, but once you have done it, they will never unequip their stuff again, when your armorsmith has again "created a masterpiece!".

not sure what you mean. can I go even more into detail than telling them which colour and which material? can you choose from a list of available armor pieces somewhere?

Specific Armor when assigning equipments, have to do it from equip screen instead of uniform screen.

As for your original problem, I don't know what's happening, are they set inactive = uniformed in 's'chedules? Sometimes during month's end or season's end, they'll inactivate if their military skill aren't high enough, for a moment, then reactivates, and I've not had any issues as long as it's uniformed, instead of civ clothings. Or are you using like iron and copper equipment and dealing with goblins that brings in iron armors? Their equipment decision is made purely based on value and on what's allowed in their uniform.

Forbidding stuffs doesn't helps once it's been assigned, they'll just not equip it. Forbidding things does helps with equipment assignment or for fresh uniforms, though, it just don't works if the equipment's already assigned but not picked up yet.

Is the uniform set to replace clothings? Sometimes there're too much stuff to put things on properly, which part of armors give the most problem? The helmets and the boots?

If the squad was originally assigned as melee squad or even non-military, might have to enable ammunition and make enough of them. It's checkable under the ammunition part of military screen, I'd recommend at least 250 to 300 and combat ammunition set.

Other than that, dwarves are sometimes a bit... headstrong.