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I'll +1 this too. Stockpile give option makes this a bit unneeded, but it'll still be very useful tool for mills/querns that's not set up that way!

Unfortunately you might have to cull if you want a exact population, do it after liasion meets up and get off-map, though

Quote from: MrCat on August 29, 2012, 07:35:21 am

Probably just a glitch in the fortress. I'd just forget it and move on, but you could log it in the bugtracker if you wish.

proper bugreport should have clear "steps to reproduce". For now I only have one fortress.
Moreover Toady have things in his backlog that I would like him to implement rather then fix some random minor bug.

Comunity, on the other hand, have pretty little to do, and if this is just about one dwarf died during worldgen - it should be pretty common.

BTW, Kadol recognizes Tosid as an uncle, but none of his children as cousins.

Surprisingly few of migrants to fortress had their parents/grandparents dying from what I've seen during my history research on a couple worlds (granted, pocket worlds don't have much happening ), I've not bothered to check relationships so it's possible that it's common enough. It does seems like something that almost nobody would notice unless they actually tries to make a hertiage chart of their fort (Lots of work there! ).

I'd not put it past a very minor tracking bug not recognizing the children of someone that died before migration

Man all you that whines about bluemetal not being flexable, haven't you heard of torsion springs? Ballistas uses them, at least the real historical ones, there're nothing stopping dwarves from using twisted pieces of steel or fiber or sinew to spring hardened bluemetal arms and for the string. It'd be like titanium in gun nowadays, not for the hard-wearing part, like the barrel, but for the frame to make it much lighter.

Yeah, leather armor in fort mode don't really do too much since blunt weapons are relatively rare on invaders, but it's still a useful tool for markdwarves that need low mass or as top layer for civilian-assigned uniform or just general lack of metal. Sharp weapon need metal to counter it, pretty much, if it get past the shield.

Leather armor also don't really cover much, just the torso and maybe upper arms. I believe you can make leather helms too, but I don't think there're other 'hardened' leather armor pieces ( I usually uses bone as much as I can so I've not really looked ).

Thanks folks - I had enough power - I must have wired everything up wrong. I'm going to have to write long, detailed instructions and tick them off as I step through!

That's generally good idea with anything more complicated than "Oh, just that bridge to this lever"

At least I should really try that, or using notes feature to say what's linked up to what

I think there're a mod in the modding forum that 'simplifies' the leather into one, or just a few of differing value, types. Worth a look, I don't remember which or what it was, though.