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The problem's always same, you're limited by water flow rate and evaporation. You'll need to build reservoirs, high stack of them, so as little water evaporates as possible, and have some good and strong pump system to move water around as quickly as possible. Otherwise, you're pretty much stuck filling it up at the rate all of your incoming water source comes.

Might want to butcher the weak ones in that breeding group that is. I breed chickens too but I started with a weak but huge rooster. Trying to fluke out genetics into a fat, muscular, enormous rooster chick and then butchering all the rest. I'm fairly certain genetics only affect probability amounts right? It's still possible to get obese bearmode chickens with a skinny arse rooster just less likely?

Yep, it's possible to breed up or down, at least that's my experience, it just take longer if you don't have stock you likes. Having narrow range of genetics for breeding makes it highly probable that such will be bred, and less likely that something dissimilar will be born. I'm sure someone's done better study of range and probability going in breeding and hertiage 

Have dedicated stockpiles near to where stuffs NEED to be, to shorten active hauling time for work. Turn hauling off for the crafters that you need to be cracking and churning, to keep them from wasting time. Use cages for invaders, instead, less mess that way, and you can selectively dump things, less hauling work, and you can quantum-dump right next to trading deport.

Otherwise, it's pretty much matter of sheer number of haulers. If you don't have enough, then it'll take forever to do anything anyway 

Quote from: The Grackle on June 22, 2011, 01:12:54 am

But the first thing is to have a team of dedicated haulers.  People with useful skills shouldn't haul anything.  Leave that for the peasants. 

Is there an option to turn off the Bring Item to Depot, though?  It seems every time I have a ton of items to be brought, everyone right down to the armorsmith in the basement comes up to bring XX(troll fur socks)XX to the depot.

Nope, not that I can see, that's what doors to workshops and it's stockpile are for, lock the doors while deport hauling is going on. I have a dedicated workshop area with it's own food and drink stockpile, and doors or hatches that can be locked down to keep the workers working while pond zone, animal caging/restrainting or trade deport hauling is ongoing.

I thought Bismuth Bronze was better for shields than copper. *Checks Raws*

No, they're right, its copper.

Kinda funny to imagine, you have an entire candy coated army, but they're using shields of the cheapest metal available.

Sometimes cheapness' better than trying to spend the world on something that barely dents

*facepalm* I'm using candy. Ok, so this just in. My new 20 dwarf squad rushed into combat fully armored against a single squad of goblins. Their single crossbowman shoots one bolt that insta-kills one of my favorite dwarfs. Then another. Somehow the squad of MACE GOBLINS cuts off BOTH of my axe dwarfs' hands. Both. Anyway to make the military not cannon fodder? I want my soldiers to last.

Danger room, that's pretty much the only option if you need to drill them up really fast, otherwise years of training and cage traps for 'live fire' training. And have a back-up squad of crossbowiers to hurt them a bit.

Quote from: kotekzot on June 21, 2011, 09:58:21 am

Just so you know, a 10x10 farm plot is total overkill.

I have seven of them.

You... You're trying to feed the world, aren't you? 

Um, actually.

That may not be the case at all the water being salty. Brooks have a sort of "floor" over them - try channelling a small hole to one side of the brook and setting the water source zone there. If that doesn't work, then yes, your water is salty.

Grates and the like don't stops the drinking if it's right above water, brooks have something 'like' a grate on top of it. I've never had problem with zone designation for fishing and drinking on top of brooks, outside of the salty one, which indeed does show 0 water source no matter what.

Seal up your front door, order an milita unit to move outside, see if they find a hole

If the water source designation over the water don't works, that means the water's salty. You have to either make a well to trick them into drinking it, or build a box aboveground that get pumped in for the water.

To get pure water, every surface that you're planning to pump water in must be constructed, including under the pumphead, otherwise it'll go salty again.