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Also having a more experienced marksdwarf in with the recruits in a squad will increase training speed? I'm going to try it anyway I guess but would be nice to know for sure...yes, but he needs good teaching skill, and the recruits need good learning skill. even without those, having experience in the combat skills will train the recruits faster than if it were another recruit doing the teaching.
Yea I've got a 1-wide hallway that they stand in. But when I give them move orders to show up there they "become marksdwarves" and show up like i just got them out of bed - one sock, one glove, no shirt, forgot their crossbow, have to go back and get it, and NEVER load up on ammo. It's crazy. The reason I uploaded the save is cause I'm thinking I have some sort of clutter problem. Perhaps I don't understand stockpiles or ownership rights yet. I saw someone mention something about a utility that helped clear up the ownership issue but I really don't know what is causing so much nonsense.(q)uerry move the cursor over the stockpile and check the (s)ettings. ensure that the stockpile allows what you want to store.
i874 - you may be right, it may be stockpiles. I'm not exactly sure what a 'correctly configured stockpile' looks like.
Never build more than 2 Depots unless you really know what you are doing.sounds like a great way to capture elves.
Merchants will always go to eldest possible depot they can path to.
If you unforbid a depot when there are traders at a newer one, the traders will go there, but leave their stuff behind.
If merchants are at that depot , then they will freeze when it is time for them to move on. Nothing but killing them helps, they will never go mad either.
Hey guys,1. not sure, i only butcher tame animals
I got three/four little questions
1. How can I clear a cagetrap when I caught an animal in it to bring it to my butchery?
2. What do I have to do, to butcher an Animal I bought from one of the caravans? I bought an vulture and put it on one of my pastures but in the z-Animals-menu it doesn't appear.
3. Are there any special conditions I need to fulfill for my marksdwarves to train in the shooting range? I got enough ammo and from time to time on of them shoots but most of the time they're chiling in the canteen. Also none of my soldiers sleeps in the dedicated barracks. They're all blocking the beds in my dormitory while the barracks are always empty.
I hope you can help me
I also got "Dwarf cancels render fat: Needs unrotten FAT RENDER_MAT-producing glob". Not sure what that's about, but I'm gonna guess it does that everytime my dwarves run out of animals to butcher or fat to render (which I didn't even know they did).this is normal. default standing (o)rders are to automatically render all fat to tallow in a kitchen. once the fat runs out, you get this message.
When did you end worldgen?They are not megabeasts, they are semimegabeasts, and they can reproduce normally, not slowly.
I guess this is one side-effect of the code Toady introduced to make megabeasts SLOWLY reproduce a while ago.
You can get whole giant families in caves.
And currently the only megabeast which has the [CHILD] tag in the raws is the Roc, so its the only one that is even capable of reproducing.
Not true, I did few tests and I managed to get dragons and hyrdras breed during world gen.(I removed all other kind of special monsters(night creatures, demons, titans, semi mega beasts) in advanced world generation and generated world) Unless you meant in Fortress mode, in which case I don't know.
I tried to hint at it earlier when Kol discovered the caged dwarven corpse-- when I got the silk farm, I knew I wanted to conquer the underworld a little bit differently than it's been done before. Wasn't all that interested in the silk after a while-- didn't seem to protect any of the goblins from walking in the dust, anyways-- so I converted the silk farm into a demon trap room. Actually pretty hectic-- a lot of bait animals and a lot of bridges, trying to control the demons so I could retrieve and reload the traps, and the demons had some tricks up their sleeves that I hadn't been expecting, like melting iron bridges that they passed over, and pathing strangely, and deconstructing even admantine drawbridges by walking over them at inopportune moments and such.
I'll let Udil explain part of it for the next piece, whenever I get around to it. This last entry was kind of my chance to brag a little bit
Where are these animals? And does your hunter have bolts in their quiver?
Actually, they just disappeared for some reason. Now I only see a fox and a turkey gobbler, but my new hunter should have no problem getting to them. (I just drafted my hunter for my first squad so I decided to give someone else the hunter labour). He's carrying a quiver but for some reason has no crossbow or bolts. He has access to them, I even crafted a new set.
Now I'm beginning to think this game is trolling me. I also have two plots set up to grow plump helmets and prickle berries, but for some reason my farmer doesn't seem to care about them. There's only one plump helmet growing and the prickle berry plot is empty. Yes, I do have seeds (60 prickle berry seeds and 64 plump helmet spawns). As a result, I only have seeds and drinks in my food stores, nothing else.
As I'm typing this, one of my farmers is "hunting for small creature" while he doesn't even have the proper equipment or the hunting labour on. What the heck?
I have heard that a ranged attacker must be adjacent to a fortification to fire through it. Try making your fortifications have a 1-tile wide path behind them, with only one square leading in. Order your squad into this narrow hall, and then give the order to shoot. Maybe that will give you more success? I haven't tested this myself; I've built a structure like the one I'm describing to you, but haven't yet had attackers come for me to test it.
Oh my.
I must ask- how did you catch them?
ah, did not mean to cause offense. i myself was only recently debased of the idea that things happen after worldgen. kind of sad, as i was hoping my one that actually made it to retirement would get married and father little adventurers for me.
Yes I DO know the world is frozen.
What I meant with rarely play Adventure mode, is that I have no idea what happens to the character when you retire him, and simply replied with what I read elsewere. I must have been mistaken of some things.
