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...somehow without flooding the whole fortress.  Water falls from the ceiling into a channel that runs the length of a room and then dumps through the floor and out of the fortress.  The water stays at a pretty constant depth of 2.  My question is, do I need to mark this as an activity zone, or will my dwarves use it automatically?  Mostly I'm hoping they will bathe in it, because they cannot get outside right now.

Thank you,

Finn

Edit:  I don't know why I ask questions that are simple to test.  30 seconds after I post this I get a warning that a dwarf cancels his bath because there is no water around.  So I mark it as a water source and voila, another dwarf goes there and bathes.

Thank you.  And the init files are wonderfully commented too.

Thank you, both of you.  So I need to build pumps and water wheels?  Are you really just pumping the water back up the stream?  Does that just spill all over everything else?  I guess I will find out.

Quote from: Finn on October 20, 2011, 03:03:49 pm

I am a new player, however the other night I set up my first military squad, which happened to be archers, and I had them successfully training in my archery range.  ... If you are interested, you can download my game here: http://www.chevrie.com/df-mil.zip.

Thanks for your help Finn. I'll take a look at your example later, and add any info I can glean from it to the Known-Good Method post.

FYI, If you look in the earlier posts in this thread, I made a step-by-step on how to share your save file. You can use that to reduce the file size of your uploads in the future.

Thank you.  I found your post and modified the file to contain only the region1 subfolder and it is much smaller now.

Usually there are about 5 butcher's shops, 5 tanneries (most of the food industry is puppy-based),

Hysterical! 

Let's see, I usually have at least two of each workshop.  I have at least three each of farmer's, craftsdwarf's, and butcher's shops, as well as querns, wood furnaces, glass furnaces, and jeweler's workshops.  Carpenter's and mason's workshops I have at least four each of, as I do of metalsmith's forges.  I have around six smelters, too.

So about 50?  Okay, thanks.  (and thank Amrok for z-levels!)

I am in late winter in my first year with my first fortress.  My fortress is far enough north that the nearby surface water sources freeze in the winter.  I ran low/out of drinks because my still wasn't operating, which caused 3 dwarves to die of thirst before it was operational again.  I also messed up my first trading caravan trying to figure out the interface, so for the most part, having a great deal of FUN!  Here are my questions:

Farming:  I have two plots of land underground, both 4x5 (20 squares)  The first is scheduled to grow Plump Helmets all year round and the second grows the other 3 underground crops that make booze.  What's odd is that neither of the areas is ever being fully utilized.  Currently only 6 of my 20 squares is being used to grow helmets, even though I have over 85 spawn in my stores.    The other area is equally underutilized.  I don't have anything forbidden (or whatever) so the only thing I can think of is that my farmer is too busy doing other stuff?  Should I expect my farm plots to be full in this scenario, or is there some reason why they would normally be less than half-utilized?

Food in general:  All of my meat from embark is gone.  The only food I have is what I'm grow in my fields, mostly helmets (15) with some wheat (4) and cups (2).  I have 15 dwarfs, I suspect I'm headed for another problem here pretty shortly.  Will my dwarfs eat only helmets and be happy?  Do I need to get them something else?  Should I try to be keeping cattle or something?  Do most people keep outdoor farms/livestock going?

All suggestions are appreciated.

Thank you,

Finn