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Is there a forum or sub-forum anywhere that can be used for people to document their forts development?

I know that, as a raving extrovert, I'd find it easier to devote time to this amazing and challenging game if I could feedback achievements and get advice from other players in a structured way that didn't mess up/clutter up another sub-forum...

A bit like Paradox's AAR sections?  Some could be tutorials, some gameplay some roleplay or a mix it all up?

I have a 4 year old fort and am lost as to what to do with the few hundred dwarfs I'm managing to feed!!  I'm afraid to take too many away from hunting and fishing for fear they'll start to starve!

And I have very little military!

The wiki says you are good!

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Cave_adaptation

Prevention

Cave adaptation can be prevented by regular exposure to outdoor sunlight, which can be achieved by having an outdoor meeting area or high-traffic areas above ground. You can roof over the above ground area to prevent your dwarves getting rained on, yet it will still prevent cave adaptation. In other words, exposing your dwarves to areas that have ever been exposed to sunlight will prevent cave adaptation; it doesn't matter whether those areas have since been roofed over.

I built some adamantine weapons.  How do I now found them?  They are not in my weapons pile, magna forge and I take find them on the stocks list but my manager is rubbish so the list isn't very good.

Any advice?

I'm having trouble getting my bee keeping started.  My map has both wild honey bee and bumblebee colonies. 

I understand that the bumblebees are bugged and that my dwarfs will use them to fill a hive, where they then turn into unproductive honeybees.

I hope this only happens if there are no honey bee colonies on the map?

any advice on how to get started safely (and not end up with a tonne of unproductive pretend honey bees?)?

I guess caravans can not use stairs to access my trade depot even if I have built them 3 tiles wide?  The pack mules seem to have no problem.

However they do go up and down the natural ramps so can I use them instead?

It died... I have no idea how, but apparently the dwarf outside managed to kill it and it only killed 7 or 8 of mine.

No idea how to find out who killed it, there was no announcement. and I don't seem to be able to see much by using k on it's corpse or going via the units screen.

Better prepare more military right now and figure on what I want to focus on production wise to free up some dwarfs for military service!

Also seems like I only have 2 or 3 people dangerously unhappy, memorials and tombs seem to be holding it mostly at bay hopefully the one child who has gone melancholic may snap out of it.

Should I memorialize the beast?  I do not want it's ghost turning up later? 

I assume there is no need to memorialize thieves and snatchers?

Thanks for all the advice.  I am setting up a series of alerts, one that is a safe bunker, another that attracts dwarfs to emergency entrances/exits which can be sealed up (stairways with some floor hatches made out of tough stuff!)  I really like the idea of shutting the world off! 

Ok so the drop re-pressurized  it.  Doh!  I guess if I connected another diagonal at the bottom of my 3x3x3 pit, that would remove the pressure?

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Pressure

there are quite a bit of designs that can eliminate pressure, most notably if you get water to flow only diagonally.

This has confused me.

I dug a 3x3x3 pit next to the river (in its middle not at the edges) I then channelled out the top corner so the river would flow into the pit via a diagonal.  The 3x3x3 pit totally filled up to the same z level as the river.

From the wiki page, it says if flowing through a diagonal it shouldn't be under pressure and so should only fill to one z-Level lower!

As example A on the page?

So I'm very confused as to why the whole thing has filled up now!