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Is there a way to train them to make them more powerful?

I have a lot of dogs and a number of puppies for future assaults, but they die so fast.

Also, I currently have three or four squads with no specific armor or weapons, training three in each squad minimum every month. The gains have been non-existent. The only tough characters I have are the hunters. Is there a more efficient way to do this?

Also, can this be managed through dwarf therapist? I can't find a way to do it.

Hey guys, I used to play a year or two ago, but I quit because I wanted to play games with other people.

I just quit an MMO I was playing and have had fun picking this up again.

A few things, what are stepladders for and how do the tracks work? what is the advantage of them?

What's a good way to get relatively few dwarves combat training while still having a functional fort on the domestic end?

I remember talk about an atomizer last time I played, but never really looked into it. What is the use and can it still be done? how is it done?

Can someone explain the different plants to me? My first fort this time around, I ran out of booze, and despite growing and gathering plants, I never had anything I could do at my still.

Is there a thread that explains modding world creation? I want to steer clear of necromancers, because they tend to be prolific and really hard to handle. I just lost my fort to an army of elven zombies, though they might have just been on there own, I noticed no actual necromancer (also is that actually possible?)

What are the exact tasks a child is willing to do? As in, if I have a lot of children (my fort had way too many before its fall,) what can I disable on the other dwarves that the children will automatically just take over?

Anyway, thanks on advance. I am having a lot of fun. This is my third time picking the game up again, and I actually remembered some of the commands fairly quickly.

Okay, I just set up a successful screw pump, and a well to desalinate salt water and it didn't work. I swear that is what is supposed to work. What am I doing wrong?

Okay, I can't find an answer to this. If I have a bronze mail shirt and a copper breastplate, which one is better? What if the BP is masterwork, and the mail shirt is average?

Iron chain leggings or bronze greaves?

and

Bronze low boots or copper high boots?

NVM< there's a newbie topic, delete please.

Okay, my woodcutter and a number of other dwarves have wood cutting enabled. They have 3 axes. They have access to underground wood. I am -positive- they can reach it. No matter what I do, they won't cut down the wood. They do everything but that. I even tried enlisting my woodcutter in the military and equipping him with the axe, so he went to combat training. I unenlisted him and he put the axe back in storage. No burrows are involved.

What am I doing wrong?

Okay, hopefully I'm not spoiling things for anyone, but I have some questions about demon fortresses and Hell.

I stumbled upon a demon fortress, had my butt handed to me, force quit because I didn't even know there -were- demon fortresses, and started max production of adamantine armour and training for all my capable dwarves. I surrounded the fortress in and out with weapon traps and cage traps.

Of course, the demons walked right over my traps and my dwarves, who were gathered closely together, did not succeed in killing even one of them. I don't have any lords as far as soldiers go, but many are adequate or better.

I also dug down into hell, and, shamefully, force quit again, as I wasn't entirely sure what would come of that when I couldn't even handle the demon fortress.

Siege wise I've defeated the goblins so many times they don't even have a leader, though they still try. I might be at war with the elves, since I have offered wood to them a few times accidentally, but I don't think so. (I want my hands on their exotic animals anyway.)

The thing is, I'm kind of bored with mass production, especially when one component gets ahead of another and I have to stop that part for awhile while my stocks get up to speed.

I had a fortress that was awesome because it had iron and flux stone, but I got beat down and had an impossible time recovering it. Really, the only way I want to make a new fortress is with flux stone and iron, but there's no way to be sure of that. The process of making steel just appeals to me.
 
I like my fortress, but my ultimate goal was kicking demon butt, and all that I have read on them basically states that you -might- kill one if you are lucky.

Any advice to help me along?

Thanks.