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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?

I might just try that. I've been looking to up my difficulty with aquifers and treeless areas, and possibly in freezing climates where I have to dig for water.

Thanks bunches!

I've been reading up on aquifers, and I am really dedicated to learning how to work around this problem, since they are so prevalent in areas I want to embark on.

I have looked over this several times, but the tileset isn't the original tileset and I am very confused as to what is what, especially the weird structures running along diagonal lines.

I realize I'm probably just daft, I sort of understand the instructions, but not having a visual aid makes it tricky.

Also, as a side question, do dwarves still freeze outside in freezing weather? Will they burn in scorching weather? And does anyone have any advice on embarking in an area with no trees? I can't see how it would be possible.

Thanks!

Also, I am currently setting my dwarves on active/training civ mode so they train their skills. I have been getting regular goblin raids, which is weird since I killed their master, (overlord guy,) and I'm not even sure how they are organizing the raids. I suffer minimal casualties, but since I can't find a good underground grazing area, my animal population is down to almost nothing. I like to keep it around in case food stores run thin, (I have about 3k roasts atm, and birds laying eggs regularly.)

The bug where you need to remove jugs from the stockpile to extract honey from honeycombs also still seems to be in place, I thought this was fixed. It's a bit of a pain. I like to keep mead in stock.

Sorry for asking so many random questions, they have been building up for a long time. I have been progressing through trying different things. I still haven't played with pressure plates, levers, or megastructures, (I can't find a reason to build the last one.)

Is there a way to tell which ore will be available in an embark area? I'd like to try out a fortress with iron and flux stone. Making steel sounds like a lot of fun. It's pointless for me now because I have to buy all the components, and I have better materials. Two of my fortresses have produced only silver in some form, and that drives me nuts.

Also, I've read up on this, and it sounded hopeless, but do you have any advice for aquifers? The place I originally wanted to set my fortress in was haunted, for more of a challenge, but all of those areas had aquifers. I have read the wiki, but I didn't quite understand if it was even possible, or if it was just a toos up that it might be possible.

There's some cool areas with aquifers, I'd really like to try one.

The only other piece of advice I'd give on the spike traps is to make sure that you have a fair amount of coverage with them since the hotter demons can wipe out nearby spike traps with the heat of their death explosions, potentially leaving you with a room full of demons and no way to kill them. Also once you have wiped out the initial wave of demons any new ones that spawn act more like extremely deadly wildlife rather then fortress killers. This means that they will be content to wander around hell and slaughter any dwarves that they see, but unless they wander up by pure chance they will feel no need to come destroy your fort and everything that you hold dear.

What if I make the spikes out of copper? Will they melt?

I guess I could use a lever instead of a pressure plate. Gremlins will actually become a nuisance then.

Hmm, that's frustrating, if I don't send my civvies to a refuge, they try to claim stuff and re-pasture animals, but I can't have the siege engineer enlisted, or he won't do his job. I really want to use my ballista.


BTW, I have looked around and haven't seen, what bug fixes are currently being worked on? I would kill to have a dungeon master and an economy. That sounds so exciting.

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.