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Is there a way to prevent looms from automatically spinning thread into cloth and so on?

Occasionally I want to manually add the task but not have it do it automatically for me so I can get thread into my hospital.

When I have a vampire problem, I create a communal dorm of beds in the same room with the meeting area for the dinning hall. That way when the vampire feeds everyone eating will notice and submit a witness report.

Now this can mess up nicely laid plans if you've already built individual beds for everyone but you can just temporarily forbid all the individual beds rooms (or lock the doors) and force people to sleep in the public area. Strangely enough dinning halls do not cause noise to wake up people in the dorms so it might be a long term solution.

Personally I perfer my dwarves to get happy thoughts from their own beds so I only do this only when there is a known vampire.

Once you figure out who the vampire is you can burrow him into a locked room and throw him clean clothes every now and then and make him an eternal book keeper.

I really have enjoyed Dragoncon but sadly haven't been able to go for the past few years.

Minimizing and restoring the application temporarily fixes it. Other than that the only way to stop it is to turn off true type which kind of hurts the eyes so I put up with having to minimize it every now and then.

yeah getting marksdwarves to reload can suck a bit.

If they are on inactive orders (off-duty) and they come onto active service (through rotation of schedule or your action with 's'quad menu) then they restock ammo, its a bit hacky but you can usually persuade them to refill with some flipflopping of alerts.

If they have line of sight to a hostile then they will never reload unless they are moved by you or a patrol route order..  They are still engaged in combat even if they have no ammo, they are shooting dirty looks at the enemy and looking desperately for a path to melee (and death).  Cutting LoS tends to cause them to reload too, even if they are going straight back to active duties.

It seems they assess if the new duty needs bolts.  dwarves heading for a barracks dont seem to fill quivers, dwarves headed for an archery range certainly do, as should patrol and burrow defence troopers.  This last bit is somewhat anecdotal, its not foolproof.

The one idiot-check that you can do on this is to go to 'm'ilitary, 'e'quip, 'f'ammunition.  Here you can see what each squad is assigned when it comes to ammo.  Double check these, i sometimes find i've got a melee squad all wearing full quivers or smth equally dumb like marksdwarves with no assigned bolts.(cos the morons with axes have 'em all)

Thanks for the advice. I got my bolt stockpile in my barracks so maybe that is the problem. I'll setup an archery range and put the stockpile in there and setup a patrol between the fortifications and the ammo stockpile.

Question, can clowns be killed by stone fall traps? I know they can by manual spear traps, but would a hall way of stone traps work as well?

Hrm.... If I am not mistaken don't you need jugs for the honey? I thought jars were the same, but my beekeeping had stone jugs.

I use Iron Hand graphics. You can see what it looks like in my Let's Play videos in my sig. I think most people use it or Phobeus but I don't like the Phobeus curved corners.