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You need to discover the map feature "magma sea" or "volcano". So you need to find a safe way to peek at the magma sea and then youīll get the ingame message "you have discovered a great magma sea" or the like. After that you will be able to create magma workshops. Simply finding magma somewhere on the map is not enough.

As for the uniforms:

1. create uniform:

(m)ilitary - u(n)iform - (c)add uniform
select the new uniform with the direction keys (cursor up/down)
(n)ame uniform if you want to something like "hammersquad"

Then you can start adding items you want to be equipped. Example for a squad hammerdwarf (assuming you have tons of armor available):
(A)rmor - go to the selection list and add 2x mail shirts and 1x breastplate
Then to go the items, highlight them one after one and set the (M)aterial to steel (only if you have steel armor, of course).
(L)egs - go to selection and add 2xtrousers and 1xgreaves. Set (M)aterial of trousers to leather, greaves to steel.
(H)elm - 2xcaps, 1xhelm, 6xhood - caps leather or steel, helm steel, hoods leather
(G)loves - gauntlet, mitten, gauntlet, mitten
(B)oots - sock, high boot, sock, high boot
(S)hield - shield
(W)eapon - steel war hammer

Now press (R) so that the uniform replaces clothing (since socks and hoods and stuff are already part of the uniform and you donīt want your guys to get confused).


2. Equipping a uniform

In the (m)ilitary screen press (E)quipment and select your squad. Assign (U)niforms. Select the hammersquad uniform and press SHIFT+ENTER to set it for the whole squad.

Note that when you create new squads you can assign their uniform right during creation which makes life a bit easier.

First of all you should read the wiki article about armor to get an idea of what can all be worn at the same time:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Armor

For example, you can let one dwarf wear 2 caps + 1 helmet + 6 hoods as head armor. Instead of equipping each dwarf manually you should create uniform template and assign it to the whole squad.

As a start you can simply use the existing "leather armor" and "metal armor" templates, they are better than nothing. But it will result in your dwarves using random weapons (because they are set to "individual choice melee") and wearing less armor than they could. If you want to have more control, create your own uniforms.

Itīs one of those things which seem overly complicated at first, but when you did it once you realize that itīs not hard at all.

Specifically, it does not update temperature or pathfinding information like the game does when the amounts change naturally, because neither of those is fully understood - especially the pathfinding.

I see. Guess from now on Iīll set water to 1 instead of 0 and wait until it evaporizes. It leaves mud anyways.

Itīs the Phoebus tileset.

You can get it here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57557.0

It should be mentioned that if in your second case "a" has a ramp then a creature could move diagonally up to level 2 even if there is a wall directly above that ramp. I learned that the hard way when a titan came to visit my fort...

I had something strange happen when using the liquids plugin which I donīt really understand:

- channelled out a pit as vampire detection flooding chamber
- made that pit a burrow and set civilian alert to use it
- after all dwarves were inside, I flooded it with water using liquids
- almost nobody tried to leave the pit and nobody drowned (which is already weird because it would mean that almost my whole population is vampires)
- dried the pit with setting water level to 0 for the whole range

I did that a couple of times because I lost overview of 60+ dwarves running around in the pit so I put them there in smaller groups.

As effect after the last try some babies remained stuck in the pit. And I could not send anybody there anymore (orders for digging into it a bit deeper and removing the ramps etc were ignored). I investigated some of the tiles with "probe" and it told me that the "flow forbidden" flag is set - whatever that means. Solved the situation by pouring a bit water into it again, once water touched the tiles the bit was removed and the parents were able to grab their kids again.

So... has anybody some insight on what happened there and why?

And a question from me as well.  Is there a command out there to reveal only dig designated tiles?  Sounds like it would be handy for big dig projects near the magma sea and large bodies of water.  Just reveal it all to keep from getting the cancellation when digging without revealing the whole map and seeing unrelated things you didn't wanna accidentally see.  (Like how that spire I was looking at getting to later is actually hollow all the way up.)

If you donīt want to spoil yourself you could use "probe" instead of reveal to investigate the tile under your cursor.

But I guess it should be easy to implement something like "revpoint" to reveal one single tile and/or "revpointtoggle" to toggle the hidden bit of one single tile. If you bind that to a key you could easily take a peek at your digging designations.

The method revflood contains everything necessary - get the tile the ingame cursor is at and unhide it. You only need to remove the part where the whole map is hidden and the part with the floodfill. Maybe Iīll try to write that later today, I wanted to start playing around with the dfhack source anyways.

And question # 2.  Is there any helpful documentation out there for anybody with an interest that has no experience with real programming, source code, or github, or anything like that?  My request up there sounds to me like something really simple to throw together if I knew what I was doing, and it bugs me to request something that. 

I tried taking a look at skeleton.cpp but other than a few lines I recognize (I know what the includes are, even if I donno exactly how they work) it seems greek.  And I'm pretty sure I don't have the program I would need to do anything with it anyway.

Iīm guessing you mean a documentation on how to code plugins? Take a look at "Compile.html" in the hack folder, it explains pretty well what you need to do to get the sourcecode and get it to compile. Youīll need at least some C/C++ knowledge to accomplish anything. Which should not discourage you, learning the basics of C++ is only a matter of a few weeks, probably less if you already know another programming languate.

Just started playing your mod three days ago so maybe you donīt want to give much about my opinions and experiences... But yeah, there they are.
So far I love what I see, but with some exceptions. Iīll just list everything I stumbled upon:

- I hate cave fungus and the idea of edible stones seems ridiculous to me. If you want whole rock clusters vanish into nothing please make it optional and in the best case let us chose what kind of rock is prevalent (Iīd chose granite for crafting and building rooms, some others might chose those brick thingies which vaporize on digging).

- My turkey hens layed tons of eggs which canīt be boiled in the kitchen. This might be my own fault, because I manually copied df_savegame_updater.bat and df_savegame_updater.sh from Pheobus to the directory and called them because I didnīt like the  JOLLY gfx set and could not get rid of it any other way.

- Did you change vampires in any way? My expedition leader was found drained of all his blood. So far so good. I examined the rest of my peeps and only found a dwarven baby who had "working slowly due to scarcity of alcohol blabla" (babies shouldnīt work anyways) with tons of booze available. I assumed he was the vamp, but a month later he died of thirst. After that, no "drained of blood" events anymore.

Thatīs about it, thanks for all the work etc...