Bay 12 Games Forum

Two questions:
If a dwarf has all hauling labors turned off, can he still get things he needs for his workshop? Say it's a carpenter can he still get wood from the stockpile and bring the made beds back to the stockpile?
How can I tell a dwarf that he should participate in hauling of general goods, say from the trade depot but not participate in dumping stone? I thought turning stone hauling off would do that but it doesn't work, they are still all quiting there useful jobs to dump some stones/ores.
Thanks.

is there a way to bandage bleeding wounds? or do you have to just wait until it stoops naturally, with the amount of detail in combat that would seem rather strange

this is more general combat strategy but how do you reduced the risk of chopped of limbs in combat? I just had a dingo (ie a dog of some kind) bite of my left foot through a +iron low boot+
it seems combat works in a way where the first side that suffers an injury worse than bruising looses and even if you manage to run away afterwards you will be permanently crippled in a way that means you can't really fight again
it is kind of sad if that is all it comes done to with all the sophistication in the game

so I just traded a bunch of surplus weapons and armor to a jeweler for some gems, much less heavy, so easier to carry around, although the jeweler probably made a killing in the trade but now I have about 50 gems in my right and left hand on top of the great axe and shield
is there some kind of penalty / problem in fighting when you have so much random stuff in your hands?
will I get to hit my opponents with a rectangular cut moss agate?
is there an easy way to put all of these items in my backpack?

thanks

so when the history counter starts at zero all civilizations used exclusivly stone and wood tools. After a few years they figure out how to make copper and bronze, bronze tools and weapons become more and more common as time progresses, next an iron age, eventually a steel age and maybe after long enough history some adamantium.
Mainly relevant for adventurer mode, if you play in a world with a very short history metal objects are very rare both among goblin bands and in town stores, a single iron sword would be an immensly powerful and valuable weapon. If on the other hand you play in a world with  a very long history iron equipment is plentyful everywhere and even steel is quite common. You can get full body steel armor in any decent town store but the goblins use the stuff too.
Similarly precious metals and gems get more and more common and less and less valuable as history progresses.
If implemented it would make wealth accumulation in adventurer mode much more meaningful. In dwarf mode it also influences what trade caravans offer, what they are interested in and what they pay for it as well as the equipment your foes during sieges will use.

so Istarted a new fort in an area with an aquifer, went for the cavein technique to get through and although it did work one of my miners got injured in the cavein, makes the initial build up much more fun.
my initial supplies included 2 buckets and after I set up the hospital for a while the dwarfs were using them to give water to the patient. But after I put that rockcoffers in the hospital the hospital appropriated the two buckets that were now listed as hospital property. It seems that this means the buckets can not be used anymore, at least not for giving water to a hospital patient, poor guy died of dehydration???
Is that normal, I thought that was what the hospital needs the buckets for. I got job cancellations Urist McNurse can't give water because he can't find a bucket for while so I'm pretty sure the buckets are the issue.

when the trading dwarfs arrive for the first time they usually bring a little bit of everything, which I think is quite useful. When they come the second time after you talked to your liaison they will only bring things where you increased the priority. Is there some way to tell your liaison that everything or at least categories of things are important without clicking through the hundreds and hundreds of items. Say I want them to bring leather, and I don't care what animal it comes from. Is there a better way than clicking throuh every single animal and increasing the priority?
Sidequestion: there is no way to influence what the human or elvish traders bring, is there?