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So in the last couple years my fort has been experiencing a lot of very ugly, very public deaths.  These deaths have revolved around well traveled and public places like temples and guilds.  At first I didn't think much of it when I found bodies in the cathedral of oozes, but hell they worship Zimesh, god of Death & Suicide, what did I expect.  Bodies also turned up in the temple of Unib Zealromanced, they worship wealth, depravity, and lust; all respectable ideals that I can get behind so I actually built that one without them requesting, but again, with tenets like that, no surprise of bodies.  But when bodies started turning up in the fishworkers guild, I knew something was starting to stink. . . well, besides the umm obvious.

I started to suspect that it may have something to do with the artifacts I have on display, some worth hundreds of thousands of gold, and my wanton abandon of accepting any petition placed before me from visitors whom wish to join my fort.

I began to have these suspicions when one of my artifacts seemed to turn up missing, the display case shattered, and a mysterious clue at the scene of the crime. . . . . A novel on "A Meditation On Kidnapping".  Had I found the "smoking kipper"?  A coincidence?  Well, probably but a really good one.

Attempting to get to the bottom of this nefarious plot, conspiracy?  I consulted my justice system.  Sadly I found it to be about as effective as modern day justice systems, a bunch of petty crimes for disorderly conduct, nothing more.

My questions are. . . . what's going on?  Are dorfs killing dorfs for these artifacts?  Are the temples whipping dorfs into a maniacal, religious frenzy?  Have the fishworkers been smoking too much of that pink algae?  And throughout all of this I can't help but ask the age old question, where are the authorities when you really need them!

I have been playing this game for years and feel I just hadn't "gotten around" to performing certain functions as there was always so many other things to do.  I finally decided to do embarks that *forced* me to ramp up on something I had been neglecting so I did a string of embarks on islands in the ocean which typically have multi level aquifers almost immediately.  My requirement for success was lumber and dorf power only so I figured the "double-slit" had to be the method I needed to focus on.

This method did not work for me.

I spent three days and probably 20 hours pouring over videos and reading.  Pausing the game, taking each layer step-by-step, with multiple videos, wiki's, and illustrations up on each of my monitors.  I found I had no issue piercing the 1st level and everything worked as it should.  Following that though the 2nd level absolutely would not naturally drain into the 3rd level even though it was a 4z aquifer.  I thought it may be the area so I did about four other areas on the map. . same results.  Chose a new embark on the world. . . same result. 

I did end up doing an expanded two slit, two pump system.  When pumping from one slit to the other and forcing the current aquifer level to be put under pressure it would absorb the additional water though.  I ended up with my janky 2 pump system with some water left over and used a bucket brigade to quickly remove the excess and re-stage the pumps.  It took longer, it wasn't pretty, but it was satisfying and fun just getting it done finally and passing the "aquifer barrier" both literally and mentally.

Has anything changed with the Aquifers and flow that may cause this to no longer naturally drain or at least not in certain conditions or biomes?

Next two embarks ->

Hostile embark to finally force me to ramp up my military faster

Embark to force me to build up rather than down, homes, castles, etc with full roof.  Any recommendation on an embark for this one that would lend itself to reaching for the sky?

I *really* love DF and support on Patreon.  I recently dove back in and can manage the day to day workings of a fort well enough.  That being said, I now remember why I rage-quit last time. . . .military.

I have read the wiki, watched video tutorials. . . . I just can not get the dorfs to put on their uniforms.

I made them all nice full sets of copper armor and they prefer to put on pig tail boots.  I have followed suggestions to have them remove all amor and put back on, disbanded the squad and recreated it. . . . they just run around with partial mis-matched crap again.

I feel that maybe I'm missing something basic, maybe that pig tail boot is better than copper?  I have included a link to my save, maybe someone could take a look and make some recommendations or recommend a more comprehensive tutorial on JUST uniforms.

Isn't the military development arc coming around soon?

Thank you!

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So I do not engage in quantum stockpiling. 

Also, I usually rely on burning wood for charcoal to fuel my furnaces.

I have been trying to think through a different way to store and get the lumber to where I need it.

My question is:

Can I just build a big hole (wood chute) let's say 3x3 straight down and designate the top as a dump site for the wood. 
At the bottom of the chute have maybe a ramp down to an adjoining room that's actually designated as the wood storage.

Will the wood drop down the chute and bleed into the lumber storage?

Would something like this work for stone?

Kind regards,

Haytrid

I never experienced the "2D" version of DF as I started on it later than this version.  I was interested in going back and just seeing what it is like.

Q.  Were there 3rd party utilities for this version that would complement my experience?  If so, where would I find them? 

I was googling & browsing the forums but admittedly my goo-fu has always been absolutely terrible.  I mostly only use Dwarf Therapist and the occasional graphic pack but would be interested in knowing any available mods for that version.

Thank you!

Anyone running one of these new piledriver CPU's yet?  Are these the best CPU's for DF now?  Not because of the 8-core because I know DF doesn't use that but because of the natural 4.0/4.2 clock speed.  I seem to remember reading on the forums that DF favored single high clock speeds.

Have any of you zealots with huge fortresses tried revisiting some of your lag-death fortresses on this CPU?

What other CPU features does DF prefer?

For the first time, I have managed to dig to level 0 without dying (although I had one very close call with an FB).  I dug looking for magma and found adamantium instead!  So I am now meticulously digging into the middle of the adamantium vein without breaching the cavern because the FB is outside of it.  So far so good though and I now am starting adamantium production! 

So are there any gotcha's I should be looking out for?  I was reading through the forums that there may be demons inside pockets of adamantium?

Looks like from what I've read adamantium should be used for armor and edged weapons primarily?

Also, I went looking for magma I suppose assuming that it would be there but never found any, is magma not a guarantee on a map?

Alright, I've tried and tried, spent hours on this, watched video tutorials and I just can't get this to work.

I have a squad of 10 dwarves.  I forged 10 full suits of leather armor and 10 silver warhammers.  I can not get the dwarves to put on the armor or wield the hammers.

I have them set to train every moth
I have them set to wear uniforms at all times
I have the squad training schedule set to active

There the weapons and armor sits in the bins still.  They haven't moved since I finished manufacturing them.

I have tried making uniforms and assigning those
I have tried assigning specific items to each member

They simply have no interest in weapons and armor.

I have been playing for some time and accomplished *most* of the domestic tasks, this is my first foray into military.

I've done homework but clearly am missing something, can someone give me a bump?

Thanks!