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Trying to farm trees indoors m'self due to glacier/tundra embark. One z-level doesn't seem to be enough for them to grow anymore. I get young trees but no big ones. I /was/ going to try two on a much smaller scale but it's being rather dangerous to my miners. I looked in the caves and I think I see some trees that are /11/ z-levels tall. Maybe I should just bite the bullet an make a huge indoor arboreum. I think I'll try that after I get fresh water set up again. Darn cave-ins contaminating my cisterns!


Edit: I decided to just make it before getting fresh water. Who needs an army or a hospital, right? Already got young fungiwoods sprouting so I'll let you know how it goes a little ways into the save, for now though, sleep.

I have noticed that caverns which are only 1z deep have no trees of any kind growing. 2z seems to be enough for any kind of underground tree, but of course you don't get mcuh wood out of such a short tree.

I have not succeeded in growing a tree yet, I've tried to protect them but the saplings have always died. I haven't taken the logical step of digging out a big tree farm and just leaving it for 10 years to let nature take it's course.

The leaves change color because nature is DISGUSTING.  Chop them all down! and flood everything with magma. That'll fix it.

Fixed.

Scattering behaviour is probably weaponizable. One of the major problems with poorly trained dwarves is they love to run into melee and die horribly. But with their new preference for bravely running away in sheer panic their longevity is drastically improved.

So the idea might be to get some well trained melee dwarves and some marksdwarves, and also a cowards squad whose only job is to run away. When enemies arrive, you send the cowards in first, when the enemies start running at the cowards, the cowards flee in terror, this causes the enemy to break ranks and scatter trying to catch the cowards, at that point the well trained dwarves arrive and kill the scattered enemies. It avoids the problem of the entire enemy squad/army dogpiling your fastest dwarf.

Since training is more challenging in the latest version (weapon user and shield user train more slowly, meaning parrying and blocking are less effective) it may well be necessary to rethink tactics and it may be necessary to use immigrant squads as distractions so your real military has time to skill up to legendary god-of-war levels.

I think it was inevitable,

DF 2014: Domestication of Strawberries.

Oh dear it's so true.

If Panando was a dwarf he would "aspire to flood the world with magma". Since most dwarves aspire to make a masterful piece of art or raise a family and think it's frigging awesome to craft an artifact larch earring, I could understand them questioning his judgement....

The old mainstay of squad-of-2 (or small squad) sparring still works very well in this regard. Discipline is a skill which trains very quickly.

Is anyone not having issues with constant crashes and save corruption? I'd like to figure out if there's anything I can do to actually be able to play for a reasonable amount of time while we wait for the first update.

I've played fortresses for a year or so and not encountered crashes.