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Check your orders menu to see what the refuse settings are. Also make sure available dwarves have refuse hauling on, and that the stockpile isn't full of vermin remains or butchering products (I would recommend using a garbage dump instead of a refuse stockpile, and manually designating corpses for dumping). Also confirm that any burrows, civilian alerts, undead badgers etc aren't preventing your dwarves from reaching the area.Ah, thanks. The orders were the problem and it's fixed now.
You require water to make farms underground?We're talking about growing cave vegetation on stone if there isn't dirt available. The moss or whatever else would be for an underground pasture.
One of these days, I'd like to build a variant Singularity Engine:Speaking of building sing engines, I'm trying to make a map for my own private just-to-mess-around server. Right now I'm making the engine and I have no clue what's going to happen when I try to start it. Most likely the sing won't even initialize, and if it does it will probably blow up in my face. Just don't give me any tips. I want to map blind (and probably fail horribly).
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That might be a good idea (the pasture, not the silk farm, at least not yet). And we can save our alpacas from the inevitable lava flood, most likely from the dwarf head.I meant just quickly dig a tunnel into it, preferably from above, then seal it up again to let underground plants grow, if we have water available to make mud. That is, unless you want to attempt to capture and tame the inhabitants of the caverns (silk farms, anyone?)Dig inside, set up initial stockpiles to get everything inside, and if there's water or soil get some farms/stills up and running pronto.Well we might encounter hostile things. We have a rudimentary military, but I doubt they can fend off a horde of troglodytes or crundles.
Oh, and if you can, dig into the first cavern if there's ground for stuff to grow on, for an indoor pasture.
Oddly enough, they were invented before the cut-off date, according to Wikipedia, though I'd guess they could probably be fitted in with the same rationale as magma forges in any case.A lot of things were invented before the cutoff date that you might not expect. For example, I believe vending machines were invented in a rudimentary form around the year 7.
Indeed. There is no better defense than a fifty foot dwarf face that barfs magma and preferably shoots elves out of its eyeholes. Sadly that is not possible at this time but +1 to the magma barfing dwarf face.Hmm, that sounds promising so +1How big should it be?I dunno; the cliff? I mean, I'm pretty sure goblin invaders are going to have a massive morale loss when they see they're charging a gigantic dwarf face carved into the mountain that preferably barfs magma.
The dorf face I mean.
Dig inside, set up initial stockpiles to get everything inside, and if there's water or soil get some farms/stills up and running pronto.Well we might encounter hostile things. We have a rudimentary military, but I doubt they can fend off a horde of troglodytes or crundles.
Oh, and if you can, dig into the first cavern if there's ground for stuff to grow on, for an indoor pasture.
Burrow into the cliff!+1
Dig out a big room to bring all the supplies inside. You're in a mountain biome, so it's only a matter of time before the keas come and take everything you know and love.
"Boatmurdered lol" is going to become a meme now, isn't it?
Edit: In adventurer mode, the only quest anyone in this town will give me is to go kill a vampire with 2174 kills. That may be a bit beyond my peasants capabilities.
