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I figured it out. Apparently renaming the starter pack to 'Dwarf Fortress' confused it to start itself. Naming it back to 'Starter Pack' fixed the problem.

How many layers does an aquifer go on for? I read somewhere that the worst case scenario is 3 layers and so I attempted the cave in method with three concentric circles and even after blocking off and draining three levels of aquifer the fourth layer held more water.

Cool, thanks for the info!

I have an early hospital set up with 2 chests that were full of cloth (5000/5000 or whatever the 'full' value is). Then the Elves came to trade at my Depot. I told my dwarves to bring the crates of crafts and woolen socks they had been preparing and then something really strange happened...

My dwarves came streaming out of the fortress and swarmed the caravan, grabbed cloth, and then pranced giddily down to the hospital and crammed all of the fiber cloth into the chest so that it held 117000/5000 cloth [I don't remember the exact number but it was a ridiculous amount over the max].

I was afraid this behavior would anger the Elves but they didn't seem to notice when I traded with them.

After they left I tried to get the cloth out of the chest and into my stockpile. I undesignated the hospital but that didn't work. I removed the chest and cloth exploded all over the floor, but the dwarves wouldn't touch it. I set it to forbidden and then reclaimed it. Still nothing. Finally I told them to dump the cloth, which they did, and then removed the dump designation and they finally moved it to the stockpile.

So I'm not sure what on earth happened there or how to reproduce it, but I did get a lot of free cloth somehow. Anyone have any idea how this happened?

well, I got them shooting the range, two of them at least. The first problem you have is that you have a total of 4 crossbows, 2 of which are claimed by hunters, so only 2 of your militia have a weapon

I changed their schedule back to training when active, set the squad to a bit of active, then inactive and the two with crossbows ran outside to shoot

I also remember someone finding a workaround other than leaving them inactive for the practise

So, it works pretty fine within the limits of a sometimes very annoying game, but make some more crossbows

Thanks, I'll build some more crossbows and see what happens.

maybe upload it somewhere (like the DFFD), I'd like to take a look

I was unable to make a DFFD account (wouldn't send confirmation email) but I was able to host the save folder as a .rar on mediafire. If you have time, please take a look so that I can learn why half the squad refuses to pick up quivers or shoot the target.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/dp2vqcjx1wnuaf2/region1_Marksdorfs.rar

I am having the same problem. I set them to train and one out of the ten shoots five bolts and then goes away and hasn't come back. I set them to unactive and they just sit around doing nothing. Help?

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