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Messages - Captain Willy

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Why is there so many kids!?
« on: September 08, 2012, 11:26:33 am »
As to "why" is there so many kids - what is the year your in your current world? I've just recently experienced massive number of children migrants in my 55-year world.

38 I think, but I always do before 50 and it has never been this bad.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / A really simply question, how do you make a hole?
« on: September 07, 2012, 11:54:45 pm »
I can't seem to figure it out, I can build all sorts of stairs but I just want to dig a hole so I can throw thing down it. Like at the top of the caverns/lava sea, or keep making holes for like 15 levels so I can throw goblins down it.

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I have a vampire problem and thought it was my mayor, so I locked him in his room and he died of thirst.

I'm guessing he wasn't it, any tips would be great, thanks!

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Why is there so many kids!?
« on: September 07, 2012, 08:15:42 pm »
From what I saw in the ini files, you can't actually limit migrant kids, only pregnancies.

Looks like you need to do a little culling. Please ask if you need any advice on how to cull them.

Or you can just use Girlinhat's dwarf childcare system. That works too.

Also I've only gotten two waves in almost three years really sucks too, but ya tell me how to "cull the herd" please and thank you.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Why is there so many kids!?
« on: September 07, 2012, 08:10:49 pm »
I started a new map and are severely lacking in dwarfs and the last two migrant waves have been six kids and one adult. More then half of my fortress is bloody kids! Is there a reason for this, I kinda want to start a new map now.

Also in lazy newb launcher, What should I put in the kid section so a quarter at most are children?

Edit: Also no animals each wave, is my home faction just really poor?
New that cave in at the start was a bad omen.
 

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: A cave in as soon as I embarked
« on: September 07, 2012, 06:53:38 pm »
Hopefully my caverns are not a pile of caved in rock.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / A cave in as soon as I embarked
« on: September 07, 2012, 06:41:54 pm »
One second into this new map and bam!, a part of the tunnel caved in. Has this ever happened to someone before, because it never happened to me. The surface is fine and it happened like 50 levels deep. I gonna take this as a bad omen for this map, but planning and worrying are for elves, lets start digging. 

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Try assigning them to a burrow, it will force them no go to that specific location, if they can indeed get to it. If they can't there is a reason they cant get out and not the fault of dwarven I.Q.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Trying to visualize z-levels...
« on: September 07, 2012, 11:12:54 am »
Uhhhhh, you guys are going way into this, it is dwarf fortress. Stranger things have happened.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: How deep is the majority of your fortress?
« on: September 06, 2012, 09:24:32 am »
One thing I always do is put my stockpiles on dirt levels, because I like my stuff sorted and at least in the beginning having to dump all that stone with like 11 dwarfs sucks.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / I have never found a cave of something.
« on: September 05, 2012, 09:27:03 pm »
I have experienced most of dwarf fortress at least once, except for lairs of something. I even have a bad habit of making new worlds when I'm bored so all the more opportunity. Are they just really rare or am I unlucky. Do they show up on map stream, like when it says there is a river or town in that square?

I think something else living on the map would be cool, a little competition, at least int he start.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / How deep is the majority of your fortress?
« on: September 05, 2012, 06:12:05 pm »
I usually start a farm at the last soil level then have a floor for each thing going one floor deeper. Stockpile floor, workshop file, living floor, graveyard floor, ect ect. But then when my metal smiting with a magma forge They are really deep and have to run all the way up.

So how deep is the majority of everyone else fortress. 

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Should I always cut gems?
« on: September 05, 2012, 06:05:18 pm »
Ok, thanks.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Should I always cut gems?
« on: September 05, 2012, 05:52:49 pm »
Any reason not to?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Role Playing Your Fort
« on: September 05, 2012, 04:38:03 pm »
I try to set thing up nice, like if I were in the fortress as a dwarf would I want to live there

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