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I for one, am amused by the nicknaming of a dwarf as 'echo 12', is that for military management?

"Charlie 2 here, echo squad is completely batshit and throwing barrels of tallow at the mayor who's huddled under his desk, what should I do?"

"Nothing, he's having a meeting"

It's too keep my dwarves organized. 

Each migrant wave gets various designations of "alpha," "bravo," "charlie," etc.  Each dwarf from each wave gets a numerical designation starting from 0.

So, my original starting dwarves are Alpha 0-6.  The first migrant wave is Bravo 0-#, the second wave is Charlie 0-#, etc. 

Children are kept organized according to their parents.  If Alpha 4 and Echo 12 make a baby, then that baby would be named A4E12.0, and his younger brother would be named A4E12.1, and their younger sister would be A4E12.2, and so on. 

I've never had a fort last long enough for the names to get much more complicated than that.

The problem lies in turning the leather into an inorganic material when you remove the creature association.

If I remember correctly, the "common," "exotic" and "rare" leather types are literally three animals named common, exotic, and rare.

If it's an inorganic material, hard-coded workshops (like the leather workshop, for example) can't use them.

I tend to avoid reclaiming.  For one, the game respawns a new batch of Clowns every time the map is reloaded like that, leading to a tiresome amount of Fun.

And two, it just seems like bad mojo for a group of dwarves to try and resettle the grave-yard of so many dead. 

If I did reclaim, it would be to seal the fortress and place a small shrine to placate and commemorate the dead, only to abandon once more.

A well-loved dwarf died of old age.  The fort crumbled away, by the way.

So, yeah, my dwarves got pissy about something and next thing I know, they start going crazy.


I've tried killing the ones who go crazy in an attempt to quarantine the insanity, but it just made things worse!  My military of 20 is down to 2, and one is in the hospital with a broken leg.  My doctor can't fix him because he's dead, and I can't appoint a new noble because my mayor died in office and a bug prevents the election of new nobles while a previous mayor is still alive (I don't know which one used to be mayor).

I'm running out of coffins, and I can't harvest any new crops because my farmers are running around babbling.  My metalsmith punched my fisherdwarf into the well (ironically) so there's no water to be had, and my hammerer went insane and clubbed all my brewers to death before the Guard could stab him down.

So...yeah, how do I save my fort? 

Were you using Masterwork?

It's not a big deal, Bralbaard.  You've been running this thread for over a year and a half now (holy cow).


Oh! and whoever ends up being the next adventurer, be sure to stop by Combinelocks.  It's a great first-stop for a fledging new adventurer.

There was a thread about prosthetic limbs for dwarves a while back.  I don't rightly remember what the result was, but I'm fairly sure it ended up being a bust.