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I downloaded the save to have a peek and am a tad confused.  I am use to seeing region 1 and current in my save folder.  Do I unzip and place all the contents from Merchantlusts folder (the Merchantlust folder INSIDE the zip folder) into the Dwarf Fortress 0.34.11 folder?  Sorry - first bloodline game.

I see.  So stay away from animal traps, use cage traps (far away from my fortress because my Dwarfs sometimes get knocked out and fall into them) and/or let the hunters/trappers do their own thing. 

I have never tried what you are trying (because I always get large numbers of my Dwarfs killed, retreat, and seal up the caverns again) but remember that some items, like grids*, can be placed over water to allow fishing and keep monsters out.  So just don't limit yourself to placing wells over the water.   You want a food source near the cavern chambers of your fortress for ease of use...or ease of cooking.


* I think grids.  I know bars don't work as things could get through those...I think.  Anybody know for sure?

I had a lot of Goblins, during one of the sieges, fall into my animal traps. 

So I have a few questions..

1. How do I disarm them so I can metal down their metal objects?

2. Does disarming them make them easier to transport to a newly assigned cage? 

3. Why can't I eat them?  They ruined perfectly good traps!  I want to drink from a Goblin skull-mug!

4. Kind of related - I also trap a lot of worthless small animals, like hamsters and stuff.  I can't eat them and don't wish to make them pets and can't seem to kill them.  What do I do with them?   Can I toss them out using the 'pit' function?  Not that I plan to toss them into a pit but I want my cages back.

5. I heard you can train Keas (oh evil birds).  How long would that take?

That helps thanks. Once I put the Fortress on alert, what I called 'Inside', sending all the Dwarfs to the barrow and the squads went inactive and tried to enter the barrow also.  I was pretty sure I had set it so that both units stayed active.  I had to go to the squad screen to get it all cleared out in time to lift/retract the bridges before the Goblins got to the walls.  Rome : Total War, with its massive armies, is easier to handle than one unit in the Dwarf Fortress game.  And that is not a good thing.

   

Well, I assume making a canal and a animal pathway would take more labor and time.  And underground canals would have simpler methods of moving the canal boats. 

In England, a lot of the canals went through hills and mountains so they used their feet.   


Or just tie up a bunch of humans/elves/goblins to it.   


After all DETA would go after us if we used animals. 

(I know some canal history already but was also googling it - found a plan for a paddle boat powered by two horses AND one designed with people in the paddle - HEY, just one more thing to do with goblins.  'a'ssign goblins to a barge paddle wheel.  Get some work out of the free loaders!  Just sitting in the cage, doing nothing!  Also, better than being killed in those blood games many players have.  And it would be nice to have something to do with those animal-people I sometimes capture.)

I have another question and figured to put it here as this is the military question thread thingie...

When setting up training is the only way to set a squad inactive is to go to the 's'quad menu?  I noticed that I can set them up to train, station, patrol, and defend the barrow (whatever that does).  So, to make them inactive, I have to us 's' and then hit 't' till they are inactive?

Also, I noticed that even AFTER telling them to go inactive, making them switch back into trappers and such, they STILL come to the barracks and do individual combat training.  They HAVE bedrooms.  What are they doing??!?!?!?