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It's quite frustrating. They're already wearing a few items made of cloth, silk and leather and I can't seem to get them to drop all of these; I wonder if this is preventing the armor from being collected?

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Originally posted by Gaulgath:
<STRONG>By Armok! That dwarf must be a complete tank in combat.</STRONG>

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To be honest, I think only six of those artifacts are defensive; the other six are all just artifact weapons.

In any case, all twelve of those artifacts are cyan in color.

Anyway, here are a few things I noticed that may be useful to consider:

If you happen to get sieged in future, be aware that trolls may destroy any buildings they can reach, such as the ones outside if they are left unprotected.

Some of the workshops are "cluttered" (CLT) with created items, and this will slow down production at those cluttered workshops, slowing down further as the clutter increases. It won't stop production completely, however, so it's up to you whether you want to increase production speed by creating sufficient stockpiles for all of the clutter to be hauled out of these workshops.

I think the barracks work just fine if you define them from just one bed, as long as the room you define covers all of the beds that you want to be part of the barracks. The game considers rooms with overlapping floor space to be "shared", and although this doesn't stop the dwarves using them, it will make them view the rooms as less valuable, and therefore less pleasing. I'm not sure whether this rule affects shared barracks, though.

Dwarves like to organize parties, and parties don't involve doing any work. They can boost happiness and develop social skills though, I think. Dwarves will organize parties in unused rooms defined from certain furniture, such as cages, chains/ropes, wells and statues, as well as dining rooms that serve as meeting halls. I'm not sure exactly what triggers parties, but you can stop them at any time by [f]reeing any unrequired rooms where parties are taking place.

Although a refuse stockpile outside will get most rotting items out of your fortress, a grave[y]ard stockpile is required for any remains of dwarves or pets that aren't assigned to coffins. I found the refuse stockpiles, but I couldn't seem to find any graveyard stockpiles when I looked, so adding one outside may help to prevent miasma.

If you get any criminals while you have a Captain of the Guard assigned, said criminals may be given a beating as punishment, and most certainly will be if you don't have enough cages or chains assigned for justice (press [z] and view the Justice screen to see how many "Cages&Chains" you need, at the top right). However, if you don't have a Captain of the Guard assigned, criminals are pretty much safe, until a Hammerer arrives.

Although traps are often considered overpowered, you may wish to invest in some at your entrance, just in case goblins decide to attack. By "traps", I mean stone-fall traps, weapon traps and cage traps, though you can devise more complicated traps too, if you like. The basic requirement for all traps is mechanisms, but you'll need stones, weapons or cages too, depending on which types of trap you use.

Don't worry, none of these things require urgent attention, but they should be easy enough to deal with anyway. The fortress is looking good, and I like the name, "Manytombs". Hopefully it's not a sign of things to come.

I hope at least some of this may be helpful. Good luck!

I once deconstructed a small, harmless, above-ground structure that I no longer needed. Considering how small and harmless it was, I thought there would be no problem in designating it for deconstruction in fairly large chunks. Even if anything did go wrong, the dwarves would only fall down 1 z-level at most.

Unfortunately though, I'd forgotten that the floor beneath the structure was very thin. As the building got deconstructed, I was informed that a detached floor tile from the building had caved in. I wasn't worried until I later saw that it had crashed through every single underground floor of the fortress, all the way down to my lowest basement, and my underground water storage area just happened to be in the way of the crashing tile, in one of the upper floors.

The majority of my stockpiles were in the flooded basements. Needless to say, I didn't have access to them for a long time afterwards. The floors were gradually flooding, one by one, and my dwarves were getting cut off from their food. The fact that a hole had been smashed in the floor of every subterranean z-level meant that just about every floor could potentially end up flooded. Fortunately though, Winter came just in time, and the flow of water that extended up to the surface froze into a column of ice.

The column just happened to pass through one unfortunate dwarf's bedroom, so I had the ice in that bedroom mined away and fixed the hole in the floor, then locked that room before it inevitably filled with water again once the ice melted.

Further repairs were carried out and the basements were eventually unflooded. Extra care has been taken to ensure such accidents never happen again, or at least not when anyone's looking.

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Originally posted by Lord Dullard:
<STRONG>http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-355-bodypartexplosion

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I remember watching this! It's awesome. I was actually thinking of using it as inspiration; and was considering dropping the animals from as high up as possible, for maximum carnage.

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Originally posted by Fossaman:
<STRONG>Will they still be able to pit animals in the future, though?</STRONG>

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Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>If you open the hatch, yeah.  You should be able to hook it up to a lever.</STRONG>

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I find I can actually pit animals through closed hatches, or even through bridges, without any problems.

On the subject of disposing of animals, I have 1292 of them in my current fortress. I haven't decided what to do with them yet.

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Originally posted by Maltay:
<STRONG>Ergo, it sits unfinished, all construction Suspeneded while awaiting Architecture.</STRONG>

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That definitely sounds like you need to press [q], highlight the bridge and press to unsuspend it, as tp12 mentioned. If you see a red "Construction suspended" when viewing the bridge, that means that your dwarves will make absolutely no attempt to continue constructing the thing until you manually unsuspend it.