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The day when magma has the same pressure rules as water will be a horible day for volcano embarks.
My possessed dwarf has claimed a clothiers shop, and has everything i need (in the correct quantities) according to dfhack, but is still muttering. what gives?
Yes you do. I use dfhack to loom thread into cloth so I have a steady supply of cloth. I also turn off autoloom in the standing orders menu in order to prevent all of my thread from being loomed. That way I manage to keep a supply of thread as well as a supply of cloth.Only hazard is that your thread is automatically loomed by default, so you gotta stock hospital before setting loom up, or just forbid it at first.
Or use dfhack's workflow command to deal with the weaving and turn off the auto-loom option. Let's you keep a stock of thread as long as you have a reasonable stock of cloth.....
You don't even need dfhack. {o}ptions has a setting for auto-looming of thread. Same place as auto silk harvesting and corpse collection stuff.
Unfortunately, the grate won't work. If a grate is completely submerged, things can still swim through it. Only when there's water one one side and air on the other does a grate prevent things from passing through. It's one of those little things I find annoying. Also pressure is a funny thing in DF. "Natural" pressure seems able to push water up to Z-1 (where Z is the level the water is sourced from) whereas a pump on level Z can push water up to level Z. I noticed this behavior on a series of wells I made for my prison once.Well, the fortification is most likely going to be fully submerged. Should investigate into the wind power of the area.
If you use pressure to snake your water tunnel up/down a Z-level or two, you could place a grate at one of the ramps, abusing the fact that destroyers can't destroy from below.
Assuming the entire thing isn't going to be open to the surface.
Only hazard is that your thread is automatically loomed by default, so you gotta stock hospital before setting loom up, or just forbid it at first.
You need to send gifts back to the Mountainhome with the caravan. 10k. Not much.
What's the best use for a trained dragon? :3
I'm trying to figure out how to make impulse ramps and am failing! I've tried to follow different threads - but I think I learn best from watching youtube tutorials. This is the closest I've come to making any sense the system I'd like to build:Well, here are some nice simple instructions for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHq82wWfZQ
Unfortunately I have no clue how he did it! Are there any resources on youtube for building impulse ramps?
You could also look into using pressure plates, forbidden doors, and pets for critical levers. A cat stuck on a pressure plate in a 1x1 room with a locked door will leave immediately when the door is unlocked thereby turning off the pressure plate. Can't get a much faster response time than that. A rather large PITA for a lot of levers, but for a few critical levers? Just may be the ticket for you.
Cats are too light to activate pressure plates in .34. Dogs may still work, and you can also use the door to grant access of another pressure plate trigger (minecart or water) when opened by the animal. In my experience, this trick works best when you use an unlocked and tightly shut door and set it to "pet-passable" to let the animal out. Locking/unlocking the door tends to produce a slightly longer delay.
You could also look into using pressure plates, forbidden doors, and pets for critical levers. A cat stuck on a pressure plate in a 1x1 room with a locked door will leave immediately when the door is unlocked thereby turning off the pressure plate. Can't get a much faster response time than that. A rather large PITA for a lot of levers, but for a few critical levers? Just may be the ticket for you.
Which is why I think that (un)locking doors should be a job just like 'pull lever', and potentially a job any tantrumming dwarf can decide to do on himself. Maybe you should be able to "forbid" a door, which is an immediate overseer action and is obeyed by all sane dwarfs, but not by pets, invaders (+tantrummers and kids?), ie it functions more like a burrow restriction; and "lock" a door, which is an action that dwarfs have to do like pulling a lever, but which will also prevent pets and invaders from using the door.
