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Quote from: ImagoDeo on October 20, 2013, 11:50:43 am

Triple-posting for !!science!!.



Attempt #2. Three thieves vs. sixty children. So far, no one has died, although all the children are slowly dehydrating to death. The goblins are coming out on the worse end of the conflict overall, but I have a feeling they're training their dodging skills faster than my children are training their fighting skills. I'll see how this goes - maybe next time I should try a smaller containment area with fewer individuals involved. I'm thinking one goblin versus two or three children.

You know, it's posts like these that make me think those goblin snatchers are doing the kids a favor.

Well, have you looked at the snatcher messages?

To save you time, here they are straight from snatcher_profession.txt ....

I rescue lost children and bring them back to [CONTEXT:PLACE:TRANS_NAME].

So yes, given some of the 'child care' being attempted here, I could see the children being rescued...

In my experience, autolabor is almost worthless if you want anything done in a timely fashion even when your fortress gets a population from 50 to 100. And the spinning task is ... difficult ... for workflow to handle, although you might be able to use 'job item-material' for the spinning task and make multiple tasks to handle different types of wool (ALPACA, LLAMA, SHEEP), but it would be painful to deal with the various "Got hair when I killed the animal so make some cheap hair thread for sutures in the hospital" such as horse, yak, and what not. You'll find 'job item-material' to be absolutely invaluable in conjunction with workflow when you start milling plants. Basically, set up multiple jobs at the quern or millstone with one job per plant type and use job item-material to specify exactly what material for each job. You could manually do such selectivity using multiple millstones and linked stockpiles, but it's a lot nicer to have a half dozen jobs on one millstone to mill cave grass, sweet pod, longland grass, dimple cups, etc. Besides, using multiple millstones and linked stockpiles still doesn't work with workflow. Haven't been able to find the material token type for rock nut paste to be able to use the screw press so haven't been able to make rock nut oil using workflow.

"Oh shit!" puff ... puff ..."damn goblin is chasing me! Ah ha! The fortress gate, I'll just run inside and be safe!"

so i need to dig a channel in the center tile of the windmill, where the millstone should be put then?
the windmill stays on the open space. i dont know, if theres any wind, but the vanes are moving.

If the vanes are moving, you should be able to use the 'q' command to see how much power it's generating.

The obvious question then becomes .... Do they have a pick?

Forgotten beasts serve that function.

Why won't this thread die?

Hmmm... That map you linked looks like three cotton candy cones stuck upside down. Please tell me that each of 'em in your picture also have huge fluffy mounds of cotton candy directly beneath them only a few Z levels away....