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DF Gameplay Questions / Siege weapons

« on: February 24, 2008, 12:04:00 am »

The wiki spends quite a lot of time warning about the risks of siege weapons, but none of it appears to be true.

I recently set up a ballista to deal with HIDDEN FUN STUFF, firing down a long hall. The wiki claims the ballista will kill anything that the arrowhead hits. This does not appear to be the case.. only the first monster the arrow hit would be damaged, and it would pass harmlessly by any other creature in its route.

Additionally, ballista arrows do not appear to hit unconscious creatures, or creatures in a trade depot. Is this a bug?

Catapults seem to not do splash damage either. In fact I haven't been able to witness a single case where they did any damage.. direct hit or otherwise.

DF Gameplay Questions / Cancels Clean

« on: November 27, 2007, 10:39:00 am »

I'm getting inundated with alerts from my cleaning dwarves, "X cancels Clean: Could not find path." Is there any way to figure out what they were trying to clean? These tasks don't seem to show up in the job list.

I've gone over my fortress and made sure there's no locked doors or forbidden areas. Only things locked off are magma tubes and water routes. Could there be something submerged that they want to clean up? I can't find anything, but without knowing specifically where they're trying to clean up I can't be sure.

DF Gameplay Questions / Adamantite questions (spoilers)

« on: February 20, 2008, 04:42:00 pm »

Does anyone know if demons will respawn?

I recently broke into the demon pits and managed to fend them off (19 tentacle monsters, 1 "demon"). Been keeping my fortress on full alert for about 1 season and not found any more demons.

Killed off all the prisoners and sent my masons in to floor off the glowing pit.. still no more action.

Wiki doesn't have much info on this, anyone know?

DF Bug Reports / [38c] Dungeon Master is a slob

« on: April 02, 2008, 12:54:00 am »

World generated in 38c, no mods installed.

My dungeon master has all her required rooms (plus some, I gave her a bunch of extra chests and cabinets to try and get her to cleanup after herself), but she refuses to store any of her possessions in her room. As a result, they're spread all over the fortress.. wherever they were when she decided to claim them.

Nothing's forbidden, marked for dumping or melting, nothing in her profile about being a slob.. I can't find any reason for her to be ignoring her stuff.

Something I'm missing, or a bug?

DF Bug Reports / 33e: "cancels clean" spam with magma.

« on: December 13, 2007, 03:33:00 pm »

This has actually been around since at least 33a but it's taken me this long to figure out the circumstances.

What happens is dwarves with the Clean skill activated will want to clean up a "molten" object from a magma channel (ie, I left a rock prior to flooding) but the job fails because they can't path through the magma. The spam is constant, I can get several job cancellations a second if I have enough idle dwarves.

Marking the molten object forbidden does not prevent this.

I've seen some hints that this only happens when the molten material is not actually attached to the magma vent. That is, I dig out my magma delivery channel, get molten crap stuck in there, and no jobs get cancelled. Pinch off the supply from the magma vent and suddenly I start getting spammed. I'm not 100% sure this is the case however.

Cooling down the magma fixes the spam, a dwarf will rush in, clean up the mess, and everyone's happy.