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Very low value, but it's a cheap way to fuel moody dwarves.
Cruel I suppose but they're the ones that were demanding materials impossible to acquire.
"Dry grass" seems to do this a lot.
Eventually grass will start to grow again, so just have dwarves perform some meaningless construction in the area to get them to tromp it back down.
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Originally posted by Zereth:
<STRONG>It's possible to get an underground, outside tile? (without using an editor, I mean.)</STRONG>
You can do it in evil purple regions.. trees outside will mark a space as subterranean. Good luck manipulating this bug to a beneficial end however. 
And she never drops it either, she's never picking the stuff up. She's claimed a few items from a goblin ambush I wiped out and they're still sitting out there where they fell.. been sitting there for at least 5 years.
All the other nobles have their rooms stuffed with crap they claimed. The dungeon master just lets it sit, and nothing in her profile about being messy.
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?
No job cancellation message is produced, they just get a cyan question mark, walk away about 10 tiles, then attempt the job again. Repeat until they get a higher priority task.
Once it becomes not molten (grey) they clean it up.
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.
This is in 38c.
It worked out for the best, I got a good life now (in fact, I was hired via a MUSH as well as met my wife on one), but it doesn't change the fact that it's a valuable cautionary tale.
Avoid 'em if you actually want to complete your college education.
Whenever I send him out on patrol, there's this crippled mule trying to follow him and falling over unconscious every 5 steps.
Starting outside, it don't look like much. Typical moat around a fortress entrance:
Peel away about 10 layers of dirt with the slice option, and you will find this:
The tallest buildings are three stories, with an additional z-level used for the roof. Dug out a total of 5 z-levels, in an area about 100 tiles wide by 50 tiles tall.. almost 25,000 stones were excavated and disposed of.
http://xzzy.org/files/games/dwarfort/Inethgongith/inside2.jpg
http://xzzy.org/files/games/dwarfort/Inethgongith/glamshot1.jpg
http://xzzy.org/files/games/dwarfort/Inethgongith/glamshot2.jpg
