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[Meph]

Evil biomes: Ignore the surface, just stay underground all of the time. Zombies get dumped in atom-smashers or magma.

[someone12345]

What are all these mushrooms? I looked at their raws, and they seem to be edible raw and cooked, and can be made into dye, glue, and alcohol. What was the point of adding them?

[Meph]

dye colors. Original game has only a few dyes, now there is one for each color.

[someone12345]

I'm going to abandon, as there are no zombies. I had some hairs around for quite a bit, and they did not reanimate. Also, I did not see any wandering zombies.
Edit: Regened the world, got zombies. Managed to get underground and wall off, and only lost 2 dwarves and a turkey.

[jimboo]

Is anyone else having problems with the Library system? 

All required items are in close stockpiles.  A tasked dwarf will carry thread, a quire, ink and a bookbinding into the Scriptorum, say he’s writing the book and then – nothing.  The books aren’t listed in Tools where they used to be, T and K screens says they’re not in the Scriptorum or any close stockpile, z screen doesn’t list ‘em at all.  Make the ten required books, go to build a Masterwork library and red screen says NONE of the books are available.  Bomrek Ed just repeated steps for writing “Bonecrafting” for this screenshot, the screen says he’s writing it, all items are in the Scriptorum after he carries them there, afterwards he’s described as “no job” walking away but – no book. 

So what’s changed?

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[Meph]

the books took their material from the paper reagent. This has been replaced with a quire, from the new vanilla DF library system. So the products are broken and books dont have a material.

I fixed it in my dev version, will be released on friday. if you want to fix it yourself, open reaction_dwarf_civ.txt, search for "GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:X:NONE" and replace with "GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:quire:NONE".

[jimboo]

Thanks for the tip but, nope.  Changed the code, next ten books, still nada.  Guess I'll wait for the next release.  Upper/lower case, didn't seem to matter. 

Also, what is the reaction for making glue?  Raws describe kitchen as 'glue building' but I don't see the actual reaction mechanism. 

[MechaJeb Kerman]

(sealed the last square with dfhack to avoid issues with dwarf walling self out or standing on wall and not building it.

There is actually a neat trick to avoid that, you just assign for 2 walls to be built, and suspend the one that is on the wrong side, like this.

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Very useful for building floodgates and other stuff too.

[smakemupagus]

Thanks for the tip but, nope.  Changed the code, next ten books, still nada.  Guess I'll wait for the next release.  Upper/lower case, didn't seem to matter. 

Also, what is the reaction for making glue?  Raws describe kitchen as 'glue building' but I don't see the actual reaction mechanism.

You made the change in the save folder, not main raws, right?

[Metaltooth]

Is there anything that is to be added for the dwarves or do you considered their faction complete

[Meph]

Is there anything that is to be added for the dwarves or do you considered their faction complete

Still lots that can be added. runesmith, golems, explosives maybe.

[Metaltooth]

Is there anything that is to be added for the dwarves or do you considered their faction complete

Still lots that can be added. runesmith, golems, explosives maybe.

Are the golems of the magical or mechanical variety?

[jimboo]

Thanks for the tip but, nope.  Changed the code, next ten books, still nada.  Guess I'll wait for the next release.  Upper/lower case, didn't seem to matter. 

Also, what is the reaction for making glue?  Raws describe kitchen as 'glue building' but I don't see the actual reaction mechanism.

You made the change in the save folder, not main raws, right?

Oh ... no, still made no difference.  Still writing books, books still disappearing/redded out.  Shame, this was 4 years into an amazing fortress. 

[Bigheaded]

Any ideas why my grazers stopped grazing? Or they are grazing but not enough?
Originally let them just wander, they started getting hungry so i made a pasture which has tonnes of grass, now they're starving.
Both on yak cows and rabbits.

There are clearly areas where they have eaten the grass, but they don't appear to be consuming enough and have no inclination to do so.

Any ideas? May be able to save them temporarily by feeding them manually with animal trainer, but this is less than ideal.

The only thing i can think of, is that i've turned on the mod which allows you to get war animals on all animals. Never had an issue before.

[jimboo]

On Glass:
Is it possible to code a smelting reaction – guess it would be metallurgist, now – to combine lead and sand to make CRYSTAL_ROCK?  Glass types are vanilla code, shame there’s no easy way to get around those limitations (esp. colors).  I still want my skilled dwarves to be able to make one of these:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Vase

Tl; read it anyway, it’s a great story.

Millstones *used* to grind boulders into sand and that was great.  A true Mountain embark meant underground plants (or now, perhaps gathered/traded plants) and an emphasis on getting early magma and water.  A mountain with gold ore made every Masterwork thing easy but Alchemists still do their thing and even without flux stone, a kiln is very efficient at making bonemeal, turkeys are very cheap and haven’t yet been nerfed back again on clutch size so, lots of early leather, tallow and bones.  Making rock crystals would be another pretty gem, infinite supply.  It’s a rare mountain that doesn’t at least have tetrahedrite for silver and that’s good enough.  Dwarf and now human caravans bring wagonloads of cut gems, I’d still like to have raw rock crystals available w/o using DFHack. 

Also,
Engravings can't be done on constructions.  Can that be changed?