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[gordy]

Yet another fire, this one in depot when traders arrived and not before. Fortunately, only smoke and no flame, and was extinguished soon. I never found out what caused it.

Surface fires.... More likely in this version? I'm like five for five. Often arriving without warning. One accompanied by a merchant.

[Telgin]

Is there an easy way to make all wooden doors resemble stone doors?  Also, if I change the color of wood to grey (how?) will tree trunks and logs also be grey?

Not sure about making them look like stone, but if you look in plant_standard.txt there is an example of making trees a different color.  The glumprong is a purple color and it has tags to change that.  So far as I know, that should work on other trees and extends to logs and constructions made of them.  Looks like [DISPLAY_COLOR:7:0:0] would make a tree gray, for example.

Color codes explained here.

[gordy]

I just hate the wooden door icon, I might change graphics instead.

[Fewah]

How do you wet a area for farming?

I have a underground farm and a above ground farm that I'm trying to get wet for farming... How do I go about get water onto it?

Aside from flooding it etc...

Thanks

[Random_Dragon]

How do you wet a area for farming?

I have a underground farm and a above ground farm that I'm trying to get wet for farming... How do I go about get water onto it?

Aside from flooding it etc...

Thanks

Easy way, once you've had practice on how not to flood your fort, involves careful digging of a higher-up water source and use of floodgates and/or drawbridges, and might require screw pumps or cave-in bombs if you don't HAVE a water source on the same z-level or higher.

The tedious, slow, but damn near idiotproof way is to just hit "i" and establish a zone, declare it to be a pit/pond, and make your dorfs dump water on the floor the hard way.

But if you're above-ground you should just have dirt to place plots on, unless you're in the mountains and thus NEED to flood some stone.

[Raven]

iirc, the pit/pond zone, need a hole to dump water in the lower level

[greycat]

How to farm, including irrigation.

[Blue_Dwarf]

How do you wet a area for farming?

I have a underground farm and a above ground farm that I'm trying to get wet for farming... How do I go about get water onto it?

Aside from flooding it etc...

Thanks

Build a strip of floor above the farm, and designate a zone as a pond on the sides of the strip. Your dwarves will grab buckets and dump water on the farm, creating mud.

[Random_Dragon]

iirc, the pit/pond zone, need a hole to dump water in the lower level

Basically yeah, you need to at least designate the zone above what you want wet, but beyond that it's infinitely simpler than a controled flood.

Though the more I think about it, the more "tedious but simpler if you aren't used to the complex part" explains a lot of features I never use. o3o

[gordy]

I usually just channel soil for above ground plots and put the below ground in a similarly sized room beside it. That's if you want to farm only within the first few z legend below ground. Far below or in the caverns you need to pump or pit water.

[Random_Dragon]

Most practical, yeah. It seems I very rarely try to actually bunker down and make my dwarves live underground. :V

[Sutremaine]

The wiki says that if your dwarfs are wearing chain mail + high boots then you don't need leg armor like greaves. Does that mean that greaves are completely useless in such a situation, or does it still provide an armor bonus?

Secondly does wearing cloth underclothes or  leather over clothes with metal armour provide any bonus to your protection? If so what are the best leather items  I can combine with full metal armor besides hood and cloak?

You don't need the leg armour because the boots and mail overlap. You still want it, because it's an extra layer of metal. It's similar to combining a mail shirt with a breastplate -- if you have the materials and your dwarves can still move quickly enough, why not?

Regular clothing items will provide a small bonus, but 1. It's unlikely that a blow will fall in the tiny gap between 'stopped by armour' and 'hits flesh', and 2. They're a pain in the butt to manage. Either you allow uniforms over civilian clothes and run the risk of dwarves choosing clothes over armour, or you make clothing items a part of the uniform and put up with dwarves complaining about the worn items they won't take off because said items are part of their uniform.

If you want your military to be uniformed in clothing, dress them in whatever you like except caps and shoes, but keep an eye on the dwarves' inventories to make sure they're still wearing their metal layers. Don't go by the green ticks in the military screen.

[greycat]

Regular clothing items will provide a small bonus, but 1. It's unlikely that a blow will fall in the tiny gap between 'stopped by armour' and 'hits flesh', and 2. They're a pain in the butt to manage. Either you allow uniforms over civilian clothes and run the risk of dwarves choosing clothes over armour, or you make clothing items a part of the uniform and put up with dwarves complaining about the worn items they won't take off because said items are part of their uniform.

Eh?  I've never had that problem.  My custom uniforms for melee dwarves typically include helm, hood, mail shirt, and cloak.  They replace the cloaks and hoods all the time, with no problems.

[Sutremaine]

Hmm, maybe that's new. Is your custom uniform 'replace clothing' or 'over clothing'?

[Telgin]

Wear affects an item's value, doesn't it?  I'd guess as long as you had new and unworn items lying around, they would probably replace the worn parts.  My understanding was always that civilians and soldiers replaced clothing and gear by checking for more valuable things to change into.

If that really is how it works, I'd guess that they wouldn't change into a less worn item if what they had was already of very high value (a worn master work?) and the only replacements were average quality.

Or maybe they won't replace clothing inside of armor?  I know there have been a ton of problems in the past where dwarves would put on and take off clothing in the wrong order and never figure it out on their own.  I think that was all pretty much fixed in the .34 release that added the need to wear clothing back in though.