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[GTM]

I can't get my goblins and orcs to do anything half the time, and the interface is kinda unreliable and tough to get used to.  It's funny, I sound/feel like the people who criticize DF...

It's great to see some more ASCII/ANSI love out there though.   

[Capntastic]

I can't get my goblins and orcs to do anything half the time, and the interface is kinda unreliable and tough to get used to.

You're probably not using the Stocks Manager or Stockpiles right, and the interface is pretty intuitive.

[Andir]

I can't get my goblins and orcs to do anything half the time, and the interface is kinda unreliable and tough to get used to.

You're probably not using the Stocks Manager or Stockpiles right, and the interface is pretty intuitive.

There is some quirkiness since this is really just the second release.  For instance, if you select Drink, you also have to select Container and Liquid Container.  I've found that you have to choose the parent node as well.  So if you want a log pile, you have to pick Wood and Log.

[forsaken1111]

Goblin Camp version 0.11 is out with a lot of nice new features. I'm enjoying this game, though it is obviously incomplete.

There is also a nice piece about it on bigdownload.

[Tilla]

It sounds like 0.12 will be soon - hard to believe 0.11 was almost a month ago now.

the doryen library blog has mention that they're working on a native tile mode for LibTCoD, specifically for Goblin Camp. And it looks very pretty with the sample tileset!!

[forsaken1111]

wow, getting it working with those tiles would be amazing. I wonder if they'll integrate a zoom function as well.

[niltrias]

So, goblins and orcs seem to do different things, but is there a list of what exact jobs goblins can do, and which are restricted to non-military orcs?

[Vattic]

I'm having a problem they won't harvest the crops. I removed all other jobs but still nothing.

Otherwise the game is coming along nicely. I still find the interface slightly fiddly at times, clicking through things by accident. The tiles were a bit small so I doubled them. Quite tempted to mod in human, dwarven, elven heroes to pester the camp.

[niltrias]

Ok, Im starting to get it figured out.  Still not quite sure how the minimums in the stock manager work.  I set the lower number to say 5 of something, thinking that that would mean I want 5 of them, or a minimum of 5 of them...and then the go and make 22.

Also, fiddled about with the creatures list, and learned something.  Don't change "skeleton" into "dwarven hero" and then add the underground tag.  Skeletons have hands.  Gah!

I suppose you could do it if you really don't like goblins, tho.

[DennyTom]

Goblins do dirty work - tree cutting, farming, herb collecting and hauling. Orcs do crafts, work in workshops and can become soldiers.

Stockpile minimums are not perfectly working, especially if you have multiple workshops of same kind. I think that the game distributes the jobs between workshops and after a while checks if they are done. If not, it adds them to to queue. Seems to me that in does not really check if there is enough jobs in the queues yet, so it generates too many jobs.
Also sometimes it is not possible to make exactly the number you ordered - for example from one log the orc will make several (3? 4? do not really rememeber) planks.

Vattic, I would check two things - do you have a stockpile with enabled crops and set minimum AND are the crops ready (harvest is in autumn)?

Very useful feature you may miss - do not cut down trees, unleass you need space to build. Designate them instead and set some minimum of logs in a stockpile. When they run out of logs, goblins will go and cut a few trees.

[Vattic]

If I'd just waited a few more minutes, it was late summer, the harvest would have begun. My worry was that I had a food shortage problem and didn't want to waste any food. Now I have more food than I know what to do with. They are well fed.

[SniHjen]

A weaver is essential to the food industry...