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[Tommy]

[20:15] <Tommy> question on University Challenge: "What is the name given to any gem-quality corundum that is not red?"
[20:15] <Tommy> I knew it was sapphire instantly, then wondered why the hell I know that
[20:15] <Tommy> Then I realised it's DF's fault
[20:17] <Tommy> and that I'd read exactly that on the wiki a couple of weeks ago
[20:23] <Rhenaya> df: learning stuff you never wanted to know

[Lemunde]

War bears and war cheetahs...

[endorfin]

An archery range isn't a barracks for marksdwarves.  To get them to train properly, you need a barracks as well.  Also, every single target has to be made into a range and assigned to the squad you want to shoot at it.

[Lemunde]

Apparently if enough human siegers wander into your adamantine disc traps the human liaison will request peace at his next visit.

[GuudeSpelur]

Apparently if enough human siegers wander into your adamantine disc traps the human liaison will request peace at his next visit.

Those traps are probably the most valuable things in your fortress.

Also, if that liaison walked past those traps any future human siegers will not set them off.

[Flaede]

Apparently if enough human siegers wander into your adamantine disc traps the human liaison will request peace at his next visit.

Those traps are probably the most valuable things in your fortress.

Also, if that liaison walked past those traps any future human siegers will not set them off.

...unless you move them each over one step.

[Gnauga]

Actually you can just deconstruct and rebuild each trap and it'll be good as new.

[Lemunde]

Apparently if enough human siegers wander into your adamantine disc traps the human liaison will request peace at his next visit.

Those traps are probably the most valuable things in your fortress.

Also, if that liaison walked past those traps any future human siegers will not set them off.

That explains why the human siegers in a previous fortress walked right past them.  This is a bug right?  I'd hate to think that was a feature.

[rouninjae]

I finally figured out how wild animals keep getting loose...  trading them at the depot is bugged; as soon as a dwarf grabs their cage, the critter is set loose.

Mildly annoying with unicorns; genuine Fun with cave crocs, herds of elk birds, and giant rats.

you can stop this from happening by choosing the animals you want to trade from the pets list instead of from the "all" list (or any other list for that matter).  I forget how I found this out, but it works fine for me this way.

[Tommy]

Apparently if enough human siegers wander into your adamantine disc traps the human liaison will request peace at his next visit.

Those traps are probably the most valuable things in your fortress.

Also, if that liaison walked past those traps any future human siegers will not set them off.

That explains why the human siegers in a previous fortress walked right past them.  This is a bug right?  I'd hate to think that was a feature.

It's a feature, as far as I know - the diplomat has to be able to see the traps to know how to avoid them, so he can easily pass the info on to his cohorts.  Obviously goblins don't have the same advantage, as they rarely send anything so civilised as a diplomat.

[Khift]

An archery range isn't a barracks for marksdwarves.  To get them to train properly, you need a barracks as well.  Also, every single target has to be made into a range and assigned to the squad you want to shoot at it.

This is dangerously false. You can get marksdwarves to train without a barracks perfectly fine. In fact, adding a barracks will reduce their training speed as they will try and start dodging (or god forbid, wrestling) demonstrations when they should be at archery practice.

The second part is true, though. You need each archery target designated as it's own archery range.

[lolghurt]

That dwarfs can plunge through around 100 z-levels of magma before melting

[Golcondio]

You're lucky they melt at all: mine drown...

[Drawde]

You're lucky they melt at all: mine drown...

Sounds like you have TEMPERATURE turned of in the init file.  I once had a puppy get trapped in the magma of my magma forges, and he grew up stuck at one of the holes in the floor before I remembered to turn TEMP back on for a while.

[Flaede]

You're lucky they melt at all: mine drown...

Sounds like you have TEMPERATURE turned of in the init file.  I once had a puppy get trapped in the magma of my magma forges, and he grew up stuck at one of the holes in the floor before I remembered to turn TEMP back on for a while.

nope. there's been a rash of "dwarves not melting in the magma" reports. I especially like the one where he killed 4 fire creatures before drowning, with the blood on his steel armor boiling around him.