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Author Topic: How do I order my dwarves to stay inside?  (Read 1050 times)

Sideways

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How do I order my dwarves to stay inside?
« on: December 19, 2010, 03:26:46 pm »

The situation was the following: I had a well running fortress, when suddenly a goblin ambush arrived. My dwarves, for some reason, all rushed outside, where they where massacred by the goblins. Is there any way that I can get them to stay inside in case of an atack.
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Re: How do I order my dwarves to stay inside?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2010, 03:29:58 pm »

Burrows and military alerts. Make a burrow where you want the dwarves to stay when it's dangerous (i usually use the dining hall and bedrooms, with an alternate burrow consisting of the entire fortress underground). Then go to the military screen, select Alerts, and create a new one and assign your burrow to that alert. Then when you need your dwarves to stay there, go back to the alert page and set the CIV alert marker to that alert you created.

Also, this would be better posted in the Gameplay Questions forum.
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Re: How do I order my dwarves to stay inside?
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2010, 03:39:42 pm »

Thanks
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