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I always build huge unnecessary crap around my fortress
So how do I get my marksdwarves to stay positioned in my towers?[/QUOTE]
Burrows?
[QUOTE=Gwandu;42295373][img]http://i.imgur.com/tAK8nAZ.png[/img]
I always build huge unnecessary crap around my fortress
So how do I get my marksdwarves to stay positioned in my towers?[/QUOTE]
You can assigned them to patrol burrows, however this is complicated and I don't actually know how to do it, nor have ever tried since non of my forts have ever needed it.
However there's a guide on the whole military process on the wiki so that should answer your question: [url]http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Military_interface[/url]
How do you do a 'cavern embark' I've been hearing about? I want to start in the caverns, but I have no idea how.
[QUOTE=Jrose14;42299439]How do you do a 'cavern embark' I've been hearing about? I want to start in the caverns, but I have no idea how.[/QUOTE]
on this topic, is there a way to see cavern entrances on the adventure mode map?
I really want to explore them
Sharing an old experience for the sake of providing humor for the thread.
I was playing on a savage map and set up a ton of cage traps all around my fortress entrance for security reasons. Most of the cage victims ended up being Giant Keas/Crows/Various Birds and I ended up making them all guard animals so my fort was constantly being gaurded by gigantic birds. Sadly I dont think any of them saw combat(if theyre even capable of fighting despite being giant).
And my Baronness got torn to shreds by two war dogs in a hallway after punching a military dwarf in a tantrum
Savage maps are fun. Terrifying maps are [i]more[/i] fun.
[editline]25th September 2013[/editline]
And then are, as their namesake, terrifying.
I'm still waiting for a "bottom of the ocean" embark.
In theory, if you made your dwarves aquatic and used that utility that lets you embark anywhere, it could work. Unfortunately, in practice dwarves tend to try to avoid - and get out of - water even if they're aquatic and can breathe underwater or don't have to breathe. It's part of the hard code.
I dunno though, it might be different if there was nothing but water. At least for a little while, as once you made your first proper undersea cave somehow, they'd never leave.
Some day I will make a cool artifact, until then the junk piles up.
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"Useless" weapons can still be used in weapon traps built in rooms to increase their value. Same as furniture, as I've stated before.
You're dead on about the figurine, earring and toy axe though. And probably the glove, I don't think dwarves arbitrarily claim artifact clothing. If they did, they'd be useful as they would never be damaged by normal wear and tear.
The weapons are all ones they've named themselves, not really artifacts. I am putting the stands and doors to good use in the Noble's rooms, though. The pig bone earring is decorated with hydra and dragon bone.
Oh. Man, you got fucked.
Good use as noble doors?
Those are [i]artifacts[/i] man! Make them useful to the common dwarf, not lazy fucks!
The doors are honestly best used as surface doors, same as the grate. The other furniture is better for the more bitchy nobles.
So how exactly do I 'bury' remains? I've got a corpse stockpile and I've built many coffins, but the ghost of this hammerdwarf has maimed 3 other dwarves so far.
Go into your [b]uild menu, choose burial receptacles, - I think it's v, don't quote me on this - build it like any other piece of furniture, [q]uery it, then tell them to use it for burial. I think that's b, don't quote me on that either.
You have to build the coffins into burial receptacles in the [b]uild menu [N].
I'm assuming your coffins are still waiting in a stockpile. Burying bodies in them there would be like burying them in a coffin shop. Ergo, you have to actually build the cemetery and tell people which coffins are open in the [q]uery menu before people actually start getting buried.
[QUOTE=Lijitsu;42313447]Go into your [b]uild menu, choose burial receptacles, - I think it's v, don't quote me on this - build it like any other piece of furniture, [q]uery it, then tell them to use it for burial. I think that's b, don't quote me on that either.[/QUOTE]
Get atom smashed you ninja.
[QUOTE=nater;42312030]The weapons are all ones they've named themselves, not really artifacts. I am putting the stands and doors to good use in the Noble's rooms, though. The pig bone earring is decorated with hydra and dragon bone.[/QUOTE]
It's funny that a dwarf had to claim a clothing shop and decide it really wanted to make one glove. There are fairly slim chances that it would decide to make a glove, sock, or shoe, but those are the only ones which are totally useless compared to what you could have gotten; amazing artifact trousers studded with pointed images of whip vine surrounded by cheese.
[QUOTE=Jrose14;42299439]How do you do a 'cavern embark' I've been hearing about? I want to start in the caverns, but I have no idea how.[/QUOTE]
Anyone?
[QUOTE=Jrose14;42317634]Anyone?[/QUOTE]
The only way I know how is to embark on a cave and go straight in, or embark anywhere and dig straight to the caverns.
I'm not sure why I'm still allowing my militia commander to be led by a dwarf who has no functioning arms. I thought it was funny at first, and it still is, but now that he's leading all of these training demonstrations I just hope the rest of my military can actually gain something from it. I can only imagine his "striking" demonstrations just being him flailing his arms in front of his class while they all try to figure out what he's doing.
Dworforteisa: A machine for cats
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[QUOTE=Lijitsu;42319417]The only way I know how is to embark on a cave and go straight in, or embark anywhere and dig straight to the caverns.[/QUOTE]
Tried it.
Cave troll came up and ate both my miners, also the cave caved in and killed everyone else a little while later after giving one of my peasants a pick.
[QUOTE=Jrose14;42325654]Tried it.
Cave troll came up and ate both my miners, also the cave caved in and killed everyone else a little while later after giving one of my peasants a pick.[/QUOTE]
The only cave embark I've ever done was an above-ground fortress, and I had basically nothing completed except the dorm, the noble houses, and the apartments. I tried to build everything out of wood and my warehouse was destroying my stockpiles.
[QUOTE=WarRage333;42325652]Dworforteisa: A machine for cats
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Build an Atom Smasher there, it will help keep the lag away. Mutilated corpses can't be used for anything all that often anyways.
Well shit. I guess I've gotten past the "wall" and can actually play this game now, since I just sat and played for like 4 hours straight and hardly noticed. I'd keep playing but I should really go to bed.
Not much happened so far, though I was thinking I wanted a hunter, suddenly an immigration comes and one is a hunter. Excellent. Then about 3 seconds later he goes hunting then gets murdered by a wereantelope. RIP.
Also someone has gone "stark raving mad" and is running around babbling.
[QUOTE=tom1029;42330539]Well shit. I guess I've gotten past the "wall" and can actually play this game now, since I just sat and played for like 4 hours straight and hardly noticed. I'd keep playing but I should really go to bed.
Not much happened so far, though I was thinking I wanted a hunter, suddenly an immigration comes and one is a hunter. Excellent. Then about 3 seconds later he goes hunting then gets murdered by a wereantelope. RIP.
Also someone has gone "stark raving mad" and is running around babbling.[/QUOTE]
make sure he goes into the most populated area
[QUOTE=bunnyspy1;42330580]make sure he goes into the most populated area[/QUOTE]
Nudity is popular among dwarves.
[QUOTE=Jrose14;42331259]Nudity is popular among dwarves.[/QUOTE]
Dorf fortress 2013: Nudist streaker edition :v:
I never really understood insanity in Dwarves...
"OH GOD I COULDN'T MAKE THIS COOL GLOVE I HAD AN IDEA FOR MY LIFE IS OVER"
then they either A: Kill the nearest baby, B: Kill themselves, C: Go streaking
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