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Blackalpha
United Kingdom80 Posts
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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
On June 05 2011 09:58 Blackalpha wrote: Well after my first proper go at this game i actually think its really good, i see where all the links to dungeon keeper come from, this game is great. although extremely deep, my animals keep dying from starvation and i don't know why because i have plenty of food. and some guy just went berserk and slaughtered 3 of my little stumpy guys Here's how to prevent animals from dying - took me a bit to figure this out too, I had to prowl the wiki for it. :D Do this above ground, on grass. We're going to set up a pasture. For your animals to graze on. Crazy! haha. Push i --> make an area like you would a stockpile --> Enter, you'll see a zone placed down. --> hit n --> hit shift+n --> Select what animals you want to graze in this location...grass WILL disappear so if you have more than like 10 animals you might consider a bigger zone or multiple. I usually do 5 horse sized animals in a 7x7 zone off in a random place somewhere. edit: this is also handy for cats/war dogs. Make a 1x1 pasture by your main entrance, and have a war dog dragged there. Bam, it's like having a photon cannon at your front door. No more goblin thiefs or anything sneaking in! Cats, pastures to corral a catsplosion, or pastures to set cats to only "patrol" in your food stockpiles. :D | ||
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protoge
United States55 Posts
I eventually assigned them to just go shoot at capybara men which they easily killed but now won't loot for the meat. They're now currently hunting and doing it right, bu tthey're so innacurate T.T I read the wiki and made sure they were assigned to train, active (they were even in uniform), had a barracks with an archery target in it, had ammunition/quivers/weapons. Any ideas on what I was doing wrong? | ||
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japro
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Haemonculus
United States6980 Posts
On June 06 2011 03:04 japro wrote: Ok, I think I got the general idea of the game but how do I manage the jobs/preferences of my guys reasonably? With the immigration and such I ended up having about 70 dwarves relatively fast and wanted to assign an armorsmith. Do I really have to go like u->select a dwarf->c... etc. like 50 times until i find one that has a "talent" for the job? Download the Lazy Newb Pack, and use the "Dwarf Therapist" utility. Saves you hours of time. | ||
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N3rV[Green]
United States1935 Posts
It makes things MUCH easier. | ||
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alrik21
Sweden20 Posts
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Haemonculus
United States6980 Posts
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alrik21
Sweden20 Posts
On June 06 2011 04:53 Haemonculus wrote: Just place the well 1 z-level higher. It can't be *in* the water. It's got to be above it. But still. i need open space at the ground above the water, and i dont know how i should create it | ||
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Zavior
Finland753 Posts
w = well *****w***** ***** ***** ***~~~~~* | ||
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alrik21
Sweden20 Posts
On June 06 2011 06:13 Zavior wrote: channel the space w = well *****w***** ***** ***** ***~~~~~* Thanks this helped, =) | ||
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ChinaWhite
United Kingdom239 Posts
An oaken toy axe! an oaken toy axe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We dont even have any children left after the last flood! | ||
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nanoscorp
United States1237 Posts
On June 06 2011 07:33 ChinaWhite wrote: Sibrek Keskalkol, Trapper has created Edotalin, a oaken toy axe An oaken toy axe! an oaken toy axe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We dont even have any children left after the last flood! Nice! On one run through, my first 3 artifacts were coffins. Morbid dwarves much? To be fair, all of them ended up dying. | ||
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Offhand
United States1869 Posts
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Brambled
United States750 Posts
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randombum
United States2378 Posts
On June 06 2011 09:39 Brambled wrote: I have a question. Do my military dwarves automatically upgrade their gear when I make new armor? Short answer is yes. Everybody will wear the best item available for their uniform. If somebody upgrades and sheds his old then somebody else will equip that if its better than their current. Unless they grow fond of their items. Sometimes a dwarf will fall in love with his copper axe and won't trade for a new masterwork steel one. | ||
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Haemonculus
United States6980 Posts
On June 06 2011 09:39 Brambled wrote: I have a question. Do my military dwarves automatically upgrade their gear when I make new armor? Yup, unless like stated above, they grow attached to it. My two best marksdorfs have fallen in love with their bone crossbows, and refuse to use anything else lol. | ||
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RandomAccount#49059
United States2140 Posts
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
On June 06 2011 12:22 Haemonculus wrote: Yup, unless like stated above, they grow attached to it. My two best marksdorfs have fallen in love with their bone crossbows, and refuse to use anything else lol. it's really not a big problem. The material for crossbows only affects their melee damage. The worst possible situation in that regard is if they fall in love with an adamantine crossbow; it's like your dwarfs trying to deal out death with whiffle bats. The only thing which is relevant for crossbows is the quality, masterwork is 2x accuracy and artifact is 3x. iirc the best material for crossbows, or any other blunt weapon, is bismuth bronze or silver ( depends of the situation) because of the density. Silver tends to do better against other humanoids and other conventional creatures, but apparently can't touch a bronze colossus for shit. | ||
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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
fun :D | ||
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