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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
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tjg92
United States100 Posts
 I don't remember how to set it to keep the dwarves indoors. | ||
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Vearo
Canada168 Posts
On June 22 2011 09:43 tjg92 wrote: I just lost about 65 dwarves to a goblin ambush. I have 3 children and a berserk miner left I don't remember how to set it to keep the dwarves indoors. You have to assign inside as a burrow, and then assign your population to that burrow. There might be a better way, I am still figuring out the nuances of the newer version. Oh, and I figured out the problem with my military: I needed to set the squad training numbers to n-1 instead of 1. The dwarves thought that only one needed to show up instead of as many that could make it. | ||
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tjg92
United States100 Posts
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ComaDose
Canada10352 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + On June 22 2011 04:53 ComaDose wrote: read through a lot of this. want a game i can play windowed whilst watching streams. gonna install it. what tile set is nice and easy. I plan on keeping the wiki open and restarting many a time to get the hang of it. Day 1: Got the newb friendly pack. I spent a significant amount of time telling the dwarfs to mine on ground level. Looked up everything i could in the wiki made sure that they were set and equipped. Yes you need to mine through walls/sub terrain. I learned what a Z level is. Going up a Z level is not going super saiyan. I cut trees, piled wood brought everything inside, put my animals to pasture, put all the stones in the "garbage", had a place for poop. Overall Day1 went well. I only abandoned 2 fortresses... poor dwarfs. suffering for me being a perfectionist. Now if only i could find some soil i wouldn't have to abandon this fresh batch. My location has "some soil" and i've spread out on a few Z levels now looking for it. Also cannot figure out how to irrigate and am wondering the effectiveness/cost/benefits of this. We will see how it goes tonight! | ||
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Haemonculus
United States6980 Posts
On June 22 2011 22:02 ComaDose wrote: Pre - Day 1: + Show Spoiler + On June 22 2011 04:53 ComaDose wrote: read through a lot of this. want a game i can play windowed whilst watching streams. gonna install it. what tile set is nice and easy. I plan on keeping the wiki open and restarting many a time to get the hang of it. Day 1: Got the newb friendly pack. I spent a significant amount of time telling the dwarfs to mine on ground level. Looked up everything i could in the wiki made sure that they were set and equipped. Yes you need to mine through walls/sub terrain. I learned what a Z level is. Going up a Z level is not going super saiyan. I cut trees, piled wood brought everything inside, put my animals to pasture, put all the stones in the "garbage", had a place for poop. Overall Day1 went well. I only abandoned 2 fortresses... poor dwarfs. suffering for me being a perfectionist. Now if only i could find some soil i wouldn't have to abandon this fresh batch. My location has "some soil" and i've spread out on a few Z levels now looking for it. Also cannot figure out how to irrigate and am wondering the effectiveness/cost/benefits of this. We will see how it goes tonight! Easiest way to farm imo is to dig out a large room next to one of the ponds, (pretty common), and drain it into your room. The water will flood your farming room, then you just build a sealed door to keep it from re-flooding later. The water all evaporates and you're left with a nice large room filled with mud! Also farming above ground, (while very un-dwarfy) is very useful. I almost always have a small dedicated outdoor farm to grow more crops. One small patch for each type of plant you can grow adds a nice boost to your food supply. | ||
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iaretehnoob
Sweden741 Posts
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ComaDose
Canada10352 Posts
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ChinaWhite
United Kingdom239 Posts
a - still get migrations, and will number of migrants be affected? b - be subject to goblin attacks / sieges? | ||
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Logo
United States7542 Posts
On June 22 2011 23:35 ChinaWhite wrote: Quick question gents - If i embark on a smallish island in the ocean and dont have anyone listed as neighbours (my Civ has 4 locations on map, but none connected by land), will I a - still get migrations, and will number of migrants be affected? b - be subject to goblin attacks / sieges? I believe dwarven caravans come equipped with all-terrain wheels as well as sails and flotation devices. They are able to find you anywhere in the world so long as the edge of your map has terrain it can spawn on. Migrants, despite being useless when they reach you, are incredibly determined and hardy and will likewise be able to pass any terrain at all. Everything else isn't so lucky and will never appear at your fort. | ||
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ChinaWhite
United Kingdom239 Posts
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protoge
United States55 Posts
On June 22 2011 23:45 ChinaWhite wrote: ^ Thanks for the quick response Logo, I think I'll just abandon now then. Although I wish they would wait a bit longer before their pillaging, I dont like the idea of no Goblins at all! When are they attacking you? I haven't had issues with goblin attacks other than a few dwearves who were outside doing various things being too slow to get back in time. By the time you have 40 dwarves, you should have around 5 (imo) training and have started some sort of metal indstury to equip them. If you're having issues finding metal, trade for metal items and melt them down. | ||
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Haemonculus
United States6980 Posts
They walk around leaving miasma everywhere. I think I'll have most of them butchered or caged, but I dunno what to do about the ones that are pets. They're like half rotting and just leave trails of unhappy thoughts wherever they go T_T | ||
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Vain
Netherlands1115 Posts
On June 23 2011 01:43 Haemonculus wrote: I'm having trouble with rotting cats. They walk around leaving miasma everywhere. I think I'll have most of them butchered or caged, but I dunno what to do about the ones that are pets. They're like half rotting and just leave trails of unhappy thoughts wherever they go T_T They rot while alive?? otherwhise just set up a corpses pile outside and your fine | ||
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ChinaWhite
United Kingdom239 Posts
On June 23 2011 01:38 protoge wrote: When are they attacking you? I haven't had issues with goblin attacks other than a few dwearves who were outside doing various things being too slow to get back in time. By the time you have 40 dwarves, you should have around 5 (imo) training and have started some sort of metal indstury to equip them. If you're having issues finding metal, trade for metal items and melt them down. oh, no they're not a problem - i was just worried that if I started on an island I wouldn't see them at all. I want to be attacked. | ||
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Vain
Netherlands1115 Posts
On June 23 2011 02:01 ChinaWhite wrote: oh, no they're not a problem - i was just worried that if I started on an island I wouldn't see them at all. I want to be attacked. Oh but if you want that kind of FUN you should go mine admantine and don't backup your save tyvm. | ||
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ChinaWhite
United Kingdom239 Posts
On June 23 2011 03:31 Vain wrote: Oh but if you want that kind of FUN you should go mine admantine and don't backup your save tyvm. Haha Over the last couple of days I've been trying to get Adamantium before the end of year 1, that has been the challenge. needless to say I've started a lot of new forts. Even if the clowns dont get you the value tends to attract things too strong for 15 dorfs to handle. | ||
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
On June 23 2011 01:43 Haemonculus wrote: I'm having trouble with rotting cats. They walk around leaving miasma everywhere. I think I'll have most of them butchered or caged, but I dunno what to do about the ones that are pets. They're like half rotting and just leave trails of unhappy thoughts wherever they go T_T make a refuse stockpile outside your main door, your dwarfs will put the rotting stuff out there then and the miasma goes away. /edit: FUN! one of my fishers drowned in a river, so now his body is in there and now his ghost has risen and is haunting my mines >.< is there a way to get a body ouf of the river, besides attempting and failing and killing more dwarfs by making a dam or something to get the water away? | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10352 Posts
how do you turn off the music? | ||
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
On June 23 2011 08:16 ComaDose wrote: how do you remove stairs. how do you turn off the music? for dug out stairs (e.g. d -> i stairs): d -> j (i believe, it's "remove upward stairs or ramps") for constructed staids (e.g. d -> C -> x stairs): d -> n as for music: i just have the sound turned of in my windows sound mixer. But you can edit the config i think .. yes: go to data/init/init.txt and set [SOUND:YES] to [SOUND:NO], should do the trick. | ||
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