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Plant token

2019-12-18T10:06:20Z

Nahno: /* Environment Tokens */ WET: Allows -> Restricts. Tweaked paragraph.

{{Quality|Fine|11:40, 18 May 2015 (UTC)}}
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The default plants are stored in the plant_standard.txt file, while grasses are stored in plant_grasses.txt.

==Basic Tokens==
These tokens are specified for all plants and define their most basic characteristics.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style='background-color:#ddd'
! width="20%" | Token
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="60%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|NAME}}
|
*name
| The singular form of the plant's name as seen in-game.

|-
| {{text anchor|NAME_PLURAL}}
|
*name
| The plural form of the plant's name as seen in-game.

|-
| {{text anchor|ADJ}}
|
*adjective
| The word or phrase used to describe items made from this plant.

|-
| {{text anchor|ALL_NAMES}}
|
*name
| Sets the NAME, NAME_PLURAL, and ADJ to the specified string.

|-
| {{text anchor|PREFSTRING}}
|
*reason
| What dwarves can like this object for (e.g. "Urist likes plump helmets for their rounded tops.")

|-
| {{text anchor|MATERIAL}}
|
*material_name
| Starts defining a new local plant material with the given name and '''no''' properties.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_MATERIAL}}
|
*material_name
*old_material
| Starts defining a new local plant material with the given name and using the properties of another local plant material.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE}}
|
*material_name
*template_name
| Starts defining a new local plant material with the given name and using the properties of the specified material template.

|-
| {{text anchor|BASIC_MAT}}
|
* [[Material token|material]]
| Sets the basic material of the plant. According to Toady, you can use other materials (for instance, iron) but the game may hiccup on plants that aren't structurally plants. For crops, said material should have [STRUCTURAL_PLANT_MAT] to permit proper stockpiling. Generally, this should be "LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:material_name", using a material defined using MATERIAL, USE_MATERIAL, or USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE.
|}

==Environment Tokens==
These tokens, also applicable to all plants, specify where the plants grow.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style='background-color:#ddd'
! width="20%" | Token
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="60%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|UNDERGROUND_DEPTH}}
|
*minimum
*maximum
| Designates the highest and lowest cavern levels that the plant can appear in if its [[biome token|biome]] is subterranean. Dwarven civilizations will only export (via the embark screen or caravans) things that are available at depth 1. Defaults to 0:0 (surface only).

|-
| {{text anchor|GOOD}}
|
| Restricts the plant to growing in Good regions. Cannot be combined with [EVIL].

|-
| {{text anchor|EVIL}}
|
| Restricts the plant to growing in Evil regions. Cannot be combined with [GOOD].

|-
| {{text anchor|SAVAGE}}
|
| Restricts the plant to growing in Savage regions (regardless of alignment).

|-
| {{text anchor|FREQUENCY}}
|
*freq (0-100)
| How frequently this plant is generated in a particular area. Defaults to 50. Plants with valid [[biome token]]s and [FREQUENCY:0] will not grow in the wild, but will still be available for entity use and farm plots.

|-
| {{text anchor|WET}}
|
| Restricts the plant to grow near natural water features. A plant with [WET] may be very common or very rare in an area, depending on how many water features that area has. Note that they will not grow next to dwarf-filled channels, since it explicitly checks if the tile type is "River", "River Slope", "River Source", "Waterfall" (used back in 40d for underground rivers), "Brook", "Murky Pool", or "Murky Pool Slope".

|-
| {{text anchor|DRY}}
|
| Allows the plant to grow away from water features.

|-
| {{text anchor|BIOME}}
|
*biome
| What [[biome token|biome]] this plant appears in.

|}

==Growth Tokens==
These tokens are used for all plants and specify growths growing on a plant.

Edible or otherwise usable growths should have [STOCKPILE_PLANT_GROWTH] in their [[material definition token|material definitions]] for proper stockpiling. This also lets them be collected from plant gathering and farming jobs.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style='background-color:#ddd'
! width="20%" | Token
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="60%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH}}
|
*name
| Defines a plant growth. Takes the below tokens as arguments.

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_NAME}}
|
*singular
*plural (STP for standard plural)
| The name of a plant growth.

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_ITEM}}
|
* [[item token]]
* [[material token]]
| Specifies what item this growth is and what it is made of. Generally, the item type should be PLANT_GROWTH:NONE.

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_HOST_TILE}}
|
*plant part
| Specifies on which part of the plant or tree the growth appears, usually for multi-tile [[tree]]s. Valid tokens are:
*TWIGS
*BRANCHES_AND_TWIGS / LIGHT_BRANCHES_AND_TWIGS
*BRANCHES / LIGHT_BRANCHES
*ALL_BRANCHES_AND_TWIGS
*HEAVY_BRANCHES / DIRECTED_BRANCHES
*HEAVY_BRANCHES_AND_TRUNK / DIRECTED_BRANCHES_AND_TRUNK
*TRUNK
*ROOTS
*CAP
*SAPLING

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_TRUNK_HEIGHT_PERC}}
|
*integer:integer
|

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_DENSITY}}
|
*integer
| Currently has no effect.

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_TIMING}}
|
*[[time]] ticks (0-403200)
| Specifies at which part of the year the growth appears. Default is all year round.

A single growth can only have one GROWTH_TIMING tag. If multiple are declared, the last one will be used. To make a growth appear multiple times during the year, you need to create a different growth for every GROWTH_TIMING interval. By using the same material for all of the duplicate growths, all of them will be stockpiled together and be eligible for the same reactions. Edible/brewable growths will have separate entries in the kitchen menu, though.

There is no known way to declare a growth timing that lasts from winter into spring. Including numbers below 0 or above 403200 in the range will make the growth available at all times, as though you hadn't defined a growth timing at all. So will including a range for which the start time is later than the end time.

This has no effect on farmed growths; all eligible growths that have [STOCKPILE_PLANT_GROWTH] in their materials will be harvested, regardless of if they are currently within their growth timing or not.

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_PRINT}}
|
*overworld tile
*item tile
*color
*timing (0-403200), ALL or NONE
*priority
| Specifies the appearance of the growth. Can be specified more than once, for example for autumn leaves. Transitions between different timing periods will happen gradually over the course of 2000 ticks.

The GROWTH_PRINT tile will only be displayed when the growth in question is actually present, even if its timing parameter is ALL.

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_HAS_SEED}}
|
| The growth drops a seed if eaten raw.

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_DROPS_OFF}}
|
| Growths drop from the plant, producing a cloud of items which fall on the ground, which [[herbalist]]s can collect.
|-
| {{text anchor|GROWTH_DROPS_OFF_NO_CLOUD}}
|
| Growths drop collectable items from the plant without producing item clouds.

|}

==Tree Tokens==
These tokens are used only for trees.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style='background-color:#ddd'
! width="20%" | Token
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="60%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|TREE}}
|
* [[Material token|material]] or NONE
| Makes the plant into a [[tree]]. Cutting down the tree will yield logs made of this material. Setting the material to NONE will give no wood from this tree.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRUNK_NAME}}
|
*name
| What the trunk of the tree is named.

|-
| {{text anchor|MAX_TRUNK_HEIGHT}}
|
*1-8
| The maximum z-level height of a mature tree's trunk, starting from about two z-levels above ground and going up.

|-
| {{text anchor|MAX_TRUNK_DIAMETER}}
|
*1-3
| Upper limit of trunk thickness, in tiles. Counted separately for all branching trunks. Has a geometric effect on log yield.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRUNK_PERIOD}}
|
*integer
| The number of years the trunk takes to grow one Z-level upward.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRUNK_WIDTH_PERIOD}}
|
*integer
| The number of years the trunk takes to grow another tile wider.

|-
| {{text anchor|LIGHT_BRANCHES_NAME}}
|
*name
| What thin branches of the tree are named.

|-
| {{text anchor|BRANCH_DENSITY}} / {{text anchor|LIGHT_BRANCHES_DENSITY}}
|
*integer
| How dense the branches grow on this tree.

|-
| {{text anchor|BRANCH_RADIUS}} / {{text anchor|LIGHT_BRANCH_RADIUS}}
|
*integer
| The radius to which branches can reach. Appears to never reach further than seven tiles from the centre. Does not depend on the trunk branching amount or where trunks are. The values used in the game go from 0-3. Higher values than that can cause crashes. {{bug|10419}}

|-
| {{text anchor|HEAVY_BRANCHES_NAME}} / {{text anchor|DIRECTED_BRANCHES_NAME}}
|
*name
| What thick branches of the tree are named.

|-
| {{text anchor|HEAVY_BRANCH_DENSITY}} / {{text anchor|DIRECTED_BRANCH_DENSITY}}
|
*integer
| Similar to [[Plant_token#BRANCH_DENSITY|BRANCH_DENSITY]] for thick branches. Values outside 0-3 can cause crashes. {{bug|10419}}

|-
| {{text anchor|HEAVY_BRANCH_RADIUS}} / {{text anchor|DIRECTED_BRANCH_RADIUS}}
|
*integer
| Similar as [[Plant_token#BRANCH_RADIUS|BRANCH_DENSITY]] for thick branches.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRUNK_BRANCHING}}
|
*integer
| How much the trunk branches out. 0 makes the trunk straight.

|-
| {{text anchor|ROOT_NAME}} / {{text anchor|ROOTS_NAME}}
|
*name
| What the roots of the tree are named.

|-
| {{text anchor|ROOT_DENSITY}}
|
*integer
| Density of the root growth.

|-
| {{text anchor|ROOT_RADIUS}}
|
*integer
| How wide the roots reach out.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_NAME}}
|
*name
| What the twigs of the tree are named.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_SIDE_BRANCHES}}
|
*boolean (0 or 1)
| Twigs appear on the side of branches. Defaults to 1.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_ABOVE_BRANCHES}}
|
*boolean (0 or 1)
| Twigs appear above branches. Defaults to 1.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_BELOW_BRANCHES}}
|
*boolean (0 or 1)
| Twigs appear below branches. Defaults to 0.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_SIDE_HEAVY_BRANCHES}}
|
*boolean (0 or 1)
| Twigs appear on the side of heavy branches. Defaults to 0.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_ABOVE_HEAVY_BRANCHES}}
|
*boolean (0 or 1)
| Twigs appear above heavy branches. Defaults to 0.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_BELOW_HEAVY_BRANCHES}}
|
*boolean (0 or 1)
| Twigs appear below heavy branches. Defaults to 0.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_SIDE_TRUNK}}
|
*boolean (0 or 1)
| Twigs appear on the side of the trunk. Defaults to 0.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_ABOVE_TRUNK}}
|
*boolean (0 or 1)
| Twigs appear above the trunk. Defaults to 0.

|-
| {{text anchor|TWIGS_BELOW_TRUNK}}
|
*boolean (0 or 1)
| Twigs appear below the trunk. Defaults to 0.

|-
| {{text anchor|TREE_HAS_MUSHROOM_CAP}}
|
| The tree has a rounded cap-hood like a giant mushroom. This severely stunts a tree's maximum height - see the [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=7313#c26413 bug report.]

|-
| {{text anchor|CAP_NAME}}
|
*name
| What this mushroom-cap is called. Only makes sense with TREE_HAS_MUSHROOM_CAP.

|-
| {{text anchor|CAP_PERIOD}}
|
*integer
| Similar to the other PERIOD tags, influences the rate of the mushroom cap growth. Only makes sense with TREE_HAS_MUSHROOM_CAP.

|-
| {{text anchor|CAP_RADIUS}}
|
*integer
| The radius of a mushroom cap. Only makes sense with TREE_HAS_MUSHROOM_CAP.

|-
| {{text anchor|STANDARD_TILE_NAMES}}
|
| Uses the standard names for the tree components (roots, trunk, branches, etc.)

|-
| {{text anchor|TREE_TILE}}
|
*tile
| The tile used for trees of this type on the world map. Defaults to 24 (↑).

|-
| {{text anchor|DEAD_TREE_TILE}}
|
*tile
| The tile used for (un)dead trees and deciduous trees (generally in winter) of this type. Defaults to 198 (╞).

|-
| {{text anchor|SAPLING_TILE}}
|
*tile
| The tile used for saplings of this tree. Defaults to 231 (τ).

|-
| {{text anchor|DEAD_SAPLING_TILE}}
|
*tile
| The tile used for dead saplings of this tree. Defaults to 231 (τ).

|-
| {{text anchor|TREE_COLOR}}
|
*foreground
*background
*bright
| The [[color]] of the tree on the map. Defaults to 2:0:0 (dark green).

|-
| {{text anchor|DEAD_TREE_COLOR}}
|
*foreground
*background
*bright
| The [[color]] of the tree on the map when (un)dead. Defaults to 0:0:1 (dark gray).

|-
| {{text anchor|SAPLING_COLOR}}
|
*foreground
*background
*bright
| The [[color]] of saplings of this tree. Defaults to 2:0:0 (dark green).

|-
| {{text anchor|DEAD_SAPLING_COLOR}}
|
*foreground
*background
*bright
| The [[color]] of dead saplings of this tree. Defaults to 0:0:1 (dark gray).

|-
| {{text anchor|SAPLING_DROWN_LEVEL}}
|
*depth
| The sapling of this tree will drown once the water on its tile reaches this level. Defaults to 4.

|-
| {{text anchor|TREE_DROWN_LEVEL}}
|
*depth
| The water depth at which this tree will drown. Exact behavior is unknown. Defaults to 7.

|-
| {{text anchor|SAPLING}}
|
| Makes young versions of the tree be called "[tree name] sapling"; otherwise, they are called "young [tree name]".

|}

==Shrub Tokens==
These tokens are used for non-grass, non-tree plants.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style='background-color:#ddd'
! width="20%" | Token
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="60%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|SPRING}}, {{text anchor|SUMMER}}, {{text anchor|AUTUMN}}, {{text anchor|WINTER}}
|
| Allows the plant to grow in farm plots during the given season.

If the plant is a surface plant, allows it to grow in the wild during this season; wild surface plants without this token will disappear at the beginning of the season. Underground plants grow wild in all seasons, regardless of their season tokens.

|-
| {{text anchor|GROWDUR}}
|
*time
| How long the plant takes to grow to harvest in a farm plot. Unit hundreds of ticks, See [[Time]]. There are 1008 GROWDUR units in a season. Defaults to 300.

|-
| {{text anchor|VALUE}}
|
*value
| Has no known effect. Previously set the value of the harvested plant.

|-
| {{text anchor|PICKED_TILE}}
|
*tile
| The tile used when the plant is harvested whole, or is ready to be picked from a farm plot. May either be a cp437 tile number, or a character between single quotes. See [[Main:character table|character table]]. Defaults to 231 (τ).

|-
| {{text anchor|DEAD_PICKED_TILE}}
|
*tile
| The tile used when a plant harvested whole has wilted. Defaults to 169 (⌐).

|-
| {{text anchor|SHRUB_TILE}}
|
*tile
| The tile used to represent this plant when it is wild, alive, and has no growths. Defaults to 34 (").

|-
| {{text anchor|DEAD_SHRUB_TILE}}
|
*tile
| The tile used to represent this plant when it is dead in the wild. Defaults to 34 (").

|-
| {{text anchor|CLUSTERSIZE}}
|
*size
| The maximum stack size collected when gathered via herbalism (possibly also from farm plots?). Defaults to 5.

|-
| {{text anchor|PICKED_COLOR}}
|
*foreground
*background
*bright
| The color of the plant when it has been picked whole, or when it is ready for harvest in a farm plot. Defaults to 2:0:0 (dark green).

|-
| {{text anchor|DEAD_PICKED_COLOR}}
|
*foreground
*background
*bright
| The [[color]] of the plant when it has been picked whole, but has wilted. Defaults to 0:0:1 (dark gray).

|-
| {{text anchor|SHRUB_COLOR}}
|
*foreground
*background
*bright
| The [[color]] of the plant when it is alive, wild, and has no growths. Defaults to 2:0:0 (dark green).

|-
| {{text anchor|DEAD_SHRUB_COLOR}}
|
*foreground
*background
*bright
|The [[color]] of the plant when it is dead in the wild. Defaults to 6:0:0 (brown).

|-
| {{text anchor|SHRUB_DROWN_LEVEL}}
|
*depth
| The shrub will drown once the water on its tile reaches this level. Defaults to 4.

|-
| {{text anchor|DRINK}}
|
* [[Material token|material]]
| Names a [[alcohol|drink]] made from the plant, allowing it to be used in entity resources. Previously also permitted brewing the plant into [[alcohol]] made of this material. Now, a MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT of type DRINK_MAT should be used on the proper plant material.

|-
| {{text anchor|MILL}}
|
* [[Material token|material]]
| Permits milling the plant at a [[quern]] or [[millstone]] into a powder made of this material and allows its use in entity resources. Said material should have [POWDER_MISC_PLANT] to permit proper stockpiling.

|-
| {{text anchor|THREAD}}
|
* [[Material token|material]]
| Permits processing the plant at a [[farmer's workshop]] to yield threads made of this material and allows its use in entity resources. Said material should have [THREAD_PLANT] to permit proper stockpiling.

|-
| {{text anchor|SEED}}
|
*name
*name_plural
*foreground
*background
*bright
*[[Material token|material]]
| Causes the plant to yield plantable seeds made of this material and having these properties. Said material should have [SEED_MAT] to permit proper stockpiling.

|-
| {{text anchor|EXTRACT_STILL_VIAL}}
|
* [[Material token|material]]
| Permits processing the plant into a [[vial]] at a [[still]] to yield extract made of this material. Said material should have [EXTRACT_STORAGE:FLASK].

|-
| {{text anchor|EXTRACT_VIAL}}
|
*[[Material token|material]]
| Permits processing the plant into a [[vial]] at a [[farmer's workshop]] to yield extract made of this material. Said material should have [EXTRACT_STORAGE:FLASK].

|-
| {{text anchor|EXTRACT_BARREL}}
|
* [[Material token|material]]
| Permits processing the plant into a [[barrel]] at a [[farmer's workshop]] to yield extract made of this material. Said material should have [EXTRACT_STORAGE:BARREL].

|}

==Grass Tokens==
These tokens are used only for [[grass]]es.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style='background-color:#ddd'
! width="20%" | Token
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="60%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|GRASS}}
|
| Makes the plant behave as a type of grass. This allows animals to graze on it, and prevents it and its growths from being picked by herbalists. (Grass growths can still be picked in adventure mode, however.)

|-
| {{text anchor|GRASS_TILES}}
|
*tile
*tile
*tile
*tile
| Specifies the 4 tiles used to represent grass of this type. If VARIED_GROUND_TILES is disabled in d_init.txt, these are seemingly ignored. Defaults to 46:44:96:39 (.,`').

|-
| {{text anchor|ALT_PERIOD}}
|
*period
*offset
| How often the grass switches between its main tiles and alternate tiles. The "period" value determines how quickly (in frames) the grass animates, and the "offset" value specifies how much of that time is spent displaying the alternate tiles. If the "offset" value is greater than or equal to the "period" value, the grass will only display using the alternate tiles.{{verify}} Defaults to 0:0.

|-
| {{text anchor|ALT_GRASS_TILES}}
|
*tile
*tile
*tile
*tile
| When used with ALT_PERIOD, specifies the 4 alternate tiles used to represent grass of this type. Defaults to 46:44:96:39 (.,`'). Dead grass does not animate.

|-
| {{text anchor|GRASS_COLORS}}
|
*color 1 (fore:back:bright)
*color 2 (fore:back:bright)
*dry color (fore:back:bright)
*dead color (fore:back:bright)
| Specifies the color of this grass. Defaults to 2:0:1:2:0:0:6:0:1:6:0:0 (light green, dark green, yellow, brown).
|}

{{Category|Modding}}
{{Category|Tokens}}
[[ru:Plant token]]

Freezing

2019-12-18T09:55:15Z

Nahno: /* Settling */ "not have ever been" -> "never have been"

{{Quality|Exceptional|02:03, 29 April 2013 (UTC)}}
{{av}}

[[Water]] in Dwarf Fortress can '''freeze''' to become [[ice]] if the temperature is low enough and the water is exposed to the air. The tile must be tagged as 'Above Ground' in order for the temperature to get low enough, as all 'Subterranean' tiles remain at a consistent [[temperature]] of {{ct|10015}}. However, inside glaciers even 'Subterranean' tiles appear to be cold enough to freeze water.

Water at level 1/7 freezes to become an ice floor.
Water at level 2/7 or greater freezes to become an ice wall. Any ice wall will return 7/7 water when melted, or can be mined for 1 boulder of ice.

This may be useful if embarking on a location with limited water and seasonal freezing, as if collecting the spring melt-water. One could expand a lake to 3.5 times the original size (if 7/7 full) so it levels to 2/7, let it freeze then thaw, then drain the expansion to a deeper cistern. If the water in the original lake is preserved at 7/7, the process may be repeated each year.

=== Creature effects ===

Creatures on a water tile that freezes into an ice wall are instantly killed. Dwarves die with the message "<dwarf name> has been encased in ice". The ice wall must be melted or mined in order to regain the items/corpses. Note that due to a bug items that are in walls that melt will still be there, but will be invisible and unviewable except through the stocks screen. These items can be recovered if the tile ever becomes accessible again (through mining after the tile refreezes or by draining the water).

=== Building effects ===

Floor hatches will disassemble if covered by an ice wall. The hatches and any associated mechanisms survive the process, but will wash away once the ice melts.

=== Melting ===
Ice can melt when the temperature rises as part of the natural cycle of seasons. Some biomes may be frozen all year round and others may never freeze. Ice can also be melted by proximity to [[magma]]. An ice tile with magma above or beneath it, or within 2 tiles on the same z-level, will cause the ice to melt (or will prevent water freezing in the first place).

== Climate ==
Freezing [[climate]]s are the coldest, and water on them is typically in permafrost. Choosing to embark in one poses an interesting challenge and offers opportunities for substantial amounts of [[losing|fun]].

=== Settling ===
One of the first challenges presented by a freezing climate is the lack of [[water]] in any conveniently drinkable form. Along with trees, water may be the hardest resource to obtain. The ice chunks left behind while digging through ice cannot be melted into drinking water. There are several ways to approach a freezing area. One of them is embarking with a [[volcano]] in site, utilizing the natural obsidian surrounding it to create [[magma-safe]] floodgates and mechanisms to effectively melt ice. Another is to penetrate to the cavern levels, which may have water in liquid form. Note that [[ice]] can be used to create buildings and workshops, which may be melted by [[magma]] or other heat sources, and constructions, which will never melt. Underground water will not freeze, but a well using it must never have been exposed to the sky - simply building a roof over it will not suffice.

Remember that staying outside too long can cause your livestock and dwarves to die from exposure if the temperature is low enough, although clothes and armour may help to stave it off.

=== Cautions ===
While channeling ice and magma, supervise your miners to ensure they are not encased in cooling magma or freezing ice.

{{Translation| dwarven = gishdist | elvish = thetifì | goblin = gam | human = opoc}}

{{Category|World}}

DF2014 Talk:Age

2019-12-18T09:51:29Z

Nahno: Should gameplay articles include implemetation details?

== Implementation detail ==

It is not clear to me that "In data structures, the number -1 is explicitly used to denote a lack of meaningful value - an event which happens in the year -1 happened "before time began", and a death year of -1 just means it hasn't died yet." belongs in this article. It could be relevant for modding, though? --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] ([[User talk:Nahno|talk]]) 09:50, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Age

2019-12-18T09:48:56Z

Nahno: Undo revision 249214 by Severedicks (talk) Implementation detail, not gameplay effect.

{{Quality|Exceptional|04:24, 17 May 2015 (UTC)}}
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:''This article is about [[creature]] age. For world generation "ages", see [[Calendar#Ages]].''

'''Age''' is a [[creature]] attribute describing how long the creature has been alive, including creatures born before the beginning of time in terms of [[world generation]] (year zero). Age determines the life stage of creatures and, until it is fully grown, is the most important element of the creature's body [[size]]. All creatures have an age associated with them, but in fortress mode only your own [[dwarf|dwarves]] will have observable ages in the [[thoughts and preferences]] screen. The age of a creature is probably a floating value (to account for growth throughout the year), but is displayed in the game as an integer that is ticked up every time it reaches a birthday.

== Effects ==
The age of a creature has an important effect on its overall [[size]] and maturity. The starkest example of this in the game is the case of the [[dragon]], which is born 6,000 cm3 in size (and technically an adult) then takes a thousand years to reach its full size of 25,000,000 cm3. However, the vast majority of the non-sapient creatures your dwarves encounter take one year to mature to adulthood and two years to reach full size; [[elephant]]s and [[giraffe]]s are notable exceptions, as their young take ten years to mature (though they reach full size in only 5 years). Upon reaching adulthood, non-sapient creatures can [[breeding|reproduce]], be [[trained]], [[milk]]ed, [[shearable|sheared]], revert to [[tame|wild]] status, and various other effects.

The life cycle of [[dwarves]] is slightly more complicated: juveniles ages zero to one are considered babies, and must be carried about by their mothers; between the ages of one to twelve they are considered [[children]], and can perform some limited tasks; and once they reach 12 years of age, they are considered adults. The process is the same for other [[creature#civilized|civilized]] races, the original [[animal people]], and the humanoid [[semi-megabeast]]s.

Another aspect that is controlled by age is lifespan. Most organic creatures will eventually die of old age (including fortuitous fortress dwarves), usually within a range of 1-100 years. [[Savage|Giant]] versions of animals inherit their normally-sized brethrens' lifespans, while [[animal people]] usually have somewhat longer lifespans than their representative creatures. A few species, such as [[elf|elves]], [[goblin]]s, and some unintelligent and unnatural creatures, will live until killed. [[Megabeast]]s, the [[undead]], [[night creature]]s, and the procedurally generated [[forgotten beast]]s and [[titan]]s are similarly immortal. Immigrants may sometimes show up with incorrect ages (future birthdates) {{Bug|3945}} or incorrect life stages (4 month old children) {{Bug|3752}}. This normally does not cause a problem, and life stages get rechecked every birthday. Note that only an intelligent civilized creature vulnerable to death by expiration, will seek [[necromancer|necromancy]], which means goblins and elves never become practitioners of the dark arts.

Age does not interfere with a creature's physical or mental [[skill]]s, attributes or behavior; a 150 year old dwarf is as capable as a 12 year old one.

The game decides if a creature will die of old age at the beginning of every new year, on the 1st of Granite. In longer-running fortresses, several animals and livestock with short life spans could die at the same time.

== Sample list of age characteristics ==
{| width=100% class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! width="20%" style="text-align:left" | Name
! width="20%" | Age of Adulthood
! width="20%" | Age of Full Size
! width="20%" | Minimum Age of Death
! width="20%" | Maximum Age of Death
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Ant]]
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 1
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Bat]]
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 3
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Antman]]
| 0
| 2
| 5
| 8
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Dog]]
| 1
| 2
| 10
| 20
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Lion]]
| 3
| 2
| 10
| 20
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Unicorn]]
| 1
| 2
| 10
| 20
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Elephant seal]]
| 1
| 5
| 15
| 25
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Sponge]]
| 0
| 0
| 20
| 30
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Carp]]
| 1
| 5
| 20
| 30
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Ogre]]
| 10
| 20
| 20
| 30
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Elephant]]
| 10
| 5
| 50
| 70
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Serpent man]]
| 12
| 12
| 60
| 80
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Sperm whale]]
| 1
| 10
| 70
| 80
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Human]]
| 12
| 12
| 60
| 120
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Sea serpent]]
| 6
| 20
| 150
| 170
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Dwarf]]
| 12
| 12
| 150
| 170
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Kobold]]
| 12
| 12
| 150
| 170
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Troll]]
| 10
| 20
| 800
| 1,000
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Elf]]
| 12
| 12
| 99999—
| 99999Immortal
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Goblin]]
| 12
| 12
| 99999—
| 99999Immortal
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Dragon]]
| 0
| 1,000
| 99999—
| 99999Immortal
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Minotaur]]
| 12
| 12
| 99999—
| 99999Immortal
|}

== Mechanics ==
The mechanics of aging are defined by [[creature token]]s within creatures' [[raw file]]s, and can easily be modified by those looking to make changes to their game.
*{{tt|[CHILD:#]}}: Age at which children become adults. Set to 1 for most creatures, up to 10 for a few ([[giraffe]], [[elephant]]), and is set to 12 for most sapient creatures.
*{{tt|[BABY:#]}}: For sapient creatures, age at which babies become [[children]]. Always set to 1.
*{{tt|[BODY_SIZE:#:#:#]}}: Controls the body size of the creature, typically two or more are used to constrain its growth pattern. The first number is age in years; the second additional age in days. The third number is its size in cm3. The body size points are independent of the age of adulthood for the animal: many animals are adults in one year, but take two years to reach their full size, for instance.
*{{tt|[MAXAGE:#:#]}}: The first number given is the minimum natural lifespan of a creature, while the second is the maximum. The distribution of deaths from natural causes in between the two values is unknown, but likely linear; the moment of death-by-old-age of a creature is stored from birth. If this tag is not present at all, the creature is biologically immortal.

{{Translation
| dwarven = anam
| elvish = eyo
| goblin = abo
| human = thad
}}
{{Category|Game mechanics}}
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Construction

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{{Further information|Mega construction}}

'''Constructions''' are buildings such as [[floor]]s, [[wall]]s, and [[stairs]]. They can be made of [[boulder]]s, [[log]]s, [[block]]s, and [[bar]]s of any solid material—including [[wood]], [[stone]], [[metal]], [[glass]], [[clay]], and even [[soap]]—and are accessible in the {{k|b}}uild-{{k|C}}onstruction menu. One exception is the [[Minecart|track stop]], found in the construction submenu even though it is a regular [[building]].

Unlike most objects accessed from the {{k|b}}uild menu, constructions are treated as inert terrain features when completed, with a few limitations as described below. Additionally, constructions can only be interacted with by loo{{k|k}}-ing at them or by pressing {{k|d}}-{{k|n}} to designate their removal. Using the {{k|q}}uery or {{k|t}}ask selection will give no information after the construction is completed, but will allow [[removal]], suspension, and an idea of the current status before the construction is complete.

== Required labors ==

In order to make a construction, a dwarf must have the "Wall/Floor Construction" [[labor]] enabled, found under the "Other Jobs" heading.

The [[construction removal]] labor is required for removing constructions.

No experience is granted when building or removing constructions.

== Constructions and mines ==

Constructions are similar to [[Mining|mined out formations]]. However, unlike the [[wall]]s and [[floor]]s surrounding [[Mining|mined]] or [[channel]]ed spaces, constructed features cannot be smoothed, engraved, or carved into minecart tracks. In order to construct [[smoothing|smooth]] stone [[wall]]s and [[floor]]s, [[block]]s need to be used in place of raw [[stone]]. [[Wood]], [[metal]], and [[glass]] constructions are not considered either rough or smooth, but in the case of wood, building with [[block]]s will increase room value - [[metal]] [[bar]]s have the same value as metal blocks and are thus interchangeable (though blocks may be preferred to simplify resource tracking), and glass can ''only'' be used in block form.

== Order of construction ==

Constructions are built in a Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) order. That means that whichever constructions are ordered first will be built last. Also, if there is a large group of constructions being built, and a new set of constructions is ordered, the constructions in progress will be ignored until the new constructions are finished.

Respecting the LIFO order is also necessary to efficiently and correctly construct [[Tower (project)|multi-z-level walls]].

==Destruction==
Constructions which have not yet been completed are technically Buildings, which permits them to be toppled by building destroyers. Once they are completed, they become map tiles, which are effectively indestructible. Constructions are generally inert, resisting [[building destroyer]]s, but will be destroyed if [[magma]] and [[water]] can interact in the square of the construction to form [[obsidian]], or in a [[cave-in]]. Building and removing a construction can change the floor it is built upon to a default value, removing things like [[engraving]]s and the "magma flow" floor above [[semi-molten rock]].

==Impact on framerate==
Constructions introduce slowdowns from two angles:
# It has to keep track of the original item (though there is a DFHack plugin which will delete the item and flag the construction as "recreate the item from scratch when you deconstruct it"), which means that general item lookups take slightly longer (it's done via binary search, so you'd only notice significant slowdowns each time the item count in your fortress doubles).
# It has to keep track of what the construction is made of, using a separate structure that needs to be looked up for each constructed tile that is visible on the screen. These also use binary searches, though with three values (X+Y+Z coordinates) instead of just one so they're a little bit slower. Typically, you only get noticeable slowdowns when you're building something on the scale of Flarechannel.

{{Category|Constructions| }}
[[ru:Construction]]

User talk:Therahedwig

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== Test ==

Hi! Just testing whether this triggers an email; feel free to delete. —[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 22:45, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

== On literary forms ==

Hello Therahedwig. Thank you for your contributions.

I don't understand the meaning of the sentence "All forms have been found, but currently the precise mechanics behind learning knowledge or receiving a change in values from them is still unclear."
Would it be possible to specify what forms having been found, learning of knowledge, and receiving changes in values mean? --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] ([[User talk:Nahno|talk]]) 09:33, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Trading

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'''Trading''' in ''Dwarf Fortress'' first occurs in the first [[Calendar|autumn]] after establishing your fortress, with the arrival of the [[dwarf|dwarven]] [[Trading#Caravans|caravan]]. Trading is a good way to acquire resources that aren't readily available in the local area. It also allows for more freedom in selecting starting gear and skills at [[embark]], since neglected items can be obtained through trade later.

'''Trader''' is the term used at your [[trade depot]] to refer to your fortress representative when dealing with merchants in a visiting caravan ({{key|r}} - "''Trader requested at Depot"''). As a [[profession]], the term applies to visiting merchants and dwarves whose highest [[skill]] is [[Appraiser]].

== Trade depot ==
{{Main|Trade depot}}
Building a [[trade depot]] is a prerequisite for trade with caravans that arrive at your fortress.

While it may be convenient to build a depot outside at first, it is usually a good idea to move it inside or secure it with [[wall]]s, [[bridge]]s and other fortifications to protect caravans and your goods from [[steals drink|thirsty animals]], [[thief|thieves]] and [[goblin]]s.

Everything that is on your map belongs to you, except:
* the items that are on merchants' animals and wagons
* the items that are in the trade depot (they belong to the caravan until they are moved out of it)
* items worn by non-fortress units (initially forbidden, but can be claimed via unforbidding and dumping them)

==Trading flowchart ==
{{:Trading/Flowchart}}

==Trader to depot==
Before you can begin trading, your fortress's representative trader must be at the [[trade depot]]. Select the [[trade depot]] with {{K|q}} and then {{k|r}}equest the trader. Be sure that {{k|b}} reads "Only broker may trade" if you want your [[broker]] to represent your fortress. If it reads "Anyone can trade", a random, probably unskilled dwarf will volunteer to conduct the trade. Pressing {{k|b}} will toggle this setting. Once your trader has arrived, select the depot again with {{k|q}} and enter the {{k|t}}rade menu. In the trade menu select the items to offer from the right and the desired items from the left. All caravans have a weight limit which cannot be exceeded, and the allowed additional weight is displayed in the lower right corner. If your broker (specifically, not necessarily your trader) has at least Novice or better [[Appraisal]] skill, the value of all items will be displayed. Once the proposal is ready, press {{K|t}} to propose the trade, but merchants will not agree unless they make adequate profit. Be sure to use '''trade''', not '''offer''' {{K|o}}, as this will make a gift of the selected items. The amount of acceptable profit is determined by the trader's [[Broker skills|skills]] and the merchant's mood, described below. Merchants may attempt to propose counteroffers if they do not accept the proposal, which can then be accepted, rejected, or further amended by the trader.

With more experienced traders and pleased merchants, even marginally profitable trades can be successful, and counterproposals can be rejected safely, offering the same trade again. Note however that a low profit margin for the traders may not be desirable - it has been suggested that both export and profit numbers influence the size of next year's caravan and, in the case of the dwarven caravan, immigration numbers.{{Verify}}

Goods brought by caravans rarely have base quality higher than superior, and decorations on a good rarely exceed superior as well.

== Trading cue colors ==

* {{DFtext|Brown|6:0}} Items have been created (or modified) by your fortress. They can be traded away or offered as a gift.
* {{DFtext|Gray|7:0}} Items were created by another source. They can be traded, but if one of these items has been selected, the entire selection cannot be offered as a gift.
* {{DFtext|Purple|5:0}} Items are under a no-export mandate. If they are traded away it will result in disciplinary action (see [[justice]]) against the dwarf that brought the item to the depot.
* {{DFtext|Green|2:0}} Items have just been gifted to the caravan and they will not trade it back.
* {{DFtext|Red|4:0}} Items have been seized from another caravan and cannot be traded as is; you will need to decorate them or turn them into other items for them to become "valid" trading items.

Note that containers (barrels, bins, etc.) will be displayed according to the origin of the ''container'', not the contents. So a foreign barrel holding locally-produced beer will display as foreign (white). Once you {{k|v}}iew the container, the locally-made contents are displayed as local (brown).

== Merchant mood ==
If your trader has Novice or better [[Judge of intent]] skill, there will be a line added below the merchant's dialogue describing the caravan's attitude. Their attitude rises with successful trades (especially if they get lots of profit) and falls when you propose deals they don't like. You can never make a deal that's at a loss for the merchant, even if they are at the highest possible mood.

* {{DFtext|(trader) seems ecstatic with the trading.|7:1}}
* {{DFtext|(trader) seems very happy about the trading.|7:1}}
* {{DFtext|(trader) seems pleased with the trading.|7:1}}
* {{DFtext|(trader) seems willing to trade.|7:1}}
* {{DFtext|(trader) seems to be rapidly losing patience.|7:1}}
* {{DFtext|(trader) is not going to take much more of this.|7:1}}
* {{DFtext|(trader) is unwilling to trade.|7:1}}

The happier you make a merchant, the less profit margin he will demand in a trade. If merchants reach the lowest level, no further trade will be possible, and they will immediately pack up and leave your depot. Since annoyed traders are more likely to reject deals, you should be generous in initial negotiations. Skilled negotiators seem less likely to offend traders with unsuccessful deals.

An easy way to capitalize on this mood system is to perform several partial trades. First trade for a few items, offering goods twice the value of the items you ask for (e.g. offer 2000☼ for 1000☼ of his stuff). This will likely make the merchant ecstatic about trading with you. Perform the next trades with a vengeance. With the merchant in such a good mood, he is more likely to counteroffer than reject a trade outright.

== Seizing items ==

Pressing {{K|s}} from the trade menu will seize the selected items of the merchant's. If you seize goods from a caravan, the merchant will respond "Take what you want. I can't stop you." and then leave immediately without the seized goods. Items cannot be seized from the dwarven caravan, and other races will not buy goods stolen from one of their caravans (then marked in red) unless they are tricked into asking for them via counteroffer, or the items are "laundered" by decoration or used to create other goods. Seizing goods will hurt diplomatic relations, but is not grounds for an automatic [[siege]].

Pressing the seize button while no goods are selected will result in the merchant interpreting your seizure as a joke. This apparently does nothing to benefit or hinder your trading.

As a side note, if you deconstruct your trade depot with a caravan in it, all the caravan's items will drop to the ground, to be readily hauled away by your dwarves. This does not mark the items as stolen, and the caravan will leave. However, ''next'' year's caravan is partly based on the profits from the previous year - so if you are relying on that race's caravans for needed items, you're hurting yourself in the long run.

Another way to steal without marking as stolen is to forbid the trade depot just before they leave, causing them to leave their goods at the depot.

If you're using the search plugin for [[Utility:DFHack|DFHack]] (e.g. from the [[Utility:Lazy Newb Pack|Lazy Newb Pack]]), be warned that {{K|s}} means "seize" and '''NOT''' "search", and there is '''no warning''' for it. Use {{K|q}} to search the merchant's goods and {{K|w}} to search yours.

Note that the civilization attached to a particular caravan will keep track of the value of items the caravan was carrying when they set out to trade, and they will compare this value with the value of items they return home with. Regardless of what method you use to confiscate items from a caravan, even if you came to possess the goods through no fault of your own (an [[ambush]] killed the traders and guards, for example) the parent civilization may decide that you stole from them and send a [[siege]] instead of a caravan the following year. It is prudent to take measures to protect caravans visiting your lands!

==Offering items==

{{key|o}} You can also give away items, as gifts to the leaders of the [[civilization]] you are trading with. This presumably helps relations between yourself and the other faction, though there is not yet a clear correlation between the value of the offerings and the improvement to relations. The exact effects of offerings on trading are unknown but it is believed due to the offerings' net trade value being counted towards the traders' profit, possibly with a modifier (possibly a multiplier of more than 1 as a bonus or less than 1 to compensate for the improved relations){{Verify}}, which in turn increases the quantity and variety of trade goods brought by next year's caravan. Also the [[Monarch]] requires offerings to be made before their arrival. You cannot offer items that were not made at your fortress; the traders do not want your spare [[Goblinite]] clothes.

The value of an offering for the purpose of becoming the capital is adjusted by your current export agreement.

Unless you are looking for [[fun]], under no conditions should you offer or trade items which are wooden or used wood in their creation (clear glass, for example) to [[elves]], as this will insult the traders, and may cause them to leave or even damage relations enough to provoke a war between you and the elven civilization you traded with. They will accept their own "grown wood" items in trade without insult, however.

== Miscellaneous trading advice ==
* Thieves and thieving critters tend to follow caravans. Expect assaults and intruders.
* Create your trading depot inside your fort, preferably in the beginning. Place a 3-tile wide path (which must be free of obstructions such as stairways, traps, minecart tracks and boulders) to the entrance of the fort and position war dogs along it (chains do not block wagons); this will help to protect the traders and keep the depot close to your supplies.
* Avoid having multiple wagon paths to your depot. Caravan [[wagon]]s cannot move through each other, and if two wagons happen to meet at a fork they may become gridlocked against each other, resulting in the destruction of wagons and loss of trade opportunities.
* All caravans will bring extra food (meat and edible plants), wooden logs, and cloth/leather (for making clothes) if the supplies of your fortress are low enough, independent of whether or not you requested them. This does not apply in the case that the weight limit is exceeded by (other) items you requested. The supply situation, as observed by traders, is based solely on the number of unforbidden items in your fortress, stockpiled or not; thus, it is possible to trick caravans into thinking your supplies are low by [[forbid]]ding all of your relevant stocks immediately prior to their arrival.
**In order to '''avoid''' this behavior, you should make sure that, for each dwarf in your fortress, you have the following ''unforbidden'' items:
*** 5 pieces of food - meat, fish, plants, or "other" in your [[Status]] screen (even though "other" includes inedible items)
*** 1 wood log
*** 5 pieces of cloth, pieces of leather, or complete sets of [[wear|pristine]] clothing (shirt+pants+shoe)
* Define your trade depot as a burrow. When traders arrive, you can add your broker or another dwarf, perhaps one you want to train in trading, to the burrow. They will head to the depot immediately, and stay there until you remove them from the burrow.
* Each trade you make (regardless of value) will increase your trader's skills by 50, distributed among Comedian, Flatterer, Intimidator, Judge of Intent, Negotiator, and Persuader. Each skill seems to gain around 5-15 experience points, but the sum will always be 50. The skill gain occurs as soon as the "t" button is pressed - if the offer is rejected, the dwarf will still gain 50 points. If the same offer is subsequently accepted, no additional skill will be gained.
* Selecting "only broker may trade" ensures that you will start negotiations with a decently-skilled trader, but also requires a significant wait while your broker makes his way to the depot. Selecting "anyone can trade" will result in a poorly-trained trader arriving immediately. Once your fortress is producing enough goods to buy out the caravan, waiting for your broker is unnecessary; allowing your commoners to trade spreads out the trading skill gains and eliminates the micromanagement of trying to get your broker to the depot in a timely manner.

== Caravans ==
Each friendly race will send a caravan per year, linked to one season, which is autumn for dwarves, summer for humans, and spring for elves. If your fortress was founded in spring, it is likely that only a dwarven caravan will arrive the first year. Caravans will only show up if that race considers the fortress site accessible (as denoted on the embark screen) and "worth the effort" (as determined by the [[Entity_token#PROGRESS_TRIGGER_POPULATION|[PROGRESS_TRIGGER_*]]] tokens in the entity definition), with the exception of dwarves, who always arrive unless they are [[extinct]]. Caravans appear to enter the map from a random direction which does not coincide with the relative direction of the originating [[civilization]], and they may appear from different directions and z-levels each year. However, they will always arrive at a location with a wagon-navigable path to the Trade Depot when one is available (though site-bisecting features like rivers might limit them to appear on a specific side). Caravans may leave without trading if it takes too long to reach the trade depot, or if they become spooked by wildlife or corpses. Caravans will embark on their journey back exactly one month after their arrival, whether they have succeeded in reaching the depot or not.

Caravans can be restricted to show up in a specific spot on the map edge, but under some circumstances they will insist on showing up on one particular side of the map. The current theory is that this is caused by rivers (i.e. the caravan can't cross the river outside your embark region, so it always shows up on one side).

Note that if traders or their animals are prevented from leaving, they will eventually go [[insane]]. Merchants and diplomats go insane if they are unable to reach the map edge within 25 days of having finished their business at your fortress - for diplomats, this is when they end the meeting and try to leave, and with merchants it's when they've finished packing everything up.

Also worth mention is the pathing behavior of the entire caravan. If one member of the caravan reaches an obstacle in their chosen path (i.e. a raised drawbridge that was lowered when they entered the map) the entire caravan will re-path, instead of encountering the obstacle one by one. This behavior can be useful when attempting to free "stuck" wagons--a trader on foot encountering a locked door will cause the stuck wagons to turn around and path to a different exit, if available.

==== [[Dwarves]] ====
:''"Greetings from the mountainhome. Your efforts are legend there. Let us trade!"''
:''"Greetings from the outer lands. Your efforts are legend there. Let us trade!"'' (If your fort is the mountainhome.)

The dwarven caravan:
* arrives in [[Calendar|autumn]].
* carries metal bars, [[leather]], weapons and armor, food and booze, and more. Dwarves alone may bring [[steel]] and steel goods. They can still bring steel (and steel goods) and [[pig iron]] bars even if they do not have access to [[iron]], but will not bring iron products.
* usually carries a selection of books that your civilization has access to. This can include books written in previous forts of yours within the same civilization.
* is heavily guarded.
* sends a liaison who will speak with the [[Expedition leader]], [[Mayor]], [[Baron]], [[Count]], or [[Duke]] to negotiate an import-export agreement (unless the [[Monarch]] is present).
* influences the number of immigrants received (if the caravan leaves intact).
* will not cause sieges when repeatedly destroyed or lost.
* is the only caravan to arrive during a fortress' first year.
* always arrives regardless of embark location unless the dwarven civilization is [[extinct]].
* cannot have its goods seized from the trade menu.
* may not arrive if your civilization lacks any notable figures.
* cannot be offered goods if the monarch is present.

==== [[elf|Elves]] ====
[[Image:Evil_elves.png|thumb|400px|A typical elven caravan.]]
:''"Greetings. We are enchanted by your more ethical works. We've come to trade."''

The elven caravan:
* arrives in the [[Calendar|spring]].
* carries [[cloth]], [[rope]]s, various above-ground seeds, [[plant]]s and their byproducts, [[log]]s, [[wood]]en goods & [[weapon]]s, clothing and [[armor]], and may carry tame exotic [[creature]]s.
* is unguarded.
* does not accept some items in trade: Elven traders do not like to be offered any tree byproducts unless they are "grown", which only elves can produce.

Forbidden (dwarf-made) items include:

* [[Wood]]en items (including subterranean mushrooms such as [[tower-cap]]s)
* Items derived from wood - [[ash]] and [[charcoal]], as well as [[lye]], [[potash]], and [[pearlash]]
* Items made from clear and crystal [[glass]] (due to the [[pearlash]] used) - green glass appears to be perfectly acceptable
* Items [[decoration|decorated]] with any of the above materials
* [[Obsidian]] shortswords (since they have wooden handles)
* Tallow [[Soap]] (made with [[lye]]), but not Plant Soap{{bug|8571}}

Offering or trading forbidden items will cause the mood of the trader to drop rapidly, causing them to refuse to trade any more that season and leave immediately. Additionally you will be called uncouth, crude, and barbaric for not understanding their customs.

However, [[stone]] and [[metal]] items, even when [[charcoal]] is used in production, are acceptable (since the elves are unfamiliar with metalworking, and do not know that charcoal is used to make metal items). Items made from [[silk]] are acceptable, as are all non-wooden plant-derived products such as [[cloth]] and [[thread]]. Items made of bone (totems too), horn, shell or leather are acceptable, so are meat and fish. You can also transport your goods to the [[trade depot]] in a wooden [[bin]], as long as you do not try to sell the bin. Living animals are acceptable, as long as the [[cage]] or [[trap]] is not made of [[wood]].

Be especially careful with reselling decorated items from other caravans, as non-wood/glass items may have decorations of wood or clear/crystal glass. Note that items elven caravans sell ''can'' be resold to them, as the elves know that they were made in an elf-kosher way.

Because they do not utilize wagons, elven caravans have a much smaller weight limit than dwarven and human ones, making trading heavy items like furniture problematic.

:''"Once a beautiful tree, and now? It is a rude bauble, fit only for your kind."''

==== [[Human]]s ====
:''"Greetings. The craftsdwarfship of the dwarves is unparalleled. Let's make a deal!"''

The human caravan:
* arrives in [[Calendar|summer]].
* carries metal bars, sand, [[leather]], cloth, wood, food and booze, books, ropes, waterskins, quivers, backpacks, metal weapons and clothing and armor, cages and a few domestic animals.
* carries only large-sized clothing and armor, which is unusable by dwarves.
* is moderately guarded.

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==== [[Goblin]]s and [[Kobold]]s ====
A goblin caravan will only arrive if you mod the game, primarily because their entity lacks the [[entity token]]s needed to make use of pack animals and wagons. That, and the token {{token|BABYSNATCHER|e}} makes them hostile to all non-goblin civilizations. These same caveats apply to kobolds (whose {{token|UTTERANCES|c}} and {{token|ITEM_THIEF|e}} tags make them hostile to every civilization).

The goblin caravan:
*will arrive every season, four times per year
*unguarded
*brings mostly food and cloth
*does not send a liaison or a guild representative
*does not make import/export agreements

==== Modded [[civilization]]s ====
If you [[modding|add]] additional civilizations to the game, they may also send caravans to you.

The following [[entity token]]s affect the appearance of the caravans:

* [[Entity token#ACTIVE_SEASON|[ACTIVE_SEASON]]] - Defines the seasons when an entity may visit your fortress.
* [[Entity token#PROGRESS_TRIGGER_POPULATION|[PROGRESS_TRIGGER_*]]] - Defines the triggers which control when an entity will become interested in your fortress.
* [[Entity token#COMMON_DOMESTIC_PACK|[COMMON_DOMESTIC_PACK]]] - Allows the civilization to use domestic pack animals. If an entity lacks pack animals, it will be unable to send caravans (showing as {{DFtext|No Trade|6:1}} at the [[embark]] screen), unless it has domesticated any suitable animal species.
* [[Entity token#COMMON_DOMESTIC_PULL|[COMMON_DOMESTIC_PULL]]] - Allows the civilization to use domestic animals to pull [[wagon]]s, assuming their [[Ethic#KILL_PLANT|KILL_PLANT ethic]] permits them to use wagons in the first place.
* [[Entity token#MERCHANT_BODYGUARDS|[MERCHANT_BODYGUARDS]]] - Caravan will be guarded by [[soldier]]s.

== Nobles ==
[[Outpost liaison]]s (from your own civilization) and foreign Merchant Nobles (if added with the [[Position token#TRADE|TRADE responsibility]]) will arrive with the caravan to speak to your [[noble]] dwarves (and they ''will'' speak to those dwarves, even if they have to wait at their bedside in the hospital for months after the caravan has left), appearing on the map edge at the same time as the caravan (though in a different location). Meeting with them allows you to request specific items for the next caravan to bring (at a premium price) or take requests for production for the next caravan (for which the merchants will pay a premium).

Current trade agreements can be viewed through the Civilization menu ({{k|c}}). These trade agreements are cleared when a liaison of the corresponding civilization enters the screen, so they are generally not accessible after the caravan has arrived.

In the event that your leader is replaced, killed, or taken by a [[strange mood]], the liaison may decide to leave your fortress [[stymied|"unhappy"]].{{bug|576}} Curiously, this will '''not''' occur if your leader is otherwise unable to perform the "conduct meeting" task. You can currently lock a liaison in a room and he will wait years to attend the meeting your noble is constantly conducting (and all subsequent diplomats appear to wait in line for the first to finish); this behavior is presumably a bug.{{bug|8947}}

Whether having successfully met with your leader or given up, a liaison who has decided to leave but is prevented from reaching the map edge will eventually go [[insane]].

== Destruction ==
If caravans are destroyed (intentionally or unintentionally), the items may remain for use. Traders caught in a [[cave-in]] will flee as if they were attacked, but will leave all the items dropped by the caravan behind. Pack animals carrying items are affected just like a normal tamed [[mule]] and must be killed in the cave-in for them to drop items on the ground. It is however much more likely that the pack animals will only be stunned or rendered unconscious, and flee shortly after recovering from the hit.

While caravans can defend themselves, they don't like being ambushed. If a caravan becomes terrified by wildlife or horrified by corpses it will turn around and flee the map. Any event resulting in the death of any merchant or pack animal will also cause them to retreat and forget about trading with you for the season. Repeated caravan destruction (intentional or unintentional) will strain diplomatic relations and may result in a [[siege]].

Ambushing or seizing a caravan and letting a survivor escape seems to have a more detrimental effect than simply annihilating the whole caravan. (Presumably because you've left a witness to report what happened.)

Overall, a given caravan visit can have a number of "problems" which will affect your relations with their civilization:
#"never seen again" - The entire caravan was destroyed and nobody left the map.
#"suffered hardships" - One or more merchants were killed, but some of them survived long enough to leave the map.
#"seized goods" - You seized goods from the caravan and they left.
#"offended" - You tried to trade wooden items to the Elves.
#"missing goods" - The value of the caravan's goods when they left was less than what it was when they arrived (i.e. they had a net loss).

All of these will make the parent civilization unhappy, though some more than others. They take offence to both accidents and hostile acts - accidents just annoy them slightly less. In the case of elven traders, they will take offence to your actions and bring fewer goods next year, do it too many times and they will declare war on you.

== Caravan Delay ==
If a caravan has arrived at your trade depot and is unable to leave for about two months after they finished packing up their goods, the merchants and animals will go insane. This can result in a bunch of merchants attacking your dwarves, or just standing around moping until they starve to death. It is not known for certain if this hurts diplomatic relations, but most likely it's the same as any case where the entire caravan fails to return home.

If you have locked the caravan into your fortress to hold out against a siege, it's a good idea to station a squad of soldiers near the trade depot in case the merchants [[Insanity#Types|go berserk]]. You may also want to make the depot a restricted area to encourage civilians to go around it. Alternatively, you can design the trade depot using drawbridges, so that it can be sealed off from the rest of the fortress during a siege.

If you want the merchants to leave safely, you can build four or more tunnels to each corner of the map, connected to your fortress only by drawbridges. As long as there is no other way to enter and exit your fortress, invaders and merchants will both go towards any tunnel that you activate. You can lock the merchants into the trade depot, and then open a tunnel entrance on one side of the map to make the invaders head towards that tunnel. When they get close to it, you can close it, and then open the entrance on the other side of the map, and let the traders out of the depot. If your fortress and depot are in the middle of the map, this will give the traders quite a head-start to get away.

Merchants can leave the map from any map edge-- including underground and aboveground map edges. If an unobstructed path through your fortress reaches a cavern edge, then blocking all overland paths will cause the merchants to depart underground. This can be useful, if you're suffering a prolonged siege; it can also be dangerous, if your underground regions are less secure than your surface. While it requires more preparation, an elevated bridge to a map edge can also allow traders to depart in peace.

Caravan guards cannot be starved, dehydrated, or driven to insanity if prevented from leaving, their employers and animals can, however.

If a large amount of items is sold / offered to the caravan, it may take a while to load it all, especially if you chose to keep your precious bins and traded your items individually.

== Bugs ==

*Caravans become terrified/horrified very easily, abandon their wagons, and flee. {{bug|7185}}
*Aggressive, untrainable creatures (captured goblins, for example) cannot be traded; when a dwarf attempts to move the caged animal to the Depot, the creature is set free.
*Wagons can occasionally become "stuck" on other wagons, walls, etc. Stuck wagons eventually deconstruct, leaving their merchandise behind. {{Bug|5687}}
*If a caravan attempts to leave in late Winter/early Spring, they may try to path over any large frozen body of water. If the water thaws while the caravan is on it, the caravan will become magically stuck in mid-air until either the water refreezes or a floor is built underneath it. At this point, if they are still alive, they will leave the map normally.
*When merchants leave with an animal, the merchants seem to be dragging their beast of burden instead of leading it. If the animal is incapacitated but not dead, the merchant will continue to walk at the same speed, dragging the unconscious beast.
*If a merchant's chosen map edge exit is guarded by a hostile creature (including those on a [[restraint]]), the merchant will wander back and forth repeatedly and eventually go insane rather than path to an alternate exit.
* Animals bought from merchants don't always become available for use.{{bug|10162}}

== Loyalty cascade ==
{{main|Faction#Loyalty cascade|l1=Faction}}
If you order your military to kill merchants from your own civilization, a bizarre result of the way loyalty is handled makes the members of your military who attacked the traders become enemies of your civilization, but members of your fort's government (dwarves of this [[faction]] are referred to as ''separatists''). As enemies, they attack your other dwarves (''citizens''), but as members of the fort, they still follow orders. Allowing citizen militia dwarves to attack the separatists will give them opposite loyalties of the separatists, (i.e. loyal to civ, not to fort), or ''loyalists'', who do '''not''' follow orders. And then, if a separatist or loyalist kill a citizen, they become enemies of the civ '''and''' fort, making them ''Renegades'', who are essentially complete enemies of the citizens.

To prevent the cascade from spreading, order the original separatists away from the fortress and let them fight amongst themselves. If the results are renegades, it is okay to allow other dwarves to kill them (by stationing them nearby). If the results are separatists/loyalists, then you will need to separate them somehow.

== Exploits ==

*Deconstructing the Depot will cause merchants to leave your fortress and abandon any goods in the Depot because items are not available until the building is fully deconstructed. However any animals they had caged will still belong to the merchants and only become friendly, you won't actually own them. According to Toady One, this is actually working as intended, and is not really an exploit or bug: "...the reckoning comes when they return with lesser value, and it has the same negative effect (it'll be listed as a disaster rather than an intentional seizing -- the depot could be destroyed, for instance -- but it counts for the same value if I remember). The overall wording could be changed and the interaction could be deepened to recognize this or that, but it's working as intended."[http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=293#c8393]

*If you wait until the merchants leave the map, you can "claim" caged animals by linking a lever to the cage and opening it, the animals will be released in a tamed state. Check the {{k|u}}nit screen before releasing them; if the creatures still show as Merchant creatures, they will wander off the map when released; if they show as Tame creatures, they will stay once released.

*If you lock them in your fortress for a minute or two (real time), the merchants MAY drop items and leave behind pack animals (Both of which are yours for the taking!) Note: Results are not consistent.

{{Translation| dwarven = nish | elvish = lathì | goblin = otsmor | human = batow}}

{{Category|Trade| }}
[[ru:Trading]]

DF2014 Talk:Adventurer mode

2019-12-18T09:03:01Z

Nahno: /* It's too big */ Let's split it up.

==Reputation==
Given the huge amount of variance we now have and will be getting with reputations it may be a good idea to create a table of all possible reputations and their levels.
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 20:07, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
== Adventure Mode Performances and performance skills and taverns==
There is currently no part of the article devoted to performances, given this is now a huge chunk of content it might be a good idea for us to add that stuff
also, there is nothing on the new taverns here either among other things. In a sense, this article is very outdated.Ill work on it a bit more tonight but it will take time to gather screenshots.
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 21:37, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
:The crafting section will soon need an update too. For the next version, a list is probably still good, but in the future we might want to expand it a little.[[User:CLA|CLA]] ([[User talk:CLA|talk]]) 10:22, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Ayy, updated the skills section with the new crafting skill and all the performance skills
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 20:05, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

== .40.0X Adventure Mode Playable Races ==

In the newest update, if all standard adventurer civs are extinct you can play as a goblin or kobold if those civs exist.
Can someone confirm the goblin part of this statement?
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 20:08, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

== Memory. ==

Memory makes no difference to how much of the map you can see. I tested, and adventurers with superior and very low memory performed exactly the same: the map resets after about 74 moves to exactly 30 spaces behind you being visible. (this is in a straight line of course) [[Special:Contributions/210.55.212.242|210.55.212.242]] 01:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

From My experience, it lets you remember different sites better, this may have been a change that happened since 2014 [[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 22:09, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

==Kids ==

Is there any way to have kids, and then say, become those kids when you die. It would be a cool mod. You would have generations of dragon slaying vampire kings :D

It is possible to have kids once you retire, to play as them you can body swap in adventure mode with dfhack.

== 0.42.01 update discussion ==

>The recent update has basically overhauled large portions of adventure mode, and there needs to be massive work done as such.
This is intended as notepad to collect changes in 42.01 that should be mentioned in one way or another in this article.

*needs, personality: which traits directly influence your game, which are "cosmetic"; can you make an adventurer that has little or no needs, or rather minimal to no penalties from not satisfying them. On the other hand, which give the most benefits; in summary, what should a beginner adventurer choose?
*new skills; which are useless, which aren't. How do the attributes influence them
*playing as other races
*food and drink: 3-at-a-time limit is gone, inebriation changed
*Renting rooms at inns
*Ordering drinks at inns
*arguments
*arguments can change people's values
*becoming the official performer for a lord.
*Performance troups, bard skills, how to perform etc.
*story telling exists and spreads rumors similarly to actual rumor spreading dialogue
*bone carving
*hearth-quests are now more variable and you can get quests to kill beasts now aswell (proper quests)
*Reputation has been overhauled
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 04:08, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
[[Special:Contributions/137.28.226.25|137.28.226.25]] 04:01, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
[[User:CLA|CLA]] ([[User talk:CLA|talk]]) 12:17, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

This article is ludicrously outdated guys, we need to fix it
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 18:06, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

:I've been doing some work on this as well as .43.01 features, but might want help for filling out the section on building. I did do some !!SCIENCE!! on which writing options have what results at least.--[[User:Valos|Valos]] ([[User talk:Valos|talk]]) 22:21, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

== Overhaul, cut and port ==

Most sections of this article pertain to features that exist in all modes, so there's no reason to segregate information that belongs with the main topic. It's really past time to maintain an Adventure Mode ghetto here where fortresses and adventurers don't risk exposure to insights from each others' mechanics, which are more alike than different. This article needs to be cleaned of subjective and narrow-sighted slant and revised to inform players with objective fact and links to more details, so they may form their own conclusions.
[[User:Uzu Bash|Uzu Bash]] ([[User talk:Uzu Bash|talk]]) 18:57, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

I tend towards agreeing with this statement [[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 21:12, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

== Weaponmasters ==

I actually found one in adv mode! https://imgur.com/a/yUKpH [[Special:Contributions/178.187.154.32|178.187.154.32]] 12:01, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
How does this contribute to the article? [[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 18:50, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

The page said they weren't able to be found. --[[Special:Contributions/176.50.179.46|176.50.179.46]] 10:38, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh! Ill amend the article, needs to be updated in several way sin fact :) [[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]])

== Identities And Reputations And 0.44.02 discussion==
Does anyone else think its about time to either create a "reputation" page or to add information about this to the article?
Also, we have identities now, since we have a section for each ui screen here, it might be helpful to add that here aswell.
Artifact quests need a part of the article devoted (though that can probably go on the Quests page)
Also, performances are currently bugged.
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]])

== It's too big ==

This article is too big, even the "content" table is three screens height. It's hard to read, to check, to edit and to translate this.

Do you really need to describe everything, every symbol of map, every word you can say and every playable creature of night in here? Maybe it's better to write only a basic info here (like in article about fort mode) and create additional pages for additional info?

Is there any reason to keep everything about adventurer mode in one article? [[User:Tankistqazwsx|Tankistqazwsx]] ([[User talk:Tankistqazwsx|talk]]) 10:10, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

:I'll second this suggestion. I'm fairly new to editing the wiki... would the right approach to implementing this idea be to make new pages, copy the current blocks of text from this page to the new pages, and then once people are happy with the new pages cut the blocks of text out of this page and add in links to the new page?
:Also, it looks like we are organizing an effort to research and test some of the less well understood mechanics... the results of these tests could go on the new pages (therahedwig already started [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175195.0 a thread on ]the [[DF2014:Reputation|Reputation page]]). [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175214.0;topicseen Recent Forum thread on improving the wiki] [[User:Scruiser|Scruiser]] ([[User talk:Scruiser|talk]]) 16:58, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

::This article is way too big. It looks to me that splitting off the main sections into their own articles, except perhaps world selection, would be a good start. From there we can consider splitting off some of the subsections too. We would leave an introductory article with links to the relevant topics, yes. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] ([[User talk:Nahno|talk]]) 09:02, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

== Skill inconsistency ==
"Your character will have a limit on the maximum number of companions that is based on your reputation level and the Social Awareness attribute. With average social awareness and the maximum level of fame, the limit is 19 companions." Yeah, kinda bugging me honestly...shouldn't it be maximum social awareness/fame instead?

DF2014 Talk:Adventurer mode

2019-12-18T08:54:31Z

Nahno: /* It's too big */ Format

==Reputation==
Given the huge amount of variance we now have and will be getting with reputations it may be a good idea to create a table of all possible reputations and their levels.
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 20:07, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
== Adventure Mode Performances and performance skills and taverns==
There is currently no part of the article devoted to performances, given this is now a huge chunk of content it might be a good idea for us to add that stuff
also, there is nothing on the new taverns here either among other things. In a sense, this article is very outdated.Ill work on it a bit more tonight but it will take time to gather screenshots.
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 21:37, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
:The crafting section will soon need an update too. For the next version, a list is probably still good, but in the future we might want to expand it a little.[[User:CLA|CLA]] ([[User talk:CLA|talk]]) 10:22, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Ayy, updated the skills section with the new crafting skill and all the performance skills
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 20:05, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

== .40.0X Adventure Mode Playable Races ==

In the newest update, if all standard adventurer civs are extinct you can play as a goblin or kobold if those civs exist.
Can someone confirm the goblin part of this statement?
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 20:08, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

== Memory. ==

Memory makes no difference to how much of the map you can see. I tested, and adventurers with superior and very low memory performed exactly the same: the map resets after about 74 moves to exactly 30 spaces behind you being visible. (this is in a straight line of course) [[Special:Contributions/210.55.212.242|210.55.212.242]] 01:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

From My experience, it lets you remember different sites better, this may have been a change that happened since 2014 [[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 22:09, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

==Kids ==

Is there any way to have kids, and then say, become those kids when you die. It would be a cool mod. You would have generations of dragon slaying vampire kings :D

It is possible to have kids once you retire, to play as them you can body swap in adventure mode with dfhack.

== 0.42.01 update discussion ==

>The recent update has basically overhauled large portions of adventure mode, and there needs to be massive work done as such.
This is intended as notepad to collect changes in 42.01 that should be mentioned in one way or another in this article.

*needs, personality: which traits directly influence your game, which are "cosmetic"; can you make an adventurer that has little or no needs, or rather minimal to no penalties from not satisfying them. On the other hand, which give the most benefits; in summary, what should a beginner adventurer choose?
*new skills; which are useless, which aren't. How do the attributes influence them
*playing as other races
*food and drink: 3-at-a-time limit is gone, inebriation changed
*Renting rooms at inns
*Ordering drinks at inns
*arguments
*arguments can change people's values
*becoming the official performer for a lord.
*Performance troups, bard skills, how to perform etc.
*story telling exists and spreads rumors similarly to actual rumor spreading dialogue
*bone carving
*hearth-quests are now more variable and you can get quests to kill beasts now aswell (proper quests)
*Reputation has been overhauled
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 04:08, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
[[Special:Contributions/137.28.226.25|137.28.226.25]] 04:01, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
[[User:CLA|CLA]] ([[User talk:CLA|talk]]) 12:17, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

This article is ludicrously outdated guys, we need to fix it
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 18:06, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

:I've been doing some work on this as well as .43.01 features, but might want help for filling out the section on building. I did do some !!SCIENCE!! on which writing options have what results at least.--[[User:Valos|Valos]] ([[User talk:Valos|talk]]) 22:21, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

== Overhaul, cut and port ==

Most sections of this article pertain to features that exist in all modes, so there's no reason to segregate information that belongs with the main topic. It's really past time to maintain an Adventure Mode ghetto here where fortresses and adventurers don't risk exposure to insights from each others' mechanics, which are more alike than different. This article needs to be cleaned of subjective and narrow-sighted slant and revised to inform players with objective fact and links to more details, so they may form their own conclusions.
[[User:Uzu Bash|Uzu Bash]] ([[User talk:Uzu Bash|talk]]) 18:57, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

I tend towards agreeing with this statement [[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 21:12, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

== Weaponmasters ==

I actually found one in adv mode! https://imgur.com/a/yUKpH [[Special:Contributions/178.187.154.32|178.187.154.32]] 12:01, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
How does this contribute to the article? [[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 18:50, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

The page said they weren't able to be found. --[[Special:Contributions/176.50.179.46|176.50.179.46]] 10:38, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh! Ill amend the article, needs to be updated in several way sin fact :) [[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]])

== Identities And Reputations And 0.44.02 discussion==
Does anyone else think its about time to either create a "reputation" page or to add information about this to the article?
Also, we have identities now, since we have a section for each ui screen here, it might be helpful to add that here aswell.
Artifact quests need a part of the article devoted (though that can probably go on the Quests page)
Also, performances are currently bugged.
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]])

== It's too big ==

This article is too big, even the "content" table is three screens height. It's hard to read, to check, to edit and to translate this.

Do you really need to describe everything, every symbol of map, every word you can say and every playable creature of night in here? Maybe it's better to write only a basic info here (like in article about fort mode) and create additional pages for additional info?

Is there any reason to keep everything about adventurer mode in one article? [[User:Tankistqazwsx|Tankistqazwsx]] ([[User talk:Tankistqazwsx|talk]]) 10:10, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

:I'll second this suggestion. I'm fairly new to editing the wiki... would the right approach to implementing this idea be to make new pages, copy the current blocks of text from this page to the new pages, and then once people are happy with the new pages cut the blocks of text out of this page and add in links to the new page?
:Also, it looks like we are organizing an effort to research and test some of the less well understood mechanics... the results of these tests could go on the new pages (therahedwig already started [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175195.0 a thread on ]the [[DF2014:Reputation|Reputation page]]). [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175214.0;topicseen Recent Forum thread on improving the wiki] [[User:Scruiser|Scruiser]] ([[User talk:Scruiser|talk]]) 16:58, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

== Skill inconsistency ==
"Your character will have a limit on the maximum number of companions that is based on your reputation level and the Social Awareness attribute. With average social awareness and the maximum level of fame, the limit is 19 companions." Yeah, kinda bugging me honestly...shouldn't it be maximum social awareness/fame instead?

Embark

2015-06-28T20:29:18Z

Nahno: /* Supplies */ The two horse/yak/water buffalos are the random wagon pullers, not "supplies" like the cats and dogs. Language. This needs further work.

{{quality|fine}}{{av}}

'''Embark''' is the time at the very beginning of [[Fortress mode]] before actual game play begins (but after [[World generation|generating a world]]), when you and your initial 7 dwarves:
# Choose a site.
# Assign starting [[skill]]s to each dwarf.
# Select an initial load of [[Embark#Supplies|supplies and equipment]].
# Arrive at the site with your wagon full of supplies.

==Choosing a Site==
The main considerations to keep in mind when choosing a site are the presence of aquifers, the availability of wood, ores, & soil, the climate, and your neighbors.
There is just ONE BIG RULE: when your home civilization is too small, you will recognize after the second winter that you won't get any more [[Immigration|immigrants]], which can be [[Fun|extremely fun]]. To avoid this situation, select a home civilization with ''at least'' two dwarven sites on the map.

[[File:Embark.jpg|center|Choose Fortress Location screen (v0.31.19)]]

The Choose Fortress Location screen shows four separate sections, with three of them being views of the land at different levels of magnification: Local, Region, and World. A section of highlighted tiles in the Local view indicates the current embark location within the region. The local view constitutes a 16x16 grid of embark area tiles (each representing 48x48 tiles when you are playing the game) that is within a single region tile. The world map cannot be directly controlled, and exists only to give you the overall view of where, relative to the rest of the features of the world, the region map is focused on.

The arrow keys control the X cursor in the center "Region" view while {{k|u}}, {{k|m}}, {{k|k}}, and {{k|h}} move the embark location around within the Local view. {{k|U}}, {{k|M}}, {{k|K}}, and {{k|H}} will resize the embark location.

The size of the embark location directly affects how much data about a map the game will have to store in your computer's memory and the size of your save files. This may correspondingly make pathfinding more resource-intensive, generally [[Frames per second|slow your game down]], and have a dramatic effect on the save and load times for your map. As such, smaller maps are recommended, especially for less powerful computers. Remember that each tile on your embark screen is 48x48 tiles large.

On the far right of the screen is a list of local features in the dominant biome. Individual biomes, which form at least one map-tile of your embark location, can be cycled with the {{k|F#}}-keys; for example, an area with 3 biomes present can be cycled using {{k|F1}}, {{k|F2}} and {{k|F3}}. The selected biome will be highlighted with flashing Xs on the Local Map, and the biome's information will be displayed on the right side of the screen.

===Biomes===
{{Main|Biome}}

A '''biome''' is a biotic area with homogeneous features, characterized by distinctive [[plant]]s, [[creature|animal species]] and [[climate]].

In the above image, the biome is "Temperate Savanna", and the region the biome is part of is given a specific name: "The Velvety Hill", part of the continent "The Jade Horn-Land".

Biomes will also contain only one set of stone layers, though these usually expand beyond a single biome. Your [[dwarf|dwarves]] will find different resources depending on which biomes they select when starting a fort.

Biomes are important when choosing a fortress location in order to understand your [[surroundings]].

====Climate====
{{Main|Climate}}

Climate determines the maximum temperature range of the region, which in turn impacts the severity of exposure to the outside, whether water will freeze in winter, and how quickly water evaporates.

The climate is displayed as "Temperature: Warm" in the above image.

Very hot and very cold biomes bring their own challenges which may be further compounded with overlapping features, such as a glacier being frozen for half the year, and being devoid of trees, and lacking a river. Very hot climates may see all its surface water quickly evaporate, making finding a water supply more dangerous, as underground caves filled with hostile creatures may be the only supply of water.

====Plant Life====
{{Main|Tree|Shrub}}

Seen in the above image as "Trees: Sparse" and "Other Vegetation: Moderate".

Trees are useful for the [[wood]] they provide, and wood is a basic building material, important for being the only material that can be used to create beds. Also, because creating bins and barrels from metal is an involved process involving more steps, less common resources, and fuel, wood is often preferred for making these items as well. Wood is also a source of [[fuel|charcoal]], one possible [[fuel]] used to make metal products in standard smelters and forges and required for making steel even when you have magma forges. Wood is also useful in making [[potash]], for soap or fertilizing farms.

Despite wood's many uses, it is entirely possible to play without any trees in your biomes. Due to the inexpensive nature of wood, it is possible to simply embark with a large quantity and rely on trade caravans from the elves, humans, and dwarves for your wood needs. Also, at a certain point, trees can be farmed in muddied underground areas regardless of how barren the surface is.

Shrubs can provide some quick food through the [[herbalist]] skill, [[still|brewable materials]], and [[seeds]] for some very helpful above-ground [[crops]] which are generally only available through trading with Elves.

====Surroundings====
{{Main|Surroundings}}

Surroundings affect how powerful and hostile local wildlife will be, and some forms of plants are available only in specific types of surroundings.

The surroundings of the example image are listed as "Surroundings: Wilderness".

Any biome can have any set of surroundings; for example a glacier could be haunted, wilderness or mirthful. However, a named region (which is a contiguous area of one category of biomes, such as forests or wetlands) will be either good, neutral, or evil.

There are two axes for surroundings: savagery and alignment. Calm and neutral savagery are functionally identical. Savage lands are like normal lands, except they will frequently have giant or hostile humanoid versions of normal animals. For example, you might have a [[Tigerman]] instead of "merely" a [[tiger]] in a savage jungle.

Good biomes are similar to neutral biomes, except have more fanciful (and generally benign) creatures like [[pixie]]s, [[fluffy wambler]]s, or [[unicorn]]s, and are generally no more dangerous than neutral biomes. Evil biomes are home to many dangerous creatures, often dead vegetation and even including undead versions of normal creatures, making for a far more hostile environment specifically for players who want to face a greater challenge to stay alive, especially early on. Trees might not grow in an evil area.

It is possible to start a fortress that overlaps multiple alignment types (for example good, evil, savage, and benign). Some players consider this desirable, as it provides diversity in your little corner of the world, but it also has its dangers in the form of more ferocious wildlife.

====Layers====
{{Main|Layer|Ore|Stone}}

At the bottom right of the biome view, some of the main features of the site are reported. You will be told whether the biome has a layer of soil on top of it (and how thick it is), and whether that soil includes [[clay]]. Deep soil layers make underground farming extremely quick to set up, as no [[irrigation]] will be needed. If there are metal ores, ''Shallow metal(s)'' and/or ''Deep metal(s)'' are reported. [[Flux]] is also reported if present.

The depth of the soil layers is indicated by light brown text: ''Little soil'', ''Some soil'', ''Deep soil'' or ''Very deep soil''. Clay is reported as either ''Shallow Clay'' or ''Clay''. [[Sand]] is ''not'' reported here; the only way to be sure you'll have sand is to embark on a Sand Desert.

You won't be told which kinds of metals are present. Your best bet for finding the raw materials for making [[steel]] is to look for a site with ''Shallow metals'' (note the plural) and ''Flux''. A biome with shallow metals listed has an extremely high chance of containing [[iron]]-bearing ores in a sedimentary layer near the surface. Failing that, you're practically guaranteed to get some [[copper]] ore (tetrahedrite).

====Aquifer====
{{Main|Aquifer}}

An aquifer is a layer of soil or stone saturated with water, and a biome may contain up to 3 aquifer layers (theoretically more, but such would be rare to say the least). Embarking on an aquifer brings up a warning before embark as an aquifer can significantly raise the difficulty of starting a fort. For specific tactics on working with an aquifer, see ''[[Aquifer]]''.

===Changing Views===
Pressing {{k|Tab}} will cycle the presented information through a variety of different views and panels.
*Neighbors - other civilizations that are closest to your current location. Proximity increases the chance of interaction, though at present this largely means "nearby goblins are more likely to attack you." If any race is not represented on this page, it means that the civilization cannot reach you if you are in that location. Embarking on an [[island]], or a location completely surrounded by mountains will make it impossible for any civilization but your own dwarven civilization to reach you, as world map travel across oceans or mountains is impossible. If not even "Dwarves" appears, it means that your home civilization is dead, and there will be no [[immigration]] waves or [[Trading#Caravans|trade caravans]] from your home civilization. If this is the case, it is recommended you change to a still-existent civilization unless you want the challenge of having no support from the mountainhomes. Races that are hostile to you are represented by a series of red "-" marks. In vanilla DF, goblins are always hostile, but humans or elves may also be at war with particular dwarven civilizations.
*Your Civilization - indicates all Dwarven civilizations in the world. {{k|+}} and {{k|-}} will cycle through the civilizations allowing you to choose which your settlers will be embarking from. Civilization choice will affect who is at war with you, what goods are available for trade and at embark, who your regent will be (considering [[Main:Cacame Awemedinade|one might be surprised by who turns out to be one's regent]]), and if there are any surviving members of your civilization left to migrate to or trade with your fort. Some of this information is only viewable in [[Legends]] Mode, but you can view accessible goods and materials after hitting {{k|e}}mbark by looking at what items you can choose to embark with. If you don't like the options, simply {{k|Esc}} to get the main menu and choose Abort Game. You will have to find the site again, but it saves you from needing to abandon the fortress.
*Relative Elevation - Shows the land height relative to the lowest point in the region.
*Cliff Indicator - Shows the severity of cliffs. With the exception of rivers that cut through mountains, even apparently very steep cliffs will still have ramps that make it perfectly accessible for any creature or even the wagons in caravans (unless you have turned erosion off).

===Reclaiming a fortress===
{{Main|Reclaim fortress mode}}
If you [[Reclaim fortress mode|reclaim the site]] of an abandoned fortress, upon arrival you may see goods, materials, and corpses left from the previous effort. These items will initially be [[forbid|forbidden]] and you will have to [[Reclaim|reclaim items]] before your dwarves will acknowledge their existence, for example to haul them to a graveyard or refuse [[stockpile]].

==Creating Your Settlers==
===Play Now!===
You can forgo the process of assigning skills and supplies and instead select '''Play Now!''' This option will give you a selection of Dwarves with the following profiles:

* Miner: Adequate Miner
* Woodworker: Novice Carpenter, Bowyer
* Woodcutter: Novice Wood Cutter, Furnace Operator, Wood Burner, Grower, Herbalist, Brewer, Cook, Lye Maker, and Potash Maker
* Stoneworker: Novice Mason, Engraver, Building Designer, and Mechanic
* Jeweler: Novice Stone Crafter, Wood Crafter, Bone Carver, Gem Cutter, and Gem Setter
* Fisherdwarf: Novice Fisherdwarf
* Fish Cleaner: Novice Weaver, Clothier, Butcher, Tanner, Leatherworker, and Fish Cleaner
One of these will be randomly flagged as Expedition Leader at the start.

The default embark value for a custom embark is 1274: 974 in pre-chosen goods and 300 unassigned. The Play Now! embark only uses 1038 points. While a Play Now! embark is no more doomed than any other embark, it is always better to Prepare Carefully once you know what you're doing with the set up of an early fort.

===Prepare Carefully===
Preparing allows the player to customize their embarking party and supplies by spending a pool of points which is shared between skills and equipment, with each skill rank and equipment item having a set value. The total value of embarking is set at 1,274 points, though all but 300 of these are pre-spent on an array of basic equipment (the same equipment Play Now! uses). It stands that one should try to maximize the value of their embark by spending all available points. By preparing carefully it is also possible to [[Fortress name|name]] your fortress and your embark group.

====Using the menu====
Use {{k|Tab}} to switch between selecting Skills and Items. Use the 4 directional keys or number pad to navigate to highlight the different choices/columns, and {{k|+}} or {{k|-}} to choose more or less of the highlighted item or skill. When viewing items, hit {{k|n}} to go to a menu for any "new" items, that are not currently listed, including any you removed by reducing the number to 0; select the item, hit {{k|Enter}}, then increase the number desired as above ({{k|+}} or {{k|-}}) in the main menu.

If you cannot buy additional skill levels, you are out of points and must return some items for additional points. Higher-priced items will automatically be removed from view when selecting new items if you do not have enough points for those selections, showing only what you can afford with your current points.

====Skills====
{{Main|Skill}}

The seven settlers you begin with can be assigned up to ten skill ranks picked from the entire Dwarven skill list, including military, though only a maximum of 5 ranks can be bought in any one skill (for a maximum starting rank of "Proficient"). Skill ranks are bought from the shared pool at a cost of 5 for the first rank, 6 for the second, 7 for the third, and so on. Maxing out a skill thus costs a total of 35 points. Although this is already fairly involved, between the long skill list and the floating cost, the value of a rank is subject to further scrutiny given the early-game value, or lack thereof, of certain skills as well as the relative ease or difficulty of training ranks in a given skill. Many skills are performed just as well by a Novice (skill level 1) or even a Dabbler (level 0) as they are by a Legendary (level 15+). A Novice Furnace Operator won't produce Coke as fast as a Legendary Furnace Operator, but they will produce it fast enough to keep their neighbor smelting hematite until the cows come home.

For a more complex example, there is much overlap between what can be produced out of wood and what can be produced out of metal, but wood is plentiful in the early game (often throughout, if a tree farm is established, and caravans will bring in several pages worth of wood if you request it) while metalworking can take much longer to establish, or would take several times longer to produce a given product in the early game due to the multiple steps required. Metalworking skills also train slower than woodworking, and metal products have a longer base production time than wood products.

From one point of view, the Woodworking skills would be of more immediate use in producing quick goods of higher value in the early game, especially given the high volume needed; however furniture quality is of little concern in the early game, and the high volume of value-independent goods (such as barrels which you won't be trading away on their own or using to furnish chambers) will cause your carpenter to train his skills fairly quickly. Even on a strictly functional level, a Novice carpenter can produce beds, barrels, and bins fast enough to keep up with a fledgling base. Lastly, once metal production is up and running, it can be agonizingly slow if a Farmer or Peasant has to be re-assigned to learn from scratch, thus a proficient Metalsmith stands to pay off much more in time than starting with a proficient Carpenter. Consider as well that you may receive a highly skilled Metalsmith during an [[immigration]] wave, if you care to take that chance.

====Supplies====
The default array of supplies covers a broad range of foodstuffs, seeds, drink, tools, and medical equipment, and is reasonable, though extra food and drink never hurt anyone.

:* 2 Copper [[pick]]s (or bronze picks if your home civilization has no access to copper)
:* 2 Copper battle [[axe]]s (or bronze battle axes if your home civilization has no access to copper)
:* 1 Iron [[anvil]] (or Steel [[anvil]] if your home civilization has no access to iron)
:* 1 Wheelbarrow (if possible)
:* 60 units alcohol (at least 20 each of up to 3 random types, in 12 barrels)
:* 6 bags containing 5 each of dimple cup, cave wheat, plump helmet, sweet pods, pig tail, and quarry bush [[seed]]s
:* 15 units of meat (one random type, 10 + 5 units in 2 barrels)
:* 15 units of fish (one random type, 10 + 5 units in 2 barrels)
:* 15 units of plump helmets (10 + 5 units in 2 barrels)
:* 5 pig tail fiber thread
:* 5 pig tail fiber cloth
:* 5 pig tail fiber bags
:* 3 pig tail fiber ropes
:* 3 wooden buckets
:* 3 wooden splints
:* 3 wooden crutches
:* 2 dogs (both female)
:* 2 cats (both female)
:* 2 random of horse, yak, or water buffalo (random sex)

When settling on a site with few trees, one should definitely consider bringing extra logs to cover the early demand for beds and such.

Cats and dogs are only included in the Play Now! package, you have to go into the pets list and add them when you Prepare Carefully.

Do not overlook the value of bringing animals. Dogs in particular can provide an excellent early warning system, good fighters against kobolds and other thieves, and a healthy supply of meat and bones. Cats are useful for controlling the vermin population, but beware the [[Fun|dangers]] of a [[catsplosion]].

You may also want to consider replacing the pig tail fiber items with much cheaper cave spider silk items (regular, not giant).

Note that the types of supplies available can vary depending on what materials are available at the nearest capital of your civilization. For example, certain types of stone or bars may not be listed at all if they are not available at your Mountainhome.

If your civilization lacks copper or iron (or both), the increased costs for standard-issue metal equipment can eat up the embark point advantage Prepare Carefully has over Play Now!, but the option to customise point allocation still gives careful preparation an edge.

====Saving a starting mix====
Once you have the mix of items and skills that you like, you can hit {{k|s}} and save it to a template with a custom name. In a later game, you can pick that profile when you embark. If your selected civilization does not have some of the desired items in your template, this is announced clearly, and a different civilization can be tried as described above, or you can continue and change your mix.

If you match skills to the [[preferences]] and [[personality|personalities]] of your dwarves, it may be an idea not to include any skills in such a template, as they will simply be applied in the original order to the current dwarves as they appear on the list.

If you find additional items that you wish to add (perhaps another type of cheap meat, or an ore not previously available), you can edit those in by hitting {{k|s}}, overwriting your old template. You can also go into the .txt file, located at data/init/embark_profiles, and edit in the SKILLS or ITEMS as you want - the syntax is fairly straightforward.

==Embark Strategies==
{{Main|Starting build}}

The strategies below are suggestions. They are not universal, and many are even contradictory. This is because there is no one true way to play Dwarf Fortress. Some may not work for you because of unstated assumptions about priority, value, fun, or procedure. However, since Losing is Fun, it's always worth it to try something out, even if it doesn't go well.

===Picking the Right Location===
'''Need More Dirt''' - three layers of soil before the stone layers begin provides a very large area that can be used to quickly carve out efficient storage rooms, as well as easy construction of large farms and tree farms without the need to flood/muddy large areas of stone.

'''Flowing Water (and Its Inverse)''' - flowing water (river or stream) is a must have for the infinite power it supplies for working machinery and because underground water supplies are too dangerous to tap into. There is no guarantee of infinite water underground, you could embark on a map with completely dry caverns. However, rainier climates will always have murky pools, which with careful management can be refilled from the rain. Infinite power for working machinery can be created using a limited amount of water in a perpetual motion machine. Although, being limited in quantity, murky pools simply do not have the capacity to permanently flood your fortress, while a single mistake with an infinite source can easily do so.

===Preparation Strategies===
'''Free Barrels''' - many products are stored in bins, barrels, or bags and do not stack with other items even if they're in the same broad classification. Plump Helmets and Horse Meat come in separate barrels even though they're both food. Purchasing a single item of food (or increasing the number to one above the storage limit of the barrel i.e. 11, 21, 31) will also produce a free barrel for it to be stored in. As barrels have a cost of 10 to buy empty, buying a single unit of cost 2 foodstuffs gets you a value of 5. Anything above cost 2 bought for the express purpose of getting barrels would be better off just buying barrels empty or raw logs. This concept can be extended to many different goods, and for any stored good you were "going to buy anyway" you should avoid buying exactly a containerful. Do not get 20, get 21. One unit of milk comes in a single barrel.
* Note that meat products from the same animal will store in the same barrel, thus 1 unit of Horse Meat and 1 unit of Horse Tripe will only get you one barrel, not two.
* Upon arrival you can build a kitchen and prepare lavish meals out of all those single units of meat. This will "compress" your food, and free up some barrels for brewing. Size of stacks of food from cooking is equal to sum of stack sizes of ingredients, so you lose nothing.

'''Cheaper food''' - you can bring lots of [[milk]] (worth 1 embark point each), build a [[farmer's workshop]], and make [[cheese]] out of that milk. Combine this with the trick for free barrels, cook lavish meals out of that cheese and meat, and you will get some free barrels, and good quality food for cheap. Making milk into cheese is very fast and requires no skill, you just need to enable cheese making on your cook or brewer.
* To save on alcohol (you should probably still bring some of it, though) get plump helmets for 4 embark point each. Remember to disable cooking them in z -> Kitchen menu. Build a still, and brew them all, each will make 5 units of alcohol. You can supplement this with gathering and brewing local plants.
* Cooking lavish meals out of 1 unit of meat, and full barrels of alcohol made on the spot from plump helmets (known as booze cooking) can produce even more food, but only if one knows how to do it.
* When choosing all that different food, be smart. Press "n" Go to "Meat" section, press "e", and search for one particular kind of food, "meat", for example. Press enter, rinse and repeat. This way, you can quickly add food from different animals and be sure you don't have any 2 foods from the same species. Also, it's good to make a template so you won't have to do the whole thing all over again when you start another fortress.

'''Cheap Bags''' - while even the cheapest bags (made from cave spider silk and low-value leather) cost 10 points each, you can instead simply bring several units of [[sand]] costing 1 point each, as each unit of sand will be stored in its own bag made from a randomly selected material (including giant cave spider silk and valuable creature leather).

'''Don't Really Need That''' - unless you have tailored your embark for metal production quick and early, an anvil is typically unnecessary and the 100 points you get from refunding it can be better spent on skills or additional foodstuffs (can't really have enough foodstuffs). By the time the Dwarven caravan arrives in the fall, a 100☼ iron anvil, or even a 300☼ steel anvil, should be little more than an inconvenience. This can sometimes be <s>problematic</s> [[Fun]] if you are unlucky and the caravan does not bring an anvil.

'''REALLY Don't Need That''' - For players more familiar with the game. Bring no pre-constructed goods (weapons, buckets, etc.), just the materials to make them with. This requires several (3-10, though you're likely to bring way more) logs, some fire-safe stone (ores are fine if you don't mind some micromanagment), few nuggets of copper ore, and an anvil. Upon arrival, build a Wood Furnace and a Forge, make charcoal, then picks for the [[miner]]s and an axe for [[wood cutter]]s. Medical supplies should be unnecessary to start with, because if you need them <s>you're screwed</s> you'll have [[Fun]]. You may want to bring some [[rope]] (or just [[thread]]) along though. You can start your fortress with just 106☼ worth of items (iron anvil - 100☼, 1 copper nuggets for 1 pick - 6☼, logs can be gathered from deconstructing the wagon and made into 1 training axe - 0☼, fire-safe building material = ash - 0☼, everything else can be made with the raw materials you get from wood-cutting and mining.).

'''Yes, I Do Need That''' - <s>never</s> <s>don't</s> <s>NEVER</s> DON'T EVER leave without alcohol unless you have a [[brewer]] and a way to gather plants early (untrained [[herbalist]]s designated after embarking are enough) or a safe water source (preferably flowing).

==See Also==
*New players may find the [[Quickstart guide]] useful.
*The [[Starting build]] article has more detailed embark strategies.

== External links ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9yQiHCEGUI&feature=plcp Tutorial on how to embark]

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Dwarf Fortress Wiki talk:Versions

2014-07-01T10:18:27Z

Nahno: /* Revisiting Redirects */ Is it working properly?

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== Version 0.31.19 starts a new DF generation? ==

My reading of Toady's comments on the release of 0.31.19 is that it came out basically because he felt it would take too long to get DF all the way to 0.32. With the ore changes, the sitefinder changes, the addition of grazing and several different industries, there's a lot of changes between 31.18 and 31.19. So I'm thinking it might be a good idea to call it the first release of DF2011 - and what we refer to as "DF2010" would then become 0.31.18.

Thoughts? --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 07:06, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

==Revisiting Redirects==

I wasn't around when the redirect policy was created, and I'm having trouble understanding the rationale. The example claims that linking [[Main:Cheese]] to [[cv:Cheese maker]] is problematic...but mainspace only ever redirects to the current version. If the best target in the current version is cheese maker, why not link to it directly? (It's not, at least for Cheese, since [[DF2012:Cheese]] exists now.) The explanation seems to be claiming that 40d articles that link to Cheese will follow the Mainspace link--but that hasn't been the case for a long while now. Articles in 40d automatically link against other articles in 40d, so that version remains internally consistent no matter where mainspace links to in the current version. For a current example, what do we gain by linking [[Main:Mead]] to [[cv:Mead]] and linking [[DF2012:Mead]] to [[DF2012:Alcohol]]?

If this really is just an outdated procedure, I recommend we drop the mummery and allow mainspace to link to cv:(best target). Double redirects ''may'' work (sometimes, but [[Main:Mead]] demonstrates a common problem where automatic redirection fails), but if they are unnecessary I think they should be avoided, partly because of problems like [[Main:Mead]] and partly because of the effort required to protect double redirects from users who believe they are problematic.--[[User:Loci|Loci]] ([[User talk:Loci|talk]]) 20:16, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

:I was just thinking that. I'm currently attempting to write a basic extension to eliminate the need for mainspace redirects entirely, although Mediawiki's class structure may make this more difficult than I had hoped (the only method I've found for resolving redirects takes the ''article text'' instead of a title, e.g. "#REDIRECT ..."). I do agree that the current situation with redirects isn't ideal, so I'm hoping this will work better (once I get it to work). --[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 20:42, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Okay, that wasn't quite as clear as I meant it to be. In general, I think this is a tricky situation. Mediawiki wasn't designed to have five content namespaces, and certainly not chains of redirects between them. The problem that was pointed out in the [[DF:REDIR|policy]] is the fact that with:
Main:Foo -> cv:Bar
pages in the cv: namespace can't use [[<nowiki/>foo]], since the namespace links modification causes it to be treated as [[<nowiki/>cv:foo]] instead, which doesn't exist. The current suggested solution is this:
Main:Foo -> cv:Foo -> cv:Bar
This fixes the problem of [[<nowiki/>foo]] not working on cv pages, but creates issues with double redirects not always working. Another solution, which is more intuitive to new editors, is:
Main:Foo -> cv:Bar
cv:Foo -> cv:Bar
Both require creating two redirects. The first method has the advantage of ''ensuring'' that the cv redirect exists (otherwise, main:foo would be a redlink), while the second has the advantage of working more reliably in a couple cases.

What I'm trying to do is make main:Foo "jump" to cv:Foo when cv:foo exists, ''even if main:foo doesn't exist'' (basically it would treat all mainspace pages as redirects to cv pages, but only if the cv page exists and not the mainspace page). I had main:Bar jumping to cv:Bar fine, but if cv:Foo redirected to cv:Bar, accessing main:Foo would mysteriously stop at cv:Foo even if I increased the redirect limit. What I'm trying to do now is follow the redirects internally, without relying on Mediawiki to do it automatically - unfortunately, that has proved to be harder than I had hoped (and I sent my web server into an infinite loop while trying). I will try to work on this some more when I get a chance, although I'm not sure when that'll be yet :(. For now, feel free to fix broken double mainspace redirects as necessary, as long as redirects in the DF2012 namespace stay pointing to the right page (and new mainspace redirects get added in the DF2012 namespace too). --[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 04:21, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

:You're treating cv like a namespace--it's not. It is simply shorthand for "fill in the current version here". [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Briess&diff=182404&oldid=181281 As I discovered a long time ago on a server not far away], linking from Main:Foo to cv:Foo tends to break redirection chains. If, instead of linking to cv:Foo, you link to DF2012:Foo, it might just work. It would, of course, be better if your patch could evaluate cv itself, but even if you have to hardcode the current version it's a single point of maintenance that requires update very infrequently. (For that matter, we could probably dispense with the cv hack entirely and just have a bot update mainspace links from DF2012 to DF201X when we switch to a new version.)--[[User:Loci|Loci]] ([[User talk:Loci|talk]]) 20:05, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
::I know cv isn't a namespace - I was just trying to avoid future confusion when the DF2012 namespace changes. It's interesting that changing "cv" to "DF2012" fixes some broken redirects, although I've found that simply making an edit to a broken redirect can usually fix it as well. I've actually had the most problems with double redirects when the second one (in the DF2012 namespace) doesn't use the DF2012 prefix (e.g. main:Foo containing <nowiki>[[cv:Foo]] and DF2012:Foo containing [[Bar]]</nowiki>). I'd rather keep the cv alias even if it isn't necessary for mainspace redirects when I get the patch to work, since it makes it easier to refer to the current version of the page (for example, several MDF articles contain links to a vanilla page for things that don't change in the mod).
::Also, using aliases like "cv" is supported by Mediawiki; in fact, several WMF wikis use them (for example, "[[wikipedia:WP:Redirects|WP:Redirects]]" on Wikipedia). It's quite likely that Mediawiki isn't processing double redirects using aliases correctly, though, since that's uncommon on most wikis. --[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 21:35, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

In light of the lack of support for the current redirect policy, I propose we replace the current redirect section with:

:Mainspace article pages should use the cv: alias when redirecting to a versioned page, which will automatically update the link when a new version is released. For example, page "Main:Foo" should redirect to page "cv:Bar" (where "Bar" is the page that best describes the topic Foo in the current version).

:Pages in mainspace should only redirect to an older versioned page if that content no longer exists in the current version of the game (e.g. [[Cave river]], [[Chunk]]). In these cases the cv: alias cannot be used.

:Pages inside a versioned namespace should not use the cv: alias. Instead, they should redirect to the best page within that versioned namespace (e.g. [[DF2012:Dodging]], [[v0.31:Drink]]).

:Due to limitations of the wiki software, double redirects should be avoided if possible. When fixing double redirects in mainspace, please make sure to use the cv: alias as appropriate.

If no one objects, I will make this change in a few days.--[[User:Loci|Loci]] ([[User talk:Loci|talk]]) 20:21, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

:Okay with me. It may be worth mentioning that double redirects only really need to be changed when they don't work (since changing a lot of redirects that work isn't necessary), but I think it's clearer and more relevant than the current policy. —[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 00:26, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Done.--[[User:Loci|Loci]] ([[User talk:Loci|talk]]) 20:55, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

I was finally able to get my extension to work after being motivated by one too many malfunctioning redirects. It now causes nonexistent pages in the main namespace to behave exactly like redirects to their DF2012 counterparts (when linked to, accessed directly, and transcluded). Double redirects also work (up to 100, in fact, although that was a temporary safety measure that I'll probably change). This means we'll be able to safely get rid of all mainspace redirects (redirects that redirect to something other than "cv" will still function if not deleted). —[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 01:20, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
:What about articles which don't exist in the current version but do exist in older versions? Will those still need mainspace redirects, or will your extension be able to automatically redirect them to v0.31/40d/23a? --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] ([[User talk:Quietust|talk]]) 01:29, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
::It ignores all mainspace pages that actually have content, including redirects, so pages like [[masons guild]] won't be affected (unless deleted). —[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 01:47, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Done and deployed. [[Cat]] is still treated as a redirect, even though I just deleted it (try clicking on the "redirected from" link). Pages that exist are ignored, so [[Masons guild]] and [[History of Dwarf Fortress]] still function normally (as a redirect to a 23a page and a non-redirect, respectively). —[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 18:57, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm sending around a bot right now to delete all redirects of the format "foo -> cv:foo" (a surprising number don't fit this format, so I'm leaving them alone for now). —[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 20:43, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

:I'm confused. Do we use double redirects or not? Is there a single place we define our linking policy (including redirects), and is it updated?
:I had trouble linking to [[Consolidated_development]] in [[v0.34:Dragon]]. It kept pointing to v0.34:Consolidated_development, which does not exist. I ended up linking to Main:Consolidated_development to make it work. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] ([[User talk:Nahno|talk]]) 10:18, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

== Google often directs people to the 0.31 page ==

I've noticed a couple of times that finding a wiki page from an external search will often drop me onto a page from an older version. Is it possible to mitigate this somehow for new players? I could imagine something like redirecting old:Bar -> cv:Bar unless the user has come from old:Foo; no idea if that would actually work though. [[User:PeridexisErrant|PeridexisErrant]] ([[User talk:PeridexisErrant|talk]]) 11:48, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

:As a temporary solution, I could write a script that displays a banner of some kind if the user came from an external site. I'll ask Briess if he can do anything on the server level to increase the weighting of the current version's pages. (Obviously there are situations where people are looking for old pages, like [[23a:dungeon master]], so we don't want to disable indexing entirely on old pages.) —[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 17:03, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

== DF2014? ==

As Toady [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ draws closer to a new release], it might be worthwhile to discuss the addition of a new version to the wiki. The upcoming release covers two years of changes and introduces a number of new plants, foods, drinks, multi-tile trees, climbing, jumping, etc., so it is likely to have significant changes from the current DF2012. To avoid having people start new pages (and lose all the effort spent refining the prior version's page), I think it would be best to have a bot automatically copy over the DF2012 pages as a starting point for DF2014. I would suggest that these copied pages include a noticebox template mentioning that the content may be outdated, so that we can easily track which pages have been reviewed. I think either the {{tl|version check}} or {{tl|old}} template would work. --[[User:Loci|Loci]] ([[User talk:Loci|talk]]) 19:43, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

:This is what [[User:QuietBot]] did after the 0.34 release, so it's certainly possible to use the same script to migrate to DF2014. I would like a way of tagging migrated pages, since inaccuracies in some pages went unnoticed for months after they were migrated. Since {{tl|old}} is already in use, {{tl|version check}} may be a better solution (it can be reworded slightly, or we can make a separate template for DF2014 migration). —[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 19:23, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
:Made [[Template:DF2014 migrated]] as an example. Any thoughts? —[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 19:32, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

v0.34:Dragon

2014-07-01T10:01:23Z

Nahno: /* Irregularities, Bugs, and Future Plans */ Apparently, linking to mainspace from here is impossible without 'Main:'

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'''Dragons''' are gigantic fire-breathing, green reptilian [[megabeast]]s, eventually becoming the [[List_of_creatures_by_adult_size#end_of_list|largest land creatures]] in the world.

While based on the occidental dragon model, dragons do not fly nor have wings. They are immune to fire and magma (and are not harmed by being immersed in it, they will however [[drown]] in it). They breathe out a jet of extremely hot (theoretically {{ct|50000}} hot, over four times the heat of [[magma]]) "[[dragonfire]]" which can injure things that are immune to normal fire, such as the [[Bronze colossus]] (dragonfire is, however, a blockable attack if a creature is using a shield). Only Dragons and [[Cave dragon|Cave Dragons]] are naturally immune to dragonfire. They are also ''not'' [[Trapavoid|trapavoid]].

Dragons are covetous and seek to steal items from your fortresses to bring them back to their lairs. Dragons generally succeed in doing so on worldgen, but most of the time when they attack a player fortress they get caged, killed or succeed in burning the whole fortress down.

Dragons are the glass cannons of the megabeasts. They aren't especially durable for a megabeast and can be slain quite easily with traps or skilled soldiers, however their dragonfire will melt every other non-shield-using creature in the game (except for [[sponge]]s), they breathe fire over a long distance (20+ tiles) and they breathe fire often.

Some dwarves [[preference|admire]] dragons for their ''terrible majesty''.

==Dragon Size==

Dragons slowly grow to become one of the largest creatures in the game, finally reaching their adult size of 25,000,000 cm3 after 1000 years. As a hatchling, dragons are quite tiny, at exactly 1/10th an adult dwarf's size, but they grow very rapidly, at roughly 25,000 cm3 per year. Dragons reach dwarf size shortly after its second birthday, are more than double a dwarf at about year 5, and add another dwarf in size roughly every two years after that.

*At 23 years, a dragon is the size of a [[giant cheetah]].
*At 100 years, a dragon is the size of a [[draltha]].
*At 200 years, a dragon is the size of an [[elephant]].
*At 320 years, a dragon is the size of a [[hydra]].
*At 800 years, a dragon is the size of a [[bronze colossus]] or an adult [[roc]].
*Thereafter, a dragon is the largest creature found on land. (The [[giant sperm whale]] is the largest creature found anywhere)

==Defense Strategies==

[[Dragonfire]] can be blocked if the victim is using a shield, and it will be more than 99% of the time. Dragons are also massively powerful in melee combat, so they can be hard to take down without a good military. Possibly the best defense is to use piercing weapons like crossbows and especially spears and hope you get lucky and hit a vital organ which can bring it down immediately. An alternative is building one or multiple cage traps, possibly beforehand, which will probably cage the dragon making it harmless. You should know that wooden cages and stone mechanisms will be destroyed by dragonfire, so either make sure both cages (or weapons, or supports) and mechanisms are impervious to dragonfire, or more simply ensure that the dragon has no reason to breathe fire by removing animals and dwarves from the trapped area. While they won't fire on buildings normally, a stray blast (at your outdoor livestock or bait animals, say) that catches any traps, doors, bridges not made of [[dragonfire]]-safe materials will melt and deactivate them. Also, Dragons make good companions if you are able to reanimate them as a [[Necromancer]]

==Domestication==
Dragons can be captured in cage traps and tamed if you're lucky enough to catch one. Currently, knowledge of animal behaviour is based on the civilization level and depends partly on the animals available for contact in a given civilization site. Such a rare megabeast as a dragon is unlikely to have had any civilized contact aside from adventurers attempting to slay them and other violent contact; as such, your fort will have to build the knowledge base from the ground up, making dragon-taming a highly difficult task. Bear in mind that even with a skilled [[animal trainer]] at hand, your first attempts to control such a powerful and elusive beast may result in [[Fun|half your fortress burning in dragonfire]].

If you can manage to endure its long-untamed wrath, you'll have a massively valuable pet that can lay [[egg]]s. Dragons can also be trained as war or hunting animals at an [[Activity_zone#Animal_Training|animal training zone]]. While a tamed dragon is an immensely destructive tool at your disposal, it is also very eager to use dragonfire against your enemies, which can be ''exceedingly'' [[fun]] if it happens in your booze stockpile or meeting room.

Dragons do not have a {{token|CHILD|c}} tag, and therefore their eggs do not hatch in fortress mode.

==Irregularities, Bugs, and Future Plans==
Dragons have been observed to occasionally wear some armor (breastplates, greaves, leggings and boots). This armor is specified as "Large [metal][armor type]" and gives the dragon the same protection as any other species might get from it.

Toady has mentioned that he plans to eventually extend the random creature generator of the game to create different species and varieties of dragon within certain constraints, calling it "Half-Random", with ideas for variants including just about anything dragons have been given in literature, such as acidic blood, while maintaining a basic draconic structure.([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=30026.msg1012311#msg1012311])

One of the [[Main:Consolidated_development#Power_Goals|old power goals]] referenced stealing dragon eggs as part of an adventure mode quest.
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v0.34 Talk:Cleaning up macros

2014-06-30T23:18:56Z

Nahno:

==Is this a relevant article?==
This is a wiki on Dwarf Fortress. Does this article enhance players' Dwarf Fortress experiences?
I don't use macros, so I wouldn't know. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 20:12, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
:[[User:Sasf54]] seems obsessed with his special-case macros recently... I'd ask him to stop or take it to the forums, but can't edit his talk page since it doesn't exist. --[[Special:Contributions/74.105.188.206|74.105.188.206]] 20:21, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
::No other article links here. The [[v0.34:Macros_and_Keymaps]] article is quite long, but I feel the information here should be there, instead of having its own article. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] ([[User talk:Nahno|talk]]) 23:18, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

User talk:Iban/Dwarf silk

2014-06-30T22:32:37Z

Nahno:

Er, no. Just... no. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 02:50, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
:Yes.--[[Special:Contributions/209.66.200.61|209.66.200.61]] 21:54, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
::Perhaps you could explain exactly what the hell this article is ''supposed'' to be. It looks like the result of somebody modding dwarves to have the same web attack as a [[giant cave spider]]. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 22:02, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
:::Amusing as it may be, I don't feel that this page is justified. I suggest it be marked for deletion again. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 18:53, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
::::Rather than delete it, you can go ahead and move it to [[User:Iban/Dwarf_Silk]]. --[[Special:Contributions/98.170.236.116|98.170.236.116]] 23:37, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
:::::We should do that. Going by redirects to here, this page is (still) not justified. (I never learned how. Can I even do that?) --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] ([[User talk:Nahno|talk]]) 22:32, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

v0.34:Zoo

2013-07-23T21:02:23Z

Nahno: Undo revision 190299 by 96.251.85.48 (talk) That belongs in the cage article.

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A '''zoo''' is a [[room]] defined around a built [[cage]] or [[restraint]] that is not designated for "[[justice]]" (i.e. [[jail]]). Zoos can be assigned to specific dwarves, or left unassigned for communal enjoyment. An unassigned zoo seems to function like a [[meeting hall]], where idle dwarves will congregate and throw [[party|parties]]. While dwarves may receive happy [[thought]]s from admiring a zoo's [[restraint]]s, [[cage]]s, and any [[preference|preferred]] [[creature]]s, they do not appear to consider them "tastefully arranged" (unlike [[furniture]] in [[statue garden]]s); it is unknown if this has any effect on the happiness of the dwarves.

Caged animals that need a [[pasture]] will eventually get hungry and die if not fed, making them impractical for use in a zoo. [[Hateable]] [[vermin]] can inspire negative thoughts in visiting dwarves, and should similarly be avoided. Although filling your zoo with your fortress's prisoners seems very dwarfy, a mix of regular animals is more likely to match your dwarves' [[preference]]s. A zoo can even function without animals, though the likelihood of happy thoughts will be reduced.

Note that the game neither uses the term ''zoo'' nor calls a room created from a cage a meeting hall.

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v0.34 Talk:Zoo

2013-07-23T20:04:14Z

Nahno: /* Merge with cage article? */ No merger.

==Merge with cage article?==
Most of this article concerns [[cage]]s and [[meeting area]]s. The mention of the non-justice, cage-defined room that is the zoo would fit better in a dedicated paragraph on the cage page in my opinion. I'm putting it on my to-do list, so please protest if you disagree. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] ([[User talk:Nahno|talk]]) 16:19, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
:I'm perfectly fine with merging/eliminating some of the redundant information, particularly with cages. However, I think keeping this as a separate page would be more consistent with other articles (such as [[sculpture garden]], [[dining room]], etc.). It would also be nice to add some information that's actually about ''zoos'', similar to [[sculpture garden]]. --[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 17:14, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

:I disagree. A zoo is a room, which differs from a piece of furniture quite considerably. [[Bedroom]] doesn't belong in [[bed]], [[office]] doesn't belong in [[throne]], [[tomb]] doesn't belong in [[coffin]], and [[zoo]] doesn't belong in [[cage]]. That being said, [[cage]] should link to [[zoo]] much like it currently links to [[jail]] (which also has its own page). --[[User:Loci|Loci]] ([[User talk:Loci|talk]]) 19:15, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

::I agree on consistency. While don't agree that rooms categorically need articles removed from their parent furniture, some, perhaps most, do. I suppose the eyesore I find the (inherently?) minor zoo article to be, is lesser than any generally consistent alternative. I could probably survive the inconsistency of the zoo room being condensed into one or two informative lines in the cage article, though. On the other hand the cage article itself really doesn't need more text. I'll remove the actually misplaced (and most recent) paragraph and consider putting its content where it belongs. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] ([[User talk:Nahno|talk]]) 20:04, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

v0.34 Talk:Zoo

2013-07-23T16:19:46Z

Nahno: Redundant article. Propose merge with cage.

v0.34:Larch

2013-07-13T12:19:42Z

Nahno:

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The '''Larch''' is a type of [[above ground]] [[tree]]. It is found in [[temperate]] [[forest]]s and occasionally in [[taiga]] regions. Like the overwhelming majority of overland trees, larch [[wood]] is brown and produces brown products.

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v0.34:Black mamba man

2013-07-11T19:19:05Z

Nahno: Animal men are anthropomorphic. Animorph is specific to K. A. Applegate's works.

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'''Black mamba men''' are the anthropomorphic versions of [[black mamba]]s, half-man, half-snake. Unlike their solitary basal creatures, they can appear in packs of up to three. They're slightly larger than a dwarven child, and not nearly so threatening as the [[giant black mamba]]s, but because of their insta-death poison bite, pack mentality, and increased size should not be attacked by non-armored military dwarves.

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Talk:Boar

2013-07-11T19:01:19Z

Nahno: /* Deletion */

== Deletion ==
I'm not sure how necessary the list of other animals was, but male pigs don't have the word "pig" in their name anywhere (so it's not always obvious for new players). Also, they could be confused for wild boars, which are considered a different species. I think we should re-add these two, but it's all right if we leave off the rest of the creatures. --[[User:Lethosor|Lethosor]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|talk]]) 13:18, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

:I would never use 'boar' for male pig on this wiki; or even search specifically for male pigs for that matter. But I'm hardly standard. I would redirect to cv:Boar, and from Boar to Wild Boar. But I suppose a disambiguation page does the trick too. We could keep the creature list though. If you actually search for boars it might provide you with other options you were looking for. The line that refers to it is a bit funny though. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] ([[User talk:Nahno|talk]]) 19:01, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Nahno

2013-07-06T23:51:41Z

Nahno:

==Comments==

Please add a ''<nowiki>===(Headline)===</nowiki>'' to comments on new topics.

===DF2010:Coniferous forest===
Thanks for correcting my redirect. May I ask what the correct coding is? I can never seem to figure it out. --[[User:Romeofalling|Romeofalling]] 07:27, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

:<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[DF2010:Forest]]</nowiki>
:When editing a page you can click the button/icon with the '#R' to insert a redirect (that you must then customize).
:Also, you can see the change I made by finding the edit in the ''Recent changes'' and clicking the ''diff'' link.
:I don't know if there is a better way to redirect to the same namespace, like you tried. I kinda hope there is. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 13:50, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

===On Attributes (DF2012)===
Nahno:

I do not know how exactly attributes are applied. I assumed they were applied during dwarf creation. I've read they can increase, but have yet to see it. I moved the dfhack/mean references to the discussion, but left the information in about distribution of values around the mean as well as values above 200. Hope that appeases everyone.

-Thistleknot, 16 March 2012, in response to [[User_talk:Thistleknot|this]].

User talk:Thistleknot

2012-03-14T01:40:23Z

Nahno: /* Regarding attributes */ new section

Requesting data sets to verify averages.

== Regarding attributes ==

Hello Thisteknot

Welcome to the wiki. We appreciate your contribution. Keep up the good work.

I've been meaning to contact you about the attribute article and your work there. As you may have noticed, I was the one who undid your initial contribution to it. I am not quite content with your later edits either, but you made me realize that the article, especially the section you have flagged, is lacking. I have been unable to find exhaustive information on the nature of attributes, and have therefore postponed fixing that section and updating the article proper.

Do you happen to know exactly how and when attributes are applied to a dwarf? --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 01:40, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

v0.34:Trading/Flowchart

2012-03-14T00:16:33Z

Nahno: Link to general namespace. Link caravan > DF2012:Caravan > DF2012:Trading#Caravans does not play nice?

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{{Flowchart Box|Turn your trader's [[labor]]s off so he doesn't get distracted}}
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Quotes

2012-03-13T23:58:00Z

Nahno: Undo revision 166880 by 96.30.149.198 (talk) I don't think this fits the description.

This page is intended to collect any interesting or insightful quotes by [[Toady One]] or [[ThreeToe]] have made about their thoughts on Dwarf Fortress, their long-term plans, and so forth, in the hope that such quotes won't get lost in the shuffle of the forum.

Of course, many of these quotes were likely just offhand remarks, and older ones may reflect ideas that have changed, so don't take this as the Word of God. But for fans of Dwarf Fortress, it can be fun and interesting to read, can't it?

If you add something, provide links to where the quote is from, and describe the context if it's necessary.

==Acid==
* ''Insanely strong acids are required for the setting and will make it in at some point.'' [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=30026.msg995925#msg995925 Toady, January 26, 2010]

==On the Setting==
* ''As far as magic goes, underneath, it's all the same -- like a debugging option with some in-play queue that lets you change things for no reason. You don't need to worry so much about the implementation -- as much as we have one now, I don't really want a stock universe. The things we have now, like Blizzard Men, are mostly there to make sure that special properties are implemented. Then the random generation can begin. We don't want another cheap fantasy universe, we want a cheap fantasy universe generator. A lot of fiction sounds computer generated anyway.'' [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=948.msg12375#msg12375 Toady, August 12, 2006]

v0.34:Magma-safe

2012-03-13T03:23:43Z

Nahno: Undo revision 166876 by 96.36.17.244 (talk) Out of context.

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'''Magma-safe materials''' are materials which will not melt, burn, evaporate, or otherwise take damage when in close contact with [[magma]]. Most frequently, this comes into play when using [[floodgate]]s operated by [[mechanism]]s.

For [[reaction]]s and custom buildings using the [MAGMA_BUILD_SAFE] token, only a material which is stable at temperatures below 12000 is considered magma-safe. Furthermore, only [[bar]]s, [[block]]s, [[stone]], [[log]]s, and [[anvil]]s can be recognized as magma-safe - all other item types are considered unsafe, even if they are made of magma-safe materials.

In order to construct mechanisms from a magma-safe stone, simply ensure that they are the closest available stone to your [[mechanic]], ideally by placing a restricted [[stockpile]] around your [[mechanic's workshop]]. [[Burrow]]s can also be of assistance here, as dwarves will not attempt to pick up stone out side of their burrow assignments. However, if you have an active metalworking industry and have access to [[iron]] or [[steel]], constructing [[metal]] mechanisms is much more straightforward.

When linking a trigger to an object, the ''first'' mechanism selected is attached to the object, and the ''second'' is attached to the trigger. Unless the trigger itself will be submerged in magma (as could be the case with a [[pressure plate]]), only the first mechanism (attached to the object that will be submerged) need be magma-safe. If you do not have any magma-safe stones available, you can also work around floodgate-based flow control by using [[screw pump]]s to pump the magma over [[wall]]-barriers, or using water to form [[obsidian]] to plug flows and channel through them to reopen them (necessity and invention and all that).

Constructions that resist magma are:

* Constructions ([[Wall]], [[Floor]], [[Ramp]], and [[Stairs]]) of any material can never melt or burn - there is nothing wrong with a [[wood]]en magma reservoir. Natural (but not constructed) [[ice]] walls/floors/ramps/stairs may melt however.
* [[Fortification]]s will allow the passage of [[magma]]; however, if fortifications fill up to 7/7 depth, magma creatures will be able to swim freely through them.
* If not submerged (that is, not opened to let magma flow over/past/around them), [[door]]s, [[floodgate]]s, and raised [[bridge]]s (provided that there is no magma on the space the bridge would occupy when lowered) of non-magma-safe stone or metal are safe. So long as they are just in contact with magma, only acting as a passive "wall", they are fine. If opened, they will melt.
** Raised drawbridges have a notable exception, in that allowing magma to flow over the center of the area that the bridge would normally occupy when lowered ''will'' cause the bridge's components to heat up and potentially melt.
* A [[pump]] made with magma-safe metal pipes and screws and with magma-safe metal or stone blocks is fully magma-safe.
* A [[pump]] made with pipes and screws that are glass or any type of metal{{Verify}}, and blocks that are glass, or any type of metal{{Verify}}, is safe as long as no magma ever occupies the passable tile of the pump.
* [[Pump]]s made with [[wood]]en components will burst into flames the instant they are turned on.
* [[Pump]]s made with non-magma-safe stone blocks have been reported to melt after prolonged operation.

=== Glass ===
[[Glass]] behaves oddly in regards to magma. All types of glass are technically magma safe, based on a melting point of 13600 (the same as that of bauxite); however, small glass objects (such as [[instrument]]s) seem to be instantly destroyed if dropped in magma{{verify}}. So glass [[statue]]s, [[screw pump]]s, and [[floodgate]]s are all fine when submerged in magma.

Glass barriers still require magma-proof mechanisms to operate without deconstructing.

== Game calculations ==
In the game, magma's temperature is exactly 12,000 °[[Temperature scale|U]], which is equivalent to 2,032°F, or about 1,111°C.

The chance of striking a magma-safe stone is roughly around 32%, not including the natural abundance of certain stone. It is important to note whether or not your fortress may already have access to magma-safe resources before attempting to deliberately find some.

==Magma-safe material==

The following materials will not melt when submerged in magma. Although true for any item/construction, it's worth specifically mentioning that this includes [[door]]s, [[floor hatch]]es, [[floodgate]]s, [[bridge]]s, [[screw pump]]s, and [[mechanism]]s.



{{MS table head}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Alunite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|`|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}}|Temp=13,690°U (3722°F/2051°C)|Where=All [[Igneous extrusive]]'''(L)''', [[Kaolinite]]'''(L)'''}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Anhydrite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|v|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:0}}|Temp=12,610°U (2642°F/1450°C)|Where=[[Gypsum]]'''(S)''', [[Satinspar]]'''(1)''', [[Alabaster]]'''(1)''', [[Selenite]]'''(1)'''}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Basalt]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|#|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}}|Temp=12,160°U (2192°F/1200°C)|Where=[[Igneous extrusive]] layer stone}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Bauxite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|+|4:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|4:0}}|Temp=13,600°U (3632°F/2000°C)|Where=All [[Sedimentary]]'''(L)'''|Notes=dark red}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Calcite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|"|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}}|Temp=12,902°U (2934°F/1613°C)|Where=[[Limestone]]'''(S)''', [[Marble]]'''(S)'''|Notes=[[flux]] stone}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Chert]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|=|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:0}}|Temp=13,101°U (3133°F/1723°C)|Where=[[Sedimentary]] layer stone}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Chromite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|=|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}}|Temp=13,645°U (3677°F/2026°C)|Where=[[Olivine]]'''(V)'''}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Dolomite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|`|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}}|Temp=16,507°U (6539°F/3619°C)|Where=[[Sedimentary]] layer stone|Notes=[[Flux]]}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Gabbro]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|▒|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}}|Temp=12,160°U (2192°F/1200°C)|Where=[[Igneous intrusive]] layer stone}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Ilmenite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|.|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}}|Temp=12,457°U (2489°F/1365°C)|Where=[[Gabbro]]'''(S)'''}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Kaolinite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|=|4:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|4:0}}|Temp=13,150°U (3182°F/1751°C)|Where=All [[Sedimentary]]'''(L)'''|Notes=dark red, [[porcelain]]}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Mica]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|v|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}}|Temp=12,295°U (2327°F/1275°C)|Where=All [[Metamorphic]]'''(L)''', [[Granite]]'''(L)'''}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Obsidian]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|▒|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}}|Temp=13,600°U (3632°F/2001°C)|Where=[[Igneous extrusive]] layer stone|Notes=value 3, can be "[[obsidian farming|manufactured]]"}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Olivine]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|%|2:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|2:0}}|Temp=13,168°U (3200°F/1761°C)|Where=[[Gabbro]]'''(L)'''|Notes=green}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Orthoclase]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|%|6:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:1}}|Temp=12,250°U (2282°F/1250°C)|Where=All [[Igneous intrusive]]'''(L)''', All [[Metamorphic]]'''(L)'''|Notes=yellow}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Periclase]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|,|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}}|Temp=15,040°U (5072°F/2803°C)|Where=[[Marble]]'''(S)'''}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Petrified wood]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|%|4:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|4:1}}|Temp=12,970°U (3002°F/1650°C)|Where=All [[Sedimentary]]'''(S)'''|Notes=bright red}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Pitchblende]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|*|5:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|5:0}}|Temp=12,070°U (2102°F/1149°C)|Where=[[Granite]]'''(S)'''|Notes=purple}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Quartzite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|-|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}}|Temp=12,970°U (3002°F/1650°C)|Where=[[Metamorphic]] layer stone}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Rutile]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|`|5:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|5:0}}|Temp=13,285°U (3214°F/1826°C)|Where=All [[Metamorphic]]'''(S)''', [[Granite]]'''(S)'''|Notes=purple}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Sandstone]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|#|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:0}}|Temp=12,070°U (2102°F/1149°C)|Where=[[Sedimentary]] layer stone}}

{{MS table row|Type=Stone|Matl=[[Talc]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|||7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}}|Temp=12,700°U (2732°F/1500°C)|Where=[[Dolomite]]'''(L)'''}}

{{MS table row|Type=Metal|Matl=[[Adamantine]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|╪|3:3:1}} {{Raw Tile|≡|3:1}}|Temp=25,000°U (15,032°F/8333°C)|Notes=Highest value/utility material in game}}

{{MS table row|Type=Metal|Matl=[[Iron]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|╪|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|≡|0:1}}|Temp=12,768°U (2800°F/1538°C)}}

{{MS table row|Type=Metal|Matl=[[Nickel]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|╪|7:3:0}} {{Raw Tile|≡|7:0}}|Temp=12,619°U (2651°F/1455°C)}}

{{MS table row|Type=Metal|Matl=[[Pig iron]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|╪|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|≡|0:1}}|Temp=12,106°U (2138°F/1170°C)|Notes=used in steel making process}}

{{MS table row|Type=Metal|Matl=[[Platinum]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|╪|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|≡|7:1}}|Temp=13,182°U (3214°F/1768°C)|Notes=High value metal}}

{{MS table row|Type=Metal|Matl=[[Steel]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|╪|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|≡|0:1}}|Temp=12,718°U (2750°F/1510°C)|Notes=Armor/weapons}}

{{MS table row|Type=Ore|Matl=[[Cassiterite]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|£|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|*|6:0}}|Temp=12,025°U (2057°F/1124°C)|Where=[[Granite]]'''(V)'''|Notes=Ore of [[tin]]}}

{{MS table row|Type=Ore|Matl=[[Galena]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|£|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|*|7:1}}|Temp=12,005°U (2037°F/1113°C)|Where=All [[Igneous extrusive]]'''(V)''', All [[Metamorphic]]'''(V)''', [[Granite]]'''(V)''', [[Limestone]]'''(V)'''|Notes=Ore of [[lead]] and [[silver]]}}

{{MS table row|Type=Ore|Matl=[[Hematite]]3|Appear={{Raw Tile|£|4:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|*|4:0}}|Temp=12,736°U (2768°F/1520°C)|Where=All [[Sedimentary]]'''(V)''', All [[Igneous extrusive]]'''(V)'''|Notes=Ore of [[iron]]3}}

{{MS table row|Type=Ore|Matl=[[Magnetite]]3|Appear={{Raw Tile|~|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|*|0:1}}|Temp=12,768°U (2800°F/1538°C)|Where=All [[Sedimentary]]'''(L)'''|Notes=Ore of [[iron]]3}}

{{MS table row|Type=Ore|Matl=[[Native platinum]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|£|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|*|7:1}}|Temp=13,182°U (3214°F/1768°C)|Where=[[Olivine]]'''(V)''', [[Magnetite]]'''(V)''', [[Chromite]]'''(S)'''|Notes=Ore of [[platinum]]}}

{{MS table row|Type=Ore|Matl=''[[Sphalerite]]''4|Appear={{Raw Tile|£|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|*|0:1}}|Temp=<s>''12,133°U (2165°F/1185°C)''</s>|Where=All [[Metamorphic]]'''(V)'''|Notes=Ore of [[zinc]]4}}

{{MS table row|Type=Wood|Matl=[[Nether-cap]]5|Appear={{Raw Tile|♠|1:0:0}} {{Raw Tile|▬|1:0:0}}|Temp=N/A|Where=[[Cavern]] (depth 3)|Notes=Naturally cold5}}

{{MS table row|Type=Special|Matl=[[Raw adamantine]]|Appear={{Raw Tile|£|3:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|*|3:1}}|Temp=25,000°U (15,032°F/8333°C)|Where=The depths|Notes=Ore of [[adamantine]]}}

{{MS table row|Type=Leather|Matl=[[Fire imp]]|Appear=|Temp=15,000°U (5032°F/2780°C)|Notes=}}
{{MS table row|Type=Leather|Matl=[[Dragon]]|Appear=|Temp=55,000°U (45032°F/25,044°C)|Notes=}}

{{MS table row|Type=Bone|Matl=[[Fire imp]]|Appear=|Temp=15,000°U (5032°F/2780°C)|Notes=}}
{{MS table row|Type=Bone|Matl=[[Dragon]]|Appear=|Temp=55,000°U (45032°F/25,044°C)|Notes=}}

{{MS table row|Type=Glass|Matl=Green glass|Appear={{Raw Tile|≡|2:2:1}} {{Raw Tile|■|2:0}}|Temp=13,600°U (3632°F/2001°C)|Notes=}}
{{MS table row|Type=Glass|Matl=Clear glass|Appear={{Raw Tile|≡|3:3:1}} {{Raw Tile|■|3:0}}|Temp=13,600°U (3632°F/2001°C)|Notes=}}
{{MS table row|Type=Glass|Matl=Crystal glass|Appear={{Raw Tile|≡|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|■|7:1}}|Temp=13,600°U (3632°F/2001°C)|Notes=}}

|}

'''Notes:'''
:1. Each stone is one of 16 [[color scheme|colors]] in the game. Different un-mined stone of the same color have a different symbol to distinguish between them. Once mined, the individual stones themselves can sometimes look identical if the color is the same. Use {{k|k}} to loo{{k|k}} at items or the terrain for specific information.
:2. '''°U''' = degrees in [[Main:Urist|Urist]], the measure of temperature within the Dwarf Fortress world. As far as is known, there is no functional difference between a material that melts at 12,005°U or 55,000°U - they are both equally "magma safe".
:3. There are three iron ores in the game (four if you count [[goblin|goblinite]]). Of these, only [[hematite]] and [[magnetite]] are magma safe.
:4. Sphalerite has ''no'' melting point, but '''boils''' at 12,133°U - further research is necessary in this context - use at your own risk for the time being. This is accurate for the actual mineral, which sublimes at this temperature rather than having a liquid state, but how it behaves in Dwarf Fortress may be unclear.
:5. [[Nether-cap]] logs are naturally cold at 10000°U or 0°C, rendering it fully magma safe, except that nether-cap products [[dump]]ed into magma are destroyed.

{{Magma FAQ}}
{{Category|Physics}}
{{Category|Magma safe materials}}

v0.34:Attribute

2012-03-10T05:27:08Z

Nahno: Bad statistics; not useful in the article. At best a basis for discussion on the talk page.

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{{Quality|Fine|04:17, 24 May 2010 (UTC)}}

A creature has numerous attributes which impact its performance at various tasks. These attributes are split into physical factors associated with the body and mental factors associated with a creature's soul.

Attributes are located in the Thoughts and Preferences screen. Body attributes are listed just above prefstrings, and soul attributes are listed immediately thereafter. Positive attributes are dark green and negative attributes are red.

Attributes are now associated with skills, so that shield use will raise endurance as an attribute, but not attributes like memory. Different attributes raised by one skill may not be raised by the same amounts. Attribute gain and rust rates, along with skill gain and rust rates, are moddable in the raws as a [[Creature token]].

Attributes can be viewed for individual dwarves by selecting {{k|v}}iew dwarves, {{k|z}}, {{k|enter}} or by going to the {{k|u}}nits menu, {{k|v}}iew, then {{k|enter}}.

==Body Attributes==
The attribute values given in the tables correspond to default racial averages for dwarves only. Modded dwarves or any other creature will report the same phrases, but the underlying numbers may be very different. In almost every case, a higher attribute value is better, as opposed to [[personality trait]]s where one may prefer higher or lower depending on the situation.

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===Strength===
Alters the damage done in melee (increases velocity of weapon swings), increases muscle mass (thicker muscle layer also resists damage more), and increases how much a creature can carry. Higher strength also increases the speed with which a creature, even a naked creature, may move.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (+)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2250 - 5000 || unbelievably strong
|-
| 2000 - 2249 || mighty
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || very strong
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || strong
|-
| 751 - 1000 || weak
|-
| 501 - 750 || very weak
|-
| 251 - 500 || unquestionably weak
|-
| 0 - 250 || unfathomably weak
|}

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===Agility===
This attribute increases the [[speed]] at which a creature works in the same way as strength -- a creature with maximum agility and strength can move around three times faster than a creature with minimum agility and strength.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (-)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 1900 - 5000 || amazingly agile
|-
| 1650 - 1899 || extremely agile
|-
| 1400 - 1649 || very agile
|-
| 1150 - 1399 || agile
|-
| 401 - 650 || clumsy
|-
| 151 - 400 || quite clumsy
|-
| 0 - 150 || totally clumsy
|-
| NULL || abysmally clumsy
|}

|-
|

===Toughness===
Reduces physical damage.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (+)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2250 - 5000 || basically unbreakable
|-
| 2000 - 2249 || incredibly tough
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || quite durable
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || tough
|-
| 751 - 1000 || flimsy
|-
| 501 - 750 || very flimsy
|-
| 251 - 500 || remarkably flimsy
|-
| 0 - 250 || shockingly fragile
|}

|
===Endurance===
Reduces the rate at which dwarves become exhausted.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || absolutely inexhaustible
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || indefatigable
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || very slow to tire
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || slow to tire
|-
| 501 - 750 || quick to tire
|-
| 251 - 500 || very quick to tire
|-
| 1 - 250 || extremely quick to tire
|-
| 0 || truly quick to tire
|}

|-
|
===Recuperation===
Increases the rate of wound healing.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || possessed of amazing recuperative powers
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || incredibly quick to heal
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || quite quick to heal
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || quick to heal
|-
| 501 - 750 || slow to heal
|-
| 251 - 500 || very slow to heal
|-
| 1 - 250 || really slow to heal
|-
| 0 || shockingly slow to heal
|}

|
===Disease Resistance===
Reduces the risk of disease.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || virtually never sick
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || almost never sick
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || very rarely sick
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || rarely sick
|-
| 501 - 750 || susceptible to disease
|-
| 251 - 500 || quite susceptible to disease
|-
| 1 - 250 || really susceptible to disease
|-
| 0 || stunningly susceptible to disease
|}
|}

==Soul Attributes==
The attribute values given in the tables correspond to default racial averages for dwarves only. Modded dwarves or any other creature will report the same phrases, but the underlying numbers may be very different. In almost every case, a higher attribute value is better, as opposed to [[personality trait]]s where one may prefer higher or lower depending on the situation.

From [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60554.msg1413312#msg1413312 this post by Toady One]

With respect to skills: most of these attributes only affect duration, when that is the only available skill effect to begin with, but they are factored into outcomes when it applies.

At the [[#Skills By Soul Attribute|bottom]] is a list of which attributes affect which skills. [[:Image:DFmental.PNG|This]] pair of charts provides an easier to read summary of the soul attributes that are useful for doctors and soldiers.

{|
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===Analytical Ability===
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (+)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2250 - 5000 || awesome intellectual powers
|-
| 2000 - 2249 || great analytical abilities
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || a sharp intellect
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || a good intellect
|-
| 751 - 1000 || poor analytical abilities
|-
| 501 - 750 || very bad analytical abilities
|-
| 251 - 500 || a lousy intellect
|-
| 0 - 250 || a stunning lack of analytical ability
|}

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===Focus===
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (++)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2542 - 5000 || unbreakable focus
|-
| 2292 - 2541 || a great ability to focus
|-
| 2042 - 2291 || very good focus
|-
| 1792 - 2041 || the ability to focus
|-
| 1043 - 1292 || poor focus
|-
| 793 - 1042 || quite poor focus
|-
| 543 - 792 || really poor focus
|-
| 0 - 542 || the absolute inability to focus
|}

|-
|
===Willpower===
Willpower directly reduces exertion and pain effects.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || an unbreakable will
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || an iron will
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || a lot of willpower
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || willpower
|-
| 501 - 750 || little willpower
|-
| 251 - 500 || a large deficit of willpower
|-
| 1 - 250 || next to no willpower
|-
| 0 || absolutely no willpower
|}

|
===Creativity===
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (+)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2250 - 5000 || a boundless creative imagination
|-
| 2000 - 2249 || great creativity
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || very good creativity
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || good creativity
|-
| 751 - 1000 || meager creativity
|-
| 501 - 750 || poor creativity
|-
| 251 - 500 || lousy creativity
|-
| 0 - 250 || next to no creative talent
|}

|-
|
===Intuition===
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || uncanny intuition
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || great intuition
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || very good intuition
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || good intuition
|-
| 501 - 750 || bad intuition
|-
| 251 - 500 || very bad intuition
|-
| 1 - 250 || lousy intuition
|-
| 0 || horrible intuition
|}

|
===Patience===
Some non-skill tasks are affected by Patience.
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (+)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2250 - 5000 || absolutely boundless patience
|-
| 2000 - 2249 || a deep well of patience
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || a great deal of patience
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || a sum of patience
|-
| 751 - 1000 || a shortage of patience
|-
| 501 - 750 || little patience
|-
| 251 - 500 || very little patience
|-
| 0 - 250 || no patience at all
|}

|-
|
===Memory===

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (+)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2250 - 5000 || an astonishing memory
|-
| 2000 - 2249 || an amazing memory
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || a great memory
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || a good memory
|-
| 751 - 1000 || an iffy memory
|-
| 501 - 750 || a poor memory
|-
| 251 - 500 || a really bad memory
|-
| 0 - 250 || little memory to speak of
|}

|

===Linguistic Ability===
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || an astonishing ability with languages and words
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || a great affinity for language
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || a natural inclination toward language
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || a way with words
|-
| 501 - 750 || a little difficulty with words
|-
| 251 - 500 || little linguistic ability
|-
| 1 - 250 || very little linguistic ability
|-
| 0 || difficulty with words and language
|}

|-
|
===Spatial Sense===
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (++)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2542 - 5000 || a stunning feel for spatial relationships
|-
| 2292 - 2541 || an amazing spatial sense
|-
| 2042 - 2291 || a great feel for the surrounding space
|-
| 1792 - 2041 || a good spatial sense
|-
| 1043 - 1292 || a questionable spatial sense
|-
| 793 - 1042 || poor spatial senses
|-
| 543 - 792 || an atrocious spatial sense
|-
| 0 - 542 || no sense for spatial relationships
|}

|
===Musicality===
This attribute doesn't affect any skills as of version .31.25.
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || an astonishing knack for music
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || a great musical sense
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || a natural ability with music
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || a feel for music
|-
| 501 - 750 || an iffy sense for music
|-
| 251 - 500 || little natural inclination toward music
|-
| 1 - 250 || next to no natural musical ability
|-
| 0 || absolutely no feel for music at all
|}

|-
|
===Kinesthetic Sense===
Most skills involving any movement at all (lots of them), and many non-skilled tasks as well are affected by Kinesthetic Sense.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || an astounding feel for the position of own body
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || a great kinesthetic sense
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || a very good sense of the position of own body
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || a good kinesthetic sense
|-
| 501 - 750 || a meager kinesthetic sense
|-
| 251 - 500 || a poor kinesthetic sense
|-
| 1 - 250 || a very clumsy kinesthetic sense
|-
| 0 || an unbelievably atrocious sense of the position of own body
|}

|
===Empathy===
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || an absolutely remarkable sense of others' emotions
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || a great sense of empathy
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || a very good sense of empathy
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || an ability to read emotions fairly well
|-
| 501 - 750 || poor empathy
|-
| 251 - 500 || a very bad sense of empathy
|-
| 1 - 250 || next to no empathy
|-
| 0 || the utter inability to judge others' emotions
|}

|-
|
===Social Awareness===
{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! style="width:8em" | Value (AVG)
! Description

|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
| 2000 - 5000 || a shockingly profound feel for social relationships
|-
| 1750 - 1999 || a great feel for social relationships
|-
| 1500 - 1749 || a very good feel for social relationships
|-
| 1250 - 1499 || a good feel for social relationships
|-
| 501 - 750 || a meager ability with social relationships
|-
| 251 - 500 || a poor ability to manage or understand social relationships
|-
| 1 - 250 || a lack of understanding of social relationships
|-
| 0 || an absolute inability to understand social relationships
|}
|}
=== Skills By Soul Attribute ===
{{SkillsBySoulAttribute}}

== Skills by Associated Attributes ==
Strength, Toughness, Endurance, Willpower, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Miner]], [[Biter]]

Agility, Creativity, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Bowyer]], [[Engraver]], [[Gem setter]], [[Bone carver]], [[Clothier]], [[Stone crafter]], [[Weaver]], [[Wood crafter]]

Strength, Agility, Creativity, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Carpenter]]

Strength, Agility, Endurance, Willpower, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Wood cutter]], [[Swimmer]], [[Wrestler]]

Strength, Agility, Endurance, Creativity, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Mason]], [[Armorsmith]], [[Metal crafter]], [[Metalsmith]], [[Weaponsmith]], [[Glassmaker]], [[Leatherworker]]

Agility, Focus, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Ambusher]], [[Surgeon]], [[Suturer]], [[Archer]], [[Blowgunner]], [[Bowman]], [[Crossbowman]]

Agility, Analytical Ability, Memory, Empathy: 
[[Animal caretaker]]

Agility, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Animal dissector]], [[Tanner]], [[Fish dissector]]

Agility, Toughness, Endurance, Intuition, Patience, Empathy: 
[[Animal trainer]]

Agility, Analytical Ability, Creativity, Spatial Sense: 
[[Trapper]]

Strength, Agility, Focus, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Bone doctor]]

Agility, Endurance, Willpower, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Crutch walker]]

Analytical Ability, Memory, Intuition: 
[[Diagnostician]], [[Appraiser]]

Agility, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense, Empathy: 
[[Wound dresser]]

Strength, Agility, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Brewer]] 
[[Balance]], not implemented

Strength, Agility, Endurance, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Butcher]], [[Dyer]], [[Grower]], [[Milker]], [[Miller]], [[Thresher]]

Strength, Agility, Endurance, Analytical Ability, Creativity, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Cheese maker]]

Agility, Analytical Ability, Creativity, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Cook]]

Agility, Memory, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Herbalist]]

Strength, Toughness, Endurance, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Lye maker]], [[Potash maker]], [[Soaper]], [[Wood burner]]

Agility, Endurance, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Fish cleaner]]

Strength, Agility, Focus, Patience, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Fisherdwarf]]

Strength, Toughness, Endurance, Analytical Ability, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Furnace operator]]

Agility, Analytical Ability, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Gem cutter]]

Strength, Agility, Endurance, Analytical Ability, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Strand extractor]]

Strength, Agility, Endurance, Analytical Ability, Creativity, Spatial Sense: 
[[Mechanic]], [[Siege engineer]]

Strength, Toughness, Endurance, Willpower, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Pump operator]], [[Armor user]]

Strength, Toughness, Endurance, Analytical Ability, Focus, Spatial Sense: 
[[Siege operator]]

Agility, Analytical Ability, Creativity, Intuition: 
[[Alchemist]], not implemented

Strength, Agility, Analytical Ability, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Knapper]]

Analytical Ability, Creativity, Spatial Sense: 
[[Building designer]]

Analytical Ability, Creativity, Social Awareness: 
[[Organizer]]

Analytical Ability, Memory, Focus: 
[[Record keeper]], [[Student]]

Strength, Agility, Toughness, Willpower, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Axeman]], [[Fighter]], [[Hammerman]], [[Kicker]], [[Knife user]], [[Lasher]], [[Maceman]], [[Misc. object user]], [[Pikeman]], [[Shield user]], [[Spearman]], [[Striker]], [[Swordsman]], [[Thrower]]

Agility, Toughness, Endurance, Willpower, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Dodger]]

Agility, Creativity, Kinesthetic Sense, Linguistic Ability: 
[[Comedian]], unless otherwise prohibited by traits

Linguistic Ability, Empathy, Social Awareness: 
[[Conversationalist]], [[Flatterer]], [[Negotiator]], [[Persuader]], [[Consoler]], [[Leader]], [[Pacifier]], [[Teacher]], unless otherwise prohibited by traits

Agility, Kinesthetic Sense, Linguistic Ability: 
[[Intimidator]], unless otherwise prohibited by traits

Intuition, Empathy, Social Awareness: 
[[Judge of intent]]

Creativity, Linguistic Ability, Social Awareness: 
[[Liar]], unless otherwise prohibited by traits

Focus, Willpower, Patience: 
[[Concentration]], not implemented

Intuition, Focus, Spatial Sense: 
[[Observer]]

Analytical Ability, Creativity, Intuition: 
[[Military tactics]], not implemented

Agility, Toughness, Endurance, Focus, Willpower, Empathy: 
[[Druid]], not implemented

Analytical Ability, Focus, Spatial Sense: 
[[Tracker]], not implemented

Focus, Willpower: 
[[Discipline]], not implemented

Creativity, Intuition, Linguistic Ability: 
[[Poet]], [[Wordsmith]], [[Writer]], not implemented

Memory, Focus, Linguistic Ability: 
[[Reader]], not implemented

Linguistic Ability: 
[[Speaker]], not implemented

Agility, Spatial Sense, Kinesthetic Sense: 
[[Coordination]], not implemented

Implemented but unknown:
Shearer, Spinner, Presser, Beekeeper, Potter, Glazer, Wax worker

Notes:
This data assumes, without evidence, that the same skills use some of the attributes that they train (i.e. that high agility improves chance of dodging). Game version 31.18.

*Spatial Sense and Kinesthetic Sense are almost everywhere
*Nothing trains Disease Resistance, Recuperation, or Musicality
*Intimidation and Comedy, social skills, raise Agility. Dwarven comedy is slapstick/clowning, not stand-up.
*knowledge_acquisition (student) doesn't boost skill gain except for teacher-student relations in a barracks
*Choose high-volume labors that train useful attributes for milita day-jobs/bootcamp
*Fishing, Siege Operating, and Record Keeping are useful for marksdwarves as they train the Focus attribute
*Hunting (ambusher/sneak) has identical attribute gain to Crossbow and Archer skills

===Attributes trained by skills===
'''Strength''':

Miner, Carpenter, Wood cutter, Mason, Bone doctor, Brewer, Cheese maker, Dyer, Grower, Lye maker, Milker, Miller, Potash Maker, Soaper, Thresher, Wood burner, Fisherdwarf, Armorsmith, Furance operator, Metal crafter, Metalsmith, Weaponsmith, Glassmaker, Leatherworker, Strand extractor, Mechanic, Pump operator, Siege engineer, Siege operator, Swimmer, all general combat and close combat skills (but not Dodger)

'''Agility''':

Bowyer, Carpenter, Wood cutter, Engraver, Mason, Animal caretaker, Animal trainer, Trapper, Bone doctor, Crutch-walker, Surgeon, Suturer, Wound dresser, Brewer, Butcher, Cheese maker, Cook, Dyer, Grower, Herbalist, Milker, Miller, Tanner, Thresher, Fish cleaner, Fish dissector, Fisherdwarf, Armorsmith, Metal crafter, Metalsmith, Weaponsmith, Gem cutter, Gem setter, Bone carver, Clothier, Glassmaker, Leatherworker, Stone crafter, Weaver, Wood crafter, Strand extractor, Mechanic, Siege engineer, Alchemist, Swimmer, Comedian, Intimidator, Student, Druid, Coordination, all general combat, close combat, and ranged combat/hunting skills (but not Biter or Armor user)

'''Toughness''':

Miner, Animal trainer, Lye maker, Potash maker, Soaper, Wood burner, Furnace operator, Pump operator, Siege operator, Druid, all general combat and close combat skills

'''Endurance''':

Miner, Wood cutter, Mason, Animal trainer, Crutch-walker, Butcher, Cheese maker, Dyer, Grower, Lye maker, Milker, Miller, Potash maker, Soaper, Thresher, Wood burner, Fish cleaner, Armorsmith, Furnace operator, Metal crafter, Metalsmith, Weaponsmith, Glassmaker, Leatherworker, Strand extractor, Mechanic, Pump operator, Siege engineer, Siege operator, Swimmer, Armor user, Biter, Dodger, Druid

'''Disease Resistance''':

Nothing!

'''Recuperation''':

Nothing!

'''Analytical Ability''':

Animal caretaker, Trapper, Diagnostician, Cheese maker, Cook, Furnace operator, Gem cutter, Strand extractor, Mechanic, Siege engineer, Siege operator, Alchemist, Knapper, Appraiser, Building designer, Organizer, Record keeper, Student, Military tactics, Tracker

'''Memory''':

Animal caretaker, Diagnostician, Herbalist, Appraiser, Record keeper, Student, Reader

'''Creativity''':

Bowyer, Carpenter, Engraver, Mason, Trapper, Cheese maker, Cook, Armorsmith, Metal crafter, Metalsmith, Weaponsmith, Gem setter, Bone carver, Clothier, Glassmaker, Leatherworker, Stone crafter, Weaver, Wood crafter, Mechanic, Siege engineer, Alchemist, Building designer, Organizer, Comedian, Liar, Military tactics, Poet, Wordsmith, Writer

'''Intuition''':

Animal trainer, Diagnostician, Alchemist, Appraiser, Observer, Military tactics, Poet, Wordsmith, Writer

'''Focus''':

Bone doctor, Surgeon, Suturer, Fisherdwarf, Siege operator, Record keeper, Concentration, Observer, Student, Tracker, Discipline, Reader, ranged combat/hunting skills

'''Willpower''':

Miner, Wood cutter, Crutch-walker, Pump operator, Swimmer, Concentration, Discipline, all general combat and close combat skills

'''Patience''':

Animal trainer, Fisherdwarf, Concentration

'''Spatial Sense''':

Miner, Bowyer, Carpenter, Wood cutter, Engraver, Mason, Trapper, Bone doctor, Crutch-walker, Surgeon, Suturer, Wound dresser, Armorsmith, Metal crafter, Metalsmith, Weaponsmith, Gem cutter, Gem setter, Bone carver, Clothier, Glassmaker, Leatherworker, Stone crafter, Weaver, Wood crafter, Mechanic, Siege engineer, Siege operator, Swimmer, Knapper, Building designer, Observer, Tracker, Coordination, all general combat, close combat, and ranged combat/hunting skills (but not Armor user)

'''Kinesthetic Sense''':

Miner, Bowyer, Carpenter, Wood cutter, Engraver, Mason, Bone doctor, Crutch-walker, Surgeon, Suturer, Wound dresser, Brewer, Butcher, Cheese maker, Cook, Dyer, Grower, Herbalist, Lye maker, Milker, Miller, Potash Maker, Soaper, Tanner, Thresher, Wood burner, Fish cleaner, Fish dissector, Fisherdwarf, Armorsmith, Furnace operator, Metal crafter, Metalsmith, Weaponsmith, Gem cutter, Gem setter, Bone carver, Clothier, Glassmaker, Leatherworker, Stone crafter, Weaver, Wood crafter, Strand extractor, Pump operator, Swimmer, Knapper, Comedian, Intimidator, Coordination, all general combat, close combat, and ranged combat/hunting skills

'''Linguistic Ability''':

Comedian, Conversationalist, Flatterer, Intimidator, Liar, Negotiator, Persuader, Consoler, Leader, Pacifier, Teacher, Poet, Wordsmith, Writer, Reader, Speaker (personality traits may preclude access to some of these skills)

'''Musicality''':

Nothing!

'''Empathy''':

Animal caretaker, Animal trainer, Conversationalist, Flatterer, Judge of intent, Negotiator, Persuader, Consoler, Leader, Pacifier, Teacher (personality traits may preclude access to some of these skills)

'''Social Awareness''':

Organizer, Conversationalist, Flatterer, Judge of intent, Liar, Negotiator, Persuader, Consoler, Leader, Pacifier, Teacher (personality traits may preclude access to some of these skills)

== How Your Dwarf Gets Attributes ==

Each attribute is a number between 0 and 5000, but in dwarven terms anything above 2500 is extraordinary. In the default raws (/raw/objects/creature_standard.txt), dwarven attributes come in four levels.

Focus and Spatial Sense are referred to as "++", or two steps above default. Their range is defined as [700:1200:1400:1500:1600:1800:2500], which sets out six ranges: 700-1200, 1200-1400, etc. Dwarves have an equal chance of dropping into any of these ranges, and an equal probability again of getting any number in that range. So the bottom one-sixth of your dwarves will be really low, the top one-sixth really high, and the two-thirds in the middle huddled around average. This also means that the median and the mean are slightly different: the mean for ++ is 1516.66... while median is 1500.

Strength, Toughness, Analytical Ability, Creativity, Patience, and Memory are +, or one step above default. Their ranges are [450:950:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250], and their mean is 1266.66...

Endurance, Disease Resistance, Recuperation, Intuition, Willpower, Kinesthetic Sense, Linguistic Ability, Musicality, Empathy, and Social Awareness are AVG, or the default. Their ranges are not specified in the raws, but they are [200:700:900:1000:1100:1300:2000] for Physical and [200:800:900:1000:1100:1300:2000] for Mental.

Agility is "-", the only attribute to be below default. Its ranges are [150:600:800:900:1000:1100:1500], mean 862.5, median 900.

==Special Attributes==
Though they are not classified with the above attributes, creatures can have the following attribute(s):

{| {{prettytable}}
|- style="background:#ddd"
! Attribute
! Value Range
! Value Points
! Effect
|- style="border-top: 3px solid #aaa"
! rowspan=4 | Psychological Trauma
| 100
| Doesn't really care about anything anymore.
| rowspan=3 | This trait increases as dwarves witness death and suffer tragedy. The higher it gets, the harder it is for the dwarf to be affected by negative thoughts, so in several ways, this is a useful if tragic side effect of running a bloody fort. This trait often finds its way into experienced [[military|soldiers]], who might watch [[friend|friends]] and comrades die as often as they kill [[goblin|goblins]].
|-
| 67 - 99
| Is a hardened individual.
|-
| 33 - 66
| Is getting used to tragedy.
|-
| 0 - 32
|
| Nothing displayed. Dwarf is not yet traumatized.
|}

v0.34:Latch

2012-03-08T17:11:49Z

Nahno: Redirected page to DF2012:Memory (computing)

#REDIRECT [[DF2012:Memory (computing)]]

v0.34 Talk:Cleaning up macros

2012-03-05T20:12:17Z

Nahno: Is this a relevant article?

Medicine

2012-03-05T19:06:13Z

Nahno: Link to cv

#REDIRECT [[cv:Health care]]

v0.34 Talk:Building

2012-02-29T22:42:58Z

Nahno: Table of buildings, or list of menu functionality?

I'm going to do some large-scale editing of this page. I'm changing the structure of the article to match the {{k|b}}:Building screen. Non-alphabetical. Each building will be given a brief description with its name linked to the appropriate page. --[[User:Darchitect|Darchitect]] 20:46, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

:I am skeptical. I look forward to see your work. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 21:41, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

::I'm questioning whether this page needs a full list of the buildings, separate from the table at the bottom. What do you think, Nahno? Also, I had a look at the [[Designations Menu]], and it lists everything out in (relatively) brief form. For consistency's sake, I think I'll do it. --[[User:Darchitect|Darchitect]] 22:04, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

:::Hm. I don't think a table of buildings makes sense. Tables are good for comparing different things that work the same. That is generally not the case for Dwarf Fortress buildings. We have articles for specific buildings and building types. A table of buildings will at best duplicate that information.
:::The list in the article on the designations menu describes the functionality of the menu and its choices. That makes sense. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 22:42, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

v0.34 Talk:Building

2012-02-29T21:41:29Z

Nahno:

v0.34 Talk:Magic

2012-02-29T18:47:33Z

Nahno: Biased? Also, this article needs no changes relative to necromancy.

This page kind of sounds biased, and also, its more regarding necromancy, i suggest we move this to a diffrent page.--[[User:Miauw62|Miauw62]] 12:17, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

:Biased? What do you mean?
:Necromancy, as a kind of magic, should be mentioned here. As necromancy is the only kind of magic there is little else to write about here. Necromancy already has its own artice. I suggest no changes be made. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 18:47, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

v0.34:Magic

2012-02-29T18:37:07Z

Nahno: Link

{{quality|Tattered|20:09, 26 December 2010 (UTC)}}{{av}}

'''Magic''' does exist in dwarf fortress, being the main addition of DF2012. It is one of the many additions of the interaction system. The only way it shows up currently is in the form of [[necromancer]]s, but with luck, it shall soon appear in other places as well.

Necromancy is obtained in Adventurer mode by reading a tome of Life and Death, traditionally obtained via Necromancer Towers which show up as purple 'I's on the world map. Their towers are often packed tightly with undead and usually more than one Necromancer, whom will not hesitate to raise any fresh corpses you make, or even the limbs of their minions that you chop off. But of course, if you can overcome the danger, the power is then yours.

Talk:Main Page

2012-02-28T23:02:35Z

Nahno:

{{Archive|
# [[Talk:Main Page/archive1|Archive 1]]
# [[Talk:Main Page/archive2|Archive 2]]
}}

==The Stop Censorship Banner==

Can we get this off of the wiki? This place isn't for political advocacy. --[[User:Bouchart|Bouchart]] 23:37, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
: No. If this bill passes, I will be unable to host the wiki due to the legal issues involved. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 00:44, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
:: The bills have been essentially struck down. There's a chance they'll return, but I think the banner doesn't need to be up anymore.--[[Special:Contributions/173.167.163.13|173.167.163.13]] 18:18, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
:::SOPA/PIPA have been struck down. ACTA, however, is far from dead. --[[Special:Contributions/78.144.215.247|78.144.215.247]] 20:40, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

== New version ==

The main page recognises the new version, but not the new release date. [[Special:Contributions/188.95.42.176|188.95.42.176]] 14:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
:That's because the release date comes from a different template, which nobody updated. Given that this version is '''not''' save-compatible with 0.31.xx, it's very likely that a new namespace will be created to cover it, so it might be good to wait on updating existing pages. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 14:11, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
::A few questions, then:
::*Is the DF2010 namespace going to be changed to df31 or similar, based on the version number instead of our placeholder title?
::*Will the new namespace be DF2012, df34, or something else?
::*{{tl|ArticleVersion}} and [[Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Current]] will need to be updated, yes?
::Yay new version! --[[User:Timrem|Timrem]] 20:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
:::On each of those questions, I'm not sure - I've contacted the admins, but I haven't yet gotten a response. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 20:48, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

== Typo ==

"French forum ,Canard PC Thread (Fr)" comma needs to be moved to the left

==Editing Guide==

I'd like to suggest that a new page with editing tips be created and linked to the main page. I think expanding on [[User_talk:Nyotor_Lizardhammers|this]] would be great. I especially would be interested in more information on how to do redirects, since I've done some incorrectly in the past (thanks for fixing them, Quietust!). I think it would be an excellent resource for those who haven't edited any other wikis before (like me) and for people who aren't familiar with the particular quirks of this wiki. Hopefully, this would reduce the number of red links we have the next time the namespace changes. --[[User:Cali|Cali]] 09:49, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

:I very much agree. I signed up recently to help out, and, as a new wiki person, I couldn't find a consolidated source of information about editing standards. The "Centralized discussion" page needs the aforementioned links. Especially the link to the [[http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Dwarf_Fortress_Wiki:Community_Portal#We_are_doing_this.21_Let_us_do_it_right.]]Alphabet Constitution. [[User:Darchitect|Darchitect]] 15:02, 27 February 2012 (UTC)Darchitect
::Yes, the "Alphabet Constitution" should be easier to find, and is included in the link I provided above. I'm glad I'm not the only who thinks this would be a useful idea. --[[User:Cali|Cali]] 00:38, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

== Gameplay Elements: Buildings vs. Workshops ==

Is there some reason why there are two separate pages for the same thing? And why does the Workshop page have this "Tier" categorization implemented? It doesn't seem to be necessary. I think the two should should be merged, and only contain a brief overview of what each workshop does, with a link to the workshop page.[[User:Darchitect|Darchitect]] 15:11, 27 February 2012 (UTC)Darchitect

:Yes. Workshops are buildings, but not all buildings are workshops.
:The tier system is an attempt at systematizing the workshops relative to their input and output. As it is unnecessary, confusing, and not directly representative of the game, it should be removed. No article should list workshops anyway, as we have <nowiki>{{workshops}}</nowiki> for that.
:I suggest that we make [[DF2012:Workshop]] a short general article that refers the user on to the specific workshop articles. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 23:02, 28 February 2012 (UTC)-

v0.34:Armor

2012-02-28T22:38:08Z

Nahno:

{{quality|Fine|14:29, 21 November 2010 (UTC)}}{{av}}

Armor is the protective equipment used to reduce/deflect damage during [[combat]]. It comes in several pieces, each one protecting a certain area. The purpose of each piece is pretty much self-explanatory. Note that breastplates only protect upper/lower torso areas, while mail shirts also cover the upper arms. Ears, nose, lips and teeth are exposed, even in full armor, whilst robes and capes tend to cover the throat.

'''The actual effectiveness of a given piece of armor depends on the weapon(s) being used against it.'''

Keeping in mind the armored enemies you are likely to meet, it is advisable to equip your military dwarves with at least iron armor. Testing in the arena shows that armored dwarves have a huge advantage over the unarmored ones, usually taking no casualties while making short work of their enemies. (But you shouldn't need this wiki to figure that out.)

== Armor Skill ==

It is unclear how the [[armor user]] skill affects combat, since the movement speed and armor penetration look the same for legendary armor users and untrained users, yet when testing in the arena, a novice armor user is injured extremely frequently compared a grand master armor user.

== Quality Level ==
Armor gets a deflection bonus based on quality level, but anything less than masterful gets no bonus. See [[Quality]] for more information.

{{v0.31:Item quality/Table}}

== Materials ==

''(see also: [[Metal#Weapon_.26_Armor_Quality|Metal: Armor Quality]])''

'''Armor material effectiveness changed recently. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53571.0 Simulation testing] is still ongoing, so these results should be considered merely Fine quality, not Masterwork.'''

Armor may be constructed from a wide variety of material types.

{|border="1" cellpadding="5" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left"
! Material !! Workshop !! Labor !! Notes
|-
| [[Metal]] || [[Metalsmith's forge]] || [[Armorsmith|Armoring]] || Best choice; see notes below
|-
| [[Bone]] || [[Craftsdwarf's workshop]] || [[Bone carver|Bone carving]] || Leggings, greaves, gauntlets and helms only
|-
| [[Leather]] || [[Leather works]] || [[Leatherworking]] ||
|-
| [[Cloth]] || [[Clothier's shop]] || [[Clothier|Clothesmaking]] || Limited protection
|-
| [[Wood]] || [[Carpenter's workshop]] || [[Carpentry]] || Shield/buckler only (except [[Elf|Elves]])
|}

It should be noted that armor material is extremely important now. For example, fully iron-armored dwarves with iron short swords stand no chance against steel-equipped ones. A weapon has difficulty piercing armor of the same material (e.g. steel short swords vs. steel armor). However, blunt weapons (such as maces or war hammers) have a much easier time damaging individuals through armor. Testing has shown that even a copper mace is a threat to a dwarf in a steel chain shirt! Breastplates and greaves, being rigid protection, are required to properly protect against blunt weapons.

{|border="1" cellpadding="5" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:center"
! colspan=5|Metal armor quality
|-
! Poor !! Fair !! Good !! Excellent !! Best
|-
| Copper || Iron || Bronze || Steel || Adamantine
|}

The number of bars needed to make a piece of metal armor is equal to the material size divided by 3.

== Layers ==

The layers are, in order from inner to outer:
*Under
*Over
*Armor
*Cover

==Types of Protection==

Each garment fits a specific layer on a given body part. It may additionally cover adjoining body parts up to a certain number of 'steps' distant from the body, depending on the garment. Dwarves do not seem to make a distinction between genders when selecting clothing to wear, so don't be startled when you see males running around in dresses.

There is no real difference between armor and clothing, except materials and that only non-clothing garments increase the [[armor user]] skill.

Note that the availability of specific articles of clothing varies from civilization to civilization. So, one civilization may not be able to make vests, another may not be able to make togas, still another may not be able to make dresses and cloaks. By the way, cloaks protect the eyes somewhat, according to combat logs. Dresses and Robes may offer superior protection as well.

Note that Dwarves can potentially manufacture items listed in their raws in the file \raw\objects\entity_default.txt, while other items exist which can never be made by un-modded dwarves, such as a head scarf or face veil. As well, some clothing articles may not be crafted in fortresses of a given [[civilization]] - only those items marked as 'common' for that civilization may be crafted.

===Headgear===
{| style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;" class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#F2F2F2;text-align:center;"
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Clothing Type
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor Level*
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Material Size
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Materials
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Size]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Permit]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Layer
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Coverage %
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cap
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|+
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L,M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50%

|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Helm[S]
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1+
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|L,B,S,M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|30
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Hood
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cover
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Mask†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50%
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Turban†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50%
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Head Veil†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50%
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Face Veil†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50%
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Headscarf†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50%
|}

===Upper Body===
{| style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;" class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#F2F2F2;text-align:center;"
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Clothing Type
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor Level*
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Material Size
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Materials
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Size]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Permit]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Layer
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Coverage %
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Coverage|UBSTEP]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Coverage|LBSTEP]]
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Dress
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|5
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Shirt
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|3
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Tunic
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|3
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Toga
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|5
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|30
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Vest
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Robe
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|6
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Coat
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|5
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Leather Armor[S]
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|6
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Mail Shirt
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|6
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Breastplate[S]
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|3
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|9
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cloak
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|5
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|150
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cover
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cape†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|5
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|300
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cover
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|}
[[Quiver]] and [[Backpack]] are also worn on upper body, counting towards layer permit size.

===Hands===
{| style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;" class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#F2F2F2;text-align:center;"
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Clothing Type
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor Level*
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Material Size
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Materials
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Size]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Permit]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Layer
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Coverage %
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Coverage|UPSTEP]]
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Gloves
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Gauntlets[S]
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|B,S,M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Mittens
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cover
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|150%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|}

===Lower Body===
{| style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;" class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#F2F2F2;text-align:center;"
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Clothing Type
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor Level*
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Material Size
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Materials
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Size]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Permit]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Layer
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Coverage %
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Coverage|LBSTEP]]
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Trousers
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|4
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|30
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Leggings[S]
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1+
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|5
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|L,B,S,M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|30
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Greaves[S]
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|3
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|6
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|B,M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|30
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Loincloths†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|30
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Thongs†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|30
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|25%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Skirts (Short)†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Skirts†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Skirts (Long)†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Braies
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|3
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|30
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|}

===Footwear===
{| style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;" class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#F2F2F2;text-align:center;"
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Clothing Type
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor Level*
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Material Size
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Materials
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Size]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Permit]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Layer
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Coverage %
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Coverage|UPSTEP]]
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Socks
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Sandals†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|25
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Shoes
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|C,L
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Over
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Low Boots
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|L,M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|25
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|High Boots
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1+
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|L,M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|25
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Chausses (sockmail)†
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|3
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|L,M
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|10
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Under
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|100%
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|MAX
|}

===Shield===
{| style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;" class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#F2F2F2;text-align:center;"
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Clothing Type
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Armor Level*
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Material Size
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Materials
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Size]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|Permit]]
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Layer
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Coverage %
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|[[Armor#Coverage|UPSTEP]]
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Buckler
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|L,M,W
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|NA
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|NA
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|NA
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|1
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Shield
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|4
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|L,M,W
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|NA
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|NA
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|NA
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|2
|}

* * {{=}} Items without an armor rating are considered clothing. Armor levels 1-3 were referred to as 'leather', 'chain' or 'plate' in earlier versions.
* + {{=}} The armor level of an item with a "+" can be increased by one if made from metal.
* † {{=}} This article cannot be crafted by dwarves (except for [[artifact]]s), but may be purchased in trade.
* [S] {{=}} shaped item, max one [S] per body slot (e.g. plate mail cannot be worn with leather armor, but can be worn with chain mail, and greaves and leggings cannot be combined).
* Materials can be Cloth, Leather, Bone, Shell, Metal, or Wood.

==Equipping Clothing==

Items in Dwarf Fortress must be equipped in a specific order. A dwarf must equip a layer type of Under before he equips a layer of type Over, for example. The complete order goes: Under, Armor, Over, Cover. It is common among civilians to see a dwarf equip pants with no undergarments due to this restriction, even when an undergarment is available. This is typically not an issue with soldiers, however.

There is no restriction on wearing multiple items of the same type ''(Unless the item is shaped [S])''. You can, for example, wear 3 cloaks without penalty.

===Process for equipping a new piece of clothing===

The following variables will be used in the logic below:
:'''Current Item''' refers to the specific item being equipped.
:'''Total Size''' refers to the [[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|size]] of all items equipped on that body part, excluding the item to be equipped (while including those on a different [[Armor#Size, Permit, and layering armor|layer]]).
:'''Permit''' refers to the maximum allowable size of items equipped on the same or lower level as the item to be equipped.

In order to equip a new item, the dwarf (or other creature) ...
:*will determine if he is eligible to wear the item in question (Perhaps the body part is missing/severed).
:*must start with the lowest layer first, continuing to the next layer when no other items of that layer need to be equipped
:*checks if the item is shaped [S], and will only equip the item if no other shaped items are equipped '''on that body part'''.
:*will equip items with lowest permit level first. If two items share the same permit value, the highest size item will be equipped first{{verify}}.
:*then checks if his total size (excluding the current item) is less than the current item's permit.
:*If all above logic is true, the dwarf will equip the item.

===Equipment process example===

Each item is listed in order of being equipped, the primary focus of this example is that the total size must be equal to, or less than the permit size of the item being equipped. Like above, the total size ''excludes the size of the item being equipped''.

{| style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;" class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#F2F2F2;text-align:center;"

!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Item Type
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Size
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Permit
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Total Size*
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Breastplate [S]
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|0
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Mail Shirt
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|20
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Mail Shirt
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|35
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Mail Shirt
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|50
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;color:#F00;"|Mail Shirt
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;color:#F00;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;color:#F00;"|50
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;color:#F00;"|65
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cloak
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|150
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|65
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cloak
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|150
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|80
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cloak
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|150
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|95
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cloak
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|150
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|110
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cloak
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|150
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|125
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|Cloak
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|150
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"|140
|-

|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;color:#F00;"|Cloak
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;color:#F00;"|15
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;color:#F00;"|150
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;color:#F00;"|155
|}

* * = Total Size include the size of all equipped items, but does not include the item being equipped
*Red Text = This item cannot be equipped, because the total size is larger than the item's permitted size.

==Size, Permit, and layering armor==

The '''Size''' and '''Permit''' values govern how much clothing or armor can be worn.

Under the old system the lowest "permit" value for any given body part is used: for instance, if a dwarf is wearing a dress (permit value: 50) and a total of 50 or more ''size'' worth of clothing on the upper body, it cannot put any more clothing on the upper body. (This explains why the old [[dungeon master]]s tend to wear several cloaks: they arrive at the fortress wearing only a cloak on the upper body (permit 150), and can put on a total of 10 of them, at 15 size each.)

Unfortunately, [LAYER:COVER] items are the only items playing by the old rules. This much is certain from testing in arena mode.

:*If the item to be add is a [LAYER:COVER] item, add the total item size on the body part, if this sum is '''less than or equal to''' the item's permit value then evaluate as true.
:*If a [LAYER:ARMOR] item is present or to be added and if the sum of the non [LAYER:COVER] items would be '''less than''' the sum of the [LAYER:ARMOR] size+permit values then evaluate as true.
:*If one or more items of the same non-[LAYER:COVER] layer as the one being added are present and if the sum of their size values is '''less than''' the smallest permit value then evaluate as true.
:*If the sum of the size values for all items on the body part are '''less than or equal to''' the permit value of the item about to be added then evaluate as true.

The item is allowed if all rules either evaluate to true or are not applicable. This is in addition to the rule allowing only one shaped item on a given body part at a time.

Example: A helm (30 size,20 permit) means you can put on a mask (20,10) or two caps (10,20), but only two head veils (10,100). Any of these configurations can fit 6 additional hoods if desired.

Example: Wearing a cap (10,15) allows only one face veil (10,100), because they are both [LAYER:UNDER], but an additional combined total of up to 9 head veils and hoods is possible.

Note that the armor value of socks and other clothing is unknown under the new system - however, wearing them under "armor" such as boots is recommended for an adventurer.

'''[[Adventurer mode]]''' follows the arena rules so it is possible to have three chain mail shirts (15,50), a breastplate (20,50), and 25 capes (10,300) on ones upper body plus two caps(or one mask), a helm, and six hoods on ones head. Confirmation is needed to see if [[fortress mode]] follows the old rules or the new arena rules. (I tested this and found that Urist McNopants follows a totally different set of rules than either of these. His rules tell him to forget both caps all of the hoods both socks and his trousers, and each sucessive time he gets dressed he feels the need to do it differently.)

===Some more workaround about Size, Permit and Layering===

* You can only have one shaped armor piece (marked with '''[S]''') per body part.
* The total size of non-cover items must be ''lower'' than any armour piece's permit + size total.
* The total size of all items of any layer on any body part must be lower than the lowest permit value (excluding that item).
* The total size of all items on any body part must be lower than the size + permit value of any cover item.
* All items are put on in order of their layer.

As an example, lets say you want to kit out your soldiers upper body. Try walking through this in arena mode to get a feel for it.

You start off with a [[steel]] breastplate. This has a size of '''20''' and a permit of '''50'''. It is also '''shaped''', so you can't add any other shaped items; no more breastplates and no [[leather]] armor.

Now you want to add mail shirts. Each one has a permit of '''50''' and a size of '''15'''. You can add three of these if you want. It checks the size against each of the armour pieces permit + size (or rather, the permit value ignoring that items size in the calculation), like so;
* Against each of the mail shirts, you have '''2 x 15 = 30''' total size in mail shirts, '''+ 20''' from the breastplate, matching the '''50''' permit.
* Against the breastplate you have '''3 x 15 = 45 < 50''', fine.
Now if you add a fourth mail shirt these test will fail. However, because of the layering order (mail shirts being armour layer 2, the breastplate armour layer 3) the breastplate is added after the shirts. This results in the breastplate being dropped.

Because this reaches the '''50''' permit limit for the mail shirts, you can't add more non-cover items without substituting them for existing items. If you want a robe (size '''20'''), for example, you need to remove two of the mail shirts to clear a total size of '''30''', which then lets you add an extra size '''10''' shirt, vest or whatever.

However, you can add cover layer items. In this case, cloaks. Each cloak has a size of '''15''' and a permit of '''150'''. Taking into account the '''50''' size already on the upper body, we can add '''100''' size worth of cloaks. This lets us add '''6''' ('''x 15 = 90''') cloaks over the existing armour.

Going through like this for the rest of the body (most of it is simpler) gives you a final setup of;

'''Head''' 
2 x caps 
1 x helm 
6 x hood

'''Upper Body''' 
1 x breastplate 
3 x mail shirts 
6 x cloaks

'''Upper Body (cheap)''' 
6 x dress 
3 x robe 
3 x cloak 

'''Lower Body''' 
3 x long skirts 
1 x greaves

'''Lower Body (no foreign items)''' 
2 x trousers 
1 x greaves

'''Lower Body (cheap)''' 
2 x trousers 
1 x leggings

'''Hands''' 
1 x pairs of gauntlets 
1 x pairs of mittens

'''Hands (cheap)''' 
2 x pairs of gloves 
1 x pairs of mittens

'''Feet''' 
1 x pairs of chausses 
1 x pairs of high boots

'''Feet (no foreign items)''' 
1 x pairs of socks 
1 x pairs of high boots

'''Feet (cheap)''' 
1 x pairs of socks 
1 x pairs of shoes

Of course, so long as the bugs are still around, we are likely to see dwarves wearing more than this or refusing to put parts on because they found their boots before their socks.

''Note: "Cheap" implies the set can be made from secondary materials such as bone and cloth with item types not overlapping with the other, more combat oriented set which use metal, leather and cloth (for socks). As a rule of thumb, combat sets provide better protection but cheap sets are lighter and easier to mass produce.''

==Coverage==

There are three tags that govern how far coverage reaches.

:'''[UBSTEP]'''
This token, when applied to torso armor, controls how far 'up' the body an item of armor reaches. Basically you can think of it as going out in stages along the body. It doesn't cover legs. It doesn't cover body parts with certain tags (notably [HEAD], [GRASP] and [STANCE], or the head). It can cover the children of such body parts (such as parts of the face) if it extends beyond them. The upper body and lower body are counted as 0 steps away, and so both always covered.

Breastplates have a default of 0, meaning they only cover the torso. 
Mail shirts have [UBSTEP:1], so cover the upper arms and throat.

A number of clothing items have [UBSTEP:MAX]. What exactly this covers depends on a certain bug, but unless you are making adamantine robes you probably won't get that much extra protection this way anyway. This would mean, for example, they would cover the upper arm, lower arm, skip the hand, then cover the fingers. The same goes for facial features (and, oddly, the throat) after skipping the head and the toes after skipping the entire legs and feet. 
The clothes with these properties seem to be robes, cloaks, coats, shirts and dresses. However, of these only robes and dresses also have [LBSTEP:MAX] (see below) and so I'm not sure if anything else would actually cover toes or not. Needs additional testing.

Testing in arena: in three 15x15 dwarves battles where both sides was equiped with iron battle axes and iron full armor and one of the teams was enforced with leather robes, team with robes was a victorious (2-3 survivors).

:'''[LBSTEP]'''
This token, when applied to torso armor or pants, controls how much of the legs an item covers. Legs in this case are defined as [LIMB] body parts that end in a [STANCE] body part (eg, foot). Arms are [LIMB]s, but end in a [GRASP] hand instead. Because the upper and lower body are effectively zero steps from each other, torso armor can extend this way easily.

Both greaves and leggings have [LBSTEP:MAX] and so cover the entire leg to the best of their ability. 
Mail shirts have [LBSTEP:1] and so can protect the upper legs. A range of other clothes (including cloaks) and leather armor also have this.
As mentioned above, robes and dresses have [LBSTEP:MAX] and so cover the entire legs. These also have [UBSTEP:MAX] and so cover the entire body. Although not the strongest armor, a leather (or maybe adamantine?) robe or dress gives you maximum coverage.

:'''[UPSTEP]'''
This token, when applied to gloves or shoes, determines how far up the limb the armor protects. As with [LBSTEP], this doesn't cover anything but the [LIMB] tag body parts, but it does cover arms as well as legs.

Low boots literally only cover the foot. 
High boots have [UPSTEP:1], so cover the lower leg. If you consider the upper legs can covered by [LBSTEP] from above, you can effectively have an entire layer of chain armor on the legs from high boots and a mail shirt even before adding leg armor. This is why I go with greaves for a plate layer.
Gauntlets have [UPSTEP:1], so cover the lower arms. Because there is no other protection for arms as there is for legs, you need gauntlets and mail shirts to protect your arms fully.
Chausses are a very rare sock substitute, but they are the only items to have [UPSTEP:MAX] and so offer full leg coverage while being exactly the same size as regular socks. The perfect undergarment.

The whole method is pretty nifty with just two problems. 
* Faces can't be covered by head armor.
* Throats cannot be protected by metal armor (except adamantine cloth).

In previous versions toes and fingers were not protected by armor. However as of 31.17 both are now protected by the relevant armor type, e.g gauntlets cover fingers and boots cover toes.

== Other Restrictions ==

In fortress mode, "under" layers cannot be put on over "over" layers, so, for instance, a dwarf cannot put on socks unless it first removes its shoes. They can wear over layers without putting an under layer on first, which explains their fondness for "going commando" (trousers without loincloth). Dwarves will only put on the specific armor they are told to put on -- unless they are not told what to wear.

Also, if you do not tell dwarves to replace clothing with a uniform, they will wear it alongside the uniform and possibly come into conflict with layering and sizes/permits, making them unable to wear assigned items.

In adventurer mode, you have direct control over what armor you put on, and are only limited by permit and "one only" (shaped) restrictions. This means you can wear three suits of chain mail (total size 45) plus another suit of chain or plate on top of them. On top of this, you can add six cloaks.

== Bugs ==

In adventurer mode, putting a pair of socks (or any under-layer foot wear) on before putting on a pair of boots (or any over-layer foot wear) will keep you from putting on the last boot. So the order sock, sock, boot, boot doesn't work, but changing the order to sock, boot, sock, boot does. This is a very minor bug.

Another bug report suggests that in fortress mode items may be equipped in the order that they are produced, instead of in the order that they are listed on the dwarf's equipment selection screen.{{bug|4932}}

v0.34:Industry

2012-02-28T22:12:36Z

Nahno: Undo revision 165179 by King Mir (talk). That is not an industry as such.

{{quality|Fine|20:11, 26 December 2010 (UTC)}}{{av}}

All dwarves love money, and a complete industry in all its glory is the easiest way to make lots and lots of money.

Traditionally industries have been broken into primary (resource extraction), secondary (the refining and reprocessing of these resources into goods), and tertiary (further improvement of these goods).

Industries in Dwarf Fortress can be broken into the following categories. These categories are based on [http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/sectorseconomy.htm Economy Sectors]. Note that the end products of one industry are often the inputs to another, and some industries can fit into more than one category.
===Primary Industries===
*[[Wood industry]]: Growing and cutting wood to produce items including furniture and fuel.
*[[Stone industry]]: Exploration and mining stone to produce buildings and items.
*[[Food]] industry: The production of food and alcohol to keep dwarves alive and happy, as well as textiles.
*[[Fuel industry]]: The production of fuel to support the metal, glass and ceramics industries.
*[[Fishing industry]]: Fish are harvested and processed into food and shells.
*[[Meat industry]]: Animals are processed into meat, leather, bones, teeth and horns.
*[[Metal industry]]: Raw ore is refined into metal bars, which may be used for weapons, armor, furniture, and crafts.
*[[Beekeeping industry]]: Bees are collected into hives, which produce honeycomb and royal jelly.
*[[Poultry industry]]: Raising egg-laying animals primarily to collect and consume the eggs. Excess animals can be used in the meat industry as a byproduct.

===Secondary Industries===
*[[Armor]] industry: Metal, wood, leather, and bone are used to produce armor to keep your dwarves safe.
*[[Weapon]] industry: Metal, wood, stone, and bone are used to produce weapons to keep the goblins away.
*[[Finished goods]] industry: Almost all materials can be used to produce crafts for export.
*[[Furniture industry]]: Using stone, wood, and metal to produce furniture primarily for installation in your outpost.
*[[Soap]] industry: The production of soap to be used in healthcare.
*[[Glass industry]]: Sand is used to create low quality gems, plus an assortment of other goods.
*[[Ceramic industry]]: Clay is used to create moderate quality containers, bricks, and crafts.

===Tertiary Industries===
*[[Gem industry]]: Raw gems are cut, some into finished goods, while most are then used to decorate ("encrust") a multitude of items.
*[[Textile industry]]: Plant fiber, spider silk, and wool/hair thread are woven into cloth to produce clothing, rope, bags, and bandages, and to decorate crafts.
*[[Healthcare]] Industry: Patching up your inevitably-wounded dwarves.

{{Category|Industry}}

v0.31:Exploratory mining

2010-10-25T12:38:44Z

Nahno: /* Ladder Rows */ 1 in 3

Once you've had enough {{L|Losing|fun}} to have a basic fortress working, it becomes necessary to dig down in search of ores, gems, water, etc. Exploratory mining attempts to dig out as little as possible in order to see as much as is possible, using clever digging patterns.

{{av}}{{Quality|Exceptional}}

== Goals ==
Minerals are quite common (as of v0.31.01), reducing the need for extensive exploratory mining to find raw materials. Instead, the goal of most exploratory mining will be finding special features like {{L|Caverns}} and {{L|Magma}}.
One might want to dig down to the caverns to find drinkable water, if the surface is all saltwater or winter-frozen ponds.

== Dangers ==
Potential dangers include:
*hostile creatures which inhabit underground areas
*large pools of liquids ({{L|Water}}, {{L|Magma}})
*Dehydration - dwarves are quite task oriented and may forget to break for a drink! (Consider giving miners waterskins)
*{{L|Hidden Fun Stuff|Fun}}

==Strategies==
All of the interesting stuff is below you when you start - digging straight down may be the fastest (though not the safest) way to find points of interest.

Those interested in *safely* exploring the depths may wish to create a level every so often where the stairway is broken so you can create barriers (like doors or lever-controlled floodgates) or garrison military squads to deal with any discovered hostiles.

== Exploratory Patterns ==

Patterns are represented by a unit tile. This unit tile is repeated throughout the area intended for excavation to create the desired pattern. Each pattern is analyzed with the above factors in mind.

Key:
. = Mined (floor)
x = Mined (shaft)
░ = Visible, not mined (wall)
▓ = Not mined, not visible

=== Hollow ===
All tiles are excavated.

* ''Labor'': 100% of the tiles are excavated.
* ''Target'': Any size. If it exists in the layer, it will be found.
* ''Visibility'': '''100%''' of the tiles are visible, obviously.
* ''Reusability'': Approaches zero, except for mass storage. Any design other than a large hall requires reconstruction.
* ''Bottom line'': Easy to designate, but miners tend to be a bit chaotic in their approach to the task. Hollowing wastes labor like there's no tomorrow, but integrates extraction into the exploratory mining process. Use only if you have a lot of labor to spare, or need huge amounts of stone and don't mind the reconstruction required to make the hollow area habitable.

=== Rows ===
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* ''Labor'': 1 per every 3 tiles (~33%) of the tiles are excavated.
* ''Target'': Any size. Clusters as small as a single tile are revealed.
* ''Visibility'': '''100%'''.
* ''Reusability'': Very low. The long corridors aren't very useful, and can only be expanded to long, wide corridors.
* ''Bottom line'': Easy to designate, and a single miner will focus on one tunnel to the end or they take a {{L|break}}. This method achieves the same visibility as hollowing out, but using a mere third of the labor. Ideal for hunting single-tile gems. As an added bonus, it is more efficient than a 3×3 design.

Larger "tunnel" patterns are suggested to be dug in multiples of "3" to allow for later complete revealing with minimum effort.

=== Ladder Rows ===
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* ''Labor'': 33% of the tiles are excavated (1 in 3).
* ''Target'': Any size. Clusters as small as a single tile are revealed.
* ''Visibility'': '''100%'''.
* ''Reusability'': Moderate. Alternating corridors can be mined out to create 5 tile wide rooms of any length... if the extra doors isn't a concern.
* ''Bottom line'': A little more tedious to designate, but the increased re-usability and efficiency make this an attractive alternative.

=== Diagonal every 5 ===
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* ''Labor'': 20% of the tiles are excavated (1 per 5).
* ''Target'': Any size. Clusters as small as a single tile are revealed.
* ''Visibility'': '''100%'''.
* ''Reusability'': With a bit of imagination you can build nice 3x3 rooms
* ''Bottom line'': This method is moderately efficient among those with 100% visibility. This one doesn't use other levels to move from one spot to another but is annoying to designate.

A variation would put diagonals every 10 or 20, laying the groundwork to fill them in later for higher visibility if desired.

=== Mine shafts, grid of every 3 tiles ===

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* ''Labor'': 11.1% of the tiles are excavated (1/9).
* ''Target'': Any size. Clusters as small as a single tile are revealed.
* ''Visibility'': '''100%'''.
* ''Reusability'': It's easy to make into square rooms of various sizes, the stairways can be removed and used as doorways, or just carved out as part of the rooms.
* ''Bottom line'': You'll need to clear part of one layer to get the shafts started up or down (use one of the other methods to cover the area), but for one shaft at a time this method is, tile for tile, the most efficient for those with 100% visibility, and has a great reuse value. In practice, however, if you have more than one shaft being dug at one time, up/down-mining can cause miners to jump around between shafts, wasting time.

:It takes a lot of keypressing to designate, although you can save some effort by designating every third row (as in the rows method, except with stairways) and then removing the designations ({{k|d}}-{{k|x}}) on all but every third column. Alternately, [[User:StrawberryBunny/Mineshaft.ahk|here]] is a ahk script to save your fingers.

''For a discussion on optimizing travel times through mineshafts, see {{L|Mineshaft stitching}}.''

=== Diagonal ramps ===

The pattern as shown is 1 up-ramp every 7 tiles vertically, or 1/14 horizontally, though this could be turned 90 degrees. The downramps are shown, but are only designated on the next level down. (Be ''sure'' you know how {{L|ramp}}s work before trying this one!)

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* ''Labor'': 7.1% of the tiles are excavated (1/14).
* ''Target'': Any size. Clusters as small as a single tile are revealed.
* ''Visibility'': '''100%'''.
* ''Reusability'': Moderate. 3x3 spaces cannot be created until at least one up-ramp is removed or a down-ramp floored over. {{L|Ramp}}s are less convenient than stairs for many purposes (for example, digging out the wrong tiles around a ramp can make it unusable).
* ''Bottom line'': In some ways the most efficient method of all, but difficult to designate and somewhat inconvenient (especially around the edges of the map). Awkward to stitch together.

=== Pinwheel Shafts===

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* ''Labor'': In this example about 17.3% of the tiles are being excavated.
* ''Target'': All except single-tile targets are guaranteed to be found, and those will only rarely be missed.
* ''Visibility'': '''96.6%'''.
* ''Reusability'': Workshops can be easily fitted into the unmined 3x3 areas.
* ''Bottom line'': Very similar to Mine Shafts, but you can replace the up/down stairways with alternating up stairs and down stairs on different levels, eliminating the chance that one of your dwarves will slip and fall all the way down the shaft to their deaths.

=== 7×7 blocks ===
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* ''Labor'': 15/64 (~23%) of the tiles are excavated.
* ''Target'': Veins and up, as the large 5X5 space left in each unit tile can easily conceal a small cluster. Small clusters will be found perhaps half the time.
* ''Visibility'': 39/64 (~61%) of the tiles are visible.
* ''Reusability'': Medium. The 7×7 blocks can easily be converted into 5×5 rooms, suitable for individual rooms, storage or workshops. Optionally, it can be converted into a grid of connected 7×7 rooms, if you center each room on a crossroad; or similarly into a grid of 3x3 rooms, good for workshops, etc. Easily converted into a more thorough 3×3 block patten by digging through the large blocks.
* ''Bottom line'': This is a low-labor method great for vein-hunting. The low labor cost puts you in a position to invest more and get better coverage if desired.

If you think you may wish to later use the "rows" method (above) for 100% visibility, this could be based on a spacing of 6, 9, or 12. Wider spacing starts to risk missing even veins.

=== 15×15 blocks ===
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* ''Labor'': 31/256 (~12%) of the tiles are excavated.
* ''Target'': Large clusters are guaranteed, and unless you have particularly bad luck you should also find all veins, but there is no guarantee. Veins would only rarely be hidden in the large 13×13 space left. The large 13×13 space left in each unit tile can easily conceal quite a lot.
* ''Visibility'': 87/256 (34%) of the tiles are visible.
* ''Reusability'': High. A 15×15 block of solid rock is extremely versatile when it comes to interior design. It's easily converted into a 7×7 block design, which may be further converted into a 3×3 block design.
* ''Bottom line'': This method is preferable when you are low on labor. It can easily accommodate parts of your fort, or serve as the precursor for a more thorough search. A 12×12 or 18×18 version are also valid options, with obvious dis/advantages.

=== Mine Shafts on a 6-, 9-, 12-, or 15-grid ===

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* ''Labor'': from under 3% (1/36) for the 6-grid to less than 0.5% for the 15 grid (1/225).
* ''Target'': Large clusters and up (as above) and underground features.
* ''Visibility'': ''extremely'' low (4%).
* ''Reusability'': High. Any area often needs a set of stairs (or more than one) leading up/down, and these would be the start of them.
* ''Bottom line'': This method should be used when you are looking for {{L|caverns}}, or getting a feel for the various rock layers, or just hoping to get lucky with little effort. Grids larger than 15 may start to miss even large features such as large clusters, but can be used for identifying stone layers, and can always be filled back in later with shafts on a tighter grid.

With any grid pattern, a (much) wider version could be used to start and to locate specific stone layers/areas, and then filled in later in a tighter pattern where you want if you're not lucky the first pass. If you plan to use the 3-grid pattern (for a 100% tile reveal) later, create your grid with intervals that are a multiple of "3". If you are only looking for veins, features or just don't care, then do as you will and play it by ear later.

{{Category|Guides}}

v0.31:Security design

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Nahno: Undo revision 130038 by Nahno (Talk) It blends with the next section. Can't fix it.

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:''This page is one of several inter-related articles on the broader topic of defending your fortress and your dwarves. '''Security design''' focuses on how to turn the physical layout and architecture of a fort into a defensible whole. For a general overview of the threats that will challenge your fortress and things to consider when preparing a standard defence, see the '''{{l|defense guide}}'''. For complex traps that are not a minor/optional part of a larger defensive plan (but might be adapted or plugged into one), see '''{{l|trap design}}'''. For specific advice on how to get your soldiers prepared for any threat, see '''{{l|military design}}'''.

:::::'''''Editors & Contributors''' - Please see the discussion page before posting.''

==Standard key==

'''Key:'''
'''symbol tile'''
• - Empty space
+ - Constructed floor, or top of wall section from lower level
'''0''' - Isolated wall section
╔╦═╗
╠╬═╣ - Connected wall
║║ ║
╚╩═╝
╬ - Fortifications
X - Up/down {{l|stairs}}
< - Up stair
> - Down stair
▲ - Up ramp/slope
▼ - Down ramp/slope
, - natural ground
☺ - dwarf

==General suggestions==
General designs should include suggestions that can be "plugged in" to a part of any typical fortress, and/or can be modified to suit a number of purposes.

Any fortress defenses need to be able to protect your dwarves while outside, whether that's military or civilians. On the truly labor intensive end, you can fully enclose areas of wilderness you wish to utilize in walls or behind moats with the only access being from within your base. Hostile creatures, even 'invisible' ones like ambushers, start at map edges and travel across the map - they will only spawn in regions where they can path to a dwarf. By controlling which areas have access to paths to dwarves, you can force all hostile forces to appear in predictable and limited killing zones and battlefields that you control.

===Meeting area as defense===

Especially in the very early game, you can use a {{l|Zone#Meeting_Area|meeting zone}} to attract animals and idle dwarves to a given area. This makes a pretty poor defense in general, but it's not a bad way to create an alarm system against minor threats such as {{l|thief|thieves}} near your stockpiles, at least until you have something better (which won't be hard). Remove the zone later, or it attracts idle dwarves and children. Note that until you designate something else, the site of your wagon (even once deconstructed) is a default meeting area.

===Guard Animals===

Both {{l|thief|thieves}} and {{l|ambush}}es are invisible until something bumps into them - a dwarf, a {{l|caravan}}, a wild creature, a {{l|domestic animal}}, anything. Once this happens (even if it was triggered by a wild {{l|groundhog}} on the far edge of the map), the game will pause with the appropriate {{l|announcement}}, forcing your attention to the situation - which is nice. Therefore, it's a common practice to use animals to act as alarm systems, by {{l|restraint|restrain}}ing them in entryways.

There are some considerations to good placement of such animals. If you have a 1- or 2-wide hall, one animal is enough. If you have a 3-wide hallway (wide enough for a {{l|caravan}}), you need to restrain two animals, one at each side of the hall.

══════════ R = restraint
+++1R1++++ 1 = area of animal 1
+++bbb++++ 2 = area of animal 2
+++2R2++++ b = area of both
══════════

This pair creates a thief-proof barrier against unannounced intrusion, as there is no combination of locations where an invisible enemy can sneak by without bumping into one or both. Caravans can pass over {{l|restraint|restraint}}s and restrained creatures without problem. Guard animals can also see hidden enemies one z-level below them, so long as there is no intervening floor, so if space is tight you can also place them above your entranceway.

Unless you're happy losing these animals on a regular basis, you should try to keep them alive...
:* Put them around a corner or behind a U-bend, so archers cannot fire at them from a distance.
:* Don't have them as your "first line of defense" - put them deeper in the entry, behind some traps
:* Put them inside, so flying creatures have to come down to their level to attack them.
:* Consider using a {{l|pressure plate}} at the extreme entrance to seal off the hall further down and keep your guard animal(s) safe. Thieves won't trigger them, but the animals can deal with those - ambushes ''will'' trigger them, and you don't want them getting to your guard animals.

Remember that anything short of a {{l|megabeast}} is not a good match for an armoured opponent.{{verify}} While watching your tame {{l|grizzly bear}} or {{l|alligator}} tear a thief apart has an amusement value, watching the goblin maceman send them flying across the map, mangled and dying, has less.

===Defending the edge===
You're not allowed to wall within five squares of the edge of the map... but this rule has more loopholes than the US federal income tax code. Until more versatile attackers emerge, it is not clear where effective play ends and exploit begins. ''(Note: we disclaim any responsibility for damage involving {{l|harpy|harpies}} and skeletal {{l|giant eagle}}s)''

* To start with, you can channel the '''''second''''' square from the edge. This blocks entry of trade caravans or their movement along the edge of the map. If barriers are used to prevent a Trade Depot near the edge of the map from being accessed from any other direction, caravans will be forced to appear in the un-channeled or bridged section of the edge, even if it is only three tiles wide. Your depot can be ready with stockpiles of favored trade goods, offset behind a wall to protect from archers a few squares away.
* You can also build drawbridges all the way up to the edge. A long, skinny, raised bridge is effectively a wall; however, it looks the same whether it's open or closed.

Train up diggers in soft soil and you can surround most of the map with a moat by the time the first migrants arrive. Be very, very wary of cave-ins, especially on highly sloped diagonal terrain - note that a downward ramp does not support adjacent floor tiles, and no tiles are supported diagonally.

Diplomats have a strange habit of appearing well inside the moat, but need to be allowed out when finished. ''[Note: On one 6x7 map {{l|horse}}s and other animals were also found to appear one embark unit (48 squares) left and up from the lower right corner, inside or atop the walls of a 5x5 doorless enclosure. Defend all leaks...]''

==== Design considerations ====

* The moat should be designed to prevent entry except by falling and exit except by climbing, from both sides. (Otherwise inside and outside forces might be tempted to shake hands from adjacent squares, with much annoyance) Despite an abundance of giant corkscrews, grates, ballista bolts, etc., no one has ever invented the ladder, so this keeps anyone from entering or leaving the rest of the map.
* The moat should be dry, because sooner or later you will be tempted to let someone visit the edge to loot goblins or hunt varmints, and next thing you know your Legendary Weaponsmith who outpaces all your smelters will be whiling away his time carrying a leather thong to a stockpile when he runs into a groundhog and decides to react by jumping into the moat and holding his breath beneath the shallow waters until he drowns. (As always, the notice that he has drowned is the first you'll hear of it)
* The moat doesn't actually ''need'' to be adjacent to the edge of the map except when conserving valuable surface terrain (such as {{l|tree|trees}} on a map that is mostly rock). It is easier to free trapped miners when they can dig further outward, and placing the moat on the sixth or further square in from the edge allows further modification with floodgates, walls, and doors. Any {{l|channeling}} permanently changes the dug-out tile to "Light Above Ground", which restricts these features from tiles near the edge even if floors are later constructed to close the space.
* Because migrants might turn up near wild animals or be followed closely by {{l|goblin|goblins}}, it is nice to wall off the last square in shorter segments. Each one or two segments are served by a separate lever bridge. This can be done by:
** natural barriers. The map edge is mostly continuous ramp, but occasionally a break appears on an uneven surface, by a river channel, etc.
** trees. If left intact they separate any fertile patches into many small segments.
** floors. Although you can't directly Remove Stairs/Ramps at the edge, building a single square of floor on an up-ramp at the edge will destroy that up-ramp (and the down-ramp above it) and block movement around the edge. Building a square of floor on a down-ramp and then removing it creates a {{l|one-way|one-way}} path.
** You can build drawbridges *along* the edge and raise them. Combined with a channel right next to the drawbridge, this can completely obstruct passage of anything which can't destroy the bridge.
** You can build up ramps at the edge, which may disrupt passage?Needs testing
** Fortifications carved into the outer edge rock the next layer down? It may be possible to carve fortifications all the way around the edge of a rocky map, allowing entrance only onto designated bridges surrounded by moat and with a steep drop beneath, with some sized appropriately to admit siegers only and one other sized for a trade wagon. In this way combat can be reduced to a simple thumbs up/thumbs down decision at the lever.Probably not.
* Migrants, thieves, and sieges turn up all around the map, and can be allowed in by remote controlled bridges. (Doors will not hold back {{l|building destroyer|building destroyers}}, and remote {{l|lever}} control is needed because other gates can be "taken by invaders" and become unlockable) Invaders can be allowed in by small groups and fought if desired, or preferably admitted into underground zigzags with a door waiting to be locked at the far end once they get close to it. If most of the invaders can be trapped inside such spaces, the remainder will stand and be wiped out completely without retreating.

===Simple 5x5 Archer's Tower===

Build a {{l|tower|tower}} specifically to post archers on, possibly away from your main defenses. This lets you open fire before the enemy approaches your gates. A pillbox can be attached to your walls, or separate, so that the only access is from tunnels below. These tunnels can stretch across the map, and only need be 1-tile big if no regular traffic is expected. Construct {{l|wall|wall}}s up to the second or third floor and then carve fortifications into them, so your dwarves can fire out. For extra usefulness, build a {{l|barracks|barracks}}, {{l|archery target|archery target}}, {{l|food|food}} {{l|stockpile|stockpile}}, {{l|well|well}} and {{l|dining room|dining room}} in or near the tower. Add a door or hatch to lock them in.

NOTE: It is better to construct walls and then carve fortifications into them, than to construct fortifications. The reason for this is that constructed fortifications do not provide a walkable tile on the layer above them, as walls do. Walls cannot be constructed without access from one of the four compass directions. Because of this, if you were to construct fortifications, when you progress to the level above, you would need to build a walkable path to the corner tiles. This path would need to be deconstructed before the wall or fortification could be built. Once deconstructed, the building material will drop onto the tile below with the fortification, trapping it until the fortification is deconstructed.

As discussed step-by-step in the article on {{l|mega construction|mega construction}}, this particular design is about as basic as it gets. As shown, it assumes entry from an underground tunnel, but a door or drawbridge (with moat!?) could easily be added, or even access via a protected sky-bridge.

When placing multiple towers, know that crossbows have a range of 20 tiles, so, depending on whether you want overlapping fire or not (and how intense/accurate), anywhere from maybe 15 to 38 tiles between the edge of the towers is recommended. Crossbows actually have their range ''reduced'' by extra height in DF, so all you need is 1 level up to keep enemy archers from using your fortifications against you, and you're set. (Channeling a defensive moat further out will also work, moving potential enemy archers even further away, but also moving non-missile targets that far as well.)

Side Below Ground Archer Roof
view: ground: Level: Level: Level:
╔═══╗ ╬╬╬╬╬ •••••
X__ X ║X,,║ ╬X++╬ •X++•
╬X__╬ ║,,,║ ╬+++╬ •+++•
___║X__║___ ║,,,║ ╬+++╬ •+++•
X ╚═══╝ ╬╬╬╬╬ •••••

_ = floor, natural , = ground tile
or constructed

This can hold 3 archers/side, and has the potential to be as many "archer levels" tall as you wish. A top-level "down stair" is necessary to build the "roof" - might as well build an up/down stair instead, no real reason not to. Remember to use the "corners first" technique when necessary. (See {{l|Tower}}.)

All told, for a simple 1 archer-level tower, this takes just over 50 stones or blocks (plus 25/extra archer level).

Larger towers (or this with larger floors on higher levels) could house barracks, practice ranges, and other facilities. Just expand to preferred size with floors, and then attach walls to those to act as a base for the next level of building. Add more stairs (adjacent to each other is always better) if high traffic is anticipated.

====Siege engine turrets====
If it's big enough, build a {{l|siege engine}} inside a pillbox. Since siege engines cannot fire at targets higher or lower than them, the device needs to be on the same {{l|z-level}} as any targets, but this could be across a large gap to a nearby plateau. Only a single tile of fortifications is needed to fire through the wall. Position the tower to fire where invaders tend to congregate.

You will want to guarantee that enemies do not approach the position and scare the civilian operators - this distance has been reported to be up to 20 tiles or so. Dig a moat, have some intervening valley or build some secondary fortifications to keep enemies at a distance. Unlike walls, fortifications on the same z-level do not block siege engine missiles, at any range. Unfortunately, if an enemy can walk up to them, fortifications will protect enemies from your archery fire (but not siege engine fire.)

===Control Room===
Have one (large?) room (or several stacked on top of each other) for all defense-related levers, and central to idle dwarves - near your {{l|meeting area}}s and {{l|noble}}s quarters, with one or more halls or stairs leading to it for quick access. Connect a lever to all those doors and hatches as the first lever to be pulled in an emergency, and the respondent will lock themselves in for you, guaranteeing that they will then have nothing else to do but stay there and pull levers.

It may also be an idea to have a second lever to at least one door, for emergency access. And possibly to add a stockpile of booze and food or a well for longer sieges.

===AI abuse===
Taking advantage of the game's Artificial Intelligence and {{l|path}}finding is a whole article in itself. Try leaving a door un-forbidden during an attack. When the bad guys approach the door, forbid it, and the enemy will wander off. Unlock it again, and they turn around and head back towards the door again. You can get enemies to march back and forth over a set of traps this way, or lure them deep into a complex trap. This could be automated via {{l|pressure plate}}s. This might count as an {{l|exploit}}, or not - that's up to you, and what you consider fun and challenging.

===Bait animal===
{{l|Restrain}}ing a sacrificial animal just outside your walls, but within range of your marksdwarves and/or siege engines, can lure an enemy into attacking that while you cut them down. Make sure to place a pattern of some walls (or statues, see below) so enemy archers cannot simply shoot the creature from a safe distance.

=====Fortifications=====
Adding a ring of fortifications to help defend the animal against missile fire will keep melee troops away, but invite archers to come adjacent to the fortifications - and under your walls and crossbows. If you allow any path, the melee troops will try to follow it to the animal - be creative with that fact.

=====Traps=====
Surround the animal with traps to kill or capture approaching goblins.

=====U chumps=====
Surround the far side of the animal with a U shaped 3-sided wall, open facing your defenders, so the enemy has to come closer to attack the animal, and you gun them down.

=====Distractions=====
Releasing a {{l|cage}} full of surplus animals will keep the enemy archers very busy. They may even be out of ammo when your wrestlers show up.

=====Vanishing act=====
Having a linked drawbridge that can open/shut (perhaps on both a lever to open and a nearby pressure plate to close), to lure the enemy in under your guns and then protect the animal when they get too close (for multiple uses.)

=====Roach motel=====
Build a long, narrow, and twisty passage, accessible from the outside, but unconnected to your fortress. Build as many simple traps as you like. Place a bait animal inside. Enemy attackers walk right in, and get torn apart by the traps. If any manage to make it to the end, and kill the useless animal, they're surrounded by traps, and no closer to your fortress.

If the roach motel is deep enough underground, you can build a tunnel above it, channel down, and mark the channel a {{l|Activity_zone|pit/pond}}. That way, you can "reload" a new bait animal.

=====vs. building destroyers=====
For {{l|building destroyer|building destroyers}}, spare statues can serve the same purpose as bait animals.

=====Trap chokepoints=====
Enemies can be herded by constructed features. If you have a particular zone covered by catapults and would like enemies to pass through it, strategically placed walls can make enemy pathfinding more favorable. A trap occupying a single tile in the middle of a barren plain is likely to never get triggered. However, if walls are placed in a cross-hair pattern around the trap, animals and invaders are much more likely to pass over it as they wander across the map. This can be a very useful trick when capturing wildlife with cage traps.

<pre>
+++++║+++++
+++++║+++++
+++^^║^^+++
+++^^║^^+++
═════^═════
+++^^║^^+++
+++^^║^^+++
+++++║+++++
+++++║+++++
</pre>

=====Pathing slowdowns=====
If you're playing on a low-powered machine and you close up all entrances to your fortress during a siege, your game may grind to a halt and/or crash as the siegers continuously fail at pathfinding into your fortress. Bait animals may alleviate this.



==Entrance designs==

===Airlock defenses/buffer zone===
Build two walls, each with a drawbridge. Build the trade depot in the buffer zone between them. Keep the outer bridge open, and the inner one closed. When the merchants appear, put crossbows on the walls to guard their approach. Once all the merchants are safely inside, close the outer bridge. Once there's no enemies left in the buffer zone, open the inner bridge so your civilians can start loading up the depot.

The airlock pattern can be useful even without putting the depot there. Let a few siegers in at a time, and crush them. Reset the traps, Rest up the soldiers, and repeat.

===Siege Engines===
One effective way to have {{l|Siege engine}}s (help) defend your fortress is:

'''One ballista vs 3-wide hallway'''
══════════════════════════╦═════
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••║▐▀\
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••╬◄═«
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••║▐▄/
══════════════════════════╩═════

Using this design you can cripple an army using a well timed volley. The hallway can be much longer than shown if you wish, as ballistae have extended ranges well over 100 tiles. The channeled area is necessary, as civilians (siege operators are "civilians") will run when enemies get within about 5-10 tiles of them, regardless of the actual path to that threat.

====Ballista battery====
3 (or more!) ballistae can be put into a "battery" if overlapped - one per tile-width of the hallway, with each ballista aiming down their row of tiles.

╔═══
══════════════════════════╦══╦══╝▐▀\
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••╬ ╬▐▀\◄═« (~ammo~)
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••╬▐▀\◄═«▐▄/
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••╬◄═«▐▄/ (~ammo~)
══════════════════════════╣▐▄/ (~ammo~)
╚═════════

Be sure to use fortifications to prevent dwarfs from wandering in front of the ballista to their deaths. If desired (and you have the <s>man</s>dwarfpower to spare), catapults may be put behind those, as they shoot safely ''over'' workers in front of them. Altho' less effective than ballistae, it's a little more firepower - and that can't be a bad thing.

For added flavour, channel out one or more tiles down the length of the 3-wide hallway and install retractable bridges. When invaders attack, retract the bridges, forcing them into paths that are only 1-tile wide.

Adding additional channels on either side of the hall will allow stray ammo to be recovered at a later time. Make sure to add locked doors, to prevent siege operators from walking down below enemy archers during a battle.

===Flooded entrance===
Using a chamber as your entrance alongside a chamber full of water and some machinery you can flood or drain the entrance at will.

The basic premise requires two levers, two {{l|screw pump}}s and two {{l|Gear assembly|gear assemblies}}. The amount of power required and the number of additional components needed to get the power to the screw pumps varies depending on distance/setup. One pump is placed to draw from chamber 1 and dump into chamber 2. The other is set in reverse. A gear assembly is placed next to each pump and connected to the main power system. Each gear is linked to a lever. Now at the flip of a switch you can submerge your entrance with {{l|water}} or {{l|magma|magma}} for easy, secure defense against creatures that aren't amphibious or magma-dwelling, depending.

{{Image:Entflood.jpg}}

The picture above shows the design in action. The green pump is currently on while the red has been disconnected through the grey marked axle. The yellow X is just to mark that there is a channel under the axle.

=== The "Reverse Battlement" design ===

Level Z+0 (ground):
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
F ═══════════════
O ,≥,g≥,,,g,,,,,,
R ,,≤,,,,,,g,,,,,
T ,,,g≤,,g,,,,,,, <-- enemies enter here
R ,,≥,,,,,,g,,,,,
E ,g,≤,,,,,,,,,g,
S ═══════════════
S ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Level Z+1 (bridge):

E •••••║+++║•••••
N +++++║+++║+++++
T •••••╬☺++║•••••
R •••••╬☺++║•••••
A •••••╬☺++║••••• <-- archers shoot them from up above
N •••••╬☺++║•••••
C •••••╬☺++║•••••
E +++++║+++║+++++
•••••║+++║•••••

Note that in this diagram, the fortress interior is to the West, and the enemy forces come from the East. The marksdwarves on the bridge with the {{l|fortification}}s are one level above the {{l|goblin}}s (or other attackers), who will pass under the bridge and charge on toward the west. As the first clear from under the bridge, they are targeted from behind (which is one level above), as the marksdwarves wait in ambush. This allows the marksdwarves to face far fewer enemies at any one time, at least to begin with, and any enemy archers must clear the bridge, take their lumps, and then return fire back the other way before the marksdwarves are ever under attack.

If you're feeling especially nasty, make the tunnel really long into the mountain and add a ballista battery (see above).

''(Adding ammo stockpiles, of your best quality bolts, to these stations will speed up reloading for longer sieges/battles. Even adding small, convenient food and alcohol stockpiles is not unheard of. Some designers place access to/from archery ranges very close to these stations, for faster deployment.)''

==Scenic route==

[[Image:defense_3bridges.png|thumb|right]]
An example of some advanced defensive construction tactics to deal with vile forces of ''any'' size. (See picture).

*'''Bridge 1''' seals off the entire base
*'''Bridge 2''' forces everyone to take the long, winding, heavily trapped/defended path of death.
*'''Bridge 3''' seals the inside of the fortress

Clever triggering of the bridges allows you to break the hostile forces into smaller chunks to be trapped in the courtyard while being caught in traps and a crossfire of arrows from the fortifications around.

===Goblin detour===

This particular design works well with plenty of archers, siege engines, and other ranged weaponry.

++++++++++++++++++ENTRANCE+
══╦════════════════O╞═╡O╦══ <-- Bridge 1
+☺╬•+++++++++++++++++++•╬☺+
++╬•+•••••••••••••••╞═╡•╬++ <-- Bridge 2
++╬•+••+•••+•••+•••++++•╬++
+☺╬•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+++•╬☺+
++╬•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+++•╬++
++╬•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+++•╬++
+☺╬••+•••+•••+•••+••+++•╬☺+
++╬•••••••••••••••••+++•╬++
++╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╗•+++•╬++
++☺++☺++☺++☺++☺++☺╬•+++•╬☺+
++++++++++++++++++╬•+++•╬++
++++++++++++++++++╬•+++•╬++
══════════════╗++☺╬•+++•╬☺+
║+++╬•+++•╬++
║+++╬•+++•╬++
║++☺╬•╞═╡•╬☺+ <-- Bridge 3

The 3 tile wide lane is for traders, so if your {{l|trade depot}} is located before this set-up, cut it down to a 1 tile lane to slow down invaders more.

===Twisty maze===
A maze of turns and blindspots patrolled by quality military can be a very formidable defense. Wide enough for wagons to pass though, but with no clear shots for any ranged weapons. Missile weapons do have a minimum range, so if a target is closer than that range, they will instead just charge to melee - and meet a dwarf with a much better melee skill. Downside to this is that you'd be mixing it up in melee all the time, but so long as you have at least 10 dwarves greeting the goblins as one coherent mass, you should win.

Variations on the twisty maze include:

*A wagon-wide twisty maze, and a not-so-twisty 1-tile wide hall o'traps, with a drawbridge that can force one or the other as the only {{l|path}} into your fortress.

*Making the side of the maze into fortifications, with a channel separating the fortifications from the actual floor of the maze, and having your archery targets on the other side of the fortifications so your marksdwarves can practice. When the goblins round the corner, they charge through a hail of crossbow bolts, and drop dead.

{{Military v0.31}}

v0.31:Security design

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:''This page is one of several inter-related articles on the broader topic of defending your fortress and your dwarves. '''Security design''' focuses on how to turn the physical layout and architecture of a fort into a defensible whole. For a general overview of the threats that will challenge your fortress and things to consider when preparing a standard defence, see the '''{{l|defense guide}}'''. For complex traps that are not a minor/optional part of a larger defensive plan (but might be adapted or plugged into one), see '''{{l|trap design}}'''. For specific advice on how to get your soldiers prepared for any threat, see '''{{l|military design}}'''.

:::::'''''Editors & Contributors''' - Please see the discussion page before posting.''

==Standard key==

'''Key:'''
'''symbol tile'''
• - Empty space
+ - Constructed floor, or top of wall section from lower level
'''0''' - Isolated wall section
╔╦═╗
╠╬═╣ - Connected wall
║║ ║
╚╩═╝
╬ - Fortifications
X - Up/down {{l|stairs}}
< - Up stair
> - Down stair
▲ - Up ramp/slope
▼ - Down ramp/slope
, - natural ground
☺ - dwarf

==General suggestions==
General designs should include suggestions that can be "plugged in" to a part of any typical fortress, and/or can be modified to suit a number of purposes.

Any fortress defenses need to be able to protect your dwarves while outside, whether that's military or civilians. On the truly labor intensive end, you can fully enclose areas of wilderness you wish to utilize in walls or behind moats with the only access being from within your base. Hostile creatures, even 'invisible' ones like ambushers, start at map edges and travel across the map - they will only spawn in regions where they can path to a dwarf. By controlling which areas have access to paths to dwarves, you can force all hostile forces to appear in predictable and limited killing zones and battlefields that you control.

===Meeting area as defense===

Especially in the very early game, you can use a {{l|Zone#Meeting_Area|meeting zone}} to attract animals and idle dwarves to a given area. This makes a pretty poor defense in general, but it's not a bad way to create an alarm system against minor threats such as {{l|thief|thieves}} near your stockpiles, at least until you have something better (which won't be hard). Remove the zone later, or it attracts idle dwarves and children. Note that until you designate something else, the site of your wagon (even once deconstructed) is a default meeting area.

===Guard Animals===

Both {{l|thief|thieves}} and {{l|ambush}}es are invisible until something bumps into them - a dwarf, a {{l|caravan}}, a wild creature, a {{l|domestic animal}}, anything. Once this happens (even if it was triggered by a wild {{l|groundhog}} on the far edge of the map), the game will pause with the appropriate {{l|announcement}}, forcing your attention to the situation - which is nice. Therefore, it's a common practice to use animals to act as alarm systems, by {{l|restraint|restrain}}ing them in entryways.

There are some considerations to good placement of such animals. If you have a 1- or 2-wide hall, one animal is enough. If you have a 3-wide hallway (wide enough for a {{l|caravan}}), you need to restrain two animals, one at each side of the hall.

══════════ R = restraint
+++1R1++++ 1 = area of animal 1
+++bbb++++ 2 = area of animal 2
+++2R2++++ b = area of both
══════════

This pair creates a thief-proof barrier against unannounced intrusion, as there is no combination of locations where an invisible enemy can sneak by without bumping into one or both. Caravans can pass over {{l|restraint|restraint}}s and restrained creatures without problem. Guard animals can also see hidden enemies one z-level below them, so long as there is no intervening floor, so if space is tight you can also place them above your entranceway.

Unless you're happy losing these animals on a regular basis, you should try to keep them alive...
:* Put them around a corner or behind a U-bend, so archers cannot fire at them from a distance.
:* Don't have them as your "first line of defense" - put them deeper in the entry, behind some traps
:* Put them inside, so flying creatures have to come down to their level to attack them.
:* Consider using a {{l|pressure plate}} at the extreme entrance to seal off the hall further down and keep your guard animal(s) safe. Thieves won't trigger them, but the animals can deal with those - ambushes ''will'' trigger them, and you don't want them getting to your guard animals.

Remember that anything short of a {{l|megabeast}} is not a good match for an armoured opponent.{{verify}} While watching your tame {{l|grizzly bear}} or {{l|alligator}} tear a thief apart has an amusement value, watching the goblin maceman send them flying across the map, mangled and dying, has less.

===Defending the edge===
You're not allowed to wall within five squares of the edge of the map... but this rule has more loopholes than the US federal income tax code. Until more versatile attackers emerge, it is not clear where effective play ends and exploit begins. ''(Note: we disclaim any responsibility for damage involving {{l|harpy|harpies}} and skeletal {{l|giant eagle}}s)''

* To start with, you can channel the '''''second''''' square from the edge. This blocks entry of trade caravans or their movement along the edge of the map. If barriers are used to prevent a Trade Depot near the edge of the map from being accessed from any other direction, caravans will be forced to appear in the un-channeled or bridged section of the edge, even if it is only three tiles wide. Your depot can be ready with stockpiles of favored trade goods, offset behind a wall to protect from archers a few squares away.
* You can also build drawbridges all the way up to the edge. A long, skinny, raised bridge is effectively a wall; however, it looks the same whether it's open or closed.

Train up diggers in soft soil and you can surround most of the map with a moat by the time the first migrants arrive. Be very, very wary of cave-ins, especially on highly sloped diagonal terrain - note that a downward ramp does not support adjacent floor tiles, and no tiles are supported diagonally.

Diplomats have a strange habit of appearing well inside the moat, but need to be allowed out when finished. ''[Note: On one 6x7 map {{l|horse}}s and other animals were also found to appear one embark unit (48 squares) left and up from the lower right corner, inside or atop the walls of a 5x5 doorless enclosure. Defend all leaks...]''

==== Design considerations ====

* The moat should be designed to prevent entry except by falling and exit except by climbing, from both sides. (Otherwise inside and outside forces might be tempted to shake hands from adjacent squares, with much annoyance) Despite an abundance of giant corkscrews, grates, ballista bolts, etc., no one has ever invented the ladder, so this keeps anyone from entering or leaving the rest of the map.
* The moat should be dry, because sooner or later you will be tempted to let someone visit the edge to loot goblins or hunt varmints, and next thing you know your Legendary Weaponsmith who outpaces all your smelters will be whiling away his time carrying a leather thong to a stockpile when he runs into a groundhog and decides to react by jumping into the moat and holding his breath beneath the shallow waters until he drowns. (As always, the notice that he has drowned is the first you'll hear of it)
* The moat doesn't actually ''need'' to be adjacent to the edge of the map except when conserving valuable surface terrain (such as {{l|tree|trees}} on a map that is mostly rock). It is easier to free trapped miners when they can dig further outward, and placing the moat on the sixth or further square in from the edge allows further modification with floodgates, walls, and doors. Any {{l|channeling}} permanently changes the dug-out tile to "Light Above Ground", which restricts these features from tiles near the edge even if floors are later constructed to close the space.
* Because migrants might turn up near wild animals or be followed closely by {{l|goblin|goblins}}, it is nice to wall off the last square in shorter segments. Each one or two segments are served by a separate lever bridge. This can be done by:
** natural barriers. The map edge is mostly continuous ramp, but occasionally a break appears on an uneven surface, by a river channel, etc.
** trees. If left intact they separate any fertile patches into many small segments.
** floors. Although you can't directly Remove Stairs/Ramps at the edge, building a single square of floor on an up-ramp at the edge will destroy that up-ramp (and the down-ramp above it) and block movement around the edge. Building a square of floor on a down-ramp and then removing it creates a {{l|one-way|one-way}} path.
** You can build drawbridges *along* the edge and raise them. Combined with a channel right next to the drawbridge, this can completely obstruct passage of anything which can't destroy the bridge.
** You can build up ramps at the edge, which may disrupt passage?Needs testing
** Fortifications carved into the outer edge rock the next layer down? It may be possible to carve fortifications all the way around the edge of a rocky map, allowing entrance only onto designated bridges surrounded by moat and with a steep drop beneath, with some sized appropriately to admit siegers only and one other sized for a trade wagon. In this way combat can be reduced to a simple thumbs up/thumbs down decision at the lever.Probably not.
* Migrants, thieves, and sieges turn up all around the map, and can be allowed in by remote controlled bridges. (Doors will not hold back {{l|building destroyer|building destroyers}}, and remote {{l|lever}} control is needed because other gates can be "taken by invaders" and become unlockable) Invaders can be allowed in by small groups and fought if desired, or preferably admitted into underground zigzags with a door waiting to be locked at the far end once they get close to it. If most of the invaders can be trapped inside such spaces, the remainder will stand and be wiped out completely without retreating.

===Simple 5x5 Archer's Tower===

Build a {{l|tower|tower}} specifically to post archers on, possibly away from your main defenses. This lets you open fire before the enemy approaches your gates. A pillbox can be attached to your walls, or separate, so that the only access is from tunnels below. These tunnels can stretch across the map, and only need be 1-tile big if no regular traffic is expected. Construct {{l|wall|wall}}s up to the second or third floor and then carve fortifications into them, so your dwarves can fire out. For extra usefulness, build a {{l|barracks|barracks}}, {{l|archery target|archery target}}, {{l|food|food}} {{l|stockpile|stockpile}}, {{l|well|well}} and {{l|dining room|dining room}} in or near the tower. Add a door or hatch to lock them in.

NOTE: It is better to construct walls and then carve fortifications into them, than to construct fortifications. The reason for this is that constructed fortifications do not provide a walkable tile on the layer above them, as walls do. Walls cannot be constructed without access from one of the four compass directions. Because of this, if you were to construct fortifications, when you progress to the level above, you would need to build a walkable path to the corner tiles. This path would need to be deconstructed before the wall or fortification could be built. Once deconstructed, the building material will drop onto the tile below with the fortification, trapping it until the fortification is deconstructed.

As discussed step-by-step in the article on {{l|mega construction|mega construction}}, this particular design is about as basic as it gets. As shown, it assumes entry from an underground tunnel, but a door or drawbridge (with moat!?) could easily be added, or even access via a protected sky-bridge.

When placing multiple towers, know that crossbows have a range of 20 tiles, so, depending on whether you want overlapping fire or not (and how intense/accurate), anywhere from maybe 15 to 38 tiles between the edge of the towers is recommended. Crossbows actually have their range ''reduced'' by extra height in DF, so all you need is 1 level up to keep enemy archers from using your fortifications against you, and you're set. (Channeling a defensive moat further out will also work, moving potential enemy archers even further away, but also moving non-missile targets that far as well.)

Side Below Ground Archer Roof
view: ground: Level: Level: Level:
╔═══╗ ╬╬╬╬╬ •••••
X__ X ║X,,║ ╬X++╬ •X++•
╬X__╬ ║,,,║ ╬+++╬ •+++•
___║X__║___ ║,,,║ ╬+++╬ •+++•
X ╚═══╝ ╬╬╬╬╬ •••••

_ = floor, natural , = ground tile
or constructed

This can hold 3 archers/side, and has the potential to be as many "archer levels" tall as you wish. A top-level "down stair" is necessary to build the "roof" - might as well build an up/down stair instead, no real reason not to. Remember to use the "corners first" technique when necessary. (See {{l|Tower}}.)

All told, for a simple 1 archer-level tower, this takes just over 50 stones or blocks (plus 25/extra archer level).

Larger towers (or this with larger floors on higher levels) could house barracks, practice ranges, and other facilities. Just expand to preferred size with floors, and then attach walls to those to act as a base for the next level of building. Add more stairs (adjacent to each other is always better) if high traffic is anticipated.

====Siege engine turrets====
If it's big enough, build a {{l|siege engine}} inside a pillbox. Since siege engines cannot fire at targets higher or lower than them, the device needs to be on the same {{l|z-level}} as any targets, but this could be across a large gap to a nearby plateau. Only a single tile of fortifications is needed to fire through the wall. Position the tower to fire where invaders tend to congregate.

You will want to guarantee that enemies do not approach the position and scare the civilian operators - this distance has been reported to be up to 20 tiles or so. Dig a moat, have some intervening valley or build some secondary fortifications to keep enemies at a distance. Unlike walls, fortifications on the same z-level do not block siege engine missiles, at any range. Unfortunately, if an enemy can walk up to them, fortifications will protect enemies from your archery fire (but not siege engine fire.)

===Control Room===
Have one (large?) room (or several stacked on top of each other) for all defense-related levers, and central to idle dwarves - near your {{l|meeting area}}s and {{l|noble}}s quarters, with one or more halls or stairs leading to it for quick access. Connect a lever to all those doors and hatches as the first lever to be pulled in an emergency, and the respondent will lock themselves in for you, guaranteeing that they will then have nothing else to do but stay there and pull levers.

It may also be an idea to have a second lever to at least one door, for emergency access. And possibly to add a stockpile of booze and food or a well for longer sieges.

===AI abuse===
Taking advantage of the game's Artificial Intelligence and {{l|path}}finding is a whole article in itself. Try leaving a door un-forbidden during an attack. When the bad guys approach the door, forbid it, and the enemy will wander off. Unlock it again, and they turn around and head back towards the door again. You can get enemies to march back and forth over a set of traps this way, or lure them deep into a complex trap. This could be automated via {{l|pressure plate}}s. This might count as an {{l|exploit}}, or not - that's up to you, and what you consider fun and challenging.

===Bait animal===
{{l|Restrain}}ing a sacrificial animal just outside your walls, but within range of your marksdwarves and/or siege engines, can lure an enemy into attacking that while you cut them down. Make sure to place a pattern of some walls (or statues, see below) so enemy archers cannot simply shoot the creature from a safe distance.

=====Fortifications=====
Adding a ring of fortifications to help defend the animal against missile fire will keep melee troops away, but invite archers to come adjacent to the fortifications - and under your walls and crossbows. If you allow any path, the melee troops will try to follow it to the animal - be creative with that fact.

=====Traps=====
Surround the animal with traps to kill or capture approaching goblins.

=====U chumps=====
Surround the far side of the animal with a U shaped 3-sided wall, open facing your defenders, so the enemy has to come closer to attack the animal, and you gun them down.

=====Distractions=====
Releasing a {{l|cage}} full of surplus animals will keep the enemy archers very busy. They may even be out of ammo when your wrestlers show up.

=====Vanishing act=====
Having a linked drawbridge that can open/shut (perhaps on both a lever to open and a nearby pressure plate to close), to lure the enemy in under your guns and then protect the animal when they get too close (for multiple uses.)

=====Roach motel=====
Build a long, narrow, and twisty passage, accessible from the outside, but unconnected to your fortress. Build as many simple traps as you like. Place a bait animal inside. Enemy attackers walk right in, and get torn apart by the traps. If any manage to make it to the end, and kill the useless animal, they're surrounded by traps, and no closer to your fortress.

If the roach motel is deep enough underground, you can build a tunnel above it, channel down, and mark the channel a {{l|Activity_zone|pit/pond}}. That way, you can "reload" a new bait animal.

=====vs. building destroyers=====
For {{l|building destroyer|building destroyers}}, spare statues can serve the same purpose as bait animals.

=====Trap chokepoints=====
Enemies can be herded by constructed features. If you have a particular zone covered by catapults and would like enemies to pass through it, strategically placed walls can make enemy pathfinding more favorable. A trap occupying a single tile in the middle of a barren plain is likely to never get triggered. However, if walls are placed in a cross-hair pattern around the trap, animals and invaders are much more likely to pass over it as they wander across the map. This can be a very useful trick when capturing wildlife with cage traps.

<pre>
+++++║+++++
+++++║+++++
+++^^║^^+++
+++^^║^^+++
═════^═════
+++^^║^^+++
+++^^║^^+++
+++++║+++++
+++++║+++++
</pre>

=====Pathing slowdowns=====
If you're playing on a low-powered machine and you close up all entrances to your fortress during a siege, your game may grind to a halt and/or crash as the siegers continuously fail at pathfinding into your fortress. Bait animals may alleviate this.



==Entrance designs==

===Airlock defenses/buffer zone===
Build two walls, each with a drawbridge. Build the trade depot in the buffer zone between them. Keep the outer bridge open, and the inner one closed. When the merchants appear, put crossbows on the walls to guard their approach. Once all the merchants are safely inside, close the outer bridge. Once there's no enemies left in the buffer zone, open the inner bridge so your civilians can start loading up the depot.

The airlock pattern can be useful even without putting the depot there. Let a few siegers in at a time, and crush them. Reset the traps, Rest up the soldiers, and repeat.

===Siege Engines===
One effective way to have {{l|Siege engine}}s (help) defend your fortress is:

'''One ballista vs 3-wide hallway'''
══════════════════════════╦═════
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••║▐▀\
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••╬◄═«
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••║▐▄/
══════════════════════════╩═════

Using this design you can cripple an army using a well timed volley. The hallway can be much longer than shown if you wish, as ballistae have extended ranges well over 100 tiles. The channeled area is necessary, as civilians (siege operators are "civilians") will run when enemies get within about 5-10 tiles of them, regardless of the actual path to that threat.

====Ballista battery====
3 (or more!) ballistae can be put into a "battery" if overlapped - one per tile-width of the hallway, with each ballista aiming down their row of tiles.

╔═══
══════════════════════════╦══╦══╝▐▀\
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••╬ ╬▐▀\◄═« (~ammo~)
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••╬▐▀\◄═«▐▄/
Entrance++++++++++++▼•••••╬◄═«▐▄/ (~ammo~)
══════════════════════════╣▐▄/ (~ammo~)
╚═════════

Be sure to use fortifications to prevent dwarfs from wandering in front of the ballista to their deaths. If desired (and you have the <s>man</s>dwarfpower to spare), catapults may be put behind those, as they shoot safely ''over'' workers in front of them. Altho' less effective than ballistae, it's a little more firepower - and that can't be a bad thing.

For added flavour, channel out one or more tiles down the length of the 3-wide hallway and install retractable bridges. When invaders attack, retract the bridges, forcing them into paths that are only 1-tile wide.

Adding additional channels on either side of the hall will allow stray ammo to be recovered at a later time. Make sure to add locked doors, to prevent siege operators from walking down below enemy archers during a battle.

===Flooded entrance===
Using a chamber as your entrance alongside a chamber full of water and some machinery you can flood or drain the entrance at will.

The basic premise requires two levers, two {{l|screw pump}}s and two {{l|Gear assembly|gear assemblies}}. The amount of power required and the number of additional components needed to get the power to the screw pumps varies depending on distance/setup. One pump is placed to draw from chamber 1 and dump into chamber 2. The other is set in reverse. A gear assembly is placed next to each pump and connected to the main power system. Each gear is linked to a lever. Now at the flip of a switch you can submerge your entrance with {{l|water}} or {{l|magma|magma}} for easy, secure defense against creatures that aren't amphibious or magma-dwelling, depending.

[[Image:Entflood.jpg|thumb|left]]

This picture shows the design in action. The green pump is currently on while the red has been disconnected through the grey marked axle. The yellow X is just to mark that there is a channel under the axle.

=== The "Reverse Battlement" design ===

Level Z+0 (ground):
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
F ═══════════════
O ,≥,g≥,,,g,,,,,,
R ,,≤,,,,,,g,,,,,
T ,,,g≤,,g,,,,,,, <-- enemies enter here
R ,,≥,,,,,,g,,,,,
E ,g,≤,,,,,,,,,g,
S ═══════════════
S ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Level Z+1 (bridge):

E •••••║+++║•••••
N +++++║+++║+++++
T •••••╬☺++║•••••
R •••••╬☺++║•••••
A •••••╬☺++║••••• <-- archers shoot them from up above
N •••••╬☺++║•••••
C •••••╬☺++║•••••
E +++++║+++║+++++
•••••║+++║•••••

Note that in this diagram, the fortress interior is to the West, and the enemy forces come from the East. The marksdwarves on the bridge with the {{l|fortification}}s are one level above the {{l|goblin}}s (or other attackers), who will pass under the bridge and charge on toward the west. As the first clear from under the bridge, they are targeted from behind (which is one level above), as the marksdwarves wait in ambush. This allows the marksdwarves to face far fewer enemies at any one time, at least to begin with, and any enemy archers must clear the bridge, take their lumps, and then return fire back the other way before the marksdwarves are ever under attack.

If you're feeling especially nasty, make the tunnel really long into the mountain and add a ballista battery (see above).

''(Adding ammo stockpiles, of your best quality bolts, to these stations will speed up reloading for longer sieges/battles. Even adding small, convenient food and alcohol stockpiles is not unheard of. Some designers place access to/from archery ranges very close to these stations, for faster deployment.)''

==Scenic route==

[[Image:defense_3bridges.png|thumb|right]]
An example of some advanced defensive construction tactics to deal with vile forces of ''any'' size. (See picture).

*'''Bridge 1''' seals off the entire base
*'''Bridge 2''' forces everyone to take the long, winding, heavily trapped/defended path of death.
*'''Bridge 3''' seals the inside of the fortress

Clever triggering of the bridges allows you to break the hostile forces into smaller chunks to be trapped in the courtyard while being caught in traps and a crossfire of arrows from the fortifications around.

===Goblin detour===

This particular design works well with plenty of archers, siege engines, and other ranged weaponry.

++++++++++++++++++ENTRANCE+
══╦════════════════O╞═╡O╦══ <-- Bridge 1
+☺╬•+++++++++++++++++++•╬☺+
++╬•+•••••••••••••••╞═╡•╬++ <-- Bridge 2
++╬•+••+•••+•••+•••++++•╬++
+☺╬•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+++•╬☺+
++╬•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+++•╬++
++╬•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+•+++•╬++
+☺╬••+•••+•••+•••+••+++•╬☺+
++╬•••••••••••••••••+++•╬++
++╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╗•+++•╬++
++☺++☺++☺++☺++☺++☺╬•+++•╬☺+
++++++++++++++++++╬•+++•╬++
++++++++++++++++++╬•+++•╬++
══════════════╗++☺╬•+++•╬☺+
║+++╬•+++•╬++
║+++╬•+++•╬++
║++☺╬•╞═╡•╬☺+ <-- Bridge 3

The 3 tile wide lane is for traders, so if your {{l|trade depot}} is located before this set-up, cut it down to a 1 tile lane to slow down invaders more.

===Twisty maze===
A maze of turns and blindspots patrolled by quality military can be a very formidable defense. Wide enough for wagons to pass though, but with no clear shots for any ranged weapons. Missile weapons do have a minimum range, so if a target is closer than that range, they will instead just charge to melee - and meet a dwarf with a much better melee skill. Downside to this is that you'd be mixing it up in melee all the time, but so long as you have at least 10 dwarves greeting the goblins as one coherent mass, you should win.

Variations on the twisty maze include:

*A wagon-wide twisty maze, and a not-so-twisty 1-tile wide hall o'traps, with a drawbridge that can force one or the other as the only {{l|path}} into your fortress.

*Making the side of the maze into fortifications, with a channel separating the fortifications from the actual floor of the maze, and having your archery targets on the other side of the fortifications so your marksdwarves can practice. When the goblins round the corner, they charge through a hail of crossbow bolts, and drop dead.

{{Military v0.31}}

v0.31 Talk:Glass industry

2010-10-20T12:08:48Z

Nahno: /* Masterwork? */ Image chart?

How much of this should be copied from the 40d article? The only real difference I can see is that now sand is a trade good and can be chosen on embark. Otherwise, it seems pretty much identical. That being said, I don't see why we should say "Consult the 40d article, except sand is easier to get" if the goal is to create a stand-alone DF2010 section. --[[User:Shadowfury333|Shadowfury333]] 23:50, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

==Okay, that flowchart doesn't work==
On Firefox 3.7, IE 8.0 and IE 9.0PP4, that flowchart doesn't work. I'd take a snapshot of it in chrome, and replace it with an image, if we all agree on that. Plus, it's never a good idea to use tables for that kind of stuff, because it is something the MagmaWiki skin can break. So? --[[User:Dree12|Dree12]] 18:04, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

The flowchart is incorrect too. It shows: "Wood industry" -> "Ashery" -> "Pearlash". The correct chart would show of course: "Wood industry" -> "Wood burner" (-> "Ash") -> "Ashery" (-> "Potash") -> "Kiln" -> "Pearlash" --[[Special:Contributions/83.119.189.36|83.119.189.36]] 21:28, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
: Yeah... There's generally no point in using a table for this, other than text sizing. The arrows are images too, which causes all sorts of link trouble. If there's more of a consensus, we should just make a new one. --[[User:Dree12|Dree12]] 01:48, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

==Masterwork?==

Are you joking? The article is hardly aesthetically pleasing , what with that broken flowchart. A flowchart which takes up half of the page space. Don't worry about changing the rating, though, I'll just upload my personal flowchart on the subject and replace it when I get home from work. It looks nice, and screwy tables won't break it. --Kydo 21:12, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
:Okay, there, a clean, ''functional'' and accurate flowchart. It looks a little intimidating, probably because of just how much stuff it contains. Any suggestions on how to make it look friendlier without detracting from it's detail? --Kydo 07:34, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
::How about color coding the background of boxes for workshops, products and jobs? Slightly larger boxes might be more pleasing to the eye. And most of the boxes and lines positions vary a lot (e.g. the three 'Glass Furnace' boxes have different y-positions), this creates a disquitingly picture. --[[User:Hermano|Hermano]] 18:25, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
:::Well, I can see one mistake... it's "sand bag" + "rock crystal" = "crystal glass", not "pearlash" + "rock crystal" = "crystal glass". I think the color coding is a good idea. --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 18:32, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
::::To quote the article... ''"Producing crystal glass requires no sand, but does require pearlash and rough rock crystals, a gem which is not found on all maps. Cut rock crystals bought from traders will not work for producing crystal glass."'' ...and from the glass page... ''"Making raw crystal glass or crystal glass items is currently not functional. Despite rough rock crystals being available, the game will announce 'Needs glass-making rough gems"'' So, yeah, cryustal glass requires no sand, but it doesn't matter, because it's all bugged up anyways. Also, I agree to the suggestions to colour code things and increasing the box sizes. I shall do this now... Though exactly how the colour coding will work, I'm unsure, I guess I'll figure it out soon enough. --Kydo 05:42, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
:::::Okay, there, updated to a new version. Straighter, bubblier and colourized. Though it is ''technically'' a rather large image and needs to be seriously shrunk down for the page. I made it in MSPaint, which shrinks things poorly, and I don't feel like messign around with a more complicated program for just a rescale. Any other ideas? Or is it good like that? --Kydo 06:47, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
::::::Aren't images a bad choice for charts? They constitute an impractical protocol if you ever need to change the chart and they '''will''' break page usability on "extreme" screen resolutions. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 12:08, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

v0.31 Talk:Megabeast

2010-10-18T13:47:36Z

Nahno: /* titans */

* The number of megabeasts might be affected by the world gen params

[MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:25] and [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:50]. I guess each cave must have a (semi-)megabeast. --[[User:TomiTapio|TomiTapio]] 01:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
:In my experience, megabeasts (and kobolds) seem to only hang out in mountain caves, while all others (mountain or non) are populated by semimegabeasts. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 01:03, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

* Reading Legends mode... one quadruped marsh titan was killed by a sylvan elf! (Genesis mod) --[[User:TomiTapio|TomiTapio]] 01:43, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
: I can confirm that I have several titans were killed during worldgen, and none of them by other megabeasts. So the 'megabeasts are invincible during worldgen' info is incorrect. --[[User:Aequor|Aequor]] 17:45, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I had a bronze colossus visit me soon after saving. I reloaded that save and at about the same time a dragon showed up instead. What is the mechanism for megabeasts in fortress mode? --[[User:Peglegpenguin|Peglegpenguin]] 06:19, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

* The And/Or question about spawning megabeasts

: I can confirm that the spawning of megabeast is either when you reach 100.000 wealth or 100 people. I got a humanoid megabeast made out of steam or water appearing after I created around 200.000 wealth and had 52 people. Unfortunately I didnt had the chance to either kill or see where he went. This is with build 0.31.16 -- Mr. Seeker, 18 October 2010

== Pop Limit of Megabeasts ==
If I keep this hydra alive at the bottom of my pit, will it prevent future megabeasts/forgotten beasts from appearing? [[User:Aussiemon|Aussiemon]] 00:27, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
:No.--[[User:Another|Another]] 12:50, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

== titans ==

Titans don't seem to fall into the class of megabeasts as of 2010. After worldgen, they don't appear in the world until certain fortress-mode conditions are met, not all of them are hostile, and they may be slain in the course of history. Also, the Age of Heros can begin after slaying all dragons, hydra and colossi, without ever encountering a titan. [[User:DokEnkephalin|DokEnkephalin]] 20:32, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

:I'm quite sure titans (and FBs) do not count as megabeast, but I dare not edit the article; I haven't even played DF2010 yet. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 13:47, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

v0.31 Talk:Farming

2010-10-17T12:52:49Z

Nahno: /* Farming Chart */ We want to illustrate the processes

== General ==

Placing a farm on rock
Needs Soil or mud
No Mud for underground farm
Mud is left by water

Placing a farm on surface soil
No Mud for underground farm
Mud is left by water

Placing a farm on mud found in an underground complex
<<No Error Message>>

So This is either a major bug, or a mechanics change and a minor text inconsistency.[[User:Doctorzuber|Doctorzuber]] 22:35, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

:This is a bug. You're supposed to be able to farm on soil. I'll try to track down the forum thread, one moment --[[User:Squirrelloid|Squirrelloid]] 22:37, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

:Aha, so saith the Baughn: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=51951.msg1123336#msg1123336
:--[[User:Squirrelloid|Squirrelloid]] 22:41, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
::Who is but a lowly dabbling SDL coder and has not insight into the game code or Toady's intentions.--[[User:Birthright|Birthright]] 15:31, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
:::Toady confirmed it too, you realize. Twice.--[[Special:Contributions/174.113.156.80|174.113.156.80]] 01:33, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
::::Quote from: Dr. A - "Farm plots built underground (Inside/Dark/Subterranean) on natural soil will not allow planting"
::::Reply from: Toady One - "I'm not sure yet. I never get a chance to look at it, despite wanting to look at it. The original idea was to require a soil wall beneath a mudless square for it to be farmable, and if it isn't that way, it's a bug. Either way, it is somewhat confusing, because you wouldn't be able to farm in one layer of soil. I'm not sure you should be able to, morally speaking, especially with the underground trees, but it's probably less confusing that way." from http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=62202.msg1424098#msg1424098
::::I shall give this some testing over the next few days to see if a farm on top of a soil wall will allow planting of underground crops without being muddied first.--[[User:Malibu Stacey|Malibu Stacey]] 21:32, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

== Seeds can not be grown on non-soil, non-subterranean tiles ==

I recently attempted to follow the advice in the article, channeling out several tiles near a river, irrigating them, and building a farm plot on the muddied tiles. However, when I tried to set the field to be planted, all seeds (surface AND subterranean) are disabled, and the message "No seeds available for this location" is displayed. The soil layer, as it turns out, was only one tile thick, and even though the tiles are "above ground" (not even indoors yet, I haven't built a roof over them), they are ineligible for any seeds to be planted on... subterranean crops because the tiles are above ground, and surface crops because the floors are mud-covered diorite instead of one of the clay/sand/soil types.

So, be warned... attempting to create an indoor, irrigated surface crop farm will not work if you accidentally channel down to stone. Surface crops will not grow in mud-covered rock, only in soil (mud-covered or otherwise). --[[User:Tatterdemalian|Tatterdemalian]] 22:09, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
:Have same problem... did you dig out the level below your "aboveground" farm? I did (z1 and z2 dug out) and I remember towercaps and the lot can't grow unless they have a floor tiles and wall below (z1 dug out but not z2), perhaps crops follow the same rules? I'll test this.--[[Special:Contributions/99.67.238.66|99.67.238.66]] 05:54, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
::I just encountered this issue (version 31.04) but in a slightly different context. I dug out four rooms underground in sand, did *not* dig out the tiles underneath, built 4 farms on the sand without irigating, and then got the message that that there are "No seeds available for this location", despite having just embarked with many seeds. Maybe I'll try tearing down the farms and irrigating first. --[[User:Frewfrux|Frewfrux]] 17:55, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
:::DF2010 requires farms to have mud whether on rock or soil layers. Cheers--[[Special:Contributions/99.67.238.66|99.67.238.66]] 00:50, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
::::Technically, it’s the bug that requires it (if I’m reading all the information correctly). It seems that DF 2010 is supposed to allow farms on soil regardless of mud. (Am I right, or is this actually intended behaviour?) I had thought that the bug was that you couldn’t build the farms without the mud, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. You can build the farms just fine, but the code doesn’t appear to “see” any valid seeds to plant after they are built.
::::I tore down my farms (successfully built on soil without mud), flooded the area, and then built them again and sure enough the farms now “see” the seeds I have. --[[User:Frewfrux|Frewfrux]] 19:54, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
:::::I thought that farms not growing without mud underground was a purposeful change on Toady's part. I suppose I assumed that because of how subterranean trees only grow in muddied soil. Also you don't have to have mud, above ground farms accept all the correct seeds if on soil that issn't irrigated. --[[Special:Contributions/99.67.238.66|99.67.238.66]] 22:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
::::::Hmmm. I thought that the only reason mud was needed for the underground trees was because they were on rock, not soil. Regardless, after testing it out, here's what I found:
::::::- You can *build* a farm on any soil (above ground or below)
::::::- Only the farm built above ground will "see" any available seeds (assuming no mud)
::::::- You can build an underground farm on soil and muddy the ground *afterward*
::::::- You can build a farm on part muddied ground and part soil and it will be able to "see" available seeds. HOWEVER, your dwarves will only plant on the muddied part of the farm.
::::::- Water both provides mud *and* washes it away. If you build an underground room with a hole in the ceiling and mark that hole with a "pond" zone so your dwarves bring water to it and dump the water in the room, you will see piles of mud appear on some of the tiles and be washed off of others (no idea what determines which of the two happen).
::::::And that was the extent of my testing. --[[User:Frewfrux|Frewfrux]] 01:47, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

::::::: Finally got around to trying to build a farm on muddied soil above-ground with a natural wall on the next level down. Testing shows that no seeds can be used on such terrain. So for DF2010 above-ground farms must be built on soil (muddied or unmuddied) and underground farms can grow on any terrain as long as the tiles are muddy. Above-ground farms will not work on muddied rock tiles. I'll go ahead and add this to the actual page.--[[Special:Contributions/99.67.238.66|99.67.238.66]] 21:05, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

::::::: ''You can build a farm on part muddied ground and part soil and it will be able to "see" available seeds. HOWEVER, your dwarves will only plant on the muddied part of the farm.'' - This isn't exactly true. I just found out that if the top left square of the farm doesn't have mud, then NONE of the farm will activate. I muddied my farm plot, but missed two squares in the top left. rebuilt the farm and it didn't work; rebuilt the farm slightly smaller so that the top left corner was muddied and the farm turned on. [[Special:Contributions/71.202.179.67|71.202.179.67]] 19:29, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

== Merge ==
I don't see why we need a separate page for [[Farm Plot]] and [[Farming]]. Merger anyone? [[User:Kenji 03|Kenji 03]] 12:28, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
:Also, labors are typically described in their respective skill page. In this case, [[DF2010:Farmer|Farmer]] --[[User:Eagle0600|Eagle0600]] 13:05, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
::Both pages exist as full pages in the 40d namespace, in addition to a farmer page. This suggests that there is sufficient material for all three pages, although someone would need to spend more time reviewing how the topic space was divided in 40d to figure out why. --[[User:Squirrelloid|Squirrelloid]] 13:44, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

::Farming describes the concept, plant uses, importance, possibilities and caveats; Overview. Farm plot goes right down to 'key-pressing' and 'cursor-moving', that is, details and step-to-step. Ultimately it is an article on a building. I don't recall ever using the page Farm plot, but I think we should keep the 2. Looking over the old versions, I think the distinction should be made clearer, though. --[[User:Birthright|Birthright]] 14:34, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

:::I agree, but with all the new info and users this approach seems not viable for now. --[[User:Confused|Confused]] 18:56, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

== Farming Chart ==

[[Image:Df-crops-diagram.png|thumb|200px|General farming flowchart.]]
I found this chart to the right in the 40d farming page. I was just wondering if it is still current, so we can put it in the current page.
:As far as I can tell, yeah, it's still accurate. I haven't run into any changes in this part of the game, and I've always found this chart to be exceedingly helpful... Though a little messy. Perhaps we could do up a cleaner version of it for the new page? --Kydo 07:43, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
:: There, how's this? --Kydo 08:28, 17 October 2010 (UTC) [[Image:FarmG2.png|Thumb|200px|Proposed New Version]]
:::There is a similar table in [[DF2010:Crop]]. A table/chart for farming should preferably illustrate the processes of farming and not (re)iterate the specific crops and products. --[[User:Nahno|Nahno]] 12:52, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

== Harvesting ==
Probably it ought to be noted that if your dwarves aren't quick enough to harvest a ripe bit of crop, it will wither and become refuse (happens to me when I set "Only Farmers harvest").--[[User:FleshForge|FleshForge]] 09:52, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

== Indication of buggy behaviour ==

It's been reverted multiple times whenever someone adds the "due to a bug" statement, so I'll state my reason on why this should be made clear: new players. If someone new plays DF, they may think the irrigation process is too complex if they do it first thing. Like many of our first fortresses, farming is supposed to be a long term goal (fortress 1: farm plot built; fortress 2: plump helmet planted; fortress 3: sustainable farming; fortress 4: irrigation done) and forcing it onto them isn't a good idea, considering that it is a bug, and Toady has stated he'll look at it eventually. If nobody comes up with a good reason '''not''' to add this information, I'll re-add it. --[[User:Dree12|Dree12]] 19:56, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
:Since nobody commented, I'll re-add the bug notice. --[[User:Dree12|Dree12]] 20:52, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

== Problem with farm plot sending jobs ==

I made a 22 tile farm plot on muddied sand, a single tile in the corner was not muddied. It still let me build the plot, but until I resized the plot to make it not include that tile, my farm plot would not send jobs out.-[[User:Wafl|Wafl]] 21:53, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

v0.31:Mud

2010-10-17T12:39:27Z

Nahno: Link

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'''Mud''' is a {{l|contaminant}} produced when you flood an area with {{l|water}}. It is needed for underground {{l|farming}}. Mud piles up against items, coloring the tile brown.

Mud also occurs naturally in deep {{l|cavern|caverns}}.

''Note: Upon reclaiming a fortress, '''every single bit of mud will disappear.'''''

Mud can be removed by constructing something over the mud, then deconstructing it.

One common way of creating mud is to flood a good sized area from a lake, thus making mud.
Another way is to use a pit/pond from the {{L|Activity zone|activity zone menu}} and have a dwarf through water over a channeled area into a dug-out area below.

v0.31:Activity zone

2010-10-17T12:37:00Z

Nahno: Links

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'''Activity zones''' are areas in which {{l|dwarf|dwarves}} are instructed to perform specific tasks, such as {{l|fishing}}, dumping objects, or collecting {{l|water}}. While activity zones are optional for the performance of certain tasks (fishing, collecting water) and obligatory for certain others (dumping), they can also be used to help keep dwarves out of {{l|fun|danger}}.

Activity zones can be placed in any {{l|revealed tile}}, including in {{l|open space}} or over a {{l|river}} or on top of a {{l|building}} or {{l|stockpile}}. They are placed in one of three ways: rectangular, flow, or floor flow. From within the Zones {{l|menu}}, ({{K|i}})Pressing {{K|e}} in the Zones menu cycles through each method, and pressing {{K|Enter}} begins designation. Rectangular zones are placed in the same manner as stockpiles, specifying two corners of the rectangle. Flow and floor flow are placed similarly to designating rooms from pieces of furniture using {{K|+}}/{{K|-}} to adjust the size (floor flow excludes walls). After that the zone has to be assigned to one of the listed tasks to become functional, by pressing the proper key. In some cases ({{l|healthcare|hospital}}, pit/pond) additional orders can then be set from the same menu.

The location of a zone is only visible while in the Zones menu, and any object lying on the ground will hide the presence of a zone tile.

Meeting area zones are zones in which idle dwarves and animals will congregate, similar to meeting halls. Note that the {{l|wagon (embark)|wagon}} you {{l|embark|arrive with}} constitutes a meeting area until you designate the first meeting area of your own. If you start in hostile surroundings it is important to get your dwarves and animals out of danger quickly.

== Water Source ==
:Shortcut {{k|w}}
In order for your dwarves to use this zone correctly, some part of this zone must include the solid ground that is next to the water. For example, make half of your zone cover a brook and the other half cover the bank next to the brook.

== Fishing ==
:Shortcut {{k|f}}
The same above advice for '''water source''' zones is applicable to fishing zones. You cannot fish through a {{L|grate}} or {{L|well}}, it must be an open source of water.

== Garbage Dump ==
:Shortcut {{k|g}}

Garbage dump zones are areas in which dwarves will throw items specifically designated by using {{k|k}} then {{k|d}} for single items at a time, or {{key|d}}, {{key|b}}, {{key|d}} to designate a larger area to be dumped (or use the mouse to point and click). Garbage dumps are not the same as {{l|Refuse#Refuse|refuse}} stockpiles, which can be designated to accept any specific type(s) of refuse-type item, such as animal {{l|corpse}}s or {{l|bones}}, and then are randomly filled by haulers as the items become available on the map.

Garbage dumps:
:* Only accept items that have been marked for dumping.
:* Require dwarfs to have {{L|refuse hauling}} {{L|labor}} enabled.
::* Are subject to refuse orders (''{{k|o}}: Set Orders and Options -> {{k|r}}: Refuse Orders''). Most notably, dwarves will not dump items that are outside unless you allow them to ({{k|o}}->{{k|r}}->{{k|o}}).

To place a garbage dump, trace a zone on either a relatively empty plot of land or adjacent to a cliff face or hole. If a garbage zone is designated beside a {{L|cliff}} or hole (both natural or dwarf made) garbage will be thrown off/in the z-space. Each ground tile within that zone is considered a garbage dump tile; thus, if you want to place a single-tile zone, place the zone onto a ground tile (optionally adjacent to a cliff or {{L|pit}}), not onto an {{L|open space}}.
Items dumped into {{L|magma}} (provided they are not {{L|magma safe}}) will disappear permanently. Otherwise a single tile (either a dump zone, or the ground below the open space) will hold any number of dumped objects.

Once items are dumped they are automatically marked as "{{l|forbid}}den" however they will not dump items that are also forbidden. If you wish to use dumped items, you need to reclaim them. Press {{k|k}} to view the item and {{k|f}} to toggle forbid status. You may also use the reclaim {{L|designation}} to reclaim simultaneously all of the items dumped by using {{key|d}}, {{key|b}}, {{key|c}} and tracing the designation over top of the objects.

If a garbage dump is located next to open space, dwarves will always stand on a garbage dump square when throwing ''into that open space'', even if it could potentially be done more efficiently. If a garbage dump is located next to multiple tiles of open space, they seem to prefer the one farthest to the northwest. If a tile to the north and a tile to the west are the only tiles available, they will throw to the west. Since falling objects do not hurt dwarves, such garbage dumps can be a very efficient method of moving materials to the lower levels of your fortress.

Dwarves seem to throw dumped items in the nearest available garbage dump, although this is probably not reliable given that they don't always use the nearest available item to make things at workshops. If a nearer zone becomes available as they are traveling to a zone they will ignore it. Also, they seem to prefer dumps that allow them to throw things in to open space regardless of how far away they are.

Probably due to a bug, dwarves periodically ignore items that are meant to be dumped. Viewing the item by pressing {{k|k}} then toggling forbid and dump status on, then off again {{k|f}}->{{k|f}}->{{k|d}}->{{k|d}} seems to correct this problem.

== Pit/Pond ==
:Shortcut {{k|p}}

A Pit/Pond requires a {{L|ramp}} or hole with adjacent flooring on which a dwarf can stand. Designate the zone from the top of the ramp or hole. By default, the zone will be a pit. To change it to a pond, press {{k|P}} then {{k|f}}. It can be changed back to a pit the same way.

Animals can be assigned to a pit through the {{k|P}} menu. A dwarf will lead the beast to the pit and leave it there. (If the pit is a ramp rather than a hole, the animal will then wander off)

Dwarves will attempt to fill a pond with {{L|water}}, carried by {{L|bucket}} from a water-gathering zone. They will stand on the floor adjacent to the top of the ramp or hole, and toss the water onto the ramp or into the hole. Each bucketful increases the depth of the water in the pond by 1/7. Once the water is dumped from the bucket, the dwarf will either drop the bucket and perform a different task, or choose to fill a pond zone tile again using the bucket (s)he currently holds.

Dwarves will stop scheduling the Fill Pond job when the water depth reaches 6/7.

This is one technique used for {{L|farming}}, in order to make {{L|mud}}.

*bug notified .35* : to fill a large pond fast, you can create a zone on each tiles as a pond (or several zones overlapping the same area), so one dwarf will be filling one pond tile, but if you select the ponds as watersource, the dwarves will endlessly fill the ponds with the other adjacent ponds water, making a loop of useless duty.

== Sand Collection ==
:Shortcut {{k|s}}

Sand collection zones are important in the {{L|glass industry}}. They may be placed anywhere, but are only useful when actually placed on {{L|sand}}.

== Meeting Area ==
:Shortcut {{k|m}}
Meeting area zones are areas in which dwarves and animals will congregate on their free time, similar to meeting halls. Additionally, immigrants will collect here until their "migrant" status wears off. It is a good idea to have at least one Meeting Area, of one form or another: it allows you to make off-duty dwarves and animals gather in an area where they are not vulnerable, such as within the fortress.

There are several ways to designate a meeting hall. The preferred method is to use an Activity zone; type i, set up a zone, and mark it both "active" and "meeting". Statue gardens and zoos are intrinsically meeting halls, as are rooms defined from a well. However, you can also create a Meeting Hall.

A meeting area filled with dwarves increases the social skills of idlers. It makes idle dwarves a little less idle, and makes selecting a replacement broker easier. Because almost every dwarf visits a meeting hall at least occasionally, it's an ideal place to site valuable objects and buildings. A meeting hall exposed to sunlight will prevent dwarves from becoming cave-adapted.

Be warned that having dwarves socialize will often result in them becoming {{L|friend}}s (or forming a {{L|grudge}}).

== Hospital ==
:Shortcut {{k|h}}

A Hospital zone is an area designated for the {{L|Healthcare|care and treatment}} of sick and {{L|Wound|wounded}} dwarves.

===Setting up a Hospital===

While there are no particular restrictions on the areas that can be set as hospital zones, a hospital requires certain {{l|furniture}} and supplies to function properly:

{| class="wikitable" cellspacing="0" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
! Furniture
! Function
|-
| {{L|Bed|Beds}}
| Allow sick dwarves to {{L|Rest|rest}}
|-
| {{L|Table|Tables}}
| Used in surgery{{Verify}}
|-
| {{L|Traction bench|Traction benches}}
| Immobilize dwarves who need to stay still to heal
|-
| {{L|Container|Boxes/Bags}}
| Storage for medical supplies
|}

{| class="wikitable" cellspacing="0" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
! Medical equipment
! Function
! Unit quantity*
|-
| {{L|Thread}}
| Required for suturing wounds
| 15000
|-
| {{L|Cloth}}
| Required for bandages
| 10000
|-
| {{L|Splint|Splints}}
| Used to bind broken bones{{verify}}
| 1
|-
| {{L|Crutch|Crutches}}
| Walking aid for dwarves with leg injuries
| 1
|-
| {{L|Gypsum plaster|Powder for casts}}
| Used to make plaster casts for setting bones{{Verify}}
| 150{{Verify}}
|-
| {{L|Bucket|Buckets }}
|
*Used by doctors to carry water for cleaning patients
*Used by dwarves with the Feed Patients/Prisoners labor to water patients
| 1
|-
| {{L|Soap }}
| Used to reduce infections when washing patients
| 150{{verify}}
|}

''*The unit quantity is the quantity of each item that appears in the Hospital Information screen when one object of that type is stored. For example, if one bolt of cloth is stored in the hospital zone, the hospital will report that it contains 10000 cloth.''

In addition to furniture and medical supplies, a {{L|Water|source of water}} is more or less mandatory, as sick dwarves need it for drinking as well as cleaning. The water source need not be in the hospital zone, although the shorter the distance between the two the better.

When the Zones menu ({{k|i}}) is open and the cursor is in a hospital zone, {{k|H}} will bring up the Hospital Information screen. This screen shows the quantity of each type of furniture piece and medical equipment present in the Hospital, and allows you to set the desired quantity of each type of equipment. Note that you must have boxes or bags constructed in the hospital zone for supplies to be stored for medical use; items in a stockpile do not count for the hospital, even if the stockpile is in the hospital zone.

===Hospital Beds===

When a dwarf becomes sick or {{l|wound}}ed, he will be carried to a {{l|bed}} in a hospital zone by a dwarf with the Recovering Wounded labor set, assuming such a bed is available; otherwise, he may be carried to a bed in a {{L|barracks}} or {{L|dormitory}}, or to an unassigned bed. If an injured dwarf is resting in a bed outside a hospital zone, he will remain there even if hospital beds become available. Deconstructing the sick dwarf's bed may cause him to be move to a hospital bed, however, and it may be possible for doctors to treat patients who are resting outside of a hospital zone, so long as adequate supplies are available.{{verify}}

v0.31:Boulder

2010-10-15T21:15:07Z

Nahno: Links

{{quality|Fine|08:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)}}{{av}}
A '''boulder''' is a {{L|map tile}} that occurs randomly across the surface of the world. Boulders represent fragments of various {{L|stone}} types. They can impede the movement of wagons and get in the way of construction projects on land but can be walked over by {{L|dwarves}} and other {{L|creature}}s. To remove a boulder, access the {{k|d}}esignations menu and {{k|s}}mooth stone, click on the stone and an {{L|engraver}} should come along to turn the boulder into a smooth rock {{L|floor}}. The resulting floor is the material of the boulder rather than the apparent surrounding material of the ground that the boulder was on.

If you wish to remove a boulder without creating a smoothed tile in its place, there is {{L|Exploit|another way}}. Simply designate a wall to be constructed on top of the boulder. After it has been constructed, designate it to be removed. Due to a {{L|bug{{, when a dwarf removes the wall, the floor will be replaced by the dominant floor tile of the area (usually soil).

[[Category:Map tiles]]

v0.31:Forbidden

2010-10-15T11:30:22Z

Nahno: Redirect to DF2010:Forbid. The forbidding of doors in the Defense guide should be locking instead.

#REDIRECT [[DF2010:Forbid]]

v0.31:Leggings

2010-10-15T02:23:30Z

Nahno: This is better

#REDIRECT [[DF2010:Armor]]

v0.31:Forest

2010-10-10T20:40:14Z

Nahno: Highwood does not appear in specific biome types, but all(?) wooded biomes that are savage.

{{av}} {{quality|Fine|15:08, 5 June 2010 (UTC)}}

'''Forests''' are {{l|biome|biomes}} which are characterised by extremely dense {{l|tree}} growth and large numbers of {{l|murky pool|murky pools}}.

There are many types of forest, but the main difference between them is the wildlife that inhabits the area. {{l|Elf|Elves}} build their homes, known as ''forest retreats'', in any type of forest.

Particularly dense forests may have so many trees that, in order for {{l|wagon|wagons}} to arrive, you will need to cut a path to the edge of the map. Building a {{l|road}} along this path will prevent trees regrowing and blocking the way. Trees are listed along the wildlife. There are only three kind of trees that are specific to the alignment of the forest. These are Feather tree (good), Glumprong (evil), and Highwood (savage).

The six types of forests you will find are:

* Taiga
* Temperate broadleaf forest
* Temperate coniferous forest
* Tropical dry broadleaf forest
* Tropical moist broadleaf forest
* Tropical coniferous forest

Taigas and tropical forests are situated in harsh {{L|climate|climates}}, and acquiring water there can become a challenge.

== Taigas ==

=== Wildlife ===

==== Creatures ====

'''In taigas appear:'''

* {{L|Black bear}}
* {{L|Deer}}
* {{L|Fox}}
* {{L|Grizzly bear}}
* {{L|Raccoon}}
* {{L|Sasquatch}}
* {{L|Wolf}}

'''In evil taigas appear:'''

* {{L|Werewolf}}

'''In good taigas appear:'''

* {{L|Unicorn}}

==== Vermin ====

'''In savage taigas appear:'''

* {{L|Fox squirrel}}

=== Trees ===

* Larch
* Pine

== Temperate broadleaf forests ==

=== Wildlife ===

==== Creatures ====

'''In temperate broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Black bear}}
* {{L|Cougar}}
* {{L|Deer}}
* {{L|Fox}}
* {{L|Grizzly bear}}
* {{L|Raccoon}}
* {{L|Sasquatch}}
* {{L|Wolf}}

'''In evil temperate broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Foul blendec}}
* {{L|Werewolf}}

'''In good temperate broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Satyr}}
* {{L|Unicorn}}

==== Vermin ====

'''In temperate broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Blue jay}}
* {{L|Cardinal}}
* {{L|Chipmunk}}
* {{L|Gray squirrel}}
* {{L|Oriole}}
* {{L|Red squirrel}}

'''In savage temperate broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Fox squirrel}}

'''In evil temperate broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Phantom spider}}

=== Trees ===

* Alder
* Ash
* Birch
* Chestnut
* Maple
* Oak
* Willow

== Temperate coniferous forests ==

=== Wildlife ===

==== Creatures ====

'''In temperate coniferous forest appear:'''

* {{L|Black bear}}
* {{L|Cougar}}
* {{L|Deer}}
* {{L|Fox}}
* {{L|Grizzly bear}}
* {{L|Raccoon}}
* {{L|Sasquatch}}
* {{L|Wolf}}

'''In evil temperate coniferous forest appear:'''

* {{L|Werewolf}}

'''In good temperate broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Satyr}}
* {{L|Unicorn}}

==== Vermin ====

'''In temperate coniferous forest appear:'''

* {{L|Blue jay}}
* {{L|Cardinal}}
* {{L|Chipmunk}}
* {{L|Gray squirrel}}
* {{L|Red squirrel}}

'''In savage temperate coniferous forest appear:'''

* {{L|Fox squirrel}}

'''In evil temperate coniferous forest appear:'''

* {{L|Phantom spider}}

=== Trees ===

* Cedar
* Larch
* Pine

== Tropical dry broadleaf forests ==

=== Wildlife ===

==== Creatures ====

'''In tropical dry broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Cougar}}
* {{L|Elephant}}
* {{L|Tiger}}

'''In savage tropical dry broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Giant tiger}}
* {{L|Tigerman}}

'''In evil tropical dry broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Foul blendec}}

'''In good tropical dry broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Satyr}}
* {{L|Unicorn}}

==== Vermin ====

'''In evil tropical dry broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Phantom spider}}

=== Trees ===

* Acacia
* Candlenut
* Mango tree
* Mahongany
* Palm
* Willow

== Tropical moist broadleaf forests ==

=== Wildlife ===

==== Creatures ====

'''In tropical moist broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Bilou}}
* {{L|Black-crested gibbon}}
* {{L|Black-handed gibbon}}
* {{L|Bonobo}}
* {{L|Chimpanzee}}
* {{L|Cougar}}
* {{L|Elephant}}
* {{L|Gorilla}}
* {{L|Gray gibbon}}
* {{L|Orangutan}}
* {{L|Pileated gibbon}}
* {{L|Siamang}}
* {{L|Silvery gibbon}}
* {{L|Tiger}}
* {{L|Mandrill}}
* {{L|White-browed gibbon}}
* {{L|White-handed gibbon}}

'''In savage tropical moist broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Giant tiger}}
* {{L|Slugman}}
* {{L|Snailman}}
* {{L|Tigerman}}

'''In evil tropical moist broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Foul blendec}}
* {{L|Strangler}}

'''In good tropical moist broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Unicorn}}

==== Vermin ====

'''In evil tropical moist broadleaf forest appear:'''

* {{L|Phantom spider}}

=== Trees ===

* Cacao tree
* Candlenut
* Kapok
* Mango tree
* Mahongany
* Palm
* Rubber tree
* Willow

== Tropical coniferous forests ==

=== Wildlife ===

==== Creatures ====

'''In tropical coniferous forest appear:'''

* {{L|Cougar}}
* {{L|Elephant}}
* {{L|Tiger}}

'''In savage tropical coniferous forest appear:'''

* {{L|Tigerman}}

'''In good tropical coniferous forest appear:'''

* {{L|Unicorn}}

==== Vermin ====

'''In evil tropical coniferous forest appear:'''

* {{L|Phantom spider}}

=== Trees ===

* Candlenut
* Cedar
* Mango tree
* Mahongany
* Palm
* Pine
* Willow

{{Expand Topic}}

{{World}}
{{Category|World}}

v0.31:Orangutan

2010-10-09T13:39:50Z

Nahno: Assuming the articles on taming and the dungeon master are valid.

{{quality|Fine|12:57, 9 October 2010 (UTC)}}
{{CreatureInfo v0.31
|name=Orangutan
|symbol=O
|color=6:0:0
|biome=* {{L|Forest|Tropical moist broadleaf forest}}
|contrib=no
|bones=14
|meat=12 - 13
|fat=12
|eyes=?
|lung=2
|heart=1
|intestines=1
|liver=1
|tripe=1
|sweetbread=1
|spleen=1
|kidney=2
|brain=1
|skulls=1
|skin=hide
}}
{{av}}

:''A huge intelligent ape found in the tropical forests. It is bright red and found living in the trees.''

'''Orangutans''' are large solitary apes {{L|Preferences|beloved}} by {{L|Dwarf|dwarves}} for their long arms, colourful fur, and antics. Being much stronger than your dwarves they can easily kill your civilians, but they usually keep their distance and are not looking to fight.

They have a decent {{L|Pet|pet value}} of 500, but can only be {{L|tame}}d after the {{L|Dungeon Master}} arrives. With a potential life span of eighty years they might even outlive their owner.

{{gamedata}}
{{Creatures}}
{{Category|Animals}}

v0.31:War

2010-10-09T13:24:06Z

Nahno: Links

{{quality|Fine|22:39, 8 October 2010 (UTC)}}{{AV}}

War is a state of conflict between two {{L|civilization}}s. During Dwarf Fortress mode, it's a bottomless pit of {{L|fun}}.

==World Gen==
War is common during world gen. During world-gen war, civilizations will attack each other's settlements, occasionally destroying a site and occasionally taking it over.

==Dwarf Fortress Mode==
In dwarf fortress mode, war will cause {{L|siege}}s to arrive and bring you {{L|fun}} and [[Goblinite|presents]].
Once you are at war with another race, '''the war will never end'''. They may attack very occasionally or every year, so be well prepared.
You can see if you are at war with a civilization on the {{k|c}}ivilization screen.

===At Embark===
When embarking, one can check to see which races their civ is at war with. Different civs may be at war with different races. Goblins are considered to be in a constant minor conflict with dwarves, instead of a real war.

===Causing War===
The following events will make a civilization unhappy, eventually leading to war:
*The death of a trader (Despite whether or not you caused the death) while visiting your fortress.
*Failing to keep to the harvesting limit the {{L|elves}} set, if any.
*Seizing Caravans
*Annoying traders (such as offering the hippies wood products repeatedly).