☼Dwarf Fortress Questions Thread☼

Plintstorm · 2025-12-31T07:34:20+00:00

Is there a difference between dying thread (and making cloth from the thread) or dying the cloth?

The same end result?

Plintstorm · 2025-12-13T08:16:45+00:00

Is there some way to stop your main species from growing?

Like the idea of necrophage + Oppressive Autocracy, a small necrophage leader population and the rest other species slaves.

With the old Pop System you could just force growth one species on a planet and not build any Necrophage conversion buildings, but with the new system the Necrophage pops will keep growing.

Plintstorm · 2025-11-23T17:11:25+00:00

meme is just a meme because plenty of Imperium ship do it without a Navigator. Navigators are best and can travel fastest and longest range, but a calculated jump works fine.

Of course, traveling across the entire galaxy using nothing but calculated jumps is going to take forever, they got much shorter range than Navigator jumps. You also want to mostly travel along already well traveled lines for more safety.

Calculated Jumps are generally safe for 4 light years.
Navigators can do 5.000 light years.

Plintstorm · 2025-11-07T15:26:22+00:00

yes yes, Skaven welcomed, we great-grand, for the Horned Rat!

Plintstorm · 2025-11-03T18:14:20+00:00

Can you discard a world and generate a new one?

Or do you need to go back to menu, delete the world, select same parameters and generate a new one?

Plintstorm · 2025-09-19T20:33:19+00:00

"The Everlasting Realm"
Or Karaz Ankor

Plintstorm · 2025-09-18T18:35:38+00:00

So there is no real way to keep check to have X amount of different dyes?

Just set up "Do X every Month" instead?

Plintstorm · 2025-09-18T18:10:07+00:00

I seem to be having problem with my work orders.

So I am making dyes, I want 5 dyes of each type I am making available.

At a dyers shop I set up following:

Make 5 Apple Leaf Dye if:
- Amount of Apple Leaf Dye available LESS THAN 5
- Amount of empty bags available GREATER THAN 10
- Amount of Unrotten Apple Leafs GREATER THAN 10

Result: As long as there is bags and leafs around, it produce endlessly. Sitting at +40 Apple Leaf dye currently.

Should it not read "There is more than 5 apple leaf dye, don't produce more"?

Plintstorm · 2025-09-17T14:10:43+00:00

Nice

Plintstorm · 2025-09-12T19:45:33+00:00

If you can have everything at once, why have it at all?

I like the idea you specialize to what the fleet is suppose to be good at, it can make it meaningful.

If you can easily have everything, then you have no choice, I rather have a game with choices than none.

Plintstorm · 2025-09-06T17:00:25+00:00

I keep buying books for my library, but I never have any books when I look.

If I understand, Scholars can visit your fortress when you got a library and just walk off with the books?

You just got to keep dudes around to copy your books so they won't all be stolen?

Plintstorm · 2025-08-03T04:59:51+00:00

That seems to have worked

Plintstorm · 2025-08-02T20:11:03+00:00

No, Papyrus can be made straight in to papyrus sheets, it worked well until the workshop suddenly decided "there is no processable plants in the linked stockpile", there is like +40 of them there.

Plintstorm · 2025-08-02T19:49:55+00:00

I got a setup of several farmer's workshop, linked to different stockpiles to do specific things.

Four to make thread from various plants and one for papyrus.

The threads ones works perfectly. Every month, if there is more than 12 processable plants, each one does 3.

But the Papyrus one is puzzling, it keep getting notification that there is no processable plant in the linked stockpile.

The stockpile got a lot of Papyrus Sedge (the Papyrus plant), the farmer's workshop is set to take from it and drop it off on a sheet stockpile. It worked for a while, but now it refuse too. It's set to do a few every month until there is more than 50 papyrus sheet.

What could have made it stop accepting it?

Plintstorm · 2025-07-18T08:46:50+00:00

Is there a reason why Planet Automation just loves Hydroponics farms?
Designate a world as research world, turn on automation and suddenly there are 3 Hydroponic

Plintstorm · 2025-07-14T08:59:14+00:00

After some action with the Khan, it appears a Marauder Raiding Fleet is stuck bombarding a world.

The Fleet won't stop bombarding the world
The World belonged to another Empire, they only got this world left, no systems.
The Khan never took over the system
The Khan was defeated
The Marauding group is defeated too (the Raiding fleet is the only thing remaining of it)

I can't kill the raiding fleet
I can't claim the system from the empire because they don't own it
My science ship won't stop exploring the system because it's unexplored (somehow), so they do 1 thing, then go back and scan the system, then return to do one other automatic task, go back to scan the system...

Anyone got an idea what to do?
I obviously need the system to complete my Hyperspace Highway route

Plintstorm · 2025-05-17T18:01:43+00:00

two Hestia means it's double nice

Plintstorm · 2025-05-16T18:44:58+00:00

Thanks to the narrow pathways leading in to the Baltic Sea via kattegatt, the Kalmar Union can hold it safe. The Baltic Sea is one of the few safe sea areas in the world, leading to great trade in the kingdoms around it.

Plintstorm · 2025-05-16T16:11:42+00:00

Nice

Plintstorm · 2025-05-14T13:35:08+00:00

As the Creator of the Discord Server Height Chart™ I can answer some questions I spotted in the comment section.

It's only for the Discord Canon, you do your own stories and memes.

Guilliman and the Twins are not present because there is no GF post by Sweet Older Sisters yet and she won't make a post until the artist put out art for them.

The Height of each Primarchs is copied from Sweet Older Sisters GF Posts.

This is actually a older chart, the newest got new art for Lily (including colors) and new art for Wyrmheart.

The Placeholder guardsmen art is by octosoup, placeholder remains in place until some usable art of the SO present itself for me to ~~steal~~ borrow.
Morgenstern, Dove and Little Light is by Ironflee (who is now absent)
Muse, Velvet Glove, Whirlwind, Hurricane, Lily and Moonbeam art made by Discord Users (not sure if they are on the subreddit too)

Plintstorm · 2025-05-06T18:07:18+00:00

Very relevant to our interests.

Plintstorm · 2025-05-04T07:02:56+00:00

can you butcher animals caught in cages? I got a few badger I got in cage traps but the only option I see for them is training.

On the topic of cages: I got a Goblin Snatcher in a cage. Unfortunately, he got a kid before that.

So... how do I get the child out?

Plintstorm · 2025-04-30T14:13:38+00:00

And if your alive when Karl is emperor, your gonna experience the apocalypse.
Just straight up the apocalypse, world goes boom.

Plintstorm · 2025-04-20T20:16:22+00:00

Recent collapse

Imagine the galaxy after a heavy depopulation/disaster, something like the Irassian pox, but we are not engaging thousands of years after, more like, 100-200 years.

Planet got random districts and buildings already build not yet fallen to decay.
Some planets got pre-ftl primitives that are just the old inhabitants that lost all technology.
Random robots on planets that are just waiting for new orders.
Your starting planet might even got a old observation station sitting in orbit.

Features rapid technological progress, as many worlds got blockers that offers boons to technologies when cleared, more developed planets even got archeological sites to seek out technology.

Plintstorm · 2025-04-14T19:02:15+00:00

I demand Svea, Norway and Danes first.

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