Hello fellow Dwarf fortress players who have more experience than I.
I've recently got an ambush on my humble little fortress, they never made it past the front gate and they died from stone falling trap or got captured by a cage crap. The problem is that I'm having is that, my fortress seems to have random forbidden areas inside! I continue after the attack but my stockpile levels seemed to have been forbidden (not sure which ones) and it seems to make it so dwarfs couldn't use the stair case.
The elves came and i ordered for crafts to be taken to the Trading station. (they might have came before or during the ambush.)
At the building, it was reporting that the broker couldn't get to it. To fix that error, I basically reclaimed every area of my fortress with d>b and then some other letter. I went level by level since i wasn't sure if I could do more than one level at a time. This seemed to fix the problem but then my dawrfs couldn't give good to the building and when ever they tried they would basically be sent away from the building.
I tried more than once to reclaim the building it didn't seem to help. I believe i have some of their animals in cage traps. How do i fix this problem?
Here is the latest save,
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?t3z3n06zns7dts9 This is before i reclaimed everything in my fortress. Some reason the game didn't save or i hit the wrong option. But this is basically where all my problems start, after the ambush. I'm trying to be detail, so sorry if it's a long read.
Another question, is their a wiki/web page that details the things i can do with a cage, the goblins I capture in said cages, and cage traps?