/dfg/ Dwarf Fortress General

>human mercenary appears
>has a reasonable suit of armour (no breastplate, but a mail shirt at least, and everything is covered)
>actually has a few combat skills
>actually has the armour user skill and so doesn't walk at a snail's pace
fucking amazing. first time I've seen anything close to that competent
5 dead mountain gnomes to her name in her first month here

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>>149738967

the 2 I checked are wearing armor, can't see skills or kills because no warriors ever want to join

What do when you have 50+ idle dwarves at all times?

Some migrants have arrived.

>>149739742
build a giant pyramid on the surface out of [most plentiful metal]
create more militia squads
send them into a cavern to fend for themselves, let the last couple survivors back and give them nice rooms
designate the hole surface as a gathering zone, make them all herbalist/woodcutters (so they carry axes around), rule the world and never farm again

>>149739742
Make them smooth stone or draft them into the military.

>furnace operator drops dead in the middle of the tavern
>no combat report
>he had no injuries
>pile of vomit

D-did he die of alcohol poisoning?

>>149740282

Was he ever damaged?

I've noticed one of my injured dwarves who needs a crutch is constantly winded now from walking around while drunk.

>>149739742
>50+ idle dwarves at all times
I would just kill myself. Not on purpose, the sheer weight of my 'tism-induced anxiety would form a singularity in my brain and my head would implode. I can't even imagine how you can get that many idle dwarves.

>>149740282
I think that is possible, the same thing happened to me once and I assume that's what it was

in the initial tavern release cats kept dropping dead from alcohol poisoning (from licking things coated in booze, can't remember how exactly), so death by alcohol poisoning is definitely possible in DF

>>149740387
He'd never seen combat, so he had no injuries.

>>149740282
Sounds like it. Engrave a slab for him, it will note his cause of death.

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>>149740570
Apparently he suffocated.

>>149740535
Yeah, they were poisoning themselves with booze, in adventurer mode if you hang out in a tavern long enough people keep ordering drinks and tavern keepers don't have a cutoff point so they'll happily murder their patrons all day long.

Sounds like Dwarves need to learn their limits.

>>149741063
Yeah, that's alcohol poisoning.

>>149741063
He drank himself to death

Is there a way to force dwarves to climb and jump? I'm thinking of building an "exercise or die" fort with jumping, climbing, and swimming challenges that punish failure with injury and/or death. The idea is that all my dwarves will be buff as hell, and any invaders will kill themselves just trying to walk around.

>>149742550

Not that I know of.

They'll happily sit up a tree and starve to death.

>>149742635
Hmm...
What about just building lots of pits covered by retracting bridges connected to repeaters?

>>149742550
Dig the floor from under them while they're adjacent to an unsmoothed wall.
You might be able to use a goblin catch-release-catch scheme to get them to climb to fight. I've never tried, but it should work if you're smart about it.

>>149742846

Could work with 2 wide corridors

>>149739742
It's never too late to pursue a new career path. If my old man became an electrical engineer in his 50's so can a potash maker become a mason or metalsmith.

>>149741063
>>149740282
Performers and tavern keeper serve drinks non-stop if a stockpile and goblets are assigned to a tavern
Basically it doesn't matter if a dwarf is thirsty, they will make him drink until he dies

What's the best way to deal with an insane dwarf? Ignore him? Unfortunate "accident" with a draw bridge?

>>149744692
Wall him in and forget about him

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I wish this dude still did art on the DF forums.

>>149744540
Seems to me the only sensible reason to have booze in a tavern is for vampire and necromancer dorfs.

>>149739742
Make them gather any and all plants on the surface. Strip it bare.

>last survivor of a civ is the demon of diamond that created it
>he's off by himself in a camp alone

Holy shit, I could fucking NEVER find demons + their true name before, because they'd always be locked in a dark fort somewhere with 2500 trolls and beak dogs imploding my FPS, but this guy is all by himself.

And he's a demon of a super tough inorganic substance as well. It'll be especially badass to make him a full set of armor to boot.

>>149746312
what mod for armor making plz

>>149746503

Wanderers Friend lets you make armor in adventure mode, but I was just talking about making him some armor in fort mode. My fetish is switching between adventurer and fort mode.

My ideal fort would be just a male and female adventurer and their candy-plated diamond demon. Of course, getting two adventurers the Diagnosis skill is tricky.

>>149746737
>Of course, getting two adventurers the Diagnosis skill is tricky.
What does that have to do with anything?

>>149746737
kinda gay, no metal armor

Did you know: you can alter how much stuff a minecart can hold?

Did you know: you can then use this and a reaction to put a fuckton of water or magma in said minecart?

Did you know: dumping 2916 units of water (or 7/7 depth) out on a cold day results in you being instantly encased in ice?

Well, now you do.

>>149746941
Well they'd have to be able to treat each other for injuries if needed, if there's just two people.

>>149747089
What the fuck were you doing

>>149747195
Dwarves don't need any diagnosis skill to treat injuries. Or diagnose them, for that matter The skill only affects how long the job takes. Even if they did have the skill (or any other medical skill) your adventurers would both need to be getting constantly injured to prevent it from rusting to uselessness.

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>>149747489
df/raw/objects/item_tool.txt > minecart > [CONTAINER_CAPACITY:3250000]
df/raw/objects/reaction_other.txt >
A reaction that makes 2916 water and puts it in an empty container.

Save the files, generate a world, test to see if it works, and dump the water out to make sure it is the full 7/7 depth you expected.

Then notice how cold it is outsidie.

>>149747752
No, I mean, what were you doing that required you carrying so much water in a minecart

>>149747608
Oh really? I thought if they didn't have diagnosis, they might misdiagnose a random body part and amputate something important?

>>149747979
Nope. A dwarf who isn't even dabbling yet will diagnose with 100% accuracy 100% of the time.

>>149748165
Thank fucking God.

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>>149747976
Oh, silly shit involving construction inside of volcanos where it is really handy to be able to drop large amounts of water or obsidian on specific locations.

If you dump at least 1/7 (416~ units) water over a lava flow tile from 1 z above it, rather than making obsidian it clears the magma briefly since the obsidian gets destroyed. You can use that and tapping the single tick wait key carefully to put down walls and such and clear out sections of lava flow flooring.

>>149748476
I see.
Well, good luck with that. Try not to encase yourself in ice again.

>>149748675
Oh, it'll happen from time to time, it's not a safe hobby, but until Toady lets us dig as adventurers I gotta get my volcanohome fix somehow!

Okay, so I want engraved walls in my dining hall, but half of it is loam. What do I need to do? Mine out the walls and build stone walls?

>>149750146
Your only option is to move your dining hall. You can't engrave constructed walls.

or use dfhack.

>>149750350
I think I have dfhack because I got the LNP. How does this help me?

>>149750350
>You can't engrave constructed walls
Why is it even like this, its not like the walls suddenly turned into plastic or some shit.

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>>149750146
Dig deeper. Don't build your fort in dirt, you're not a fucking hobbit.

>>149750447
IIRC, it has to do with how engravings work. They wouldn't be attached to the constructed wall, so you could remove the wall (or floor) and there would be an engraving sitting sitting there in mid-air.

>>149750146
Use DFHack to find and excavate a cube of solid marble. I adore that shit.

>>149750648
Make it so that blocks can be engraved? Or would that fuck with them being used for workshops/ other constructs like pumps?

>>149751695
I'm pretty sure that's another big issue.

>>149739742
Make bigger stockpiles.

Uh, I just realized my outpost liaison didn't leave with the caravan

It's like spring again already

>>149754415

Yeah they chill out in your tavern for a while now.

My dwarves were upset about the lack of goblets so I forged a bunch of golden ones. Will they use them automatically from the stockpile or do I need to assign them somehow?

>>149755129
put em in bins in the tavern

>>149755129
>>149755286

Chests, similar to hospitals

>>149755417
Thanks

>>149755481

Bins will work too as anon suggested but not really worth it to bugger around with stockpile settings imo when you can just chuck a few chests down

There should be lead poisoning in this game

I should be able to send those faggoty elves away with some lead lined food barrels and then do the same next year and then get news that they have mysteriously died from my sabotage

>>149755684
>making the game determine syndromes for 124 elves 500 miles away

>>149756943

checked

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>>149755868
>he isn't willing to sacrifice some fps for torturing elves

>>149756943
Looks like a triple to me.

Is there any way to turn of damp stone or warm stone cancellations? I mean, this game never holds your hand for anything, but this drives me mad. There is water above where I'm working and I have to re-designate each tile manually again and again. Not only that, when I do it takes sometime before they realize there is a designation so they have to walk all the way back to keep digging, and the fortress is flooding.

>>149757323
If I really want to torture someone it'd probably be goblin babysnatchers who actually deserve it, not elves who have never remotely done anything to bother me

Conversely if I did want to torture them I wouldn't do so by destroying my FPS via tracking random ass interactions on the other side of the planet (and requiring the game monitor their thoughts etc), I would just put them in a pit, and drop one of them a few Z-levels in front of the others so he breaks something, eventually suffers an infected wound, and starts rotting away where they can see smell him. Probably dump garbage on them for additional stench. Eventually their clothes would rot off, causing more bad thoughts, and maybe put a corpse stockpile or butcher's shop in view as well.

Tracking itemsyndrome and bad thoughts for everyone on the whole planet would require much more than the supercomputer that will be needed for the finished DF product.

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>>149757649
Elves being evil isn't just a meme. Their values are fucked up as heck.

>>149757721
What about hyoomons?

>>149757630

Yes there is, you have to edit announcements.txt, Google should provide the specifics since it's not exactly clear when looking at the file

>>149757846
They are randomised for each civ.

Thanks to their randomized values, they are the only civ who occationally use war prisoners as slaves.

>>149757721
>Elves being evil isn't just a meme.

It kinda is. The elven cannibalism meme is "once, dozens of years ago, an elf killed and ate a monster like adventurers frequently do." It'd be more interesting (and relevant) if elves were obligate people-eaters who also enjoyed using goblin, human, and dwarven bone and leather but their people eating is extremely rare and undetectable unless you use Legends mode.

They are a friendly race well over 99% of the time whose main relevance is bringing you cloth and thread for when you don't feel like dicking with the textile minigame (I know I sure don't) and very rarely bringing kick ass animals.

So what is the deal with /dfg/ nowadays? There used to be endless flaming over ASCII>Grafix. Nothing anymore.
SInce dfhack/TWBT needs a while to update. What's your favorite ASCII set today, still Myne and Taffer?

>>149757962
Ah, I see.

>>149758028
>There used to be endless flaming over ASCII>Grafix. Nothing anymore.

We got tired of the "joke."

>You beat the dead horse corpse in the upper torso and the body part collapses in a shower of gore!

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>>149758028

>>149757972
No, really. Every time an elf kills a hist fig from a civilised race, he/she devours their corpse afterwards. If you didn't know, adv mode cannibalism was an exclusively 0.40 phenomenom, and is taken out now. ONLY elves and goblins eat people, and only elves have an ideology that glorifies it. Seriously, when you check the legends, you'll see the elves attacking other civs and eating their citizens CONSTANTLY. Even Toady mentioned it in the last dev log entry.

Like my chart said, they are also fine with murder and turture.

They are the epitome of misanthropic environmentalism.

>>149758303
>Every time an elf kills a hist fig from a civilised race, he/she devours their corpse afterwards.

No, *sometimes* an elf kills someone and eats the corpse. As a result, over the course of 100 or so years, maybe 20 people got eaten by a given civilization. In a given world, likely none of your adventurers or dorfs will ever uncover evidence of it happening.

>If you didn't know, adv mode cannibalism was an exclusively 0.40 phenomenom, and is taken out now.

It was definitely in .34.xx to some extent.

Much more relevant are human bandits and, of course, dorfs beating each other over inane export laws.

>>149758303
Man, Elves are dicks.

>>149758729
It's not "sometimes". It's every time. Just look up a battle between elves and some other race in legends mode. EVERY hist fig who got killed on the opposing side will be explicitly stated to have been devoured afterwards(assuming they got killed by an elf, since the killer is the one to do the devouring).

>>149757972
there's nothing difficult about the textile industry

>>149758239
>We got tired of the "joke."
pic of a fortress? 10x10 seems a bit small for my taste.

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>>149757358
Nah, the south leading river is on the same z-level as the visible water there, while the north and west leading rivers are on the same level as the bottom of that waterfall, so it pours straight from the east input river through to the middle waterfall.

>>149759006
disregard the quote

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>>149759006

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>>149758239
That's a nicely tuned 10x10 set, sets that small drive me nuts because you gotta scrimp and scrape for every pixel.

>>149758028
Myne and Taffer are natural picks for square sets.

>>149758303
>Seriously, when you check the legends, you'll see the elves attacking other civs and eating their citizens CONSTANTLY.

A bit of an exaggeration. Depends on the exact populations involved, but the most common tendency is for goblins to overpopulate and account for the majority of wars. This world has 5 elven civilizations and are well surrounded and they have waged 0 offensive battles total.

I will keep looking to try to find proof of elves 'attacking everyone'. I'll certainly admit they're more aggressive than, say, dwarves, who don't seem to ever wage offensive war, but wars with elves with a player faction are rare to the point of being treasured. None of the DF players I know have ever even seen elves attack.

>>149758969
>there's nothing difficult about the textile industry
You can't just automate it. It needs micromanagement. That's what sucks imo. Checking if everything is in order, checking planting, shearing, collecting, checking stocks, manually job orderings. It's a pita. W

>>149758969
"difficult" and "not something I find interesting" are two completely separate topics.

>>149759334

If you have enough shearable animals you can put shearing on repeat and it will never cancel out, alternatively having a decent amount and just putting the pens further away would also work.

Aside from unadulterated autism is there any reason to use old school ascii or graphics packs that are easier on the eyes?

>>149759489
old school ascii has less that can break when the game gets updated.
that's about it. it's otherwise just a matter of taste.

>>149758960
>It's every time

Just checked a war with 125 goblin killed in a war against elves, no goblins were devoured. Now of course, its virtually guaranteed the reason that elves are bad at fighting and their giant animals do essentially all heavy lifting, but like I said, its quite rare. At best, its something that happens with 1% of the frequency of getting attacked by bandits or 0.1% of hammerers, and certainly nothing you would ever notice in adventurer or dwarf fortress mode.

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>>149759224
I've had quite a few cases of elves waging war on literally everyone, but my world-gen settings specifically encourage that sort of bump-and-grind.

I have a screenshot somewhere but I can't remember the name, where the elves got sieged back and ended up with some of them being buried alive, flayed, and drowned.

>>149759489
>preferring the use of imagination is "autism"
>liking things you dislike is "autism"

>>149759489
I play always ASCII with new versions without dfhack/twbt support. I want my text to be readable and clean. I like graphics sets with twbt.

>>149759657

Yes, I would definitely think that conflicts with elves are more common when there's widely dispersed villages and elven forest retreats intermixed. I usually only see a few cozy hamlets and a couple dwarven fortresses myself.

>>149759334
Just build a few looms and your weavers will automatically collect webs and weave cloth out of them constantly. It's entirely automatic.

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>>149759672
>watching that the quiz bowl episode of king of the hill
>one of the first questions was "-273 degrees kelvin is what?"
>knowing everything wrong with that one question and caring is autism

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>>149759815
Yeah, I am probably gonna wait for Toady to do more site overhauls before I put world-gen forts back in, towns are too interesting.

This was the screenshot I meant about the awful shit done as a result of elves sieging everyone else.

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>>149759224
>>149759592
To prove my point, watch this screenshot. As you can see, only two hist fig humans got killed by hist fig elves(one in a duel). Both of them got devooured afterwards.

Assuming that both of the involved combatants are hist figs, there is a 100% cannibalism rate.

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>>149761241
Interestingly, Thele Oakentook was the princess of the elf civ. She killed one more human after that battle, whom she devoured.

>>149761241
>Assuming that both of the involved combatants are hist figs, there is a 100% cannibalism rate.
Ah well that's fair.

>>149740282
>Dorf
>Alcohol poisoning


HIS LIVER WAS WEAK AND SO WAS HE

DROP HIM ON THE DEAD VERMIN PILE

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Forgotten beast trapped. Only waiting for the elves now. Lets see they try to eat that.

>>149757972
>protecting trees

>not using any wood

>cannibalism


DF Elves are Bosmer?

>>149687837
I can't wait for siegers able to bring catapults which can finally damage walls based on a hardness and health metric (i.e. More important to actually build strong metal blocks) I'd love to see stepladders and ballistas brought and siege towers built on site. "shovel"'s letting gobs dig through dirt mitebkewl too.

Not a fan of stone tunneling and sappers unless there's a hardness system though so you can still metal block a safehouse vault.

>2036
>The game can record hist fights
>Watch the siege of a human capital you saw fall to ruin in worldgen
>Over 15,000 gobs attacked
>tunnelers got under a corner tower, sappers set charges, and they blew it and the tunnel supports to collapse the tower
>Gobs pour into the breach
>Tonight, no mercy for an anus.webm

>>149688663
Obsidian is pretty much only good for more valuable stone crafts once you hit legendary. If you wish, and you don't realyl have a reason to not use real metal, you can make a ton of exceptional and masterwork obsidian short swords and put them in traps all over just for added light defenses.

If you want to be a cool dude, you can do a theme fort where you only use metal for non-combat picks and crafts/furniture/etc. Fighting is a lot more fun when you're using only wood, bone, leather and obsidian. Don't trap cheese shit and ramp into and live in cavern: 3 for maximum fun DF

>>149739742
Put them in squads of 5 and assign them metal helm, mail, gaunt, high boots, leather armor, leather clothing, make sure all my loose metal greaves are forbidden or melted, give them bone greaves or leave their legs bare (rip). Wood shields and a crossbow, empty hands for wrestler, wood shield and 1 weapon type per squad. then I have them train on 3 months, haul for 3. I alternate the assignment on squads and they're good to go.

Another favorite use for them is to rotate my old legendary miners into a pick dwarf militia with 2 legendary soldiers per 5 miners to get them trained up and strip-mine shit with the new miners until they're legends and repeat.

If you have a small core of doctors, you can lightly armor up a dwarf, give him max head/chest protection, and use a retracting bridge over a drop shaft to keep dropping and lightly/mildly injuring them constantly for medical training. Fast diagnosis wound cleaning and stitching in a close hospital along with frequent bathing really helps the endurance of your military

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>>149759046
Finally, I don't know why I am compelled to do this shit.

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>>149764290
>a hundred years later, you arrive at the ruined capital as an adventurer
>the damage to the structures is still there, in the same places you saw get rekt in legends mode
>theres additional damage caused by erosion after that
>the ruins are occupied by several rivaling bands of squatters, refugees, nomads and bandits
>non-lethal gang fights occur in the streets regularly, which sometimes escalate into lethal conflicts
>as an adventurer, you choose to help the most honest-looking band
>you help them gain control of the entire city
>rumours of their strength help draw migrants from the poor villages in the war-torn countryside
>the new population, led and protected by the former bandit gang, help restore the capital to its former glory
>new and ancient architecture intertwine, resulting in a totally unique and diverse city
>a new flourishing city state is founded around the old capital
>the ruins are subject to many archaeological excavations, resulting in many interesting reports that are stored in the library
>a museum is dedicated to showing artifacts from the fateful battle, exhibiting equipment worn by soldiers on both sides, among other things
>the player retires in one of the old restored villas, and goes to history as one of the civ's founders

>>149758729
Regardless of the frequency of the eatings, all elves are okay with it according to their ethics.

>>149765185
We're not that far from there, really. That's part of why 40.xx was so bland feeling, it was setting down the groundwork for this shit.

>>149765352
>That's part of why 40.xx was so bland feeling

Eh. The fact that it's evident that tons of groundwork was laid made .40 satisfying. That and world gen being continued after the initial time was absolutely huge.

>>149765752
Well, I say that but it was when I started, so it's what df feels like to me, I played 34.11 to check it out, couldn't get the older ones to work, so naturally I'm geeked as fuck about the 42.xx/43.xx update cycle fleshing out the 40.24 I had been on for a year.

>>149763341
Not familiar, but yeah, it makes significantly more sense that elves would either use wood and not mind responsible logging, or be mad about logging and not use wood.

Presumably they use wood due to magic-n-sheeit; however, their motive for avoiding making metals must surely be that they don't want to burn trees to use it, and they trade with dorfs under the hope that dorfs are using magmaforges to make their stuff.

Even the most conservative concept of elves should probably have them using some leather, some bone, and probably stone as well, especially stone tipped arrows and spears.

>>149765351
They're just as opposed to consuming the dead in any other situation than after you've killed someone in battle, presumably the person killed isn't likely to care.

>>149765965
I took first steps earlier to including a "divine wood" template with better properties so they feel more magical and threatening, less ramshackle hippies in cardboard armor. Still figuring out how to get them to use it properly, I hoped just removing regular wood templates from armor/weapons would stop those but the grown shit bypasses it apparently.

>go to fight a hill titan with my spear
>realise the spear isn't doing shit so i escape after feeding like 20 peasants to him
>go back with a silver war hammer
>can;t find him
>wandering around the area
>suddenly a fucking demon comes around a sharp corner and implodes my ribcage through an iron breastplate with a single kick
>bleed and suffocate to death due to bones in my organs

i checked history, that demon killed the titan too. ??????????????????????????

>>149766893
I believe they were not friends.

>>149765352
Still pretty far imo. While he has hamlets and "towns" pretty much everything below * capitals are bare as fuck. Can't even buy food off the farmers when I'm passing by. I guess shit will be okay once he has more overland caravans in motion but still you're dicked pretty hard with adv mode. Especially when they never really grew above hamlet and town.

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>>149766448
Give it barred armor and all that shit so they make armor out of it and they'll wear it. That's how you get craftable rose gold armor and shit.

>>149766893
They're often fuckhuge bro.

>>149768390
Yeah, infraestructures are not satisfying at all for now, I wonder what kind of stuff can be made to fix that
>year 2038
>While dwarves are still under your command all the time, sometimes a dwarf, following a dream that involves leaving the fortress will petition a permit to do so (think of it like a mood)
>You can give a range of permissions, varying what you expect from that dwarf, from total freedom (you can go and come back whenever you like), passing from conditioned permits (you can go for 3 years, but you must return with an artifact for displaying at the fortress, etc.), to giving a denial of a permit that will cause bad thoughts
>More complex IA and psychology will be needed, as dwarves may or may not abandon their dreams if you deny the chance to leave the fortress or they may get increasingly insistent the more you deny it. They will also need to find ways to acomplish the tasks you set them, etc.

I just want more out-of-the-fortress stuff in dwarf mode, and specially this kind of stuff is very fitting, because you can see that most stories start somewhat like this. It also lets you decide if things are gonna happen or not.
Like, maybe you have this crazy dude that wants to rule the world but you don't let him get out of his house, because you know that if you did, he would die, because by his personality, he's such a wuss. stuff like that

>>149768390
Adventurer isn't bad. Its good as an errand boy for fortress mode, and in a busy world you can repeatedly fight off whole sieges if you're good.

>>149769158
that would be awesome dude, exactly what I want too.
Im more interesed in having more roles in adventure mode thou, that really would add deepness to the game
Have you seen the ''the law, the ultimate suggestion'' or something like that in the forums, it talks about a lot of stuff, and the guy talks about contrats and using that to buy stuff and make labour available, in the sense that having a contrat to work as a metalsmith would give you a reason to buy a house and start making swords and armour to your civ, in a comfy place.
Combine that with the other suggestion of item crafting getting better the more you use it, and you can become a legendary smith that revolutionaces the whole industry

>>149769180
I'm just mad because I shouldn't have to go to a mountainhome or steal shit but to get some basic crap together. I went and roamed the wilds for hours to get meat and bone crafts, let me buy shit damnit. It really hurts that we can't push wheelbarrows either. you can only do so much early on even after you hit superdorf/human/elf.

>>149771427

I find it easiest to get stuff as a human, myself.

>>149768390
Having dorfs make towns leads to them taking over the world regularly.

How can i Inspect stone slabs and statues to see what they depict ?

>>149773318
[l]ook at them and view the [d]escription

>>149773768
That is for stockpiles, but can I inspect statues that are already placed somewhere ?

>>149774212
[t]
took me ages to figure that out, too

>>149774212
Oh, derp, you mean in fort mode, you gotta inspec[t] a building, I think.

>>149773768
That only works in ad mode.

>>149773318
You use the 't' command to look at them.

>>149774289
Yeah I knew that I can do that. But I forgot how. Thanks.

>>149775457
did he knock it down towards his leg? sucks to be that guy.

>>149775457
Honest question: will the fact that the lower leg came off first make the bleeding more severe? Realistically, it shouldn't, but it wouldn't suprise me if DF had a bug like that.

>>149757630
No. But there's a tool in dfhack that will automatically redesignate the tiles for you.

>>149757918
That only lets you turn off the pause and recenter and announcement. It doesn't let you stop the cancellation.

>>149777105
discs have multiple attacks so i think that was the case.

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>>149777241
Nah, losing the lower then upper leg immediately isn't going to have much difference from losing the upper leg by itself. There is a certain amount of blood in the lower leg anyways and then the brief step where the upper leg is bleeding vs just the hip bleeding won't change it more than a single tick at best.

How the hell do you maintain a functioning fort that lasts longer than one and a half years

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>>149782634
How do you get those seemingly floating floors?

>>149782932
>one and a half
Pffffft, elf.

>>149782932
Try following the quickstart guide on the wiki. Then try the military guides if it's werebeasts or something like that ending you. If you still can't make it after that, there may be no hope. Consider other games.

>>149783093
They're probably just the tops of walls, but any constructions or natural tiles can be supported from below.

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How can Armok even compete?

>>149782932
walls. build a highground and put crossbow dorfs on it. even if they only have wood bolts a few from the cloud should get between armour pieces and cause injuries

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>>149782634
>urist treebreaker

>>149783224
pls no bully

>>149783409
>>149783853
Yeah it's always the invasions that kill it after a sort of slow decline where I'm unable to keep up with the population. Thanks though.

Did 64-bit actually help anything?

>>149784682
Some anon said that it increased the fps by 1, and that that made a big difference. I don't knowif it was sarcasm or not.

We just have to believe, I guess.

>When Mountainhome sends its dwarfs, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending miners. They’re not sending farmers. They’re sending people that have little use, and they’re bringing those 'skills' with us. They’re bringing diagnosers. They’re bringing clerks. They’re rangers. And some, I assume, are good metal smiths.
How do I refuse migrants early on when I have little to no industry?

>>149739742
Deforest the surface, if you haven't done so already.
Gather all plants.
Increase the size of your military force.

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>>149783093
[] wall
_# fortification

>>149784270
You know it.

Can someone recommend a good tileset that makes DF look like a NES era rpg(preferably a jrpg)?

>>149784902
You can't. You can only adjust your population cap.
However that's likely going to change soon. Now that long term residents can petition for citizenship normal migrants probably (hopefully) will too.

I have a couple of dwarf constantly unhappy. Not even going to the bar or good food, which they somehow always miss because they eat raw vegetables, makes them happier. I had only one tantrum, and it was a bolt out of the blue, the dwarf never had any problems before that.

And here's the catch, the unhappy ones are in the army, so if they go berserk someone's gonna get it good, on the other hand they can just get the "doesn't care about anything anymore" modifier. But how do I speed that up? I have a bunch of goblin prisoners. Should I let them fight?

>>149784902
>They’re rangers
Is there any better way to spend a friday night than individually inactivating the hunting skill for dozens of rangers to keep them from sleeping on the ground?

>>149784902
You don't. I think you may have your values askew, though.
Literally any dwarf can be a pro at swinging a pick in a season or two. You'll never need more than 2 or 3 skilled planters. Skilled metalsmiths are hard to come by, though, and their skills are more valuable than every miner and farmer in your fort. Skilled diagnosers are even harder to get if you don't luck into a bugged diagnosis loop. Rangers could be a few things, but if they're hunters that's free food and/or free skilled soldiers. If you need more miners and farmers literally just v p l.

>>149785553
>soon
Good one. he he he

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>>149785536
Sounds like you're looking for Rally Ho! exactly: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=149172.0

>>149786568
It looks pretty nice, but I'd prefer a non-quare set, and probably also a little higher res.

>>149786730
I feel ya, I tried to rescale it once but the detail is not well-suited for my skill level.

Has Toady added anything new to fort mode or has it all been adventurer stuff? Been away for like 2 years and don't really care for adventurer mode.

>>149787334
So there isn't any? I'd just like a nice, non-square figurative tileset with an old school feel. While I'm liberal with graphical tilesets, I don't want anything to do with graphic sets either.

I guess I'll just hope someone makes such a tileset one day. Until then, I'll just use the default cp437.

>>149787719
Being figurative and looking like an old school jrpg seems mutually exclusive to me. Old school jrpgs were all graphical, and the creature sprites from that era are the most recognizably stereotyped thing about them.
That said, anon was working on a tileset that I think he was calling comfy or something like that, that kinda sorta gets that feel. I haven't seen it posted in a couple of weeks or more, though.

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>>149787719
Yeah, that's why I stick with my upscaled curses set.

>>149787664
Workflow, taverns, needs, temples, combat changes, hang on.

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>>149788658
Not sure if they posted a more updated version than this one yet.

I just want to be rancher and grow all kinds of livestock and crops.

>>149788658
By figurative, I meant graphical.

>>149788920
Ah. That wasn't exactly clear, as the next sentence you said "I don't want anything to do with graphic sets". Then if you do want a graphics set, comfy might not be what you're looking for after all.

>>149788827
Looks like it's still missing a couple of tiles.

>Really want to have a beekeeping industry
>Embark
>Area has bees!!
>They're all bumblebees
WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY

>>149789135
I don't want graphic sets. They are too clumsy, and have to be updated everytime Toady changes the raws.

I want a graphical tileset, that's all. Judging from the pic, comfy looks about right.

>>149789431
>and have to be updated everytime Toady changes the raws
I'm not sure how this misconception gained so much traction, but that's almost never the case.

As a beginner should I start with the original graphics or download a cleaner and clearer ascii pack?

>>149791559
It's literally all up to preference, but packs usually make the game easier to understand

>>149791559
Original. Above all else, make sure you can play the base game first

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Well that is the most awesome thing I've done with a camp since I got all those elves to build one over a volcano and punted them in afterwards.

This volcano was filling from the caverns so I blocked it while I built it out, then when I got the bottom levels right I let the water start filling, it capped over the tube with obsidian around the pillars and stairway, and it gradually filling up to the cavern level right?

I wondered if I could use a pressure-controlling diagonal gap to keep from flooding the camp itself, while letting me drop water onto a section of magma/lava flow which I set up back inside the cleared area.

Behold, a perpetual mist generator which destroys the water after it falls. :D

>>149791559
The only difference is cosmetic. Play with whatever you like.

>>149792092
Nicely done.

>>149738473
>tfw you can never make anything like this in df because the game is shit

>>149791559
i used to use tilesets but then toady actually started updating stuff and it became too much of a hassle to keep installing them.

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>>149792821
Thank ya, I was pretty sure that the pressure stops would keep it from flooding but I was worried it would start splashing over the walls instead of getting vaporized cleanly.

>DF has sound now
Holy fucking shit. Let's get to it, lads.

>>149789274
If you build a hive anyway your dwarfs might find some you missed. Also you can destroy colonies so more can spawn by building dirt roads over them.

>>149793302
Good ole' ninedots with their trippy-as-balls gifs.

>>149793160
You mean Toady's guitar track? When has that ever not been in the game? It goes all the way back to the 2d days.

Is it normal to have an entire fort level dedicated as graveyard?

my entrance look like a horror show of blood and broken bones and dreams

>>149794596
that's normal. dwarves never clean the outside so it's full of vomit

>>149792873
1x2 embark to a desert or glacier, pick a middling to low pop cap. Listen to the maximizing fps page. stay on target and you will.

>>149784682
>>149784853
It's for DF not crashing when it hits 2 gb of ram, not a performance boost.

>>149795610
nope still cant make entrances and waterfalls like that because the game is shit and 2d now if this was minecraft (a much better game btw) maybe you could do that

also no redstone

Is that like... a race of vampires, in masterwork, disabled by default, or will that turn off vampirism entirely?
Why is half the shit in the pack disabled be default? Must everything be esoteric?

>work order and manager improvements

is it easier manageable without therapist now?

>>149765965
Bosmer are an Elven race from The Elder Scrolls living in the province of Valenwood.
Most follow "The Green Pact" which is a strict code: "Do not harm the forests of Valenwood. Do not eat anything made from plant life. Eat only meat. When enemies are conquered, their meat must be eaten, not left to rot. Do not kill wastefully. Do not take on the shape of beasts."

However, unlike Dwarf Fortress Elves, they do not mind others cutting down trees and will use wood and wood products imported from other races.

What should I do when I have many dorfs

>>149797398
Start smoothing stone.

>>149797398
>>149797464
Alternatively, start moving the rocks littering your fortress to a stockpile somewhere. That'll keep 'em busy for a long time.

Or draft 'em into the military.
Or drop 'em into the caves to explore.
Or pick the surface clean of all plants.

There's a multitude of things you can do.

>>149796019
But you can and we don't need redstone because we can do similar logic already

>>149797398
Haulers to grease the wheels of commerce
Put them in squads with 2 legendary dorfs and have them train on 1 season, haul the other. Alternate on/off seasons with each squad for a rotation
The previous but without good soldiers to teach. Go beat prisoners/wildlife with training weapons to level 7 to jumpstart sparring cascade
Put your legendary miners into squads with legendary soldiers to teach them. Put migrants into mining until they're legends and repeat.
Armor them up and drop them in pits to skill up doctors.

Finally my adamantine clad warriors got the goblin blood that they had been lusting after for so long. The problem is, the game seems to think that there is still a siege happening?

I captured a few so I can train a marksdwarf squad (gonna have them get pelted by wooden bolts for the remainder of their days) and Im pretty sure that them being alive is related.

I'm playing 43.03.

Do I have to execute these gobbos? I want to use them for my own evil purposes, I'll be pretty sad if I need to throw em out!

How do I get my dwarves to store stuff in a specific chest? Like goblets in my dining room or thread in my hospital?

>>149797942
Goes without saying but crossbows are easy to train, wrestling is a good I have no gear yet option and give them a real weapon later. Battleaxes for severs, bisect and decaps on inorganic shit, spears for large shit, hammers for equivalent mat armored and undead, picks are decent quickly trained all rounders.

>>149798374
Caged don't count. Search on your units list.

>>149798763
>Caged don't count. Search on your units list.
Ain't nobody left boss.

Everyone is reduced to hilarious amounts of limbs.

The fighting ended with my dwarves at the edge of the map murdering all intruders, maybe some gobbos fled off the map and aren't yet counted as off the map?

>>149798763
Dwarven wrestling is the sort of thing you shouldn't wish on your worst enemies.

We don't use Kisat Dur to make wrestling more brutal, we use it to end the fights faster than bleeding someone out by gouging their toe until they die.

>>149797942
no you cant show me one in game screenshot

>>149800458
Eat your heart out. http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Computing

>>149800993
im talking grand entrances and head waterfalls

>>149801139
But you can. Fluid mechanics is in the game, and by using pumps, you can manipulate bodies of water and make spectacular waterfalls. It won't be easy on your fps, though.

My first ever Elven caravan arrived /dfg/. Should I expect to face a war because I've been cutting down trees to fuel my charcoal industry?

>>149802072
im talking about the architecture numbnuts

>>149802072
Stop taking obvious bait.

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>>149801139
Here ya go.

>>149802934
You can build impressive entrances, too. There's definitly an architectural aspect to DF.

>>149802961
It's not bait. It's shitposting. There's a big difference. I'm just in for the banter.

>>149803854
this isnt IN GAME

>>149804176
proof? none? ok

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>>149804176
Very satisfying to figure shit out and attempt to design interesting architectures.

>>149804318
It is when I play it, perhaps you need to grind your visualization skills?

Can I somehow civilize animal-people I caught ? Or is it impossible ? I had none in my tavern, just one dwarven visitor in 3 years.

Is there any way to speed up world-generation? I'm want a long history but it's taking almost a minute per year and I'm not even above 500 yet!

>>149804176
He's shitposting things that no one who's played the game could possibly think. He actually said that DF is 2d for chrissakes. And you're dutifully giving him (You)s. That's bait, and you taking it. Hell, this is me taking it. Good job anon, now we're both food for the cyan platlet factory.

>>149804318
Learn to use your imagination

>>149804775
Take a nap. Have a meal. Go for a walk. Watch a movie. Sorry, that's the best I can do for you.

>>149804606
but can you make it out of ice or bones?

>werecamel disease destroys my entire fort except one man, who was then voted mayor by himself
>he walks into one of the living quarters and I lock the door behind him
>wait for migrants
>build wall to keep him in
FORT STATUS: SAVED

>>149804994
learn to back up your claims

>>149804606
not acceptable you know what i mean

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>>149805195
Ice and Steel good enough for you?

I could make it from bones, just a matter of tossing in the reaction really.

>>149805479
when you make that reaction I want it too

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>>149805346
As I said, level your visualization skills, I can see these structures just fine, I like to take the screenshots with stonesense or armok vision to show others, but it would be pretty hard to build if I couldn't tell what I was building.

>>149805667
[REACTION:BONE_BLOCKS]
[NAME:carve bone blocks]
[ADVENTURE_MODE_ENABLED]
[REAGENT:tool:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT][HAS_EDGE]
[REAGENT:bones:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][USE_BODY_COMPONENT][ANY_BONE_MATERIAL]
[PRODUCT:100:1:BLOCKS:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:bones:NONE]


Optionally replace the tool reagent line with something like: [BUILDING:CRAFTSMAN:NONE]

Then toss in [SKILL:BONECARVING] and it should be possible to just queue it up in fort mode, or carve them in adventurer mode, though in adventurer mode you'd want to use WOOD instead of BLOCKS, because you have to use logs to build camps, so you get "goblin bone logs" or whatever.

>>149806345
sweet

>>149798907
Does anyone have an idea whats potentially going on?

Its been a few months and the siege tag still hasn't dropped.

>>149807384
You're in 43.03 right?

Uhhhh, fuck I can't think of how to just search for your site number directly.

Try gui/gm-editor df.global.world.world_data.units.active I think and see if there are any units at the bottom of the list with the goblin race, in vanilla it shouuuuullldddd be 468? (465 dorf, 466 human, 467 elf, 468 goblin) and see if they have flags2 or flags3 with invader or sieger or something like that, or an idle_location of like (56)Marauder Mill or some shit? They might be bugged into the dirt or something or dead but not registered right?

>>149807965
Whoops, not world_data, just df.global.world.units.active or if you want to look at your site I think you can do df.global.world.world_data.active_site

I have a dwarf miner thats begun to talk to the rain....should i be concerned?

>>149807965
>>149808076
Wow, thanks man.

Where would I type in these commands? DfHack? Or am I looking for an actual file somewhere? Never had to fiddle with this stuff before.

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If Avuz doesn't finish the job here next month will be fun.

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>>149809269
Should be in the dfhack terminal, not sure if you launch with one of the lnp launchers or whatnot, it'll pull up a scary looking screen which can fuck up everything so don't change shit unless you know what you're after.

I assume that your units list doesn't have a unit who is shown as alive but you can't zoom to, you can also select a unit and just type gui/gm-editor to pull up that one, but if you have a stuck siege it is probable that there is a reference somewhere which needs to be cleared.

>>149809856
Wow, cool. I've messed with DFhack stuff before but not this specific plugin. If I type in:

gui/gm-editor df.global.world.units.active

the script completes but returns nothing. Am I messing up?

>>149809856
>>149810278
Oh wait shit it opens the menu in the game!

Nevermind! Lets have a look..

>>149810578
Yar, that should give a bunch of entries, [0], [1], etc, scroll up to hit the bottom of the list, and that should be the newest arrivals on your map. What you'll be looking for is one with the race shown as 468 and like I said, the idle location or idle area or something saying marauder or invade or something like that.

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This is so much cleaner than last year's meeting, when she crushed the diplomat's limbs before stomping his head in.

>>149811307
You can cross check by running the script with no target (just gui/gm-editor) while highlighting a unit in the units/animals/other/missing/deceased lists, or while targeting a specific unit.

You said you have a caged unit?

Pull them up in the units list and run gui/gm-editor then see what their job is listed as.

Oh, and as always, be careful, it is a very powerful tool, but it gives access to damn near everything in game so you can fuck shit up bad if you go changing things without knowing what they are.

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>when the elves keep sending new caravans, despite the old ones never returning

>>149811307
>>149811570

Well, so I saw that menu and thought Id try a simpler solution first.

Decided to make a glorious magma pit in the glorious name of Armok and began throwing my goblin prisoners into it.

The first one that I threw in, the moment he vanished into the magma sea below the siege tag vanished! I think by killing one I forced the update that the game needed.

Now to strip the rest of their clothes and train some marksdwarves.

>>149740535
the cats were dying because they were licking themselves clean after wandering through puddles of booze. I almost feel like I'm making this up because that is beyond autistic detail even for DF but that's how I remember it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_p-mlNhuA

>all those mispronounciations

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I blocked off the waterfalls to let the volcano tube fill up completely to the cavern layer (god what a weird sentence) took a dickyear so I grabbed a bunch of heavy ass blood thorn logs until I was at 0.099 and started crawling around to spam time faster.

>>149812116
Oh good, well, now you've popped your gm-editor cherry at least.

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>>149814873
Hrrm, so I put walls up in the waterfall feed tunnels to stopper them so I could rearrange things and let the tube fill, and then I removed them to let the logs fall into the lava flow right?

Well, I mentioned above how I was screwing with wood properties and ended up with blood thorn logs weighing 632 urists //each// which produces a rather... dramatic result after falling just two z into magma.

>>149813550
I liked how they pronounced them actually.

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>>149815317
I struggle to decide which one of the following two is more annoying:
>4chan memes about dudes in my country supposedly getting their girlfriends stolen by racified men
or
>anglo DF players constantly failing to pronounce the diacritics in dorf names

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can anyone post the literal combat log picture?

>need to deconstruct an upstair over open space
>dwarf keeps trying to stand on the stair to deconstruct it

I should just let you plummet to your death you fucking idiot.

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So the spiral that I built?

It completely buttfucks the ai, they keep trying to pick a direction to reach me from, but only the ones that are brave enough to try to jump across actually figure it out.

>>149816425
Yeah, I can see how that would be annoying just from the spanish I know, having a background in a language where they're more than just a fancy looking letter would probably be maddening.

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>>149816781

What's smarter?
Only farmers harvest VS everyone harvests?
Mix Food VS No Mix?

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>>149819112
Farmers need to plant as I recall, harvesting isn't skill based right?

>>149819112
Only farmers mean less spill and bigger plant stacks. Consequently, the bigger stacks also result in more booze per barrel.

>Chief Medical Dwarf is dabbling in every healthcare profession

>An entire squad is in dire need of care

Jesus i thought i would be a bloodbath put the cracker somehow pulled through the surgeries with two fatalities

>>149819313
>less spill
What?
>bigger plant stacks
No, the skill of the planter is all that matters for stack size.

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Well I didn't notice in the fustercluck originally but one of the elves was wearing some of the improved featherwood armor and it deflected one of my improved blood thorn bolts!

Success!

>>149820237
dabbling doctors and legendary doctors are equally matched in effectiveness of treatment. the only thing legendary medical does is make the dwarf complete the task faster.

>>149822582

Well thats disappointing, would have hoped on some critical failures like burning down half the fort or accidentally zombie

>>149822582
Legendary Doctors should be able to fix crazy status ailments like curing vamprisim, or making new limbs.

>>149822964
wouldn't they just get smote by some god if they cured the curse?

>>149822964
Magical prostheses are planned, but it probably won't be doctors making them.

just attempted my first raid on a Vault. Managed to kill 2 assistants and a soldier before running away with what I was able to grab. I got a divine material Hammer, and I want to know if it's worth training my hammer skill for it or to just keep using my iron spear

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>>149823398
Sadly no, they're really light, good hammerer item, good for bashing shit forever to skillup hammer, but you'll want even an ordinary copper one over a divine metal one.

Is there some sort of construction I can build that would allow me to seal a portion of an outside building but still allow light in? The idea is to prevent sun sickness.

>>149826409
Glass

>>149826409
essentially, no.
once light has been allowed through, the square will remain "light" even if you build a stone floor over the hole (bridges, grates, etc. all do the same), but doing that will then flag it as "inside, light" instead of "outside, light" meaning that spending time there will merely delay the progression of cave adaption rather than actually preventing it the way "outside, light" does

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>Hey wanna buy some goblin mints so we can go off to siegecamp this summer?
>No, fuck right off.
>Awww, come on lady...
>It's "Lady", with a capital L, as in "Yes, my Lady, I will fuck right off."
>Ok fine, we're just gonna make you buy them.
>Cue bloodshed

>>149826409
>Is there some sort of construction I can build that would allow me to seal a portion of an outside building but still allow light in? The idea is to prevent sun sickness.
Build a wall to the height of the sky if you want to make ABSOLUTELY sure that nothing can get over it, while still remaining "open" to the light it provides, obviously.

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>>149831713
Can you still build all the way up against the sky?

damn dude, neck shots are really good. Necks aren't protected by helms and caps, so I can just stab angels in the neck and injure their spines so they drop their weapons for me to grab.

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>chain vampire mayor out in the open in cavern 3
>he's still conducting meetings with the outpost liason
>a group of blind cave ogres are slowly creeping their way over

>>149832485
yeah, I don't think you can build a wall in the top z-level, but I think you can build a raising bridge there that'll do the same job

Do dwarves need to have skill in writing beforehand to right scrolls and books or can they just scribble some shit down with no skill? Ive had a full stocked library with 5 scholars for two years and not even one scroll or book but, I have had one dwarf "Pondering Probing!" for a year and a half.

>>149834309
I think so. not sure exactly how it works, but the couple times I've given one or two of my starting 7 the reading/writing skills and assigned them as scholars, I've noticed much more writing (vs. just assigning unskilled random dwarves)

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Just killed an archangel with a talented spearmen. Vault wasn't as scary as I thought It would be and now Im trying to find a divine spear to use. Can I claim a Vault?

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Rumrusher is my hero.

>>149834197
Ah, yeah, forgot about that, can't build bridges in a camp yet.

Hmmm, wonder if I could use iceblocks, wait, I tried that, but Toady fixed the power-mining bug sadly.

>>149835513
Vaults are really random, you find them with ash angels and muck servants and they fall apart when you cough at them.

Then you find them where you can't actually get close to the angels, like literally your character won't move the last square over so you can hit them, so you let them get close, hack their head off easily... AND THEN THE FUCKERS EXPLODE IN SUPERHOT FLAME AND MELT YOUR ASS FUCK...

Oh, and no, can't claim one, no linked positions in place. Not sure if you could build a camp on one though... hmmm.

>>149834309
No, they just have to think about their subject for a long time. If you can get two talking about their subject one of them will write about it eventually. I had doctors ponder scraping and bandages for 3 and 5 years respectively before finally writing about them, and one guy has been pondering diplomacy on and off for 8 years. On the other hand, I have a dwarf who wrote two travel guides in 3 years, presumably because he already knew about the places he wanted to write about. For academic subjects they have to make a discovery first, though.

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boop

>>149836640
Yeah, or cheat like I do in adventurer mode and use the "read a type of literature > gain the ability to write it" method.

Been plundering my battlefield for books and instruments, let the bodies rot.

>>149838951
Yeah, that actually contributed to my travel guides. The only book my civ exports is, apparently, a travel guide to a dark fortress, and we bought a copy from the first caravan. So my dwarves apparently learned that literary form from it. I wish someone would write an autobiography.

can someone recommend a mod for crafting armor in adv mode with the current version?

>>149841896
plz respond

I finally learned how to properly appoint nobles. It's nice when their demands are bins and bolts.

>>149841896
>>149843270
>plz respond

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>mfw I might live to see the day that DF has a UI that incorporates all of the LNP utilities

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>>149849835

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>it's one monitor lizard scares my first caravan away because war dogs couldn't kill it episode

I had a captain of the guard become haggard and oblivious, and she stumbled outside into a goblin siege. I thought she was a goner, but reading the reports I saw 9 full pages of pure dodging and shield blocking, no one could touch her until she over-exerted herself. Is that normal, she was mediocre at shield usage, and a adept armor user.

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>64 bit

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>Captain of my marksdwarves drops dead on patrol
>from old age

Fug ;_;

>>149854248
wrong kind of 64bit
kestral is a moron

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>when you let the militia assign it's own squad names and they're still awesome
>except the faggot tavern layabout merc team, who aren't dwarves and thus aren't dorfy so they pick something stupid about drinking

>>149854480
Rare death

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>it menaces with pages of tens

What's the biggest siege you've ever fought off? I can't remember much, must have been 70+, but that was back in 0.34. Laast one was about 55 gobbos with no mounts. I fought them off somehow but I lost 5 good dwarves in the process. Thankfully there are mercenaries to fill my ranks up.

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>>149858494

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>>149858626

>>149858554
Probably about 80. Fought them off with ease. Trolls, beak dogs and goblins. Also one or two captured dwarves and maybe an elf or a human too

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>>149858746

>>149858789
I'm pretty pissed that some of my best fighters died, I don't have anything except nickel on the map, an most of the adamantium went into weapons and helms. I'm living off goblinite for the most part. I'm gonna try to make some steel for the next time. I fear nothing except crossbowmen and lashers.

>>149858554
I've had several maxed out sieges since 0.42. That's 120 foot soldiers, but I've forgotten how many war animals there were, although I remember that they had hordes of beak dogs.

>>149858873

>>149859045
nice

>>149859018
Damn. that would probably kick my ass. I'll need to plan better defenses.

>>149859045
Epic.

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>>149858873
woops

>>149859173
Heh.

Is cutting down trees a safe way to get down the dwarves who are stuck there?

>>149859330
Only if there are also one or more cats in that tree.

>>149859330
What do you reckon

>>149859330
No, but it is the easiest way. It might get your dorfs down unharmed, but it might also kill them.

You can also try to build a stair, since constructions in trees don't crash the game anymore.

>>149859330
Not really, falling from 1-z can sometimes make dorf legs break. And I think the falling logs can cause damage.
Just make stairs, anon.

So a werebeast snuck into my fort and bit two childen and a baby before being hacked apart by axe lords.

Is there anything I can do about this? My first thought is to station them in the caverns but I can't do that that with babies or children. Am I fucked?

>>149860202
prepare a death room
set a burrow
restrict the infected to the burrow
wait until they all moved there
kill

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Babby's first artifact.
I am so proud.

>>149860531
can't read half of the description, man

>>149860603
Yeah I need to replace the font, it's been bugging up pretty bad.

>This is a rough wooden earring.
>All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.
>It is encrusted with round native gold cabochons and decorated with rough wood.
>This object menaces with spikes of rock salt.
>On the item is an image of Human cities in rough wood.

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Right /dfg/, what's the beat way to make a 1x1 pit down to a cavern lake without giving a miner a fatal bath?
I already did. Shame on me.

>>149858554
Were you using traps? I remember my first siege in .40, it was like four dozens of gobbos but they ran away after half of them got chopped by my traps

>>149860864
abadon the idea that it's 1x1 all the way

or construct from below to allow your miner an escape path

>>149858554

Just succumbed to a double siege littraly

First wave was probarly 50 gobos plus some war drakes and bears

had a caravan waiting to leave so dident raise the bridge but sallied out to meet them with my two squads

The drakes got caught in some traps and i somewhat managed to only loose a couple of raw recruits/fooder

just after that a new invasion came it was 80 gobos and numerous beasts

took out twenty but they broke trough my lines and swarmed the fort and took over the armory before could rearm the citizens


is there any way to prevent or deny dorfs from using certain roads like if i have 4 dorfs outside i want inside but i dont want any more dwarfs wandering outside thats already inside

something not burrow

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>>149861362
Yeah I know. I've usually done them as 1x1 channels with a parallel staircase, but I was lazy, and hoped they would work out not to stand on the tile they were channeling. More fool me.