/dfg/ ~ Dwarf Fortress General

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>dead at 0 posts edition

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would you work at this office?

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I was testing a custom job name for elven "bowmen" (atlatl users) in adventurer mode, when this happened.

Anyway V2 of my weapon mod will be out in a bit in case anyone gives half a shit

>>151982578
why bully elves >:(

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>>151982643
Why not?
Also, post text.

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>when migrants bring personal pets

>>151982578
v2 done. Major changes:

-Spring steel now has unique stats, and is now exclusive to humans. It now functions as a more flexible steel which may help a bit against blunt attacks, but it sacrifices hardness, and therefore sharpness for it. In addition, it is roughly 10% lighter than dwarven "high" steel, in order to reflect humans preferring lighter built equipment.
-Wrought iron has been renamed to mild steel, and now also has new stats. It's an intermediate between steel and iron in terms of characteristics, and still acts as a substitute for pig iron, making it a very useful form of goblinite.
-Tweaked various stabbing related numbers. Half-swording, short sword stabs and spear thrusts all are a force to be reckoned with in terms of armor penetration. Half-swording has been made even slower. Protip: Wild half sworded stabs are deceptively fast and incredibly powerful, but risky.
-Elven bowmen are now referred to as skirmishers, reflecting their usage of the atlatl.

>>151982578
Awesome. I'm one of the two anons who posted in that thread of yours.

Thinking about doing a community fort thread with your mod, actually. Might get it some publicity. Although it might not be a good idea considering the last time I played DF it was before Werebeasts were even a thing.

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post waifus

>>151987747
Wish I had pics of night hags, but I don't. They're kawaii as fuck. Except the ones with trunks, that is. That shit's not sexy.

>>151986107
Frankly I'm surprised that anyone gives a shit, when you think about it, there's nothing ground breaking or special about my mod. All I did was add and modify a small amount of crap to tune the game to my personal tastes.
Other than the goblinite (which I haven't been able to thoroughly test) and the angry elves (if used), a community fort with this mod probably wouldn't be the most unique thing ever.
That being said, an anon yesterday mentioned he's interested in using my elf clubs for a mod of his own. If anyone wants to use my shit in their mods, go right ahead.

Anyway, my plan for tomorrow is to modify the wood types unique to "good" biomes, making some types unusually tough, so that some hippies are actually well armored.

I've had some ideas whirring about in my head to create something bigger. One idea would be to overhaul savage biomes, replacing or augmenting giant animals with dinosaurs. The way I picture it, no dinosaurs would be exactly based on real ones or use scientific names. Instead, they'd be fictional but somewhat plausible, as that would in my opinion mesh better with the dwarf fortress world. Raptors would be feathered because fuck your childhood.

Also I forgot the damn link
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12357

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>>151988879
>Raptors would be feathered

>>151988879
Personally I've never been able to get into the whole 'elves are to be disdained and and despised' kind of mindset. They were always the nice chaps who sell me booze and giant eagles on occasion.

Had a few attacks from them in times past but they were all pretty naff, so the concept of actually dangerous and hostile elves is pretty novel to me. *shrug*

As far as the community fort goes, I'm thinking framing it as a military outpost. Find an embark that's near a bunch of forest retreats to gurantee a good supply of sieges, and set some ground rules to show off the mod to its best advantage. Stuff like no cage traps, no atom smasher traps, no pressured water jets shooting attackers into a huge fucking pit or things like that. All invaders must be defeated by engaging in combat of some sort. Should be Fun.

>>151988237
Looks like he had a great meal recently

>>151991903
>looks like I had a great meal recently
ftfy

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as soon as I reach 50+ citizen unpausing the game for too long is almost impossible as so many things pop up and I'm not even talking about some foreign entity showing up
I can't really start new needed projects as the ones existing already take up so much time to keep them running
I find it extremely hard to switch from microing every workshop to assigning jobs through the manager as there are always problems in my production line (dwarf asleep/stockpile too small/way too long/...)

this is not a problem of dwarf fortress, but rather myself and the way I plan things out...
soo, any tips on how to fix myself?

>>151992850
Burrows and Communism

Speaking of communism, will the Dwarfen economy ever make a comeback?

>>151988879
>Raptors would be feathered because fuck your childhood.
Here's a thought to un-break >>151990234 Anon's heart.

Why not include two variations? You could have feathered raptors appear in Untamed Wilds if it's a Savanna/grassland biome (like it supposedly was when they still existed) but have "twisted", "naked" versions in Terrifying biomes that were touched by evil powers.
Pretty please?

I mean I might as well do it my self if you don't mind. Soon as I get a bit of time and learn about modding creatures.

>>151988237
>>151991903

>my queen after few moments and jobs post jail time

>>151992850
So basically it's many small problems that add up to an overall situation of being overwhelmed? Let's deal with them one at a time.

>dwarf asleep
Assign more dwarves to the needed labor.

>stockpile too small
Enlarge the stockpile or make containers to stretch the space you do have. If you don't have enough miners to enlarge the space, assign more miners. Not enough picks? Assign more blacksmiths. Literally doesn't matter if they're shit-quality picks being shat out by some amateur, they'll get the job done.

>way too long
Make more efficient layouts. One solution is to spread out your fort across multiple z-levels, and use open layouts instead of hallways, with many small staircases scattered around each level in addition to one large central staircase.

Another way is to create city zones, like say, a part of your fort devoted to masonry. Give the masons apartments and a cafeteria, and whatever else they need in that zone, and burrow them there so they're never too far from their workshops

I just want to make crazy and interesting lavish meals for my dwarves but it's looking like turkey egg, turkey egg, turkey egg, turkey egg for generations to come.

>>151995439
cave crocodiles my dwarf

cave crocodiles and cave crocodile accessories

or jabberers

>>151997443
more like cave crocodile eggs and jabberer eggs...

>>151995439
>>151997443
>>151998094
HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY dwarven syrup IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR turkey egg roast?

>>151995439
Here's what you do:
>make a primary food stockpile
>make a quantum stockpile fed by the primary stockpile
>build your kitchen a short distance away
>make a 1 tile food stockpile on every tile adjacent to the kitchen set to take from links only
>no barrels allowed in any of the stockpiles
>set kitchen to take from each adjacent stockpile
>each adjacent pile should only accept a specific food or type of food
>you can be as general (any eggs) or as specific (turkey eggs only) as your food variety allows
>link each kitchen-feeder pile to the quantum stockpile
>watch in amazement as your master chef grabs 4 unique ingredients for each meal he prepares

The no containers rule is important here; they fuck everything up with stockpile links, quantum stockpiles, and ingredient variety. The only exceptions should be if you're including dwarven syrup or mog juice in your rotation; those piles should only allow either of those things specifically, allow containers, and be 2 tiles instead of 1, because dwarves will place an empty barrel in any pile that allows barrels, and then be unable to put a full barrel in the pile. It will take a little while to set up initially, but it runs itself afterwards, and it's quick and simple to tweak any of the feeder piles to accept a different kind of food as your available ingredients change.

>>151980962
I'm new to modding df, and I've only ever played adventure mode. Are there any good tutorials for modding a custom adventurer race in 0.43.06? Not just changing dwarves to be legendary in every skill, but genuinely picking a rarer race and changing it's raws to make a custom adventurer? All links I've found on Bay12 have been about older versions.

begone, fool!

How does exoskeleton work exactly? What does it cover in a FB?

I've got a bug with bronze exoskeleton but someone a cat managed to wound him

>>152008770
Would that be a bug with an exoskeleton MADE of bronze, or a bug with an exoskeleton COLORED bronze?

And exoskeleton covers the entire creature except for eyes and mandibles, iirc

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>>151993354
No. Never. Never ever. May Armok prove the truth of my post by granting me dubs.

>>152009414
Says "its bronze exoskeleton"

I guess color makes sense, it did mention the cat ripping through the chitin.

Is there any way I can knock out a goblin invader, or trap him? There's one on the outskirts of the map but he hasn't moved for a long time now. I dont want to kill it so I can use it for training but i can't think of any way to trap him without killing him. Unless wrestling dwarves can knock enemies unconscious.

>>152012025
Just kill him. There's hundreds of crundles you can use for training.

Do marksdwarfs still refuse to swap out their training ammo for proper bolts when not training?

>dorfs cause cave in on a farm plot that I was opening up
>somehow ends up one level up stuck in a tree

What's your preferred animal that you use for the meat/leather industry.

I'm deciding between goats and swine.

I have some animals that are kind of dangerous in a fight but cannot be trained for war.

Which is the better option:

a. A giant bridges that drops invaders into a pit filled with them

b. a walled in pen near the entrance of my fort that would release them

Is there a way for me to have fast-forward the world after worldgen that doesn't involve trying to keep a bunch of dorfs alive?

>>152013428
You could try spamming retire/unretire on an adventurer.

>>152013124
Pigs are larger and yield more meat than goats, and have the benefit of not requiring a pasture for grazing as goats do.

>>152013331
A. But how would you collect the invader's gear?
B. How would you round them back up into the pen after?

>>152013331
Pit is better, imo. More spectacle plus with the pen there's a chance the animals will scatter and flee instead of fighting

>>151986054
Rock on, that's handy bit of science too, unintentionally perhaps, but still good to know.

>>152013626
I just decided to start a fort and then issue no orders to see how long they last. So far they aren't dead and it's been a month. I also have no idea how to make them hunt for food.

>>152015621
Once the starting food supply runs out they'll automatically start to hunt for vermins to eat.

Soon, they will celebrate with their very favorite food! Which is rats!

>>152010587
DWARF ECONOMY CONFIRMED

>>152016162
Oh cool that's good to know. I set up shop right outside a hamlet so we're basically a bunch of hobos hanging out next to an old wagon.

>THE PINNACLE OF THEMED FORTRESSES

Caravans when

is there a way to check what the symbol of your civilization is?

>>152016723
The most obvious for me is to decorate something, choose Images then Existing Images. There it will show both your fort's and Civ's images

>>152016327
Welp migrants arrived. I didn't know they'd come no matter the state of your fort. I'm declaring this to be Dorf woodstock. A bunch of smelly hippies staging a protest against The Man. However, this gathering will have a more fitting end.

>>152013124
Geese outperform every other domestic livestock for both meat and leather by a large margin. Pigs aren't terrible, they take a little less management than geese. Goats are a shit choice. Sheep give you everything goats do plus a wool industry.

>>152018085
Oh a wereelk killed everyone. Huh.

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What does it mean when that message pops up about the outpost liason not showing up when he should?

>Started with temple relic storage as a test case, and that seems to work, respecting the pools and so forth. The game has display cases and pedestals now, in all modes. Next I'm going to finish the display jobs in dwarf mode before I get back to maps. You'll be able to display any non-large object you like, and there'll be new thoughts for displayed items similar to the admiration of architecture. So you can set up artifact display areas, or you can just use regular masterpieces, or junk, or skulls, as you see fit. The displayed items show like the food on tables so you can admire them yourself.

>happy thoughts from displayed objects

Can two civs of the same species go to war?

>>152019556
Yes if ethics support it, gobs war against gobs all the time.

>>152019556
>>152020858
Dwarf sieges when? I want an enemy with decent equipment.

>>152018875
Next time, if you're willing to put a very little effort in, you should stick your first seven in a hole in the ground, make sure they have a water supply (An aquifer is useful for this purpose.) and a small farm growing plump helmets year round, with all of them being farmers. Add one food stockpile and seal off the whole thing from the outside world and you could probably let them sit there forever, or at least for a few dwarf years before they kill each other out of boredom. You'll still get migrants, and you can enjoy watching them scrounge around for a while on the surface before they inevitably die.

There are probably better ways of doing it, but this seems like the easiest way that has a good chance of working. I was thinking of doing something like this myself, when I started my current fort, but decided on a different project. I might still do it if I don't feel like playing my main fort sometime soon.

>>152020945
Gotta make your civ almost non-functional to do it.

Just use the hippieanon mod.

can dwarves walk through open floodgates?

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I noticed just now that one of my dwarves is apparently less agile than he used to be about a year prior. Pic related.
Does anyone know how that could happen?

>>152021643
Yes.

I just got an announcement about a goblin siege arriving. Burrowed my civs, got my military together, then got a message about a snatcher. Snatcher walked into a weapon trap and gibbed into 1000 pieces, but there's no other goblins on the map. None in the others section, anyway. Siege tag is still on, though. Anyone else have this happen before?

>>152023460
I think there could be some other goblins sneaking around somewhere. I've never gotten an all-snatcher siege, but I don't have a lot of experience with sieges anyway, and I have seen snatchers as part of a siege before, at least I think I have.

>haven't played in a long ass time
>embark on a mountain with no trees, water or soil
>dive straight down to the caverns and set up a walled off farm there
>suddenly troglodytes everywhere in my fort fucking shit up
>how the fuck did they get in
>savescum
>apparently they clung to 1 tile wide cavern corridors and jumped in

neat

>>152023798
I just had a squad patrol the entire fort exterior, I don't think there are any. I have puppies chained all over for an alarm system anyway. Hopefully the tag goes away soon so I don't keep worrying about it happening all of a sudden.

>>152013331
c. Add [TRAINABLE] to the animal's raws.

War cavies my friend, war cavies.

>>152024141
>inb4 the siege tag goes away when they all dehydrate on the top of a tree somewhere
>inb4 you cut that tree down

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>>152025030
>oh god not the guinea pigs
>ARGH THEY'RE EATING MY EYES

>>152020858
I'm pretty sure that there is no single ethic for starting wars with your own civ. Civs can attack civs with radically different ethics, but the only way to get those would be to use random ethics for the gobs(are randomised ethics even a thing yet? I only know about randomised values).

Basically, the two most important tokens for turning your entity into a militaristic antagonist are [BABYSNATCHER] and [ITEM_THIEF]. The first one will go to war against non-babysnatchers, while the latter will go to war against everyone, even other thieves.

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>>152026980
Even besides those you can still get cases where events lead slightly different ethical differences to build wars, but it really helps to have [POWER] entities because they'll lead all sorts of wars. I added giants to that as well as them coming into a civ and being all "hey, squishies, I'm in charge" makes sense, and leads to more chaos.

>>152027548
Any reason why a floor would just suddenly disappear? 4 tiles along the second floor of my wall just disappeared out of nowhere. It was attached to the wall, and if it makes any difference I have cave ins disabled.

>>152027990
Did you cut down a tree that had branches over the wall? That can cause what you describe.

I'm using upright spear traps for the first time to try and make a corridor for dealing with hard to kill trapavoids. It seems like they're built in the upright position from the beginning. Can my dwarves walk through these fine, or do I need to link them up and lower them? I'd test it but with all the hauling my dwarves are doing, its taking a very long time to get it set up while also working on the wall.

>>152027990
In a campsite you're building or in fort mode?

In camp mode I know designated sections can collapse while being built but don't know if it works with cave-ins off, never tried.

>>152028053
That must've been it. I haven't played in years, hadn't encountered that before. Thanks.

>Get a successful fortress up to 80+ with military and great defense from titans
>Still not knowing how to make a water well or underground flood gate system for cold climates
>Still not knowing how to break through an aquifer without a pump
>Now knowing that the underground caverns give you access to wood if there is none on the surface

Anything else I don't know?

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>be playing modded DF

>start in a town

>The elves are amassing an army to take the city! Flee while you can!

>Be fortress guard.

>Not gonna let the elves take my home.

>Of course, I have some help.

You see, the city is home to demons, enslaved elves, and a few other races, but the most important are the 43 nightcreatures that live here. These things are walking murder machines and aren't even part of the military. The elven army has no idea they're marching into a slaughterhouse.

TFW I realized what is going to happen.

>>152029491
>Still not knowing how to break through an aquifer without a pump
>tfw I'm a complete shitter and can't even do that right

>>152029610
I always hope they would march on a town where I set loose a werebeast epidemic during the full moon.

>right boys, loot and pillage, you get the drift
>hey, goblins don't have orange eyes do they?

>>152023065
>Does anyone know how that could happen?
My first guess would be aging.

>>152029962
Reminds me of this one game I played. There was this hamlet where every person down to the last child was a were-gators. Every month the town became a horrific orgy of violence. I like to imagine it was the subject of horrific rumors and legends throughout the world.

>>152031776
With plump helmets and hopes for the future

>>152031776
>how can you post on this board without passing the autism check

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>>152012352
anons pls

>>152032692
I can't help, I never noticed them dumping training bolts into targets later, and before I was playing during the railgun era so wood bolts WERE combat bolts.

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>>152032482
>mfw passed with a natural 20

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What if the rocs, the keas and the great horned owls teamed up against the dwarves?

>>152034152
Why would that be a happy wojak?

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>>151993681
I think the new picture of dromaeosaurs/raptors that has been slowly developing since the discovery of their birdlike feather coverage is fascinating and has only made them more scary.
They're now regarded as even more agile than previously thought, and their wings open up possibilities for some pretty crazy behaviour like running up very steep hills by flapping their wings, and using them to balance on top of their prey as they eat it alive, stuff like that.
It's recently been discovered that a really big (slightly larger than JP raptors, pic related) dromaeosaurid lived alongside T-Rex, which is a good reason to think they were extremely efficient predators.
A naked raptor would probably be less dangerous, and I don't want that, especially in evil biomes.

The way I picture my dromaeosaurs working in DF is like so:
"A vicious predator resembling a large bird with a toothy grin."
Functionally, they'd be dangerous pack hunters that are good at climbing (to represent them jumping/running up steep inclines with help of their wings), and if possible I'd give them a high innate dodging skill too - basically they'd behave like murderous ninja-beasts.

Here's a list of what would take high priority in terms of a first version of a dino-mod:

- Large or medium-sized dromaeosaur (raptor)
- Carnotaurus-like abelisaurid - A big, fast and scaly pursuit predator. The arms would be vestigial so it would only attack by biting and goring with its horns.
- Large Ceratopsid. With their sharp beaks, horns and possibly even spiky projections jutting out of their scales, they'd make fantastic warbeasts.
- Giant Azhdarchid Pterosaurs, because they'd make horrifying flying mounts for the cave-hippies. The big challenge here would be to make hybrid wing-legs, as they walked on all fours when on the ground.
- Troodontid? Basically it would be like a weaker dromaeosaur that likes stealing things. Rhesus macaques from hell.

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Well?

>>152035441
>toady knows about the memes

>>152003713
Your question is unbelievably vague. Aside from adding a tag, what do you want?

>>152028302
Yes they can walk past them safely, if they dodge or are knocked back it may be another story.

>no option to console a new adventuring companion after they kill a man for the first time.

TOADY WHEN

I WANT

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

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>>152035250
>not mentioning fatbird raptors

>>152035441
Sock.

>>152037548
Also worth looking up All Your Yesterdays, just don't look at the shrink-wrapped baboon example before trying to sleep...

>>152037386
Ya just need to let them work through it and kill a bunch more people.

Also you should bring some mugs so you can pour em a drink of booze every now and again. That definitely comforts them and boosts their performance.

I'm currently int he business of prospecting. It's my fourth embark and no iron whatsoever. I had embarks full of native gold, platinum, sometimes silver, galena and cassiterite, but no damn hematite.

>>152037386
>no option to piss of people to get them to beat the shit out of you for free arousing

FETISHES WHEN TOADY?

>>152038569
Are you happy about no iron? If not, why do you not set the minerals higher?

>>152037386
You CAN bring the killing up as a conversation topic and say some bullshit like "it was inevitable" or "it's for the best". Not that it'll have any effect.

So has anyone here had an adventurer that was married or had kids? Any interesting new dialogue open up?

>>152038569
Have you disabled aquifers?
Iron is only found in sedimentary layers, and sedimentary layers are usually only found in places where the aquifer cancer takes root.
Seriously though I wouldn't mind aquifers if water wasn't so fucking broken in this game. Not even fully aquatic creatures will willingly enter water. Shit is bork.

>>152039130
I'll just wait for Toady to make it so those phrases cause an emotional response I guess.

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>>152039457
I was thinking of making my first aquifer-enabled fortress, I thought it would make sense to use a cold or even freezing embark where the aquifer freezes the moment I dig down, allowing my to create a well-sealed downwards passage before summer arrives.
Would that work?

In other news, what the fuck is wrong with you recaptcha?

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>>152039283
Just with dfhack.

>>152040287
I still count that.

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>>152040486

>>152040221
I'm not sure. I would actually be pretty neat if it did.
I've only punctured an aquifer exactly once, and after that I vowed to never do it again until the swimming mechanics get fixed because holy fuck they are stupid.

>>152040221
Yes, but if it doesn't stay frozen year round you will suddenly have a flood in your hands if you don't wall it off. Suggestion: use traffic designations on the aquifer level you are channeling out to stop your mines from stepping down there and drowning/freezing

>>152040221
it's just another step in google's AI creation scheme. they want to know how real humans try to solve an unsolvable problem

>>152040634
My plan is to either find a location cold enough to have ice in spring, live entirely on the surface until winter arrives.

>>152039554
Communication has been discussed previously
I think the consensus is that it'll eventually come, but severe psychological updates must come first for it to hapen

>>152040575
What is the graph paper looking stuff?

>>152041765
but yeah, consistent and complex interpersonal relationships are a pillar as big as magic for DF, so we all hope Toady doesn't fuck up that

If I wanna make a bard that writes down kickin poems and songs for other chars, what's the best starting skill distribution on an adventurer for it?

>>152043367
Linguistic Ability is useful for poems, storytelling and singing.
Musicality is useful for singing.
Analytical Ability is useful for writing poems I believe.
Creativity is useful for writing poems, songs, creating dances, etc.

Be forewarned that music and dance are both totally fucked, and it's very likely that your civilization will only have music forms that use only stationary instruments.
Storytelling and poetry are the only performance arts that you can rely on being available.

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>>152042241
That was just the tileset and the effect of using reveal in adventurer mode to find people in a fort.

Can I use cave in to bypass aquifer?

>>152047075
That's the usual method, yes.
Wiki has a guide on it.

>>152047187
Hah, why I was even worried about it before?
Next embarking I will try this.

>>152047479
Because it's an absolute pain in the ass, that's why you were worried.

>>152047479
because it means getting harassed by troglodytes, draltha, bugbats, or whatever right on embark
which might not sound like a big deal, but it's only slightly less of a complication than having to breach an aquifer (assuming the aquifer is 3 or fewer layers thick)

>>152047571
Sound easier and less complicated (after having experiences with intentional caveins) than other methods.

>>152047673
wait, sorry, I thought your post said "can I use a cave to bypass an aquifer"
which, by the way, does work, but comes with the problem I posted

MIDGET POWERS ACTIVATE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4vJjSV8SaU

>>151988879
>there's nothing ground breaking or special about my mod

Sure there is, its a mod that creatively makes hippy weapons effective. This also adds new value to stuff like glumprong and bloodthorn.

Question: how hard would it be to make elves (or whoever, not sure if its civilization dependent) in adventure mode able to make cave hippie weapons? Probably not very and I'll probably be able to churn out the reactions if you don't.

For my "5 tiers of elven and goblin antagonists" mod I'm working on I'm currently thinking default wood+cloth/bone/glumprong/bloodthorn/obsidian for the weapon materials of the 5 elf weapon tiers and default wood+cloth/leather+bone/quilted cloth/padded leather cloth/laminated quilt cloth for the 5 elf armor tiers, from the very comfy Haberdasher's mod, and of course if I published it I would ask his blessing first. Probably the bone+leather and the bloodthorn elves would be cave dwellers, the glumprong and perhaps obsidian using elves would be evil forest dwellers. That way, you could have 2 good forest dwelling elves (friendly ones + first level antagonists), + 2 cave dwelling antagonists (2nd and 4th level ones), and 2 evil forest dwelling antagonists (3rd and 5th), to make it as easy as possible to have a large population of each. Haberdasher's mod introduces quilted, padded leather, and laminated quilt cloth armors roughly equivalent to copper, bronze, and steel, incidentally. Use of plant matter for armor seems like a pretty elfy way to bulk up their defense.

So if the mod winds up working, one could wind up easily being at war with 5 elf +5 gobbo factions at once. I might partition it for number of antagonists from 2 (default gobbos + elven savages), 4-5, 7-8, 10, and then some overstuffed options for bigger worlds of 15, 25, 40 or 50 antagonist civs at once, but that'll be a later project.

Mods are asleep share your most exotic and decadent prepared meals

>>152049343
I wanted to make tallow+tallow+tallow+potato lavish meals and tallow+tallow+tallow+chicken lavish meals but can you even grow potaters right?

One of my dwarves keeps punching a giant tortoise doing no damage. He's been doing this for the better part of a year now. He just keeps punching then passing out from exhaustion, while the tortoise just stands there not giving a fuck and other dwarves have to bring him food and water. His wife even had a kid, and while he is blissful about becoming a parent, he still hasn't stopped punching this tortoise.

>>152035250
Raptor-feather stuffed pillows are just fine with me!

Whaddaya mean they're a useless part that just sits forever in the refuse heap? I can dream, can't I?

Are you gonna bundle the dinosaurs stuff with the weapons mod?

>>152049708
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Bloated_tuber

You can, but Toady thought it was clever to give them a cryptic name.

>>152050174
He's training to become a legendary+5 wrestler

>>152050374
That's a different crop
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Potato

>>152050374
>>152050568
So bloated tuber is just potato like thing?

>>152050568
Oh, I assume they were added along with the fruits? I remember that "no potatoes" used to be a pretty big meme on the forums.

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>>152047769
Do you know what the least complicated method is?

>>152029716
>tfw I just remove the aquifer tag from all soils and rocks because I'm too lazy to bother with aquifers and don't see any benefit from them

>>152051319
>I cheat because i'm a casual

>>152050741
Guys, how many z-levels does a gobbo need to fall before it gets seriously injured?

>>152051664
>not wanting to deal with a buggy and poorly implemented feature is cheating
>in a single player game that is purposefully designed to promote modding and customization
I bet you think using The Rapist is cheating too.

>>152051736
ignore the quote, I'm a fucking imbecile

>>152051837
The Rapist doesn't remove gameplay features just because you find them too hard.

>>152051736
4-5 is enough if it's hitting a dense floor like lead
if you want to kill them outright, you'll need more like 10-15 and a dense floor
if you want to have them explode so that you'll get usable bones once the flesh rots, go for 30+ and a dense floor

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>>152040221
It's always the street sign captchas that are shit.

>>152051925
People don't remove aquifers because they're too hard.
People remove aquifers because they're not challenging, not useful, not fun and don't even make sense.

>>152051950
>hitting a dense floor like lead

Who builds lead floors?

>>152052092
What do you want us to do with lead?

>>152052092
People who can't afford platinum floors for their goblin pit.

>>152052092
I'm about to, thanks to anon.

>>152052092
if you're intentionally making a killing pit, it's a pretty easy way to make it more deadly
if you have galena, chances are you have hundreds of lead bars lying around anyway

>>152051969
i haven't rally noticed any changes between the different objects.

However, the "select until there are none left" tend to be pretty annoying. You have to click a lot, wait for new pics to pop up, and don't find out whether you've made a mistake until the end.I swear I fail at least half of those.

Btw, I just noticed that the street signs have a "press skip if there are none" option.

>>152052092
What else is there to do with lead bars? Aside from forging lead pots and lead toys, of course.

>>152052314
>>152051969
You know, sometimes I wonder why Google even still does captchas when they were the ones who proved that computers are better at solving them than people are.
It's like finding out that your medicine is actually just a placebo, but still selling it anyways.

Good grief Ettins can take a beating

>>152052409
after using the 9 or so I need for my killing pit(s), I like to use the new job details feature to brand my group's symbol on everything not nailed down in the fort

>>152052409
>>152052205
Well I used to make lead barrels when wood was more scarce.
But now that trees explode into a gore of wooden logs, I guess i don't really do much of anything with lead.

>>152050436
Well, he starved to death and his wife and child found his body.

Would a goblin civ whose sole weapon material for arrows, bolts, hammers, and whips was lead, and could make in fact use lead versions of such weapons, and was their only weapons, be potent?

>>152052538
>It's like finding out that your medicine is actually just a placebo, but still selling it anyways
I wonder who would do that.

>>152050174
>>152053001
Its very important to have a strong militia that can rescue dorfs who get stuck in a fight.

>>152053141
you could in theory make lead a viable weapons metal, but all weapons will be made of all available weapon-metals, so the only way to use lead exclusively would be to stop them from using any other sort of weapon-metal.

>>152050962
If was to remove difficult feature from game I would play casual game instead.

It's not like Aquifer is unexpected, you can see it before embark so you can avoid site with it.

>>152053421
My current plan for gobbos is:
Tier 1: Pig iron armor, pig iron swords, axes, maces, mauls.
Tier 2: Pig iron armor, pig iron pikes, spears, hammers.
Tier 3: Pig iron armor, pig iron arrows, bolts, whips, scourges.
Tier 4: Iron armor, lead arrows, bolts, whips.
Tier 5: Iron armor, iron arrows, bolts, scourges.

Tiers refer to the exporting/population/etc. triggers for sieges, for example the population trigger is 20 for the lowest setting and 140 for the highest.

So this way you could actually fight 5 different goblin civilizations at once, and the later goblins figure out that they may as well just focus on lashers & archers.

>>152054570
Do you wanna use my mild steel raws, perhaps?

>>152053421
Lead has a shitty impact elasticity though, so it makes for terrible blunt weapons despite being dense. If impact elasticity is too high, all the force of your strikes will get absorbed by clothing and armor.
The main reason platinum makes such an amazing blunt weapon metal is because it has such an amazing impact elasticity. The density is just a nice plus.
It also has the worst edge of all metals, so it's terrible for everything else too

>>152055089
Maybe.

>>152055271
Scratch that then, although it could be cool for tier 1 gobbos to use lead blunt weapons and maybe missiles anyway, as tier 1 should be relatively sucky being as they'd arrive much earlier than goblins normally do.

>The ingredients are masterfully minced prepared yak intestines, exceptionally minced raw mussel, superiorly minced raw mussel and superiorly minced prepared yak heart

Would you eat it?

>>152055969
Not a chance.
Intestine has the grossest texture imaginable and I wouldn't be surprised if heart was almost as bad.

>>152018993
The rest of your civilization is dead or he was already in your fortress

Weaponmodfag here, I'm making my first proper fortress in my mod for now, so more modding is on hold, and I'm keeping a watch on any bugs or so.

Just had my first Elven thief appear (angry elves is enabled), which a good sign that elves are indeed hostile and willing to attack me.

>>152055271
Lead makes excellent blunt weapons. Impact elasticity ought to be a lot more important than it is, but it's hardly relevant to the final damage result at all. That'e why silver outperforms iron or bronze and why adamantine blunt weapons don't do any damage depite being perfectly rigid and impossibly hard. Damage for blunt attacks scales almost linearly with density, with no other material properties making a measurable difference at all.

Hi /dfg/. What am I doing wrong with my wall? People just keep climbing over it.

>>152018993
He's either dead or detained. It doesn't mean either of the things>>152056364 said, if your civ was dead you would have a monarch chosen from your existing dwarves. Though it might mean your civ is in it's death spiral, it doesn't mean that with any certainty, and outpost liaisons dying happens all the time for all sorts of reasons unrelated to the death of your civ. If he was already in your fort you would a unit with the title "outpost liaison" and you wouldn't get a message at all.

>>152060321
Nothing. Creatures with a grasp can climb. Climbing walls is one of the few useful things that mechanic has brought.

>>152060650
>>152060321
Stuff actually climbs now? I know he introduced climbing a while ago but I still never saw anything actually climb a wall before.
Oh well time to build moats in front of the walls.

>>152060321
If you want people to be unable to climb over it, do this:

On z0 and z1, build wall. On z2, build a floor that hangs out to outside of the wall. (You can also make it 3 z-levels high or more, just make sure there is a floor on the outside of the wall.)

In my experience that led to climbers not being able to get past.

Masterwork is eternally, unintentionally hilarious.

>succubi are superheated demons
>werebeasts are crazed no matter whether they're generated as friendly or not
>visit site
>werebeasts tear into succubi
>werebeast burns to death
>succubus burning blood sets shit on fire
>dwarves burn to death

>>152060920
Or you could just dig a moat in front of the wall.

>>152060321
The higher the wall, the harder to climb. It's fairly easy to climb a low wall.

If you're using walls dug out of the ground, soil is easy to climb, as is rough stone. Smoothing the wall will make it harder to climb.
I'm not sure if it's true, but I think I heard walls made from blocks are harder to climb than walls made from regular stone or wood.

>>152060939
That explains why my Jotunn friend burst into flames once when I played as a succubus (male)

>>152060321
>>152060650
Uh. Read that as "what is wrong with my wall". My mistake. Make it taller, build an overhang, or build a roof. The latter two work reliably to keep out climbers, the former is the dwarfier of the solutions.

>>152061228
Well, a wall made from a boulder is a rough wall (or floor, or bridge, or whatever) and blocks make smooth ones. So it should work like that.

>>152061285
I saw a jotunn whose eyes just plain burst into flames and bled to death, no apparent explanation. There were no succubi about. Was it by the eyes?

I also have once seen a titan burn to death while fighting a succubus. While I was fighting various monsters as a succubus, I never saw them burn.

So what I THINK may be the case, is succubus blood of all things is super hot.

>>152061228
Block walls are harder to climb than rough walls, and smooth natural stone walls (but not pillars!) are impossible to climb.

Aw yiss, I embarked on a massive campsite with tents everywhere. There's shotloads of free cloth.

>>152061454
Oh it was the eyes yes. I was wondering what happened.

Also I didn't know Succubi were naturally warm, good to know.

>>152061134
I guess, haven't really done that before.
Wouldn't it still be an issue depending on the moat's width? Can't some creatures just jump across and start climbing as soon as hitting the wall?

Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgk-lA12FBk

Best defense still is finding a tall volcano though.
>Build sealed aqueduct system channelling lava to multiple places just outside your wall, close off with flood gates, a few Z levels above the wall.
>Set lever to unleash the magma upon invading forces when you spot them, also pulling up the only bridge granting access.

>>152062176
I've never had anything jump across a 1 tile moat and climb a 1z wall, but i haven't played 43.0x yet.

>>152062176
I always make my moats with a width of at least 3 or 4 just to make sure.

I have a dwarf with woodcutting enabled. a training axe (unforbidden) in the stockpile and trees designated for chopping. He's not in a burrow and is idle, but refuses to cut the tree down. Wat do

>>152062176
>Can't some creatures just jump across and start climbing as soon as hitting the wall
You have to be very skilled at climbing to catch a wall mid-jump. It's extremely difficult. Especially if it's a constructed block wall.
Unless those goblins are legendary+5 climbers, you probably have little to worry about.

>>152062942
Didn't Toady make it so training axes couldn't cut down trees anymore?

>>152062942
Training axes can no longer cut trees
After 6 years, that "bug" was finally "fixed"

What exactly makes a dwarf turn into a werebeast? I mean, I get that they have to be bitten, but does bruising the flesh count? Does it have to tear flesh? What's the exact criteria?

>>152064120
Flesh puncture and it has to make it through the clothes/armor. So a werebeast could completely tear your body apart by shaking you through your steel armor, without turning you, while a simple nip to the foot when you have no shoe on will turn you.

>>152064339

Welp, there goes two dorfs in a 12 dorf fort.

God damn. I've been getting a sub 1 year werebeast in my last like, 10 forts. Am I just super unlucky? I had 4 in the spring of my first year last fort.

>>152064657
Do they pose as migrants or do they just walk on up?

>>152064791

Both. I've had it happen both ways. This particular time was a migrant.

While on the topic, do all dwarves infected by a werebeast turn at the exact same time?

>>152065219
Should be, yes.

Why am I getting no migrants? I haven't gotten migrants in 2 years and I know my fort value is going up. It's getting hard to manage all this construction with just 15 dwarves.

>>152067239
Your civ is ded.
Migrants aren't just generated from thin air, except for during the first year.

>>152063574
>>152063483
Ag fok

>>152067805
well that sucks.

If my civ is dead but I'm still around, wouldn't one of my dwarves become king/queen?

>>152068046
Yeah actually, I forgot about that.
Maybe it's not a dead civ, maybe you're just inaccessible. Are you getting caravans?

>>152067805
It's fun getting migrants and reviewing them as they arrive. Had a few migrants with some human kills to their name recently

>>152068380
I don't think I've been getting Dwarven caravans, but my Depot is accessible and I've gotten them before. And I've been getting elf and human caravans.

>>152068979
Maybe there's a war going on and killing all your migrants?
That's supposed to be a feature now, right?

>>152064657
Its been many games since I've had werebeasts generate in my worlds. At all.

>when your fort drops below 1000 drink

>>152069324
What's the controlling factor for them? Evil? Savagery? Elevation?

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>>152069329

>>152069219
would migrants come if you have a forgotten beast in your fort? I've got one trapped in the cavern layer that I've just been ignoring because I know my military isn't ready for it.

Another goblin siege and I will start calling it playground children start playing on battlefield after thing is over.

>>152069984
I dont think presense of any beast is problem unless siege.

I had many caravans and migrants in previous fort even with one FB being in acceable caverns (it didn't blocked appearance of other mega beast either).

>>152069478
Plainly, temples.

bum

Is there a way to heal or replace severed limbs?

My companion lost her foot and all she can do is hop along a bit, fall down and crawl.
It's getting pretty sad,

>>152075431
Give her a crutch.

Become a werebeast and bite her, wait for a full moon.

Randomly generated companions are really, really sucky, its probably time to retire her.

is there a DFHack command to help locate people in adventure mode? Legends says there's 3 elfs in this forest home but I sure can't find any

>>152076120
b-but muh waifu

It's my fault she lost her foot, I let an alligator past me and it deathrolled her foot off.

Besides, it doesn't feel right putting her down like some pet when I've had her with me for about a week realtime.

>wereelephant attacks
>seal the gate while I get my military into position
>some dwarf's pet cat decides to immediately run outside the gate for who the fuck knows why
>cat is slaughtered instantly
>owner was 16 z levels below the surface and hadn't been on the surface for at least a year
What the fuck was it even doing?

>>152079449
So your options are:
1. Become a werebeast and bite her
2. Let her crawl around pathetically until she dies a nice humiliating death (;
3. Make her a fucking crutch
4. Retire her somewhere nice

>>152079918
>>152079449
or
5. Become a vampire, then infect her so she's so ridiculously fast that crawling around without a foot isn't even a handicap

>>152079839
Hunting vermin. Or wereelephants.

>>152080064
You're really not gonna be "ridiculously fast" crawling around as a vampire. You would just be a slightly faster than average cripple for all eternity.

>>152079918
I'd make her a crutch but apparently a copper dagger isn't a big enough tool for making it.

So I'm just looking for the crutch in towns rn

>>152080621
Get an axe, chop down a tree, use the wood to make a carpenter's workshop, and then make the crutch.
Stone axes don't work though because they were affected too when Toady "fixed" training axes.

I am a DWARF
And I'm digging a HOLE
DIGGY DIGGY HOLE
DIGGING A HOLE

>She finds helping others very emotionally rewarding, though she wishes this were not the case as she considers altruism foolish
>She is friendly individual, and she is burdened by this tendency because she dislike idea of friendship
I need to read characters details more often, like this human Lady Consort who serve in my military have amusing conflicts about herself.

>>152080958
brb, turns out my version's outdated and I can't chop trees

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>finally get a breeding pair of jabberers
>get ready to set up a breeding programme
>jabberer has died of old age

>>152034379
Losing is fun

>>152040221
>hinking of making my first aquifer-enabled

it should work aslong as there is no roof to the aquifier so that it actually freezes otherwise it will still be liquid

>holding rough wooden log
>holding copper rondel dagger
>trying to make a crutch
>NO AVAILABLE ITEM
FUCKING WHY

>more interested in periodically checking up on Toady's progress with the game than actually playing it

am I the only one?

Going to see if wild Troll and goblin owned Troll will fight each other.

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>invaded by a necromancer and his army of 83 zombies
>nearly all of them are armed and armored
Well I think it's about time to spend the next year or so locked inside the gates while I outfit and train my entire fortress of 52 dwarves.
Fuck.

That's a first -- one necromancer in a tower informed me that the other necromancer is going to be marching on an enemy soon.

>>152085658
Oh just kidding, it's only 55 zombies, all of which are armed. I forgot that there's like 80 billion crundles running around underground somewhere.

>>152086212
>Oh just kidding, it's only 55 zombies
>just 55 zombies
>just
Fuck my shit up necro-sempai

>>152085197
So, no. They were neutral to each other. Will remember this next time when I will be doing execution of captured monsters.

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>>152086478
necros a shit

they bring their undead shits, point them towards your fort, and then run away while your militia is busy fighting said undead shits

>necros' faces when

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I'm reading the wiki pages but some of the things they say are contradictory and others I just do not understand so could some kind anon please explain bees to me?

I have bumblebee hives scattered around the map. Do I have to interact with them in some way or can I just plop down my hives in a convenient position and the beekeeping dwarves will sort it out from there?

>>152087363
Do they even try to raise more undead in Fort?

>>152087650
They sometimes send ambush units(very much like snatchers and thieves), supposedly trying to reach your corpse stock piles.They'll flee as soon as they're detected, though.

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Should I execute this gobby or let him live?

>>152088326
He's in a human town after having helped genocide the previous inhabitants, so probably. Also keep in mind that goblins won't accept surrender, but they'll ask for it.

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does anyone know what program was used to make this image? or at least a similar program?

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>>152088468
The deed is done.

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>>152088704
>killing people arbitrarily just because they look different and wear headscarves
your kind is the worst

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>>152088959
>tfw I don't have a goblin version of this pic

>>152089273
It's not really needed, since gobbos are universally hated even among the authors and mainstream fans. Elf hate is edgy and contrarian, just like /pol/ sentiments. That's why those aesthetics and rethorics fit so well with elf hate.

>have iron anvils
>can't make magma forge because I have no magma safe anvils
???

>>152089550
>Elf hate is edgy and contrarian
>hating the outside entity that bitches at you about cutting down trees instead of buying their kosher all natural wood products
Come on man, you can't be that good of a goy.

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>>152090124
>kosher all natural wood products
I unno man, I gotta get that kosher wood

>>152090475
I saw this image before I saw the King of All Dwarves, amazing

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>>152088959
Im just making the kingdom safer.

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>>152090475
Run while you still can

What's the best way to defend the fortress if I don't want to seal myself off or use things like cage-traps? Should I just station squads at the entrances with 5/10 required so they can sleep and eat in shifts?

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neato

>>152091431
1wide bridge lined up with rapid fire balistas

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>>152091541
>entire civ is in ruins
>only one brave group of dwarves remain
>they have one chance to start anew
>if they all persevera and work together, making the most of all the resources they can get their hands on, without granting themselves unnecessary luxuries, they just might survive and revive the great dwarven civilisatin

>within the first month, some useless peasant claims the throne and forces the rest to dig out a palace that's more than twice as large as the fledgling fortress

>>152090079
They gotta be in a stockpile before you can use them for a construction of a building.

>>152090079
Build a regular forge and make a magma safe anvil
It's not the fucking hard, Anon.

Do undead sieges eventually just leave?

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>>152092136

what gets me is we're in the fifth year and the civ is doing fine, everyone is also locked inside the fortress (nasty web spitting FB outside) which is in the first caverns, so she basically chatted with everyone idling in the tavern and decided she's the new queen

I was in the middle of digging out nobles quarters when she ascended too which is sorta a bonus.. I guess

>>152091431
Create two entrances to your fort, one of which can be sealed by a drawbridge gate. Yes, I know you said no sealing off, but...

In front of the other entrance, build an elaborate twisty death-gauntlet overlooked by multiple towers topped with fortifications. This gauntlet has no drawbridge gate at the end. In case of attack, raise the drawbridge on the first entrance, garrison marksdwarves in the towers and enjoy your Dwarven Tower Defense.

>>152087607
Bumblebees are useless. You want honeybees for beekeeping.

I wouldn't recommend starting a beekeeping industry at the moment though. In my experience the net gains are very minimal. Very little mead was made in proportion to other drinks, and jugs would get stuck with royal jelly which the cook wouldn't use for cooking and as such I'd constantly have to produce more empty jugs to keep the industry going. All to produce maybe 5 or 10 units of mead drinks a month and a bunch of useless jugs clogged with jelly.

>>152088959
It's fine, goblins don't count as people.

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Hate having to ask for permission before sleeping in someone's home?

Funny fact: you don't have to ask the owner for permission if he's dead.

>>152091431
I like to make patrol routes near entrances and assign military schedules so that there's always at least 1 military dwarf on patrol at any time.

It's been really effective at dealing with local cavern critters before they get in the fort without my notice.

>>152094061
Are things like houses or shops heritable?
Can the son of the guy you just murderes come to the house and kick your ass out?

>>152094846
Very little is heritable, and houses (more like wooden huts with dirt floors as humans live in utter savagery) appear to be assigned at random.

>>152094846
Nah, the only houses that are linked to specific people are the structures that are tracked in worldgen(mead hall, keep, tavern, library, temple, different dungeons, et cetera). The cottages, houses and shops seems to act as backdrops at the moment(as interactive as they may be in adv mode).

>>152095156
>>152095131
So...that gonna change eventually right?
With the whole starting scenarios stuff?
I mean, It would be pretty dumb to not do it

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

After six darn embarks I've done it, I found an embark with iron ore. Smell ya later you elfs lily livers, I gots me some digging to do!

real talk /dfg/ this undead siege has been on the border of my embark for like 2 seasons now and has done absolutely nothing but move back and forth in a like, 20x20 area.

What the fuck can I make them go away or will they do so on their own or should I just cage trap all dem bitches or what

I've got like 15 dwarves so military isn't good

>>152095653
of course it'll change eventually, dirt floors and no beds and no mead in the mead halls are naturally placeholders

>>152095653
Keeping track of tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of small buildings doesn't seem worth the lost world gen speed, especially considering that only like one percent of them will be used by actual hist figs.

>>152095873
wew, thank god

Although I would still want to find old wrecked abandoned houses in the middle of the road
>>152096034
Fuck that, I can sacrifice some gen time for the sake of coherence.
What would you want then from a whole-world simulation game if the big percentage of it it's gonna be poorly designed and ignored

>>152095750
the very first time I played DF I was told to just make a line of cage twaps leading into my base and so I Did

>>152095750
I had a goblin siege outside of my gate for like 8 hours worth of real life gameplay time
eventually I just said fuck it and let my military get a taste of real action

Say I wanted to get rid of all my crappy mechanisms in traps and replace them with masterworks. Can I just label them for dump in the stocks screen and they'll be disassembled, or do I need to look in every single trap individually and deconstruct the ones that have bad mechanisms?

>>152096676

The latter or neither

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4vJjSV8SaU

>>152096354
You do realise that 99% of all people you meet in adventure mode aren't historical figures, do you? They're generated using abstract population data. Since they don't exist until they're loaded for the first time, it's impossible to keep track of house ownership among them in worldgen. Since they don't have families, it's also impossible to have them inherit houses from one another.

99% of all characters, along with whatever shitty hovels they live in will always be historically irrelevant backdrops for the greater plot. This isn't some placeholder until the game becomes more accurate: the game used to be more accurate in the respect that all characters used to be historical figures. Toady decided to add the abstract populations to make the worlds feel more populated and alive.

>>152089273
What would be good for Goblins though?
"Keep an eye on the Goblin, he'll take what he's oglin' "?

>>152096986
why do you post this in every fucking thread dude?

Congratulations, you named a block of rock and called it a legendary artifact. Truly you are a master craftsman Oddom Floorparched.

>>152097161
I'm pretty sure the unspoken assumption is *if they have a son*, ergo a historical figure.

Also what % of NPCs you meet are histfigs will vary.

>>152097259
Not him, but I think that he's just linking every new episode.

He might also be the creator trying to shill. Not that I'm complaining. There are far worse posts in this general.

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>>152095724
>he can't play the game unless there's iron

>>152096986
Enjoy your downvotes for spamming this every single fucking thread.

>>152097693
well, my bad, I didn't even know the episodes varied, I just looked at the thumbnail and though he was reposting the same shit every time
>far worse posts in this general
touche


what's dfg's opinion on adventure mode dreams and dream worlds?

>>152095750
I'm in the exact same situation as you. Thankfully I have a magma forge and a shitload of bronze, so I'm slowly equipping my entire fortress. I have all civilians grouped into squads based on how valuable they are (E.G Alpha Reserve has my brewer, cook, smiths and strand extractors, while Delta Reserve just has all my useless dwarves who have shitty military stats)
Everyone currently has a weapon, so I'm just waiting on my armorer now. I have everyone training right now, and it should be at least another season before my armorer finishes equipping them all. I'll give them another season to train so they can get used to their armor, and then I'm going to open the gates and go fuck up some zombies.

I will be a bit disappointed if they decide to just leave before my military is finished.

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>>152097580
Totally forgot my pic
I guess it's just that shitty and forgettable of an artifact

>>152098156
I could in in every fort except for one, and even then I'm not sure because it happened more than two years ago. But it's not just iron, it was copper too. All I could find was some silver now and then. I think I didn't crank up the minerals enough in world gen.

I could survive with crappy copper stuff and slowly trade/goblinite my way from there, but I can't even forge armor with silver, not to mention I was swamped with garnierite and cassiterite. I just wanted some weapons grade stuff once in a while so I don't have to resort to melting exploits.

>>152098695
m8, I've never seen an artifact instrument, that's pretty sweet

Wait, the instrument is basically a huge-ass glass block that the performer hits non-stop?

procedural generation was a mistake

If I switch my civ will I still get migrants from my previous civ's forts?

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>>152098372
I'm pretty fucking hyped. Different planes has been in the scope since the first Armok game(it has disappeared from the list periodically, though), so it's great that Toady's confirmed it for the myth update. It opens up so many possibilities. First, it adds the possibility to visit celestial plains where you can visit deities and chill in their mythical cities(assuming they won't send vault-style angels at you for intruding). Second, it adds the possibility to have dream worlds, like you said. Third, and this is something I've mentioned in the general before, it adds the possibility to have additional celestial bodies in the sky, which you can visit using magic.

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>>152096928
Glad that works.

>Set up 3 mechanics
>One's 20 from strange mood, others are 3 and 11
>The 3 gets a strange mood almost immediately

>>152099969
Hey, I remember when you posted that, god I enjoyed that chat
Do you think the dreamer's personality and traumas could help shape the dreamworld he enters?
The famous trope of a guy forced to see his family getting killed every time he falls asleep enters this possibilitie, and frankly, apart from being hella cool, serves as a constant reminder of past deeds or objectives for the adventurer

>>152099394
Yeah I was pretty excited about it when I saw it was an instrument.
Then I looked at what the instrument actually was.

>>152101239
>god I enjoyed that chat
link?

>>152099969
Imagine being like kratos and killing a god and then becoming one yourself

>>152101239
That'd be cool. The hardening level, from "Death. This is truly horrifying" to "doesn't care about anything anymore" alcoholic level could be a big factor.

>>152101440
Sorry, I was talking about our conversation in some previous thread, there's no chat
Although I usually take screencapps from posts that seem interesting to me, let me check it out
>>152101554
I mean, as we have seen in the magic/myth software Toady showed, certain gods or forces will have much impact on the world than they do now, and players might be able to affect myths in-game, so that seems very possible
I can see it perfectly happen with some more communication/psychology updates
>be dwarf
>Wife some chick
>chick gets killed by god
>no
Then, If your adventurer's will/determination and your love for her were high enough, some of that god's enemy might realize that, if you would manage to obtain enough power, you would kill god
bam, he contacts you and offers to take wife out of hell if you manage to avenge her
>>152101810
truly, it would be a way of making your adventurer's personality gets noticed at least a bit in-game. Apart from your needs, its the exact same to play as a cruel hobo-murderer than to play as an afeminated scholar

>>152103031
You do get horrified and then hardened to death in the current version.

>>152103031
"Cruelty" isn't really a mechanical thing, but how fucked you are in the head is.

Also, your writing ability and scholar and bard abilities can have plenty of an effect. Your books can give or remove drives from other dorfs.

>>152104464
or actually cruelty IS a minor thing, mostly affecting how kind or cruel your creative works come off as, but not much beyond that.

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Got everyone equipped, and managed to get enough adamantine to make ten axes for my main squad.
As soon as I opened the gates, my main squad charged out there and the very first hit of the battle was one of my soldiers decapitating the necromancer with a single hit.

Also, this happened. Aren't martial trances supposed to be rare?

>>152105058
Just triggered by being outnumbered with multiple foes visible.

>>152105421
Oh ok, well there was initially 50 zombies so I guess it's not too surprising that everyone and their mom is going martial.

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is vortex supposed to look so fuzzy

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This FB showed up when I was about to be done for today. Looks like tomorrow session will be more fun.

>>152105058
They are rare but I think they're affected by how many enemies target you.

>Gigantic wrestler slug
>killed several dozen frog demons
>I spent half a day throwing my spear at it
>lucky throw with the iron long spear pierces it's head and into it's brain
>one hit kills it.
Wew, worth it.
Got my thrower from nothing to novice.

>>152107293
Is the wrestler slug a demon? I fought an escaped slug demon from hell, or several, and sure enough, they have a brain somewhere in their body that can be instantly killed.

>>152108126
Yeah man, I found them first in a ruined fort with a hellhole somewhere spewing demons

And every time I'm near them I smell brimstone.

I'm fighting another elite slug wrestler, and yeah. Brimstone.

>>152108281
That's fucking awesome, and EXACTLY what happened to me. Hellslug wrestlers and all. Called buff monsters or buff demons. I also ran into ice demons as well.

I think its really awesome that DF OCCASIONALLY slips them in. Wonder what if anything covers the frequency.

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OH SHIT IT"S MOTHRAm

>>152108673
Aand Mothram just got fucking owned by that other forgotten beast I totally forgot about.

>>152106262
You have [TEXTURE_PARAM:NEAREST] in your df/data/init/init.txt file, change it to LINEAR and it fixes that.

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My first encounter with a dragon that didn't involve it walking straight into a cage trap was interesting.

BUT ITS OKAY, SPRING IS IN THE AIR

>>152109508
Don't worry anon, forest fires are perfectly natural and are part of a healthy forest cycle!

I need wood and I can't find any in the caverns. Do regions with no overground trees have none in the caverns too?

>>152111721
There's no connection, its just the nature of caverns.

>>152111721
nah. some caverns have no water though, which means that only blood thorns can grow; since blood thorns only exist in the third cavern layer (if you gen 3), if the top cavern layer has no water, it will have no trees

tl;dr keep digging

>>152110517
What isn't is the artifacts that got lit on fire and won't stop burning. I made a few pond zones above it to try and put it out but apparently the dwarves keep missing.

If dwarfs love Water Mist so much, they must really love Magma Mist, right?

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Forgotten Beast getting outskilled by a Hungry Head while fighting above a magma vent

>>152112053
You're playing with forces you cannot hope to control here, Anon

>>152061340
>>152061228
>>152060650
>>152060842
>>152060920
Thanks guys

>>152109276

It's set to LINEAR which I guess is the default

So how the fuck do giant slug wrestlers attack so fast despite being fuckass slow?

>>152114783
Did you died?

>Taking on fucking demons when you don't have to

As of 40.xx, movement speed is decoupled from general action speed.

>>152114995
No, but the fucker bit my toe.
I killed two demons so far, but holy hell I can't melee them for shit

>>152115120
Attacking demons isn't necessarily the best choice. At least get your own demon with steel body armor and a steel or adamantine axe first.