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Hey, I was screwing around, and it seems like the "names" script, which lets you use the native interface to rename units, is broken unless I'm using it wrong, it seems to be throwing an error.




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Become a necromancer + werebeast

Becoming a werebeast necromancer adventurer is something I did before back in the 0.34 versions when night creatures first became a thing, the trick is to become a necromancer before you become a werebeast, since werebeasts are immortal and immortals can't become necromancers, hence you can't become a necromancer ever if you're an elf or goblin. This is definitely still possible in vanilla, sine I just recently encountered one in fortress mode. Keep in mind that when you transform your zombies turn hostile since werebeasts lack the [NOT_LIVING] tag that means necromancers leave them alone.

   

• Marry, get a wife or husband, get children
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  All adventurers start out asexual - so, in vanilla, these are impossible. You can change this with DFHack's "fix-ster" script, though, which should theoretically allow adventurers to get married and procreate. I don't know a way to "choose" your lover/spouse, though; but if you retire a fix-ster'd adventurer and let them operate on their own for a while there's a chance they'll hook up with someone

As far as picking spouses for an adventurer goes, you can do that in fortress mode via dfhack with gui/family-affairs to force marriages. I'm not sure if this results in children working properly. This only works in fortress mode mind you. You can even force interspecies marriages with this command, though you need to use an argument that disables checks. Surprisingly if you use a script to force pregnancies between members of two different sentient races, it doesn't crash, and simply results in a child that's the race of the mother, ie Elder Scrolls rules, which honestly might be a nice and easy solution for Toady once that comes on the agenda if half-breeds are too annoying.

Properly harnessed necrocitizens are incredibly useful. They can potentially raise your dead dorfs as ridiculously tough intelligent undead that experience no stress whatsoever. It's best of course to do this in a controlled environment, since it seems kind of random whether they decide to raise people as intelligent undead or zombies.

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Quote from: Spectre9000 on February 10, 2017, 08:53:47 pm

This has probably been asked a million times, but as there are over 200 pages to peruse, I'll ask again... is there an ETA on this being updated to 43.05?

From what I understand, it's a matter of getting dfhack and DT done first, so... No.

Unfortunately this is correct.  There's an alpha version of DFHack, and Therapist supports 32-bit 43.05, but there's no TwbT.  So we'll continue to wait and see...

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Quote from: DAOWAce on October 15, 2016, 11:03:32 pm

I'm afraid I'm not understanding the new importer.

I get this message after selecting the old DF folder: WARNING: Can only import content from single basedir.

If I don't select the main DF folder, I get: Import failed. Does not seem to be a DF install directory.

This was originally posted as a question in October, but I haven't seen an answer here. I'm having the same problem. Which folder is it asking for, when I try to "Import from previous installation"? Nothing seems to work.

I don't really need my old game, but after two hourse of churning out a new world, the game crashed before I got it saved. So I figured I'd use the world I'd created last May. But I can't get that to work, either.

It should work by selecting the old DF dir, but apparently this doesn't work for everyone.  Unfortunately it does work on my computer, so there's not much I can do to fix it.

I mean, at this rate, I'm somewhat worried we'll end up getting 0.45.01 before TWBT gets updated to the latest version, much less therapist.

Hmm, so it looks like that "plague on both your houses" got a bit more literal than I was expecting. Or something. How have things been in the years since I last bothered to look at Dwarf Fortress?

So...I think I'm still alive right now? Cool. Though I gather than I'm getting beaten up by a skin.

Is it just me, or is Bloodyhells tethering on the edge of extinction a lot more than our usual Battlefailed forts do? Also, am I still part of the technically living?

Looking at the save, we have 44 people, most of whom are necromancers. We're not in serious trouble. Niner on the other hand...

Quote from: Archereon on July 09, 2016, 11:53:19 pm

You can force dwarves to retreat from combat by burrowing them into an area they are not currently in and deactivating their squad.

You'll need to trap the skins in cages and atom smash or incinerate them.

I've tried reburrowing them, but so far the ones that were burrowed aren't leaving. Niner and Speciesunk0wn are both there, neither of them are necromancers. They keep passing out from exhaustion, but no injuries yet. Only Twinwolf and spish wandered off, they weren't burrowed because I'd hoped they would continue to distract the undead long enough for the mortals to get out of reach, but I'd canceled squad orders a month ago.


Alright, Speciesunk0wn is dead a second time. A troll corpse got in somehow.
Then a bunch of crundle corpses got in there and beat up the unconscious niner to no great effect. I'm suspecting a breach leading to the caverns but I've been unable to find it thus far.

He's quickly becoming the Kenny of Bloodyhells I see.