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Long as you're using dfhack, there's always autonestbox...

Obviously, all the ingredients of salsa.

The new pizza crepe taco pancake chili bag pyramid, only at Taco Dwarf!

Here's one I developed and have come to love. The major theme is "massive overkill." The secondary theme is "trying to look like a pinwheel instead of a swastika."

Here's the basic design.

Here's the next level, which is smoothed because I happen to have gotten around to smoothing that level.

Here's an aboveground level, carved into the corner of a cliff, with a tower built around it. The center is channeled for power transmission purposes. On the left is wagon access. Wagon access can also be achieved by removing the inner ramps and adding an outer set, but that does add a lot more walking distance for foot traffic.

It looks like it could waste a lot of navigation time, but in practice it really doesn't seem to. This is partly because dwarves never get in each other's way on it. The outer rings are really just for show and don't see a lot of use unless they're in the direction of a destination.

Quote from: doublestrafe on September 04, 2022, 01:14:45 pm

Is dfhack.world.cur_year_tick_advmode working as intended?

You mean df.global.world, not dfhack.world, right? cur_year_tick_advmode only exists in the former. Those variables are set by DF, not DFHack. They "work as intended" by definition. It's just that we might not fully understand what they mean.

Bleh. I was in fact thinking of df.global.cur_year_tick_advmode. Too many similarly named places and too much staring at them in the last few days. Think I was thinking of functions like dfhack.world.ReadCurrentTick(), which would be under your control and could theoretically be pointing at the wrong thing.

My goblins are getting drunk, and I don't know how. I don't have a tavern keeper because they had proven to be too lightweight to hold their liquor. But I just had one start a drunken brawl, and now I checked one who was flashing and she turned out to be dizzy and nauseous, and she's "unfettered after drinking".

Goblins don't eat or drink by themselves, which is a huge problem with keeping them. So I don't know who's slipping them the good stuff, but somebody is.

The reason some are not used for armour is their awful material properties. This is relevant if you get a moody armoursmith who demands metal bars. Be careful to ensure they get bronze or better. A tin helmet is pretty useless despite being an artifact.

Likewise, a gold boot or sword is terrible. But a gold war hammer from a mood is awesome, and platinum is even better. Heavy things thump better.

I've done very little with raids and such, but I learned that the only daughter of one of my dwarves, a widow who was still dreaming of raising a family, had been kidnapped as a child and had grown up to become the Lady of the Fly of Blazes, the government of the dark fortress Werebeguiler. Werebeguiler was ruled by a slate gray demon and had a couple thousand trolls and beak dogs on top of the goblin population. So, just to see what would happen, I sent my entire diminutive militia after them: about ten assorted Lords and ten more recruits, plus a bunch of war dogs and a handful of war rhinoceroses, to demand their surrender.

Which, to my bewilderment, they did.

Something slightly weird is happening.

Gamelog.txt has the following entry from 22nd Moonstone, 259: "`Ruined by the Shiny' Fikodorrun, duchess of Natureworks cancels Make pearlash: Needs 1 potash." (I have a script that timestamps each date change. Also I don't like gem setting as a moodable skill, can you tell?)

On 26th Opal, 259, The Fly of Blazes of The Jackal of Scenarios surrendered Werebeguiler to The Book of Twilight.

Gamelog.txt has the following entry from 12 Granite, 260: "`Ruined by the Shiny' Fikodorrun, duchess of Werebeguiler cancels Make pearlash: Needs 1 potash." (Right about this time I was tearing down a huge section of wall that was made of potash instead of quartzite.)

I didn't see an announcement that said that her position had changed. I couldn't find anything in the log, so I dove back into legends. And legends says this about `Ruined by the Shiny' Fikodorrun: "Related Entities: The Brown Rack (duchess of Werebeguiler, 254 to present)".

So...history has been rewritten. It may be meaningful that on 18 Granite, 260, the king and his entourage arrived at Natureworks, but then it may not, I don't know. Pretty sure it would have been a big surprise to anyone at Werebeguiler in 255 that they had a duchess, though.

Huh. The High Treasurer of the local human civ, who I just negotiated a deal with for some snazzy rhino leather, and who happens to be a goblin, is assigned a bed in my fortress. Seems he's married to a goblin bard who has been employed as a lounge singer in my tavern for years. I guess that's one way to keep a long distance relationship going.