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Thieves keep stealing my bolts.. the used ones.. that aren't in a stack... the single ones out near the corner of the map...

Right now it seams as though they steal whatever they happen to stumble upon. maybe they should know the average worth of your items(minus the artifacts,stone,wood,seeds ect) and then go for anything at a certain price and anything higher (so they COULD steal artifacts it just wouldn't be in the calculations thus they wouldn't come to a target price of 1mil dwarf bucks). That's not to say there couldn't or shouldn't be thieves coming to your fort JUST for one of your artifacts.

This would keep them from stealing all the bolts lying around. Now the macaque i could see stealing a single bolt.

I started next to a sea surrounded by land on 3 sides and come Autumn the caravan came from probably the farthest point away from the fort, but thats not the problem here cause unlike the immigrant they didnt crawl out from the sea.

They came from where my wagon started at.

Beware they are immune to all magma and there cloths get magically fire proof....

....and all there animal are immune too..

I did a search and couldnt find anything about this..
Luckily i made a backup before i tested out my magma moat(always do)...
You see it made my steel aquduct blow up... maybe i used to much copper, i could have also seen iron and thought it sayed steel..

I was thinking it was a good idea to be able to put cabinets in a food related workshop for extra storage, it wouldnt just make it less clutterd but the food in the cabinets would stay there until you gave a order(workshop job) to clean up(this job could even be done when there isn't a container in the workshop).

As for coffers they could be for say a mechanics shop/crafts dwarf or there could be weapon/armor racks for the smith. now that i think about it you should be able to take the containers out of the workshop without removing the biulding it could be done from the preference screen.

P.S A question just struck me.. the way the workshops are, are they just a place holder till theres a better system for workshops?

EDIT: bleh miss spelled a word.... and used a wrong word. i hate doing that kind of thing only to notice it much later. what its been an hour now?

[ February 28, 2008: Message edited by: Zulaf ]

I recently captured a bonobo and sent someone to train it and i watched the dwarf grab some meat and it was cat meat, well that made me giggle cause if there training the animal with cat meat would that make the animal crave cat meat?

Ok i was... lets say pondering*.... about multi forts the other day and remembered something i read somewhere that you will be able to control a dwarf in your fort. well what if you can only control your expedition leader, mayor, king ect ect, and to be able to control a fort your current leader has to be there.

Ok now there would have to be a few specialty things like messengers if your fort gets attacked, a successor so if you leader dies. i thought i had more, must of forgot. I just thought about trading and i dont know what would be done with that..

Now i would like to see the caravan suggestion go in for moving to and from forts.

This is where the messengers can be used. say your going on a trip to another fort to manage it and it takes 1 season to get there. the messenger comes running(ridding a horse? maybe? hopefully?) down the road to you with the report that your scouts have seen a army coming to your fort and they will be there in 3 seasons so you send him to the other fort to gather more troops for the fight, or if its a small army and you think the fort can handle it you just send him back.

I would think there would have to be settings for your fort when your not managing it like the build X amount of Y when stocks reach Z sort of deal and the Perma plant gathering suggestion would work good too, and seeing as the farms dont fade now you would just leave them. Also there could be a setting in the military screen that lets you set what dwarfs to send out if a messenger comes asking for support while the leader isn't there, or even what units to use as a malita if your troop count get below a certain point.

If you leader dies and there is bad blood between one or more possible successors and the real successor, or just the populace just dont like him/her this could lead to a rebellion.

I coulda sworn there was more but i cant remember.

P.S. * = Sitting on my porcelain throne.

[Edit] Freakin typos i gota start proof reading.

[ December 07, 2007: Message edited by: Zulaf ]

[ December 07, 2007: Message edited by: Zulaf ]

[ December 07, 2007: Message edited by: Zulaf ]

I had a dream.... yes i had a dream of df last night...

Anyways in my dream i seen a wizard(i guess he was throwing fireballs and teleporting and whatnot.) and another character chasing him throwing objects at the wizard but the objects where just flying at him. there where mostly boulders but they ran through a stockpile and some barrels got thrown.

Anyways my suggestion is would something like psychokinesis be possible?

P.S. was that a pathetic dream or what?

P.S.S. what does P.S. mean?