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Nope. The list of things a Jeweler can make is limited - only raw-definable options being toys and instruments.

That it happened to be sand is purely coincidence, because the game internal structure doesn't support non-layer soil materials.
It's not the first I've heard of the phenonema, but I don't know a way to quickly and certainly replicate it.

Quote from: Fleeting Frames on September 18, 2021, 12:04:51 pm

dfhack's tiletypes aside, in most cases you could cast obsidian wall 1z above the boulder/pebble, then dig away the obsidian wall (reverting it into soil floor), then cave in that soil floor on top of the boulder; Tested in 44.09, caved in black sand floor to get peat floor where pebbles were. However it is worth noting that inspecting the tile with probe afterwards tells that it still nonetheless kept its "no grow" tag (and nothing grew there in the time 48/50 tiles of dirt road regrassed).

Btw, in same version testing, Subterranean/Inside/Above Ground tiles (stockpile tiles on unretire) failed to grow any moss after cavern revealing. Revealed and refloored soil grew aboveground grasses.

Wait, so are you saying that new stone created in mid-air, when mined away, will leave a soil floor behind?  And then you collapsed that floor down on top of the pebbles, and the pebbles were replaced with that soil?

Almost, but not quite. When I collapsed said soil floor down, the pebbles got replaced with different soil (as the layer material for soil was different zlevel down).

FWIW, when I added the ^ char for string matching, what it did was just the equivalent of triplicating your five lines of overrides into fifteen. The number of actual overrides remained same as before. (PS: Forked it and put code on github now.)

How to make vermins overrides?

If you've been seeing me using them, that's from using custom copy of TWBT for it compiled for 43.03 - in basic default TWBT, though, a vermin would most of the time treated like a terrain, so if you give your vermins unique tiles not used by other terrain you could override them by overriding all walkable terrain with that specific tile (assuming there's no overlap with other items or creatures).

Honored dead...Well, they can come back as ghosts for now. I'll have to make proper caskets for them, though.

Why put it off? Well....

....Two weeks ago, I did setup for putting some fire imp skins in minecart through cavein - meant for splitting them for greater yield post-reanimation.

The system for that is the following:

1. Any skins taken from butcher are put in minecart:

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2. The plate triggers the hatch below, allowing skins to drop into reanimating area with no way back up:

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3. From there, the alive once more skin wanders into cage traps

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The cage traps are burrow-restricted to only take from inorganic cage stockpiles.

4. From here on out, the skins are put into another minecart that fires them into wall at high speed to break them apart:

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The door is floating over the northern downramp, and there is another ramp under pressure plate linked to 50+ weight to accelerate cart.

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Southern pressure plate linked to floodgate as delay, northern linked to northern floodgate and grate to allow retrival of cart, cages and skins after the latter pass through fotification.

Now, there may be some old metal cages to get rid of...

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But what's this?

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Testing reveals, yup:

Animal stockpile with Allow Plant/Animal permitted and Non-Plant/Animal not permitted takes no filled cages.

Animal stockpile with Allow Non-Plant/Animal & animals permitted takes all animals, regardless of what material their cage is made of!

I check whether this also occurs in 47.05, and....It doesn't. Seems Toady fixed this issue sometime in last five years.

Curses for me, though! I guess I have to sort the cages by weight or something...

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I tried, for a change, engraving the floors with hidden mode....

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Bit too bright? Removing the parts not under workshops, for now. Maybe it'd work better with engraved walls at same time.

Though there were significant compromises to the appearance of floors, anyhow...

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This is better

Speaking of floors, noticed a small error:

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Namely, I set image of lever on smooth floor to be overriden into ó so I could write DODÒK - but that applies to actually built lever. Have to think how to work around this one...

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The wrens don't even run from &

Seems Arhery targets in front of bars will stop shooting - as will inactive state.

Incidentally, turns out the wren child the Wasp monster killed became historical at some point, and thus granted them a name. Two more kills to get a title for Urvad, then.

But those unrevealed traps sure do work

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*Unwraps old plans for silk farm...but doesn't have enough fancy colours!*

Albeit the bait sometimes kills the target

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The Petitions start paying off.

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Orginally a poet, their great teaching skill and competent crossbow skill slots them in well as future crossbow team driller. Why shoot at target when you can demonstrate?

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Hm? You've spent 2 years idling here and haven't danced once?

I guess that's my bad.

But my haulers are overburdened with sieger clothes, so with that, it's end of winter 1397 - Next year, in Hydra age, may the goblins hit the dancefloor!

Conversations...might be tricky.

DF dialogue tree total structure is hardcoded. Sure, you can talk about different creatures in the world, or have different conversation options with your lord than a bandit, but you can't really add all-new options the NPC will use on their own as appropriate.

So you might need to code your own things that accomplish the same effect (of displaying the test that NPC said these words) if what conversations you want to accomplish cannot be done in that system. I don't know what Gothic 2 conversations are like, though, so can't say myself.

For map tools, there's indeed tiletypes (and builder). But more usefully maybe: myk is currently working on stuff like dig_now and build_now plugins for dfhack in development branch to ensure automatic testing of quickfort maps, which might mean you might only need to convert the Gothic 2 map to spreadsheet for broad structure creatable by dwarf.

Round 33, after longer than I hoped. As pointed out above, this has taken years. Now, my plans are grand, but they're not THAT grand.

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Found the fleshy wasp. Omnomnom!

The save corruption was a bigger pain than expected. I believe I've fixed some potential issues (and became aware of others - e.g. disabling confirm dialog resulting in gui sharpnel) I initially underestimated how much I'd have to redo. Though it'd be just 1 update, but no - I redod was everything since spring, total of five. However, using vanilla DF to check, either my system hardware itself induces the corruption now or the issue that occurs in winter 1397 in particular dates back years, at least to the save where I first switched to TWBT next.....I was too weary to check further when I knew how to work around some of the crashes.

But this save might be on limited lifespan, given that.

Well, at least dfhack.buildings.deconstruct can remove buildings I find cause crashes in .47.
And things went smoother, if I say.

Mostly redoing what you see above which I'll not mention here, but some changes. Ranger Kol, spear and crossbow squad leader, died. Iton lived, and so the temples to their gods didn't came to be.

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A weird happening: I have no wild animals. This, in itself, isn't weird when I have a locked-away wild horse, but...

Zasit, my Legendary Gem Cutter, took a fall week ago, when removing stairs.

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Now they took a second fall, while gathering plants.

Why are they in particular so clumsy? I am baffled. Certainly nothing to do with their poor spatial and kinesthetic sense, I am sure.

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I get surprised by a 3rd siege on 3rd day of the season, when I had send my warriors back home. Bad, when I have hospitals on the battlefield!

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Well, now this went bit more exciting!

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I keep putting off the swim training...and paying for it.

But, 3 days?

I'm suspicious...

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That, indeed, these are not zombies, but regular goblins from ogre-boasting dark fortress! Coming to my fort when it's at 79 pop!

Nice to see that those skirmishing attacks do occur. And I did get two feather wood shields off it, so not bad.

But they're not the only invaders!

Bronze colossus enters the fort. Iskak Bladeblazed the Scalded Controllers of Standing is one of two megabeasts of the world, and the one with four-digit kill list.

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It'd have been nice to use them for archery practice.

As is, though, between lashes and steel longswords, it has little chance.

Unexpectedly, from over the ocean

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As they are the only one of their kind, I cannot breed them. What then?

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Fight.

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Despite combat skills on Obok UristUstuth, it doesn't go well for them

They could have made an excellent warrior, but I forgot to add them to military...Ah well.

But what's this? Second dwarf joins the fray, with an iron pick!

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It goes badly for them too.

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Obok soon dies as well, but no matter: Another miner/herbalist and a caravan hammerman join the fight!

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Èrith Nunùrshorast climbs into the fray!?

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No, I don't think so. Not yet. I don't want the end of the age of Obruk Guttergoals to end just yet! I have plans...Plans that say their corpse must remain fit for reanimation.

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This is not you last fight, Obruk.

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Say hello to young Unib, Atal. Let the husband see the baby, too ♥

Interestingly, even after Atal's citizenship petition, Ineth was still born with the cultural values of The Empire of Rooting.

Like her older brother and sister, she will have the size to dual-wield two-handed swords. Like her siblings, she might not be best person to do that.

I'm going to do it anyway.

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They lie

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Shipping for the shipping god!
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A neat use for gui/timeout: Wait list for wall:

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With needing to delay building it, I could suspend it, but that risks forgetting to unsuspend.

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This way, there's no issue.

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Some job priority weirdness:

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Asmel was set to haul some goblin skeletons to stockpile....yet once they got nearer to road (1z below on central stairway), they blinked ? and switched labors. This is without road building job being marked high priority.

Not only, but I notice broker cancelling job to trade at depot to diagnose patient.

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Fights

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Ripping apart the lung, knocking both in hospital...The goblin is citizen of the Wickedness of Gold as well.

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Will they start a fight when I get invaded by Wickedness of Gold? The above says no...But perhaps accepting their petition was a mistake.

Yet, I hesistate to condemn one whose Petition I accepted. My first instict is to protect my citizens, after all.

Not only that, but being agile & strong makes her ideal for gobliny long-distance tasks like mining. Yet giving her a mining pick now...

...Lets nickname them "Strike One"

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Wrens reverting to wildness....

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They should have been caged, but now they regain flying ability and leave. Hm.

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...Well, some leave.

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Some time ago, I was setting up engraving walls to note: Kadol was buried here.

Well, I accidentally engraved C instead of A. So, erasing that....Carve Fortification, then obsidian-cast:

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Apparently, track stop (set to dump to south) wont dump into map edge?! New findings about DF everyday.

...Or no, in another accident it seems to be because of the timing - normally, dumping into a wall erases water/magma, but if you dump both at same time, it'll instead obsidiancast the trackstop.

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Disappointing. My bait animal turns out to be too dangerous for them...

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At least they look cool.

Later on, statue toppled, and...Oh?

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Ignored?

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Delightful!

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But I still have to deal with corruption. Why start of winter 1397 in particular is the issue? I don't know.

But I know I need to handle this siege without looking at it - and with only mace and hammer lord ready to jump into fray, the fight would go poorly...if it wasn't for the enemies having eleven weapons, deflecting off the armor.

Nonetheless, some bites get through, and....

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Shaken, but not stirring.

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So I cut down a tree under a gander.

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Gander decided to not fall, of wonder of wonders. More evidence that they're simply unwilling, not unable to fly.

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Scaffolding

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It's weird that this is the way I make those corner walls...Though tbh, I could handle that in another way, by using wall below them as support.

Nonetheless, it allows to display the colours of rock salt, slate, alabaster and stibnite birdges.

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Alas, I still don't manage to do it safely.

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the Great-Axer Meng Ukoshtukos is hunting

Bit unusual, but nothing too weird....

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Apparently, hunters can target unrevealed creatures?! That's...Cool, but not all that great actually!

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The in-aquifer rainfall research library under a murky pond.

Maybe this is bit of foolishness. After all, casting these walls isn't truly neccessary.

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Yet it proceeds apeace, losing wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow to magma carts - just remaining on same tile is enough to keep heating them up.

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But I lose 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 dwarves that get obsidian-cast by magma backflow from second cart. Some remain in walls, other I dig an dump out in above.



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Similar to rainfall library, I wish to ensure the aquifer garden is lined with obsidian. Maybe a bit more automatic this time:

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But this means I need lot of mechanisms for dozens of track stops. Enter the repeating marble mine:

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While not fully revealed since holding off on training for moods, it's nonetheless potent. Not as potent as it could be, though.

At the very least, trees are finally growing under the green glass

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A reacher? Sweet!

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Or so I think

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The unarmed squad member I send to fight to train dies?!

There can be only one sort of honor to that!

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Revenge!

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Ejas Etusrabin, Human Poet has been found dead.

Inevitable? Fated? Because of the testings, I've ran this season many times, and my Guild Representitive always dies around this time.

This time, he died late autumn, from fighting the gray langur in late summer and losing both arms. Infection.

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He's not the only one. Kadol got their throat torn open. Curious if that can be treated, I set dfhack to fill their blood to two-thirds full every 100 ticks - initially twice more than enough, but after few months...They died peacefully in bed.

However, I learned something from that. While it seems ice cast and regular constructions accept a fountain of blood just fine....

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...It seems like ice boulder constructions wont stick blood to it?

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..Or no. Some of those are dug, not constructed ice stairs. Same biome too. Not sure what to make of this, but seems like there ought to be a way to build hemophobic fortressi.

Alongside construction accidents above and learning that a dwarf will dehydrate when the creature they're trying to pasture is in impassable tile of workshop, the migrants barely keep my fortress population even.

...Well, who remains finally gets the drowning training I wanted:

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But I still have to deal with corruption. Why start of winter 1397 in particular is the issue? I don't know.

But I know I need to handle this siege without really looking at it (a quick test in 47.05 shows me one troublesome zone - but getting rid of that one doesn't solve it here) - and with only mace and hammer lord ready to jump into fray, the fight would go poorly...if it wasn't for the enemies having elven weapons, deflecting off the armor.

Autumn turns to winter, cherry leaves fall...

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Four score strong siege arrives to mountain halls.

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And this is the leader?

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Well, they're a smart one for sure. Zombies in the hole!

But since everyone was drowning, they're now all drinking, eating, sleeping. Only Èrith and Kol Zonsod, Legendary Hammerman, could run to the party.

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But the doors hold, and the army rises once more to battle.