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Dwarf Fortress => DF Dwarf Mode Discussion => Topic started by: Furious Fish on January 28, 2008, 01:59:00 am

Title: Engravings and HIDDEN FUN STUFF (spoilers)
Post by: Furious Fish on January 28, 2008, 01:59:00 am

Back in the old version, engraving dwarves would occasionally create images of "a demon. The demon is in a fetal position" or "The demon is swirled into a spiral", even before you'd reached the adamantine.
I've never seen this in the new version, but I've never found adamantine either. If you're on a site with adamantine, will the dwarves detect its presence (and the demons) and engrave accordingly?
It's a very hypothetical long shot, but it'd be awesome if there were a way to detect whether or not your map had adamantine.

Title: Re: Engravings and HIDDEN FUN STUFF (spoilers)
Post by: Skanky on January 28, 2008, 02:48:00 am

A way to detect hidden fun stuff? Yes, that would be useful...  ;)

Only works on the embark stage.

Title: Re: Engravings and HIDDEN FUN STUFF (spoilers)
Post by: Karlito on January 28, 2008, 02:59:00 am

"A Demon" refers to the mega adamantium game ender guy.  Supposedly they engrave the images of the Demon because of ancient stories about him being sealed away or somesuch.

Title: Re: Engravings and HIDDEN FUN STUFF (spoilers)
Post by: Sean Mirrsen on January 28, 2008, 07:25:00 am

It's similar to the civilians in towns telling you of a "demon encased in adamantine in a time before time". I don't doubt that in adventure mode, the engaving will show as "related to the encasing of So-and-So the demon in adamantine in 0."

Title: Re: Engravings and HIDDEN FUN STUFF (spoilers)
Post by: Akroma on January 28, 2008, 08:25:00 am

I don't care what demon engravings indicate.

I want to indicate what an engraving in my current fortress indicates:

The evil unwelcome paints of suffering.
Engraved on the wall is an exceptionaly designed image of a dwarf and cheese. The dwarf is making a plainitive gesture, the cheese is laughing.

here is my rendition of said engraving:
(http://i28.tinypic.com/2efsxu8.png)

engravings like this are all over my fort
I think it is the symbol of my civilization or something, but I have yet to mint some coins

Title: Re: Engravings and HIDDEN FUN STUFF (spoilers)
Post by: Sean Mirrsen on January 28, 2008, 08:28:00 am

I demand a screenshot.

Or a save.  ;)

Title: Re: Engravings and HIDDEN FUN STUFF (spoilers)
Post by: ColonelTEE3 on January 28, 2008, 11:50:00 pm

Akroma i want you to know i made that my desktop pic  :)

Title: Re: Engravings and HIDDEN FUN STUFF (spoilers)
Post by: Jothki on January 29, 2008, 03:22:00 pm

Adventurer mode should give you more detail about the context behind art images. Back up your save and send an adventurer down there.