But I am just wondering. The fortress is being kind of reconfigured during the change from fortress to adventure mode. I may be a worrywart, but isn't it likely for the levers to get disconnected in the process? I suggest you make some test run to make sure.
Deathworks
Excellent! Thanks Toady! :D
These thoughts, of course, make it interesting to exchange maps. I mean, you create a few fortresses with such traps and knacks, then save the map and make it available for others to explore. Of course, you do not give them the blue-prints of the fortresses :) :) :)
That could be quite neat.
Deathworks
PS don't note the spelling, I know its wrong and I have no idea how you spell it,
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Originally posted by Sappho:
<STRONG>New question on this project of mine: can adventurers open coffins? As in, if I have a dwarf who has created an artifact buried in a tomb with all his stuff, will the adventurer be able to open the coffin and get out the artifact? Or should I be sure not to create tombs for such dwarves if I want adventurers to be able to recover artifacts?</STRONG>
The body will be in the tomb. You walk next to the coffin and press [g] to pick it up. The artifact is not in the coffin. When a dwarf with and artifact dies it becomes property of the fortress and will be strewn around like all the other items.
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Originally posted by Grek:
<STRONG>The body will be in the tomb. You walk next to the coffin and press [g] to pick it up. The artifact is not in the coffin. When a dwarf with and artifact dies it becomes property of the fortress and will be strewn around like all the other items.</STRONG>
That is for generic burial receptacles. If you actually mark something as a tomb, and assign it to a dwarf before he dies, supposedly his possessions will be buried alongside him in his tomb. I haven't ever done this, but it's what others have told me.
If this is true, I wonder if those items will stay in that tomb, or if they will be scattered randomly like other items in a fortress, when explored by an adventurer later. Could be a pretty cool way to store treasure for adventurers if it works. Sappho should savescum a bit and try this out.
\/\/ He describes it well \/\/
[ August 12, 2007: Message edited by: Ravendas ]
Okay, I have had my bitter experiences with designated tombs before, so here is what they act like in fortress mode:
The naked body is put inside the coffin.
All possessions are placed within the designated room, one item per tile.
Clothes will be put into cabinets if the tomb contains such. Note that for a fully clothed dwarf, you will need two cabinets for all their clothes.
I don't know about other items, but other containers like chests are probably also used if applicable.
After having that one experience, I ceased giving out tombs to everyone since I didn't have enough space and time.
Deathworks
I only hope I have time to get this whole thing done before the next version comes out. I've put soooo many hours of work into it, but it won't be compatible with the next version, and I'm pretty sure nobody is going to be playing with my old saved worlds when there's hot newness to check out!
I killed off the dwarf carrying Ostar Fikod, an artifact bed and watched the others carry her items and corpse to her tomb one by one. Finally, only the bed was left.
And that was it. Nobody came and got it. Apparently the bed became fortress property and was not buried with my carpenter.
Can anyone confirm this? If an artifact creator dies and has a tomb ready, is the artifact not buried with them?
Ugh, this is awful. I thought I had finally figured out a way to do this... Sunufabitch.
1. Definitely true that items in trade depots and stones, gems, and ore do not move when the fortress is shuffled.
2. Levers work as intended. I drowned my character testing this.
3. Doors that were locked when the fortress was abandoned remain so. I assume this means that levers which have been pulled remain in the same position as well.
4. The cabinets in the tomb were moved a couple of squares, but still contained all the clothing and remained in the tomb itself. The other furniture in the tomb stayed where I put it, including the artifact bed, which I built inside the tomb. I'm still not sure if all artifacts become property of the fortress when the creator dies, or if it's only furniture items. Toady?
I didn't see any of the masses of food or drink that I had left in stockpiles. I also did not see any of the skulls or leather that I had left in stockpiles. Basically, with the exception of the items in the tomb, the minerals, and the trinkets in the trade depot, I did not find any of my items. I did not explore the entire fortress yet, however, so it may be the case that they are simply hidden deeper in. This particular fortress was filled with loads of strip mines (looking for iron which I never found), so there's a lot of area to cover. If I have time I'll try to look through the whole thing.
Is there any new information here? I hope this helps someone other than me. I only wish I could get dwarves to claim items other than their clothing so that I could make treasure tombs!
I have never started the economy, as there doesn't seem to be much good that comes of it. Once you start the economy, do dwarves claim other items and keep them in their inventory? If so, does anyone know if they end up in their tombs, or if they get reclaimed by the fortress when they die?