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what i want to know is how could you pull a flaming wagon across the world and only find out its on fire when your stop to set up your new city....

Air-cooled fire snake and rum combustion engine in the "wagon". Overheated cause you stopped moving.

On embark, I was attacked by a giant skeletal eagle. I fought back with:

1 axedwarf
1 xbow dwarf
3 dogs
5 civilians recruited as wrestlers.

The dogs got pretty beat up, but none of my dwarves got anything worse than a bruise. For the first season. The giant skeleton had every single body part in the red, including all the toes and ribs, but refused to die.

My dwarves continued to fight, despite taking wounds very occasionally... forever. All of the civilians reached Elite Wrestler. At least till they all died of thirst.

Exciting this combat was not. Surely this must not be intentional.

I have been told, and who knows how accurate this is, that the damage in the creature files is a factor of 10 off the damage in the weapon files, that is, 1:6 damage is equivalent to a weapon that deals 10 to 60 damage. I assume this multiplication takes place before the damage is scaled by creature size, but who really knows?

Keep in mind also that weapons have quality and material multipliers, from x0.5 for a plain quality bone weapon to x10 for a masterful adamantine weapon.

A bug report for 40d11:

When DF is left minimized for more than ~10 seconds, it refuses to recognize keyboard input when un-minimized. If cycled between mimized and not again after that, the graphics are totally garbled, and key input is still ignored.

Running windows XP. What other information would be helpful?

All 3 tags change seige behaviour.

The first requirement for a civ to trigger a hostile action against you is that it is hostile to you - removing CAN_SPEAK means the civ is _always_ hostile to you (and everyone else) so you never get the situation where you get a goblin trade caravan instead of attacks.

The second requirement for hostile action is the relevant PROGRESS_TRIGGER tags. Turning these up or down lower or raise the amount of generated wealth or population necessary to initiate hostile action.

Now, the BABYSNATCHER and AMBUSH(?) tags change how that "hostile action" works. The default hostile action is a seige, so if a civ has neither tag, every hostile action will be a full seige. However, if a civ has one of those tags, your population is checked, and if you are below a certain threshold (which you can't change to my knowledge, sorry) you get a snatcher or ambush instead of a full seige. Removing those tags forces the race to do a full seige anytime they want to do anything bad to you.

The final seige related tag is SEIGER - this doesn't do much, it just changes the behaviour during a seige. If the race has the tag, they make bonfires and attempt to wait you out for a few seasons before attacking. If they don't have the tag, they make their attack almost immediately after spawning.

I picture them as lacking beards but having fairly thick body hair - sideburns and that little line of hair on the small of their backs like some Indian women.

EDIT: This poll is becoming a ~monthly feature, eh?

I think it has to do with the [SEIGER] tag? Humans at least show this behavior by default - they mill around campfires, sometimes for several seasons, before attempting to storm the fort. I think the point is to be more like a seige and less like a raid. Try either removing or adding the SEIGER tag and trying again - the race should still attack regardless of it's presence.