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"Play now!" doesn't seem to bring usable axes.  I'm playing as joyclaves at the moment, but this has been the case for every fort I've started on the current version.  Woodcutters just don't do anything.  They don't even pick up the... let me check what got brought this time.

...Well, play now brought some "Advanced nanotechne solid DSE-equipped mace", so i guess those aren't axes and I can't just bludgeon trees down.  But again even in embarks where i've brought things at least with the word 'axe' in the item name, no one will cut trees.

Am I missing something?  I don't recall this being a problem in previous installs of this mod, so I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong here.  Other than being given maces, I mean.

Edit:  I did manage to buy an axe from a trader, so I can cut trees now.  Just didn't start with any.  Also i guess gun-axe doesn't count as an axe? 

Dig down a couple floors.

If I have soil on at least -2 level, then dig farms there.
Otherwise dig a stockpile, zoned for everything but stone, except a corner that is just stone.
Put workshops under stockpile, with stairs down.
Dig farms if I didn't already, water the stone with a lazy floodgate/channel rig.
Plant everything
Make a bunch of stonecrafts because they're cheap and I have stone already
Build Depot in the meantime.

There, fort set up.  It's kind of dull and I want to get out of the routine, but what do you want?  It works.

Quote from: Dadamh on October 25, 2016, 02:11:16 pm

Quote from: God in the Details on October 25, 2016, 01:58:23 am

PTW.

This is probably a stupid question but I'm outdated on my forum lingo.  What does PTW mean?  I've seen it all over the place.

Posting to watch. Took me ages to find out too, means other stuff elsewhere but natively here it means that.

Ah, thanks.  I don't know where that shows up, but at least that makes sense of the acronym.

Once again I am back to playing the best game ever always being made and after my third fortress I had to ask myself an important question. What would I consider FPS death. I can usually get between 90-100 until the last cavern and then it really starts to dip eventually bottoming out at 15-20 by the time I get to the blue gold.

My question to all here really is what would you consider the minimum fps tolerable in fortress mode?

Somewhere around 10.  I played through all of Oblivion and most of Morrowind at about 10 FPS.

That said, it's not exactly fun being that low.

It's a longstanding issue with DF.

If you have DFZhack installed

But DFHack is still on old versions only.  I wanted to know if this is possible for 43.05.

Can't say I've ever had a night creature, on the order of "Twilight man" or something like that, attack a fortress.

Though you're right, they should probably.  If only to snatch away a "twilight man bride" or something, which they do in world gen.

Only night creatures I've seen attack are werecreatures, and in a more quiet way, vampires.

You'd need to cast obsidian

I didn't even think of that.  I guess that would work, if you don't mind it costing many times the time and effort that digging out a gem or two would gain money.

I think just going with smoothing and not engraving is best, unless you consider just leaving the gem walls in.  Gem walls add value anyway.