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Just got the game.

First impressions: Hey. Cool. They sort of recreated the intro. Okay.

Tutorial: Nice. Elaborate and not dragging on too much.

First startup: WHERE IS IMP??? Oh well. No wages either? Meh.

First battle: Okay, going steady. No FoW makes it a bit easy, but whatever. Shot a few guys with machetes.

... Later- Camera.. being.. a.. prick... WHY IS IT ALT TO ROTATE. Dear god. Why can't I remap it? Why can't I remap ANYTHING?

Shot a few dudes later - .. I only have one mag. Well, I am boned. All these guys I've shot had machetes.

*restart*

This isn't looking too promising. Feels like a console port.

Quote from: Pymous on July 31, 2011, 06:16:45 pm

Thank you guys.
Damn so whats the quicker way to deal with this problem? Can I erase them with DFHack maybe? I really dont want any contact,  it's a tragic story about the end of a civilization.

EDIT: So with the lazy newbie pack its possible? I'll check that tommorow thank you

Don't think LNP will work cause I have set Pop cap to 0 and still got 2 waves.

Best idea i got is build two bridges at the entrance of your fort making sure they touch, but one raises towards the outside and one raises toward the inside of the fortress when immigrants come just mark a meeting area under the raised bridge and wait for the migrants to stand under it and smash them. You are going to need to make some slabs to recognize they died though unless you want ghosts.

I would just wait till they become ghosts (if they do), then put down a slab. Once they've been put to rest, I think you can remove the slab again without having the ghost return.

That way there will be no trace whatsoever!

An underground cistern didn't work, that again somehow made it salty. I suppose I could make it above ground, above ocean level and supposedly that should make it clean.

Or is a well enough? According to the wiki a few reasons for infection are:

"Cleaning with water from a stagnant water source.
Cleaning with water laced with mud."

I can be certain the water isn't from a stagnant water source, because it is continuously flowing from the ocean through a canal and back into the ocean again. New water is being pumped in every second. Or is this incorrect? Is this water flowing? Does it matter at all, because it is a well and any water from any source provided by a well is instantly good?

I'm cleaning with water laced with salt, not with mud. The wiki mentions nothing about this, and the water is retrieved from a well (thus resulting in no unhappy thoughts). The water is still salty, but I can't tell whether this is a bad thing. I'm sure it would hurt though, all that salt.

Yes, it does.

I always like to check the wiki for components and ingredients.
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Soap

Both lye and tallow (or oil pressed from rock nuts, but tallow is obviously a lot easier to obtain) are required for soap.

Logs at furnace -> Ash
Ash + bucket at ashey -> lye
Lye + tallow/oil at soapmaker -> soap!

A lot of hassle, but infections are nasty.

Well, a dwarf is currently creating a gem artifact. Nothing special with that, but he's using two other gem artifacts made by two other gem cutters.

I wonder how well this news will go down with the other artifactcreators and what this gem will end up like...

Edit: Oh, nevermind. Looks like he didn't use those artifact gems after all. Oh well, another useless gem.

I wonder if encrusting something with an artifact gem will essentially destroy them?

The funny thing is, they don't even seem to need a crutch. I think: "Hey, this guy has been in his traction bench for an awfully long time. Time to rediagnose."

I then remove his traction bench, he gets up, does something .. then realizes "derrrrp I'm supposed to be in bed, resting!" and cancels whatever he was doing. He's back in bed, rediagnosed, put back in the traction bench.

This was with a red knee, red ankle and I think even a dwarf with a red arm. Current guy that does it has a red hip. "Fractured"

I like to start out with a line of simple weapon traps before I start producing armor for the military. That will provide me with some security so I can get the metal I need and equip everyone with the same stuff.

My equipment for every dwarf:

Helm
Breastplate
Mailshirt (breastplate doesn't cover the arms! http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Armor )
Greaves
Gauntlets
High boots
Shield
and a weapon of choice

I haven't bothered with cloaks, though they supposedly cover the throat (as much as a simple cloak can "cover" anything).

Started out with full bronze, but when I smelted enough iron from invaders and such, I made them full steel. Though I've noticed that they don't need the armor anymore, because in the combat logs I see my dwarves evading everything (even arrows) and blocking the rest.

About experience for your armorsmiths... Take note that there is no advantage to better quality armor unless it is masterwork. So a -Steel Breastplate- is no better than a ≡Steel Breastplate≡  ..