Bay 12 Games Forum

If you're looking for tips I find that dwarfs won't stand on tiles that have suspended "build wall" designations on them.  This is especially handy when you don't want the idiots building on the wrong side of a wall.  Just create two rows of walls and suspend the outside row to make sure the morons don't build themselves out, great for making a safe area in caverns.

Of course it doesn't stop that one idiot weaver from running out and trying to grab all the webs to make silk out of, but it should help you stop idiot dwarfs from getting stuck on the outside of your big construction.

If you're looking for circles, this might help:
http://neil.fraser.name/news/2006/11/17/

It's set up to make spheres.  I'm sure you can just extrapolate circles from it easily enough though.

title says it all. I can play adventurer mode fine, but when it comes to Dwarf Fortress mode, it's like a MR person at a scientist meeting. it's all to complicated for me. can someone teach me how to play?

You lose.  A lot.  Learning a bit more the hard way each time.  Then you get used to disappointment and/or develop a very dark sense of humor, and you start designing your forts to fail.  The only limit is how fast your computer can run the game before it melts or you get bored and start a new fort/challenge.

Specifically, if a dwarf is restricted to a burrow, and claims a workshop outside of that burrow, Planepacked ensues.

Indeed, I've used it several times with my masons in order to clear up excess stone.  Sure, nothing this impressive was ever created, but it definitely put that stone to better use than being atom-smashed.

I picked up SC2 the other day. I got it from Walmart, since Pawnstop only had reserve copies. Not that I can blame them for not wanting to buy too many copies of such a little-known, indie title as Starcraft 2, who knows if it would sell...   Anyway, I do have to say that the short engineer guy looks like a dwarf. Not entirely like one, but if I was asked to imagine a "space dwarf" that is pretty close to what I would think of.

I'm loving SC2, though I get the feeling I will have to switch to "Easy" for the rest of the missions.

Swann is about what I get when I combine the words "Dwarf", "Redneck" and "Space" in my head.  Also, his lines when he goes to ground as a hero unit in one of the Char missions are great.
"Present ARM!"
"Wanna hear the sound of one-handed clapping?" *CLANK!*

Oh, and he throws a flamethrower auto turret called "Flaming Betty", with the rank of "Swann's BFF".  I don't care if he's a dwarf reference or not, I love his character and his personality.

Also, completely off topic, but the shenanigans in the victory cutscene for the prison break level if you side with Nova are downright hilarious.

So, got me a copy of Starcraft II and I started playing with the campaign, which is nice and fun and is yet another quality Blizzard product.  When I finally got to the Hyperion, I was nearly floored when I got to Raynor's flagship.  First thing I noticed when I went to the Armory was that the technician there, Swan, looked like a cross between a standard Terran future red-neck and a Dwarf:  nice facial hair, short and stout, and a bitchin' mechanical prosthesis for a left arm.  And then, the screen panned out...

Swan's workshop is in "Bay 12"!  It says so in large, clear letters above the hangar bay door, but you can't normally see it except for in certain scenes talking to Swan.  Between this and the reference people have found in the Cataclysm Beta, I think it's official:  the madness has spread and has corrupted Blizzard! 

Alkyon, do you mind if I incorporate your changes into the next update?

New DF should be compatible as-is, unless Chicken and I have completely missed something.

I don't mind, though you still might want to go through and modify some of the plants I didn't touch, adding interesting things to set them apart.  I don't mind having a billion different underground berries, but most of the clones should have something to set them apart, even if it is a value thing.  For example, I removed the ability to make thread from the Goblin Toes, and instead you grind them at a mill to make valuable dwarven pepper spices for cooking.

Could you share your tweak then when it is finished, Alkyon?

Sure.  I made a few of the plants more valuable, and limited a lot to the lower caverns so you can't start with them.  I also renamed some of the seeds so they weren't all "spores" or "spawn".  I'll admit I got a bit lazy halfway through since there were just so many plants, and skipped a few.  The fanciful above ground ground plants were left as-is though.

Anyways, here's my entire plant_fanciful_ff file: