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Quote from: Dariush on September 03, 2010, 01:40:08 pm

Quote from: HmH on September 03, 2010, 01:33:25 pm

if we could cage a few packs of demons, they would stop coming.

Why? Is there some limit on maximum amount of creatures of given type on map at the same time?

Yes, there is. Demons, who have insane amounts of their brethren in biomes, provide an excellent example: until they all either die or leave, no other demons come in. But as soon as you kill the entire pack, you receive a reinforcement. It's not guaranteed that there won't be a few hundreds of frames(seconds at 100 FPS) before you notice them, though. They still have to come out of "fog of war" and all that.

Everything you've said is TRUE, however one thing you mentioned before isn't. Caged creatures DO'NT count as being on the map, so if you caged 100 demons, more will still spawn. Trust me, I've had a huge mountain goat problem precisely because of this, and I managed to fix it by releasing about 6 mountain goats into a 1x1 area, which caused no more to spawn. All the while they were in cages, they kept spawning though.

I have heard a rumour that if you create obsidian at the Top Of The Sky then it can attach itself to heaven, and be supported without contact with the ground.

...this may or may not be true, since I have never managed to get magma and water up that high, let alond get them into contact, considering that you can't build walls on the top level.

It's true, but the tile you have up there doesn't give support itself, so you can't build sky-anchored constructions, sadly.

Quote from: weediz on September 01, 2010, 12:11:38 pm

Which means its working correctly (whether it is supposed to or not), everything should fall at the same speed. Ask Galileo.

Just to be pedantic, a perfect model would include drag and terminal velocity. Everything does not fall at the same speed.

Cave-ins do fall instantly, according to the wiki.

If Achilles is falling at 10 metres a second, and the tortoise is falling a 1 metre a second. . .

That can you attach (N)otes to levers.

This is a good design, but it doesn't spread the water evenly over the whole room, and it can sometimes be hard to get the furthest away tiles from the water source muddied. I've taken to having an irrigation system which waters from one z-level above, dropping the water into the centre of the plot. This makes use of the insane speed that water falls, too.

Lungfish. Freaking. Lungfish.

Embark by a river. Within 2 seasons there are 50 lungfish in the deepest part of my fortress. Within a year, the lungfish have climbed up enough stairs to reach the top of any tower I build. Cats will slaughter them by the 100, leading to massively overflowing refuse piles - yet this somehow never affects how many of them there are.

Also naked mole dogs / jabberers are annoying because of their extreme speed.

I've been looking for a site like this too. Haven't gotten it yet.
When I find one I plan to sink the entire island and see whether it can be reclaimed.

I've been trying to do this too. It seems that for whatever reason, during worldgen it's impossible to get islands much smaller than one full embark screen. I really really really want to channel away an island until it is totally reclaimed by the sea. Also, having sea on all 4 sides of the map means a certain way of preventing any migration, which is actually why I think this type of map isn't allowed anymore. The lengths toady had gone to to ensure that things can enter the map from the sides - you can't contruct walls on the edges, you can't build constructions on the top z-level, you can't dig away/cavein the sides, etc. is probably why you can't get an island this small. Let me know if you find one.

GENOCIDE


move from one tower to the next, embarking with only military dwarves.  No fort building, just a hit squad.

This is a very fun challenge, however if a forgotten beast rules the goblin civ, you might have a bit of trouble