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VI. !!science!! should be for the good of the whole, even if the few must be sacrificed. ('few' defined as less thenFixed that for you.halfthe fortress population)
Pudge is based off the fat template. It's fat, renamed and with the [MUSCULAR],[FUNCTIONAL], and [STRUCTURAL] tags added, so it's a functional material but still has the physical properties of fat. To get dwarves with 'pudge', you'd have to edit the dwarf creature template to add the 'pudge' material and make them use it instead of fat, which wouldn't be hard to do.But of course... they have no brains to tear, no bones to break, no organs to damage... They're like squishy bronze collossi.
For amusement, I used my Uplift Engine script to make civilized Fluffly Wambler men. They were harmless, but surprisingly hard to kill.
Welcome tot he forum!I'm pretty sure dragonfire is equivalent to magma in heat, so non-magma-safe mechanisms in the traps are likely the culprit.
And I learned something new. I didn't know that Dragonfire can destroy weapon traps.
I'm quite sure it can be either...Careful, you can't butcher anything with [CAN_LEARN].
I thought that was [CAN_SPEAK]? I'm not entirely sure though, as the wiki doesn't say. I really wish Toady would just take the time to explain what every token does.
Did you change it in the general raws or the raws inside the save folder? Because it won't work unless it's the latter.I just did it myself, I went into the raws (entity_default.txt in the objects folder) and added [APPOINTED_BY:EXPEDITION_LEADER] and [APPOINTED_BY:MAYOR] above the (bugged) [APPOINTED_BY:DUKE] entry. From the start of my forts now I can appoint a DM.
I tried this. Didn't work. Not on existing forts, not in newly genned ones, not in newly genned worlds .. changed it in all the raws. even removed teh DUKE entry and such.. still nothing.
I assume I should be able to simply "appoint" him from the nobles screen, right?
[...] unless your cripple gets a lucky bite in and kills the spider. [...]If the guy regains consciousness long enough to bite, the wonky AI will stop automatically aiming for the head and the spider'll start actually killing the guy.
"Goblin Grinders"I vote this. But perhaps you could use raising bridges instead of hatches so that flying nasties don't get through either. Perhaps you could, as an exercise in minor logic systems, make the traps spikes with the pressure plates starting a repeater and extra dwarf-detecting plates outside to cancel it. (This would help with trapavoid enemies without the risk of your dwarves impaling themselves.) And you'll definitely need to build a ceiling over your fort ASAP...
Put a pressure-plate next to a hatch covering a pit. When the goblin walks on the pressure-plate, the hatch will instantly open leaving only an impassible pit beneath it. The goblin will now be forced to find a new path into your fortress. If you have 2 of these, then the goblin will continuously walk back and forth between them. Place some traps in the corridor and even the toughest enemies will eventually die a death by a thousand cuts.
