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or just savescum if you get your bro jacked up.  players might get their equipment weirded out though while they retire too.  I think ex-player peasants used to tend to collect crafts (and might lose some gear?)

You can only eat/drink like 3 times per "full" so dedicate 2 of one or the other to whatever is most pressing at the time and the other 1 unit of stomach space to the one less likely to kill you soon.  Quick (T)ravel also enables you to eat/drink again too I think.  So, if you are really hurting for food/water, just quick travel over 1 space, land your adventurer airplane (>) and eat/drink again.

The way that I picture it in my mind is:


Tricky/Solid = Low odds that it will hit, but high damage if it does.
Easy/Can't connect = High odds that it will hit, but low damage if it does.

For example, you might have a 6% chance of making a kill strike or an 86% chance of causing a bruise (just making up numbers - there are probably actual percentages that correlate with the descriptions).

It all depends on whether you want to take a big risk at doing heavy damage (and possibly missing, exposing yourself to worse retaliation?) or want to score an easy strike (that might hurt him less?)

edit:  This is from the wiki

"You must first select the body part that you want to attack. Look at the difficulty rating for various possible attacks. Impossible attacks will be impossible to land and Easier attacks will be very easy to land. The difficulty rating for an attack does not change depending on your weapon skill. Based on player experiences, a Grand Master weapon user can almost always land a "Tricky" strike, while a Novice generally cannot. Attacks on various locations will also have limits on how "squarely" they can land (due to being out of reach, for example). Square and very square attacks will deal more damage.  Attacks which "can't land squarely" are generally still effective."

ps. the way that I fight, is that I never walk right up next to a regular enemy (unless they are a crossbow/bow user).  I walk towards regular enemies until I am a step or two away.  Then I press the period key (./>) to skip a turn.  That way, they spend their turn moving towards you and you can spend your turn attacking.  If you move towards them, your final move before the conflict is spent walking and they get the first strike.

Then, I choose the easiest strike I can find (even if it is not perfect damage).  If there are no hits that will be likely to land (example: all tricky), then I take one step away, press the period button if needed, and repeat.

Always get the first hit, always go for the shots that land.  It's better to land 100% of normal damage hits than 1% of high damage (unless you are doing some sort of hail mary in a last chance effort to make it).

Go for disabling hits, they are easier than kill hits.  Beat their arms and legs.  They drop their weapons, shields, and lay down.  All of this cripples their attack, defense, and speed.

Then, do the same with any other enemies in the area.

Once you have eliminated the threat (no enemies capable of holding a weapon), start toying with them.  Walk around the camp choking them with wrestling (wrestle throat).

Hold the button to move towards them to quick repeat the choking.  They will go in and out of consciousness and you will build a ton of skills.

Throwing things is cheap, but if you need help, you can toss a few rocks instead of just hitting period to skip as they move towards you.  With luck, you will chip a leg bone or something and cause them to be weakened before they get to you.  (throwing is imbalanced and you often 1-shot kill them by nailing them in the head, so I tend to avoid doing it -a lot- because it makes things too easy).

Here you go:

[REACTION:HONEPICKSEN]
[NAME:hone pick skill]
[ADVENTURE_MODE_ENABLED]
[REAGENT:A:1:WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_PICK:NONE:NONE][PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[PRODUCT:100:1:TOY:DROP_SWEAT:INORGANIC:SWEATBC]
[SKILL:MINING]
Just copy/paste that into the "reaction_sensei" file that was provided.

Btw, the strange thing about training is that it now seems like it requires an output (product) instead of simply a skill tag in the reaction.  I don't remember it having that requirement in older versions of DF and without testing it, I -think- it worked it older versions without the product line.  Anyway, that's why there is a sweat output now!

If you are working out (training) and you sweat, drops of sweat will appear in your hands but as soon as you take one step, it will run off and become a coating like water.

I know that I already made a thread in mod, but some adventure fans might not check there (I didn't when I was an adventurer until I started messing with adv/df mode mods).

If you're going to cheat and wrestle a gopher for an hour, you might as well spam a reaction instead.  Enjoy!

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=102961.0

I don't think they're compatible out of the box.  I can't remember why at the moment but they probably overwrite the same things.  Maybe once the update is released, I'll look at making a ver that works together.  Depending on how comfortable someone is with modding, they could also do what BeforeLifer said and just add the pieces a la carte.

just add a reaction that gives you free skill experience and then hit a button making it repeat for a few mins.  you should be instant awesome

while selecting the embark site, just tab through the different views like altitude, slope, etc.  One of the view modes you will see is a list of civilizations that you can use to pick your place of origin.  Pick one that lights up a human looking city or human fort on the map (not a goblin tower or dwarf hall).  To make sure that you picked a human, you can tab to see the list of neighbors.  If it says human before listing goblin, dwarf, elf, etc. then you know you have a human civ.