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So this new combat system is pretty cool. I'm slashing people's muscles apart and bruising their fat, which is pretty rad.

But it sort of begs the question, how does this system change the combat dynamic? Does anyone know what slashing tendons and stuff actually does that wasn't achieved before with the old brown yellow red system?

I'm trying to teach my guys things, and it would appear that the "teach" function only proceeds to do anything whenever it feels like it.

Can a subject be only taught once?

EDIT: Okay, so the teachers will only teach if they are good at the topic, I see.


PS. recently, the LCS made the news, and the day after an article aired that said "LCS SORRY". Is this the emergence of the CCS? How might I find one of their recruits? My leader and her sidekick are both female, so they can't get into the gentlemen's club to find disreputables.

To me, Dwarf Fortress is a futile effort, a task not feasible to be performed in the span of a man's life. The fact that only One of the many, many arcs will be completed by 2040 by which time he will likely be old and feeble is a testement to this fact. Regardless, I hope to see it alive and well for many years to come.

I think we all know tough times are ahead. The economy is headed for a plummet, and with a new release scheduled this year Toady may well recieve a small explosion of donations, but the road towards releases is a long one, and community enthusiasm wanes with each month. There may well be a time when Toady cannot conceviably function as a full-time programmer with the funds he will be recieving, and with the pressing concern towards my primary source of entertainement, coupled with adolecent brain chemicals has moved me to do something large and silly.

I have recently filled in an application for my first job, part time and petty, obviously. Now as I do not need to pay to eat or sleep, most of the money I will be getting will be forwarded to my bank account for future supporting of myself. However, I will set aside a sizable percentage of the bounty towards a Toady Emergency Fund, a culluminative effort that will be dumped upon Toady once he makes the announcement that he needs our help now more than ever. Eventually of course I will be thrust kicking and screaming into the world and will instead have to direct my income towards nourishement and such mortal needs. But the Toady Emergency Fund will continue all the while. It will be his Last Resort, his Light of Earendil, his Save Checkpoint.

There is also a possibility that I will tire of this kind of charity and spend the entire fund on donuts, but it builds character in the meantime.

I live in a mountain fortress with a chasm somewhere around the middle, which means that it is populated by Giant Bats. Every so often a lone hunter will get torn to shreds, or a peasant hauling vital ore will incur their wrath. Even my militia cannot stand before them. Is there any possible Fuck The World mechanism I could use to eliminate these foul creatures?

I'm not sure how well this would go down as far as gameplay is concerned, or how much potential the idea has in the first place, but I think it would be a cool idea at least if there were creatures that had some kind of tag to make them part of the terrain itself.

Something like a big maw (think Sarlaac) in the middle of a field that snatches things with its tentacles or something before devouring them.

I understand that this would require multi-tiled creatures, and that it wouldn't have a great deal of modding potential, but I still think the idea could be experimented with at least.

For instance, Steel ore is never ever ever found in the ground, whilst tin ore is found far more often than much else, and there's nothing I can see in the raws that makes the two inherently different. Is it because Steel is classified as a reaction in another raw file?

Dragons and stuff tend to live around 150 years, but Colossus and Titans live for maybe 50 before being struck down. Why is this?

Hey, I was just wondering what modded-in civilization settlements look like in adventure mode. Are they a replication of human ones with the appropriate shops or something?

And might this change with the overhauling update?