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I find that it is so simple and easy to designate on X and Y axis, but when you need to dig downwards or upwards, especially with our now massive amount of Z-levels, that it is quite tedious to designate each and every seperate staircase, when what you Could be doing is designating not in layers, but instead in nodes.

I will now demonstrate, using a Rubiks cube.
This is the current system, note how you have to inefficiently take a step for each layer, redesignation the entire area you want to dig.

This is when you designate over Z-levels

as you can see, when you need to redo all of your selection for each Z level you want to have done, there is a lot of work involved compared to simply designating the area once, and how deep you want it once.
Two steps, instead of dozens.

I'm trying to figure out a way to farm trees in a way that does not seem like a cheat.

so far it seems that I'll need to have a reaction which gets seeds from trees, then the plants will be transported into a very large "treefield" workshop where they will be converted into trees.

I'm sort of thinking that I should leave out getting the seeds from trees though, that way they are something you need to embark with or work a little harder to get if you want to farm trees.

does anyone have any suggestions?
I'll also have to make a new sapling plant type for every type of tree

Before reading note that all information I have listed here is already public information, I've only grouped it and put together here.


I've been seeing a lot of accusations lately thrown about toady's grand fortunes of donations, so I decided to get some rough figures together for people to think about.
Hopefully this will clear some things up for those people.

I tallied last years numbers from the announcements, you might note that febuary last year was roughly the same as this one as well,



I'll do that now actually, for a decent bacholer pad if I can find it, but if someone actually knows his actual rent disregard this.
Also does he have a car? I don't so I save bundles already there.

Looking at rents in his area here http://www.rentals.com/Washington/Bremerton-Silverdale/
I have come to a rough figure of 825$ a month for renting a fairly modest but comfortable place. (But what if he has a mortgage?)

$32516.44
-$9900.00
$22616.44
Anyone from the area have a rough grocery bill?
Insurance for the home?
Does he have any medications or health issues?
How much furniture does scamps tear up on him?
Car Insurance (if he has a car, and if not, bus pass or taxi fees?)
Does he travel anywhere out of town?
What does toady do for fun, and how much does it cost him?
Old loans to pay off?
How much can he put away for a rainy day?
How much can he put away for retirement?

If you factor that all in, money can disappear very fast.
I dont need to worry about the majority of those expenses, which is why I can afford living on $10800, and why other young people like me in college, can afford to do so.
Considering how talented he is, how much of a following he has, and all those other factors, he could be working for some big game company as a programmer making around $80000 more than the $32500 quite easily.

Anyone who thinks he is tossing our money around and not giving anything back to us is simply a fool.

I'm going to make a donation now myself, and it will be the best 20 dollars I have ever spent in my life.

Edit: Locking the topic as it seems to be giving nothing but grief even though my intentions were to help toady get donations in some of the lesser donation months, and show some of the possible donators who are not in the real world yet what it takes for a person to live.

Since all the other threads are from around last may or farther back, I've decided to bring up this little gem again to you, my friends at Bay12.

http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com/?p=713


Also, would anyone like to play? I'd put up the dedicated server myself but this connection here has a long laster case of the synchronous diaphragmatic flutters (hiccups)

Does anyone else remember using cute little things like this?
http://www.goldfiles.com/portal.php?fileid=323
Its a desktop pet, something that just sits around doing their own thing.

My question is, Does anyone else think they would enjoy it if there was a desktop Urist? Perhaps a cheeky little bugger running around engraving things into your screen 

I'm sure these are relatively simple for someone to program, so I just thought I'd ask about and see who else would like to see something like this before I decided to go on spending a few days learning how to make something and then not doing it in the end 

In the next version, will it be possible to target damaged or worn items for reactions? I was thinking of making a custom workshop to repair clothes, armor, and weapons.