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DF Suggestions / Phobias!
« on: August 02, 2012, 01:23:19 am »
I think this could be a fascinating mechanic for dwarves.

If a dwarf gets attacked, or has some sort of bad experience with an animal, or a situation, he has a chance to develop a phobia.  In the future, a phobic dwarf would always flee from his fear!  Even if his phobia is armadillos or something, and he's military, and it's a pet.  Scared to hell of em.  And he'd consider engravings of it to be worth *-2 or something.  It may extend even into a dislike of eating the meat, or not.

Of course we'd see it in his personality, along with his likes and dislikes: "Urist McPhobic likes adamantine and figurines. He absolutely detests purring maggots. He is terrified of one-humped camels."

Naturally, the younger a dwarf is, the more he's susceptible to getting one, and there's always a chance he'd get over it.

Whatcha think?

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DF Suggestions / Adventure Mode Butchering/Dismemberment
« on: November 13, 2010, 02:21:47 am »
Sometimes, you defeat this great beast for the land, and want to report its death with style, carrying back its head to show to the world!  But for one problem.  The killing blow was through its heart, its neck and head are still fully intact.  So you go to butcher it, to take its skull.  "You are not that hungry."  Sadface.

So, I propose this.  Those sapients and beasts that you cannot butcher, the butchering still works, but it's dismembering!  Takes them apart into their main parts!  Head, legs, arms, feet, hands...  All removed carefully and ready for your messing with.  Still unable to be fully butchered, but you're at least able to bring back the head of that Elven outlaw, or that great night beast with an inside-out face!  No matter how you killed him.

I thought of this as I prefer the method of killing by way of sword through the head.  It shouldn't be too hard to program.  Unfortunately, there are no raws for it.

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DF Modding / Simple, probably-already-answered-somewhere question
« on: October 04, 2010, 09:04:07 am »
What language is Dwarf Fortress programmed in?  I think I heard it was somewhere in the C family, but I'm just curious as to what language it is that's so epic as to give us this amazing game.

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