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DF Gameplay Questions / Foreign material toggle?

« on: December 08, 2008, 03:51:58 am »

Is there a toggle for foreign materials in the stockpile settings page? I could have sworn there was an option for foreign/non-foreign in the armor tab, but it's been a while since I've played. The wiki and searching the forums didn't seem to help. Hopefully you can! Thanks.

DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / It's the little things

« on: October 04, 2007, 01:22:00 am »

So earlier, I was watching my dwarves launch chunks of rocks at some pesky humans, when I noticed that the rocks would break ice that it landed on and fall into the water. I hadn't noticed that previously, and it was just a little detail that made flinging chunks of talc and rhyolite that much more enjoyable.

What little things have happened or surprised you while playing that surprised you with their accuracy or unexpectedness?

DF Suggestions / Dwarven coming of age

« on: November 03, 2007, 08:46:00 pm »

So I only looked through the core components and some of the bloats, and I'm not a regular reader of the forums, so forgive me if this has been said before, but...

I think it'd be neat if, after a child is old enough to become a real active member of the society, you could assign it a task it had to complete before it could join the community. That task could be forging a sword, or chopping down X trees, or killing N antmen, or even something like killing a wolf with only a shield and a spear and a loincloth. It could be optional, with some reward, like starting off a class with a higher skill, but with the risk that they would fail (which would probably mean die/be maimed). If you tell your munchkins to leave the map to slay a dragon, they probably won't come back, but if you tell them to mine out a new kitchen, then they'll probably have a higher rate of success.

This could also serve as a nice population control, and a more humane way of killing off those pesky kids.

DF General Discussion / DF on SA

« on: October 27, 2007, 08:32:00 pm »

So I was paging through the Something Awful photoshop phriday column when I came across a gem.

SA Photoshop Phriday

Scroll to the bottom of the page and check out some 'shopper's homage to DF.

edit: link corrected, thanks for the heads up.

[ October 27, 2007: Message edited by: sideburns17 ]