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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Mystery super-sword

« on: October 17, 2010, 02:11:26 pm »

In a relatively new fortress (about one year in) I go to the Stocks screen to find where the fortress axe is, since nobody seems to be chopping wood.

We have two picks... an axe... and a TWO-HANDED ADAMANTINE SWORD. 157 levels below ground, in an entirely unrevealed area of the map. It's marked blue on the stocks screen, the way merchant's gear and such is marked blue, and obviously I can't actually see the sword itself.

I know trying to mine it out would be a terrible mistake, but this sword... it calls to me...

[I assume this is an HFS-related bug? I definitely shouldn't be able to see that]

DF Bug Reports / [40d8] Dwarfs gain massive wrestling skill in seconds

« on: January 10, 2009, 05:44:44 pm »

I just installed 40d8 (Mac), although the save I'm using was started under 40d7 (XP).

I assigned two peasants to the military (the first of any in the fortress). They went to the barracks and started sparring, and as I watched, they leveled to novice wrestler, and then full-out Wrestler, in the space of 20 seconds.

This isn't a case of "wrestling increases faster than assigned weapon skill," they're assigned wrestling, but they're leveling up blindingly fast. They'll probably be legendary champions in 10 minutes. Anyway, that can't possibly be right.

DF Bug Reports / [40d / 40d2] Constant rain, even at below-freezing temperatures

« on: December 27, 2008, 01:59:16 am »

I'm not sure if this is a bug, per se, but it seems strange. I'm in a region where the local brook freezes during the winter (I'm on the border between two biomes so it freezes a bit earlier in one of them, then in the other). However, the constant rain (and I mean CONSTANT - I don't think it's ever stopped) doesn't turn to snow during the winter when the brook freezes, it just keeps raining. This seems odd, because flowing water usually freezes well after it's cold enough to turn rain into snow.

DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Dwarf Leather Bracelet

« on: August 10, 2008, 08:25:37 pm »

So hidden in the human caravan's crafts that I always skip over, I found a Dwarf Leather Bracelet!

Those jerks!

This must be how the elves feel when someone tries to sell them skull totems or whatever.

DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / That was quick.

« on: May 05, 2008, 07:53:00 pm »

So, new fortress. The first metalsmith I got in my first immigrant wave - not counting a minor group arriving in the fall of the first year - didn't even make it to the fortress before falling into a strange mood. Between the edge of my map and the fortress gates he "withdrew from society." He withdrew from society before even REACHING society! He saw the fortress walls and was instantly stricken by inspiration - or insanity. Remains to be seen.