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Suppose you're playing a lightly modded version of the game in which you've made it possible to play as humans in Fort Mode, with all the necessary trappings (namely the noble positions.) Since humans use a different set of sites than dwarves do, will these new features relating to offsite mechanics still work for them? Will hamlets spring up around your fortress instead of hillocks? I'd be impressed if Toady thought of that when implementing it, but I also wouldn't be shocked if it didn't work at all.

I'm actually gonna see about altering the who ecological makeup of the cavern layers tonight, if I can make the time for it! I appreciate the suggestions, and will take them into account.

Hey, so I've been wondering- is it possible to make a weapon that will reliably cut straight through an enemy (or at least an average human enemy) with each blow? I've been messing with the raws fairly extensively, but can never seem to get it quite right, which is making me wonder if it's doable at all. For reference, I'm talking about something akin to the monomolecular wire used by the Yakuza Assassin in the William Gibson short story Johnny Mnemonic:

"Playback on full recall shows Ralfi stepping forward as the little tech sidles out of nowhere, smiling. Just a suggestion of a bow, and his left thumb falls of. It'a a conjuring trick. The thumb hangs suspended. Mirrors? Wires? And Ralfi stops, his back to us, dark crescents of sweat under the armpits of his pale summer suit. He knows. He must have known. And then the joke-shop thumbtip, heavy as lead, arcs out in a lighting yo-yo trick, and the invisible thread connecting it to the killer's hand passes laterally through Ralfi's skull, just above his eyebrows, whips up, and descends, slicing the pearshaped torso diagonally from shoulder to rib cage. Cuts so fine that no blood flows until synapses misfire and the first tremors surrender the body to gravity.

Ralfi tumbled apart in a pink cloud of fluids, the three mismatched section rolling forward on the tiled pavement. In total silence."

I've tried everything- varying contact areas, extremely high penetration values, all sorts of velocity modifiers, a variety of materials... Nothing seems to get the desired effect. Any advice would be much appreciated.

It could also be that a great beast had passed through your town before you started playing and your character saw it before you even started playing him? (Does it work like that?)

Hey Toady, I know you've probably gotten this question a thousand times, but...

> With the coming focus on artifacts/myth, which seems like it'll really improve the immersiveness and interactivity of the world both in adventure mode and fort mode, do you think there may be any thought given to implementing mounts in both adventure and fort mode? Siegers have been able to ride beasts for quite some time, so why not allow our dwarves/intrepid explorers to do the same? I suppose the feature just hasn't ever really been important enough to dedicate a lot of thought to or spend much time on, but with the world suddenly increasing in depth and complexity by leaps and bounds, this seems like an addition that would be pretty beneficial to immersion and !!fun!!.

This is beautiful.

I know these are probably a long way off, but still, I can't help but get giddy every time I think about the ability to mount creatures being added to adventure mode. Imagine the possibilities: One of the first that came to mind for me was some sort of "rogue unmanned drone" that ends up tamed/reprogrammed by villagers, which can fly at an extremely fast speed. Supposing you passed through a place that possessed one, you could fly to the edge of the world in a matter of days! Or, perhaps you might find a mount that can carry you under/through the ocean at a fast speed, opening up a whole new layer of exploration.

What possibilities could you guys see arising from the addition of adventure mode mounts?