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Honestly, I think it's a great idea to have the option to do this.  One of the greatest things about this game is the amount of freedom you have.  You can make dwarves that live deep in the mountain, cranking out gold loot and steel armor to defend their home.  You can make dwarves that live on the surface, in wooden houses, and make fine dresses.  Why can't you make dwarves that lash out from their mountain stronghold, conquering the countryside in a mighty empire?

How exactly would one install this? Replace the old language file?

Um.  If you just want hooves, then leave the rest of it for the animals to take.

Also, why not full butchering of beasts and sapients?  Just make it so it doesn't make foodstuffs when you're "Not that hungry".  What if I want to kill kobolds with kobold bone bolts?

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.

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.

Quote from: Alkyon on July 23, 2010, 07:13:06 pm

The smelter reactions wouldn't work because then you would have to regenerate the world to use enable the reactions in the dwarf civ.

Not quite. You can change existing reactions without regenning, you just can't add more.

Technically, you have to change the raws that are in the save game folder.  Had to mod foxes that way (I wanted them as pets!)

Hi.  I'm the one with the said problem, Darth was good enough to post for me, since I rarely if ever resort to forum help.

Let's see, in order...

Marked for planting plump helmets, all 4 seasons.
Plenty of spawn, allowed, not marked for dump or forbid, sitting in my food stocks.
Allowed labors, plenty of access.
At least one dwarf has "Farming (Fields)" as his only non-hauling labor.
They're busy with hauling, but all my other dwarves take other tasks at higher priority than hauling.
No job cancel reports at all.
Plot is 100% underground.
Built on soil.  Various types, this is a universal problem for me, so many fortresses have died from it.

My guess goes out to the ground not being farmable soil such as clay and loam.

I believe it's happened on loam at least once...  Tried it with sand, too.  And a few others.

I've never tried to build a farm plot on mud (until my current sucessful one, which I had to tweak the smelter for food first.)

Vincent, good idea on the fallow.

Also, is it a disastrous thing that I was marking "Seasonal fertilize" with no source of potash?