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Hello all,

Here is a link to the main imgur gallery
http://imgur.com/a/5uo7L

I recently put up a post on the DF subreddit, and on imgur, where I've generated 10 worlds on vanilla DF, with the default settings from Create New World!.

I took this a step further than a previous post (roughly 3 years ago...) with 10 maps. After generating all the worlds, I took a screenshot of the initial completion screen. Then after entering legends mode, generated all 10 of the worlds diplomacy, structures, and ascii maps as well. I've listed out the historical figures, death, and event counters in text form in the imgur main gallery.  The other detailed map galleries are linked through the reddit post (sorry don't feel like doing this twice ) which can be found
here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/3zzs4v/generated_10_worlds_on_default_settings_in/

I just generally find creating and viewing the maps to be an interesting experience, as well as exploring Legends mode in general.  Hopefully this is neat for someone else to look at.

Cheers!

Sorry to drag this up again. I would like to know if there is a way to tell DFhack? to run all three scripts, brainwash,physical and mental all at the same time rather then selecting each one after the other? I have the scripts running separately , however, i would like to be able to just type in say, GOD, and all three scripts run on the Urist targeted. Thank you for your assistance.

Sure, you can just combine all the scripts into one .lua file called godmode (or whatever you'd like to name it).  Here it is for the lazy.

That's it for now, next tests are to try some metal trap components and spears, and also to see the effects on armoured targets. Any requests welcome, once I've mopped up the blood....again!

I'd like to see statues.  Bonus points if they're made out of bituminous coal and on fire.

I was wondering if there are any current mods that include smoking, pipes, etc.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/u6rjw/suggestion_smoking/

The above post on reddit got me thinking that this could be fairly easy to accomplish.  I was wondering what exactly I would need to do to produce the following:

1. The pipes (preferably made via craftsdwarf workshop)
2. The plant (Pipe weed, pipe weed seeds)
3. The job (hopefully this could be like Partying or going on break, something that a dwarf does occasionally and without direct interaction, as telling Urist to go smoke a pipe just wouldn't feel right, but if Urist decided to pick up a pipe in between hauling jobs, it'd feel a bit more immersive.)
4. The smoke, as the job is being performed, puffs of smoke should be generated and be visible.
5. Possibly a "smoking room" building or zone that would allow smoking dwarves to congregate in one area.  Are modded zones even feasible?

Any sort of input would be great, I'm heading off to slumberland at the moment but I have a feeling I'll be working on this tomorrow if it still seems possible.

Although it was short lived, I have a bit of a fort going on that I could pull back up in which I am turning everyone into were-tortoises.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=108835.msg3254754#msg3254754

I've had much success in generating large numbers of were-tortoises that could be used for science purposes.

I've still yet to create an entirely were-tortoise fort yet though, I think I know what I'll be doing when I get home tonight

I can say for sure that if you can end the fighting between the lycan creature and the citizen (including breaking all grapples) that there will be no hard feelings about that whole 'turning into an evil turtle and slaughtering everyone around you' bit.  The lycan in question actually had happy thoughts from slaughter after reverting back.

To my surprise, the killed Lycan Dwarf comes back to life. Toady making undead spawn on a weekly basis instead made corpse transfer a little easier.

So in what state did he come back to life?  Was this before the other lycan reverted?

Some testing suggests that we could build a dwarf-powered long distance cart launcher by having a dwarf kick a heavy cart into a light cart, because the kicking appears to set the cart's velocity, while when two carts collide it appears that (one of) the moving cart(s) will stop, and the other cart assumes all momentum and gains a speed proportional to its mass. Further research is required.

In fortress mode, I used a 5z downward ramp to a 3 space flat area then a two tile upward track, and platinum 856w vs featherwood 4w minecarts.  I had the dwarves ride them and push them. 

A platinum cart colliding with another platinum cart travels equally as far as a platinum cart colliding with a featherwood cart. 13 squares.

A featherwood cart hitting a platinum cart doesn't move it very far if at all.

Two featherwood carts hitting each other go the same distance.  13 squares.  Two platinum carts hitting each other go the same distance.  It also seems like once I'd hit a platinum cart into a ramp if it were assigned to a stop it wouldn't always get taken back to a stockpile thus causing a traffic jam at the end of the ramp if the dwarves were grabbing and re-tracking the carts too fast.

Am I missing something about "kicking" them?

how exactly do ramps work? im pushing my cart to the south but it just goes over my NS ramp?

The ramps describe the directions in which they go.  A NS ramp both ramps the north and south of the tile, thus creating a U shape \/ in that tile.  So You'd want a north ramp if going north and up from the south part of the tile, South if going north and down.

I've got a save at the moment where I'm experimenting with turning the whole fort into were-tortoises. 

Mutant Ninja Dwarf Tortoises. 

I've come up with a method that seems to work fairly well but would like some input from the community.

Create Turning Room, 10x10 room with 10x10 retractable bridge hooked to lever.  Raising drawbridge as door.

Set all your victims into military with no uniform, replace clothing (naked squad).  Werebeasts have a habit of grappling, and a pig tail fiber shirt became the weapon of choice resulting in a lost squad of victims during one of my experiments.

Set your werebeast into military with no uniform as well.

Order them all to station inside of the room about 5-6 days before the werebeast turns.  (predictable, 27 days after last turning, will turn again)

Right before the werebeast turns (day prior or so) set the lever for the retractable bridge to repeat, this begins stunning the dwarves.  When the werebeast turns, it has NOSTUN so it's rather unaffected by the dwarf mixer, beyond breaking it's grapples.

It's very important to not remove any of the victim's military status or station orders during this time as they won't get infected as easily.  During my experiments if I flipped the victims to civs before testing they were able to run in terror rather easily, their need to fight the werebeast as soldiers seems to trigger counterattack bites.

Using this method I've been able to force turn in my best attempt 6/10 dwarves, with the other 4 having died in that run.  I've even had situations where the grapples were all broken when the werebeast turned back, resulting in a mechanic weretortoise who had a long name and 5 dwarf kills happily coexisting with the rest of my fort like nothing had happened.  Usually though unless timing is perfect the original dwarf is considered hostile and executed.  I also noticed that it's best to do 1 werebeast at a time, as two or more work in teams and tend to murder their victims faster than turning them.

Questions I have outstanding:
Will an entirely werebeast fort trigger a lose game message?
Is there a way to ensure more conversions and less losses?
Is there a way to ensure that the initial werebeast doesn't get murdered at the end?
Will werebeasts with equipment ever use their equipment in battle? (equipped werebeast turns during battle, does he begin biting, or continue using his weapon?)
What fun uses are there for my weretortoise population?
If I get a large weretortoise population, then abandon, will weretortoises show up in my next fort?

I've been trying to use mode to play adventure mode as one of the dwarves in my embark.  So far I've managed to become a naked mole dog peasant and crash my game by sleeping.  How would I assume control of one of my dwarves?