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those beards arent quite dwarfy enough methinks.  Unless those are humans or something

I was really really really hoping for more sieges.  Honestly, they are such a big part of the fun of this game - was the "path" system really necessary?   I dont need *that* much realism :/

Is there something special you have to do to get the magmaling/waterling reactions to show up in the alchemist?  I have magma discovered... were they moved from there or something?  The manual says I should be able to do it there, but the only gem reaction i'm seeing is to create metal from bones of armok.  Sucks cuz I was counting on it for lava this time

Secondly, I noticed this before like a year ago, and since picking DF back up I was surprised to see it happening again - I thought it was some sort of one-off bug, but apparently not.  2 times I've started fortresses with an Earthkin dwarf.  Both times he starts out fine, but after a few years he slows down so much that he can hardly move.  Tried training with workbench to get his str up to no avail - seems to be an issue with the rockskin buff they are constantly recasting on themselves not expiring or something like that?

Could be.  I was under the impression Pyromancers were immune to fire, though - this guy dies almost every time. Thankfully, too - when he doesn't, he proceeds to blast fire all over the inside of my fort (no enemies there either) and kill everyone (which is what happened the first time.)  I'm not sure what the game counts as "startling" but this seems a bit excessive for being unlucky enough to get this migrant, no matter how good of a fighter he may be.. considering I can't find a way to get him to live 10 seconds into the map without using DFhack to dump water everywhere, and then, as I said, he just blows up everything inside.

Oh well.  Can't say I would ever consider creating a pyromancer after this, but life goes on.  Thanks for the answers.

It just says arcane dwarf, didn't realize thats what they are called.   Thanks, and though I know I said it last time.. One more quickie: despite how rare I can now see they are supposed to be, I "lucked" into a pyromancer migrant.  I didn't realize he was one, actually, until the first time he showed up and burned down my entire fort;  savescumming it, he comes into the map and immediately blows fire everywhere, despite there being no enemies in sight, killing himself (and pretty much everyone else) every time in the process.  I presume this isn't supposed to happen - both the fort-destroying and the fact that he kills himself with his fire-wave-thing?  Pretty funny, though.   I have the save right before it happens if you want to see it.

Edit:  I can't tell if he's blowing fire or something, or just exploding... it kinda goes everywhere.  As an additional bit of amusement, his wife comes in right after, and if she survives she is very unhappy at losing a spouse to tragedy recently, witnessing their death.. due to spontaneous combustion xD

So, a while ago I edited my Masterwork raws to bump up the percentage of naturally magic dwarves, just for flavor.  I like starting with an Earth or Waterkin, just to give my military leader that extra something.  However, that was a loong time ago, and I would like to do the same thing now, and am having a lot of trouble recalling exactly how I managed it.  Could someone point me in the right direction?

hopefully we wont have to choose for long (hint hint ^ ^)

More like a swarm of them, yeah, due to the respawing-and-instantly-dying-random dwarf thing I mentioned in the other thread - I stopped building coffins cuz it was getting annoying to keep up with, just dumping their skeletons in my lava pit now.  Weird - after years of DF, never realized a ghost could actually kill before.  Thanks.