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"This is a Demon-leather left sock.  It is made from pure hate.  It is decorated with bands of terror and horror, and menaces with spikes of agony.  Rings of tentacle goo encircle it.  It is embroidered with scenes of a dwarf and a dwarf.  The dwarf is striking down the dwarf.  The dwarf is enraged."

This must be possible.

I also like the gender-neutral treatment of DF.  However, gender is still a characteristic, and I'd like to see support for all kinds of hooks in the RAWs for all the clever modders (or the horribly offended) out there to alter things to their own liking.

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Urist McBouldercleavage recently received a happy thought the support of her masterfully crafted Giant Spider Silk bra, with Adamantine underwire, decorated with rings of elf bone, goblin teeth, and obsidian.  It menaces with spikes of giant carp fin.

If gender differences go in, we need happy thoughts for males with their masterfully crafted uh, support undergarmets.  Different, but equal.

They'll bleed soda of various fruit flavors.

"You hit Friendly Huggles, the Sugary Gummy Bear of Snacking in the Gum Balls with your *<licorice>*. They are pierced through!"
"Friendly Huggles, the Sugary Gummy Bear of Snacking, has been struck down."

Does that mean the list of likes and dislikes for dwarves are going to be involved?

"Urist Dertsnaks has been quite content lately.
Urist Dertsnaks likes the color clear, coins for their flavor, clay, sand, gabbro, green glass, and bronze all for their taste, tentacle demons for their delicious lingering bouquet, and rocks, yep, for their taste.
He is often very quiet.  He is often eating.  He prefers non-food items.  He dislikes utensils.  He detests purring maggots, but eats them anyways.  He enjoys eating outdoors, and only grumbles mildly at inclement weather."

You're all presuming that the physical dimensions of the Dwarf Fortress Universes are the same as ours, when we know they're not.  Some are longer in the north-south direction and skinny east-west.  Some are square.  Some can stretch themselves to accomodate the universe and some have the mysterious black void, unknown and unviewable.  Even time runs differently in different uh, parallel dimensions of the same 'seed', as measured in futures per second.  I expect later releases of the Dwarf Fortress Universe will clarify matters, but I personally believe it's futile to try and measure a bridge when it all depends on it's state.  Clearly, as it gains increasing angle from 0 in the z axis, it proportionally shortens until it's exactly 1 z level tall when fully raised and it's angle is 90.  Interesting how the change in length on the non-z to a single z at 90 is the same for any length of bridge.  Had we the ability to pause the bridge in the middle of this process, we would see this happening.  Perhaps we'll see raisable ramps that can raise to multiple levels for the next version.

-EDITED- Yeah, I mean raised, not retracted  

[ November 12, 2007: Message edited by: Len B ]

You're right.  Lets move this to the modding forum.  The suggestions forum was wrong of me..  :p

Ok, in light of the previous reply.  How about a general sound/music codec so we can customize our DF audio experience?  Drag and drop mp3 files into the DF/music or DF/sound directory and edit an .ini file to point to the files played, with settings to specify looping, or for different civs

While not specific to age, I think I'd like to have the general descriptions kept general with tags denoting categories and the specifics unknown.  That way, the legends speak vaguely of a terrifying dragon "Bob" arriving in the earliest days of Dwarven Culture; and when Bob comes to play at your fortress, you see that "Yes, Bob is large, and older than dirt... (Or N00b Dragon, newly hatched)".

And enabling Armok 'Blood Mode' in the settings will let you see EVERYTHING on a simple 'k' cursor click...  "Bob is <x> years old, was born in The Lonely Pants of Frosty, and has -blah blah-"

More settings please!  and give the Player the control...  that way those with specific desires can set it their way, and we stop having these silly arguments in the forums.   :roll: