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Ah, this just happened to me. Craftsdwarf claimed his own workshop and grabbed the piece of diorite he was working with. Let's see what he makes.

Meng Gosturist, Stonecrafter has created Meng Gosturist, a Diorite ring!

He named his artefact after himself? What a pretentious git!

... game plays YOU!

OK so inspired by Kinneus' lulzworthy comparison of human museums vs dwarven museums, I'd like to start a thread about dwarf culture in general and how it differs from human culture. With sexy^H^H^H^Hhilarious results!

I'll start us off:

In Human towns, murder is considered a capital offense. In Dwarf Fortress, murder is considered a beatable offense - unless you use your victim's flesh to make something really cool, like a dwarf leather thong that menaces with spikes of dwarf bone. Yeah baby.

In Human towns, men go out to work while women stay at home and look after the kids. In Dwarf Fortress, men and women are usually indistinguishable, unless they have a child in which case the mother will drag it everywhere - to work, down the mine shaft and of course to fight the goblins.

In Human towns, metalsmiths hold red hot metal with a pair of tongs and beat it into shape with a hammer. In Dwarf Fortress, metalsmiths hold red hot metal with their bare hands and beat it into shape with their fists.

I had my first siege recently. The goblins stood around at the edge looking cocky, and I got annoyed so I sent my entire army at them - 2 legendary clerks that I'd told to wrestle each other until they got good at it, each with 3 war dogs assigned. Since I had neglected to make any armour for them, the goblin archers shot them and their dogs down before they got anywhere near. Not wanting to admit defeat, I drafted the entire fortress and sent them into battle. They got shot down too. So I abandoned. Then I tried to reclaim and get revenge, but reclaim seems to be broken and causes DF to crash.

Next time I want to send melee units at archers, I'm going to tunnel under them so I can come up in the middle and wrestle/stab/chop them up before they can start shooting.

This would be a nice feature, I'd also like to know if this is possible.

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Originally posted by Kinneus:
<STRONG>I like picturing dwarven museums as opposed to human museums.

In a dwarven museum, the floor is caked with mud and vomit and goblin blood. Rag-clad dwarves swill beer and stand transfixed before artifact animal traps and masterwork wall engravings. Every piece of art serves a practical purpose, and if it doesn't, it menaces with spikes of iron, so it can at least double as a deadly weapon in a pinch. The only conversation is the occasional yell of "I MUST HAVE A PROPER SURFACE TO WORK ON!" and every other week, the museum is shut down as a massacre breaks out, insane artists beating each other to death with their own creations.</STRONG>

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I love you for giving me that image.

How do you make those illustrations.

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Originally posted by Mzbundifund:
<STRONG>Given that the system allows you to get out far more power than you put into it, of course it's feasible.  If anything you'd have a hard time trying to avoid producing more power than your pumps use.</STRONG>

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Hopefully the perpetual motion machine bug will be fixed in a future version so we can do stuff like this and not feel guilty.