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Pretty sure they're just planes, like that magic bucket that would shift your fort into the fireplane. Seems like these would just be small pockets being like 10-25 percent the size of the map existing along side. Though it might be cool if we could define them and have them linked via portals and summoning rituals.

Disc world seems unliky but it might be a real myth.

Actually toady has said they could be quite big.He has even mentioned the possibility of alternate universes.(though they may only be a couple z levels tall, to save memory)  Also, we will have 64 bit at that point so lots of memory available.

http://www.bay12games.com/media/Dwarf_Fortress_Talk_16.mp3

Roth Dakon is the name of your world right? That's  a pretty sweet name.


Screenshots make everything better though my friend.

Quote from: Megaman_zx on March 13, 2016, 05:58:50 am

peasant outsider and you don't even get the rags, lolz... but i intend to start as a peasant as well, makes the game more challenging

Yeah, and certainly no musical instruments either.. I'd say picking demigod wouldn't make one very overpowered skill-wise, especially if you intend to make a multi-talent bard. There are quite many skills to pick and improving them tends to be a bit slow. But attribute-wise though, you could easily build a superhuman/elf/bear/whatever.

I could just kill a different bard and steal his instruments. Of course, I'll have to hide the body too, I have had luck burning the bodies in the woods....

I need to test out depopulating necromancer towers. Presumably they work the same way other "entity based" populations work, wherein I can kill them until the entity pop number ticks down to 0.

Its harder since necros tend to go on patrols with their zombies far from towers. And they can reraise zombies.

I don't believe "thrall rain" is a thing . However thralling mist is a thing you will run across it Wofting  through the evil biomes in clouds. Not all evil biomes have that though, in fact most don't.

If the one you are in currently doesn't then you will have to go to another evil biomes and hope it has it. It is very possible to get a world without it at all. And it won't be named easily so the only way to know is to walk into it.. It will either thrall you or do some other horrible things to you.

Is history even aware of mapgen properly, except for stuff like islands/rivers, etc? As in, do the actual properties of the tiles of the world affect it at all, not just various relevant bits of information e.g. evil? I haven't heard of them doing so.

Reply to Dragon, not a question.

I know you said it wasn't a question but mineral veins and where they are and biomes  savagery etc. Are all handled and the game is aware of them. Also armies have to path on the world map, (even during world gen) and  savagery makes the world tougher to settle. And societies are aware of what animals/minerals they have access to and use relevent materials. and Goblins tend tp start in evil biomes and humans elves etc tend to avoid settling those areas, so yes, they are aware of it.
for more info:
http://www.bay12games.com/media/Dwarf_Fortress_Talk_5.mp3

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Quote from: GoblinCookie on March 12, 2016, 08:03:57 am

Quote from: expwnent on March 12, 2016, 07:40:14 am

Sometimes they emerge and take over a human or goblin civ.

I am not talking about those demons, I am talking about groups of demons wandering into adventure mode sites in adventurer mode and going on the rampage.

Sometimes they emerge and fail to take over a  human or goblin Civ, resulting in wandering demons though it's rare.

That's not happening anymore. Unique demons only arise during "year 0" by raising their slade towers and thus forming a goblin civilization (and goblin civs only arise through that). The wandering demons (which seems to be related to adding modded demons and those fighting with generated ones from my experience) aren't historical unless they've killed enough demons during the fight that "catapulted" them up.

Quote from: Bumber on March 12, 2016, 08:01:44 am

Quote from: Orbotosh on March 11, 2016, 11:47:24 am

Since we now have procedurally generated artforms, values and instruments, what's going to be the next part of the game to be procedurally generated?

Recipes.

Recipes and games are on hold. It's unlikely they're coming unstuck before the myth generator.

I have had a demon in at least version 40.01 that was just hanging around in a bandit camp, so it does happen sometimes. (only 1 demon though) I wish I had looked at the legends entry for it. Unless its civ crumbled or something?