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Don't let go of that horizon, you don't know where it might float off to!Spoiler: I've been informed this photograph of me is "highly exploitable". (click to show/hide)
But I don't know whether it's a good idea to post it somewhere and request photoshopping, lest I become a meme.
So far, I have only had crashes while an awakened stone was active in my fort. Not predictable ones, but the moment I woke one up, crashes started, and now that its in a cage, ive gone 2 years ingame with no crashes at all.Would you mind uploading that save to DFFD and sending me a PM to the link?
A save wouldnt help much, because your spawning is random. Even if I'd save and 10 seconds later the game crashes because an awakened stone was spawned, you will not have the same spawned awakened stone at the same location.The spawning is random, but this is happening a couple ticks after the spawn. They don't randomly move around in the past
I had 2 reports about crashes and had 1 crash myself while testing. A few ticks after an awakened stone is spawned.
Any logs I could upload to help find the errors causing my crashes? I get extremely frequent errors in dfHack's terminal, but never as a result of using commands - I only use fastdwarf on occasion, and deramp for rivers.If you are getting a spurt of red text about tesb-tribute.lua indexing a nil value, that error is annoying but harmless. I've found the root cause and will have a fix out well before Meph issues his next version. For other issues, look for a file named errorlog.txt which would have any errors generated by Dwarf Fortress itself (such as invalid raws). The file stderr.log will have a lot of logging information from DFHack's most recent session.
I've actually seen a demon do this once in a game. I stumbled on him in adventure mode, then looked him up in legends. He actually convinced people that he was a deity.This has been part of the game for a while... demons will sometimes impersonate real deities and take over a civ. The ruse doesn't really work on PCs because the player knows that 100% of the worshipped beings physically present in the world are faking.
Well Mimics are specifically creatures that disguise themselves as manmade objects like doors, carpets, chests, coffins, or statuesIt's a good thing we don't have toilets in DF.
Though people seem to forget that mimics don't have to be chests O-o
And to keep it consistent to adventure mode, perhaps he can code in an adjustment for gestation in adventure mode? Perhaps a multiplier for the TICKS variable?That's what DWF_STRETCH is for, except it is a fixed x72.
No, they cant be trained. They would attack their handlers, aka the handlers would be terrified.Any kind of booby-trapped syndrome or short lifespan will apply to trained Awakened Stones, so having the OPPOSED_TO_LIFE wear off seems like the solution. Trap the critter and wait out the syndrome, then train it. As long as cages don't stop the clock on syndromes, all will be well. If they do, you'll just need to pit them to wait out the syndrome (what could possibly go wrong?).
Wear off in time seems a good idea. That way they give you some trouble, but in case your fort cant handle them, they would leave after a while. Did you ever consider making them disappear? They spawn, fight, after X amount of time, they just turn back into stone (dying and leaving a BOULDER as itemcorpse).
OkShould be able to apply a syndrome to spawning Awakened Stones, but I want to allow the possibility of trapping and taming the thing. The syndrome can either wear off in time, or I can try to figure out how to watch for animal training and remove the syndrome on the first successful training session. Problem is that I don't think OPPOSED_TO_LIFE animals can be trained?
Could I make one feature request in that case? I'm not sure how your script determines which awakened stones should be hostile and which ones tame, but could you add OPPOSED_TO_LIFE to the hostile ones? That would fix it, it makes sense since stones are inorganics and not organics (they oppose organic life), and there would be proper fights.
It would also fit really well into my necromancer civ, which would be ignored by them. "Stone awakens. Stone looks around, sees nothing living/organic to kill; only undead shuffle about, stone ignores them".
Oh, and where was that with the lower-case mod name?
