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Also, for those of you who haven't read Weatherwires, I've compiled the story into a single document, which I've posted in the old thread over on the Fortress Mode Discussion board.

... which is much more legible with the edit link, else the text spans the whole page and the images are centered. At 1920x1080, it's not very readable that way. With the editing controls, it constrains it to a page-width. Here's what I mean.

There might be a way for you to force a page width through formatting - unsure.

Oh, for when you get back from your latest trip. Check out Putnam's metal calculator if you haven't. Silly useful if you're adding in materials with an eye for realism.

We may create the worlds, but we do so by Toady's rules (code). Toady is Armok?

You should checkout the hermit mode in DF Masterwork 6.x... sounds right up your alley.

I'm a fan of the duckhunt personally. Give it a few years and you'll have squads of tick-shooting snipers...

Since birds are (always?) unarmored you can use cheap wood (or bone) bolts without much worry. Wood is pretty cheap to import, and if you're grinding lots of critters you'll have a ton of bone on hand.

Yeah, it's a bummer that it doesn't work as flawlessly with adventure mode as it does in fort mode since it is so useful for checking a keep at a glance for interesting loot. I wish I could toggle it.

You can set a pair of keybinds in the dfhack init - one to set multilevel to your preferred number of levels, and one for none.

If you've the spare keys you can of course put in several levels.


... feature request time! multilevel increment, decrement, and toggle commands - suitable for keybinding!

After reading through your first log, I want to point a fun bit of fun out...

Interactions menu - I. Pull out the bolts, and you can throw them. They hurt a lot when you do that.

Also, I find stealth+wrestling to be a fun way to dispatch folks - go for the strangle, or you can put joint locks on arms/legs and break them. Usually it takes just one break to for them to pass out, at which point it's stranglin' time! Also, if you have the initiative go for the highest threat - wrestle their weapon. Once you have a hold on it, you can use the Interactions menu again to 'gain possession' of it - this does exactly what it sounds like. I often enjoy ripping a mook's crossbow out of his hands and throwing it back into his face. Or, steal the quiver. He can only bash you at that point and you can return the favor with a full quiver, or you can throw the bolts individually causing a lot of fun and pain. You can do this at any point, but obviously it's most effective as an opening move as it disarms an opponent. It only takes two "turns" - one wrestle, one interaction. Breaking limbs takes 3 - wrestle, lock, break (and 2 more to let go to free the hand).

Once my current adventurer dies (I cheated in steel equipment but otherwise started as a peasant-level outsider) I'll give this a go myself

Joke aside I might finally start playing adv mode

There's a (not so) tiny part of me that really wants to play a Succubi in adventure mode with all the features and whizzbangs working well