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I think it would be only fair to notify everyone that I have given up on magic metals because I can't think of enough interesting things to do.  Air metal is light, Earth metal is heavy, Fire metal is ... sharp I guess, Water metal is ... um ... huh. 

So please feel free to carry on where I have left off and get some DF Hack all over it. 

Nobles in general need to start dressing more lavishly for the position they hold. I always found it bizarre that my local noble is A-OK to wear the exact same set of clothes that the rest of the peasantry wears. Like others have already said, having some culturally-linked garments would be nice, but I also feel that it should partially depend on personality. A noble who is extremely modest wouldn't wear the same clothes as their more extravagant counterparts.

This sounds like it would be Dwarven Economy related. 

If the noble position requires a crown item, the noble should be able to request a certain quality, as they do with rooms.  That way, your king will demand jewel encrusted gold crown, while your peasants can wear the left over crowns. 

PTW. I love this idea. It would make modding very hard, though.

Hmm.  Yes, the process would have to change a little.  I think you'd want to keep the current ability to create specific creatures, but then also mod the base creatures.  For example, let's say you want to add chocobos to DF.  It has feathers, a beak, somewhere between horse and ostrich in size, etc.  Then when you generate a world, it populates with various kinds of chocobo, Grey Chocobo, Minkot's Chocobo, Mountain Chocobo, Murk of Ticks Chocobo, etc.  Perhaps somewhere in there, you can specify that some species of chocobo can fly, while others cannot.  There could be a %age range, like there are for attributes and personalities, although I think it would be simpler to just mod in "chocobos" and "flying chocobos". 

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But I also wouldn't want to find that I'm forced to analyse each individual within the fauna as I would a Forgotten Beast , where previously there's a very useful shortcut that even within this alien dwarf-inhabited land I can very quickly identify the relevance of a critter to my endeavours.

("What's that creature that just wandered onto my map?  Is it going to be troublesome?  Will it try to half-hinch food or valuable goods?  Is it likely to predate my dwarves?  Do I have to watch out for it being able to swim or fly?  I think I need to check its description very carefully..." vs "Ah, a kangaroo...  Have I sufficient meat?  I could safely ignore it or re-activate my Hunter's skills anyway...")

Yeah, I think it's important to strike the proper balance between amusement and usability.  But this being Dwarf Fortress, usability is not necessarily at the forefront. 

I do think I would want a clear list of features, like in the DF wiki, things like Adult Size, Diet, Mount/Pack/Pet/Trainable, Air Breather/Water Breather/Amphibious, Flying Y/N, quick list of body parts.  In the spirit of NetHack and Pokedex, maybe information comes to you slowly as you encounter each animal.  For example, the animals that live around the mountains and grasslands of your starting civ are fully described, but if you embark to a far-off jungle, you won't see any information about the new animals until you've caught or dissected a couple.  If you encounter the equivalent of a Kea, you may not see "Steals Stuff" in its description until after it has stolen something.  If an animal can be trained for war, you won't know until your animal trainers have tried to tame one.  Things that you can see with your eyes should be given for free.  Or since taverns and books will come first, maybe you can hear about animals from travelers or trade an elf for a zoological manual. 

I can't find where but I remember Toady saying he was both willing and wary of giving metal weapons and armour durability because the materials are much harder to renew. Sites have limited resources, trade isn't a great source, and you can't yet set up mining camps off site or similar. Think this was back when 40d was current.

The original Slaves to Armok apparently had it.

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Ruining of Items:  Weapon damage and breaking has already been added.  There are weight modifications when pieces break off.  I think I added item chipping with weight decreases (if a chip item is actually created), but I don't think I added the more subtle weight decreases.  I'll have to look at it.

The obvious fix would be to make sure that when a metal item is melted down, you get exactly as much metal back as was used to make it.  It really should do that anyways. 

From the furry fortress guy, how about something to do with animal kung fu?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Animals  In a fantasy world you could really go nuts with that theme. 

If you want other japanese weapons, there's the yari, naginata, kusarigama, kama, kannabo, wakazashi, kodachi, odachi, nodachi. 

I'm partial to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteen_Arms_of_Wushu

Oh, you know what, wooden cages are a great way to use up wood.  If you have a lot of cage traps, you need a lot of cages to fill them and you need to replace them often. 

Quote from: Insert_Gnome_Here on April 18, 2015, 02:26:46 pm

Theoretically, you could put all the marksdorves in minecarts.

This has been theorized, but has anyone accomplished it?

I keep reading peoples suggestion of "build fortifications," and I can't help but wonder who isn't building fortifications? I've reread the thread twice to try and find out who these suggestions are addressed to and can't find anyone who mentioned not using fortifications...

There's a difference between building fortifications and carving fortifications.  I have carved fortifications.  This has brought sadness. 

Note the line in his description, "Doesn't handle stress well." I suspect what it's trying to say is that he's got a highly unfavorable Stress Propensity, which means he's just going to feel stressed. 

Also I think working makes dwarves happy, especially when they make something high quality.  I've seen Miners become wildly ecstatic after large digging jobs.  If he's a Potash Maker or something and doing too much hauling instead of working, that might be hurting him too. 

If it was me, I'd lock him into a tantrum bunker and have him split coin stacks.