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In previous versions, siege armies were magically generated at the edge of the map under appropriate conditions. Nowadays the goblin civ has to expend resources to build an army, and the army has to physically travel across the world to reach your fortress. Sieges are therefore subject to a lot of hidden variables that aren't fully understood.

The whole thing is slightly controversial, with many mixed experiences. Some people are getting sieges in their first year without doing anything special, but others are embarking directly next to dark fortresses and still not getting sieges for a good 8-10 years or ever. Some people are declaring the whole thing a major bug, some say things are better than ever, and others are reporting and opining everything in between. The common thread is that there are things you can do to increase or decrease your odds, but we just don't understand the new system well enough to know how to game it yet, or even really diagnose what it is doing.

Has anyone ever posted a FotF reply asking Toady what he thinks of the new siege rates? And/or a guide to help increase frequency/diagnose what's wrong?

I've heard that being at war with the goblins (not just permanently hostile, which every dwarf civ is) has an impact.

Oh, and if you're going to do some massive construction projects, make a few Mason's Workshops and assign individual dwarves to them, and make rock blocks. You'll get a ton of raw material, they're lighter than boulders, and you'll train the dwarves in Masonry quickly.

Masonry matters somewhat less for construction projects now, since builders don't use that skill anymore. Still useful for furniture, though. And yes, make blocks. All of the blocks. Very useful.

A lot of the reason for strange fluid behavior is computational: making things FPS-friendly or programmer-friendly, rather than realistic, basically. Which I don't count as a bad thing, if it allows Toady to move on to other areas and allows us to play with oceans full of water, and the magma sea. Even if it has some weird artifacts such as this, magma pistons, etc.

Don'y you need [I_SOURCE:CREATURE_ACTION] for interactions to activate?

That may have made a difference, or maybe I was just impatient with my testing before. The dwarves do all eventually do the interaction in water less than 7/7 (all the way up to 6/7 - they might even in 7/7, except they've always drowned so far. Over like 50 tests.) But since it should fire *immediately* instead of *several days later*...how do I make that happen?

And my old mod still doesn't work. The raws are almost identical to what I posted above. I'll be fiddling with that.

And is there any way to restrict the interaction to certain water levels? Like "7/7 only" or "<7/7", etc.

Wouldn't want to meet this guy in a dark alley...or anywhere...

http://imgur.com/oduQlDN (How do I make it display as an image?)

Proooobably been posted before, but oh god.

There are also hippos on this embark. Good thing I'm only doing it to test a mod I'm working on...

So...there wasn't any information on writing DFHack scripts on the DFHack forum post. Anyone know a good resource that they can throw me? Will search more thoroughly soon. I just have no idea how difficult it would even be - how much knowledge of DF's programming I need, and how much is just making new stuff.

Situation: I'm making a religion mod to thematically complement the upcoming temple update. Among other things, I want religious dwarves to have special noble positions available only to them.

Problem: I know this can be accomplished with castes or creature classes, but I don't think that's an option for me. I'm including the capability for dwarves to be 'converted' via an interaction. Importantly, I want them to retain their physical characteristics when converted, which I just determined (and received confirmation) was not possible if I used a CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION to change their caste.

Potential Workarounds: I'm not aware of any way to add a CREATURE_CLASS via interaction, or to make the position be selective based on a syndrome/syndrome class, etc., but I would like to. Somehow. Is there some way I can restrict the position to require a special body part? Or a tag that CAN be modified? Or dependent on some skill that I can mod in? - maybe I could make it election-based and reliant upon that skill instead of social skills, if that's possible.

I guess in the end the physical characteristics don't matter that much, but it's a realism thing. As is, it will bug me to no end - and make it feel like a cheaty way to potentially turn weaklings into buff guys. (Besides dwarf-to-dwarf conversion, I'm including...certain ways to force dwarves to convert, which could be abused.) I really don't want to change the balance of the game in any way, unless it's to make it harder. If all else fails, I guess I could try to imagine the physical changes as mental ones in disguise - religion making people more brave (stronger) or peaceful (weaker) But I really would appreciate a proper solution if there is one.

Thanks in advance!