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Quote from: MehMuffin on May 11, 2015, 09:13:10 pm

Trees appear to have some sort of maniacal grudge against my dwarfs. Those highwoods in particular. No less than five dwarfs of Diedbolts have been slain by "The highwood log collides with Urist McUrists Head. It erupts in an explosion of gore!"
My dwarfs don't even go outside often. One of them got my metalsmith when he was on break... outside, for some reason? The trees, man. Probably full of elves.

TREEEEEES

It's odd, because I've never had a dwarf hit by the falling tree. Closest I've come is a rain of cats.

Quote from: Sanctume on May 11, 2015, 04:50:25 pm

They must rub beards to procreate.  Adjacent thrones allow beard rubbing to happen often.

What about statues though?

It was never said as to what the beards need to be rubbed WITH....

Plus, plenty of those statues have beards, if you want to get picky about it.

I made a cat fountain by mistake recently. The mayor and his brood of cat and kittens went up a tree, presumably fruit picking, then a woodcutter came through and cut the tree down. I happened to be watching at the time (trying to get the woodcutter not to do what he was obviously about to do) but too late. Injured felines, and injured mayor (it appears he landed on his hands). They all fell out of the tree, rather slowly, so it seemed to be raining cats and kittens at ground level.

Another time I had some cats, dogs, and other animals attack a giant with their dwarf companions. The dwarfs were picked up by the giant, stripped, and their clothing was strewn about before they themselves were thrown. The animals, including the cats, were just thrown across the screen. This injured some dwarfs and some animals, but the cats, as far as I know, all just landed on their feet and attacked the giant again at a run. I was picking up discarded clothing on the surface for ages.

I also always stable a kitten down at magma level where the magmaforges are, otherwise they all wander about on the surface, and the vermin gets insane down at level -150 or so. Dwarfs who like cats are also encouraged to be porters or messengers, travelling the levels as much as possible. They work as verminsweepers, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin...

I'd recommend magmaforging. And a minecart railway system. Or even a surface magmaforging area, either serviced by pumped or by minecarter magma. Because wood is so... elvish.

Quote from: Kishmond on May 09, 2015, 04:05:59 pm

I have been wondering why my outpost liaison was hanging around my meeting area for a year, when my expedition leader was perfectly available.
I looked at his description, and for some reason he has no tongue. I guess that means he can't hold meetings.

This probably isn't a bug-some people just don't have a tongue-but it is kind of annoying. Time to arrange for an unfortunate accident.

This is amazing.

At least he wasn't pregnant.

Quote from: Thisfox on May 01, 2015, 11:53:56 pm

I always watch the conversations about this with confusion, as I've never had a dwarf so much as stub their toe due to staircases.

Only X stairs have this dangerous property, not > < stairs.

I can have as many as 100 flights of X (up down) stairs stacked on top of each other. They've never experienced a single dwarf falling down them.

sometimes when woodcutters fell trees they stand in the way of the falling tree and often die. its surprising he only had a crippled hand.

It can be worse. Try having a tree felled when half a dozen dorfs (including the resident crazy catdorf mayor and his entire brood of kittens) just found the stepladder stockpile, and what you thought was an oak was in fact an apple tree....

It rained kittens for ages, and most of them didn't make it. Suffice to say, it would have been better if they mayor had died, instead of only breaking his hands.

Quote from: celem on April 18, 2015, 12:54:09 pm

Quote from: branmuffincat on April 16, 2015, 06:49:17 pm

..and a dwarf died after punching a capybara and then fell down the stairs of my fort? rotted and poured miasma out..

Yeah, they fall down the stairs like that because they lose conciousness.  Staircases are treated like empty space by KO'd things.  I usually split my stair at z-1, just by 10 tiles or so, which lets you put in a guardroom and makes passing out while fleeing from hostiles into the fort less lethal.
This is one of the factors speaking against single central master stair designs for forts.  I once had a syndrome hit, something minor with dizziness and fits of unconsciousness, something like 90 dwarves fell to their deaths.

Well this looks easily weaponisable...

If it's weaponisable, I apparently am immune to this weapon.

I always watch the conversations about this with confusion, as I've never had a dwarf so much as stub their toe due to staircases. On one occasion two Urist McMothers gave birth on the stairs, which I have been told would mean that the baby would fall to the bottom, but it was fine. Since then the Outpost Liaison gave birth on the stairs, and her baby was fine too. I've had an attack of bats on the stairs. Urist Mcfighters would attack and either hit or miss the bats, and never fall. A fighter was injured on the stairs, but he didn't fall down the stairs either. A tired dorf fell asleep in the staircase. He eventually woke up and went and got a beer, having had no problems. I've even managed to collapse part of a staircase in a mistaken attempt at remodelling. There was dust everywhere. Two children were killed when a storeroom full of wood fell on them. And no one, not even those dorfs unconcious on the staircase, fell even a single flight. A fire was lit due to an unexpected FB. Even though there were burning dorfs, kittens, and socks travelling up and down the stairs, they never tripped and fell down the stairs, although one dorf did burn to death on the stairs. I have experimented with Hatch covers, as someone said this would have effect. Dorfs are all still fine.
Am I doing something wrong?