Bay 12 Games Forum

Hello! Welcome!

I'm not a burrower, so if you don't want to burrow, here's another method:
I found the best way to control children playing was to build them bedrooms around a large wellroom, and stock that wellroom with good quality food and unbinned toy storage areas, unassigned beds and unassigned pieces of good quality furniture. And make that area down the corridor from anywhere else. The kids eventually return to their bedroom to sleep, then go to the toys to play, or the food and booze to get some vittles.... and rarely leave. That said, there are attractions which take their attention. Temples, libraries, the odd tavern (there don't seem to be age limits on taverns) and the wonderful occasional opportunity to deconstruct a built structure. Kids LOVE deconstructing furniture for some reason.

Playing on a Mac, and I've thought for a while this was a Windows OS issue. Back before the issue with travellers from outside the map (currently I don't get migrants, caravans, etc, because of a machine upgrade) my Mac had no FPS issues, even with an in-game decades old game. Even now, with the game only just not working, no FPS issues. I am aware that I'm basically running the thing on WINE or whatever, but still, seems odd that it's not an issue for me. Is there something different about your OS handling the game?

I'm pretty sure stockpiled shells don't break down. They do if they're not in a stockpile though. If you've got a real problem with vermin, stable a cat over the shells to kill the vermin. You will need to de-shell the turtle or mussel before the shell ends up on the stockpile. If you are lucky enough to have them fished out of the water, make sure you have a fishery, for mussel shell removal (the mussels should end up in roasts, they're good eating too!).

Thankyou for the update.

I guess if crayons are open sometime, the next step is for someone to make an appropriate donation and request "a draltha not a drunian" or alternatively a large enough of a donation for "a draltha AND a drunian" so that comparisons could be made.

The clothing wears out WAY too fast within Dwarf Fortress....  it's like the stuff is made out of paper towels. 
Even 2000 years ago the clothing which was made would last several years even for people who did hard labor. 

My dorfs have clothing that does last that long: Are you making yours out of paper towel? I really don't need to start a clothing industry for three years or more, pretty good for clothes that are constantly worn with no replacements.

Perhaps what we really need is a clothing repair function, so that darns, sashiko and patches can upgrade xxclothingxx to *clothing* again.

(and hoping it gets a Mac release relatively quickly),

Oh so very much yes! This game runs so well on Mac, and so clunkily on Windows!

I'm less enthusiastic about the Steam release because it seems to be art-tile heavy (I really want to keep using the ASCII-like method, as it's better for my eyes) but if it means that more users lead to more mac users then I'm all for it. The M-range chips seem to have locked me out of playing on my mac for now, until I can get an M-free computer again.

Friend of mine hooked his machine up to a huge smart-TV and had this Starcraft in surround-vision thing going on, where each (usually centimetre-high) sprite was the size of my hand or larger. Perhaps a supermegasize TV screen might help you a little in making DF larger? Or is that not going to work?

I would just put large binless stockpiles for saleable gems in a room nearby to the trade depot in future. Right now, you can bring the bins to the depot but not sell the elves the bins, just the gems. I mean, they only get upset if you offer them the wooden stuff, they know you're a heathen who uses it, they just don't want to buy the wood.

I prefer to keep my gemstones, as they are nonrenewable resources and I like to use cut gems to decorate furniture.