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Teleportation. The Mountainhomes actually conceal vast teleportation chambers.

Why don't we see anything fun in the caverns in adventure mode?

Use the knowledge of his experiences to construct a perfect world where all dwarves live in peace and harmony.
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Oh, who am I kidding? He'll mandate a rose gold bed and when the legendary blacksmith fails, assign him to the magma room.

WWUD if charged by a unicorn wielding a fluffy wambler?

Well, surprisingly Velvet uses shields to defend against killing joke all the time so shields should stop the effects of killing joke

Okay, so unicorns under the effects of Steadfast Ward will be immune.

Depends on who you ask. It could be "If I remember correctly", "Ibuprofen Internet Relay Chat" or "Imbeciles Implementing Red Cars".

Why can't we communicate more with the Mountainhomes about migrants?

Lets go eat some necromancers instead, who knows maybe the rest of you heads will gain some magic mind powers like me.

Assign Head 1 to Head 6 therapy duty.

> Anyway, some suggestions will be nice as to how spontaneous blisters/necrosis/whatever will be (somehow) funny.
They don't all have to be quite so funny. Something similar to radiation poisoning from ghouls would work IMO.

Right, okay.

> Also, I'm going to add in a useless "weed" plant for the purpose of making useful plants rarer in non-good biomes to make good biomes more attractive.
Make it at the very least cookable value 1 or something. I hate it when my plant stockpiles get clogged with useless stuff, like dye-only plants. But then, I suppose, I could disable that particular plant for all my stockpiles... if I remember to do that.

Oh yeah, they will still be collected. The idea here is to make them useless for food, how about allowing them to be burnt for ash at the Salvage Yard?

> Also, testing the killing joke out finds their bodies are very squishy due to being made of plant stuff.
Then make it spawn in swarms. The particular plants will be squashy, but with enough of them, the interactions will start flying. Add something similar to bind spell and ghould rad burst, make it climb well and it becomes really scary (unless SHIELD_ADEPT and SHIELD_MASTER protect from some of it's syndromes). Also see if it will DIAF against a flamethrower turret, because if yes, then forest fires might be a preferred way to deal with it. (Well, Red Eye did use a lot of flamethrower fuel).

They will be vulnerable to flamethrowers, but the binding and climbing bit sounds good. In the story, if I remember correctly, even alicorns got affected, so I don't think SHIELD_ADEPT/SHIELD_MASTER should matter.

Also, how does the subject thingy at the top work?

> Or how about giving them harder skin to boot to make sure your militia is pounding uselessly rather
> than concentrate on the problem at hand? Alternatively, killing joke kills.
It would force the militia to attack the wrong target, keeping the killing joke alive longer. I'm also not sure if they end attacking once the CRAZED is over. And there is no in-fluff explanation for this resistance to damage. And then there still are lucky shots sometimes. In short, if you want to do this at all, killing joke kills. Which is what I'd hate to happen to an experienced soldier.

Another reason to send less trained rookies first. Alternatively, have a vaccine sort of thing first or make the attacks unable to penetrate armour.

> But I have trouble translating that into, you know, joke form. Why would spontaneous bleeding and such be (depending on perspective) funny?
Killing joke removed the stripes from a Zebra (causing severe bleeding), turned ponies into Seaponies (far from any bodies of water) and so on. Sometimes it is funny, sometimes not quite, but kinda funny. In any case it is often deadly and always dangerous.

I do hope that I'm not the only one who notices the lack of zebras (joke). Anyway, some suggestions will be nice as to how spontaneous blisters/necrosis/whatever will be (somehow) funny.

As a side note, I like what I'm reading about DF getting job priorities and improved designations.

Me too, no more having to use DFHack reveal to mine out veins.

Also, I'm going to add in a useless "weed" plant for the purpose of making useful plants rarer in non-good biomes to make good biomes more attractive.

EDIT: Changed the title. Also, testing the killing joke out finds their bodies are very squishy due to being made of plant stuff. This should be balanced by their powerful interactions.

The goblins finally realised it was futile, no matter how hard they try.

Why is dark yellow brown according to the DF colour system?