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I like having a tower neighbor, however I find that a lot of the worlds I make do not have any towers in them.  I usually let them run for 500 years or so and I tend to up the variability in biomes by a lot because I like a lot of small regions near one another.  I also up the levels of good and evil and high savagery.  I mod giant animals to be tameable (exotic)

Is any of this likely to be keeping me from getting necromancers?  Is there something I can do to get more towers?

Huh, that's odd. I had a 250 year worl; there was only one necromancer slab, but he and his pupils had taught over a dozen other necromancers. They were mainly from evil races, so maybe adding the evil tag to, like, elves might help

Quote from: Garath on November 07, 2014, 02:54:54 pm

yup, kinda silly. But hey, the game is pretty much in pre-alpha (0.4, not even version 1 yet) and of all the issues, silly things and plain bugs, this is one of the least problematic ones. Unless you try to explode a tame elephant for more leather

Leather and bones, leather and bones; you can forget about the meat because dwarves can live without it.   

Basically leather and bones makes armour.  I have not so far run into any weapons-grade metal, only a ton of gold which attracts goblins I've heard. 

It is rather problematic because the amount of leather and bones I get has a definite affect on whether I beat the goblins that said gold supply will attract.  Once I have the gold I can hopefull buy weapons-grade metal with gold items, but that requires me to survive until the second autumn.

If you're very lucky, you'll get a gold warhammer/mace from a mood!

One of my dogs has finally expired from her wounds.  I set the stockpile right next to the butcher's shop to accept corpses but when I tell the dwarves to butcher an animal there, they keep complaining about there not being a nearby  unrotten butcherable animal.

The dog in question is a tame animal that was unowned and died of wound sustained in a fight with troglodytes (I have the fortune/misfortune of shallow caverns). 

I really want the bones and I do not wish to play until I sorted this out because otherwise the dog will rot.

I think they will only be butchered if they are slaughtered.

v 0.2

- added duegar
- added gray renders
- made duegars and piscesi babysnatchers
- added battlebriars

Where is dwarf.txt ([SPEECH:dwarf.txt.])? Failing that, how do I change what creatures say in battle?

From the diary of Idil, summer of year 7

Ha ha, those foolish stranglers! The Cruelty of Blots had better not mess with us again!

Ecsha is digging a tunnel to the river; thank goodness - my waterskin is full of mud.

Ivan now has a title. All of us now.

Gasom has joined the smith's guild. Good for him I suppose; we warriors don't have to bother with their internal politics.

There was a gushing below; the pool was breached.

Gods almighty, miasma! Kawe has been letting this place go.

Hmp. No recruits.

A memorial to the strangler siege. They died like heroes.

Bedrooms, finally.

The traders are here.

The king before our goddess appeared.

Damn! Some fool released the wrestler when ordered to transport him to the Depot! (OOC: I COMPLETELY forgot this glitch...)

Wow, this is a really cool mod.

Nice update, thanks for having lots of pictures.

S'ok - now looking at it, I realize that there are a LOT of pictures in that update.

Riveting story so far. Could I be humanised? In order of preference: Iguk, a squad Sergeant, a trainee soldier or weaponsmith if there's one available. Failing that, any lowly peasant will do.

Iguk is fine! You can be the other sword monkey. 

The next update will be delayed, due to another community fort I haven't posted yet and D&D shennanigans.