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Hmmm... wasn't there something about failed attempts at making weapons transfer effects by syndromes where they did give it to the dwarf?

Wonder if you could make the different metals give a delayed onset syndrome which increased armor user skill gain and was tuned to the different weights?

Hell, that would give a reason to make copper crap!

I will say this: using gui/hack-wish to improvise a set of dragon bone plate armor after learning you can't advfort some as an outsider and then fighting as you are used to doing while wearing actual plate armor is not wise.

Is bone better than leather? I'm not sure, I mostly just use leather armor in forts as a cheap clothing replacement by drafting all civvies into squads and issuing them leather armor/leggings/boots at a minimum... (replace clothing first, THEN after they're geared properly let them wear it over clothing) and I usually toss in a quiver/crossbow/shield at some point so they can plink at stuff and have a bit more survivability than default clothing.

It's so weird because I've never been in a seriously dangerous fight as an adventurer and thought "I should totally try to take this guys nose off with my axe", except in the sense that the nose AND head coming off together might qualify... but I get the most random stuff happening to me.

I had a dragon get a hold of me as an outsider yesterday, rather than bathing me in fire when my initial sneaky stab to the brain attempt didn't work, it tried to grab me, I dodged and tried to stab it in the thinkyparts again to no avail, so it claws at me... taking my nose off... I finally manage to get a solid hit to the head but only chip the skull and it follows by up... grabbing my leg and managing to tear it off while I was able to introduce the pointy bit of my pointy stick to the thinkyparts bit and crawl away to wonder if I can find a crutch.

A DRAGON... left me crawling away bleeding, missing my leg... and my nose... I don't get the targeting priorities there.

Yeah, when I feel like twinking out an adventurer in full kit using a reclaim fort+forced moods (and some gm-editor brainwashing of preferences >.> I should figure out how to write scripts and do one for this) I like to do:

Soulsteel (simple modded metal, steel mass+adamantine stiffness/edge/yadada):
Helm
Mail Shirt
Gauntlet + Gauntlet
High Boot + High Boot
Weapon of choice
Shield

Then if there are extra folks (tweak makeown'D prior residents and such) I toss in greaves/breastplate/more weapon artifacts, if not I slap masterwork soulsteel stuff in those slots and then the most important part to keep my adventurer pretty as long as possible:

First I dfhack up some candy cloth, then crank out at minimum a masterwork hood and cloak, then a backpack+waterskin and other clothing if I feel like going through the extra steps. Get it all set aside and retire the fort, or the surefire way nothing vanishes between retirement and my adventurer reaching the site (which artifacts do sometimes, still not sure why) is to mode set > arena > assume control of a dorf > mode set adventurer > grab the gear > drop it off somewhere nearby and retire, gear up accordingly.

The difference between full plate+mail shirt with nothing else and the same setup with the candy cloak and hood is basically lots of "her nose is gone, her upper front teeth is gone, her right eye is mangled beyond recognition" injuries without the cloak... though I think the hood is a placebo mostly.

Hmmm, I'm still wondering whether it is something that I left out when I plucked your vampires or something else I have in place that keeps bites from spreading vampirism.

Totally adore you though for getting me to play around with interactions and stuff as it helped make a lot of modding more productive, I'm still trying to decide if it would be worth the risk to try and add a "Martial Trance" interaction which activates the bullet time vampire speed effect... it's sooooo fun being able to smack someone off their feet, run by and feed on them in mid-air, then wait for them to land and smack them back the other way like some sort of less horrible version of tennis.

...but then I'd have to deal with possibly screwing up the controls on the effect and having random dorf civvies punching my brains out in hyperspeed.

Quote from: Adragis029 on February 22, 2015, 02:15:46 pm

But I went into a fortress to find them all asleep!
plz explan

I actually can't find [NO_SLEEP] in their raws, but I've never caught a goblin sleeping during play. Especially not at night, since they have [NOCTURNAL]. Day or night, any time I pass through dark pits they're wide awake. Incidentally, I've never had to sleep while playing as a goblin adventurer, either. Either [NOCTURNAL] is doing more than advertised or it's something I'm just not seeing.

Grabbed the SS since this thread popped into my head when I got up there.

Was a really weird pit region too since it was partially embedded in a mountain.

I... what the hell... now I know how my cat feels when he gets confused about stuff.