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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Bookcases, old worlds and version upgrade
« on: February 20, 2022, 08:29:33 am »
Hi all,

I came back on DF recently loading an old fort. After taking back control of the fortress (I stopped under a big necromancer siege), I wanted to continue to develop and try the library feature, but I discovered I couldn't build bookcases in any building where I should. Looking at the raw files after some search in forums, the bookcase is definitively missing from them.

I think the world has been generated at least in 2017, after the library release (I remember looking things on that feature at the time), but I would be interested if there is a way to get the precise DF version it has been generated on.

My questions are :
- Is it possible to add the bookcases in the raw files (./objects/reaction_adv_carpenter.txt, ./objects/entity_default.txt and ./objects/item_tool.txt) and play the game with the modern features ?
- What will be the downsides of playing in 0.47.05 with an old world without said features ? Will my dwarfs be upset not having a library for instance ? How can I know what I can do or not ? In this case I do have the library location available in the meeting hall but it seems to me they would be useless without bookcases ...
- Bonus question : does anybody suggested to make a save upgrader to keep playing an old fort with new versions ? Does all of you always reroll when you upgrade the game ?  ::)

Alhrath

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Titan fun and science
« on: April 01, 2015, 05:39:53 pm »
Hi all!

I come here for a little science. It happend I just captured a webber titan in my fortress, and I want to make the better of it ^^ First of all, I'm kind of a semi-noob. It's maybe my third or forth fortress, and I never had a working magma forge yet, even if I have been close several times :)

The story

Usually, I make a main entrance then dig 5-or-so levels down and make my main meeting hall there. This time, learning from my past extinctions fun, I made a second bridge just before the meeting hall in case of hard time in the entrance. It happen that for design reasons, I made my military quarters one level up, with another bridge closing it it.

On the forth year, a titan showed up : "A great eyeless parrot. It has an enormous shell and it move about carelessly. Its peach feathers are long and broad. Beware its webs!". Of course, I sent the alert and closed the doors. Nothing so bas happend except two fishermans eaten alive. The titan then took position in a huge tree without mooving. Not so long after that, a elvish caravan showed up with a diplomat. I was very doubtfull that they could reach my fortress, but I still opened the gate in case, watching the titan closelly. He never moved from his position, and all the elves made it to my gates. I was like, ok maybe this titan is not so mean after all, he probably had enough with two dwarfs ... So when some migrants arrived to the fortress I opened the gate again. I wanted to watch it again, but havent been as alert as before, and by the time I could check its position, it was already on my main bridge.

From there I did everything in panic, closed the two bridges downstairs (the one to the meeting hall and the one to the militaries), but the titan was already on the militaries. I ordered all my squads to attack it and they all died. Posing the game, I though then that it would be better to have  trapped somewhere than up in the trees outside, so I closed the bridge of the military quarters where was the titan. I went out with something like ten dwarfs dead, unclude almost all my militaries, not so bad for an "unprepared" titan attack.

The situation

So here I am, with a flying webber titan trapped with all my weapons in my military quarters. It's wounded though : "Its upper body is cut open. Its head is cut open. Its right upper leg is cut open. Its left upper leg is cut open. Its right wing is cut open.". So here are my questions to community of the wises :

1) How will my titan deal with its wounds ? Will it cure itself, will it stay in this state, or will it die from its wounds ?

2) Given that the titan silk is so underrated, I want to use it as a web turret. My plan is, with the fact that it is flying, building a many-z-levels-prison so it could fly to the level where there is invasers and web them. Does anybody tried that before ? Or will the titan just don't care about other levels targets ?

Anyway, I'm ready to do some science, after I'll have cleaned up all this mess ^^

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