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Yeah been mucking about with the pure ASCII/text flavor of the incredibly floral, yet suitably knightly rose gold as a metal type for hammers/maces; something that is pure RNG in fortmode for weapons.

Hey I have a quick question ? I'm trying to do a hiwayman Sort od thing were I go and start my own highway robbery gang. Start as one dwarf. Recruit anybody I can. Raid travellers and occasionally heist buildings.

Away from civ sites, you can spy the fast travel world map for moving asterisks (at your own risk as some asterisks won't be civ units), fast travel to them, enter local/slow travel and do what Ziusudra suggested.

You could also hang close to civ sites, use the fast travel map to spy on asterisks, or just local travel around the peripheries and waylay them pilgrims, monks and other non-soldier units as they enter/leave these civ sites.

I was fighting a forgotten beast in adventure mode, and it breathed fire, which resulted in the fireball hitting my character. Somehow I survived, throwing off the burning clothing, and killing the beast. However, I had a shield, and it was readied in my hand. I had read that dragon fire would be blocked by a shield, but is a fireball from a forgotten beast not blocked? Is it only manually blocked? There was no flammable stuff beneath me, and I've power leveled blocking to legendary +5, so I'm not sure if I am missing something.

All projectile and fire attacks (dragon or regular) can only be auto-defended, meaning the AI does it for you. You can't opt to manually defend, as you would a strike (natural attack like bite/claw or weapon).

So, back in 2016 when Toady made a change to dragonfire vs regular fire, a bunch of people were trying to figure out how to work it. I forget whether it was Bumber, George_Chickens, Max™ or Rumrusher, but one of them mentioned that if you were to manually defend, using your sole shield to block an attack this round, the following round it would not be in the menu as an auto-defense option.

This was why people who had just blocked a dragon claw attack and had a high enough shield user (well over lvl 6 vs a dragon/FB/titan's lvl 6 archer skill) still got fried. So the conventional wisdom for single shield users changed to just trust in your auto-block vs claw/bite and shield block would remain available in the following round should the dragon breathe on you.

If you had a legendary +5 shield user skill, and were suffering no negative status effects (stun -50% to skill/nauseous -??%/drowsy -??/hungry -??) a bad roll-to-block is improbable. You either used your sole shield the previous round or this other thing happened:

Fire works in 3D.

The shield only blocks fire to the front. Fire still engulfs you and can burn your top, your sides/back and underneath and it does so working through your layers, exterior-most to innermost.

Usually a character's exterior layer on top is a hood, the sides/back is cloak and mittens, and beneath would be boots.

With an FB, you're on a non-flammable floor, so unlikely to have boot fire. Will also guess you weren't at a chokepoint like a corridor, otherwise the shield should have plugged it up, directionally.

The two options available then are: 1. hobo up, because you need to remove and toss fiery clothes or 2. get wet.

Submerging and getting drenched only works versus titans since you probbaly have close access to a waterway and this wont tick count expire, as it would when searching for an FB.

In a fortress or mountainhall, your best bet once you see fiery FB is to:
(d)rop water onto tile.
(s) to lie down.
(I)nteract to refill your container.
(d)rop water onto tile again.
Move off of tile. Move back onto tile.
(e)/(i) to check for *water covering*.

Now go fite FB.

5/24/2020 - 1.0.5 axes and furniture update

- Carpentry needs only axe, allowing for lower tile camp builds.
- Additional furniture for masons and metalcrafters; I tend to avoid metal and wood wall grates for barriers around base level campfires used to illuminate the first z-level of a site build. Also all the standard installable furniture you might want in stone or metal. And yeah, it's weird for masonry to work off of stone pebbles, but it's a workaround.

This requires the generation of a new world.

Some additional info:

Damage/power values from Toady's DF Talk 21: http://www.bay12games.com/media/df_talk_21_transcript.html and Urist Da Vinci's incredibly useful Combat mechanics (pulping) and material/creature properties [0.40.xx] thread http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=142372.msg5580805#msg5580805 have mostly overlapping info.

Here's Urist Da Vinci's:
Quick Attack subtracts 1 tick from both the PREPARE_AND_RECOVER --> Momentum x0.5
Standard Attack does not add or subtract anything from PREPARE_AND_RECOVER --> Momentum +/-0
Heavy Attack will add 1 tick to both the PREPARE_AND_RECOVER --> Momentum x1.5
***Precise Attack will add ~2~ ticks to the PREPARE and 0 ticks to RECOVER --> Momentum is same as standard
Wild Attack subtracts 1 tick from the PREPARE, but adds *2* ticks to RECOVER  --> Momentum x1.5


***The main area where Toady and Urist Da Vinci differ is over precise attack's damage boost.

Normal weapon use momentum numbers appear in line with 0.34.11, except that there appears to be an additional x2 multiplier on top of everything if the opponent is prone.

5/12/2020 - 1.0.4 camp/craftware update.

- Dagger and bow/xbow size dropped to 200.
- Glassmaking added in both clear and green varieties. Make aquariums/terrariums, doors, jugs, vials. Left out crystal to keep the menu to a single page for now.
- Masons can make logs from soil or stone. Unless you use AdvFort, you cannot channel and the next best thing might be silly logs walls, floors/ceilings for those who like the simulation of a fortified stone house.
- Potters can craft ceramic containers. Glazers can improve their value.

This requires the generation of a new world.

Thanks for all the info and submissions so far! I updated the first post.

I edited my above post with links for context.

Become a noble in a fortress or settlement, or have some occupation or position

Passively you can receive a position in Adventure Mode, but this is RNG-ish as it's determined by the unseen line of succession that is the result of an insurrection at the site/civ to which your character is a member of.

So far I've had a character end up as broker, and one as sheriff.

And since this line of succession is unknown, you can't simply kill your way to becoming mayor or chief medical.