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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Expedition-based training
« on: March 15, 2018, 08:04:26 pm »
Is it really supposed to provide you with legendary dwarves in a matter of a few months, or did I just have a perfect storm of conditions? Because I'm playing with a mod (Direforged) which not only gives me the race I'm playing with (Shyhak, which are insectoid, bit fragile, four-armed, tall as a human) but also gives goblins different available pops, mostly extra kinds of trolls to fight every time I send them there. But I've been sending a squad of nine to a dark fortress four days away as constantly as possible, not even letting them have much time to arrive, and in a matter of one or two seasons they're legendary in weapon skills, shield and armor use.

Does this happen with dwarves, if you equip them decently, train them to something a bit past dabbling and then constantly send them to slaughter things out there (pillage option, with razing they don't back down and get captured)? Because on one hand, it seems a bit broken, but on the other hand it does seem appropriate that they'd become really good at fighting if they had to pillage a fortress several times a month.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / My magma forges seem to have indigestion
« on: February 23, 2016, 07:43:37 pm »
Something I hadn't observed in previous versions, and something that seems to happen a bit unevenly between fortresses, but here it is.

I have the custom to start my metalworking industry by rushing the magma sea and setting up the various furnaces and the forge there after a bit of channeling. But now, I've had to go back to coal as the open space needed, that opens up to the magma, occasionally seems to puke up 1/7s of magma into the forges, with varying frequence. First time I observed this it was only once, and since I had channeled into one of the magma sea's ramped walls rather than open, magma-filled space, I assumed it was that. But the next fort I had had it happen so damned often shallow pools of lava were covering everything. It didn't happen often enough to flood the room, but just enough to make sure a thin layer of magma was covering the workshop and bits of the surrounding area.

In retrospective it may be related to having built the room close to a magma pipe. Still, has anyone else observed this?

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