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Add a Steam achievement for not getting any achievements. You start with it, and it will be revoked if you ever gain any other achievements.Also have a separate "Completionist" challenge for having all the other challenges.
Completionists like a challenge, right?
I think there are such things. There are groups that are actually not connected to a civilization, like outcasts and brigands. Sometimes you'll see a city nominally connected to your civilization but it's packed with outcasts. I haven't seen any of these personally, maybe because I usually camp next to something I'm at war with and those guys show up, but they show up in history.
- There was also this time I was attacked by what appeared to be honest to god bandits before (it was considered a siege, didn't register a new civ on ym civ screen and the crew was a mix of mostly poorly armed and armored guys.) One of them was apparently their bard and he tried to fight a swordsdwarf with his instrument by bashing him with it.
Despite the fact I have over 100 good quality iron battle axes and maces laying unclaimed around my fortress, this dork decides to fight a troll with an encrusted glass figurine instead.
Have you ever encountered any of your dwarves using odd-ball weapons before?
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But lots of other gasses that heating ores gives off are also lethal and those don't kill our dwarves despite smelting in confined, poorly ventilated underground spaces. It's not like aluminum where you need electrical furnaces to smelt it, but it's not known from the 14th century back other than as a dangerous ore that you'd avoid smelting because of the evil spirits, kobolds, that it generated that would kill the smelter, or as pigment.Lots of things that would kill humans don't kill dwarves (or the humans in the game for that matter). For instance, there are no ill effects from drinking from lead or storing food in lead barrels, for burning wood to ash or charcoal in confined areas, and a number of other practices that would get OSHA sicced on you in the real world.
Lots of mods do let you smelt it, but I doubt Toady will implement it in vanilla.
Currently trying to drain/obsidianize the magma sea to get to the candy. Things've been progressing slowly since of course we have to smooth every passage of the waterworks and haul away all that stone. We just now had an... accident with magma. Our goblin mayor, who was a miner, managed to breach the magma from a safe spot as planned, but the idiot then decided to take a short cut back straight through the magma's flow path.The digging diagonally upward from the top of a ramp a level below where you want to breach works. I also usually put a bridge over it of a non-magma-safe substance so it dissolves eventually. Then I also have a lever somewhere upstairs assigned so only they can pull it, and set a do it now task to pull it when they start digging. The only time this didn't work was fairly recently when the dwarf decided it was a good idea to ignore the order and just fall asleep in front of oncoming magma.
We now have a new mayor: Oda, the elf poet.
All historical figures that have ever existed in any world you've ever generated should be listed as actors in the game's credits.All historical figures that have ever existed in any world anyone has ever generated should be listed as actors in the game's credits, which should be an unskippable cutscene before every loading of a saved game or generation of a new game.
In the world I created in Perfect world, I am at peace with all the neighboring goblins and they are not coming to the invasion for a long time (2 years in-game and 60 populations). Is this a bug?I don't think it's a bug and also you should be able to have them send you caravans. I forget how to do that exactly.
There was recently some violence in my fort, and as a result there are some important cleaning tasks that need to get done. There is some important mining that I'm waiting on. But these jobs remain inactive while my morons pray, meditate, attending tanning demonstrations, etc. Is there anything I can do, or am I just screwed? I think I may have built too many shrines and guilds.Sometimes it's entirely fine to take off a month or so in game time and not do anything and see if a logjam clears itself up. I was reminded of this once when I had a fort that had sunk below 5 fps and everything I was trying to do was never happening.
Each toad's eyes contain a universe, with the left eye's universe a mirror image of the right eye's universe. Since everything is toads, there exists an infinite number of mirrored universes in an infinite number of toads' eyes. Each mirrored universe therefore contains an infinite number of mirrored universes, and so on, ad infinitum. All who think on this past the surface of the concept will promptlygo insaneturn into a toad.
This morning I lost 25 dwarves from a ten goblin siege. They had superior armor. I told my units to become active. I designated a large burrow with plenty of supplies. as soon as the first dwarf went down they all fled outside to collect body parts and armor and random refuse.I'd also make a guess you should also bring up the standing orders with O and check for refuse/body parts collection options and turn those off during a siege. The default setting is, I believe, that they don't collect refuse from outdoors. If you have to, manually forbid the offending objects. I think the default for body parts is they do collect them.
I later realized that activating a unit does not activate the burrows. You must do those separately.................................. Now I know.
As a tag, not as a body part. It's a description rather than a name.No it calls them that as a noun too if it happens in combat.
There's 10 butcheries/tanneries at the moment, so half way there~! Been able to cull the number down to 2700 now. The butcher line is still 1500 animals deep though. Steady we go. Trying to keep cheating to minimal, cause of my greed for ☼Wealth☼ (though it's not lacking, just greedy..). I have been tactically nuking all fertilized eggs though to stop extras from hatching so the fine line of what's acceptable level of cheating is becoming really blurry.You could probably also pasture the remainder in some large pasture, then pour magma on them there, at least if they're wandering around the fort rather than all in one place.
