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I should note I misstated not being able to enter fullscreen mode, I can enter the mode, it just isn't displaying in a usable manner either in windowed or full screen.

The opening splash screen is normally sized, but when I pick any options, like generating a new world, after the message where you hit ESC at the end, the text completely disappears leaving the screen blank.  I can zoom in and out but it's still off center, like this.
https://imgur.com/a/ApxOWPh
That's as close to on center as it gets.

It's also somewhat the same in windowed mode, except instead of being stretched on the x and y axis, it's just excessively wide, about three times as wide as the monitor.

This is a generic, fresh Win10 install, and I've set resolution both in LNP and init.txt
[WINDOWEDX:80]
[WINDOWEDY:25]
[FONT:curses_640x300.png]

You may disable window resizing if you wish.
[RESIZABLE:YES]

Full screen info.  The 0s below mean that the game will choose a resolution for you, but you can set it yourself as well.

[FULLSCREENX:1920]
[FULLSCREENY:1080]
[FULLFONT:curses_640x300.png]

If this is set to NO, tiles will be stretched to fit the screen if there is a resolution mismatch.
If this is set to YES, the tiles will not be stretched, but rather the game view will be centralized, surrounded by black space.  Tiles that are too large will always be compressed rather than running off the screen.

[BLACK_SPACE:YES]I've also tried turning BLACK_SPACE:YES to NO to no avail.

And I can change tilesets, and text modes, but none of them, even 2D with or without TrueType are a usable size.  While the visible area is different, it's still always unusable and never 1920x1080, which is what the display adapter's resolution is also set to.

Quote from: muldrake on August 16, 2021, 11:56:31 am

How hard would it be to make dragons literate?  Why can't dragons read anyway?  They're sapient creatures, aren't they?

They wouldnt use it without being necromancers of some sort, some natural skill towards reading technically makes them literate but being part of a civ in fortress mode makes them interested at all in reading books.

Tell me dragon necromancers wouldn't be awesome.

It bugs me when I accidentally crush a dwarf with a drawbridge by pulling the lever at the wrong moment.

I always think "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers."

It's never some worthless idiot like a fish wrestler or whatever, it's always a Legendary of some sort.

Quote from: xkcd1963 on August 08, 2021, 05:11:32 pm

One of my dwarfs had a special mood and I needed a clothier workshop. I quickly build one out of a block of ice (to easier distinguish it on the screen from more important ones), once he claimed it, the ice immediately melted due to body temperature and the dwarf went insane.

Was it inside? You were lucky it lasted even that long if that was the case. I've used a Trade Depot made from ice before on a glacier embark, but I had to build it outside or it would melt on it's own. Constructed ice walls and the like won't ever melt though.

It sounds like it would have been luckier if it melted before the doomed moody dwarf claimed it.

Whichever dwarf first hits a vein of ore owns not just the first strike, but the entire vein and has a claim to it.  However, they have to convey their claim to some official, like the expedition leader, mayor, or some other suitable official.  If some other dwarf murders them and jumps their claim, they get to make it, so long as they don't get caught.

Not exactly a facepalm from me since it was a random chance, but... I guess I created the shortest existing fortress ever.



Spawned right next to a river between a bunch of crocodiles. Managed to pause after a first couple of dwarves became reptile food but the entire gameplay was something between 10 and 20 seconds.

I had something similar where I spawned in a terrifying biome and literally the entire party was thralled by some cloud before being able to do anything at all.  Sometimes the !!FUN!! in this game is just how ridiculous the end is.

Dwarves should have different views about death and about corpses.  Avid warriors should actually get positive feelings from seeing a corpse they personally killed, at least from an obvious enemy and in noble combat.  Even normal dwarves shouldn't be upset by seeing a dead goblin unless they have never seen one before.  Or an elf for that matter.  Elves are filth.

Opinions should range from this to the other extreme of pacifist philosophies, where the holders of such views might be even more upset by corpses or violence than the norm.

There also ought to be rare sociopathic dwarves who actually enjoy death and violence, and some of these should be secretive serial killers, like vampires but without anything physically identifiable about them.  These should be even more rare than vampires, who usually give themselves away within a few killings.

Hey, it can happen.  For example, in one of my more recent forts I had a noble that liked bolts, and I had a lot of active training for my marksdwarves going on.  If you can't get a noble that has no item likes to spawn mandates, you can at least try for someone who's going to demand something you'll be cranking out by the gross anyway.

My last artifact created was a silver sarcophagus, that's good for the ruling noble's tomb.  If I don't get good weapon or armor artifacts, I'll settle for furniture, because those will at least jack up the value of noble quarters.

This.  I think my favorite mayor (and subsequent noble) was one who was obsessed with bucklers, constantly demanded bucklers, and banned the export of bucklers.  Because I'm obsessed with bucklers, constantly demand bucklers, and would never even consider selling one to a filthy elf.  My least favorite was obsessed with earrings.  That guy took a bath in magma.

3.  Get soap production set up (I meant to due it this time and even had a reservoir and aqueduct all mines out below a a well room next to what would have become my hospital, but I lost the fortress before that could happen).

Congratulations on figuring out one of the most important things in the game.  You think, well, obviously, I need absolutely awesome weapons and armor and other epic fantasy stuff.

Only to realize none of this is worth anything if your elite military is dying of infections because you don't have any soap.  The bar of soap is your best weapon, while a flagon of ale is your best shield.