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mermaid farm where they have kids and get airdrowned and left to rot for bones. (this one actually resulted in a nerf to mermaid bone value, so the community moved onto sea serpents instead)
Thanks man. I really appreciate the advice. I'll go fix it now. I'm never using floodgates again.
if you have dfhack you can rename buildings (i think it's ctrl-n on the view building screen?)... i like to rename my levers to describe what they do so i don't forget/lose them later
You don't need DFHack for that anymore.
This thread is for suggestions, not current features, guys.
Cats need to adopt owners faster. And kittens need to set up ambushes and scratch random people and animals that come within striking distance. My kitten does this all the time it's for realism.
Elf visitors to your tavern should be able to eat other visitors.
Just realized my library was also a garbage dump. That's where those dead animals were ending...
I'm learning more about the usefulness of burrows. The civilian alert works well, and assign the military squads to the burrow as well if you don't want them to encounter the enemy until you're ready without having to Station them.
Just made a new one (to me) that worked good... the Vacation burrow. Since the burrow's areas don't need to be connected to each other, it's easy. Includes the following areas: Library, Temple, Tavern, Bedrooms, Mayor's Office for complaints, Lever rooms, CoG's office if they need interrogating, and perhaps workshops that keep the vacationers happy.
Because...stress system has bugs. It's a simulation. Toady didn't deliberately program dwarves to constantly remember rain just to annoy you.
The fact that getting rained is anything but the most impermanent penalty is ridiculous, let alone that it's comparable mechanically to a dwarf giving birth to her first child. Frankly? It's kinda stupid. It shouldn't be a surprise that dwarves just inevitably get depressed and die when the overwhelming amount of available stimuli in the game is negative and prioritized, what else would you expect? It's like filling a playpen full of thumbtacks then tossing a couple babies with in with a toy or two and being like "I'm surprised how often the babies step on or interact with the tacks, huhhhhh... But they have other options!"
If you're reading, I'd say overall please make Dwarves more Dwarf-like when coding the little folks' personalities and tendencies. I mean this in a general fantasy sense. As it stands now, it's just embarrassing that so many members of the mighty Dwarven race get so upset over seeing a dead corpse or slaying an enemy or being in snow. I feel like I'm managing baby elves more than Dwarves with all this depression and sadness over menial things like rain or seeing a dead gobbo.
