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Isn't booze supposed to make it easier to catch hypothermia or something?

Although if you can catch it with that pick I'd suppose you'd have a fair chance of killing it.

The average dwarf height is probably around a beard-decade. Maybe just a bit less.

Sounds great, but what does "Combat move/speed split" mean?

In the current state of the game, how fast you can perform any action -- move, work, stab, etc. -- is determined by your speed (which is determined by a number of things like your agility, how much you're carrying, any kind of status like hunger/crouching/nausea, etc.). Apparently when that release comes around how fast you can move and how fast you can attack won't be directly related.

EDIT: obligatory remark that I have been ninjad

Or we could just say one tile is two beard-decades on a side.

EDIT: Scratch that, "one tile with a reasonable amount of creatures residing in it."

One beard-second is roughly defined as the average length of beard growth in one second, or precisely defined as 5 nanometers (some define it as 10 nanometers but we'll ignore them).

One beard-decade, by my calculations, is a little over five feet, or about the size of a slightly taller-than-average dwarf.


I nominate beard-decades as the DF official unofficial unit of length.

Then I wouldn't have to go digging through the raws to get a rough idea of how nasty a creature is.

I suspected that, the "icy breath" tipped me off.