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Quote from: Draco18s on November 26, 2008, 06:29:44 pm

Quote from: Patarak on November 26, 2008, 03:36:32 am

If this were the case, why, you would be able to make a creature with body parts made of other creatures!

We could have real chimeras!

A -Dragon Head dragon head- on your *Lion Torso Lion Torso*?

Uh, no.

See, while having real chimeras is great (the severed heads would not say "chimera head/chimera head/chimera head", but "goat head/lion head/dragon head"), I was more reffering to thus;

The fabled MEGADWARF, whose body part materials would be made of the Dwarf material!

Dwarf skin (not skin of dwarfs, but skin made OF dwarfs), Dwarf muscle, and Dwarf bone.

I was hoping to have entire body parts that ARE dwarfs (as opposed to body parts that are comprised of various layers of dwarf), but the way the system works as I understand it, you can't specify a material for "arm", but rather, "arm skin", "arm muscle", and "arm bone".

This is all assuming that creatures and body parts created or shipped in the Raws retroactively have a material designated after them, which I severely hope is the case.

Is world generation going to be modified to incorperate the new material and wound system?

For instance, the new scarring system will take the whole "Giant tried to molest a town 200 years ago and got his nose chopped off" thing to many more degrees of precision, while the new material system will totally revise the way fights are going to have to be simulated.

How long did it take to compose? Were there some other pieces you were thinking of putting in there? Do you write down the sheet music at any point? I'm sure everyone wants to know!

Well

I want to know...

Hey, I was just wondering what modded-in civilization settlements look like in adventure mode. Are they a replication of human ones with the appropriate shops or something?

And might this change with the overhauling update?

As long as combat in general is being improved, are the munitional application of coins, water and vomit going to be decreased?

Toady, is there any developement reason why you can't make intermediate releases that include all the wrapped up features you've finished on but leaving out the bits you're working on still?

You are such a jerk.

Ok, so for sadistic purposes I often decide to build a tower. This is much easier thanks to the new building utilties but one very tower-breaking problem keeps occuring.

That is, when I build ramps, it seems that eventually the dwarves decide that they can't climb the ramp up or down that I made for them to do just that. For some reason this keeps happening to dwarves that have come up, and now wish to come down. Nothing changes with the ramp or any aspect of the tower, but after a number of dwarves climb up the ramp, no-one can traverse it.

Now, Fortress mode would be absolutely superfantabulistic if I could just get around this. Anyone have ideas?