Bay 12 Games Forum

So I’ve been playing DF with a texture pack for a year or two, and while I’ve never done any spectacular feats of engineering, I’ve had forts that survived several years until my crappy old computer could no longer handle them, and it’s been pretty good. My muscle memory is developed to the point where I can barely tell someone what to do to build, say, a weapon rack; that’s as it should be.

But with the new release, it may well be some time before the packs are portable etc. — so how hard is it to learn ASCII? How much does it limit you when you’re still learning? And what are some techniques you guys used to learn it?

Basically what the title says - if you are a necromancer, is there any method to stop corpses you have raised from attacking everything around them, particularly friendly races?