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Riding a mount is done with 'h'. Normally the key to climb. When next to an animal you get the options to ride it or lead it

Possible by stating and arguing believes. It depends on skills on both sides whether this works easy or is next to impossible. Much easier now you can control multiple characters in adventurer mode.

This requires 3 things. You need a water tile, a weapon with venom already on it (usually from subterranean animal people), and an animal or companion.

Take the venomous weapon, in my case it was a tower-cap blow dart with a helmet snake venom covering, and put it in your hand. Enter the water with it, and you will see a pool of venom form in the water tile. Normally, you can fill containers with an infinite amount of venom from a pool, but since it's in water it becomes laced with water, which is useless. In order to move it onto a land tile and purify it, you must move back and forth between the land and water tile until a pool of venom forms on the land tile because of the spatter spreading mechanic. This method of dwarven distillation concentrates the dilute venom in the water into a potent pool on land where you can either grab it with your hands or fill a water skin.

There are three methods of using this against your enemies. You may rub it on your teeth for biting, on your hands for scratching, or put it on a weapon. To get it on your teeth and hands, you must strip naked and drop everything (or the venom will only covers your clothes) and throw venom on a wall until a line of venom pools are created. Then you crouch (doesn't work with standing) with (s) and crawl across from pool to pool multiple times until the spattering and smears turn into coverings. A single pool will not work, you must crawl from one pool to another only, multiple times. I tested this with four pools. By pressing (e) you can see your body parts are now covered with venom, including the teeth and fingers. Biting something will transfer the venom into the enemy, you can see this by pressing (l) on the enemy and seeing if it transferred onto the body part you bit. The same applies to scratching. I tested this on a cave crocodile and the bitten and scratched body parts swelled up with blood, so I assume it worked. To poison a weapon, you throw the venom at your companion or animal and smack him bluntly (edge might cause blood spattering instead) on the part it landed on with your weapon. I tested this by throwing helmet snake venom at my gorlak companion and hitting him with the pommel of my large copper dagger until a covering of venom formed on the weapon. This might require multiple fresh venom coverings since I'm not sure if a full covering can form from hitting a spattering or smear multiple times. I then slashed the same cave crocodile, ran away, and waited until the part swelled up from the venom. If the weapon embeds, it ruins the venom covering instantly since it replaces it with a blood covering. However it's usually good for a few slashes, but not every attack is guaranteed to apply the venom.

You need to know a musical piece with an instrument, and having the actual instrument in your hand or backpack.

Walk against the door -> menu pops up

You can also join a bandit gang if you talk to the leader and ask them to make you a lieutenant. You just have to like kill a couple named animals or something.

You can totally get drunk, even drunk enough to the point you die. It's just that the syndrome takes forever. But I have successfully done it before. And used it to kill people by handing them mugs full of alcohol I "borrowed" from the tavern. I have no idea what the actual lethal dose is, but it seems 4-5 full mugs is more than enough. The nausea from the alcohol is hidden by the nausea from the overeating (but npcs will not get nauseous from overconsumption)

• To become a necromancer, one needs to first generate a world in which necromancers already exist (should be pretty easy).
• Next, create an adventurer, anything will do, though some combat skills will probably help. The only skill you need is at least Novice Reader, which is impossible to achieve if you don't pick it up in character creation.
• Find either an original slab which contains the "secrets of life and death" or find a book a necromancer wrote which has those secrets. (You can use Legends mode to get an idea of where the book/slab will be. But it's usually a necromancer tower.)
• Go to that location, find and read the slab. Congrats, you are now a necromancer!

{Warnings: slabs and books are often in Necromancer towers which will be full of swarms of undead, which are likely to kill you on sight. If you are a vampire or thrall already, this is significantly easier.}

• Create an adventurer, any thing that can drink will do.
• Find a vampire, kill or seriously injure it.
• Drink their blood. (Use a cup or barrel if there's an issue with getting the blood from the ground to your mouth)
• Congrats, you're now a vampire

{Some vampires' blood will not give you the vampire condition when drunk. This is a mystery. If, for whatever reason, there are no vampires in your world, or the blood doesn't give you vampirism, toppling statues in temples has a chance of making you a vampire. Similarly, dice which state "Do not tempt fate", if rolled again can give you vampirism. Though both these methods can also turn you into a werebeast.}

• Create an adventurer, any thing will do.
• Find a werebeast. The character in question must be in beast form to pass on the curse. See Calendar on the Wiki for moon phases.
• Be bitten by that werebeast. This part is easy, as they are extremely aggressive while in werebeast mode.
• Now here's the hard part - keep the bitten part on your body. If the werebeast bites and then shakes your arm off, the chance of you catching the curse is low. Removing upper-bodywear is supposed to help, as getting your chest shaken off is unlikely. Kill the werebeast or run away.
• Every full moon, you'll now transform into a werebeast! Congrats!

{If, for whatever reason, there are no werebeasts in your world, toppling statues in temples has a chance of making you a werebeast. Similarly, dice which state "Do not tempt fate", if rolled again can give you a werebeast curse. Though both these methods can also turn you into a vampire.}

Mining requires Advfort,

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Advfort allows many fortress actions, like creating a farm field, seeding and harvesting plants.
You need dfhack for it. In the console you type advfort.
In the game you press ctrl-t. Topline should show interface. Tab will start seeding / harvesting on a farmfield.
Esc leaves the interface so you can use all the game commands again (movement is possible while in ctrl-t mode, but many commands, do not work).
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Advfort interactions often do not work with reagents in hand. Drop the seeds or put them in backpack before trying to use.
With shift-T you can cycle through the advfort actions. One of them is build. If you use that by moving carefully or waiting a menu opens where you can select a farmfield (and about every other fortress constructible object).
There is the gather plant option too in the list of advfort actions. Not sure if it works.
Cooking and brewing will work too - press tab while standing on a workshop while in ctrl-t mode. Have the ingredients lying on the floor in the workshop.
Disadvantage is when you start working a counter starts running. During this time - for many actions around 100 ticks - you cannot react to threats. You only stop working after getting hurt, just like when performing.

Building workshops requires Advfort, a DFhack plugin. Using workshops, creating weapons, armour and clothing can be done through modded adventure mode reactions or Advfort.

All adventurers start out asexual - so, in vanilla, these are impossible. You can change this with DFHack's "fix-ster" script, though, which should theoretically allow adventurers to get married and procreate. I don't know a way to "choose" your lover/spouse, though; but if you retire a fix-ster'd adventurer and let them operate on their own for a while there's a chance they'll hook up with someone

Passively you can receive a position in Adventure Mode, but this is RNG-ish as it's determined by the unseen line of succession that is the result of an insurrection at the site/civ to which your character is a member of. And since this line of succession is unknown, you can't simply kill your way to becoming mayor or chief medical. So far I've had a character end up as broker, and one as sheriff.

by retiring to a fortress, then resume fortressmode, let the adventurer die, let him spawn as a ghost, retire the fortress, resume play as the adventurer