March 6, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.12 has been released.
News: February 3, 2024: The February '24 Report is up.
News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
News: November 21, 2018: A new Threetoe story has been posted.
Forum Guidelines
quote:
Originally posted by Flok Speargrabber:
<STRONG>
Or you could draw an IRL diagram.</STRONG>
I resorted to this. I've got a lever room with 19 levers for various plumbing, bridges, traps, etc. I really wish the game would just tell you what they're linked to.
quote:
Originally posted by Earthquake Damage:
<STRONG>Cooking is not the only way to prepare food. Maybe for meat. Not for all food. What if a dwarf wanted to make himself a cheese sandwich at the kitchen? Not a grilled cheese sandwich, but a plain ol' cheese sandwich. There's no reason to consume fuel for that.Silly reasons aside, the gameplay would suffer if we started adding fuel and tools and other requirements to everything. At the moment, a great many things are abstracted and it works. Some of this abstraction is simply because it's easier to implement a simple system that can be expanded later. I like to think that much of it remains the way it is because Toady thinks it's fine as is. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Something like that.</STRONG>
Read the OP. It IS broken. Melting a single coin takes an entire unit of charcoal. Granted this won't be as bad a problem once items restack, but it'll still be an issue.
quote:
Originally posted by Capntastic:
<STRONG>I'd like some more confirmation on ctrl-alt-deleting not messing up saves, please.</STRONG>
Confirming, never messed anything up for me.
[ March 21, 2008: Message edited by: Footkerchief ]
quote:
Originally posted by benoit.hudson:
<STRONG>Water -> Thin Ice -> Ice.Thin ice forms when it's about 0.
Ice forms when it's, say, -5.
Step on thin ice, it becomes water at 4 degrees, and the dwarf falls in. Then the temperature system will slowly freeze it back up. The dwarf had best get out before being entombed.In deep water, you'd get ice on top of water. So you can go ice fishing, and lose dwarves to thin ice / getting dragged through the hole by roving bands of carp.</STRONG>
I like this suggestion, it fits in with the current idea of floors vs. tiles. An ice floor could form first (above) with the tile still filled with water.
[ March 21, 2008: Message edited by: Footkerchief ]
quote:
Originally posted by winner:
<STRONG>disable the skill on the legendaries and then re-enable it when there is a siegeand do the opposite for the novices
[ March 19, 2008: Message edited by: winner ]</STRONG>
I already do this. As the people above said, the point is to eliminate this kind of tedium. I have like 20 siege operators and get 2-3 sieges a year.
I have a bunch of catapults that I use for training. About half of my siege operators are legendary already, and I don't need them training on the catapults -- I'd rather leave the catapults free for the novices. Workshop profiles could handle this automatically (Max - Grand Master or whatever's right below legendary).
Similarly, I have a bunch of ballistas I use for actual defense. I don't want the novices trying to operate those in a siege situation, so there, Min - Legendary would solve the problem.
quote:
Originally posted by Derakon:
<STRONG>Actually, one possibility would be to simply have a "toggle stone" designation like we currently have "toggle engravings". Most of the time you don't really care where stone outside of your stockpiles is, so why bother showing it? It should still default to "display" so you can tell if you're managing to successfully extract <foo> from the wall as you mine, but you'd be able to turn it off for the parts of your fortress that you want to look nice.</STRONG>
Holy shit this is a really good idea.
quote:
Originally posted by Sowelu:
<STRONG>Why? Are you psychic? Maybe in dwarf mode but definately not in adventurer. And what happens if an artifact that's not from your fortress gets brought onto the map somehow?If the artist decided to put that info on the artifact, maybe. But it's certainly information that belongs in legends. The people you control might not know anything about it.</STRONG>
Haha, what? Have you ever looked at masterpiece items? Their descriptions all say who they were created by. It's a little weird for artifacts not to include that as well.
I would love a "Skill List" screen arranged somewhat like the Stocks screen -- on the left, a list of skill types, and on the right, the list of dwarves with the selected skill, sorted in order of skill level. Ideally the screen would also have the usual "press C => zoom to dwarf" as well as toggles for military and guard recruiting.
