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Quote from: Orange-of-Cthulhu on May 25, 2023, 06:25:22 am

For me this is an easy way to get high quality bedrooms - especially in this fort because I haven't found gold or platinum yet.

Steel has the same value with gold. You can just make steel cabinets, chests, or statues.

I do for statues for temples, but I think it's too much work to make a chest and cabinet for everybody of steel.

Some of the bedrooms are fine already with a decorated bed and then just a wooden chest and cabinet.

I managed to get furniture gem-encrusted without too much hassle.

The beds got various attention by the jeweler, resulting in some of them being encrusted over an over again, raising their worth to like 3K dwarfbucks. They actually look like artefacts with many spkes, images and so on. I guess they sometimes get so encrusted because I make the beds some time before I need them, so they get to stay longer in the encrusting area.

So you slap one of those bad boy into a 2*2 smoothed bedroom, and it's a grand bedroom just from the bed.

I'm more worrying now about ending up with a lot of bedrooms that are so good the nobles will get angry about it.

What I did was:

- Only one stockpile in the fort set to accept cur gems and the furniture I want to encrust, beds, statues, chests, cabinets.
- Stockpile must not have bins, otherwise they get encrusted.

The gemcutter is right next to the stockpile.

The manual part of is that once in a while, you need to toggle the gemcutter shop from only taking from the furniture stockpile and encrusting, and when it runs out of gems you switch it to take from everywhere and cut gems. I have another jeweler on the other side of the stockpile set to cut gems in perpetuity to replenish the gem/furniture stockpile.

As a bonus, I built workshops crafting workshops set to decorate with bone, ivory, shells, hoos. And a metalsmith set to stud with [which ever metal I don't need for anything else really, like led or zinc.] I didn't chain these or anything, but just banked on them hitting the furniture from being next to them. And it works. They do decorate the furniture, along with many random items. They seem to prefer crafts, armor and clothes.

But it's not a problem to me. It's actually mostly usefull, as all the non-worn clothes are getting so much bling-bling that an xsockx becomes worth like 300. So I can fulfiill my trading needs almost only with worn clothes that I want rid of anyway. I haven't checked if anybody gets happy thoughts from wearing super-expensive armor or clothes.

So the furniture has like gems, bones, shells, studs in copious amounts. It's a breeze to get high quality bedrooms. It's also easy to get the temples to 10x value, just make a few statues once in a while and they get so decorated they're worth a lot.

As a negative effect I almost can't trade with the elves, as pretty much everything has got shells or bone on it, which means the elves won't take it.

All you need to do is to check on the encrusting workshop every now and then to se if you need to toggle it. For me this is an easy way to get high quality bedrooms - especially in this fort because I haven't found gold or platinum yet.

Ive found that whipping on the legs is very helpful on those heavily armored opponents who keeps evading everything. Had a swordmaster who kept dodging everything and I broke his legs with the silver whip and then proceded to hammer his head in with my silver mace. That armor did him no good against that.

I found that whipping to the head has a good change of one-shotting opponents, if they wear a helmet or not. I never fought anybody competent with a whip though.

Finding clothing and armor is a big problem in adventure mode. Especially when you play animal people, which I like to do. I assume that future updates will introduce ways to craft or buy stuff but a quick solution for now would be to allow players to resize clothing and armor they find.

I think you should be able to order from the already existing shops for clothes and armor in human towns. I guess from dwarven sites as well, maybe you could buy from the trader at the trade depot.

Like you click "order" and then you get much the same menu as in a workshop in fort mode, where you can choose size plus choose between the materials avalable in the shop.

As an added benefit it would create a use for money and a use for being in a good standing in a site, so there's some extra stuff to do right there. The first mini-mission would be to make money for a nice set of armor.

You can download the first released version of the game, press ? on any screen and see "Losing is fun!" in green text. It wasn't a community thing, it's been in the game since the beginning.

Ah that's cool. I thought it was some random forum person that invented it.

It's very troublesome when you want to tell about your exploits.

If you killed 7 night trolls, you have to search for the story and then tell it 7 times. This you need to do every time you get to a new site and you want to increase your rep.

I assume the search will be fixed in the coming update.

BUT can we get added functions like:

1: "Favorite stories". Have 10 slots of the stories you usually tell. This way you can skip the searching and just click "Tell story > Favorite story > and BAM."

2: Really big meta stories!

As it is, you never really can tell people how awesome a hero you are. If you have 130 kills, well good luch with telling about all 130 stories in a tavern. You'd need like a spreadsheet to cross of the ones you'd told, and even if you managed to do that, it would take really, really a long time to tell 130 stories. IDK, like an entire day IRL.

So if you could co like Create metastory > Enter story name [My kills] > Add stories to metastory > Save.

Then you could tell about ALL your 130 kills in one go, and you'd get the recognition you deserve.

For RP it also feels weird that it's literally impossible to say "Hey guys, I killed 130 goblins! How cool is that?". And instead you need to be like a super boring guy, telling the details of when you killed goblin 23, 24, 26 .... 130.

It's also a mechanic that doesn't work. It's intended you tell about your exploits and get rep, but you can't do it due to the UI. If you have like 140 kils you're proud of, I tell about like 2 or 3 before I get tired of hitting ................. to get it done.

If this ever gets fixed, I'd propose to just change it so that the food the soldiers drop become "normal" status food that can be eaten or hauled by everybody.

I like the idea that the soldiers are arrogant and just drop food on the floor like "somebody else fix this."

(I believe the issue is that the food the soldiers drop is still "owned" by the soldier, so that nobody ever moves it.)