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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What weapon skill do pickaxes use?
« on: June 09, 2008, 01:56:00 am »
Alternatively, lock them all into a killing fields and murder them.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What weapon skill do pickaxes use?
« on: June 06, 2008, 08:01:00 pm »
That would be enough to make any number of Goblins throw down their weapons and flee.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / What weapon skill do pickaxes use?
« on: June 06, 2008, 07:18:00 pm »
I'm planning a new fortress (of course), and I was wondering if pickaxes in combat used hammer skill, axe skill, or mining skill?
I want to make sure (because I'm a dirty fecking cheater, yarrr!) that all of my dwarves can grab a sword and fight the horde (metaphorically - most likely they'll be grabbing hammers), but I was thinking that if the miners are going to have picks in their hands all day, and because I make most if not all of my dwarves miners, if I could just set up their hammer skill and have them serve as an "okay enough" defense force until I get some good, draftable peasents.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Your Favorite Artifacts
« on: June 14, 2008, 12:18:00 am »
Just got a live one!
Possession in a Terrifying terrain, possessed a metalsmith. At first I was like "Oh awesome, Weapon PLZ!"
Then I noticed the dipshit smith was going for the copper bars in the smelter rather than the steel bars in the wagons, and groaned.
Oh well, I needn't have hoped. Here's what I got:
Subsudir Lumnumlisat, "Dripcinders the Labyrinthine Notch", a Copper Bucket.
This is a Copper bucket. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. The handle is made from Copper. On the item is an image of a toad in Copper.
I guess some spirit really likes copper. And buckets. And toads.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Your Favorite Artifacts
« on: June 08, 2008, 05:32:00 am »
This has gotta be the most...
Tosidothas, Armorwild, a Tower-cap statue.
This is a Tower-cap statue. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of Tower-cap. This object menaces with spikes of Tower-cap and Obsidian. On the item is an image of a Native Gold statue in Tower-cap. On the item is an image of a Native gold statue in cat bone.
This is an artifact statue which consists of TWO IMAGES of a PREVIOUS ARTIFACT STATUE... In cat bones and wood.
I'm kind of speechless. On the one hand, this kind of thing is just odd. On the other, it makes sense in a weird way. It was a possession, not a fey mood, so I'm going to explain it as a spirit that so loved the statue in our dining hall that it went crazy with admiration and had to copy it.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Your Favorite Artifacts
« on: June 07, 2008, 04:57:00 am »
I just got a really cool one:
Angenmothkat, "The Fair Mansion", a Native gold statue. ($130,800)
This is a Native gold statue. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of Obsidian. This object is adorned with hanging rings of Native gold. On the item is an image of a dwarf in dog leather.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: housing strategies
« on: June 08, 2008, 03:02:00 am »
Here's what I've done - I based it on a "living pods" thing I found on the Wiki, but I expanded it because I like giving my dwarves larger rooms, and I enabled subsidised housing into perpetuity (IE, I turned off rent)
# = Wall
X = Up/Down Stairway
D = D
code:
##########################
# # # # # #
# # # # # #
# # # # # #
# D#D # D#D # #
#####X#########X##### #
# D## # D## ##D #
# # # # #X# #
# # # # #X#####
# ##D # ##D ##D #
#####X#########X##### #
# D#D # D#D # #
# # # # # #
# # # # # #
# # # # # #
##########################
Yes, I realize it's not the most efficient - especially with the twin-staircase where only one would be needed, strictly speaking, but the design was dictated by my fumbling the 'foyer' on the first floor. It was dictated by the design of the rooms on the foyer. It's not perectly symmetrical, and you can of course always change which rooms have access to which staircases on different floors. On the whole, I think it's an attractive, offbeat thing, with room to "Add on" to individual rooms if, say, you get a mated pair with child or children. It can be readily extended to any Z-depth or even Z-height if you're that fanatical about placing flooring and walling.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: The worst artifact ever
« on: June 09, 2008, 03:25:00 am »
My very first artifact was a statue.
Four or five artifacts down the line I got another statue... OF THE FIRST STATUE. It had an image of the first statue in two different materials on it!
And for getting lots of images of your lone floodgate, count your blessings. My dwarves engrave the most disturbing, disgusting, horrifying and outright terrifying shit you have seen since you took a jaunty sightseeing holiday through Boatmurdered to enjoy the legendary works of Emperor Sankis.
And I pity this one kid. I had ordered his room engraved, wall-to-wall and all the ceilings, and then the goblins hit. They killed his mother, and a snatcher got his sister in the chaos.
Yes, they engraved both scenes in his room. And nothing but a dwarf either being struck down or shot by goblins, or otherwise being harassed by goblins.
I think my Engraving team was out to tramautize the kid for life. They must hate him for being a 1337 siege operator.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Sieges. Bad or good thing?
« on: June 07, 2008, 03:46:00 am »quote:
Originally posted by MuonDecay:
<STRONG>In the last siege I had, one of my champion fortress guards got a wild hare up his arse about chasing the siegers off...plowed through about a dozen goblins chasing them as they routed... killing the fleeing ones as he overtook them.
Then he followed one right to the edge of the map and, upon reaching it after his quarry had already escaped... he exploded for no reason whatsoever into a rain of body parts.
Bugs are fun.</STRONG>
He was so angry even his Superdwarvenly Tough body could not contain his anger! In his wrathful RAGE, he did the impossible; he surpassed Chuck Norris' own rage. Unfortunately, only Chuck Norris can contain that much rage.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: I love untrained recruits.
« on: June 06, 2008, 02:45:00 pm »
Coulden't you lock them indoors? With no way to get out and hunt, woulden't the go to the next prioritized task on their list, which should be record-keeping.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Artifacts Sketched
« on: June 14, 2008, 04:42:00 pm »
Sorry for that, then. I just tend to assume male as a default, given that, you know, it's The Internets. Fixed my post. 
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Artifacts Sketched
« on: June 13, 2008, 09:40:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by Moogie:
<STRONG>**Moogie has been taken by a strange mood!**
**Moogie withdraws from society**
"I need Photoshop!"
"I need Wacom Tablet!"
"I need Jaffa Cakes!"
**Moogie has begun a mysterious construction!**[ June 11, 2008: Message edited by: Moogie ]</STRONG>
Is she still in there?
[ June 14, 2008: Message edited by: ShadowDragon8685 ]
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Artifacts Sketched
« on: June 11, 2008, 06:43:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by Neonivek:
<STRONG>Good we dodged the bullet this time...But next time we should be sure to have Shell for Moogle</STRONG>
I think you only make one Artifact Image per lifetime, so it should be good, now.
Then again, I dunno. You're right, we need to stock some shell. And gemstones, both cut and noncut, large and regular.
Oh, and some metal. Preferably platinum, aluminum, or adamantine.
And wood. Call me crazy, but I'd prefer stout Oak to Tower-Cap for an artifact construction. Or Feather Tree. Glumspire, maybe...
Some sort of plastic, too, you never know. Maybe aerospace carbon-fibre composite, that's the high-quality stuff.
Glass, definately; crystal only.
Hmmm, maybe light-bulbs. The LED ones are nice, but for an artifact, I'd suggest a High-Intensity Discharge Xenon bulb...
Hmmm...
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Artifacts Sketched
« on: June 10, 2008, 05:06:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by Blue Eagle:
<STRONG>
Oh please sketch this!
It's the best artifact I've ever gotten!
(Balls, hehe.)</STRONG>
That...
That actually sounds pretty damn cool. A turtle-shell ceremonial mask...
Draw it! Draw eeeeeeit! Moogie woogie, Master of the Photoshop, we beseech thee!
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Artifacts Sketched
« on: June 07, 2008, 03:21:00 am »
Isulral, "Faithsilver"
This is an Obsidian Dwarven Fortress. It encircled with walls of steel-backed obsidian and menaces with spikes of steel. It is encircled with moat of water, and has an image of angel wings in Drawbridge.
On the object is an image of a dwarf and a cat in Obsidian. The dwarf is striking down the cat.
On the object is an image of a dwarf in Aluminium. The dwarf is raising a Fortress.
On the object is an image of a caravan and a ballasta in gold. The ballasta is striking down the caravan.
Not quite an artifact, but hopefully amusing and inspiring enough to be worth a draw?