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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Dwarven capture the flag.
« on: August 02, 2008, 12:57:27 pm »
Use DF Companion so you can have Dwarves vs. Goblins/Elves CTF matches.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: When carp attack!
« on: July 23, 2008, 03:03:33 pm »You're going to drain an entire river just to get a few bolts of cloth and a bin? :|That isn't a good enough reason?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Fourm question, pictures in posts?
« on: July 03, 2008, 03:15:17 pm »
^^^^ This is why dwarven children aren't engravers.
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DF Suggestions / Re: A Modest Proposal for Preventing Stone from Being a Burden to the Haulers
« on: July 03, 2008, 02:42:41 pm »
I would approve of this but I think that we shouldn't have immigrants or dwarven children. If you want more dwarves you should carve them out of the very rock they mine. They are children of stone, not of flesh.
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DF Modding / Re: Tile editing question
« on: May 18, 2008, 03:41:00 pm »
I have a question about tile edit as well:
If I make an underground pocket of water marked as subterranean will I be able to spawn tower-caps? I have a fortress on a glacier and I've run out of logs and the caravan doesn't seem to want to bring me more than 6 or 7 each year (no access to elves and humans) and would like to setup a tree farm but care of being on a glacier I have no underground water sources. At the rate things are going it's gonna be a long time before I have beds for all of my dwarves, and sleeping on ice is not something they seem to be keen on.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What makes you want to quit your fort!?
« on: May 09, 2008, 08:01:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>HAHAHAHAHAH! Man, you don't know DF FPS. The only time I managed to get close to 30 frames was with one dwarf on a 3x3 map. I used to play at 8 frames a second when I first started out with DF (that was on a different computer).</STRONG>
GFPS or FPS? I don't care if the GFPS drops to nothing, but when the FPS drops to 30 or lower and it takes 10 minutes for a dwarf to walk down a hallway it's just painful.
[ May 09, 2008: Message edited by: Magnusian ]
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What makes you want to quit your fort!?
« on: May 09, 2008, 02:07:00 pm »
Those damned legendary goblin archers get me every time. I usually build a tower for my marksdwarves but they quickly become towers of carnage filled with dwarven offal. Followed soon after with a fortress of dead dwarves.
Also FPS. when it drops below 30, I just give up.
[ May 09, 2008: Message edited by: Magnusian ]
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Wtf, the wiki's down.
« on: June 07, 2008, 06:04:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by A_Fey_Dwarf:
<STRONG>If you are using Firefox 2 try-> tools-> Clear Private data -> Clear Private data now.
Or
Ctrl+Shift+Del</STRONG>
Or you can just hold ctrl and hit F5/refresh.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Icesculpture
« on: May 25, 2008, 07:24:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by lastofthelight:
<STRONG>No, the cave in thing is from a previous version of the game, and does not work on the current; I tried it myself and it didn't work. The only way to create water on a glacier is to use lava.</STRONG>
On that, I've built a cistern as follows:
code:
# - wall (rock, this is all several layers under the ice)
_ - floor
- channel
+ - door
x - zoned designated as a dump
7 - magma/lavabottom
#######
###7###
###7###
###7###
###7###middle (cistern)
#######
##___##
_+___##
##___##
#######top (water dump)
#######
##___##
_+_ x##
##___##
#######
Now, as you see I have a dump right next to a hole, which makes my dwarves toss things down into my cistern, on a glacial fortress this means ice ("water"). While this is a much more simplified version of what I built, this is pretty close to how it actually is. Anyways, I figured that dumping ice rocks down into my cistern, which with the hole placement means the rocks end up 1 level above the magma, would end up following the classic "ice 1 level above magma melts and turns into water" bit, but instead the ice just disappears after awhile (as if it sublimates) and I am left with an empty cistern. It seems like it should work, but instead it doesn't and I am left with an empty cistern and many of my military dwarves dying of thirst when they have only minor wounds. I guess I should have just built magma-resistant pumps and done things that way, but I was sure this was going to work. It seems like the only way to make water on a glacial map is to pump the magma up to 1 layer below the ice layers and melt it that way.
[ May 25, 2008: Message edited by: Magnusian ]
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Why should I care about keeping nobles happy?
« on: May 19, 2008, 10:03:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by Captain Xenon:
<STRONG>crystal glass is cause for an assassination. anything else you can request and stockpile.</STRONG>
Yeah, anything else is fine but I seem incapable of finding rock crystal so whenever a noble requests something with crystal glass I load up companion and set them up to get butchered into dwarf meat. Nothing like a superior roast made out of that damn Baron who made unreasonable requests and set stupid mandates.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Water Pumps and Artefacts
« on: May 18, 2008, 11:02:00 am »
Moods and artifact creation as a result of them is completely random. I just had a carpenter go fey on me and build my first artifact bed ever, usually I end up with crafts, or veils, or various other useless things that just sit in my stockpile waiting to get traded away, it's a matter of chance and time.
That said, you can always get DF Companion and force strange moods upon your dwarves, but what they produce is still completely random.
As for hooking up multiple screw pumps together that is something I still haven't gotten to work right and as far as I can tell distance does not affect power.
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DF Bug Reports / Re: Elf's wood lobby
« on: May 10, 2008, 01:30:00 pm »
The elven caravans are always target practice for my ballistae; the diplomat, when he dares show his pointed ears inside my fortress, becomes my personal pincushion. It is the only way to deal with such an unreasonable people.
[ May 10, 2008: Message edited by: Magnusian ]
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DF Bug Reports / Re: stone coffin can't keep the bones in?
« on: May 09, 2008, 02:04:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by benoit.hudson:
<STRONG>Bug 432 "bones pop out of coffins"
</STRONG>
I didn't see that when I went through the list of known bugs, oh well, guess this was a useless bug report. 
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DF Bug Reports / Re: stone coffin can't keep the bones in?
« on: May 09, 2008, 12:57:00 am »
I've never seen it happen before.
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DF Bug Reports / Re: stone coffin can't keep the bones in?
« on: May 08, 2008, 09:50:00 pm »
Back in the coffin? They're in my refuse stockpile now. Had to forbid them before they got turned into a Dwarf Skull Totem and Dwarf Bone Bolts.
E: Nevermind, after I reclaimed them some nice dwarf who wasn't fixing on making bone bolts did walk them all the way back to their coffin.
[ May 08, 2008: Message edited by: Magnusian ]