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Simmura the Priestess signing up.

Glory to the House of Carpets. Intern Oneir clocking in.

Sorry to bug, but did I ever get dorfed as that Priestess? If not, and if the temple's filled up, I'll take the first interesting hero from the embassy (the barbarian's fine) with the least accurate name you care to come up with.

Is there some way to move around aside from mindlessly walking right and teleporting?
Because I've run into a few maps where it seems like you're expected to be able to move, especially since

Thanks for the help. :D Some of that's new, some of it it's just good to see I'm not insane for think about.

Regarding variance, and something I forgot to include in that earlier post:
When I last tried to set this embark up, I ran into a couple of biome issues. Rather than the (pretty trivial) "too many subregions" issue, DF was consistently failing to place enough of every single biome. Consequently, a given set of parameters would run around a thousand failed worlds before suggesting something was wrong, since it wasn't failing any given check regularly. So what's the deal there? I remember there was some other error that cropped up even if I completely nuked the minimum region and square numbers. Obviously I'll do science to it, but if anyone else has confronted this in the past I'd love to hear what you did to fix it. :)

One last quick question: are there any tricks to generating magnetite over the other (apparently more common) ores of iron? There's just something about enormous piles of ore that's so tempting...

As I understand it, if you have a male of the same species and nothing kicks the female off of the nest box your eggs should hatch eventually. Be sure to forbid them from 't', or find some other way to keep dwarves from walking off with them.

So it's possible to make a sandgun. Ten antlion mandibles, uh, illegal gun parts, and something else.

I kid you not.

Now where the crap does one find illegal gun parts? Kill the Arms Dealer somehow?

Also, I got the fancy spear thing and the Guide Voodoo Doll. The doll lets you slay the guide yourself, and the spear is just amazing.

Pulled the spear out of a chest in Hell, btw.

Many NPCs now sell different things at night! (And after different bosses are killed.) This means that you can buy Corrupt Seeds and Vile Powder instead of Grass Seeds and Purification Powder from the Dryad at night (first time I saw that, I assumed it was very inconveniently bugged for where I was gearwise), Unholy Arrows from the Arms Dealer once you kill...I think Eater of Worlds, a bunch of nice weapons during the Blood Moon, and Illegal Gun Parts at night, possibly after either the Eye or Eater is killed.

What's the Dark Lance like? ...hell, what are spears like?

While I'm already gonna get a copy on release, I'd like to thank hemmingjay and everyone else who donated a copy for doing this.

Most seriously seconded.

He cannot drown.

I plan to just drop him into a large pit, but judging by the dev LP's (when they dropped him in a pit, and walled over it) that will not work. He ended up back at spawn.

It turns out, the first room you make (back walls, door, light source, whatever else) gets claimed by the guide. I think that's what happened in the Dev LP, they finished the house, so he ported in while off screen. My plan is to lock him in my basement, or at least far away from any sensitive doors.

Even if they fix his (NPC's?) AI in the future, I'm keeping the guide in my basement. Just 'cause.