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Quote from: LumenPlacidumI read it as having necrotic venoms, which are really hideous.
Yeah, that's what we meant... some months back, Threetoe and I happened upon the Discovery channel "series" (it has like 2 episodes) "I Was Bitten". It was trashy, of course, but it was also thoroughly disgustingly graphic and therefore inspiring for the game.
I find that occasionally an event will occur that the dwarves love so much it becomes a recurring theme in their artwork. Repetition is inevitable, but sometimes they really go the extra mile to include certain images in their art.
The most recent and to me the funniest example I've seen of this was a strange event I wasn't really very clear on how happened. Somehow, the first dwarven caravan that arrived (well one of the wagons anyway) didn't so much arrive at the trade depot as it did fall off the mountain from like two z levels above. The wagon crashed into the depot, sending all the other merchants scattering. I was annoyed at first (I had planned on getting an anvil from that caravan) until I realized all the swag from the crashed wagon was now mine (waaay more than I could afford, including both a steel and iron anvil). For a while my only two military dwarves wore leather and bone armor, except each had one giant ornate steel gauntlet.
So anyway, this happens and it's confusing and hilarious. A little while later, I set my first bit of stone to be engraved. Usually the first image is either the ascension of the mayor or the founding of the fort, but this time it was "a wagon falling". The falling wagon appears at least once in every major series of engravings in the fort, in every noble bedroom, in the dining room, outside the fortress. The time the wagon fell was their favorite thing ever.
Anyone else have interesting experiences with this phenomenon?
Where does Toady post that stuff? It shows up here on the forum, but it seems to come from somewhere else...
What is(how big) is a "nano" fortress?
I have heard the term several times but no one has actually explained what constitutes "nano."
Nano being 10^-9 I am guessing maybe a 1x1 start location(HA!)?
They may seem "unnecessary" now, but they maybe useful in the future.You'd still want to see what the overall quality of the item is.
That said, it really feels like leather and bone should be generalized while still tracking origin species and creature. I.E. if it's default leather have it actually create a 'leather' object, with the origin tracked internally rather than a separate 'donkey leather' object. It would make noble demands harder though.
Oh, and some leathers should still be different objects (like dragon or whatever that might have a special property)
Honestly, a lot of details in the game seem unnescessary. I wonder if tracking all of that blood and vomit, etc. eats up scarce CPU time?
As mentioned, leather has countless varieties, all vitually identical save minor differences in cost. There is no distinction, however, between thin and thick leather (from cats and elephants, for instance) , or soft and hard (boiled) leather (for clothing and armor respectively). Seems that would be more useful than page after page of pointless leather types doing nothing but making inventory managment a chore.
I suppose this is one of those things put in for Adventure Mode, that don't quite work very well in Fortress Mode.
Of course you would float well in it, but you would still not be able to stand in it, and if you end up face down, well, try coughing up something 13.5 times as dense as water.
Somehow I think the fact that he was BEING PULLED ALONG BY A BOAT might have had some effect on the degree of injury.
And while generally communities dislike having their saves no longer work, I think we'll be fine. Whatever you need to get the almighty Army Arc done. Unless it involves re-naming the game, for some odd reason or bug, Elf Forest Retreat.
