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It would be extremely helpful to be able to just type in how many items you want made, even if the number of items is larger than 30, without having to make multiple job orders each with 30.

For example, if I want 100 gold statues to be made it would be much easier to just order 100 gold statues all at once, rather than three batches of 30 jobs and one batch of 10 jobs.

Likewise you could make essentially an infinite job queue by ordering a batch of 99999999999 brew drink jobs, or something like that.

There is likely a limit due to coding, but even if the limit is 256 jobs that would still be a huge improvement over the current limit of 30.

This should be a relatively minor change, something that could probably be done in just a few minutes, but it would be a very helpful change in that it will make macromanagement for large fortresses significantly easier. 

Behold!

http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-25980-magmateleporter

It is very easy to move magma up or down. But what about moving it horizontally? What if you need to move magma from one side of the fortress to the other right now? Those goblins won't turn into !!goblins!! on their own.

Thus, the magma teleporter was created. It can move magma almost as fast as very highly pressurized water. Which is to say, almost instantly. It is based on the technology for a mist generator, but rather than in a loop it moves in a linear manner. One key for this technology is iron mechanisms. Iron is magma safe. While you're at it, make the pumps entirely out of iron as well. Put an iron mechanism bridging the 1 tile gap between each pump. The teleporter takes 5 power per tile moved.

While the main teleporter is only a proof of concept, and it does nothing except irrigate my plump helmet farm with magma, it works. The smaller magma teleporter down at the base of the fortress feeds the pump stack, and it is fully functional. It instantly moves magma horizontally to feed into the pump stack, which then elevates magma to the magma forges as well as the test track for the teleporter.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/inside-planet-earth/

Very interesting documentary for what happens when you dig too deep. Haven't finished watching it yet, but it is very awesome so far. Great visuals too! 


To the core!

Urist McMiner has died in the heat.

Anyone been able to get them working in the current version? I've been tinkering with them for a while now and can't get it to work.

Or was this fixed from 40D?

I miss my one-way ramps. Made for amazing goblin harvesters and collection systems for annoying creatures. 

My fortress currently has 206 dwarves, 154 of them adults.

My idler count has been at 0 for the past 2 decades of in game time. I have farms going, 4 stills churning out booze on a continuous basis, 14 smelters chewing away at the massive stockpiles of silver and gold ore, 9 mason workshops churning out rock blocks for constructing a huge above ground fortress, 6 wood furnaces making charcoal, a dozen woodcutters clearcutting the forest above, and 6 glass furnaces making glass blocks to produce skylights to allow natural illumination through several Z levels worth of solid glass for safety.

I don't have enough dorfs. 

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-9123 

Work in progress. You can see my notes for future constructions in the POI's.

Invaders are currently turned off as I'm trying to complete so many different projects all at the same time that I can't be bothered with hauling away goblin corpses.

My expedition leader has had a great career so far. He started out first counting all of the stones the miners were producing while tunneling out the great halls of Roadsaviors. He would count the crafts produced by the craftsdwarves, and barter with the caravans to secure vital goods.

He would organize production, coordinating the small army of craftsdwarves, masons, carpenters, and blacksmiths to forge the industrial base of the fortress.

The successful fortress grew, with migrants streaming in from across the kingdom. Erush Edanoltar was promoted to mayor! After winning several more elections, and continuing to keep perfectly accurate counts of the wealth of Roadsaviors, while at the same time managing production orders and meeting with traders and unhappy dwarves, the Mountainhomes has found merit in the new settlement, offering the title of Baron to Erush Edanoltar.

To celebrate, the new Baron ran over to the dining hall and chugged a barrel of prickle berry wine (his favorite drink). As a reward I have ordered a bar installed within his room to store prickle berry wine to lessen his time searching for his favorite booze so he can complete with duties with even greater efficiency.

The new Baron then went on break. The year was 1054.

The year is currently 1057. Baron Erush Edanoltar is still taking his extended vacation. During this time he still talks with anyone who wishes to speak to him, but refuses to maintain the counts of the wealth of the fortress, refuses to manage production orders, refuses to even meet with the traders. If someone comes to his office he will speak with them. But he refuses to leave his office to do anything aside from drinking more prickle berry wine.

The only time he ever sits in his platinum throne is when he's hungry. He refuses to perform any of the vital functions that earned him the title of leader, mayor, and baron.

During his extended vacation, a recent migrant has taken up the duties, counting the wealth of the fortress, managing production, meeting with traders, and even tending to the injured. Its a busy schedule, but he is able to perform it admirably.

Yet another trading season has passed. Erush Edanoltar is refusing to leave his room to meet with them again.

Since his promotion to baron, Erush Edanoltar has become corpulent. When possible he prefers to consume prickle berry wine. He is very weak, very quick to tire, and shockingly fragile. He has a feel for music but he has an iffy memory, shortage of patience, meager creativity, poor empathy, a meager kinesthetic sense, and next to no willpower.

He is assertive. He often does the first thing that comes to mind.

The year is now 1058. Erush Edanoltar has found another barrel of prickle berry wine and emptied it. After feasting upon yet another roast, the baron rolls over to his bed and takes a nap.

His extended vacation continues. He proclaims that he is still on break.

Being a baron is a hard life.

DF got a mention over at Cliffski's blog. He's the guy making Gratuitous Space Battles, another indie game.

6) Stay aware how high the bar is (know your competition)

Don’t forget that for most gamers, the competition isn’t other indie games, but AAA games, or even other activities, TV, movies, etc. When I worked on the battles for GSB, I spent very little time looking at rival games, and virtually no time looking at indie space games. I compared it to the best sci-fi battle scenes I knew of, by ILM. Yes, you have to pick your battles, and graphics might not be one of them. Spiderweb compete on game length, Dwarf fortress on gameplay depth. Whatever it is that you are competing on, you need to ensure you aim as high as you can. Also remember that your game isn’t measured against the best game there is right now. It’s measured against the best game when your’s gets released…

http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/?p=753

GSB is an awesome game in of itself. Very pretty too, with pseudo-3d graphics. I enjoy reading his blog since he provides some interesting perspective on making an independent game, something which DF is also. Both are one-man shows, and both games are awesome in their own way.

Also GSB has a demo! I highly recommend at least trying out the demo. Fun times. Lots of omglaserspewpewpew. 

http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/demo.html


And now back to our regularly scheduled magma induced booze explosions and tantrum spirals...   



BTW, has anyone figured out how to make seeds in a reaction? My lumbermill was lost due to an Unfortunate Accident involving my HDD, and I forgot how I got seeds working.