Bay 12 Games Forum

Would it be possible to have a reaction create a new creature? I'm considering modding in a race of stone people who can't breed, but can replenish their ranks by carving new people from solid rock, and I'm curious as to if this is workable.

Toady seems to have tweaked things so that, while gems are in abundance, iron (or ores at all other than copper ores) is crazy impossible to find. This is making the game absurdly difficult.

I just found out the hard way that rotting corpses don't explode into bone and chunks anymore. This is a problem, as two elf corpses are now cluttering my refuse stockpile after I dealt with an elf caravan by collapsing a ceiling on them.

I tested this in the arena 5 times, and the results were... actually very interesting.

Test 1:

Urist, unskilled unarmored dwarf

Cacame, unskilled unarmored elf

Both have iron battle axes.

Cacame immediately chopped Urist's middle finger off, causing it to spray blood. Cacame then took a whack at Urist's left leg, detaching it and sending it flying away. He then hit Urist in the chest with the flat of the axe, bruising his right lung.

Urist then attacked Cacame, but missed, and was rewarded with a hit to the right upper arm that cleanly severed it. Cacame then hacked at Urist's chest with the battle axe, tearing an artery and tearing the right lung apart. Urist immediately bled to death.

Win: Elves

Test 2:

Same parameters.

Urist took Cacame's left lower leg off almost instantly after missing twice. Cacame then hit Urist in the upper body, tearing the fat, and managed to get a lucky hit on Urist's lower body, cutting him in half.

Win: Elves

Test 3:

Same parameters.

Cacame took off Urist's right lower leg. Urist took off Cacame's left upper leg. Cacame took off Urist's right upper leg. Cacame hit Urist in the left lower leg, tearing the muscle, and twisted the axe around. Urist flailed at Cacame for a bit but didn't manage to get a lucky strike. Cacame hit Urist in the upper body, just like in test 2, shattering a rib and tearing the right lung.

Win: Elves

Test 4:

Cacame charged at Urist, tore apart his heart, and cut him in half at the lower body. He then escaped unharmed.

Win: Elves

Test 5:

Urist removed Cacame's left leg with the first blow. He then tore an artery in the elf's chest with his axe and cut the other leg off. Cacame bled to death extremely quickly.

Win: Dwarves

Elves: 4
Dwarves: 1

As much as we may not want to admit it (I personally fed the elves to great whites after the first four tests), elves seem to have better base stats for melee combat than dwarves.

I'm thinking of possibly adapting either Boatmurdered or the saga of Cacame Awemedinade, simply because those are the two most awesome things I've seen in DF. The former is far shorter, and probably easier, but the latter is also entirely doable... would have to be a long epic though.

I'm not even sure if I'll do this, but I am considering it quite heavily.

I just got an embark location with two magma pipes, an underground lake, and adamantine.

One of the magma pipes is in juuuuuuust the right spot for me to carry out my own Boatmurdered-style Operation: Fuck the World.

However, will this literally fuck the world (as in, keep anything from getting to my fort, forever) or will the magma cool off after a while? If the former, I may end up reconsidering my epic plan and just submerging my trade depot whenever elves show up.

1. Technology advancing through worldgen.

As time goes on, more and more advanced tech should be available to civs. By the last known age, you could be building gatling guns, rifles with bayonets, flak jackets (requires 2 metal plates and a cloth/adamantine shirt), even basic cars, whereas in the earlier ages you're restricted to medieval tech.

2. Slavery

We should be able to put captured goblins or elves or orcs to work doing menial tasks like pump operation, wood burning, hauling, basic masonry (building and removing constructions), smelting, pitting, and pond filling. Maybe have a "Lasher" dwarf that keeps the slaves in check.

3. Guns

This ties in with #1; we need guns, because they're dwarven as hell and would make for better slaughter when sieges come along. Hell, #1 isn't even required for this; just give crossbows the advantage of not breaking stealth, hence better for ambushers, along with slightly better accuracy, and make guns more powerful.

Explosives would be nice too, both for mining and for traps. In fact, there could be a Chemist job dedicated to making gunpowder charges and ammunition, and making explosives.

What the hell does it mean by this? Do I have to build a well outside or something?