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If the moon orbits the other way around, wouldn't the phases run in reverse?

The multi-tile trees fall over now when chopped down by a dwarf. I went with having logs from the trunk segments fall down like projectiles, so you get a primitive sort of animation, and the tree doesn't go anywhere it shouldn't be able to. And critters get a chance to dodge out of the way if they end up in the way. You can choose the direction of the fall for larger trees by choosing which tile to chop, but for smaller trees, it'll just be away from wherever the woodcutter ends up, which you can only control indirectly at this point. I also messed around with the new personalities a bit and taught the new dwarven brain how to stand up again, which has been an ongoing issue.

I haven't addressed buildings like raised drawbridges or doors.

Seems like we can make climber-proof walls by surrounding them with raised drawbridges.

Quote from: Tacyn on January 22, 2014, 08:29:46 am

I like the idea.
Although I think it should be simply a wall of updown stairs.
The material should be light and cheap and building it significantly faster than normal stairs.
For example have a log give enough scaffolding material to fill four tiles to reduce hauling.

There should, however, also be some drawback. For example you cant use it to make floors or walls and it should not support structures besides more scaffolding.
Lastly moving through scaffolding should be slow so people don't use it instead of actual stairs in other cases.

Scaffolds are not walls of stairs though. They have real walkable areas with stairs on either side and scaffolds would not make good floors because they would always be open spaces and a construction would always be present so workshops could never be put down.like I said more like paving a street not paving floor tiles.

You could make a central staircase, then use bridges to expand horizontally. They're already pretty much what you're asking for (can't build on them,  don't support structures, cheaper and faster to build/destroy than floors).

Counterpoint: The dwemer are/were technically elves.

Can you retire while under siege, and let the AI handle it?

Say you create two worlds from the same seed: one with world gen running for 100 years, and the other for 10 years in which you then play an isolationist fort (self-sustaining, no trade or migrants) for 90 years. Would there be any major differences between the two worlds?

Probably meant in regards to pathfinding.