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pity i missed out on this competition. i like this sort of crazy construction thing.

anyways - can we have pictures from 3dwarf of some of these castles? the ones posted in 2d all look really good, especially the huge one with the curvy wall that runs near the water. no matter what people say about the crooked walls, ive been all over england and bits of europe, and got to see plenty of castles and fortified towns, and even seriously injured my knee falling down one of the curvy stairs in connarfen castle in wales.

one thing was pretty clear, with castles they very often stuck the outer walls haphazardly all over the place, especially anywhere with hills and rivers or cliffs and lakes. odd terrain pretty much always meant curvy crooked walls. and hardly any castles were in any way symmetrical. they were built over decades or centuries by different people, and had all kinds of random mismatching bits.

the straightness of the walls really didn't matter that much until cannons came in, in which case castles became shaped like perfect many pointed stars. cannon fire was more likely to glance off a wall if it hit at an angle, and while breaching the inward pointing bits was easier, getting troops to such a hole was stupid because soldiers on the two encompassing points would tear them up. but these castles were way way later then DF, and i could go on all night.

so lets see some 3d castle pictures already then.

edit: hey wait, duke is still posting, does this mean the competition cut off time isnt over yet?

first wolf i met first adventurer i had ripped a peice out of my arm by grabbing it and shaking me.

it spat it out, so i picked my arm chunk up and threw it back at the wolf, killing it in one hit.

i had trained throwing before i did anything else, like people recommended here on the forum. since learnt that one hit kill throws are pretty rare, but as an into to adventure mode that was so awesome.

if what demonic gophers says applies everywhere, its interesting that four legged things may only wrestle with their limbs when they are lying down, thus not using them to stand. thats a really neat game mechanic, that it lets any free limb be used to attack and wrestle with. its adaptable to all kinds of crazy made up creatures.

i first saw the tunnel thing when i embarked on a goblin fort in a much older version of DF just to see what it looked like. i was impressed by the tunnel, but also by the fact there was some kind of gold plated temple stuck right in the middle of it, and how there was only one actual goblin, and the rest of the population were elves. i may actually still have the savegame on my old pc. there was a river high in the hills above the fort, and i thought that after i blocked the tunnel up, flooding all the elves out would be a very dwarvenly thing to do, but i never got around to it.

EDIT: i also think it would be great if you could embark inside a tunnel, using site finder to make sure its near a water source. that would be great.

lol. you mine for fish by digging out a big cave with grates on the end leading to the chasm, then running the river/ocean/lake into it for a bit, then turning the water off.

then send your harvested out to pick up the drowned fish. because true dwarves don't mess about with rods and hooks and things.

ive heard of other funny plans before to store things in places like the space left after oil drilling, or porous rock layers wedged in between non porous ones, but this rock salt idea sounds interesting. do you have a link, and why/what were they wanting to store? is this another crazy CO2 sequestering plan?

also imagine the interesting things you could do with soluble building materials if it was coded in. like, a structure with rock salt supports, which could be flooded, weakened and destroyed by water to collapse the building. thats almost as good as the ice fort set to be flooded by magma, which is currently difficult as the magma sometimes creates obsidian supports which prevent collapse.

someone make toady go on a world tour so we can all go meet him.

and umiman, dare i ask, why does the us think you are a terrorist? is it because of that stupid list thingy they have, and you fortuitously share a name with somone the immigration officials deemed as unsavoury?

i do this with a selection of store rooms with different items in them that i lock and unlock. if im really organized then i can even define what dwarves use when they go into a fey mood, by locking everything, getting a list of what items they want, and then only allowing them access to the best, most expensive stuff. so i get adamantium thrones decorated in dragon bone with faint yellow diamonds, rather then copper ones decorated in dog bone with onyx. big value and awesomeness difference.

the big nuisance for me is always how i am getting a constant influx of goblin clothing from their attacks. i have so much of it, i currently buy out nearly every single item in the caravans that arrive (playing a badlands map with no flux, magma, wood or copper, so i needs it) using only the goblin clothes and armor. and i would rather be decorating my own crafts and things rather then the goblins stuff.

it would be nice to set certain workshops to take only from certain stockpiles, it would make managing things a bit easier. and some system for military equipment would definitely be better, as swapping sparring weapons and making your guys go from copper plate to iron or steel, or steel to adamantium is tedious and annoying.

the OP is right in some ways. it would be nice would be if you could choose an object, and create a job by telling it to be decorated with a particular gem or bone, for when you want a particularly nice door or table for a noble, or a super awesome sword for an adventuror.