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The one referencing 8bit theater.

Build a floating cage (which is a bug abuse, sorta) or a pit made of hatches, so that you can instantly drop a lot of creatures a lot of Z very fast.  Get kittens (of course) into the pit, let them breed for a while, and then order your military to stand under the pit.  Open the hatches, rain of dying kittens, instant "doesn't really care about anything".

Or just set up a meeting hall ringed with butcher shops. Rig an autobutchermat above it.

my prediction is that this story is also cyclical. Does cityface turn into a magpie?

OR EVEN BETTER - cityface discovers, after much trauma, that he is not in fact totally a dove, and is part magpie!

43. Despite the risk of minor injuries, I will pass through the danger room once in a while. The legendary dodger skill will come in handy when the tantrum spiral hits.

what? not without some armor. And don't forget the helmet!

Quote from: Urist Da Vinci on February 06, 2011, 02:11:09 am

Quote from: Anathema on February 06, 2011, 01:52:58 am

Yeah, a couple meeting halls actually, one of them also designated as a statue garden. Some of them just prefer the great outdoors, it seems - I've seen them take a beer keg, march out the fort and halfway across the map with it, and sit down to take a drink. I think I read somewhere that dwarves on break/no job are fond of hanging out in places where they once got kills? That could be part of the problem - my former hunters are often among the "like to hang around outside" crowd. Doesn't explain them all, though..

I've seen similar behaviour with my military. When they go off duty, they seem to prefer to walk back to the location that they were last ordered to move to (when using kill/move orders). I countered this by ordering them back inside before canceling their orders.

If your guys aren't military, then something else is going on.

That's probably part of it. My hunters all got converted to marksmen when the former became too risky, I'll activate them briefly and try the inside stationing trick. Still, there are non-military dwarves doing it, too.. maybe recruiting them temporarily, stationing indoors, then deactivating them will also set that as their preferred "place to hang out on break." Well, anyway. I guess it's not practical to specifically eliminate every reason a dwarf might decide to head outside, I'm learning to rely completely on the brute force burrow/alert method.

Warning - idlers will still wander outside sometimes with the burrow alert method. They just wont take jobs out there.

If you're in a cavern layers one does anyone have any tips on how to either go back up to the cave entrance you came from or down to cavern layer two?

For some reason there isn't shit here but some giant cave spider webs (my adventurer was even completely undisturbed for 8 hours of sleeping), so it's pretty boring here.

Up - use the Q menu to find out roughly where you are.
If you have an exported map of your world (a pic can create at the end of worldgen or in legends mode), and you had "show caves" on in the worldgen, then use it to figure out where the closest cave is. (The only ones showing on that map will be ones that went down to the caverns, I think)

You can use these two resources to figure out where the closest cave access should be, and then get there.

Bonus tip: if you do get deeper, don't go anywhere near the gas bag things. Floaties. Them. Don't touch 'em. Early last year Toady had H1N1. If you get anywhere near the floaties, your adventurer will know Toady Of Last Year's pain.

Quote from: anqxyr on February 05, 2011, 03:37:44 pm

How names for oceans/continents/civilizations generated?

Randomly.
I think you can skew the probabilities of certain words by adding more of them to the language files.

If you use the same "name seed" for different worlds, you will often get similar named features in wildly different worlds.