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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Can A Statute Be Used to Block an Entrance?
« on: May 20, 2009, 12:23:05 pm »
No. Invaders refuse to listen to your laws, so you can't block the entrance with a statute.

A statue, yes, but a constructed wall would be better.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: blinking dwarf under 'U'nit screen
« on: May 19, 2009, 10:05:02 pm »
If he's blinking a lighter colour, he's legendary.

If he's rapidly blinking red and yellow, he's on fire.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Fey dwarf fears
« on: May 19, 2009, 05:52:12 pm »
The downside?

Engravings of the bloody thing everywhere because it's so goddamn valuable.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Sims 3 programmers play dwarf fortress
« on: May 19, 2009, 08:49:56 am »
Quote from: Misterstone on May 19, 2009, 02:20:17 am
Well, looks like this game will be out in a month or less, not that I really care about it.  But just imagine... if the folks at EA or Maxis or whatever were to donate just a tiny fraction (.01%) of the fifty bizillion dollars they are going to earn off of this overblown dressup doll game to Mr. Adams for all the fine inspiration they have received from DF... 

Sigh.

Up to the individual programmers. If I were earning that much, I'd certainly donate some to toady.
(Since my excuse for not donating is having no money.)

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Keeping Water Wet
« on: May 19, 2009, 08:46:19 am »
Quote from: Neruz on May 19, 2009, 03:24:59 am
Bugger, gonna have to redesign my elf drowning cha- i mean trade depot.

Store the water underneath, and use powered pumps to fill the depot with it from above. Either you'll drown the elves, or bludgeon them with ice.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Microcline: Once and For All
« on: May 16, 2009, 11:13:52 pm »
Quote from: Dakk on May 16, 2009, 05:43:46 pm
Quote from: Skorpion on May 16, 2009, 05:34:25 pm
I like it. Gives another plentiful colour for my colour-coded levers, constructions, and gearing. Which is important when you have like 15 levers and hundreds of gears and axles controlling what you're doing with magma and water, and pulling them in the wrong order could flood everything or kill hundreds.
And you have a terrible memory of what does what.
You can use [N]otes for that, but i agree with you, its just a matter of taste, some people like it, some don't. No real reason to kill it then, and if microline messes your legendary dining room's colours, so will all other rocks and ores.

I keep being told that, but it never quite triggers until the point where I have, say, 5 rhyolite levers in a room, all with one mechanism, all hooked up to the same device.

Next time it happens, I'm cutting my losses, backing up the save, and ripping out the whole assembly.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Animal Breeding and you! how you do it and why.
« on: May 16, 2009, 09:12:53 pm »
How: I chain breeding pairs up in the dining hall, and cage anything else.

Why: Food. Soap. Bone bolts and crafts. Skull totems.

Why I never use them: Goblins supply trade goods through their clothing, their bones, and their skulls. I use hunting in the hope that someone useless tries to wrestle the friendly neighbourhood cougar to death and gets nommed on.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: you have found a magma pipe..... WHERE?!?
« on: May 16, 2009, 09:05:53 pm »
Look for warm stone, and dig around and above it. Eventually you'll find the top layer so you can punch in harmlessly.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Microcline: Once and For All
« on: May 16, 2009, 05:34:25 pm »
I like it. Gives another plentiful colour for my colour-coded levers, constructions, and gearing. Which is important when you have like 15 levers and hundreds of gears and axles controlling what you're doing with magma and water, and pulling them in the wrong order could flood everything or kill hundreds.
And you have a terrible memory of what does what.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Argh, can't find any iron
« on: May 16, 2009, 05:21:40 pm »
Smooth everything. Engrave some walls. Mine a lot, kill some animals and make crafts from their bones.

Then recycle the iron the goblins bring, decorate their clothing with their bones, and offer it to the king while you sell him their skulls.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Burning Grass of a specified area
« on: May 14, 2009, 10:05:01 am »
Build walls or roads out at the barrier of stuff you don't want roasted, then burn off the bits in between them and your fort entrance.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Site with literrally every feature!!! Look inside to find dwarf heaven!
« on: May 14, 2009, 10:03:42 am »
River, magma pipe, bottomless pit, other features, underground river, underground pool.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Traders make counteroffers!
« on: May 13, 2009, 09:31:11 pm »
Water's very good for removing caravans. I mean, my fort in dorf heaven spent the first seasons getting an elf drowner operational instead of making trade goods, with the aim of killing the elves, eating their animals, and selling their crap to the humans and dwarves to ease production.

Shit. I don't think I remember how to MAKE a fort profitable without constant goblin sieges and ambushes providing trade goods and raw materials.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Site with literrally every feature!!! Look inside to find dwarf heaven!
« on: May 13, 2009, 10:35:24 am »
Vanilla D11. I literally just unzipped it, copypasted the worldgen, and it wouldn't find the site.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Goblin gear
« on: May 12, 2009, 09:03:06 pm »
Quote from: Christes on May 12, 2009, 08:47:19 pm
hahaha.  I did not intend that.

Speaking of elves and cloth.  They seem to bring me only cloth after year 3 or so, no matter what I buy from them.

Punish them. With death.

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