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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Barracks and Pets
« on: October 19, 2010, 11:05:14 pm »
The pets sneak through open doors. Use an airlock system of doors separated by enough distance for the one behind to close.

Honestly, though, pets are a nuisance and a tax on FPS. The superior option is to let the spikes murder them, and administer therapy to the bereaved with high-quality booze and alcohol, and a legendary dining room.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma virgin question
« on: October 19, 2010, 11:03:24 pm »
I tried that, but I could never find more than a layer or two, and rarely anything useful in them. I considered myself lucky to get a soil layer.
Of course, iron wasn't hard to come by then, as I was able to bootstrap a steel industry from imported wood from caravans, and imported iron from the goblins.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Engraving Halp?
« on: October 19, 2010, 09:38:03 pm »
d-s to designate it for smoothing. Once that's done, d-e for engraving.

Also, the wiki is your friend. It's way faster for questions like this than waiting for a forum reply.
And it has FAQs and illustrated guides, to boot.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma virgin question
« on: October 19, 2010, 09:36:25 pm »
Didn't it used to do that in 40d, though? I swear I saw a video of that.

Only ever found one vein of coal in that version. Damn lack of sedimentary layers near magma.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma virgin question
« on: October 19, 2010, 08:31:12 pm »
Quote from: Untelligent on October 19, 2010, 08:30:08 pm
Coal walls and floors won't catch fire, either.

They don't? Not even if there's coal rocks lying around to ignite them?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Tracking masterwork items
« on: October 19, 2010, 08:30:38 pm »
The best way to prevent masterwork destruction angst is to have the dwarf churn out hundreds of them, so he gets less attached to each one.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Siege, ambush, thieves - how do you know all resistance have been wiped out?
« on: October 19, 2010, 08:29:46 pm »
Quote from: Eskielidder on October 19, 2010, 08:24:58 pm
Quote from: Skorpion on October 19, 2010, 07:34:03 pm
Sieges:
Check the unit list.

Ambushes and thieves:
You can't! They could be lurking, stealthed, right outside your gate. Just beyond your guard dogs. Across the map, camping the remains of the last squad.
Under your chair...

I must channel magma into my comp room and have a 2/7 tile under my chair now!

Don't forget a drawbridge and moat for the door!

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma virgin question
« on: October 19, 2010, 08:26:37 pm »
Quote from: Auto Slaughter on October 19, 2010, 08:20:46 pm
So wait, though - will it melt non-constructed "natural" walls?  I.e. the microcline surface exposed via mining?

Only natural ice walls.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma virgin question
« on: October 19, 2010, 08:15:43 pm »
It won't melt constructions, built via the d-b-C command. It WILL, however eat through non-magma-safe buildings. And part of buildings. A steel bridge with an unsafe mechanism will be deconstructed once the lava flows over it.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Siege, ambush, thieves - how do you know all resistance have been wiped out?
« on: October 19, 2010, 07:34:03 pm »
Sieges:
Check the unit list.

Ambushes and thieves:
You can't! They could be lurking, stealthed, right outside your gate. Just beyond your guard dogs. Across the map, camping the remains of the last squad.
Under your chair...

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DF General Discussion / Re: A better way to rob elven traders?
« on: October 19, 2010, 06:35:53 pm »
I just trade them a few bins of stone gewgaws for their stock of animals, wood, booze, and barrels. If they disagree, I sieze what I want.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: October 19, 2010, 06:30:18 pm »
Chipmunk leather?

Set up a noble-killing device.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: How to safely dump goblins in pit?
« on: October 18, 2010, 06:53:44 pm »
Pitting in groups is a bad idea. I got carried away and tossed about 10 goblins and a couple of rats into a pit, and some escaped and caused chaos.
And possibly unrelated, but someone's child fell into the caverns.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: October 18, 2010, 05:59:23 pm »
Quote from: ioi101 on October 18, 2010, 03:14:44 pm
Quote from: Skorpion on October 18, 2010, 03:03:00 pm
Yes. Marksdwarves firing on a live target fire like machineguns compared to training, wrestlers get so many holds in it's absurd, and weapondwarves hack away merrily on live opponents.

OK but it's still a matter of how many hits you do, as opposed to the damage/opponent?

I.e. hitting an armored goblin with a wooden stick gives the same experience as decapitating a dragon with one strike?

Don't know.

Quote from: pluckcitizen on October 18, 2010, 05:56:15 pm
I know this has probably been asked before, but is there an easy way to limit the number of pets?

Levers for the owners, repeating spikes for the pets.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Severedcoils - Consort Accumulation Challenge (Score: 3)
« on: October 18, 2010, 05:57:49 pm »
Wow, this is still going.

I'm stunned.

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