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My soldiers won't wear two boots.  I have both a pair of leather boots and a pair of steel boots assigned to them in their equipment.  They just won't put two boots on.  I have plenty of boots.  And most of them won't put on left boots.  I have no idea.  It's some kind of weird dwarf religion thing maybe.  Like giving up "left boots" for some religious holiday.

Except now I have three pretty well trained dwarves lying down in the hospital with injured feet and complaining they can't stand anymore.  One of them broke his foot while fighting an unarmed target goblin ffs.

I wish crutch walking worked.  Two of them are hammerdwarves and I bet they could swing a mean crutch.

I suppose it might make more sense to wish they hadn't hurt their feet, or that they would just wear some damned boots, but it would be funny to see them beat a goblin with his crutch.

To the soldiers of Eagleorbs:

Please put two boots on.  We have many perfectly nice steel boots for you.  And look!  They will go on either foot!  I am wondering why you have not learned a lesson from your two fellow soldiers who now have injuries to their feet during that last puny ambush, and your other fellow who got his foot stomped on -- and broken -- by an unarmed "training goblin."  Perhaps this is some kind of hazing ritual, but please, please put shoes on when it's time to go fight. 

P.S.  Why do you all refuse to wear a left boot?

To the marksdwarves of Eagleorbs:

Frankly I'm mystified.  The only reason I can think of for you to not shoot at the goblins on the other side of the fortifications at which you are stationed is because you are laughing too hard at their panic over the fact that a quarter of their number got caged and another half got turned into goblinburger from our steel discs.  I note that you have your crossbows at hand and a quiver full of the lovely iron bolts we made for you, yet you seem content to stand around and chit-chat rather than take advantage of the perfectly good target practice running around in the front yard. 

P.S. I'm not sure if this is more or less annoying than when you use those iron bolts at the archery range, despite being told not to, and despite the fact that we have nearly a thousand wooden bolts within arms' reach of the archery targets.

To the entire military:
The eyeless lizard with the three stubby horns that keeps trying to shoot webs out of its cage is the plains titan Omus Resmath Oslukakusm and he shall be your next target practice subject.  I suggest you a) put shoes on and b) figure out which bit goes into the other bit to make your crossbow work.

Yrs.
Your Fortress Overlord Esq.

Well that was weird.  I tunneled under it to see if I could get it to collapse and it didn't.  So I had a raised bridge floating in air.  What finally happened was I turned off burrow restrictions.  Because I was going through several ambushes, I had everyone confined to the inside and the front, walled-off area.  The bridge existed in the front yard burrow.  But nobody would touch it until I turned off burrows.  And then they went right to the place where the bridge would land when opened (opposite side of the part that makes the wall) and disassembled it. 

So for some reason nobody would touch it with burrows enabled, even though it was inside a burrow.  Strange.

Now I have a mess of channels and places I dug out all over the place where I was trying to get rid of it.

I have a drawbridge at my fort's entrance that is in the up position and I sort of removed the linkage to the lever.  I've had it marked for removal for a while now and even giving a mason no other job than Masonry he seems content having no job than removing the bridge.  And engineers suspend any order to hook up another lever to it.

So I effectively now have a non-movable wall and have to redo my entrance in another location??

I seem to have managed to come up with something at least approximating what I was looking for.  I wasn't able to figure out a way to make just the blood part have two syndromes that worked with both contact and inhalation.  I looked at the Iron Man template to see how the iron breath thing worked and wound up using an underneath tissue layer for the "explosion" part of the syndrome.


It's a bit OP, since it's inevitably fatal, but that's the idea really.  If I'm going to have to deal with catsplosion problems, then dammit, I want to see real catsplosions.  I may nerf it after playing with it for a while, but in arena mode it's been fun watching goblin hordes attacking a cat and getting caught in the blood spray and coughing up blood until they die of necrosis of the lungs while they bleed out from everywhere they get cat blood on them.

One thing I could use advice on is figuring out a decent method of getting the blood to evaporate so it doesn't wind up getting tracked everywhere and killing the entire fort.  I have it set to a low boiling point so that it should fairly quickly evaporate from the ground, but the spec heat low enough that it shouldn't immediately vaporize.  (I had to do the same thing with the gaseous explosion because for some reason some of it would occasionally pool up even though it's supposed to be a gas.)  If there's a better way to do it, I'd appreciate any advice.  I suspect this won't work at all in frozen environments.

Also if there's a good way to make the cat actually explode when bloodied, that would be awesome, but I think this is probably going to be the closest I can get.

As much as I hate resurrecting old threads this is the closest one to what I am searching for.

In a nutshell, I am going to try to make exploding cats that go off in a puff of poison gas.

Basically the exact thing as the first idea in the OP.

This is my first modding project but I've read through a lot of the wiki and the forums topics.  Any suggestions or hints would be appreciated.

I haven't seen any skeletons turn into bones yet either.  And I have two butcher shops up and running.  I had bones from a bunch of elephants, but the fort has been under constant siege for almost a year now so nobody has been able to go out and hunt and I've already killed everything I can inside. 

Nothing like butchering an elephant to see 53 bones dragged away to craft a ring.

aaaaaaand this is the reason I don't have any bones left.  It seems like everyone wants to put bones on their crap.  You really used a pile of 45 elephant bones to make a spear?  Really?  It doesn't even menace with any of those bones!  The description just says it's a "bone spear"!  And what dwarf in their right mind decides to put bones on a floor grate fer crying out loud? 

Well, ok, it's because none of them are in their right mind.  But you get the point...

Personally i like it because it shows where the dorfs are all tromping about so i know where they might be if a siege hits

This is why I haven't bothered.  At least let them do it for a couple seasons so you can see the most likely way invaders will try to get into your fort (where all the grass has been trampled down) and trap the hell out of it.  Then turn off grass trampling. 

I also found that after a season or so of everyone working down in the caverns, everything had pretty much all grown back anyway, a lot faster than I had anticipated.