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may be a bug - have you tried checking legends for info about your civilization history?

In your place I would be happy as hell I do not have to take care of King . His demands are ... big.

There is running discusion about something similar in mod section. You should post this there.

Personally I can not wait when somebody finish some song about DF.

If you want to measure the time, make it somehow that it drops a rock down. When you want to check it out how many times the stuff has gone up, just look at pile of stones and count 'em

This can be easily done with 1x1 bridges. And when you build them next to each other, you will not even to count them, you would see exact number immidiately. And it is also easily resetable - just haul thouse stones on bridges again.

###########
#_#_#_#_#_#
#O#O#O#O#O#
#+#+#+#+#+#
#+#+#+#+#+#

# - stone
O - doors
+ - floor

Under this would be hallway. Walls and doors would force stones on bridges fall directly down and not scatter around.

Only thing you would need to is to make sure every time only one bridge gets retreat. Personaly I would make one pressure plate on top of clocks that would control all bridges and pressure plates under bridges that would lock/unlock doors in front of bridges.

This should work and needs only little work and almost no thinking.

actually, he made a $3600 Turtle shell mask... that control's peoples minds, obviously.

Log 207

Actual chess statistics:
no changes until last log

*********************
Recent confrotations:
Dave: none
plants: regular basis
Xeno: see appendix G
Von Braun: see appendix H

*********************
Appendix G
*statement - informative* Dwa... entity named Xeno joined our group.
*statement - confusion* Everytime we meet at hall his look changes.
*assuption - suspicious* He does not trust me.

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Appendix H
*statement - informative* My attemts to improve my chess algorithms failed.
*statement - explanation* All dwarves willing to play with me are dead.
*emotion - sad* Dead.
*statement - surprise* All living dwarves are not willing to play with me.
*assuption - unfounded* They are scared of loosing.
*statement - informative* I decided to create mask of learning. The mask would learn its wearer basics and advanced tactics of chess game.
*statement - confusion* After obtaining all necessary materials and claiming a workshop everybody became suspicious. Von Braun forbided me freedom of movement and stationed guards around me.
*emotion - joy* I succeded! Mask is completed.
*confusion - extreme* Dwarves immidiately took mask, gave it strange name and it is now hidden in bin with other masks, crafts and toys for traders. Nobody wants to touch it.
*statement - disapointed* My plan to learn dwarves chess has failed.
*error - unknown emotion?* AAAAARG!

The DOWNSIDE is that corpse cleanup and item retrieval can kill off dwarfs you didn't want to lose.Which admittedly can un-pet pets.

Can be easily avoided by placing door on the other side of hallway and locking them after Urist McTooMuchPets walks through them.

I am more interested in another thing:

When the bridge AND the surrounding is covered with obsidian and you retract the bridge, do you get cave-in or no (because the obsidian holds by the obsidian that was not on the bridge)?

Also, when constructed like this:

##########
#.....####
#.###.####
#.###.....
#.##o__###
#.##o__###
#.###.....
#.###.####
#.....####
##########

# - floor
. - open space
_ - bridge with obsidian
o - where bridge retracts

everything covered with obsidian

Would retracting of bridge mean cave-in of that 3x4 platform? Would this work with or without the atomic smasher effect?

Certainly feel free to, no need to ask.

Also, the link to my map on DFMA is in my post, let me know though if that doesn't work.

Oh - I was so blinded with awesomnes, I did not notice

I would like to build stylish entrance for my new fort. Dragon head would be nice. There is a small problem - it demands smoke coming from its nostrils.

I have idea.

Awesome sideview:
  $  <--- smoke coming out
  $
## ########
## #_       <--- debris goes here
## # ######
## # # X X  <--- magma goes here
## # # ####
## fire ###
###########

# - stone
_ - bridge with dump
X - floodgate

Would this work? If I make HUGE pile of flamable things and set them on fire with magma, will it burn for long time or they will be gone as fast as if there was just one sock?