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Does anyone here ponder how epic it would be if DF MERGED with Minecraft?
I mean, imagine the interactive 3D nature of the game mixed with a bout 200 or so dwarfs running around and doing crazy stuff

Because for me thats the big differance. I'll admit I like Minecraft for its visual aspect, being able to walk around in real time 3D adds a lot.  But the fact that its ONLY you in the game, or maybe 2 or 3 other people, makes it feel so... Empty...
Part of the draw of DF is its mixed with a game like "the sims" you have an army of people to control, command, work, etc.  Of course those exact reasons seem to turn others off to DF.  I know my brother LOVES minecraft but has never liked DF.

I don't like stonesense because it can't zoom in and out and the isometric view gives it a very limited number of angles to view your fortress from, so I can't see as much of my fortress as I want to with it.

The newer version is supposed to give full screen shots up to 30 z levels.
But I can't get the new version to work :/

Won't you get a skull anyway if the head comes off and rots separately though?

No...


I have this bane in my fort as well. I have a mountain of partial skeletons, arms, heads, and they are useless.
They will NEVER turn into bones no mater HOW long you let them stay there.  The worst part about it is that because "intelligant" races arn't butchered, perfectly good goblin corpses will pile up as well.  No more goblin bone items or goblin totems.  I remember bones being an almost unlimited resource, now I have to ration what few bones I get these days.

Untill Toady changes this or someone makes a mod that alows them to decay, bones have become a rare thing in DF now.

The plump helmet, it looks like a leaf, A LEAF!!!
<screams>

I was thinking about that eariler.  A mod to either "process" the corpses into skeletons, or a mod that was able to let them properly 'decay' into usable bones.

Which sucks over all as it makes getting bones MUCH harder.
I remember in 40, having mountains of goblin bones, orc bones, etc.  Now all of those bodies just rot because they can't be butchered.  I don't even care about the meat, but the fact that a "partial skelton" will NEVER become a pile of bones is a pain.  Is this something Toady is working on for future patches?

After finally building a "self cleaning system" that consisted of a waterfall that went over the entrance to my fort, I thought my days of Dwarfs covered in muck were over.
To an extent this worked, all my Dwarfs are clean and covered in water.  Bytr the bridge that the water flows through...

There are tiles with over 3 pages of "a splattering of so and so's blood" and mud and dirt and muck.  How the hell do a scrap it off the bridge and down into the river below?

Here is an old and very basic layout I created back in early .40