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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Fort Layout/Recording Tool?

« on: March 27, 2010, 01:48:22 pm »

A very easy to use recording tool would be Procaster, of course, you would have to set up a channel and account with livestream first, which is mostly quick and painless, and then you can set procaster to save any broadcasts you do to your PC.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Intense stare off

« on: March 27, 2010, 01:33:14 pm »

Somehow, somewhere, I remember this being a bug with ranged dwarves, but I don't quite recall if anybody ever got to the bottom of it.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: A Few Questions [MORE NEW QUESTIONS]

« on: March 03, 2010, 07:05:06 pm »

For the item qualities you can go to the help(?) menu and go to tables, there's a list of the qualities there.
and since you may inevitably ask, no there are no magical items yet.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: lever mess

« on: January 06, 2010, 04:35:52 pm »

some people use color coding with different colored stones as mechanisms + flood gates.
Personally if I have an elaborate system set up I just use notes, they aren't THAT bad.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Your best artifact ever

« on: December 28, 2009, 11:46:42 pm »

Quote from: tompliss on December 27, 2009, 04:29:14 pm

My best ... not mine, traders brought it but ...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That's not an artifact?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma Furnaces+Adamantine

« on: December 24, 2009, 06:29:43 pm »

Unless you save-scummed before you used reveal, you're stuck, magma buildings are only enabled upon game discovery of magma(also upon discovery of glowing pits with magma, iirc), however, using reveal will skip these flags that magma has been discovered, and you'll have no magma buildings.
So, your best bet if you don't have a save before reveal is to use a utility on the wiki that enables magma buildings(http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Utilities#Enable_Magma_Buildings), you will however have to use this every time you want to build a magma building, rather than a permanent solution.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Dead miner

« on: December 24, 2009, 06:07:57 am »

To clarify, yes, trees will collapse when ramped under.
always make sure to clear cut the area before ramping, you may regret it if you don't!

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Trap question

« on: December 21, 2009, 07:56:11 pm »

If I remember correctly, yes they do.
They still jam though, weapon traps that is, so you'll have to come up with a way to clean them if you want them to stay working.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Help me kill dem Elves!

« on: December 21, 2009, 07:52:49 pm »

You wouldn't be able to kill them even if you did have military.
What you need to do is construct a death trap of some sort, be it a drowning chamber, hot lava(though, you miss all the goods), or some other contraption.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Miners Digging too deep

« on: December 21, 2009, 07:51:10 pm »

Read the wiki page on Ramps.
You see, the ramps in this game mostly work like ramps in real life, the ramp cannot curve backwards the way you just drew it, you should either try stairs or learning how to correctly make ramps, which would be to make sure the dwarves can drop off on the opposite side of the ramp that they walk up(note that the opposite side of the ramp also needs to have a wall on the bottom floor... eh, just read the wiki.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Underground rivers?

« on: December 11, 2009, 01:58:06 pm »

If you are absolutely sure that your UG river ends on the map you're on, you can do a grid search of the bottom most z-level to find the exit of the river, which is normally just a 5x5 cut down into a circle that's a chasm.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Postponing the king?

« on: December 11, 2009, 04:08:26 am »

Quote from: Durin on December 11, 2009, 01:18:53 am

Quote from: silhouette on December 09, 2009, 09:01:16 pm
Quote from: Smew on December 09, 2009, 03:02:43 pm
Quote from: silhouette on December 07, 2009, 10:04:15 pm
Some mutated elven woman.

Didnt realise it was a user name, hah.

$:-\$ LOL! Me neither...