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DF Modding / Re: reaction raws gone mad!
« on: October 25, 2009, 12:25:15 pm »
(yeah, if there's not a "gameplay question" here, you might get better feedback in the modding subforum.

As OP, you can move this thread via a link in the lower left.)

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: How should I keep my dwarves busy?
« on: October 25, 2009, 11:54:22 am »
Depending on the layout and friendliness of your map, you'll need an "escort" if your megaproject is outside (or within 20 tiles of) your perimeter wall.

But yeah, I was going to go with blocks, miners + megaproject.  The blocks train the masons well.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Newbie Smelting question
« on: October 25, 2009, 01:17:26 am »
The wiki is there to answer basic questions like this - esp late at night (here, anyway), might be a good resource.

To do smelting you need... something to smelt - ore.  Like copper nuggets, or hematite (iron ore).  These usually (but not always) show up as a "British pound" symbol - £ -  in the side of hills, and later in stone layers as you dig down. You need a skilled miner (or a little luck) to dig out one intact, but even unskilled will get one after a few tries.

Once you have that, a smelter will use one ore and one charcoal to produce one bar of metal. (Edit - oh, and at least one dwarf with the "furnace operator" labour enabled, and not much else to distract them - doesn't have to have any skill in it, just tell him he's good to do the job.) 

Once you have that, one bar and one charcoal at a forge will produce ... whatever - a tool, a weapon - the end product.

Try wiki "ore", and "smelting", for starters.  Maybe "guide to rock" if you're lost looking at the map.

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DF Modding / Re: Help editing the "reaction_standard" file.
« on: October 25, 2009, 01:12:22 am »
Apologies for addressing the question you didn't ask, but I don't know how to mod this reaction either.

Won't help w/ this, but for the future, take a look at the wiki "starting build" - there are some suggestions for what to bring for different playstyles and considerations.  Some include "in case of moods" - take a look at those mixes, and see if you can adopt/adapt something that will help.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Fire imps, more orcs
« on: October 24, 2009, 08:20:23 pm »
Quote from: Auldrin on October 24, 2009, 07:42:42 pm
Since they don't, it's probably worth getting a couple of soldiers stationed... clear them whenever I get a chance.

Build/carve./use a small wall, and restrain a disposable animal there. Have your soldiers hidden nearby. Jump the li'l bugger and carve 'im up into imp steak.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Hauling Issue
« on: October 24, 2009, 08:18:11 pm »
("people" including me - I've learned.)  ;)

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Hauling Issue
« on: October 24, 2009, 07:31:49 pm »
Quote from: Quietust on October 24, 2009, 06:38:20 pm
Just to be clear, you do have your standing (o)rders set to "Dwarves gather f(u)rniture", right?

Albedo: as a minor correction to your earlier statement...

(I didn't say that... this time.

Nice catch on the Orders.)

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Fire imps, more orcs
« on: October 24, 2009, 07:27:57 pm »
(Just kill off the imps early. Monitor them occasionally, and when you see your chance take the time off from whatever project to recruit a few dwarves and go pound them. Solves the problem at the cause, not the symptom.)

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Do I have a queen or a king?
« on: October 24, 2009, 04:21:09 pm »
Quote from: Auldrin on October 24, 2009, 03:02:21 pm
They're talking about goblin mayors and queen consort/mayor in the civ list, not in their actual fort

Ahhhh... been lost a lot today.  Maybe I'll go drink heavily, so at least I have an excuse.  :P

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Hauling Issue
« on: October 24, 2009, 03:33:55 pm »
Is it possible you mis-labeled the empty barrel stockpiles, somehow? Turned off quality or material, or "barrel" from the lists?   (grasping at straws, now.)

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Fire imps, more orcs
« on: October 24, 2009, 03:31:11 pm »
No one(?) has experienced every possible scenario, but I've read what I can, and never heard of any "wood destroying" vermin.  Nor have I ever heard of booze being found as a puddle on the floor.

My first reaction is "this is a glitch".  But I just don't know. 

You won't find vermin on the z-stocks or units list, you'd have to do a visual  search for little dots and then ID them w/ <k>.

Has it happened more than once?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Efficient Removal of Carp.
« on: October 24, 2009, 03:27:47 pm »
Your plan seems to lack... planning.

For (semi) creature-proofing, you dig to 2 short of the magma.  Smooth that 2nd to last, then carve it into a fortification. Then, from above, channel out that last bit.

If you mine straight in, say b'bye to the miner. Only a superdwarvenly agile miner can outrun that, and then only rarely.

You have to find a spot where the magma you want to tap extends out beyond the layer above it, to channel down to tap that - only safe way.

You can channel down into hot rock - the magma won't well up (possibly unless it's been pumped to where it is, and that's a more complex discussion.)  So if you're talking channeling (<d>, <h>), that's safe. If <d>, <d>, that's a death warrant. But your magma will flow.

If you have an entire "plan" counting on this, then 1) you learned an important lesson, and 2) you're about to learn another - either how to sacrifice dwarfs, or how to use pumps to move magma.  8)

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Fire imps, more orcs
« on: October 24, 2009, 03:20:19 pm »
I didn't think you meant literally! The barrels, just the wooden container, is disappearing? And the booze is in a puddle?  That's very odd.

Sorry, new one on me.  :-\

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DF Gameplay Questions / Shakespearean dwarves?
« on: October 24, 2009, 03:18:14 pm »
"She is getting used to tragedy."

That's in her profile. Is this a precursor to "Really doesn't care about anything anymore" for a combat dwarf?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Fire imps, more orcs
« on: October 24, 2009, 03:12:13 pm »
Emptied barrels are being carted away to food stockpiles for storage?

(Magma is handy.  It's like early man and fire - once you understand it, it's your most powerful tool.)

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