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I'm not sure about how fire breath works but the damage from each standard combat attack is random. If something is 3 sizes bigger it gets 0-3 damage added onto it's attack. If it's weapon power translates into a 6 it gets 0-6 damage from that. If the first so many factors come up zero they get a chance at 0-1 damage.

Being smaller than the thing you are attacking just subtracts a flat amount from the damage before that last chance at 1 damage. And things can dodge and that kind of thing as well.

With a 3 size difference between gobbos and cats the random numbers must have been especially random~

Set all of the rejection parameters to zero (or copy and paste almost any recipe and then make the following changes to it)
Set all of the variance values to 1600.
Set the desired good and evil values to 1/3rd of the map area.

Variance scales with world size so making it smaller will give you more extreme differences in elevation or rock types or temperature. Good, evil, and neutral areas just get applied to the biomes that are already there so if you don't have any large biomes you won't get any large evil biomes, though you may still get an evil forest next to evil hills next to an evil mountain next to an evil ocean and so on.

If variance doesn't paint an awesome enough world for you you can actuall go into painter mode and make a quilt, though good-evil will still get applied during world gen.

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I've messed around with painter a little more and found that like a lot of things pressure doesn't flow diagonally.
Well, what I mean about that if that the regions aren't aware of each other in any but the + directions. So while a row of 400 elevation will give a contiguous mountains a diagonal line will give you many region tiles with a roughly circular cluster of mountains. The size is pretty random and 1000 erosion cycles is basically guaranteed to give your dwarves no functional places to lay down a mountain home but this is more useful for what I really wanted to see: volcanism.

It's harder to see quite what shape volcanism tries to make and if there's a default to higher or lower values for edges since I think it does quite a bit of conforming to the other biomes but judging by the presence of pipes the lower value regions extend into the higher value ones at least close to all of the time with diagonals. Without any superior design this means that anyone with the time to sit through drawing a checkerboard in painter will be able to get 50% of their region tile to have both magma and sedimentary rock layers.

*to avoid carpel tunnel I recommend that you only do one horizontal line, save it, and then edit the text file so the second line is a copy but offset by one position and then copy and paste those over the rest of the painter text.

I got introduced to this game with stories of flooded forts and things so I don't have any interesting watery deaths beyond people falling into the moat.

Biggest mistake I can remember was thinking "the wooden pumps will be able to pump magma long enough."

Same here. I'm actually kind of surprised alot of things a friends an I brainstormed about came up in here.

I've got a decent enough memory that I could probably pick everything out if you gave a list~

I've had orcs show up in my newly generated worlds after taking them out of raw/objects because they decided to stick around in data/objects.

Miners did their moods at mason shops since you can't really mine out a tile legendarily and that's the closest production skill.

I don't know your exact room setup, but if you can get at least some difference in temperature in different parts of the house, you can get some "natural" airflow going. Tends to cool a lot.

He described it well enough that the idea is basically that he's got some natural airflow right up the stairs that's heating up his room.

Quote from: Tormy on June 27, 2009, 07:13:31 am

1. Use a laptop [desktop comps produce much more heat]
2. Ice-air cooler.

1) This is not generaly true - my laptop is little son of a b*** from hell. After few hours of heavy heavy usage it gets so hot that I can not hold my hand on certain spots.

2) This. Even small climatization units can do miracles (in small rooms).

Desktops have more and bigger fans (and a big open air space,) so it could be that they are producing more heat but without actually ending up feeling as hot.