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Messages - Psychoceramics

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Butchering dead animal.
« on: February 23, 2010, 01:20:12 am »
try this:

add CAN_LEARN to donkeys and then butcher one through designation.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: an "end party" lever?
« on: February 22, 2010, 08:12:54 pm »
the issue with a lever based system of ending parties is that no one will the lever because they'll be too busy partying.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Can someone explain the noble hate to me?
« on: February 19, 2010, 10:23:55 pm »
they have all of the downsides of being a dwarf with none of the upsides. they consume resources while producing none of their own.

i never activate my justice system so i ignore their mandates all day long with no ill effects but unhappy nobles. And I don't really care if the nobles are unhappy, they don't do anything.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Will he ever recover?
« on: February 17, 2010, 03:25:51 am »
this dude has been tooling around for 6 years with a mangled lung. I may be wrong about other internals, but I know that lung is never getting better.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Will he ever recover?
« on: February 17, 2010, 01:28:11 am »
mangled injuries can heal, if they're healable at all. A mangled arm or leg will eventually heal. A mangled lung, though, will stay mangled forever. And the dwarf won't stop to rest either. I've had a dwarf with a mangled lung since year 1, and he just keeps on truckin', flashin that medical symbol wherever he goes. It helps that he's a legendary stonecrafter, and extremely tough or tougher. I forget exactly.

Injured internals won't heal. Injured externals will.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Stagnant Human Siege
« on: February 16, 2010, 04:13:01 am »
Fortifications don't provide floors, and walls that have been carved into fortifications have solid floors.

if you want to shoot through the floor, you'll need to use grates or bars.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: indestructible wall
« on: February 16, 2010, 03:55:22 am »
A wall of paper, to keep out rock.
A wall of rock, to keep out scissors.
A wall of scissors, to keep out paper.

I have deconstructed every joke in this thread into it's most primitive form. Except the infinite recursion wall.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Face Palm moments you had
« on: February 16, 2010, 03:52:36 am »
Quote from: Chaoseed on February 15, 2010, 03:50:26 pm
Does that forbid corpses as well?

Either way, I think being able to zoom to a corpse is a useful trick to know.

it does.

And being able to zoom to a corpse is good for figuring out wtf killed him. Before the body gets moved anyway.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: A question of embark and multiplication.
« on: February 16, 2010, 03:45:24 am »
there's nothing in the raws to suggest this. a 150 year old dwarf is as healthy and virile as the Child who just grew into a Peasant, unless something is hard-coded in.

You are going to want to give them some time off to get to know each other.

Don't think there's a way of knowing how old a dwarf is, at all. I assume it's random, since the dwarves are generated on the spot.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Causing Cave Ins
« on: February 16, 2010, 03:41:31 am »
jebus, make it complicated.

# is channel here
_ is dig here
space is nothing, don't touch that tile

top level:
Quote
#####
#____#
#____#
#____#
#####

middle level:
Quote
#####
#      #
#      #
#      #
#####

level above aquifer
Quote
______
_###_
_###_
_###_
______

and that's a 1x1 square that's safe to dig through. increase dimensions as you see fit.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The Little Questions Thread
« on: February 15, 2010, 05:19:36 pm »
Quote from: Jim Groovester on February 15, 2010, 12:50:37 pm
Quote from: vorpal+5 on February 15, 2010, 12:31:56 pm
When you enter criteria to embark, is it possible to skip the first correct candidate and check the second?

Nope. One of the limitations of the current site finder.

actually, it is. put a fortress there and then abandon. It's now an invalid site.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Stagnant Human Siege
« on: February 15, 2010, 03:08:05 pm »
yes, this is expected behavior. Humans will sit there and do nothing for long periods when they come to siege, accomplishing nothing but keeping your outside operations from happening.

I've found it's just easier to sic the champion squads on them. They scatter like a kitten after 10 z-levels at the mere sight of a champion.

Goblins are the only race that wait until 80 to siege. Everyone else will siege before then if you've pissed them off enough.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Reclaim on failed fortressess...
« on: February 14, 2010, 05:26:25 pm »
it's a feature built into the game for exactly this purpose.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: So yeah, sieges are boring to me
« on: February 13, 2010, 02:49:11 pm »
so you make them interesting with elaborate death traps.

my favorite is a set of pressure plate linked bridges over water. I just sit back and cackle as orcs try to run across, only to fall to their dooms after someone makes it a 3rd of the way in. And when the survivors wise up and don't step on the bridge, repeating spikes!

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Face Palm moments you had
« on: February 12, 2010, 03:07:53 am »
a goblin squad took one (1) casualty, and then fled for the hills.

Dammit! I wanted that goblinite!

I guess that's what I get for only letting one orc out of the 4 squads that came survive. Well, I didn't really let him, he was just the only one smart enough not to stand on the spike traps. Or the weapon traps. Or on the give-away bridge his fearless leader tried to lead him on to. So I guess he earned the right to stay alive.

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