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Quote from: Miggy on July 08, 2010, 02:35:43 pm

Do falling items hurt living creatures if they land on the same tile? I have a long shaft leading down to the magma sea where I'm setting up a forging operation, and a lot of ore on the top of the shaft. Do I need to cancel dropping ore when I reclaim it, or can my dwarves be safe despite the shower of rocks?

While dwarven, rock showers probably are not good for your Dwarves' health.

This is incorrect. Currently, falling objects have no capability to harm creatures.

One thing that I feel has been left out of this discussion is how killing an invader will affect you, the homeowner, from a psychological point of view. I don't know about you guys, but I'd become a complete fucking wreck if I ever killed a guy, and it'd take a whole lot a therapy to get me back to stability. I think I'd rather just let him take my stuff, rather than risk that.
EDIT: Silly grammar mistake that I didn't notice late at night.

I still think that the whole fortress should be flooded with magma the moment you try dividing by zero.
This could be a handy way of teaching preschool children mathematics.

Sigged.
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Oh, I'm supposed to contribute something to the thread, aren't I? Well in that case, I would love to see a monitor set up for one of these. Not sure how practical that would be, but if you could get a game of Pong going at a few seconds per frame, I'd be quite satisfied.

I think I'd like to play AS a villian/night creature. You know, roaming from town to town, converting the population into horrific creatures at my command? Eventually I'd have a "Children Golem" division for extended psychological sieges.

That could be doable, given these bits:

• Curses and exposure

•      Can be cursed by night creatures when you put them down
•      The slaves of night creatures could have extreme effects from proximity that also affect you if you make a business of hunting them

Yeah, steel is usually defined by a small amount of carbon in the mixture. No one uses pure iron, because it's extremely soft. Adding bits of glass called slag to the mixture creates a metal called wrought iron, which is stronger, has a noticeable grain to it, and is what people usually mean when they say "iron". However, bronze is still a stronger metal than wrought iron. The iron age came after the bronze age, because improvements in metallurgy made the production of iron and steel -- which is stronger than bronze -- more cost effective, and because of a rather sizable tin shortage which drove the price of bronze up to an unmanageable height.

yeah, that

also this

Plows I could see. They're large enough and you'll need relatively few of them. Could probably fall into the siege engine system.

Wow, thanks Foot! Really nice overview of the idea.