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Hey, I have a quick question--is it possible to delete or modify stock workshop tasks, such as in the kitchen?  I'd like to modify cooking to require a preservative ingredient, such as salt or vinegar.

It's cool, but I always imagined them living in tree houses/villages like Wookies and Ewoks. A GIANT tree could have natural hollows or be big enough to handle being bored into a bit... but I frankly love how frustrating it is when I accidentally select a wooden object for trade and they leave immediately and can be goaded into war - I like that they love trees, and can't imagine them harming a tree enough to carve out a livable space. 

I am hoping to one day seeing taller trees that take longer to grow depending on what they are and generate more logs the taller they are. And if trees can be a barrier like a wall, it would be nice if a tree top could be a surfice like the z level above a wall.

After watching this (arguably NWS, but it's BBC and not the least bit pornographic) last night I've converted to the "elven treehouse cities" camp...

not the creator but

I have a question for the creator here... sort of a feature request.

You're already using separate image maps for each type you can attach to the world_gen file, like Volcanism, Drainage, etc, right?  So what about being able to import and export these images as well as the height map.  That way we could import, say... a Volcanism map that specifies exactly what and where we want the volcanism, instead of playing around with noise and whatnot.

While this would be a cool feature, I have to ask... you know about the paintbrush, right?

Also, as sort of a tecnhical question, not necessarily towards the OP, what resolution is the map imported into DF as? If I have a 256x256 map, does that mean that Perfect world is feeding DF a 256x256 image as a height map? Because the image that you get exported from legends in worldgen is something like 16x that size.  Is it at all possible to somehow edit THAT map at THAT resolution?  Because I'd love to be able to set up a world where the rivers didn't all have canyon walls.  Or maybe not have rivers that cut through a sheer cliff face because they can't run up-hill...  I can do better terrain generation than DF does with freaking PAINT!

I think I can answer this, too.  If you look into the post-import world_gen.txt file, you can see PW's output.  If you zoom way out, parts of it actually look kind of like an ASCII map, but whatever it is it's all text which means it's amazing it can even pull off 256x256--that's over 60,000 tiles, each with several dimensions.  DF then uses that data to procedurally generate a far more minutely detailed playable world-map (at least down to individual embark tiles, 256 per world-gen tile); that's what the legends export is drawing from.

Regardless, it's all built off the output for the in-application worldmap painter (which a lot of people don't even know about because it's a terrible PW buried in menus), so I'm pretty sure there's not much cephalo can do to change the resolution.

I'd love to see salt in DF.  Historically it was extremely important (and a major trade good). 

So far the only particularly elaborate burial setup I've done was a set of undulating towers placed almost entirely under the surface of an underground lake, although I've in my current fort I've turned a late game spoiler place into tombs.

So kinda like this?

(although map was made sometime in the early-single-digit-versions, and I've yet to upgrade to 19)

Quote from: Rex_Nex on February 12, 2011, 05:03:39 am

One ambush can take out ~25 dogs. That's the problem.

Of course, not many other people apply 50 dogs to one dwarf and consider it their "Army"

i killed a 2 headed ettin with 2 dwarves, one of which had turtle shell armor and an iron mace, the other had turtle shell armor and an iron axe.
but both of them had 8 dogs assigned.
neither us, nor 15 of the dogs ever took a hit, it was so busy escaping from all the holds from the dogs.

Animals can be great against unarmed, unarmored living enemies like semimegabeasts; they can even put a pretty good dent into end-game-stuff.  Armored goblins are a different story, though.