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Quote from: LoneJedi7 on April 08, 2010, 09:42:05 pm

go into the metagloss file for your metal ores, find gold, and add the [WEAPON] tag to gold.  that worked in the old version, should in 31.01.

If you're going to do this, increase the Impact Elasticity higher. A lot higher. From about 600 to a bit greater than lead actually [I have mine around 4000]. Or else you're going to be finding foreigners with gold warhammers going to town on your populace.

...or you could not mod this and then arm your military with golden hammers..

which is actually pretty Dwarfy, imo.

I DO actually have a fort like this!

The main 'fortress' consists of six stories, three plumbing and three filled with living quarters, workshops, etc.  It's...  actually not as impressive as it sounds, mostly just a large 'C' shape ringed with structures.  A 1-tile wide grated aqueduct runs through the center of the main tunnel in every work floor.

The aqueducts are fed from a large reservoir, something like 10x15x30 tiles (with a few unused for supports for the walkways above).  A maintenance stairway runs down one side, covered by a locked hatch (to prevent maintenance from flooding), and a grated drain at the bottom allows the reservoir to be drained...  slowly.  The drain uses the old trick of digging to the edge of the map, smoothing the edge, and then carving fortifications to allow water to drain off into nothing.  I'd like to imagine I'm creating an aquifer somewhere.

The reservoir has two methods of feeding the aqueducts that run through the fortress: first are sets of three pumps...  which work remarkably fast and because I designed them wrong, will flood the fort if I ever turn them on again.  Make sure they're pumping water UP onto the aqueduct level so there won't be pressure issues, or you'll flood your fortress.  It also helps to plan ahead and use lots of doors in the main hall until you're absolutely certain that you aren't going to accidentally flood your fort when you fill the aqueducts.

The aqueduct drain system, which also functions as a slower fill, is a series of diagonal openings with floodgates installed to allow water to either slowly trickle in or out.  Each floor of aqueducts acts separately, meaning it's possible to drain one floor without draining the others.  Since they all hook directly into the reservoir instead of having their own separate drains, though, draining one of the aqueduct levels essentially means draining the reservoir.

As for filling the reservoir, it's just a pretty simple task of finding a nice river or ocean and re-routing it to serve your purposes.  If you want the water to be drinkable, remember that salt water needs to be passed through a pump to filter it and then becomes re-contaminated if it touches natural stone.

It's definitely a big project, but it's also REALLY fun to try and pull off, and once you get it running it looks really impressive.

Barrels actually only take one bar of metal in the new release, which actually makes them VERY much a viable source of storage, especially if you find a decent fuel and copper vein.

Mine used to be:
-anvil
-1 pick
-6 copper bars
-26 of each alcohol (delicious free barrels)
-1 of each 2-value meat
-80 turtles
-10 of each seed
-10 cheap leather
-10 bauxite
-2 cats
-enough wood to make the elves cry

Now, I'm debating if I want to embark with just 500 units of cat blood, not unlike the 1 hat / 14 grandfather clock challenge in Oregon Trail.

What is your new loadout?

I once built a giant statue of a middle finger in front of my fort out of wooden blocks...

My reasoning was that ash can be useful (potash -> pearlash -> clear glass furniture), charcoal can be useful (steel), but wood blocks have no use other than building the giant 'screw you' statue.

That, and I'm going to build something fun out of ash later.

I don't get the point here, couldn't you just forge then melt then forge? What's the point in just turning it into stacks of one?

It melts into the same quantity regardless of how many bolts are in the stack.

I don't think magma actually lights things on fire unless they're being worn.  I've tried.  It just pushed some leather clothing around a bit.

Anyway.  The following is a by no means comprehensive list of the things I've seen so far on these forums that could qualify for Project Atrocity:

-Elven torture camp (already mentioned)
-Death pit (freezing map; goblin captives were stripped of clothing and dumped in a pit to freeze in the open air)
-Slow, painful death traps (dozens of traps of nothing but whips)
-Living entombment
-Using live prisoners as target practice
-Large-scale merperson butchering operations