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...aaaaand now I'm imagining an ancient, wrinkly, leather-skinned she-dwarf going up to a mini dwarf and saying "I hope you brought your pick, because I've got a shaft that needs digging."

ewwwwww.

Knowing dwarves, he would probably immediately channel the ground out from underneath her and happily walk away while she starved in a hole.

An idea occured to me.

Right now, the primary means of creating stockpiles it to use bins.  The obvious advantage is that bins can be moved around.  At the same time, though, coffers/chests and cabinets are just as much storage containers (and judging from the notes for the next updates, so too will be armor stands and weapon racks).  So, the idea occured to me - why not allow coffers/chests and cabinets to be turned into storage rooms?

It would turn a previously decorative object into a legitimately useful one, and could also turn storage rooms that previously consisted of large, empty rooms littered with loose goods and bins into neatly organized rows of chests and cabinets.  The overall effect would be a little less visual clutter, easier access to storage (since coffers/cabinets can be made from rock instead of wood), and - personally, I think - it would make fortresses look a little bit more interesting.

If you're allowing armor stands / weapon racks to serve as weapon/armor stockpiles in the upcoming version (obviously, I don't really know the technical details of how this works), then it shouldn't be too hard to re-purpose the same code to work for other objects, minus the sparring behavior.

My god, that's beautiful Dwarven science at it's finest.  Also deliberately exploiting a bug.  But hey, I'm sure all of us use quantum stockpiles.

I usually wait until I find out what a noble likes before I vacate their position.  One of my barons really liked brass (which was perfectly fine) and his wife liked blue diamond (Uh oh!) but mandated nothing but spears (Whew.)  Both of them were treated with appropriately elaborate housing, thrones, and tombs. 

The Duchess was also exceptionally delighted when she found out her throne had dozens of upright spears already installed when she arrived.

Whats this nonsense about Dwarves being good or evil?  Dwarf IS their alignment.

Quote from: shadowform on March 10, 2010, 06:20:54 pm

Oddom Kindlerelics, the young child who had her hands horribly by a fire imp when she was a baby, lost her mother to madness brought on by injuries sustained from that same imp, and lost her father during a cave-in, has fully recovered - before she had even grown to a full adult!  Healing through three red injuries for a dwarf without any attribute increases, let alone in just a year or two, can't be that common.

You must play until she grows up so you can make her an engraver.  Make sure she has her best masterpieces in the prison.

She became possessed, strange mood'ed for something I apparently didn't have (I usually ignore strange moods since I import at least a few of basically everything specifically for moods), and went insane.  If I had realized it was her at the time, I would have just reloaded.

Other than that...  lost another miner to a cave in.  Bembul Urgetreaties, another casualty of the massive reservoir.

Other than that: the thing is now connected with both diagonal , pressure-equalizing floodgates, screw pumps, and a drain.  The pumps require about 200 power, easily provided by the wind farm above it.

Since I'm trying something different, right now the wind farm enclosure, the entrance ramp, and a refuse pit that's open to the sky (14 z-levels deep, so little worries about invaders jumping in) are the only signs of a fortress from the surface.

Technically unskilled...  I once had a duchess kill four goblins that somehow managed to get loose in her quarters while she was playing with her levers.  But, she was incredibly strong, quick, and tough as a result of strong social skills resulting from being followed around by twelve children at all times.

Ugh...  if it's going to require obsidian casting and re-casting the walls, I'm not going to bother worrying about making all of them masterwork.

The floors are actually fairly easy to do: mass-smooth, mass-engrave, build floors over any non-masterwork engravings, remove the floors.  This reverts the floors to unsmoothed cavern floors, which allows them to be re-smoothed and re-engraved.

Oddom Kindlerelics, the young child who had her hands horribly by a fire imp when she was a baby, lost her mother to madness brought on by injuries sustained from that same imp, and lost her father during a cave-in, has fully recovered - before she had even grown to a full adult!  Healing through three red injuries for a dwarf without any attribute increases, let alone in just a year or two, can't be that common.