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Maybe you accidentially left something in from a mod? silksteel sounds like a modded thing.

Yep!  My mistake.  Update incoming.

UPDATE: Okay, I regenned in a vanilla copy and found another site- not quite as cool, but maybe still interesting.  It's back in the "release" post.

Quote from: Bjiip on August 29, 2009, 01:15:10 pm

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*HEADDESK*

Was I being unreasonable?

Just a quick note, if you want sieges to be more interesting, goblins can bring trolls and beak dogs[...]

They need an Evil Swamp for Beak Dogs and a Chasm or Bottomless Pit for Trolls. The Swamp also needs to have Beak Dogs in it.

Excellent suggestion!  Guess I've got a use for that lower-right spoke, now.  I'll see if I can get evil swamps.
Thing is, you can't paint good and evil (oh, how I wish you could!).  So it'll require a lot of regens to get just the swamps to be evil.

How the heck did you paint glaciers? I've spent hours trying. Oh, you didn't use the worldpaint, I see. You made a python tool?

I did worldpaint the glaciers (and everything), but I had to do a little guesswork on the glacier stuff- it's not on the wiki.  When just starting out, I used http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Advanced_world_generation#World_Painter_Parameters.  But I eventually got glaciers by assigning an area a high drainage (100) and very low temperature (-100).  (If you have a drainage of 0, they'll be tundra instead.)  I think I'll try testing the effects of lowering the temperature more- see if it results in thicker ice with more layers.  That would be unusual, though.

That brings me to an important point.  As far as I can tell, the fortress generation considers biome only when drawing your actual dwarf fortress area.  I've tried, but there's just no difference between a elevation 100 forest and an elevation 280 forest.  That's probably why Toady put in low mountains, high mountains, and peaks- that way he can have mountains of different fortress-level elevation with relatively fine gradations in the world-level elevation.

But maybe it's only elevation that's ignored at the fortress level.

Revised Masterworld and generation info coming soon...

My dwarf was fighting a Giant Bat today, and I noticed that the Bat was healing pretty fast- maybe as fast as a dwarf with a few levels of toughness.

Is it the bat's [SIZE:10] that does this?  I don't have much experience fighting large animals.

This tool is great.  Is there any plan to include the editing of personality and preferences?

And will the names of participants be reinserted into combat reports in a future update?

To clarify my intention:

I'm going to try to pair dwarves up, where appropriate, so that they grow in relationships with one another and get married.  (That may involve locking them in a party room.  We'll see.)  I find that normally my dwarves have a deity and about thirty passing acquaintances.  (I keep them busy.)

When dwarves get married, I'm going to use Dwarf Companion to change their last names to be the same (I'll probably just choose between the man's and the woman's based on which one sounds better- Blazecastles over Bootconvent).  Any children will also have the parents' last name.  If a child dwarf earns themselves an extended name, I will consider taking the random extra elements added to that child's name and making it into a new last name (and a more appropriate honorific).  So, Atir Blazecastles the East Recreation of Manors might become Atir Eastmanors the Quick Blade.  This'll keep all the names from converging.

I'll probably use Dwarf Manager to enable some task for fortress children- basically giving them a chance at a specialty, like the adults.  That way, the amount of time that they're a pure burden on society is only one year, but they still can't reproduce for 12.  That sounds like a good compromise.

However, with 7 dwarves and no immigration, I'll just have too few genetic stocks (not that it'd actually be a problem in DF, but it is in my mind).  So that's why I was thinking that starting with 12-20 dwarves would be good.

But I think that cheating takes the fun out of the game, so I want something fairly balanced.  Which is why I ask:

How much is an extra peasant -worth-?

Interesting.  Do dwarves sometimes wrestle, even when told to attack with hammer or sword?  Or do war dogs grapple and thus nullify the damblock somehow?  In my test, I used a hammerdwarf, a swordsdwarf, and war dogs.  (And the dwarves were trained in wrestling.)

If you are taming animals, then they tend to throw a piece of food in the cage, so it isn't always empty as seeds or bones can be left behind.  You need to look in the cage using 'k' and 'dump' out any seeds or bones to make it empty.

Aha!  They each had one or more prickle berry seeds inside.  After dumping, they're being reused.  Thanks!

I have three cage traps on the map.

I have about nine empty cage traps in a stockpile.

When I get a new cage trap (newly built, or bought from a caravan), it's placed on the cage trap.  Then some animal wanders into it, and gets caught.  The cage is collected and put in the animal stockpile.  I tame the animal, then build the cage and release the animal, then have it thrown into the pit.  The empty cage is deconstructed, put in my animal stockpile and never used again.  It joins all the other cages listening forlornly to dwarven complaints that they don't exist.

How can I get my cages reused?