March 6, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.12 has been released.
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News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
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The whole military screen has mouse support actually. Anyting is easily clickable as if it was a windows interface and it works great. I love it.Well, that made it a lot simpler.
This could have serious implications for Kobold Camp. By taking all stone and giving it a 5000000 impact fracture level, we could prevent kobolds from mining rock while still allowing them to dig through soil. If we wanted to, we could also include various "soft" stone types that kobolds could dig through. Also, some testing is in order. Is 5000001 rock mineable?4999999 is minable.
Hmmmmm...42Hmmmmm...
Dwarf Fortress: The real reason all the people on Krikkit went batshit insane.
I think you're onto something here...
eight pages on the subject of milking.Only in Dwarf Fortress.
Eight!
I agree with the evil theory. I think it's some kind of byproduct of the demons' mere existence- their very presence somehow causes it to grow. I also think we need to stop calling it adamantiumAdamantium sounds more metallic. Adamantine, not as much. Thats probably why we keep saying it that way.
Pretty Please?Made some more progress today. The labor map is working, and I have it loading dwarves and you can set their labors.That's enough for start. Could you please make a release?
I created a slade to coke reaction, made it accessible to my people, and it doesn't show up. Slade is useless in a way more inherent to its nature than any amount of raw editting can change. My next experiment is to gen a world in which slade does not exist, and the [DEEP_SURFACE] tag is held by a substance which, from the very beginning, is statistically equivalent in all but name to microcline. If this substance proves as useless as slade, we will know: anything that is used as the floor of Hell is hardcoded to be inherently, unyieldingly, useless.You should try making a world where Slade lacks [DEEP_SURFACE] and see if anything changes.
I have uncovered the Secret of Slade.Now all we need is a way to use it...
First I turned off all of its stats, and then turned them on one by one until I could no longer mine the stuff. When I turned on [IMPACT_FRACTURE:5000000], it became invincible; I could freely activate all other stats, and as long as that one was off, I could designate slade for mining. Then I changed it, on a whim, to [IMPACT_FRACTURE:4999999], exactly one lower. Slade remained mineable. Set it back up to [IMPACT_FRACTURE:5000000], and it was again invulnerable. So... yeah. [IMPACT_FRACTURE:5000000] translates into "cannot designate for mining."
Before you ask, yes, I did return Adamantine to its usual stats first. EDIT: In fact, on a whim, I temporarily gave Adamantine iron's stats. Could still mine slade with them. And I can't actually do anything with Slade. I can't build things with it. My craftsmen ignore it. It doesn't appear on the list of economic stones, so I can't activate it for common use.
I stripped slade of its ridiculous stats in my save's raws. When I reloaded the game, I could designate slade for digging. When I returned it to is previous stats, I was again unable to designate it for digging.Wait, are you saying slade is just too hard to mine? is that really it?
Made some more progress today. The labor map is working, and I have it loading dwarves and you can set their labors. However I still haven't figured out how skills are stored. I may have to cut some corners and just get a version out that allows labors but can't show skill in those labors.Huzzah!
Slow going, but progress is being made.
And It should be made out of Slade to prove we've gone to hell and back, so now we want to go up.Should have thought of that...So, I gave my slade colossi flier, because... why not?
Before abandoning the fortress so explore it with an adventurer, I tried to have my miner dig into the slade floor of hell. Unfortunately, as with semimolten rock, slade (or at least, hell-bottom slade) cannot be designated for digging. Damn.
I'm exploring hell right now. Lots of demons. Lots of pits. Lots of slade. Nothing worth coming down here for, aside from being able to say you did it, and frankly, I'm not sure how you could reach this place... at least, from an adamantine vein. Haven't borne witness to a demonic fortress yet, so maybe that would provide an opportunity. I suppose you could do a controlled cave-in to get a mason to the bottom with a ton of quantum stockpiled rock, and have him build a stairway to get back up, after which you could build your altar to your god/your dwarves' god/dwarvern hubris/a cave swallowman/phallic imagery...
I just saw a specter of ash: "A great eight-legged quadruped made of ash." What.
Can't you get down there by building staircases out into the air?
I think we've proven conquering hell is a reasonable goal, though it's not worth it except for an ego boost. Maybe our toady overlord will be making it more interesting in the next version.
We should be able to build a stairway to heaven in the next version.
