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Which means elite soldiers (especially if they are strong/mighty) who haven't gained much wrestling may cripple any wrestler who happens to spar with them!

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aah, that seems to be the problem - most of my crippled soldiers are pure wrestlers. actually, most of my military are trained up to reasonable levels of wrestling before using weapons, but of course there's the occasional "very strong" novice with a warhammer a few levels too early.

still, more spinal injuries than broken arms/legs/noses? crippling should be a bit more rare, at least comparatively. actually, I'd gladly have the same chance of spinal injuries should the rate of broken limbs be much higher - one would take the constantly, if temporarily, bed-ridden soldiers as a warning.

EDIT: OK, so just because I found that odd, now I've got two brand new non-elite (but very promising) dwarfs with spinal injuries, so it's all even again. The RNG *always* strikes twice. Still, it only reinforces the alarming trend of crippled soldiers.

[ January 25, 2007: Message edited by: j.brigante ]

I say this because I've recently lost four moody dwarves - three in a row - who wanted rare gems (blue diamond, star sapphire, y'know, the I've-never-seen-one-of-these gems).

EDIT: oh, and if you're NOT building your fortress after the chasm, just turn the whole area between the chasm and the magma into one huge (HUUUGE) excavation. lots of coal/hematite/gold/platinum to be found, you'll never run out of metal ores and you'll have many legendary miners (which can then double as metalsmiths).

[ January 29, 2007: Message edited by: j.brigante ]

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Build a raising bridge that flings dwarves and animals into walls

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"r: make squash court"

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Originally posted by qwip:
<STRONG>was it a stack of roasts? perhaps each serving of the roast rotted away one by one?</STRONG>

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no, just one roast on top of a table. the fellow entered a strange mood in the middle of a meal. these are some quality roasts, y'know, and dirt cheap too, by the way, when you make thousands of them.

And what's even more odd- that has been happening for a while. I remember one dwarf walking in that direction not long after starting the game. For a while I thought they were going to snatch some random refuse from outside, but I already turned "gather refuse from outside" off for a while and not much changed.

Could it be that some items, for some reason, are creating "out-of-borders" placement information, and prompting dwarves to look for them in the first valid tile? Or maybe some pathfinding loop, which passes through tile [1,1] or near it?

EDIT: ok, so now there's a dwarf coming back from the top corner with an iron shield... which, I'm 99% sure, wasn't there. there is a lot of caravan-guard and goblin-sieger equipment near the road, but nobody ventured that far up north - some were elephant-stomped south of the road, but not to the north.

I'm not sure if I'm understanding it at all anymore.

[ January 30, 2007: Message edited by: j.brigante ]

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(...) but why isnt cooking a skill that benifits from fey moods?

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Because while masterpiece food is OK, artifact food would be extraordinarily silly.

"This is a dwarven syrup roast. It is circled by bands of moonstone. This object menaces with spikes of copper."

Of course, legendary cooks bashing goblins in the head with spiked cat tallow biscuits would be fun, but there are some lines which are better not crossed.