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Hi, I've got a few questions:

1. I got a metalsmith mood exactly the moment I was moving my forges to a new location. There are 3 new magmaforges now but he won't claim one. What can I do?

2. Does light get through multiple glass floors? It would be logic but I don't know how the game handles it.

3. What if there is snow on top of the glass?

1. Sometimes a moody dwarf will need the non-magma version a workshop (forge or glass furnace). Just build a regular forge and he'll start his work. He won't even need fuel, as he hammers out an artifact with his bare fists

2. and 3. Light doesn't care about materials currently. It gets through glass just as it gets through steel. Once a square has been exposed to light (and is therefore counted as above-ground), you can encase it in 20 blocks of massive marble to every side and it won't become below-ground again, ever. Just <k> over any square to see what it says.
I still do like to build with glass, because it feels more real for me, even if the game doesn't care at all.

Quote from: KingKaol on January 10, 2010, 09:02:22 am

Just started a new fort and noticed...

Q:  When I hit 'c' there is only one Civ showing, a dwarven civ.  I don't remember a human trader coming yet.  Am I going to get any human or elf traders or goblin attacks?

I noticed the same thing with my current fort. I think civs don't show up in the list until you encounter them.

That's true. Other civilisations only show up in the list after you encounter them at your site. Note that there are a few sites, that are indeed inaccessable, so no one will show up, ever. But that's rather rare.

Wow, that looks beatiful... I've never seen so much detail in such a small tileset.

I currently prefer my own 12x12 ASCII-based set, but I'll surely give this one a try some time.

[Edith sayeth]: Maybe this thread should go to the modding subforum... I think, that's were tilesets usually belong.

Well yeah, the RNG is especially malicious when it comes to immigrants with purple petticoats. Whenever the mature fort crumbles to it's end, I can be sure that some baron or duke with their consort and court is on the way to watch the spectacle.


My most recent facepalm moment was an embark on a terrifying glacier. Perfectly flat ice to the horizon and beyond...
Guess what item I forgot? a pick No problem, I thought, there's enough food for almost a year and a few logs for a (tiny) shelter... skeletal sasquatches (skasquatch, anyone?) came before the first wall was finished; everyone had great Fun

I still like the story, though: Seven dwarves leave their mountainhome to build a fort in one of the most dangerous regions. When they finally arrive, Urist McLeaderguy does his speach "blablabla... Strike the earth!", looks at the miners and sees their empty hands... uh-oh

Do SCIENCE to it and we'll see... maybe you just found a solution to the milking problem.

I never noticed a difference. I think, the brook "floors" function just like floor grates, letting water flow through freely. The only tiles you need to channel are those for the waterwheel.

And in case of difficulties, you could still apply magma. Faster, more dangerous and way more dwarfy. See the wiki for other methods that might help you.

Ok, that last one with the skalligators (mmh, like that word) crumbled to it's tantrummy death after a little cave-in accident. Undead monsters are no danger at all, compared to dwarven stupidity.

The next one got an interesting start. A 5*5 site with a brook through the middle with magma pipe and pool on one side and some hills with an underground river on the other. Some trees on the surface, but not enough to block caravans, and the first stuff my miners hit after striking the earth and digging straight down were (in that order): yellow sand, magnetite, dolomite with a vein of bituminous coal, another cluster of magnetite and below that some bauxite. Hell yeah

Would it be possible, that modding all the useless big-cluster stones like orthoclase or microcline to be small cluster, made the other big clusters (magnetite, bauxite) way more frequent? I have that nagging feeling, there's something wrong since I made these changes to the raws...