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Last time I looked at Deon's raws, he turned peat into a stone and added the reactions to the smelter.

Using the new clay material type in a smelter reaction should be pretty straight forward.

To prevent it from being over powered, you may want to make it a process with multiple stages.
At new custom workshop, Sift Clay For Bog Iron with 5% chance of yielding Iron Ore (maybe Hematite, which closely resembles Bog Ore).  Always use up the clay.  Then the ore still needs to be smelted, and large amounts of clay will be consumed.

I think you guys are giving the wrong advice. From my perspective his problem is not that he wants this girl and is in bad shape over it. His problem is that he is depressed as hell and hanging all his hopes and dreams on this girl he likes but has never approached. Fix the depression first, then go for the girl.

I concur with this.

You can not be a good partner to someone else, or even be good company to someone else, unless you can happily be with yourself.  Basic self-worth required.
It is a bit cliché, but true.


Have you considered some community service?
Volunteering at a soup kitchen (and elsewhere) did wonders for me in my senior year of hellschool er, highschool.
I felt like there was no point to anything, that no one could ever possibly want to be with me, that nothing I did mattered in the world, that I didn't matter.
Then, after a while there, what I was doing did matter.  Just a little.  Made the world a slightly better place.
Bringing a small light to bleakness made my own world brighter.

It's hard to get motivated, hard to get started, hard to see it as worthwhile, hard to care.
So just get up and F'ing do it.

Magma is so cheese I end up never use it.

Understand what I don't sentence this means it.

hlp pls.

Series of channels.

Quote from: zilpin on January 24, 2011, 11:51:35 am

I'm a fan of dropping them on upright spikes linked to a lever.

I also keep a special entry for Titans.
Hatch covers make a "bridge" 10 tiles long along a wall.  Link all hatches to lever.  Under hatches, cages traps. One tile away parrallel to hatch covers, constructed floor held by a single Support linked to a lever.
Titan walks across hatches, pull lever.
Titan falls on cage traps, pull next lever.
Collapse (may or may not) knock out Titan on top of a cage trap.

Titans can't be knocked unconscious. However, they can be webbed, although that requires you to make a GCS web your traps.

I always mod my Titans to be able to be knocked out from cavern collapses.
Beyond that, I tend to mod them to be more difficult.  Giving every Titan dragon breath makes them much more difficult to deal with.

Before you ask, yes you can mod Titans, with the right tools.

Alternatively, you can disable/alter the warnings in the init files, if I recall right. This may cause problems !!Fun!! if you're not very careful.

Somewhat correct.

Open the data\init\accouncements.txt file.
Find this line:
[DIG_CANCEL_WARM:A_D:D_D:P:R]Replace it with this:
[DIG_CANCEL_WARM:A_D:D_D]
The game will no longer pause or zoom, but dwarves will still cancel digging, so you will still have to micro-manage.
IMHO you are better off leaving it on and micro managing it that way.

I'm a fan of dropping them on upright spikes linked to a lever.

I also keep a special entry for Titans.
Hatch covers make a "bridge" 10 tiles long along a wall.  Link all hatches to lever.  Under hatches, cages traps. One tile away parrallel to hatch covers, constructed floor held by a single Support linked to a lever.
Titan walks across hatches, pull lever.
Titan falls on cage traps, pull next lever.
Collapse (may or may not) knock out Titan on top of a cage trap.

Quality, not quantity.
Skill, not property.

Shields are essential.
Leather Robes help sometimes in some ways (but not much).

Mostly, train them up in a Danger Room.