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Artifact doors can never be destroyed. (If they're a flammable substance like lignite or coal or something, if it catches alight, it'll burn forever.)

Is there any way to ensure an artifact is both a door and made of flammable material? Because I have to guard a tomb with that, that would be awesome.

Quote from: Fien on June 13, 2013, 03:52:13 am

Or is this too horrible?

Are you seriously asking that? We're talking about Dwarf Fortress now. Massacring everything that moves is casual. Childcare involves years of torture. Blood and vomit is normal painting for a corridors of Dwarven Halls. Every yak hair tries to strangle you and it rains elf blood.

So yeah, I think nothing really is too horrible.

I've only just started playing again, didn't know if the  community clamped down on that or anything. Glad to see it hasn't, true dorfs must build their forts out of the bones of their enemies. Then use those bones to make crossbow bolts to kill more enemies and use their bones to make more bolts.

On a somewhat related note; Are elven caravans bugged to not show up? If so, is there a way to fix that? I'm going to need some bolts....

Pity there isn't more cool things MB and Titans could do in this vein. Sure paralyzing dorfs and ripping their throats out is "horrifying" but something more "scary". Like some sort of Slenderman that teles around. Although I guess that's kind of the Bogeymen.

Maybe it's just hard to make a scary ASCII game

Urist McMiner cancels Dig: Hears something whispering in the walls......oh Armok no......please no.....

The SCP Foundation will want to speak with you.

See, that's a whole other idea entirely. Capture all the horrible creature that come your way, contain them, and commence experiments. That'd be pretty damn awesome.

Hell, why stop at the creatures?

Exactly what we're doing, but for real.

How much wood could a wood Urist chuck if a wood Urist could chuck wood?

OH GO TO THE CIRCUS WINDOWS.

I left my game going while I ran to the store for 10 minutes and my PC decided that was the BEST time to update and restart my computer. The elven blood glacier is no more.

Edit: Found the plot again and everything is back on schedule. Let the Urist Bros Ice Creamery begin construction.

You could also do Akulakhan and make your fortress a cultist-infested nightmare of insanity built around and inside a volcano, and if you embark on a properly evil area, create a Husk army to defend you.

Well the insanity is going to be a given either way, but not a bad idea. I'll need a way to spread dust and syndromes though....

I know it's been a staple of the game for years, but I seriously fucking hate the natural disasters. Nothing sucks more than getting a good fort going and then BOOM, super volcano just wiped out half the continent. Try recovering a god damn crater the size of Texas, bitch. The dust from it cause a nuclear winter, ffs, how am I supposed to use this world after that?

Hell I can't even play in evil biomes anymore since the time I got a tornado made of despair that flayed my dorfs down to the cellular level, which made my pc chug trying to keep track of all the blood cells. I gotta get more ram or something, 4 TBs isn't doing it anymore.