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So here's the situation:

I'm on a map where all the surface water sources freeze over in the colder months. At this time, as long as I have enough booze I'm okay. To help with this, I also made a well that taps into an underground water source.


The problem is, many dwarves don't use the underground water source. When I am low or out of booze, I get a lot of "failed to get water: no source" messages as roughly half of my dwarves drink from the well, and the other half just stand around dying of thirst.

what's up with this? I don't have any injured dwarves, but as it currently is, I expect they would die rather quickly if they get injured in the winter.

Alright, feedback time!

@gilrad: Yup, Dwarf Therapist is a great tool. And it's a good thing chmod is working so hard on it. I hope you're not insinuating that we're some how slacking off here at Stonesense though You see, converting DT is simply just easier and less work, and hence faster. It only uses a small subset of the DF information, stuff that is work related. Stonesense uses all that, and twenty times more. So it takes way longer to find all the info back, but we'll get there btw, praise Petrix and Japa, they're doing all the heavy lifting these days.

Of course not I just thought that DT would be a better example of 3rd-party apps that push Toady's non-intervention stance, as there are many DT users who refuse to play the latest build in earnest without it.

Who knows, though. Maybe someday Stonesense will include mouse-based designations. Especially with the fact that you have to go down 100 z-levels to hit lava, I can see that as becoming just as necessary as DT currently is.

My solution to skeletons/colossi:

Make a tissue layer underneath the outermost layer in the upper body called "structural integrity", and flag it as though it is a vital organ. If your attack penetrates the outer layer into this one, it damages it. When it takes enough damage, the creature "dies" due to the body being unable to support the limbs.

You can also make a layer for other body parts, such as linking vision to the head, and the use of the arms and legs (similar to severing nervous tissue, right?). Thoughts?

My most recent findings:

Merpeople are INSANE. They have somewhere close to 2000 speed, so they dodge just about anything that comes their way and if they knock somebody down, that's like five free attacks. A GM slade-equipped merperson can singlehandedly take down just about anything (except colossi, but they're pretty quick at neutralizing them nonetheless).

Also, Slade equipment on Sea Monsters (and possibly certain other large creatures) sometimes return stupidly high weights. Like, the chain armor was somewhere around 50k units of weight.

Armor seems to help against fall damage. Dropping a critter from top to bottom usually killed it (especially the smaller ones), while decking it with slade armor and doing it again left it with a couple major injuries.

Hey Jadael, could you post the base textures you are using for each stone? Maybe some of us in the community could touch them up so they tile better and don't hurt the eyes so much?

Also, since edges aren't very distinguishable using your stones, perhaps they could use an outline? I think that if you put the outlines in the right places, they would only show up on edges, and not on every square.

Quote from: Xandrin on December 03, 2009, 11:17:43 pm

What's with these animooted dwarf sprites?  Are we moving away from static sprites or are these side projects? 

And I have no idea why people are discussing music here- Stonesense dev is backlogged enough without any plans for sound.

If that's the case then I'll just put my music on the backburner then.

If you guys want some music, I could put some stuff together (been looking for an excuse to start composing again, and I have a one-month long break anyway).

What are you looking for in particular?

Zombies: I still think that purple is a good identification color for zombies, and the current ones seem to rely a little too much on the fine detail to be able to identify them at a glance. Maybe add bruised purple patches to the one with the missing skin (maybe even around the missing skin?)
Showing bone isn't so necessary on the frogs because they are a largely round shape, but when dealing with humanoids that have more defined appendages, I think showing bone through the rot is a great idea