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Originally posted by Crowley:
<STRONG>And so dwarf fortress makes its first clumsy steps into the cruel world of pedophilia.</STRONG>
You mean pederasty. The relationship where the older man passes over his knowledge to the young boy, like the ancient Greeks and Romans used to do.
Oh, and they shag, too.
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Originally posted by PNB:
<STRONG>Well, I'm back from being internetless, and why doesn't fire breath burn trees?</STRONG>
They're the same kind of trees you have in Starcraft. The ones you can drop a tactical nuke on with no visible effect. 
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Originally posted by odd2k:
<STRONG>I would assume it works like normal d&d number generating. In that case, 2d6 will translate into a number between 2 and (2*6). And so on. At least, that is what the "2d6" format means.</STRONG>
Clarification: "XdY" means that you roll X number of dice which have Y sides each. So, for example, 3d8 will result in a number between 3 (rolled 3 ones) and 24 (3 eights), but the distribution of numbers won't be even - "middle" values will come up more often.
Presently, I'm fighting a cyclops, and it has knocked my longsword out of my hand. While my mates distracted it, I picked up the sword with 'g', then took it out of my backpack with 'r'. But now I can't WIELD it, that is, use it to attack the cyclops. Every time I attack, the character automatically uses his shield to bash the enemy. I looked through the Key Binding section of the manual, and couldn't find a 'wield' command. So how do I do it? 'I' for 'Advanced Interaction' doesn't work either.
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Originally posted by odd2k:
<STRONG>I think this is kinda related to how dwarves have to carry one seed at a time. Are plump helmet seeds the size of a dwarf's head, or what?</STRONG>
Well, they are DWARVES...
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[...] a noble that, at the stage he arrives, serves very little purpose.
* Cough * cough *
Emergency flood system tester.
[ August 25, 2006: Message edited by: Premier ]
On another note, the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title was "cable cars over chasm and lava, woot!"
Hmm... if that was the problem, then maybe it's another argument in support of some way of prioritising jobs - pieces of rock won't rot away, so it would be good if hauler dwarves could be set to haul food first and other stuff later.
I have a kitchen, I have several food stockpiles nearby about half full of turtles. I also have a dwarf with the Coking profession. I do NOT have any dining rooms, but I do have a non-designated room with several tables in it.
So, I give the kitchen an order to cook, say, 10 units of easy meals. The cook dwarves goes in, and starts taking turtles from the larders and turning them into turtle cookies. So far, so good.
But then... nothing happens. Once the turtle cookies are done, they just stay in the kitchen. Nobody, not even the cook, can be bothered to go there, pick them up, and take them to a food stockpile. Instead, the cookies stay in the kitchen, causing a clutter, slowing down efficiency then finally rotting away in a cloud of miasma, while all my dwarves continue going outside to my starting stockpiles and eating from the barrels they've brought with them from the Dwarfhome.
Why do they ignore the freshly made cookies? Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
[ August 11, 2006: Message edited by: Premier ]
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Originally posted by ussdefiant:
<STRONG>i just have trouble imagining what one of my dwarves might want to do with a giant, well-crafted door, let alone want to drag it along all the time.</STRONG>
Maybe he's trying to send you the message that he and his mates really, REALLY want to be given some shields for all those skirmishes they end up in... 
