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> Throw sock to distract the werewolf with its pungent smell, then scratch it behind the ear to befreind it!

everything actualy...


Replaced the init file with another clean one and modded it to what I want, everything is now working apart from it wont let me go full screen :/

I think there should be 4 sorts of magic in DF:

1. Superstitious magic : This magic is the most common, basicaly it is a conglomeration of little practices, traditions and rituals that effect a persons life in a minor way (or minor compared to other magic) this can be totaly civi based, so one might have different rituals and magical traditions to another.
Things like minor artifacts (dream catchers for instance might ward off fell moods) and tattoos, chants, potions, and so on might come under this catagory.
Your fort may attract a witch or other such person that will move around your fort randomly attending dwarfs, each time doing some little ritual or otherwise that would help the dwarf in a contextual manner, one dwarf might be sentanced to being hammered by a noble, but the witch gives him a lock of the hammers beard and if he holds this in his left hand during the hammering he will be protected.

2. Materialistic magic : This is your classic rune's, different materials have different magical propertys in the same way they have different physical propertys. Silver runed barrels might keep food better than a wooden barrel, A gold band with specific runes on it might make the wearer more active and require less sleep (maybe with bad sideffects?). This can be extended to gems and architecture. Golems would be a very high end version of this magic. A tallent for this kind of magic might come from a mood or maybe a high enough skill. Again more mostly minor magics.

3. Godly magics, these are more traditional high magic things, but they are only in the controll of the gods and demons, or other mythical beasts. An example of this sort of thing might be the ability of dragons to breath fire. Fairies might make alot of use of this kind of magic, I like to think of them as highly chaotic and random, so they might do somthing odd like turn the sky green or make trees grow upside down, change the colour of you hair, turn your pet dog into a sack full of  Pigtail socks...
This magic might effect fortress or adventure play through magical areas, and holy sites. A ring of mushrooms might be one, or a old temple, a very deep lake maybe a lost underground city etc...

4.Finaly, Epic magic :
Epic magic is there to provide intresting story elements in world gen, a classic example is the One ring from LOTR. Another might be a rare sword like excalibur or a well of eternal youth. This is the most powerfull of magics, but will be mostly out of the players control. However it makes great reasons for quests or adventures, game driven or player driven.

Well yeah, not everyone would write them, only those with artistic personalitys or somthing...

Maybe nobles could keep jounrnals related to their job? Bookeepers keep records of shortages and so on, hammers keeping records of their work :F
Mayors taking minuites of their meetings would be intresting...

Heh, on the fey mood books:

"Urist has gone insane: Writers Block!"

[ February 11, 2008: Message edited by: Seagoon ]

Three simple suggestions:

1. Alow us the option to turn off Aquifiers before world gen.

2. PLEASE PLEASE make walling and flooring easier, somthing like the roads/bridges have at the moment would be sufficiant!

3. give us a 'common stone only' option when building, so that we dont accedentialy build half the wall out of potash and charcoal.

/END

Easy, waterfalls with bridges to syphon off water into storage tanks...

Anyway, my impenitrable fortress:

This is simmilar to Nilocys design but its just coincedence

Im going to start in the plains with a large river running through it then follow these steps:

1. divert river and build stone aboveground work town.

2. dig huge ass hole as far down as I can go without too deeping or whatever

3. construct three towers to my own design with rewall and the stone I have quarryed, one shal have farms and storage, the seconds shal have manufactureing and the third will have residential and the safehouse.
Each tower will be conected to eachother and the land around with draw bridges and have a small balista/marksdwarf bunker mounted on top.
Each tower will also have the bottom most layer mined to form stilts, this will alow water to flow under them and stop anyone from digging up into the fortress.

4, construct greenglass tubes connecting each tower, these will be used to move from tower to tower, at the same time build the windows, floodgates and pressuredoors.
These floodgates will be positioned to flood farms and provide the ability to flood the whole tower section by section if required. pumps in a smaller tower alongside each main tower will provide the ability to remove the water.

5. destroy above ground town and divert the river back to its origional course, this will flood the hole and help provide an impenitrable defence.

6. In the event of a seige, the dwarfs will retreat into the safehouse, if the seige is small, my army will man the bunkers and fight them off, if the seige breaks throigh this defence and somehow gets onto a tower, the tower is flooded till the invaders drown.
The dwarfs in the safehouse will have acsess to food and the pumps so that they can reclame the fortress after the seige.

Oh, each maintower will be sectioned off into three parts each, so that if only one needs to be flooded the rest of the fortress can still opperate.

About the only way I can think of breaking this place is to climb down the pumps, but that can be avoided by flooding the pumps from the bottom and then pumping lake water upwards