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Actually, if you are really obsessive, there is something similar to burial you can do, but that would be a mega project:
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It's a good suggestion, but I need to start a new map anyway for the vermin removal reaction. Plus the "friendly" goblins drive off the dwarf caravan, and I still get goblin sieges instead of goblin caravans. I'm disabling sieges in init also until military actually works and my butt heals from the last raping I received from the overpowered siegers.   Two friendly goblins died so far, but they were taking on 10-15 ambushers solo, since the friendly ones are all spread out across the fort.


Another quick question while I am here: I disabled invaders in init, is there anything else I need to do to make the goblins trade with me? So that they will at least be useful if I can't fight them.


Edit: An easier way to do the custom grave thing would be to channel 1 tile holes, designate them as pits, and pit the desired corpse, then floor them up afterward. Requires unoccupied space below, of course.

I reclaimed a fort in the new version, however I can't seem to get my dwarfs to bury the old batch of dead dwarfs. How do I get them to bury the dead?
(I was  wiped out by an 11-goblin siege. They killed over 100 dwarfs plus 20 war dogs without taking a scratch. Now they are friendly and have wiped out a number of ambushes, with only 1 friendly goblin getting a tiny scratch on her cheek. Heh.)

I considered, briefly, building an outside trade depot (building/tower not just the depot itself) out of petrified wood blocks. I couldn't get enough of them, though.

Yeah, any species that could cross interstellar distances, FTL or no, isn't going to do it just to come here and take our stuff. (Edit: It would be like spending a trillion dollars to rob a convenience store's "free penny" dish.)


On the other side, I consider it perfectly possible that they may come visit so they can get an updated version of Dwarf Fortress.

I feel we should be looking for other intelligent life. Like it or not we've been sending out signals for quite a while now. Not just radio and TV signals, but also surface nukes. (wars, tests) That's a big "there's something interesting here" sign right there, to anyone looking.

As far as the crunch/rip thing goes, depending on curvature of space we may get infinite expansion or an eventual collapse. A more definite certainty is the heat death of the universe, as eventually new star formation will cease.

Oh, and the proton may be unstable.

I tried this and it doesn't work:

[REACTION:CREMATE_REMAINS]
[NAME:cremate remains]
[BUILDING:SMELTER:NONE]
[REAGENT:A:1:REMAINS:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[PRODUCT:100:2:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:COAL:COKE][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
[SKILL:SMELT]

I put it in reaction_smelter.txt in both my save game raw folder and the main game raw folder.

... Pink Olm, Purple Plump Helmet...

I can't decide which sounds more wrong.


I like the idea of some kind of more organized dining system for all dwarfs, and a tavern / restaurant that works kind of like shops for dwarfs to eat at once the economy gets going.

Edit for clarity: I mean I like BOTH ideas   The cafeteria system could be improved on somewhat but that's pretty much how dining halls work now, minus the idlers gathering there.  Right now they end up being huge FPS drags due to constant parties and such.

They can stand on top of the floors formed by the walls of a lower level to build the corner walls of the next level up first.


I built archery towers this way.

X is stairs up/down, + is floors, # is fortifications. (I use the mayday tileset so I don't remember the right characters for ASCII graphics)

Step 1
+++
+X+
+++

Step 2
#+#
+X+
#+#

Step 3
###
#X#
###



It should work the same for larger buildings. If you are building fortifications, build a wall and carve fortifications into them. That way you get the wall and the floor above it. If you are building constructed fortifications, those don't create a floor above them. So build a wall and carve it.

Edited for clarity