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I got some questions too:
Where do i find undeads? I cleansed all the dungeons i found. But there is only goblins cyclops and kobolds.
My char is ultra-mighty and extremely tough and agile. But criminal from very start of the game(i was tryin to trade but they attacked me so i end killing everybody and took set of "=plate armors="). What else i can do in game?

I hang with elven swordsgirl. And she goes prone all the time and stands up. Maybe she need to drink/eat or something?

She is good at killing goblins with wooden sword. But how do i equip her with some **uber-twohander**? Is there way to give away items like in ADOM?

I currently use twohanded great axe and shield, does it decrease damage or something?

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Originally posted by Lord Blue:
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Actually, no. Chain mail is useless without some kind of padding underneath. The poor man would go clothes -> thick cloth armor made of many layers of cloth sewn together -> chain. A knight, however, was rich, and could afford clothes -> plate (for padding) -> chain -> tabard with family crest/coat of arms.</STRONG>

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If you dont know stuff - listen. I didn't ever say that somebody wears chain on naked body. It was common to wear chain over studded leather or some cloth dress(actually thick woolen armor you speak of was replaced with thinner and effective leather) and helmet over some fur or wool/multilayer cloth cap. There is possible some padding but nobody was using chain over solid plate armor. Its a nonsense.
Go enlighten yourself somewhere.

I tell you what. Even a full suit of plate had gaps and openings at the articulations, such as the arm pit or the inside of the elbow; else the wearer would be unable to move. So those gaps were covered with mail(or not). But if you wear chain OVER plate it would be quite pointless since its much easier to penetrate while its freely dangling over your plate armor.

However since end of XV full plate armor was used without chainmail. Thats because guns and crossbows became more powerful and popular and only 25kg plate could stop a bullet or bolt of that time and additional 8 kilo of chain would be too much. In XVI muskets were invented. They were able to penetrate plate armor at distance 240m. Also light agile fighters with swords designed specially to thrust and abuse armor gaps became effective way to deal with slow fully armored guys. So it was the end of medieval armor as we know it(along with so-called "middle ages").

A: So i will actually see the river on local maps?

B: How can you know? Ok a function which would fill a waterskin in all places where we can drink "from ground" its maybe even 5 minutes to do.
By the way its became not necessary because i discovered other way - instead of drinking you can go to wilderness map and back. Thristy status goes away. Along with wounds and other. But lost eyes don't reappear =)

For me hardest to find was a dragon. I scanned whole caverns 2 times and no luck.
I made about 10 other quests, cleared couple of goblin forts and decided to go back to dragon hunt.
While searching for him in labyrinth, I suddedntly got the message about dragon scorching some montain goat. That sneaky lizard was outside all the time.

it`s not fair dwarves can smith without hammer and still need axes to chop wood...

My very first artifact in DF was Ostotam, a Copper sarcophagus(i checked gamelog.txt). It was about ~36k i think. I made a mausoleum for the baron out of it, but sunavubitch never died.

Only useful artifact i've created was an iron crossbow. My minotaur adventurer used it(mostly as a hammer) to exterminate elves.