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In general, bringing stuff to the trade depot is higher priority than actually sitting around to trade. Hence why bins and early response are good. If you really must get trade done faster, temporary cancel all the pending trade items from being brought to the depot and your broker will go into standby for trade.

Quote from: Psieye on June 08, 2010, 01:15:00 pm

Hmm, flying fairies would certainly cause trouble. But technically the mini-suikas can fly in canon yet we don't let them fly in Suika Fortress. I don't see too much trouble with just saying fairies cannot fly and only have vestigal wings. Alternatively, maybe make a generic fairy yukkuri? One so pathetic even Daiyoukkuri outshines them.

Oh and I didn't mean introducing Genji himself, but to make Genjikkuris. Which is a mind-swirling concept I know... Well, you prefer shells being something earnt instead of brought along at embark/trade so... how about making an underground animal (that way, they show up no matter what the surface biome is) have shells on butchering? If I am to get morbid, Koishikkuri (and/or Satorikkuri) could be re-introduced as one of the underground animals that releases a shell - the casing for the 3rd eye.


On a tangent, I feel there ought to be Mahjong Sets and Shogi Boards as toys. For cooked food, instead of "biscuit", "stew" and "roast" how about "curry", "sukiyaki" and "sushi"?

Interesting idea you have there. I'm at least for the Satoris' 3rd eye having shells. That seems alright in my book.
I'll look into the toy thing....

And as for food.... I'm not sure... I know that would be accurate. I almost wanted to make Taiyaki since were dealing with bean paste...but there's still regular animals too... so it makes things a bit complicated... besides can you make bean paste curry?

The toy additions are easy:


As for food, since when have dwarves (and by extension, drunken mini-suikas) ever cared about the finer points of gastronomy? Dwarven cooking = "mince it all up, stick it together and hope it stays together". How you're meant to enjoy biscuits made entirely of fat or stews made entirely with sugar, we don't ask. What point there is in mashing various berries together and sticking it in the oven with no flour (at least you could say it's a pie otherwise), we don't ask.

In fact, here's what my personal item_food.txt file looks like:
Dwarves randomly choose one of those entries when making a cooked product. I don't ever question what cake with only mushrooms and fat must taste like, nor do I ask about sugar sushi - dwarves have invincible stomachs like Index and messed up tongues like Hisui.

I like the idea of Taiyaki, better than my curry idea I shoved in for an easy meal name. No doubt you'll end up with cucumber+brain taiyaki fillings at times, but will a drunken suika really care? It's masterfully minced, therefore it's gourment cuisine. It's up to the player to ensure cooked products use sensible ingredients for the sake of sanity.

The active job one as in dwarves never ever doing civilian work again once they start training in the barracks? The one glaring one is official group training not working - sparring and group classes. Without those, you can't train defensive skills. The other glaring one is marksdwarves refusing to shoot - you can get them to train marksdwarfship but you'll never get them to shoot in live combat. There also happens to be the occasional (and seemingly random) "crash when you use the 's' screen to command squads" which I've been hit by a number of times.

#2: From what I've read there is no nice way to get rid of down stairs/ramps without simply constructing a floor above it, is this true?

Channel those stairs out. Ramps can be removed by designating the up ramp below to be removed. Alternatively, perform a cave-in - no way is it nice but it'll do the job.

If you're that concerned, switch invaders off and start your first fortress. Get used to all the new stuff. Then you can worry about learning to tread around the military bugs (which never bothered me as I like melee and steel armour gives good survivability to offset the lack of defence skill training right now). You'll have to learn how to handle a hospital anyway which will take time.

Lock them all up either physically or with burrows so that the target object is the only thing they can reach. Then see if you still can't decorate it. Also note that you may only stud 1 decoration per metal, so see if that object already is decorated with whatever metal you're trying to stud it with.

The old dilemma of "I want my volcano next to other terrain" is solved by maximising the elevation and volcanism variances. Tweak the mesh of elevation so as to bias the middle to upper elevation levels. Get rid of or vastly reduce the "minimun number of [biome] tiles" checks so you don't face unnecessary rejects. All previous advice from Dr. Hieronymous Alloy still apply.