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Quote from: Farmerbob on June 21, 2011, 02:17:23 pm

Quote from: LordShotGun on June 21, 2011, 01:07:11 pm

It does not show up on the unit menu. My military still has orders to patrol over it's corpse and are not attacking anything. I have plenty of space in the refuse pile. I just keep getting spammed by canceled orders from the forgotten beast interrupting and my dwarves flee from the sight of it.

When you go to the announcement screen and zoom in on the announcement for a job cancellation due to forgotten beast, does it zoom in on that beast?

If so, might want to dig up underneath it and cause it to fall down a level then put a floor over it, or dig above it and drop a piece of floor on it.

I tried digging around it but my miners get scared and cancel the mining job until the get far enough away, calm down, take the job again, see the dead forgotten beast corpse, run away screaming URIST CANCELED DIG INTERRUPTED BY FORGOTTEN BEAST (yes my dwarves speak in third person)

Make a copy of the save game at this point.  upload it to dffd and put in a mantis bug about it and link the save.

Don't try to dig around it, dig below it to make it fall, or above it to drop a piece of cavern on it.

Also sign me up. I need some experience at killing dorfs. So far, every dorf death I've had are due to a pathing error or an ambush.

Didn't you freeze one in an aquifier too? 

I still have to get a dagger so give me some time. Also, I thought you can only assign a CotG when there's a mayor.

I'll just draft you into the main military for now and get you training.

Training the sherrif to be a good fighter is not healthy for your future lawbreakers, heh.

I see a great deal of !FUN! in the future of this fort, lol.

Quote from: Farmerbob on June 21, 2011, 06:18:02 am

Part of the !FUN!  of DF is discovering things yourself and inventing new ways to do something, or on occasion discovering that you know how to do things others didn't know were possible.

I frequently assist newer players in the forums.  I'm also frequently incorrect about some of the more complex aspects of the game, and generally avoid the 2010 military as much as possible.  However, recently I discovered that a lot of the other experienced people here were not aware that it was possible to carve fortifications into a constructed wall.  But last night I was introduced to a very clever method of breaking through an aquifier.  It's give and take here, even amongst some of the most experienced players.

pray tell, what is this way of breaking through an aquifer?

knowing me, I've probably found new ways of doing multiple things in DF, but I thought they were already discovered.
knowing me, that is.

Two methods actually - here's a thread that references both.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=79224.0

Just out of curiosity, if the issue is a heat issue, maybe just dig some 1x1 stairwells around an old style pump stack and fill them with magma?  Static magma that never moves and maintains the temperature of the main stack.

Not sure if this would be useful or not though.  It might be good for forts with really huge pump stacks that are of the old style, you could heat their walls and get rid of the heat effects without having to completely disassemble them.

Does the wet effect have the same FPS-affecting symptoms?

Wow

Can't wait to see this stuff implemented, and the story was cool too

Have you ever considered a Dwarf Fortress franchise for writing novels?

Sure, they would have to be toned down a *little* from ingame things that some players do, but the framework of the game is already more than sufficient to build some good stories around it.

  There is a bug right now with large gems not moving around properly.  This might be related - at least in the case of the gem.

  The face veil.  Hrm.

1) Create a stockpile for veils in a lockable room.  Disable veils wherever they might otherwise be stored.  After dwarves move all other veils, lock the room.

2) Create a uniform for one of your nobles that isn't wearing a veil that includes a veil and then see if they go pick it up and wear it.

  I've never seen elephant men.  If they don't exist, can they be made to exist?

  Just the thought of a biped intelligent tool user with a gore attack and three wielding appendages (hands and trunk) makes me think they would be impressive enemies.

  Big enough to fight with two two-handed weapons and wield a shield with their trunk - AND if you get into close melee with you, they just stab you with their tusks.

  Their potential for charge attacks should be pretty nice too.

  You could just add them in and pretend they have always ruled the elves, but have just recently revealed themselves