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10 for skin and fat, and 25 for everything else

Good idea, though scale should be included in the 10 category with skin and fat.

Also, can you use the coin of one nation in another nation?

Short Answer: No.

Long answer: Coins are treated as normal items in other nations' shops instead of currency. This means that you can mark them for trade like any other item, but even hundreds of gold coins are practically worthless when traded this way.

I generated a new world for 31.18 and am no longer having this problem. Don't know if it is due to a change in 31.18, some factor of this world vs the previous ones, simple luck, or what.

I've just been doing a simple spiral ramp. The first of the three shows all four different floors, the next two show the different ways I usually branch from them.

3x3 would be more efficient, but I don't like the feel of ramps in different directions right next to each other. Also the inside corner of each 4x4 is a good place for a nice statue or something.

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It would also make the blacksmith MUCH more important for the fortress, since you'd probably end up making the tools necessary for most professions on-site. Which, of course, is fairly accurate for how pre-industrial societies worked.

You'd probably have to abstract a lot of it out into general clustered items. So instead of making a hammer, and saw, and chisel, and plane, etc for the carpenter's shop, you'd just make -carpenter's tools- which would be required to build a carpenter's workshop.

To some extent it is implemented in some things like buckets for wells and some workshops. If something is going to be part of the workshop and already implemented for other reasons, like buckets, I am not against it. But making tools part of the workshop adds hassle for what? It makes no sense, adding UNrealism.

What I like about your idea is the abstraction, but in many cases there is no need to make them simply as some building material. "Carpenter's Tools" can exist, but as a separate item. So the carpenter grabs the tools and goes to the workshop to work. Only tools that are realistically physically part of the workshop should be treated as such, like how a well needs a bucket as physically part of it but the buckets used for carrying water away from it are separate instead of needing to be built into it. This solves the problem of taking apart the workshop just so your carpenter can use a a better saw and hammer with it, which would be silly. It would also allow them to use the best tools regardless of which workshop they used, so long as no-one else was using them at the moment.

As for details made on-site in general, soap is pushing it for me. Bleeping soap, I'd hate to see more hassles like that . Though I would not mind so much if I could trade for the stuff.

Problem: Glowing eyes look like bushes, as shown by the yellow bush here.

(The non-Phoebus tiles are simply because I modified it a bit, ignore that.)

Solution: GLOWTILE in creature_standard.txt allows setting it to something other than the bush. For example here I drew some dots on unused tile 182 and did a find and replace of all instances of [GLOWTILE:'"'] with [GLOWTILE:182].


Only effects adventure mode as far as I know, but it is simple to fix. Note that multiple creatures have a GLOWTILE setting, so only changing the first instance of [GLOWTILE:'"'] won't fully fix it.

Star Ocean 4
Fanfiction-esque writing and broken gameplay. Graphics and sound were very impressive, not counting voice acting, but all else was total garbage.

On Eternal Suggestion Voting.
Dwarves may make them shorter theoretically, but when we are dealing with stone caves, a little extra ceiling room for buttressing may be a good idea.

Dwarves are not the only ones who matter, anyway. Gotta account for human and other structures.

That's just 2 cubic meters less than the maximum volume of a cubic tile, as I am figuring it, meaning that hypothetically, a dragon can occupy the space of a single tile... provided it scrapes the ceiling

Or it could duck its head down a bit. Anyway, sounds perfect.

Of course tile size won't jive with walking time in fortress mode, but I don't think there is a solution for this. Fortress mode relies on a somewhat disassociated time-distance relationship. Just stating this before someone comes in stating how your system doesn't work because of this. No system can work taking time-distance into account without massive changes to how time flows in fortress mode, it is impossible so no point sweating over it.