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Quote from: noppa354 on November 03, 2010, 08:32:23 pm

Quote from: Dral on October 31, 2010, 09:31:52 am

Quote from: noppa354 on October 30, 2010, 09:19:19 pm

make the metal boil at body temp and make the syndrome activate when inhaled (you need to make your dwarves wear nether-cap gauntlets or something like that so that they don't kill themselves by picking up the bolts)

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but what would stop these bolts from boiling when handled by dwarves?

nether caps are GREAT insulation, someone in another thread said nether cap gauntlets prevent the boiling, and can possibly lower damage from magma!

I believe this is due to Nethercaps having a fixed temperature of 10,000U. Always.

Quote from: Yolan on November 02, 2010, 02:53:58 am

Sorry to be a pain OP, but have you considered that maybe your avatar image is not so appropriate for this forum?

It's really a mixture of the image and the text underneath it that makes it offensive.

When the initial crash happened (In the game), I decided to make a new region, but when I tried to load up the region (after it was created), the application crashed. So I remade the world and deleted the old one. THat one crashed, too.

Then everything went to hell from there.

When I got back online, I deleted the DF folder, but the region 1 file won't delete entirely. There is a 0x80070091 error that pops up when I try to. I'm also doing spyware scans and a chkdsk scan, and nothing malicious is coming up. And now that I deleted the DF folder and restarted the computer, everything is working normally again. It's just that one folder that I can't delete now.

If you have all of the required reagents, the reaction is automatically queued. Like tanning hides, or rendering fat.

Quote from: darkflagrance on October 20, 2010, 10:56:56 pm

There is no way to get the game to do exactly what you want. A single entity will only be represented in your Fortress Mode game by a single civ of that entity.

What you can do is duplicate the human, elven, dwarven, etc entities (in the entity_default file) so you have an [ENTITY:PLAINS], [ENTITY:PLAINSTWO] etc. Each duplicate is capable of sending a caravan to your fort once per season. This requires a new world though.

Ahh cool thank you.

this is also a way to get a dwarf on dwarf war going if you try hard enough

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Ah, I think I see what's going on.  Those are both good points by themselves.  But the deal is that all the zombie discussion--and I mean all of it--spawned from the fevered minds of Dwarf Fortress players, and we do not know what real features will be put in.

From the available information, night creatures can do things that mess up corpses.  The implication is that corpses are a problem if a night creature is involved.  The majority of corpses should behave as normal.

And, I'm just guessing here, but players who keep an eye on things might notice when there's a risk of corpses being dangerous.  It could be like goblin snatchers: observed night creature activity alerts you that you need to do something, but occasionally they get by stealthily (note the discussion of invisibility in Threetoe's story) and you discover the problem too late.

Thus, whether my suggested mechanism is exactly right or not, proper burial would be encouraged.  The consequence would just be risk: something bad might happen someday.  And, I might note, this is the sort of random risk we expect from a game like this.

(And to reference Xenos, who wrote while I was typing: indeed, another mechanism would be that the risk depends on surroundings.)

--Rexfelum