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Embarked on a river, which resulted in the embarkation being a bit more literally on the river than I expected.  Plus the river was in a ditch.  It was half frozen, so the ice blocked the river and it flooded on top of my wagon and dwarves, and promptly froze.

...I also suspect, since the ground had no snow on it, the ice in the river was about to melt, too, so everyone would drown too.

It wasn't five seconds to complete death, but half my dwarves were dead in about that time, so I just gave up.

Make a reaction that turns ten lavish meals into a bar of steel or something?

Traders(Other than your own race's) will NOT come in the first year.

If you've modded in a winter-active civ they will come the first year.  But presumably you haven't.

Possibly make a bunch of cage traps and open up a hallway full of them to the seige if you want to speed things up.

Cage traps are magic.

I've never really had much trouble with eagles, though I suspect that's more a symptom of them not being very aggressive than not being really strong.  Skeletal and zombie eagles of course would not end well.  (Though then again my experience with zombie elephants was that they're a bit overrated since like most undead, my militia can punch them out.  ...though to be fair, undead groundhogs who get a lucky shot in bruise you, elephants leave you crippled.)

Because presumably they'd be designed very differently.  I picture the chair as like, well, a chair, and the throne more like a block with a seat on top.  So yeah, different shapes.

Though such explanations don't account for why glass pipe sections are called tubes.  Or glass doors called portals.

Quote from: fivex on October 04, 2010, 05:58:35 pm

Remove the [CAN_LEARN] tag from them so you can butcher them

ugh, now I know my mod plan isn't feastible. Good to know. I wanted that dwarf, human, elf being butcherable for a new civ race.

Toady, can we have [CAN_LEARN] not to interfere with butcher or no butcher? so that we can put in [NOT_BUTCHERABLE] whenever we want.

It isn't so much CAN_LEARN as your civ's ethics opposing butchering sapient beings.  Which is quite reasonable if you're making a mod with more than one playable race.

The problem with the brain removeal thing was that the game crashed before they could die. Which is not so helpful.

My map doesn't seem to have any zombies.  It's an evil biome, but all it'll spawn is skeletons.  And mostly skeletal carp and groundhogs and occasionally wolves, who all seem to die the moment they're poked.

I did have a number of caged crundles--earlier I'd modded them to have the [PET] tag so I could tame them and slaughter them.  I just got fed up with the fact that the cages would pull half a dozen crundles every time i managed to empty them.  And that they'd occasionally escape the cages and run around the fortress cancelling everyone's jobs.

Yes, temperature is on.  I think there's some weirdness going on with the temperatures of existing creatures, as opposed to new ones--and I'm guessing the crundles that were appearing on the map after doing this were still part of an existing pack, so their body temperature was already set--because when I opened up the arena after messing with the homeotherm of elves, they'd either spontaneously freeze, burst into flames, or, for the creepiest example, have their teeth, and then face, melt, followed shortly by complete evaporation if they were ever exposed to water.

(For those wishing to replicate melting elves, give them [HOMEOTHERM:10000] and [SELECT_MATERIAL:ALL][MELTING_POINT:10020][BOILING_POINT:10020].  It will also cause them to evaporate when killed.)

...and for some reason my arena was raining.  So they didn't even have to find any water to melt.