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Well, if you're on a version prior to .13, it'll probably be a couple keeps made of obsidian.  They aren't usually too tall, though, but they're relatively big and could be interesting to claim.

.13 and forward you can't embark on settlements and they don't have anything in them because Toady hasn't repaired them yet.

Also unless everyone has died out or your on an island or cut off from everything by mountains, you'll have every civ listed as a neighbor.

Quote from: Fanklok on October 07, 2010, 03:46:05 am

Hatchcovers can actually cover things though, like deadly deadly pressurized carp flows.

But why legendary? Novice mason would make a hatch that would stop a deadly-deadly flow just the same.

No no, you put it in your noble's closet and he'll think it's a royal bedroom.  For that matter, cover a pressurized water flow with it and it doubles as a failsafe in event of slade production mandates.

As far as I can tell, the suckiest artifacts are wood or stone crafts with no decorations.  I've gotten those far too often.  Wood ones are probably the worst, because I never use woodcrafters, so even a fey/secretive mood is like a possesion.  Crafts of other materials are pretty lame too, such as that gem, though at least they increase your fortress worth.

Adamantine cape does score a bit for disappointment, but it's still wearable as armor and will probably stop something.  And possibly get a usable legendary craftsdwarf.

It appears it doesn't constantly check melting points against the raws or some such.  So my crundles are staying intact unless they're newly spawned... until they are exposed to anything that isn't at room temperature.  This mostly seems to mean blood, specifically, their own.  Then they go poof very quickly.

I had a crundle have a finger severed, which caused it to die nearly instantly, and the cloud of blood happened to touch and adjacent crundle, who promptly started melting.  It didn't die from that though, there were also three axe dwarves in the area and it was dismembered in ten frame window from which it was exposed to the blood and it totally melted.

This may be the most amusing thing that has happened to my fortress recently.

I'm suspicious that changing the HOMEOTHERM of a creature wouldn't effect the creatures that have already spawned, but changing their ignition point is likely to result in spontaneous combustion.  You might have to do something like make their blood a gas at room temperature, so it'll cause their body to look at their ignition temperature, but I'm not sure.

...this may call for save-scumming to test.

As a note, I've found a solution that prevents new crundles from spawning, but doesn't seem to apply to any already spawned ones.  Still better than nothing.

Adding this to the end of the creature definition causes new crundles to evaporate.
[SELECT_MATERIAL:ALL]
[MELTING_POINT:4000][BOILING_POINT:4000]

...also it appears to have resulted in the dead crundle on top of my trade depot exploding, causing it do deconstruct.  Huh.

This seems to happen occasionally.  I'm not clear whether its due to freak irreproduceable glitches or its an actual recurring bug, but, um, try regenning the exact same world parameters and embark on the same spot?

But I've heard of people having their entire surface cave into the magma sea, and on other occasions, caves being revealed from the start.  Or, you know, adamantine space elevators.

If anything, lowering the GFPS cap should improve your framerate.  If it only has to output the screen once every other frame, for example, it should go faster.

...I haven't run any tests though, so no clue if this is the case.

Cassiterite isn't really that rare if you're looking in the right place--granite layers.  ...it does mean Gold is more common since gold is found in every igneous layer, and cassiterite is found in exactly one.

Bismuthinite is of course rarer than both, soo...

And steel is clearly better and it's ingredients are as common as dirt--almost literally--if you're first stone layer is dolomite, chalk, or limestone.