Bay 12 Games Forum

Mt announcement log looks like:

Snatcher! Protect the children! x4
An ambush! x2
Snatcher! Protect the children! x3
An ambush!

There are also three goblin spearmen, a goblin maceman, and four goblin bowmen on the map now, and 5 dead goblin master thieves. I'm pretty sure I didn't have any dead gobbo thieves on the deadlist before, and there's definitely none left alive now.

It looks like either:

a) Goblin ambush squads saw the thieves as enemies, or
b) Thieves came in first, and were killed because they were occupying tiles that the ambush squads needed.

Happened way too fast for me to see what happened exactly. Just a lot of announcement spam.

1) Find river
2) Dig a channel off the side of the river to a reservoir that's been dug out somewhere in the fort
3) Stick a well (or four) overtop, at least 2-3 levels above on average
4) Profit! I mean Drink!

Had a kind of a hiccup this time.

I had settled my fort at the apparent end of a river, or something -- the water (a brook) splayed out in a delta/chasm pattern. I dug my channel off the "end" of one of the splays, and everything went fine until I got notices of "can't drink: dangerous terrain", went to look at my food stockpile, and noticed the water had flowed up out of the well and now covered the kitchens, stockpile, dining room, et cetera.

Oops.

This wouldn't be such a big deal if I'd ever run into this before, but I've used this scheme forever and have never had to worry about water overflowing like this. It always just seeks its level and never goes above that. (i.e. if the water is on level 145, and I dig a channel, it will never overflow to 146 or above). However, usually I'm just siphoning off the side of the flow, so this may be a case where what I actually tapped into, I don't know, a spring or something.

Anyway, definitely not working the way it usually does. Not sure if this should be a bug or it's just a water hazard.

Is this actually a  bug, or a design call?

[ March 09, 2008: Message edited by: nunix ]

Yep, I know it's been written that somewhere down the line we may get files for all the buildings.

Consider this just noting something in the record as something that would be nice to have; it's not priority (but I ree-ee-ee-ee-eeaally want it) or anything, no need for a brouhaha.

Anyway..

My Dune-y desert sietch dwarves need a way to get water out there in the sands. Since it appears liquids can't really be contained after being made in a smelter, but a still is built with that purpose (can't brew something without an available container first), it seems like this would be the best choice. Just something I can slip in a [reaction:corpse_to_water] entry would be fine. ^_^

Playing around with different sorts of creatures and entities, I've found that - surprise - arrows are the great equaliser. Reducing damage doesn't help; it's the pierce-an-organ potential that makes them killers. Likewise, increased damblock doesn't really solve anything, because a) arrows like to bypass it, and b) it makes the creature unreasonably tough against everything else.

The various NO* tags, and removal of accompanying organs, can sort of bypass this, but it feels veeeery unsatisfying.

What would be better is a simple token that does not allow arrows to pierce the outer surface of the creature, or something scalable so it requires a certain density or.. something.

Anyway, would help even out the odds for creatures that don't use shields but shouldn't be struck down by a stray arrow or blowdart.