Bay 12 Games Forum

Since we can already gather sand for glass-making - including glass blocks - are there any plans in the future for gathering clay?

Mind you, I'm not even sure this is a good or necessary addition, but it follows with the other things available in DF, and the feature/bloat lists are a little unwieldy at the moment to just go randomly searching through. So I got to wondering if this was maybe planned for some point, or if it had been considered and decided against.

I love the idea of finding buried temples or sub-biomes a la Journey to the Center of the Earth.

I like there ALWAYS being the possibility of "digging too deep" and unleashing nightmares that you just probably can't win against, it was one thing I liked in 2D, that certain doom always waiting for you.

Twinion and Cawdor are up and running.

Community's coming together and there are some semi-regular gaming nights on Wednesday and Saturday in SierraLand.

Connection can be a little iffy (it looks like ISPs that do traffic-shaping cause issues with connecting to the client) but it's up most of the time, so sidle on by and give it a look. ^_^

Was hoping someone might be up for writing a couple of simple scripts (perl or something) that would do the following:

1) Strip out all the characters between the last : and ] in one of the language_ files (theoretically only need to do it once to generate a "clean" file, but if there are more words added later, this would solve having to do-over and redistribute. Probably works best if you just make a copy of one of the files, rename it language_new and strip out the header stuff, so you have only the T_WORD lines, starting at line 1 in the file)

2) Input in words from a second file into that space between the last : and ], just match up line-for-line, i.e. the characters in line 1 of wordlist.txt goes into T_WORD:ABBEY:<here>

Any takers? =D

Now, at the moment, we can do stone mining, because those are your basic layers (granite, obsidian, salt, etc). Ores and gems are relatively random, however, and small. You can't really have an "iron mine" as much as you might mine out 3-5 veins of it at wildly different coordinate levels (x/y/z).

Are there plans at some point for a different model of ore distribution? I'm sure multi-z veins will come in, but also longer veins, or several veins close together? Something so that you could expect to open an iron mine that would last 5-10 years, as opposed to a season?