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He truly is an evil fellow for carrying that wine barrel just so that no other dwarf can drink from it.

I'd rather see traps made less powerful, in the olden times you could just make a long long corridor of traps and handle everything hostile with it.

In my opinion creatures should have the chance to walk past the trap without triggering the mechanism (since your dwarves continuously run over the traps I can't see them being too hard not to step into), to detect the trap and go past unharmed or if they already triggered it, to dodge the trap.

It's alright. Eating raw turtles isn't the WORST they can do.

Yeah, that message is pretty much useless.

Personally I would not only like to disable it but also tell the nobles to get another hobby instead of just altering the prices several times a day.

So I had this odd idea of Dwarves having birthdays. You could see the dwarf's birthday from their thoughts menu (The place you can see their likes/dislikes). Then at the birthday date the dwarf's possible friends would go and buy (If the capi- economy has started) or make him/her a present. I guess it would add even more depth to the already deep game.

Possible problems:

- The relatively fast pace of the game (Days are short).
- Presents filling that 4 square room.

Hope the post is clear enough, sorry I wrote it in bit of a hurry.

[ May 07, 2007: Message edited by: Jusal ]

In my cave they still seem to happily make engravings of the sun.

So I had this idea examining the statues in my soon-to-be sculpture garden. "This is a masterwork basalt statue", "This is an obsidian statue", "This is a finely crafted siltstone statue". So they are... umm... statues? Uh yes, I suppose, even though I have no idea what a generic statue looks like.

So the basic idea of this suggestion is adding Double-Engravement style descriptions to statues. For example that obsidian statue in the corner would no longer be a generic obsidian statue but instead an obsidian statue of a fighting dwarf! As with engravings the statues would be affected by the recent happenings in the fortress (So if you just had a fierce fight against goblins there would be a good chance of your mason making a goblin statue).

Of course there would need to be some limits what your dwarves would make statues of. For example while you can engrave a blowdart a statue represeting a blowdart would give a somewhat... bizarre image... or at least a very small statue.