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Quote from: JAFANZ on August 28, 2010, 12:29:47 pm

Quote from: johnny_cat on August 28, 2010, 12:06:42 pm

Well, I just started a new fort, and I kind of cheated by having the starting points set up to 10000. But I don't have to worry about kobolds and vultures for now because I started off with 60 wardogs. 30 males, and 30 females. I'm kind of worried about all the puppies screwing up my FPS later on. The entire area around my wagon is smeared with vulture blood and there's like 2 dozen vulture corpses lying around. I just wish I could figure out how to get them to deal with the herd of hippos and the crocodile. If only I could have started off with giant eagles.

I'm pretty sure the won't be any puppies until some of your adult dogs die off, the population limit for each species of pet is ostensibly 50.

no more pregnancies will happen for that species until their population drops below that.

Actually, Fall just rolled in, and I have a ton of females giving birth to litters of puppies.

Won't be the last time I'm wrong about something.

...
and now followed by a goblin siege...
okay, I got rid of the elves with the trusty
[s][a][k][r]
and now my marksdwarves are manning (dwarfing?) the tower I have in front of my fortress...
They brought about 5 squads of melee... and 3 blowgunners
now the only danger is seeing if I can remember which lever operates my atom smashers, and which lever puts me into siege mode

[Edit] Why is it crossed out? =/
Also, strangely enough, whilst he and his fellows were being butchered, the diplomat was chatting to my mayor... the conversation must have been awkward...

the problem with using [ & ] to surround keypress identifiers is that the forum software also uses them to surround formatting tags, & s is the tag for "Strikethrough"(/Crossed out).

Unfortunately I don't know how to "escape" a tag so you can display the characters that go into it, what I did above was somewhat more convoluted (I opened & closed strikethru tags on both sides of the "s").

The water/sea is in one of the caverns. It could be any of the three.

To my mind the fact that it appears to have been pierced by a Magma pool suggests #2 or #1, rather than #3, but that's just intuition.

You could just "cheat" & use DFreveal or Stonesense to check.

Find out his materials preferences, ensure that whatever furniture, clothing, & possesions he has are, where practicable, made of these at the highest quality (preferences raise percieved value), create custom food & booze stockpiles containing his preferred foodstuffs in or near his quarters.

Get him socialising a lot may help.

If they aren't already, engrave his floors & walls, if they are, consider replacing them with constructed ones made of High value/preferred materials (Blocks not stones).

Statues of preferred materials in quarters.

Artifacts in quarters (i.e. spare artifact weapons in weapon traps).

Coffin?

Pet?

You should be able to pass the cavern sea the same way you'd pass an aquifer, alternately, do some exploratory mining for a natural rock pillar through it.

as for the magma pool, if it's close to the water, it's probably the water turned the top layer into obsidian & muddied it.

Use the loo(k) command on some of the more central muddy tiles to find out (Magma pools can rise to any z level).

I don't know if it is intended, but since it is a result of the floor colour, I suspect it is not particularly avoidable.

do a find for for "Curses", that's the default set, you will need to replace it with name of the Ironhands graphics set.

I can't be any more specific than that because I've only been playing the game on Winblows XP for the last 3 (or so) weeks.

There are at least 3 Graphical tilesets in common use (as in, available already incorporated into download/install packages complete with the game): Ironhands, Maydays, Phoebus' (the last comes with the "Lazy Newb" packs, the other 2 are incorporated into the names of their downloads on dffd I believe).