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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Biggest letdown!
« on: June 06, 2007, 12:55:00 am »
He got possessed, I assume. Did he gain any skill afterward? If not, yep, posession. All you got out of that was an artifact.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Pumps and power
« on: March 16, 2008, 07:01:00 pm »
Windmills provide power to the square directly below them. If you want your pump to just pump all the time, try building a wall and ramp and building the windmill right on top of the pump. It'll transfer power to the pump and make it go.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Can I practice animal husbandry?
« on: June 19, 2007, 10:31:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by odd2k:
<STRONG>Do you even need males to get pregnant females at the moment? I always thought the females became spontaneously pregnant (in the game that is).</STRONG>
Yes. However, that's _all_ you need, one or more males (I think they need to be adult too.)
They don't have to be anywhere near each other, or even able to get at each other, they jsut need to exist.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: help! trouble digging through aquifer!
« on: March 16, 2008, 04:32:00 pm »
Build a pump and pump it into a channel into the aquifer. It'll magically disappear.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: My latest pickle, trapped roads?
« on: March 16, 2008, 07:03:00 pm »
If you build traps directly onto the dirt, trees don't seem to grow under them.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The tricksy goblins!
« on: March 11, 2008, 06:35:00 am »
Doesn't the game mean "underground", as in subterranean tiles, rather than "inside"? If so, you could build ceilings to keep out flying things.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Noob questions
« on: March 11, 2008, 06:33:00 am »quote:
Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>To lessen the pain, you could also create a jeweler's shop in a special area, place a stockpile that only accepts the item type, material type, and quality rating of the item you're looking for, and then once your specific item has made its way to the pile, forbid all the others in the mini-stockpile, lock a jeweler in there, and tell him to encrust something.Still a pain, but it's less of a pain.</STRONG>
Another way is to build a jeweler's shop in an area you can lock, and make sure there's nothing in it but the gems and a dump zone. Dump the item you want, send your jeweler in to do something, then lock him in, and if he was encrusting something else, suspend the job, forbid the item, then unsuspend the job. He'll have only the item you want encrusted to encrust, so have him do that then let him out.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Faster Bedroom Assignment
« on: June 12, 2007, 05:56:00 am »quote:
Originally posted by Andrelius:
<STRONG>When assigning bed rooms for single dwarves, is there any way faster than going from each bed and assigning them to a dwarf?</STRONG>
If you want them to sleep in a specific place, no, otherwise you can just let them go pick their own. First time they sleep in an unclaimed bedroom, it's theirs.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Why did my setup fail to work?
« on: March 08, 2008, 03:19:00 am »
Have you tried removing the meeting zone and placing one underground and then issuing the "stay inside" order and seeing what happens? It looks like your meeting zone is above-ground, and I believe "indoors" really means "underground".
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The science of cooling
« on: June 06, 2007, 12:52:00 am »
Hm. I wonder if I could grow and kill enough creatures to, in a glacier map, use frozen blood as a building material.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Craftsdwarf in fey mood
« on: August 28, 2006, 02:36:00 am »
Maybe he wants dark stone, or perhaps rock?
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Ranged weapons too strong in adventure?
« on: August 26, 2006, 05:59:00 am »
Also spears. Carry around some shit and throw them at anybody armed with spears or they'll get in a lucky hit and destroy both lungs or something.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Adventurer Mode Tips
« on: August 27, 2006, 12:30:00 am »quote:
Originally posted by JT:
<STRONG>*nods* Know thine enemy. Never try breaking limbs of supernatural creatures like mudmen, because their limbs are just spongiferous masses of goo held together by the cohesive force of hatred. And dead puppies.</STRONG>
I find it doesn't work on _anything_ that's not a stock humanoid. (Or minotaur or cyclops, which are stock humanoids with horns and less eyes respectively.) Animals? Nope. Nightwings? Nope.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Adventurer Mode Tips
« on: August 26, 2006, 05:55:00 am »
It doesn't work on averything, either. Also, grab the upper leg, that breaks the hip, rendering the entire leg useless.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Adventurer Mode Tips
« on: August 22, 2006, 10:38:00 pm »
Alternative skill advice:
Buy lots of a wapon skill and armor use. Don't buy any Wreslting, as you can find a ruin, get a zombie, then use wreslting to break their shoulders and hips and start choking them. They won't die from this, and you can run away if anybody else shows up, then come back and do it again. This will make your Wreslting skill go way up, and armor and weapon skills are harder to raise. No shield, since you're going to want the free hand for gouging out eyes and breaking joints.