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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Invading trolls turning up in the caverns?????
« on: September 11, 2011, 02:50:19 am »
So, two invading forces, fought off with acceptable losses from the front door.

Then I notice that a dozen of my non-fighting dwarves have been struck down, including 2 legendary stone crafters.  WT*???

And there's a contingent of invading trolls in the CAVERNS!!! How did they get in? CAN they attack this way?

Looking at it, there is no way into my part of the caverns except through deep water - trolls can swim now?

Any ideas welcome, as I still can't work out what the *** happened.  And the fort has crumbled, as while I was trying to sort out the mystery of the scuba trolls, Urist McWTF wandered onto the very top of the walls to look at the elite goblin bowman, got shot, and now there's a pile of a dozen more sock looters on top of the walls.  Sigh...

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DF Gameplay Questions / Dying of thirst...
« on: September 05, 2011, 02:34:33 am »
...in the dining room, with 700 alcohol and a working well...

What happened? One minute all is well, then a good craftsdwarf falls dead in the dining room.  No-one else is looking that thirsty, and things are ticking along nicely, but?

Did he commit suicide, forget to drink, fall asleep and die?  Any theories?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Two Issues
« on: July 30, 2011, 05:14:07 am »
Just come back to DF after a sanity break, and enjoying things again, but two main things I can't work out;

1 - how do I stop children being killed/injured in danger rooms, without resorting to complicated burrow stuff?

2 - abandoned (by my militia) forbidden weapons that have a LOT of kills - they clutter up the place, but is there any issue with unforbidding them?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Bone encrusted jewel amulet
« on: June 22, 2011, 05:24:39 am »
As it seems that dwarves can't move large gems, as there is no place for them in any stockpiles, I've noticed that if one gets picked up for decorating with horn, bone or ivory, it stays in the craftdwarfs and becomes a rather well encrusted gem after a while, as they pick up the nearest thing...

A purple spinel amulet now has rose quartz, giraffe bone, warthog ivory, human bone(!), goose bone, goblin bone, peafowl bone, elephant ivory, elephant tooth, warthog hoof, an elephant bone image, an alpaca bone image and, appropriately, an image of flasks in chicken bone.

And it's only worth 1010 DF bucks...

Anyone else getting overly decorated gems?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Finally, a USEFUL artifact!
« on: June 20, 2011, 03:54:52 am »
With a touch of recursion...

I give you Riverrisen, a steel mail shirt! Worth 194,400 dwarf bucks!



After all the alpaca wool face veils, vulture leather coats, alder trumpets and ashen cups, something GOOD and NICE.  Almost makes up for the extreme loss of babies so far (between goblin kidnappers and danger rooms, it's troubling).

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DF Gameplay Questions / Mystery magma
« on: June 15, 2011, 02:23:17 am »


Looks okay for a collapsing wall, but there's no magma anywhere on the map. 

She downed, in water. 

Why the 'boiling magma' notice?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Killing dwarven merchant guards?
« on: June 09, 2011, 03:19:18 am »
WTF????

Just conducted my annual 'running of the goblins', where they are naked and weaponless, and my squad is armed and has orders to kill them - very good way of giving my dwarves loooong names and some actual battle experience, and frees up the cages.

Somewhere in the midst of the carnage, the guards of the dwarven merchant nearby join in and start assaulting my squad, or vis-versa.  Outnumbered 2 to 10, they are quickly killed, but what caused this dwarf on dwarf violence?

I didn't include them in the 'kill' order, and the battle log is rather useless "The swordsdwarf stabbed the swordsdwarf" x 20.

Any ideas why?

Just checked the other dwarf - the merchant's axdwarf attacked the minotaur I accidentally released as well, sliced it's leg off, then attacked my militia commander and sliced HER leg off before being killed by the rest.  ???

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DF Gameplay Questions / Strange butchering?
« on: June 02, 2011, 03:49:13 am »
So, one of the new migrants is a hunter, and he was out hunting cavy sows before I knew what was going on.

Watch him finally kill one after wounding most of the herd, and he proudly dumps the corpse in the butchers.

The butcher arrives soon, and takes the corpse and dumps it in the refuse pile.  No other conflicting orders, nothing in the way, corpse still warm - what gives?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Miner struck down....
« on: May 22, 2011, 04:04:58 am »
So this flashes up, and I've got one less legendary miner.

Turns out Captain of the Guard delivered a beating.  With a steel spear.  Why? What can a miner do to require a beating? How did this happen, and, without going without a Captain, how do I stop it?

Ideas, thoughts, laughter all welcome.

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DF General Discussion / The Awesomeness of 31.25...
« on: April 01, 2011, 06:17:11 am »
My swordmaster, Bin, crippled in the first elven assault, where he managed to kill 4 elves, has been confined to a hospital bed for the last 4 years...

But now, thanks to the amazing properties of version 25, he is not only up and walking, with the aid of a crutch, but is planting seeds, and LEADING A SPARRING DEMONSTRATION!

I only just learnt how to turn on sparring and training, after almost two years of only individual training sessions. And now the lame can walk, and spar, too. And it's awesome.

It's like a new game, with less annoying bits.

Yay Toady!

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DF Gameplay Questions / Crippled dwarves...
« on: March 25, 2011, 11:40:09 pm »
So, cheating or not, is their ANY way to get crippled dwarves unable to walk actually fixed? I'm just getting a little annoyed that seemingly any injury to a dwarf's legs means they will never move again, while a fighter with a fractured skull is running around happily soon after a bit of magic tape is applied...

I think Toady is working on crutches for a future release, but is there any modding or other way around this until then?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Hell OPEN in a cavern??? (Spoilers?)
« on: March 25, 2011, 02:55:26 am »
So I finally breach the caverns that I've been avoiding....

Suddenly, "terrifying screams, etc", and a flock of demons appear at the base of a tube of shiny stuff.

Don't I normally have to actually mine into the adamantine for this to happen?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Shiny stuff (but no spoilers)
« on: March 25, 2011, 12:29:42 am »
Hi.

I've got very little steel, limited by flux the traders bring, but also have a bit of adamantine.

I've made breastplates, swords and axes.  What should my other priorities be to get the most out of this nice but very limited supply - I've got about 50 bars, and about 25 troops.  I know not to make blunt objects out of it, but what about spears?




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DF Gameplay Questions / Animals dying like flies...
« on: March 18, 2011, 12:19:22 am »
Trained animals, actually, and they all sit there, with a 'Rotten Spine'. 

The first one happened after an FB invaded, but it was the only causality (aside from the hunter that got his arms ripped off), but now, a year later, in a different cavern, in a battle against crundle, three of the trained war animals all sit down and die of this.

WTF? No FB contamination, no dwarves affected, just war animals dying just before they enter combat.

Strange bug, or there's a probability that it's normal, just strange?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Engravings of engravers engraving engravings...
« on: March 17, 2011, 02:50:21 am »
So I'm engraving my rather large bedroom level.

I have two legendary engravers - one a newb who made an artifact miniature forge, and one who got there the hard way.

Continuous spam of 'masterful engravings', which is a good kind of spam.  But I went to look at a few of them.

One is of a legendary engraver engraving a masterful engraving.  The next is of the other engraver engraving a masterful engraving.  So are a lot of them. But this can and probably will get recursive... I'm waiting for the engraving of Urist McEngraver engraving an engraving of Urist McTheOtherEngraver engraving an engraving of Urist engraving a masterful engraving.

Or is that where madness lies?

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