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I wish there was a better way to model the benefits of cloth armor vs metal armor.

As is, any material that is not equivalent to weapons grade metal will not stand up to metal weapons.

So, I had to settle for a somewhat resource intense cloth industry to balance haberdasher.

I'm glad some people are enjoying it.

Well... if dwarves actually existed, then I would imagine they would have evolved to suit their environment.

The problem is that something would have to give. Dwarves were contrived by humans who still believed in magic and later by humans writing books about fantastical worlds where magic actually exists.

In order for Dwarves to exist IRL with all their well known physical attributes and without any weird additions, Dwarves would have to live closer to the surface. Their mountain halls would be more like elaborate hobbit holes. At best their cities would have to have a significant surface component.

Or Dwarves would have to be physically different with a wide array of cave animal adaptations.

Or their technology would need to be superior to ours such that they could solve all the problems associated with living so far underground. But if this was the case, then I posit that humans would either no longer exist or we would be forcibly working for the Dwarves. Or maybe there would just be zoos full of humans where dwarf children come to gawk and throw food into the cages.

You could use the soft token

Ya giant keas suck. So far this embark, giant keas have killed 8 dwarves. They are terrible creatures.

So, my fort has several books with the secrets of life and death. I didn't think about it while making my library and now half of my dwarves are necromancers. As odd as it sounds to many of you I don't want this. Is there a way through modding or perhaps dfhack to uncurse a dwarf in a current fort without a world regen?

I do have back up saves and do have the option of loading old saves until I get one without necromancers, but I would rather not since I have done a number of complicated tasks since.

I just select the red items for dumping and then use autodump. They all should be teleported.

You can try fix/retrieve-units which I think works for any units who are stuck.

Yeah, honestly I'd probably stop playing if the current standard fantasy races stopped even being an option. While I'm sure the randomly-generated civs will be a lot of fun and will add a great deal more diversity to the game, the classics are still classics for a reason.

I agree. Though 5-6 completely random civs would be a nice addition to standard world gens. I think it would make each world more intriguing. Many fantasy authors keep the normal tropes but add a couple unique races to spice it up a bit.

If that's the way world gen ends up, then I personally would prefer if Toady added something to ensure that at least 1/2 of the random civs were hostile.