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ANYTHING can be missing from a corpse and you can still butcher it...

True, no matter how many body parts it's missing it'll still be a butcherable "mutilated corpse".  However, you won't get things like a skull from a decapitated corpse or anything like that.  It keeps track of which parts are missing so it gives you the correct amounts of everything.

If you're playing as a dwarf, is there an specific way to activate martial trance? I've done it a few times, but it happened automatically. Is there any requirement you need in order to activate it?

I think you need to have a lot of enemies near you, and you may need to be surrounded.  I'm not sure exactly what the cutoff for "a lot of enemies" is, but I think the lower limit is 3-4.

Bummer... It wouldn't be a big deal if being a loner was somewhat plausible again, but with the advent of bogeymen... It'd be nice if they were restricted to haunted areas, to be honest.

I've done pretty well at being a loner.  I'm careful to avoid being out at night until I have at least high master weapon skills, so I can finally hit the stupid things.

I find that slashing weapons are very good at them, since you can either attack the head or the lower body for an instakill.

Nice!
I once threw a small obsidian stone at a goblin and guess what? Headshot, one shot kill and with only adequate throwing!

I found that a good way to train throwing is to sneak, staying out of view distance of your enemy, and repeatedly throw rocks until either they die, give in to pain, or fall over from spine/foot trauma.

I once decided that I was fed up with being a hero, and went on a massacre.  First, I went into a village and killed everyone in each building.  By the third building, some of them were running away.  I naturally removed their legs and slowly killed them before coming back and massacring the rest of the humans.

Then, I decided that a fortress might be more of a challenge.  I went into the fort, sneaking so nobody noticed me, and starting chopping heads.  I did it so much that I even set up a macro for slash -> head.  The first time I went in, I killed all of the guards and then stepped into the keep.  The lord immediately charged at me, but I grabbed him and broke his shoulder and ankle, making him pass out from pain.

I then took off most of his clothes and started brutalizing his toes.  I was planning to try to cut them off, but all that my slashes seemed to do was tear apart the muscle.  I pinched a couple of them off, but then got bored and decapitated him.

I then went back to the fortress several more times, and massacred its inhabitants every morning for the next few days.  Every day it would have new soldiers, but none of them were able to stop me.  A group tried hiding in the keep once, but I cut them down, while their friends looked on in horror as their friends were slaughtered by a dwarf that they somehow didn't notice.  Another time, 2 of the soldiers tried to run out the gate, but I chased them down and killed them before continuing with their friends.

Quote from: minno on December 20, 2010, 01:50:47 pm

About mortal wounds, I've never died to a bruised heart or lungs.  Is it even possible to die from those, and if not, why is it called a mortal wound?

Because it will eventually kill you if you don't fast travel or sleep soon.

So...is he planning to fix the fast travel insta-heal anytime soon?  I'm guessing it'll happen once he has real medical care ready.

Quote from: minno on December 19, 2010, 10:58:31 am

[...] you don't get experience from unconscious enemies [...]

Really? I've trained up wrestling on unconscious enemies plenty of times before.

Wrestling might be different, but I know that you don't get any weapon skills for attacking unconscious enemies.  I think you get less wrestling experience too.

Trying to figure out how to aim for a head using a crossbow.

I cant seem to glaze the information out of the wikia.

You can't aim ranged attacks, only melee weapon and wrestling.

Quote from: doomdome on December 19, 2010, 05:22:43 am

If you want it to freeze them faster, why not set [SPEC_HEAT:1]?

Basic logic/Common sense would say that wouldn't it? True, it would be colder but because it's so low it would also heat up faster than you'd like...If stuck  it will of course freeze but for only a few turns. In the Arena where the temp is rather hot, it changed the items temp completely too quickly & it changed it's original effect from freezing to painfully boiling all the blood of the poor sap and there was bloody smoke and mist everywhere (A world-gen's various areas & weather will of course bring forth different effects/outcomes overall).

It's not a complete failure sure...but still...

Well, what about changing the MAT_FIXED_TEMP to 0?  Wouldn't that make it stay cold?