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I would support certain debug options as long as it wasn't "gimmee 1000 of this" kind of debugs. More like "StartSiege" kind of debugs.

I've managed to mod in cigars a while ago. They even puff smoke. I'll be posting this on both smoking threads. DFFD download and the Main Thread

Thought I would post my response here to.

It is not possible to do. However, you could make ammo that boils at blood temperature and carries a syndrome. Thus when it hits someone it expels dangerous gas. But making a weapon like an axe do it would just result in the axe vanishing after the attack.

Being easily modded is no reason to stop refining the main game.

Yes, but it if Toady spent all of his time on the petty stuff like this, he wouldn't get anything big done and the game wouldn't progress. This is why we have modding in the first place, to fix/add these things. If you want it, mod it! If one person thinks it should be one way there's probably more. Why shouldn't this be left to the modders? It takes five minutes to do.

Adamantine currently makes me want to avoid it, and not only because it doesn't make sense,

Yeah, I'm not buying this. You're telling me, that if Adamantine was just slightly better then steel, you would literally risk unleashing hell itself to mine it out? Why not just make steal then. The only reason it's a God Metal is that the risks far outweigh the advantages if you're to greedy.

For armour, steel is more balanced. While adamantine makes one almost invulnerable to the melee weapons that steel already stops adequately.

This is the temptation, you want to dig it because it is such a great metal.

I think adamantine makes combat less fun on both fronts.

This is the Fun, while you have neigh invincible military, you will never be able to combat the countless demons that emerge if you dig to deep. Especially if they have a syndrome.

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Quick question, are you aware what happens if you dig adamantine? If you don't, click the spoiler.

I believe this was in older versions. 'Urist McUristurist has become more experienced' it was a while ago, back in 40d. It was just endless spam.

I am hesitant to call it a bug, if you've read Threetoe's stories he has plenty of examples of elves talking to animals. I believe they will be developed later. In the mean time you have placeholders like this. You could already talk to cavern tribes long before above ground animal men showed up.

So, my idea is [un]symple. right now rodents are just vermin that dont do ANYTHING!

Currently they will eat food if it is left out in the open. But the effect is unnoticeable. They should do more then just nibble one plump helmet after a year.

While it overall looks like a great idea, my only concern is FPS. Perhaps instead of having 'tunnels' they will just have nests hidden away in the unexplored areas of your fortress. They would then have the ability to eat/steal food within a certain vicinity relative to the size of the nest. Once you crack open a rats nest with a miner, it zooms to the spot and says "You've found a rats nest!". The Ratcatcher (ratchatcher sounds a tad to specific but still) noble would still come in handy, once in a while if it found a mouse it would cancel it's current job, and have the job 'Following Rodent', where it follows the rodent until it goes into the wall, and then has a chance that the nest could be revealed. The more experienced the catcher the better chance it has of finding the nest.

do the wood logs, once painted, still work for beds and other wood items?  For instance can I make every bed I have color coded for paticular sectors?

Yep, once you paint them they are regular logs, you can cut them into blocks or make them into beds. Currently there is only 4 colors (besides the standard brown) but more will be added.

Also it is impossible to paint a board twice, this way you can safely have the painters shop on repeat without worrying about boards getting painted with the same color twice.