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Messages - madmaxxam

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Possessed Dwarf not getting materials
« on: November 04, 2010, 10:21:50 am »
Quote from: Quietust on November 04, 2010, 09:57:04 am
If he hasn't collected any metal bars, check his material preferences - it's very likely that he wants a specific metal.

You mean check his material preferences in his status description?  I'll look there, I thought they would just take what material was available of the proper type when they're in a mood though.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Possessed Dwarf not getting materials
« on: November 04, 2010, 08:14:17 am »
Hi, I'm relatively new, but I've dealt with plenty of moods before, so this one is confusing me. 

I had a dwarf become possessed and take over my magma forge, and then proceed to want metal bars (which I have plenty of), bones (also have from my hunting industry) and gems (check).  He hasn't gone to get any of these items since claiming the forge though and just sits there.  The forge is powered, there is 7/7 magma underneath.

I haven't assigned any burrows yet this game, so that can't be the problem, and I can't figure out why he won't go off and grab any of these items from the stockpiles.  Anyone encounter this before or have any suggestions?

Thanks.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Exiting
« on: November 03, 2010, 07:44:27 am »
If you haven't gotten a tileset yet, get one.  Since graphics were my biggest barrier to entry, once I got a good tileset the game was 100X easier to play.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Steambeast
« on: November 03, 2010, 07:34:39 am »
So attacks by steam beasts are just like trips to the sauna then?  They should make this generate happy thoughts is dwarfs. 

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / How unlucky am I
« on: November 01, 2010, 11:19:09 am »
If the very first tile of the very first adamantine vein I ever mine immediately opens up to hollowed out fun? 

Cause that's exactly what happened, and I thought I would at least be able to get some nice adamantine stuff going before clowns came out and killed everyone.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« on: November 01, 2010, 08:36:08 am »
My first forgotten beast comes in through the underground caverns, then disappears off the map cause the cavern is sealed.  It's a nasty thing that breathes some toxic goo and such.  A couple years later game time I finally open the cavern, thinking maybe it's gone, but of course it comes running in to my military waiting by the door.  Then I look, and realize that almost every single part of it is red in the wound menu.  It lasts only a few rounds with my dwarfs, practically drowns itself in it's own goo, and does 0 damage to my dwarves. 

Apparently a bunch of elite bat people died fighting it when I later looked at the unit menu. 

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Essential Stuff to Know for the New DF-er
« on: October 22, 2010, 09:00:24 am »
Quote from: The13thClam on October 21, 2010, 07:49:13 pm
shift+enter while defining materials used for a construction (walls, floors, etc): designate all materials at once (you may have to use several materials if you're building a 10x10 floor, but this much faster than hitting enter 100 times)
I've been playing for about a month now, and OMG, this will save me so many keystrokes. 

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Face Palm moments you had
« on: October 19, 2010, 01:39:37 pm »
Mine:  When I finally found out what the CLT in all of my workshops meant, and the ramifications of it. 
I thought I had enough stockpile space and haulers... really.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Tricks for speeding up labors and stockpile efficiency.
« on: October 19, 2010, 01:38:18 pm »
Can I just say that reading this thread made me facepalm, because I'm relatively new to DF and was recently wondering what the CLT in various permutations in all of my workshops meant....  Was wondering why things seemed to go slower and slower in my fort even though my dwarfs were getting more and more skilled.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Tons of Children
« on: October 12, 2010, 12:12:58 pm »
I'm relatively new, and have only played a few fortresses so far, and none of them for all that long, but my fortress now, which I think will be a keeper has 1 problem... it's got tons of children and babies.  At the end of my second year I have a total of 73 dwarves, of those 4 are babies, and 10 more are children (most of which are less than 6 years old.)  I didn't seem to have so many children in my previous fortresses, especially so early.  Each immigrant wave has come with several children, and I've had 5 baby births.  Is this common?

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