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Quote from: MAurelius on December 06, 2014, 05:41:30 pm

When you hover over a dwarf's name and it gives you a little summary about them, their thoughts, their skills, and their attributes - is there any way to export that to a document? Like if I wanted to write that stuff down I have to hand retype it all. I'm sure there is or could be an easier way.

Thank you!

not directly, however if you open the windows->docks->information dock, you can copy the information from there once you hover over the dwarf's name.

Thank you!

When you hover over a dwarf's name and it gives you a little summary about them, their thoughts, their skills, and their attributes - is there any way to export that to a document? Like if I wanted to write that stuff down I have to hand retype it all. I'm sure there is or could be an easier way.

Thank you!

Ah, I see. I thought it was a fixed value, not a relative one. Thanks.

My current civ, and the only surviving Dwarven civ so I have no choice, is the Odorous Oceanic Incest. They are located nowhere near the ocean, mind. As far as I know there are no incestuous couples in my fort and I'm pretty sure the queen is a vampire (why are so many of them vampires?!). As to whether or not they are odorous...well, they live underground and wear their clothing until it disintegrates off of them, so, yeah, probably.

EDIT: Not a civ, but tangentially relevant. My guys just made an artifact pig tail short skirt named "Slybanes", and I thought that was pretty appropriate.

I've finally figured out the scriptorium so I feel pretty good about that. I can only make essays, blank books, and textbooks...not sure I'm doing the right things to get actual manuals and such, the ones that give the big exp, but I'm working on it. My guys are at least reading the essays. I restrict the workshop to the specific dwarves I want to read the stuff...is there a more elegant solution than that?

One thing I am absolutely not getting though is how to set up turrets. I can make them, and I created a spawn location, but something goes wrong when trying to set them up. I wasted a bunch of treant seeds and spitting orchids and of course like 30 minutes worth of turret producing at the machine shop. Most times I see that the job is activated and a dwarf approaches the spawn point and it smokes a bit and then...nothing. One time the game paused and said my dwarf transformed into a busy worker or something like that. He piddles around for a bit, scared everyone around him, made smoke a number of times, got elbow grease on the next tile over, then paused and transformed back into a dwarf, and then...nothing.

I read in the manual where you said it was iffy but it doesn't seem to be working for me at all. Which is fine, except for the ton of resources and labor that go into it. I made two spawn location. Can you only have one at a time? Does it matter if they are adjacent to a wall or something? I tried disassembling them after the reaction and that didn't do anything either. I just have this feeling I'm missing something simple and fundamental.

I'm having a ton of fun though. Just built an armory and am exited to try the plate armors, and hopefully a "plate" version of lamellar for my ranged. Already produced all the special bolts.

Oh, during a mood I got an irridium death knight armor. I wanted my militia commander to wear it and I assigned it to him. In the military/equipment screen it has the green symbol saying he has it, but when I "v" on him he's not wearing it. I even stripped him naked and told him to wear only it (thinking the problem was his other armor) but he still didn't get it. Any ideas? It sounds too cool to pass up.

Thanks!

Yeah I've never been good at maximizing armor. I go with one of every armor piece steel, and then add a leather robe, cloak, and hood to that in vanilla.

I know some folks are able to get 3 chain shirts or whatever on a dwarf or 8 cloaks. I wish there was a way to save armor configuration between forts the way you can save worldgen info or embark profiles. Then people could share armor files.

I read the complex mathematical formula of how armor works and I couldn't follow it. It was how you were allowed a certain number of "points" per body part and like a robe would count for some points and a chain shirt would then count for more, and you could layer until all the points were gone but some thing gave you more points. I'm confused just repeating the gist of what I read.

Hey Meph, I'm reading your succession fort - you should do a Let's Play video, you seem like a very skilled player. Anyway, I noted you were talking about how it was a generated world and sucked due to not having the Masterwork stuff, and I was just wondering if you could clarify. I also generated my own world because no offense to the pre genned ones, they look fine, but I want my own world with it's own history and I don't want to play on the same two-three maps every time. I figured the worst that would happen would be that a race or two would die out, like stranglers did in my world. Are you saying that generating a regular world also gets rid of all the added metals and stuff as well? I must admit, I haven't seen one unique metal in my current fort, it's all magnetite and cobaltite up to this point. Are they gone from the world in entirety or just the occasional embark? It would be neat if some experienced Masterwork players contributed worldgen settings that could be randomized but have a higher % of yielding all the Masterwork goodies. There may be a lot of folks who prefer to gen their own world.

Also, did you edit your IsoWorld visuals, because the one I have which I thought was the updated one only has the little fort icons for Human forts, but you seem to have yours show for Mountainhomes and your own embark as well. How did you do that?

Thanks!