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((We can only process once the Butchery is done, we need a timeskip for that to happen.  Time on constructions like that doesn't pass until a timeskip happens.))

((I remembered what the thing i was talking about earlier was: a Dynamo. We could try and build dynamos to provide at least some energy....))

As to where we'd get magnetic metals from...

Besides, what would we do with the power?  Does anyone even know how to make a lightbulb?  A heater?  Can we be sure we could get the metal in the first place, or even make the dynamo?

We should talk about this IC, eventually.  It'd be cool.))

(Here's the spreadsheet for the actions.  I'll add access to those I can get a gmail address from.  If you don't want it knowledge, then pm me.  I'll try to keep it updated, but it will be easier for players to just add it themselves.  I've added two additional columns so that a player can be automated if necessary.)

Quote from: Baffler on December 10, 2013, 03:49:46 pm

"Try the wagon. And I can take care of the butchering, I used to hunt deer, though I only ever seen this part done. Gonna need the butcher's shop done first though."

(Did you need a butcher's shop to do it in real life? Or even in adventure mode in the current game?)

Spoiler: More Notes, of stuff Zanzetkuken could tell you IC (click to show/hide)

Remember that you've likely wound up in DF 1.0. Think of all the wonderful things Toady has in the long-term plans. Many things are likely semi-randomized, so can vary between any given worldgen, even without raw modding. It's hard to know what to expect. Also, items made out of multiple materials.

Expect a far greater diversity of animals and plants than are currently in the game. You may find more (IRL) familiar plants than you expect, and perhaps unexpected fictional ones as well.

Physics quirks and other "unintended features" might have been patched, but could remain in effect for a while as a side-effect of the transfer. Don't count on them being here forever, though.

Your mind hasn't been reshaped, even if your body has. After all, what would be the point of putting forumites into the game if they were just turned into what it could already generate? In the last game, we certainly started out speaking and writing our own languages, but we picked up those of the natives through constant daily contact, as people often do in real life.

This is interesting, i just don't know how D&D3.5 works (i was just plan lost trying to read the rules of 4th edition).
Edit: i just find it a lot like this

Quote from: Dwarmin on December 10, 2013, 05:43:37 am

Obviously, some things wouldn't work. Druids Wildshaping, almost certainly not-though, I'd love to hear some idea.

Routing power to different systems to switch between effective loadouts? Depending on the setting, some amount of physical transformation might not be out of line either.

Currently, leather armour's only use is a lightweight scratch repellent. It's totally useless against almost any weapon (lay pewter short sword is deflected, while gold slashes tear muscles and stabs shatter bones). In reality, a good thick leather suit can stop or severely reduce the blow of an iron or steel sword (though not very effectively against stabs). Hardened leather even more so.

It's been pointed out before that dwarf fortress' combat system is flawed (a scratch can tear an arm down to muscle level, a naked dwarf with a steel sword can kill a fully iron armoured and armed one about half the time etc.)In vanilla leather armour isn't worth making, except maybe for marksdwarves, compare that to it being used as a serious melee armour, the disparity is apparent. By no means should leather be comparable to any metal armour (it's hard to kill someone in full plate armour if they're standing still and not attacking you), but it needs some use.

What about roads?. They seem much more logical than random checkpoints,

Since we're just in the process of getting to the point where caravans etc will actually be moving on the world map to get to your fort, and as such be coming from the direction that makes sense with where they're coming from, I doubt Toady would implement any such placeholders. Hopefully it won't be too long until we can construct roads going off site and having that be the natural entrance for any migrants/caravans.

advice for future posts, more separate paragraphs (not to be rude or anything, walls of text are just grueling to read)

Search for an existing thread. If you find a thread similar to your idea, you can bump it to expand on the suggestion, even if the thread is old.  However, please do not bump threads just to show support.

Unless you were joking, in which case, kindly ignore this post.