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Well, the invaders might have not brought buildingdestroyers.

Undead aren't amphibious, they just don't need to breathe and can somehow move around on land.

Use zone designations to have dwarves take water out in buckets and dump it somewhere.

If it makes you feel better, you can cut down a forest to make the buckets and dump the water into magma.

Nothing. The liquid is obviously Kadol's property.

What would Urist do with kryptonite?

I am 99.99% sure that you haven't modded another game extensively before prior to Dwarf Fortress.

Saying that DF raw modding has a step learning curve compared to most other games is utter insanity to my eyes.

Objectively, DF modding's learning curve is steep. Compared to other games? Not so much, although failures are more often playable and entertaining.


My biggest problem is usually finding the time, followed closely by finding a good idea.

Same with more evil regions, presumably.

Probably not. The minecarts would probably run the goblins over before you could get the speardwarves to stab them.
That's no reason not to try, of course.

My personal favorite artifact is a slade hammer that suffered planepacked syndrome. Decorations add weight right?

Wrong.

Quote from: Kumis on September 01, 2012, 07:54:41 am

I have to say, I disagree with the whole Fractal Artifact idea. Were the artifact originally made with an image of itself on it as part of the design then, yes, it'd be fractal, but it seems to me rather that the design on the ring isn't part of the ring's construction, but rather a decoration on top of the standard artifact.

But dwarves who get possessed to make things like this are incredibly perfectionistic ("I need cave spider silk and ONLY cave spider silk will do! None of this Giant Cave Spider shit that's in the stockpile!") and therefore, once they decorate their beautiful artifact with an image of itself, they are compelled to fractalize it, as once they put this decoration on their artifact door or what have you, it is an imperfect image until the decoration itself is added onto the decoration. This continues on until the fractal loses its self-similarity at around the atomic scale - unless the dwarves have tools capable of carving individual protons, which, if they're working with Adamantine, they might very well have access to.

Technically, the dwarf probably wanted yarn or plant-cloth. The idea is pretty much right, though; dwarven artifacts have craftdwarfship of the highest quality. This implies perfection. This implies fractals. This implies that we will be arguing about it until dwarves figure out how to come out of our computers and kill us. Except for those of us who wisely kept DF in their flash drives instead.