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Obviously we just don't give them the right to bear arms. Chop those arms off at the shoulders, and they won't be flapping any wings any time soon.
One of the things that annoys me when genning worlds is the lack of a random civilization options, and the associated limited potential for empires or overwhelmingly powerful groups. Clearly empires will really begin to get interesting once politics and army's start to come into play, but simply having the option would be nice for now....Erm, what do you mean by "random numbers of civilizations?"
I wouldn't want to see a swimming pool implemented as a stand-alone thing. It might make some sense as one part of a suite of physical training options if Toady wants to have some sort of gym or obstacle course update.This. Especially since dwarves are horribly ill-suited to swim (what with the short limbs and stout torsoes and all) and rarely encounter water that they wouldn't want to avoid, what with them usually living in monster-infested caves (or near them) and all, especially since cavern water is dank, cold, and grimy.
Why should a swimming pool make dwarves happy?
This has precedent. This makes sense.Maybe instead of a pool, it should be a bathhouse.Yeah, that's another ideaAnd if it is a bath house then maybe Dwarfs could wash themselves there and not in the carp infested river
A pool glistening around the edges with gorgeous stone engravings of elf-throttlings and misted over by waterfalls at each corner ought to be enough to tweak even the hard-fartingest miner for a quick dip, I'm sure. Just wait until it becomes a cesspool of poisonous forgotten beast blood!Well, that stuff makes any room better. I'd imagine dwarves being happier in such a room without having to avoid drowning most of the time.
I kinda thought it was obvious that a multi-level liquid pump would be for replacing pump stacks.Obviously not, since it took a few read-throughs to even NOTICE the reference to z-levels.
The weight of the buckets will be balanced between the up and down sides of the chain, but the water itself has weight and you've lifting the entire weight of the full buckets up. Plus the structure shown in the illustration on the wiki page is MUCH larger than a pipe with a screw in it.More efficient, despite being slower? I'd like to see the math on that. How deep do the pumps have to be before a chain pump as described would be more efficient?
I played a balancing act, making chain pumps more expensive, slower, and bigger in exchange for it being much more efficient and MUCH easier to setup.
And as for necroing, I haven't really kept up with suggestions since I posted this but necroing was seen as just as bad as posting yet another multiplayer/multithreaded/steampunk/ect... suggestion.Necroing. Is. Okay. On. The. Suggestions. Subforum.
Also, chains and buckets are dirt-cheap. So building this pump would hardly be a drain on resources.Buckets, yes, as much as beds or barrels. What about ropes?
I hardly consider myself a veteran, but I think I could figure out a pump-stack if I had to!I like the idea of adding variety to the types of powered machines we can build, but why duplicate something which we can already do?Because pump stacks are extremely complex and require knowledge of how fluids and mechanical energy behave in Dorf Fort.
Also constructing a pump stack without problems is something only veteran players can do.
And should Toady implement pipes for moving water we can use screw pumps for moving liquids horizontally and chain pumps for moving liquids vertically....
well then, we just use artificial UV rays.We'll ban importation of Batman costumes, if it's an issue.
done and dusted. now we need to sort out the next problem.
*reads list*
oh yeah, with the reduced gravity on the moon being low enough for people to fly provided there is an atmosphere (e.g. withing a large dome) and they have large enough wings, how will we prevent vigilante justice from people dressed as batman?
I'm being honest, we'd require wings not too much larger than our arms to fly, which I think would be pretty awesome.Indeed.
It could turn the farmer into a creature that lays plants AS eggs, but A. you can't have eggs "hatch" into items, B. there's no way to get the farmer to actually go and lay the eggs, and C. IIRC, transformations on citizens tend to cause interesting issues.The best you could do is a workshop that turns seeds into plants, but as mentioned, I don't think there's anyway to make it work like a farm so you'd produce food very, very quickly.Just a crazy idea - the reaction produces vapor with syndrome that makes farmer lay eggs. Then he occupies nest and lays "egg" plant that then is to be hatched till it transforms into mature plant.
Maybe if you used DFHack or something to put dirt tiles on constructed floors?
You could do something like a MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT on the seed materials--the seeds would make a "sprout" of the plant material specified with the MRP, and then go from there.3) Have a reaction to take 10 Seedlings to produce a Sprout, and another to get a 'Young Plant' and so on until the reaction takes a reasonable amount of time.You would need individual reactions for each plant, so that would be a bit of a drawback. However if you put the [AUTOMATIC] token on all of the reactions except for the first seed->sprout one then your dwarves will automatically queue up all of the later reactions in turn after you make the sprouts, cutting a lot of the micromanagement out of the job.
This is just off the top off my head. Not sure how much coding you'd need to get it to work. You might need specific reactions for each plant. I haven't worked with plants yet, so I don't know how finicky the system is with them.
