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Only if you use custom reactions, which might be a bit beyond your current skills. Also, while you'll be able to make arrows, the mountainhomes won't bring or have any if you only have a custom reaction.

That's odd. Gnomoria sounds a lot like DF, and yet I haven't seen a single thread claiming that it's ripping off DF.

Point the first: Again, you might get a bunch of magical powers. But, probably not that many. Zonnish has three legendary dwarves: Three moody dwarves, one of whom was a legendary miner who died in a tragic cave-in accident thanks to a wayward granite boulder. It's almost two years old, and most of the legendaries became legendary no earlier than the later part of the first year, IIRC. So, by the fort's 6th year (if nothing happened in the interim to kill the remaining legendaries, such as an ambush like the recent one that killed a dozen of the ~55 adult dwarves then alive, plus a baby, or a major construction accident), I would expect to get some neat abilities. However, as my legendaries still not-dead are a gem cutter and a woodcrafter, they'd probably be on the "use-impaired" side of things. Meanwhile, assuming a fairly constant rate of moods (ignoring that I couldn't get a mood for the first several months to compensate for the possibility of moods failing), I'd probably have about a half-dozen more artifacts. Artifacts would then outnumber magical skills around 5:1, assuming neither of the legendaries died. Also, as artifacts are intended to eventually have some magic in them, this means that legendaries eventualy getting some magical or quasi-magical powers would just be giving a bit more magical bang and an incentive to keep your legendaries happy and safe.

Suggestion: Call it something like Kobold Camp 2012, to distinguish it from the original.
Also, any idea how to fix the graphics issue mentioned?

Of course it wouldn't be "completely" weird! It would just be some possibilities, perhaps more-or-less-hardcoded, that might happen to legendary dwarves. Perhaps, after each year (on the anniversery of becoming a legend or on the dwarf's birthday, most likely), the dwarf would have a 15-25% chance of getting such a magical legendary ability. Once obtained, the dwarf has to do something special in his field before getting more legendary abilities.

Quote from: King Mir on June 22, 2012, 11:28:21 pm

In DF the year starts at the beginning of spring . . .

Which makes a lot of sense, given how spring is associated with new growth.

That confuses me, because my embarks start in the middle of winter, and I don't get a year change message until I get messages for the the seasons have changed to spring, summer, fall and then back to winter.

...This really shouldn't be happening. First off, there is no "year change" message, only "Spring has arrived!" Second off, while there is often snow at the start of spring (true where I live and in many other temperate or colder areas), you should ALWAYS be embarking on Granite 1. I'd call it a bug.

Various types of coal can already be used as catapult ammo. They can't be set on fire because, you know, most catapults are made out of wood, and wood burns. So do dwarves.

Increased variety in catapult ammo is planned. Since Toady's already tinkering with other ways to use random objects as projectiles as well as with projectile code, it could be soon.

That makes sense.