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Unless I'm mistaken, that 009 would be solid under 10000 Urists and gaseous above that. Also, it's impossible to mess with liquids in any way. Unless you count adding a new material that happens to melt at room temperature.

Quote from: azrael300 on May 12, 2012, 01:39:43 pm

i think i know why your child is mining (the child does as he pleases)

Which never means swinging heavy metal picks at hard rock walls. Usually.

i thought he was a dwarf not an elf
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An average pick probably weighs at least half as much as an average dwarven child. You try lifting a big, heavy (say...100 lbs, or around 46 kg, by my mental math) pick and using it to dig a tunnel in hard rock. While deep underground, and while your friends play around and the legendary miner who just got off break is glaring at you because he wants his pick back, dammit.

Quote from: nocker on April 24, 2012, 02:01:42 pm

Quote from: DwarfMeister on April 24, 2012, 02:24:56 am

A thought just hit me-

If Elves hate killing trees, then what are their caravans made of?

I highlighted your confusion. See, elves hate when YOU kill trees. Elves, themselves, kill trees just fine, as proved by the dozens of logs they bring to you yearly.

It's just that they know the humane (elven?) way to do it, without causing unnecessary suffering for the vegetal.

F#%@ing elves hypocrites!!!

Not hypocrites, liars. The reason they're going to war with you is that they're infringing on your wood monopoly! Its the theory that makes the most sense while requiring the least craziness.

Quote from: Niyazov on May 11, 2012, 12:24:46 pm

Quote from: DwarfMeister on May 10, 2012, 07:22:37 pm

Quote from: Jake on May 08, 2012, 08:11:49 am

Quote from: Niyazov on April 28, 2012, 12:54:56 pm

When you get the announcement "an elven caravan from Falayalaralfali has arrived", it just means "elf merchants traveling together", not "elves pulling a pop-up trailer behind their Austin Allegro".

Sigged. Hard.

Sadly, I think the poster of this "sig worthy" comment forgot that people from the United States also tend to have MULTIPLE MEANINGS to the same word. And in case you forgot, there is an AMERICAN car called the Dodge Grand CARAVAN, which, obviously, uses the word CARAVAN the same way that I have. All I'm saying is that, to whoever posted that "sig worthy" comment, if you were TRYING to come across as arrogant, you have succeeded.   Not all Americans are the same. Remember that, okay?

I'm American. I was not trying to be dismissive of you, just making a joke based on different uses of the word. If you do a google search for the phrase "in a caravan" essentially all the results will be from Britain.

I was just offended that you viewed me as an outsider, instead of a fellow American. Other than that, you're joke was funny. It sounds like something my old man would probably say.

If these "inventions" are not just alchemy (or cooking/brewing/maybe other farming skills, for "secret" recipes) moods, they need something to separate them from "normal" moods.

An invention is, if perhaps not by definition, something novel invented that can be replicated. Obviously, in order for this to be worth adding, it has to be something useful (not just a different, but functionally identical, kind of axe blade), but in order to be "balanced" against normal moods, it needs to have some balancing drawback. Maybe they need both materials to make a prototype AND something to record their invention on (slabs, obviously, but creating books or scrawling on cloth/leather could be neat). More likely, a "normal" mood would give something that a mere invention can't. For instance, an invention might be a mechanical thingy that rapidly impales things (a trap weapon along the lines of a menacing spike, but with more attacks per hit), or a special design of table found aesthetically pleasing (giving more happy thoughts to those seeing them); but a strange mood might give a statue that weeps blood whenever a guilty dwarf touches it, or a sword that can shoot flames at stuff its wielder sees.

Alchemy moods would probably be between the two. They'd require some random stuff you have lying around--probably plants, minerals, and organs (especially "rare" ones, like malachite, sunberries, or ant brain), but maybe wood, normal stone, clay, leather, and other random stuff--as well as a method of recording all of this. In exchange, you get a recipe for an alchemal concoction that could do anything, really, from turn the drinker into a toad with butterfly wigs for a while to causing him to breathe fire. Unless it wasn't meant to be drunk (e.g. an "oil" that would be applied to a weapon to make it sharper and/or ice cold or something), in which case ingestion would likely be fatal (or at least toxic). The dwarf making the mixture would have an inkling of how to use the invention, and would use it as soon as s/he had all the necessary stuff (e.g. drinking it for a potion, finding a weapon for a poison, etc). This could be good or bad.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 01, 2012, 04:49:43 pm

The reason for the bug where migrants migrate to the fortress as overage children is (IIRC) because they're historical migrants who WERE children when worldgen ended, but then time passed and, because they weren't being simulated, they didn't turn into grown-ups.

I have no idea. To my knowledge, children not having jobs is hard-coded--or, rather, not being able to change jobs in-game is hard-coded. That's why DwaThr would allow kids to be assigned labors. It's likely not the mod part that matters, nor the mithril pick part. I...really don't have a clue what the cause of this could be,if not DwaThr.

Don't forget, this kid was three when she migrated to the fortress.
However, the cause may be the automatic designation of labors on migrants with a high enough skill level in the labor the skill is used for.  She DID come with skilled in mining, engraving, masonry, gem cutting, gem setting, stone crafting, and mechanics.

Ah, that must be it!

i think i know why your child is mining (the child does as he pleases)

Which never means swinging heavy metal picks at hard rock walls. Usually.

Is there an image accompanying the achievements with A Valley Without Wind?

Also, congrats on not calling this game a rip-off of DF.

If you added 447, you'd have to decide what it did to dead bodies. It'd be like adding Procedure 110-Montauk, but less likely to cause seasoned DF players to quit in horror.