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Huh, I had thought that dwarves "naming artifacts after themselves" was coincidentally naming an artifact the same thing as their own name.

Good luck, guys. You'll have your work cut out for you.

Don't forget magma forges/smelters/etc. Which now seem to require actual, magma-safe materials...

I've recently made the acquaintance of Evil Ash in an Evil biome. It seems to kill on contact and is never announced. The biome also has Revolting Goo, which causes dizziness and nausea, and which is announced and which I thought was the culprit and that death was a rare by-product.

But no, I have Evil Ash, which has exterminated all the wildlife, my grazers, and half a dozen dwarves, who not only died two tiles from my front entrance, but on the same tile, no doubt each trying to claim the shoes of their predecessor before being struck down themselves.

I've managed to pull the raws from my save file, so if anyone can tell my why this stuff is so deadly (or wants to use it themselves), I'd love to know.

Evil Ash raw:

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[INORGANIC:EVIL_CLOUD_6]
[GENERATED]
[SPECIAL]
[STATE_NAME:ALL:evil ash]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL:evil ash]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:GREEN]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:2:0:1]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
[SPEC_HEAT:4181]
[IGNITE_POINT:NONE]
[MELTING_POINT:NONE]
[BOILING_POINT:NONE]
[HEATDAM_POINT:NONE]
[COLDDAM_POINT:NONE]
[MAT_FIXED_TEMP:10000]
[MOLAR_MASS:1]
[TEMP_DIET_INFO:SLIME]
[ENTERS_BLOOD]
  [SYNDROME]
[SYN_NAME:evil ash sickness]
[SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
[SYN_INJECTED]
[SYN_CONTACT]
[SYN_INHALED]
[SYN_INGESTED]
[CE_NUMBNESS:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:200:END:1608:LOCALIZED]
[CE_PAIN:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:200:END:2330:LOCALIZED]
[CE_BLISTERS:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:200:END:1596:LOCALIZED:VASCULAR_ONLY]
[CE_BLEEDING:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:200:END:3285:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL:VASCULAR_ONLY]

It seems to cause blisters and bleeding in the lungs, which would be disgusting and lead to drowning in one's own blood. Not a nice way to go. It's contracted whenever someone eats (idiot), is injected with, breathes, or touches the evil ash. It probably appears as big, green clouds; speaking as someone who hasn't seen any evil clouds, it might also leave little piles of ash lying around. These would also transmit the sickness to anyone who is barefoot. Like animals, or children, or dwarves with clothing issues. Try putting restricted traffic designations over the indoor piles and keeping dwarves indoors.

It seems to be working for me. Weird.

Dear Urist McFormerCarpenterNowMiner,
First, Congrats on the promotion. Second, consider changing your name to Urist Mcminer. Finally, good job at escaping magma not once but twice while trying to de-magma the aquifer staircase. Oh, and I think you're now a better miner than Urist McMissingAshes ever was.

Sincerely,
GreatWyrmGold, Overseer.


Dear all Urists,
Good job, y'all. Keep up the good work. Soon we'll pierce the aquifer and continue to stone and wealth! Our magma glass furnace is almost up and running, so yippee there, too. Keep up the good work and don't fall into the volcano.

Sincerely,
GWG, Ovrsr.

The other day, a wiki walk on TV Tropes lead to a wiki walk on the Sims wiki. The wide variety of things present in the Sims games lead to a train of thought ending with realising the similarities it has with DF, from micro management to ghosts to not dealing well with fire.
The result of that long train was this topic.

Which would be cooler: A Dwarf Fortress/The Sims crossover, or a The Sims/Dwarf Fortress crossover?

The Urists: Set up a thriving family in a suburban town. Your family is a bunch of dwarves, with dwarvish traits like alcoholism and short-temperedness.
Sim Fortress: Strike the Earth, starting with a family of seven Sims! Watch out for sieges of...um...I don't know enough about the Sims to figure out what the sieges would be composed of, but you'd get bandits to steal your treasure and social workers to take your children.

Dear Urists McDwarves,
That ice wolf corpse has re-reanimated two or three times now. Maybe you should stop idling and cleaning up vomit and toss it down the zombie disposal chute, and not NEXT to it, 'kay? Otherwise it'll reanimate and kill all of you.
Sincerely,
GWG, Ovrsr.
P.S. And hurry up.

Dear Urist McMilitiaCommander,
It was awfully rude of you to die. What, did you vomit up your brain? And why didn't your death appear as an announcement?
Sincerely,
GWG, Ovrsr.

Dear Yaks,
It was probably pretty mean of me to stick you two down in that icy chamber, but there's no ice so I figured you were doomed anyways, so I'd put you in the ZCU ASAP. Thanks for killing the dead herbalist three times now.
Sincerely,
GWG, Ovrsr.

Dear Urists McSurvivors,
Good luck. I'm going to have you fight the zeds, if you want to be topside so much. Except you, Urist McMiner. You stay underground and look for the caverns. Stop dropping your clothes everywhere.
Sincerely,
Yadda yadda yadda.

Dear Urists McBandOfRagtagMisfits,
Good job beating up those ice wolf corpses. Dump them down the ZCU chute before they re-reanimate, okay? And Urist McDeceasedAxedwarf's corpse, too.
Sincerely, who cares about this part.



Dear Caverns,
Where are you? I've dug down 41 z-levels so far and haven't found anything. I'm kinda on a glacier and therefore some cavern wood would be nice.
Sincerely,
GreatWyrmGold, overseer of Canyontower.

You need at least Novice reader skill. You can, however, mod the knapping reaction to train the reading skill or something along those lines. (The skill token is READING, btw.)