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Attacking your own entity (the human caravan) triggers a "loyalty cascade" where everyone involved in the attack becomes an enemy of your civilization and everyone who attacks them becomes an enemy and so on. It looks like your woodcutters (you'll notice there's more than one name) are all scaring each other while they're working because they're all enemies.

I thought that disloyal citizens attacked other civ members. I guess that this result might make sense, though.
Urist McCivEnemyWoodcutter: Doo dee doo...An enemy! RAAA-Oh, no! He's got an axe! *runs away*
Urist's brain: You idiot, you have an axe too!
Urist McCivEnemyWoodcutter: Oh, right, this thing. Doo dee doo...An enemy! RAAA-Oh, no!

I can't wait! Hm...what dwarf, what dwarf...

you know, it would be really neat if dwarves could learn from books  -- not just the ancient secrets of life and death, mind, which are spiffy enough, but useful things...

Secrets of life and death are VERY useful! Let's see: Zombie butlers, zombie dishwashers, zombie cooks, undead-walking-skin-things for mobile notepads, unliving skulls to adorn your scepter (side note: Animated totems would be awesome), half-zombie footrests, reanimated goblin soldiers, a pit of flailing zombie limbs to dump prisoners in...

Quote from: Putnam on September 22, 2011, 08:38:05 pm

Quote from: Toady One on September 22, 2011, 03:15:13 am

(I meant to imply there that grammar wasn't important for what I needed, and so I've done things in the opposite order I originally thought -- I haven't added the grammar system)

(I don't think the parentheses are necessary)

(The infidel dares defy the Great Toad with his heathenish punctuation?! THROW HIM TO THE MAGMA BEARS)

I guess this puts us one step closer to the mythical procedurally-generated poems, doesn't it? I will accept the pregnancy and apes with open arms on that day.

...Wait, WHAT?!?!

Wow. More and more useful stuff keeps getting added. Consider these notes from the past couple weeks:

"The player-controlled dragonfire worked on all those elves in the arena, and things will actually catch on fire now instead of just melting. Forgotten beast webbers work properly..."
"The largest thing I've added for them is a sort of transformation rolodex to maintain appearance properly when werebeasts return to their original form...Now they return to the same condition, minus wounds. I suppose I could add wounds in as well, but it'll be a feature for now...I also ran and adjusted several more werebeast attacks to get those working better. There are just a few adv-as-werebeast quirks to work through now, and I can finally check one of these off with some finality."
"Today I made a debug button that converted every dwarf but the first into a zombie that is also the first dwarf's child to test out the various negative thoughts from before. Those thoughts are more specific now as well. Messed with corpse chunk naming conventions, so that it won't just say "bronze colossus's bronze" for instance, when a hand is lopped off...Jumped the gun on books a bit to make necromancer towers more varied...you can currently read them and learn. If you can read."
"Zombies survive much more readily now after some changes to their physical attributes, so the starting dwarves can't clear out an entire invasion on their own anymore... I broke the "Cannot follow order" message for soldiers into about a dozen hopefully helpful messages."
These on their own would make the next version great. Add in necromancers, night creatures, and the ability to do 3D designations...Awesome. I just hope the last few bugs don't take too long.

Obsidian melts tooo!

Yes, but obsidian swords can't be melted down to bars to be forged into clubs/axes/Armok knows what.

That's plenty mega. You also made the fortress liveable.

Quote from: Musashi on September 22, 2011, 03:11:53 pm

Let's have the best of both worlds.
Normal hard pit when stuff falls down.
Once everything precious is pillaged and stocked inside the fort, release 1-z level of magma to clean the rest, and drain it back somewhere else when it's done.
Rinse, repeat.
... I think I'll do that.

I think it would be easier to just make the landing pad a bridge, under which Our Dear Friend resides.

I see the actual word for it a trademark of Necro.

Two things:
1. Who cares about easier? THIS! IS! SPECIALSURPRISE!!
2. You could also call it L.A.V.U. fluid--Lovely Agonizing Volcanic Underground fluid, or (if you don't like that) B.O.A.T.M.U.R.D.E.R.E.R.--Boatmurdered's Original Amazing Type of Martial Underground Evil-Ravagers' Effervescent Retaliation.

I was planning to add them as soon as I had time to think of "good" acronyms. B.O.A.T.M.U.R.D.E.R.E.D. is kind of long...maybe M.U.R.D.E.R.B.O.A.T. would be better?