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Thanks for clearing that up.
Protip: Don't decide to try DF again during exam time.
I just wrote a story about Urist being cheated on by his wife for my essay on conflict...
All I know about Dead Space is that it involves zombies in space. Therefore, I understand 51% of this mod's flavor and probably ~25% of its mechanics.Question: Can you provide a quick overview of what the mod offers in the first post?You can now live out your Dead Space fantasies!This about sums it up.
Remember the glorious days of mauling necromorphs? Now combine that with Dwarf Fortress. This is the bastard child you get!
i think the main problem with bronze collosi is that they're too... i don't know, "specific?"So...procedural colossi? That...isn't a bad idea, but it makes them into humanoid inorganic titans with bad tempers and fluffy wambler weaknesses.
in a world like DF's with so few megabeasts, they should either be something very recognizable (dragons, hydras, rocs) or something randomly generated that can be a wide variety of things (titans.) bronze collosi are a cool monster idea but they aren't as archetypal as dragons or hydras or rocs, and they're always the same. they stand out even more since they're probably the strongest type of megabeast.
the best way to save the bronze collosi would probably be to make them more randomly generated, making it possible for them to be made out of different materials and have different strengths and weaknesses. this would eliminate the need to make a bunch of different specific colossi.
I dunno, I've used body parts as weapons before, why should golems be different?The weapon isn't exactly the sort of thing anyone can hold though, I thought?You used to be able to make 'magic' weapons that would burn their opponents and stuff, if I recall, but it isn't really possible anymore as far as I know.You can do that now. [HOMEOHERM:15000].
Not responsible for wildfires caused by embarking with man-sized lumps of clay 3,000 degrees F above the temperature of magma.
Caged animals do not breed.
You can also leave it in the cage and it will mate just fine if you get female.
Is this true? It was always my understanding that caged animals were incapable of breeding.
Finally had a female show up...unfortunately my marksdwarf was in the area and emptied a few bolts into it before proceeding to spend several days hammering on its head with a copper crossbow. By the time I called her off the poor thing had had enough and dragged its poor broken skull off the map...
Oh yeah, I have a fort like this in .40d. All the dwarven civ's officials seem to be goblins, including the outpost liaison. The baron and his retinue are dwarves, as normal.How about...lots of z-levels?
I suppose my job is to lure the royals over, and kill them gloriously, huh? Though this fort has no magma.
procedurally generated secrets would be extremely cool. secrets could vary from weak (transforming wood into phantom spider soap) to strong (necromancy) to very strong (the kind of thing that you could go on quests to stop. like, the power to blot out the sun for a hundred years.)Or leather...'course, the curse of mine would be awesome, if the dwarves didn't starve.
The kind that is represented by a 'U'.procedurally generated secrets would be extremely cool. secrets could vary from weak (transforming wood into phantom spider soap) to strong (necromancy) to very strong (the kind of thing that you could go on quests to stop. like, the power to blot out the sun for a hundred years.)
Wait, a secret that enables you to block out the sun, and you want to go on a quest to stop it?
What sort of dwarf are you?
Can't help notice there is a dwarf named Dodok in Soaplanterns....Why?
That's... ominous, don't you think?
2 clear glass items and one character description. I think. The mayor also made a mandate so I'm having the dorfs make 3 clear glass grates to fulfil both.Well, if it's that easy then I guess my guy is living up to his "sane mandates" promise!
Alright so I'm working on the next update. I am trying to make play more dynamic to reflect the changing political situation on krynn. I am finding it difficult though because if a civ is not at war with your civ they only send caravans and it is near impossible to get them mad enough at you to make them siege you. If anyone downloaded my initial upload you may have noticed I added item thief to the entities I wanted more hostile. However, I want it to be more than good guys vs bad guys. I think I might solve this by making each race more unique in their ethics/religeous spheres. Some races will still be hostile or at least pains (ogres, gobos, draconians, and kender) but I want minotaurs, humans, and elves to be on uneasy terms with dwarves with gnomes just not caring whichever way.Well, if you took yout [EQUIPS] for mages...no, then they wouldn't have robes or staves.
These are the things I'm working on for next release (some of which I am fairly far along on);
1. Wizards as castes for all relevant races (this one is a bit difficult as I don't want wizards to show up on the map wearing plate).
2. Complete noble system for elves, humans, minotaurs, and gnomes to make them playable.
3. Wandering barbarian and kagonesti tribes that will harrass your fortress.
4. Something more dynamic for dragons, right now they are all just megabeasts that will attack your fort. Instead I want them to be good or evil depending on race (and attack you depending on which race you are playing).
5. Castes for draconians (with at least a facimile of their on death attacks) and castes for gobos and ogres to add hobgoblins and ogremagi respectively.
6. Revamp of the dwarven castes and noble system. I wasn't too happy with either while playing through it, the noble system was too restrictive (I think I went a bit overboard) and the caste system seemed a bit rediculous instead of meaningful.
7. Gnomish, slightly self defeating tech.
