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Boom. Saw this thread and went searching for my own. Found it within about 10 minutes. Not that big either. Running at about 26 fps. and 1.7gb of RAM used =X

Seed?

The wild animals are carp, a pike, a sea lamprey, longnose gar, and badgers.

Yeah, seems to have been the issue...
Now how do you get them to collect clay, if you were planning to build the kiln from clay they collected, stupid? 

In two forts, both the site finder and the embark screen claimed the site I embarked on had clay, but all of the soil was loamy sand.
Has this happened to other people?

Quote from: Milskidasith on April 25, 2011, 01:30:08 am

Because of the way the system now works, any megabeast composed of gas or liquid dies instantly when struck because it can't attach to itself. It's the exact opposite of the previous version, where such blobs could never die, ever.

Speaking of casualties after the fact, though, I had a giant charcoal... something, I can't remember, that released gas that gave my dwarves Ebola. Seriously. They were OK for about a minute, and then they all instantly died of blood loss. I was obsessively checking them for any signs of wounds to make sure they were OK, so it really was instant.

I'm not saying that this should be changed back, but really now..

How does one kill a blob of flame with weapons? It's not possible. Blobs (of those sorts - water, flame, liquids in general) should probably be made unkillable again. This would force players to resort to trapping/whatevering them instead of some cat pwning them with !!FORCE!!.

Blobs of salt could be beaten/hacked away to oblivion, I'd guess, but seriously now. How do you attack a blob of air?

Easy. The FBs or whatever go, "Ha ha! I am unkillable! Your weapons go right through me!" The dwarves reply, "If you are so insubstantial that we can't harm you, how can you harm us or even not gfall apart?" The FB goes, "Oh ****" and dies. The player goes "What the ****?" The dwarves reply, "What does **** even mean? It sounds like a password." The GreatwyrmGold thinks, "Maybe I should stop this before it gets too crazy." The dwarves reply, "This is DF. You're too late."

Ooh!  And Draconic!

That would be awesome.

I'd use it for Kobolds, maybe too.

Me, too, but it would be even better for me. I use modded D&D kobolds. (I'd like to thank Tiler for that mod.)


Spanish would also be cool.

No... it's deffinitely a gemstone.  Buy that sucker, it's an amazing find.

Thought so. I did, along with a few other mineral training spears. Weird? Yup.

It might be an artifact stolen from an older fort, or picked up after said fort was abandoned.

Never had an artifact ( ), first fort in this world.

Since you didn't mention which race, it was probably the Dwarven caravan, right?  Dwarves have [GEM_PREF] in their raws.  Sometimes the game doesn't check to see if an object SHOULD be made from a certain material... like when a human fort is made of Native Gold or Platinum.  I think this is what happened here.

No, but this brings up something I was thinking about. It was the caravan from a modded race that I was playing at the time--these guys, updated from 31.18. Another thing--back in .18, I got a clay training spear from them. Odd. Related?

Did you get it? It's a gemstone spear.  Gotta be worth it.  Maybe not for military purposes, but for sheer awesomeness.

Yup.

How much does it cost? That should help determine if its an artifact.

Not nearly enough to be an artifact.

It could be duplicate raws. Have you modified them in any way?

Yeah, but
A. I have been (too?) careful while modding.
B. Mineral spears are the oddest thing, and the only odd thing, to happen in my forts. Except for how little of a nuisance badgers tend to be.