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I found two parking lots next to each other within the starting map. One had a car and the other had a truck. Other games I have to go through half a dozen big cities and a couple dozen parking lots just to find one motorcycle.

I've found that motorcycles spawn really often in sewage treatment plant parking lots. 9/10 of the lots I've found have a motorcycle in them, which is pretty damn cool because I never live long enough to build my own car.

Sometimes it takes a little longer for the caravan to arrive. Unless you get a message saying that the traders have bypassed your site, you should get one eventually.

You could modify the evil region parameters in the advanced worldgen options. I don't know which ones would have the desired effect, or even if it'll work at all. You might end up with a massive evil biome that nothing can live die exist in, but that world might have an interesting history to read through.

Unfortunately, I can't remember any epic stories of mine, but I still think Urist would win this award a thousand times over.

I'd say its past middle age. When I'm not playing mindfully, my forts tend to die around 5 years.

Same for me, very few of my forts last more than five years. I had one that lasted around 8, but it was a flustercuck of dwarven remains, pools of FB poison and the occasional mutilated lamb crawling through the ten foot thick layer of blood and guts that was my animal pen.

Leggings provide the most free metal per smith/melt cycle (0.5 bars per iteration).  I didn't get a chance to test high boots (my civ couldn't make them natively), but if they follow the same pattern as other armor, they should produce 0.2 bars per smithing, and 0.1 bars per melting (remember, you have to melt each one separately).

I must assume that this is a bug that will be fixed in some future version, who knows when.  According to Quietust, the coins have been providing free metal since 23a, so it might be a while.  (Free metal from leggings, battle axes, picks, gauntlets and other items is a new add-on to the bug.)

I'm not sure if this is true.

I had a very small amount of accessible candy in one of my forts. I knew about the bolt splitting and melting, but my archery range wasn't set up for bolt recovery. I checked the wiki and say that leggings give 150% bars when melted.

I made all of my candy into leggings and melted two of them down, expecting to get three bars. I'm not sure what the result of the melting was, but I remember I didn't have enough bars to make a single pair of leggings after the melting.

---truth---

Truth is difficult to define. Sure, what is true is what is 100% correct. However, a few hundred years ago, flight wasn't possible.Going about a certain speed was possible, but it turned your bones to mush. They were facts that were 100% correct at the time. People didn't know better.

Speaking of which, did you know that modern science doesn't know how bees can fly? Yet, knowing (or not knowing) this, we've built spacecraft that can travel to other planets. That certainly says something about human ingenuity (or human stupidity, if you want to look at it that way) into perspective.

Of course not.  This is a single player game, and there's not even a high score ranking for players to measure performance against each other that way.  There are no gentleman's agreements, no base standards to ensure everyone has the same experience, nothing like that.  The only rules and guidelines for behaviour are what the game code allows to happen.  If it's possible, it's legitimate, simple as that.

Personally, I prefer not to use mods that change the game's basic functionality, but even that is fair game.  The parts of the game you're not supposed to go messing with, aren't parts you can modify.  The parts Toady has invited you to modify, with easily edited files and clearer editing instructions than any in-game instructions on how to actually play it, how could one seriously object to changing them, if a player should want to?

My thoughts exactly. I've always thought that if you can do it, you can do it. If it's possible to place a million and one lead bars in a 2 metre squared tile, why not do it?

This is one of the reasons I have a problem with many rules in online games. Some I can understand to a certain extent; using bots to give you an you an unfair, third party, non-coded advantage over other players would be one I wouldn't do myself, nor endorse to other people.

Using a certain over-powered weapon/armor combination because the developer typo'd the stats is the developers fault, and it's now part of the game so I'm going to use it, even if everybody hates me for it. Don't blame me for your lack of lack of morality. 


This'll probably sound insulting, but one of the reasons I like the DF community is because of their complete lack of morality, relatively speaking. I'm sure we're all wonderful people in real life, but when it comes to dwarves; 'all's fair in !!FUN!! and war' as they say in the mountainhomes.