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My game is crashing whenever i try to load my safe, how do i load it without crashing? :/
Just downloaded the new version, ironhand, and the graphics are screwed up in that it's only displaying graphics in the upper left hand corner, roughly. How do I fix this?
EDIT - Got an Ilithid ambush of 6, sent my archers, and some Hammerdwarfs to attack them, they were crossing my bridge when an Ilithid shot a fireball at it and destroyed it, sending everyone into the depths. Dammit xD
Usually squad leaders that are much stronger than I expect them to be. Bogeymen are easy to deal with once you figure out how to kill them, or better yet figure out that they won't bother you if you have any buddies with you.
Bite/shake or slashing attack -> lower body or head -> brutal massacre.
1. Immediate danger - keeping a safe distance from a GCS is more important than picking up the sock of the dwarf it just killed
2. Hunger/Thirst - when building a wall, make sure you end up on the side that has food and drink on it
3. Security - a dwarf that afraid to fall asleep (whether his fear is of a real or imagined threat) is an unhappy dwarf
4. Basic socialization - An ostracized dwarf is an unhappy dwarf. A dwarf whose husband just died or cheated on her (if that were to ever be part of the game) is an unhappy dwarf. Spending time alone may or may not make a dwarf unhappy, depending on mentality
5. Basic preferences and comfort - drinking preferred booze, eating preferred food, sleeping in a bed, having a table to eat on, not being covered in vomit
6. Labor
7. Aesthetics, entertainment, waterfalls, relative wealth, and meaningful social interaction - Most of the things that players do to make dwarves happy would go here, and they should have little impact on happiness if more important needs aren't met
8. Stuff that really doesn't matter at all - The dwarf who has everything can invent things to worry about, decide that life has no meaning. Nobles make pointless mandates just to feel important.
Is there a step I am missing in the medical department? I have a chief medical dwarf with diagnostician and a hospital with beds and a load of all the needed stuff except crutches. I also have several dwarves with 5+ in various medical skills. But despite many injuries over several forts, I have yet to see a single person even diagnose a patient, let alone do anything. They just sit there in bed. Am I missing something?
Crazy Idea, and maybe I should make my own thread for it, But instead of tracking coins, could the game instead track transactions?
Dwarves don't have debit cards. I understand that the coin system, as it was, didn't work that well, but if dwarves were able to carry a significant amount coins on their person and if a single bin could hold 100,000 coins or some other large number, it could work quite well.
Also, minting coins doesn't have to be necessary to use them if the coinage of the mountainhome can be obtained by trading with the dwarves.
Say I build a floor out of olivine, then obsidianize that tile. What happens to the olivine?
Shouldn't you be able to make a commander from the military screen?
Should, I don't know about.
Can, no. You name a commander in the nobles screen, then switch to the military screen and create a new squad. Your new militia commander shows up then, in slot one of the new squad.
