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Try something like this for a geyser:



Basically as described above.  It has a glass tube suck up the water, which travels up, hits the faucet bell, then falls back down.  Looks like it's floating.

You could give them a Reaction entry that creates the metal you need. Then assign it to a building that doesn't exist.  That would give them access to the metal (you can imagine they're melting it down), but not require a smelter to do it.

And no, most of the things you're trying to do are going to take poetic license and a liberal use of descriptive tags, like a glove that "throws" spears or a smelter that doesn't smelt but lets the creatures melt things.

Well accidents wouldn't be calculated every frame, just when the dwarf does something that can screw up and injure them.

Picking up or putting down an item, for example.  The accident code could be run only when picking up and putting down the item. In the interim, they do not calculate to see if they drop the box on their toe.  They just do it (or do not, as the case may be).  If they try to go up or down stairs while carrying the object, well that's a calculation that must be performed.

Also, don't get the wrong idea about it eating up clock cycles.  It's a dice roll.  It takes maybe 4 calculations to make this happen (get seed, random(seed), if high call accident, else continue).  This would not cause a slowdown, since it takes more calculations for a dwarf to eat than it would for this check.  Stuff like miasma and flowing water cause slowdowns because there are so many calculations being done by numerous objects (each 1/7 of water calculates on it's own, same with each miasma tile... and with miasma there are many stacked in the same area).  On the other hand, with a maximum of 200 dwarves in an area at one time, them checking periodically for an accident would cause about as much FPS drop as a pond of water 30 squares in area.

I just had a dwarf get into a bit of a tangle with a giant cave spider.  He was trying to seal off the caverns before any fun happened and..... well... fun happened.  Then I realize that he's a wood-cutter.  He's carrying an axe.  Quickly I draft him, and tell him to attack.  Singlehandedly he cut down this gigantic arachnid.  But theres blood everywhere.  I haven't even set up a hospital yet, so I zone a hospital quickly right behind the traps I've set up to keep the fortress safe.  The doctor comes down, diagnoses him and what do I get?

His hair is cut open.  His beard is cut open.

buh? what is this I don't even...

How does hair bleed?  Either way the dwarf refuses to stay in the hospital after this diagnosis, and goes to get drunk, then throws a party.  He didn't even wash up, blood still covering his beard.

The moral of this story? That blood isn't filth to be cleaned up... it's a mark of honor.

Very strange, as I am using a heavily modded version myself, and it works just fine.

Possibly because I am using dwarves, even tho there are a lot of modifications to everything.

Does Runesmith look for the current creature race in the game? Or [ENTITY:MOUNTAIN]

I think the one-page search should be abandoned.  The maps have too many dimensions to possibly be searched through for there to just be one page.

I'd like to see (and the values possible thereof):

Volcanism: N/A, None, Low, Medium, High, Active Volcano
Steepness: N/A, Flat, Hilly, Cliffs
Salinity: N/A, Freshwater, Brackish, Saltwater
Constructions: N/A, Road, Bridge, Tunnel, Wall, Multiple
Biomes: N/A, One, Two, Three, etc... (for making embarks with multiple biome types)

I use both this and Deon's cobalt/steel alloys.  One is layered steel, the other patternweld steel.  They both use the same elements to be created, but are different in properties.

I use layered steel for my giant axe blades.  Brilliant.