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Or he could progress towards the goal of having everything graphics and UI related opened up to the public. Then when he adds new features, he merely would have to specify the APIs involved in using it. This way he could completely focus away from the graphics and UI until he is ready to tackle them.

omg, yes.

Quote from: Don57 on February 08, 2013, 09:47:05 am

Did...did I just win Dwarf Fortress?

Rather you just lost by winning.

I've been playing DF for over two years and I had no idea this was even possible:

please put in main the ability to nickname more dwarves at once like in splinters' (i think it's his one that allows it)

OMG, YES!

I've been experiencing this bug, too.  Looks like it's an unintended consequence of having slopes along the shores of a river. 

The water at the the last tile of the river drops to 1/7 as the water moves into the adjacent open space (i.e. the top of the waterfall), and the dwarfs think it's a great idea to cross the river here...only, the next second, water from the next tile up the river moves into the shallow river square they just entered and *fwoop* off the go to their deaths. 

Even setting the river to be restricted doesn't seem to deter them.  I've wasted four reclamation teams trying to get a fortress built near a waterfall.  I tried building a bridge a ways off from the edge, but no luck.  I couldn't even build walls along the edge of the waterfall to keep dwarfs from getting to that shallow river squares; the dwarfs just kept running into the shallow water and being swept off the cliff while trying the build the walls.

So far there does not appear to be any way to prevent your dwarfs from dying this way.

I hope this gets addressed somehow -- even if it means getting rid of sloped rivers.  It's impossible to build near waterfalls now, which I love doing.

I think this could be a problem.
There is no variable that holds the migration wave of a dwarf. DT calculates it by comparing ids and gaps in ids of the dwarfs in the creature vector. Since migrants in the new version are not generated when the imigration happenes but taken from the world, they have an existing lower id not according to the time they arrive. This would explain why the 7 starting dwarfs are in the same wave with the higest wave number (highes id = latest wave) and other dwarfs spread over many earlyer migrationn waves in the list.

I suppose DT could make up IDs for each dwarf it reads from the game, generating a new "wave" every time the program is refreshed and one or more new dwarves are discovered.  The player would then be responsible for manually refreshing DT after every new wave of migrants, but at least then the migration waves would be manageable.

An additional downside to this, though, is the fact that DT would then have to keep a local file matching up dwarves to their DT generated ID.

Yeah, I'm not sure how a four-legged creature can have six legs.

Anyone else come across any nonsensical FB descriptions?

As wierd already mentioned, aside from editing the init files, I don't think there's any way to really *stop* the migrants from coming.  Having a crappy, low-wealth fort will keep the migrant waves smaller, but that's about it (and difficult to actually do unless you want a really small and spartan fort).

Your comment about keeping the one migrant dwarf who beat his own berserk son to death has led me to make a suggestion: how about trapping all migrants somewhere, keeping them alive with food and water, then pitting them -- unarmed -- in one-on-one deathmatches with captured goblins/monsters?  Dwarves who somehow manage to survive the fight (or a series of fights) earn the right to live in your fortress.