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The main aspects of this idea (small chance of increased death from environmental diseases, cardiovascular failure) have already been suggested:Yes, thank you, I was vaguely aware of that. Would you really rather I dredge up a thread dating back to the summer of 2009, before we even knew how syndromes currently work?
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=30602.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4744.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3969.0
And why does the fact that occasionally people will start a thread about something that's come up a time or two in the past bother you so much anyway?
if it was raining magma then it would actually be a hailstorm of rocks. but seriously, wtf. I mean, it could be a curse, but think of the landscape.
I agree with the lot of what you are saying... but open sourcing DF... I think no one has the right to tell toady to do that he made the game and just because its popular doesn’t mean it's our game, he made DF and he has spent 5 years on the game so you have no right to tell toady to open source a game, I think open sourcing ruins games as any person can edit a master peace, it's like giving a marker to a 5 year old and telling him to make the Mona Lisa "better".
Well, rat men are subterranean and thus don't experience the rain. The horror of having your own blood pour down from the sky is lost on you when you when a human settler steps outside and says "What's with all this rat man blood? This is weird. Anyways, let's see what's at market!"
OH GOD! If this is possible though, if the blood of a species can rain... What... what if it can rain booze? ._.
I'm entirely less concerned with dwarven deaths and more concerned with common creatures and invaders. If an ambush has 35 goblins, and you get 4 every year for 140 corpses if they're all killed, then by year 10 you could easily have 700+ corpses, even at conservative estimates. While zombies aren't very impressive, 700 of them certainly is! A way to dispose of an invader's corpse would help greatly for any fort founded on evil terrain.
Also, I'm curious about dwarven bodies. I would assume a body in a coffin is safe, but if not... Well, if you have a 5 year old, poorly run fort with let's say ~60 deaths, then you have 60 filled coffins. If you suddenly reanimate, and these don't count as buried anymore, you suddenly have 60 ghosts and you need a lot of slabs in a hurry. If you've embarked somewhere with low stone, like an aquifer, or a shallow desert, then that's going to be a BIG problem.
...You made it rain blood?
the sentence at the top is from toady one, i just asked if he could make it rain Armok blood...like Armok gets a little paper cut and it rains blood for a week
I don't know, I don't think Toady will include [EDIBLE_RAW] or [EDIBLE_COOKED] among tags random metals could get. Especially not also whatever tags make cheese a rotting dairy product.
Shame, though. Would totally remind me of Discworld.
Mmm, treacle mines.
Or renewable metal sources.
There are renewable metal sources?
hmnn well, that's not a question any one can answer, every one plays a little differently with a different set of goals in mind which change depending how good or bad your embark is
you can learn to play the way I did
keep http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page open and tab over it to search for anything you need to learn how to do, for instance uh how do i get wood (alt tab) woodcutting. uhh ow do i dig (alt tab) dig, uh my draves are thirsty (alt tab) drinks, thirst
I actually to this day have to consult the wiki from time to time despite having many successful fortresses. There is just that much to do.
over all the goal of the game is thus
survive as long as possible with all your dwarfs dieing a horrible, horrible, horrible inevitable death. DF has no real obtainable end game, just survival. and that's not as easy as it looks
it may help to get acquainted with the game and its workings, i suggest you read boatmurderd, syrup-leaf and headshoots (though boutmurded is so old it may confuse you) feel free to message me on the forms with any questions or give me your skype and i will help you the best i can.
I demand a mod that turns goblins in wamblers and trolls into big [BUILDING DESTROYER] wamblers.
Fluffy Wambler sieges, including Fluffy Wambler archers mounted on [TRAINABLE] Fluffy Wambler mounts, and Fluffy Wamblers wearing nothing but Fluffy Wambler-leather armour and wielding weapons made from the bones of their dead.
Glorious.
