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My fort is 25 years old. My grizzly bear poplation still hasn't reached it's full size, since I bought the first couple in year 4, but I've got about 50 war grizzlies penned in strategic locations already. They do indeed take longer to grow up, but they also have a longer lifespan than dogs.

 Is this in the current version? I've checked upwards of 80 Dwarven Civs in over 10 worlds and they never NEVER have any non basic animals any more. The amount and variety of animals in caravans has been worse too...

I made some minor changes to their ethics and got the desired result for the most part. Saw many with a lot of Goblin kills. Ultimately I'd like them to specifically grudge against Goblins and other evil creatures but I don't see anything that appears to have such an effect.

The largest I could make a creature that could still wear human sized armor was 79900. 80000 and all their clothing/armor was considered small.

I'm thinking the extra arms aren't of any/much benefit as they should be. I was able to equip/hold a combination of 4 weapon/shield. But I seem to remember some oddness of being able to hold dozens of items in one hand anyway. I don't know if this resulted in any penalty to combat however. Does anyone know the answer to that? I did run around with a two handed sword in one hand, a battle axe in another, a warhammer, and then a shield. Unfortunately it doesn't seem you can attack any faster as you should able too, assuming sufficient coordination. While it provides versatile combat options it also slows skill advancement since it'll be split between weapons. Innate bonuses to skills such as wrestling for obvious reasons don't appear to affect player characters in adventure mode. In adventurer mode I can equip 2 gauntlets, and 2 gloves. I was under the impression only mittens could go over gauntlets. Yet, even without the gloves no gauntlets can be worn.

I experimented with a long 440-660 year lifespan, but I commonly see them die of old age as young as their upper 200s, and I haven't seen more than about 384. They did pop out a lot of children though, heh. Quite a few have became Necromancers. I did see my race as often being the ones to kill megabeasts and such, which was cool. Got a 2nd age of Heroes once, and something like 5th age of Myth, which I hadn't seen before by year 400.

Anyone aware of any console/developer/hack commands that can provide more specific information about a creature such as number of internal organs and such for testing purposes?

On a side note I saw two Dwarf Vampires with about 7000 kills each. Mostly Dwarves.

Seems to be working well so far, thanks for the help! However, they seem to be perhaps excessively peaceful. Is there a way to make them like to war against Goblins and other evil creatures or specific races?

 Seems to be working overall and the extra arms show up, however, they still can't equip more than one set of gauntlets.

Thank you, that seems quite simple. If I may ask, which files will I need to edit? I need to put this info into creature_standard if I understand correctly, and then reference from within entity_default? I'm also currently a little unsure what determines what size armor they can equip.

You can use the Lua scripting aspect of DFHack to edit dwarf stats and skills reliably and easily - no Runesmith needed. These scripts are a wonderful place to start:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/User:Vjek

 Many thanks!!

Okay, so a human caravan comes with wagons. They get in and start to unload. And as always my dumbass broker seems to invariably go on break when I need him to trade, game after game, version after version so I have to set it to anyone may trade. I keep checking and he keeps saying they're still unloading. Then they leave before they finish and before I can ever trade with them. The path to my depot isn't long and is on the surface, so it's not like it took them all that long to get there. What can be done about this? My embark size is 4x6. Perhaps that's part of it, but that's not all that much larger. This leads me to believe that even if we could play on much larger embarks, the way trading works would prohibit that since they seem to use a timer instead of any reasoning?

 

I just lost my leader, he went into a mood "secretive" and just stands around the meeting area doing nothing and not asking for anything. I just got started and it's too early to lose someone so important for no apparent reason.

 He has some skill in Jewel Crafting/Setting, so I am assuming perhaps that's what he wants. However, a freaking season goes by and my Dwarves just will NOT build the damned Jeweler's Workshop. I have like 20 people available with Masonry and Architecture enabled. Even some with EVERYTHING enabled just to see. I have a ton of idlers just twiddling their thumbs.

 Why won't they build the workshop? I have gems, I have a jeweler. So wtf am I missing? What labors are needed to construct a specific workshop?