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• We could ask for a rectal exam.

for the seeds to be taken from the Depot you need a stockpile that is not linked to any workshop and is set to "accept from anywhere"

there is a trick with raw skins to get more:

you'll need a necromancer, let the necro raise the skin and have your military or traps hack the zombie skin into more skin pieces, all of these pieces are tannable, rinse and repeat, now you got a leather farm.

I never tried with fur, but it might work too.

What about Iron hand? Is that complete too?

last time I checked it was lacking the huge library of random creatures Phoebus has.

Greetings to everyone (except those stupid elves)! I'm from Argentina so sorry for my bad english.

I started playing DF yesterday, by following the "The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress" guide. Against all odds, the game seems really interesting (not fun cause i didn't loose yet) to me, and I have a question.
Using a tileset is considered somehow "too softcore"? There is some kind of motto like "Real men play with ASCII, tilesets are for noobs", "Chuck Norris uses ASCII... and Comic Sans font. In italic" or something like that?

yes, and you're an elf pussy. so dwarf up.




Seriously, it's a matter of preference, some people started playing before tile-sets existed so they're used to ASCII, for new players I'd recommend to try out the tile-sets and the original ASCII using the newb pack, I wouldn't have bothered playing if I hadn't discovered tile-sets, I prefer Phoebus because is the more complete one, it has graphics for the huge lot of wild creatures and such.

Quote from: xominxac on February 19, 2013, 09:09:27 pm

At times I feel like I'm the voice of passiveness, I like to wait and see, think through before doing much.

Excellent, so far we've got the voice of paranoia, the voice of reason and now the voice of passiveness. Seemingly getting insaner for every day.

what voice am I?

Maybe we could use our head being still hurt (or any other injury we might incur during our scape) as an excuse to approach the hospital to get diagnosed, then we could talk with the other faction that seems somewhat independent from the nobles and warden and has direct contact with the mountain home: healthcare faction.

Medics should be more empathic about our plight and should have traits like feeling rewarded by helping others and such, so they might give insight into what's up with the mayor and even gets us in contact with the mountain home and someone who actually cares about our fort being wiped out... I still think we should also look some sort of documents or proof in our old fort to back up our claim before proceeding further to the mountain home...

It also works the same in the opposite direction, once we were trying to get a woodcutter some extra protection by having him equipped with a breastplate and not removing his uniform while on civilian clothes.

It didn't work, the moment we issued a station order, the woodcutter dropped the axe from his woodcutter "uniform" and started equipping his military uniform consisting of a breastplate and an axe, (he would pick a different axe). The moment you released him from military duty, he would drop the breastplate and the axe and go equip his woodcutter "uniform" consisting of only an axe.

Even if you assign an specific axe for his military uniform, that happens to be the same he's holding at the moment for his woodcutter "uniform", he would drop the axe and equip it again. =/