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statistically speaking, the most common last name on the planet is "Ngyen".Probly Koran.
not sure what the most common first name is.
10 bucks says its either something chinese or something from the koran/bible.
I have big goblin sieges with nothing but copper spiked balls in a 3-wide hallway. Nothing survives past about 7 tiles of that.I use serrated disks, and then goblinite weapons left around after an ambush/siege
Yeah, maybe? I really didn't think that was possible, and its a bit of a letdown if it is true! Just curious what other people have seen and experienced. Seems like all games now have a built-in siege limit if this is the case.I don't personally know, I just like reading the RAWs
In my current fort I was humming along, fighting off the seasonal goblin ambush and periodic snatcher. Kobolds too from time to time. Then all the goblins just vanished. No more ambushes, no more snatcher. Never saw any sieges on the map. I noticed the lone goblin on the civ screen is now gone too.Maybe you hunted them to extinction? You can do it with animals, but I'm not sure about civs. Maybe they threw all of their people at you, and now they're all dead?
So, I've read recently about how it is possible to kill off all the goblins - but everyone still seemed to get sieges despite this. Not sure what might have happened, and I appreciate any insight into how I might prevent this from happening again.
Thanks!
Come to mention it, there was an immediate collapse upon embark. The screen centered somewhere underground. What does this mean, and how does it affect me?Probably a magma pipe. They delete some squares around them sometimes via "Cave-in", when really it's just deleting. Nothing bad.
"Sir, you own the world. What would you like?"Sweet, no new mandates. My duke likes gold, which is easy enough to get, and the current mayor has a fixation on floor hatches.No preferences = no mandates.Praise Armok!
I have more air in my map than I have stone. No, that would not help... I'm clueless... still.For once, I have the logical answer.
No preferences = no mandates.Praise Armok!
So, after a long while of searching for THE embark location... you know, the usual... No aquifier, trees, river, flux, and magnetite in it... I finally found one map, and cheered! Although the FPS dropped to about 34, immediately, at embark. It should be at least 100-200... Anyway, this is NOT a question about FPS, but I looked up and I found that I have too much sky in my map. How much? I gave up counting after rising to Z level of 700. And I have read somewhere on this forum recently that sky can eat up resources easily, and much too easily for how little use it normally has.I'm wondering how to find out how much there is in a map.
Info? Advice? I wont ask anything too specific, just in case that someone has something useful to say, that was NOT in my questions... Well, aside from the most obvious one, how do I reduce amount of sky in a map?
lets see, plump helmets, booze, barrels, seeds, turtles, one cat 4 dogs, 2 goats, cheap meat, an anvil, wood, lots of Tetrahedrite and Casserite..... wait that's what I already embark with.I'm embarking with 2 cave crocs and a turkey hen.
Only on this forum will you ever see someone ask "How do I make elves bleed as much as possible so I can sell it off for big money?"I love the Bay12 forums.
In all seriousness, I thought Toady fixed glass edges. Or are they still super sharp, but sucky for other stuff?
I think you should use a looted large copper dagger or something to attack the elf. Since copper is a really poor material, and daggers are really poor weapons, that should keep your elf from getting hit too deep (mostly tearing the skin, tearing the muscle/bruising the bone at worst). To keep your dwarves from cutting off limbs and killing (barring lucky shots), make a different dwarf play "Cut-the-Elf" each time.
Idea! Make it into a party game with prizes for whoever can bleed the elf the most.
), and at the embark screen I can bring anything I want. Even Giant Cave Spiders!MAGMAAAAAAMurder his boat?But they already told you what the song is!What to do with a drunken sailor?
I swear, if you don't get THAT reference...
I have a lot of silver... and i mean a LOT.It's a really dull point x3.
I don't want to waste my precious iron on trap components, and am wondering if making spiked balls out of silver would be effective, or should i just make loads of silver war hammers and fill weapon traps with them instead?
Suggestions?
I'll give it try, but I'm worried their limbs will off from necrosis. But that's alright, you can't keep everyone alive for profit forever.You could take necrosis off too. That'd work.
