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Hmm think megabeast caves in hell, only they would be small palaces or fortresses themselves perhaps? Lairs or some such, where these demon lords or demi demon gods reside. Fallen Demi Gods or Fallen Gods .

Another option is they actually have to be opened, tombs as it were.

You could also cremate his body and engrave a slab.

No really. It's more efficient than coffins. I have no idea why people even bother doing coffins for non-noble dwarves And even then, you don't actually have to put the suckers IN the coffin, I think.

I like the whole coffin set up , especially for the early dwarves, or those that did something memorable. More deserving of a tomb imho . Plus you have empty space as you go deeper anyway.

a) Is the stockpile somehow inaccessible? Any burrows in place?

b) Not everything that goes into food stockpiles is edible without further processing/cooking. For example of the underground crops only plump helmets can be eaten, everthing else has to be milled/processed and then cooked or is not edible at all and used for other purposes. Same thing with animal products, only meat can be eaten raw, tallow and eggs have to be cooked and raw fish has to be prepared.

Definitely get some people preparing easy, fine and lavish meals to see if that fixes things. A couple of dedicated cooks are invaluable I find in a fort.

An idea to make standards more useful at lower levels, not to use them in combat, but as a passive morale booster. Each militia squad, or the militia as a whole, has it's own banner, which is displayed somewhere in the fortress (preferably somewhere where the militia members see it frequently), which is updated as the troops win fights in the fort, such as repelling goblin sieges or megabeasts. Seeing it will give them a happy thought and give them slightly more performance in battle.
Once toady gets to actual mobile armies, then they can take the banner with them when they go to war, and we'll get other effects, but this might be a good use for it for things as they are now.

I like this a lot more. As we can decorate the banner with their kills, make trophies for them etc. Nice idea. Gives them prestige, which increases moral?

Quote from: Taren on December 16, 2012, 06:17:04 pm

While I don't agree with what is posted above, a horn or a drum is a horn or a drum, whether you're with 50, 10 or a thousand people. I'd argue its much less useful in huge numbers as you have to generate much more sound.

You don't really need that much coordination in such small numbers. Maybe it could be useful at the upper end of dwarven battles as they are now, but not before then; therefore, waiting until epic battles are properly in makes sense.

While most of that idea was to cause fear or inspire moral at the onset of combat, giving the musician skill some worth  - True you don't need organisation. But put 10 organised people together and 10 disorganised people together and see which will win most of the time in a skirmish. Though I don't really see dwarves and organised going together well, but dwarves and a good blast on the horn as they charge into conflict... hmm that I can see.

I don't really see dwarves doing things like this and lining up for example, that's them crazy humans again, land madness I tell you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmNzKcd71No

But again straying off topic , still a suggestion I suppose, would be to save the lines and such for the humans.

Suggested a lot before.

Are we allowed to post in old threads?

While I don't agree with what is posted above, a horn or a drum is a horn or a drum, whether you're with 50, 10 or a thousand people. I'd argue its much less useful in huge numbers as you have to generate much more sound.

Is that a no to the celebration in the dwarves honor too? Quite keen on new ways to interact with the dwarves, and things to make them stand out or unique. Never found the parties helpful or useful, that addition might change it.

I just popped in here to say this sounds amazing .

If there was one thing I've had in DF over the years its the unexpected, so no expected results would play the best. Always going haywire or always decaying seems meh, same with never going haywire or never decaying.

The potential to wear down on each hit, even if they are patched up is how i'd do it. Different materials providing more longevity, and I don't always mean the strongest ones, metal while very strong and heavy, can rust but bone can go 50 years before its brittle in open air as an example. Although of course bone would shatter to a few decent blows of a stronger material.

If a golem sustains damage to the controlling part of it, then perhaps it goes haywire attacking everything? Patching up or repairing Golems could be a skill, that can cause it to be repaired, or fail and make the damage worse.

On what golems could do in the fortress. Anything that doesn't require creativity? As to movement speed, slow/medium or fast depending on the material used? Not sure if that could be coded but it'd be a great balancing factor, metal or even stone might be very strong but incredibly slow to move, difficult to fix when damaged etc.

Then you could add specific anti golem monsters , perhaps some form of magical defense or some steampunk type technologies. Not sure on this, but some counter would be worthwhile, confusing it or wearing it down by being hit by something in particular.  Acid tipped arrows or some such? Nasty *evil grin*