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No, it's been a good reference for me when finding out how to play Adventure mode and remembering what order the improvement tags go in (*  is better than +! I remembered, Mommy!).

On that note, who's going to get post #1000? I will mail a special surprise to anyone who gets that post (if they want to give out their mailing address obviously).

i hav ovar 90900 shot explosnons in irawq at 911 terorists and mai cusin shot osams in da hed by himslef he just so modist he say usa militery help alot in reelty he most badas snyper in world if u don t down lod mod he shot u furm his provate rom in da pentagon!!!!!!

The only solution is Lioncash, which is accepted universally.

Alternatively, follow this guide to giving all your money Internet value, and making fiat currencies obsolete:
i. Acquire money, paper or otherwise.
ii. Acquire Sharpie, Shoupie or similar knockoff with sufficiently permanent ink.
1. Write ONE BITCOIN over any amount. If there is more than one amount, write 1B over numerical-only amounts and BITCOIN over text-only amounts.
2. Write INTERNET over any location, making the bitcoin universal.
3. Write RON PAUL over the name of any sovereign or leader featured on the cash. If space permits, draw your best Ron Paul on the false repressive government stooge's face.
4. Write WORTH ALOT over any motto. There must not be a space between A and LOT.
5. Scribble out any shaped bumps or insignias that may be the corrupt government's mint marks.
6. You have helped contribute to the death of fiat currency and freedom in America; no, not America, but the world! Distribute it to foolish non-bitcoin-users as "legal tender" (you may want to keep the Ron Paul face out of view during such corrupt transactions) and watch as they distribute it worldwide. Join the physical bitcoin movement and take away unjust government funds.

Since you still intent to distribute it to other sheeple who still use valueless paper as money (instead of valueless hex values: fools all!) and not directly to other noble bitcoiners, it's legal in the US. I'm not sure about Canada, but such are the struggles when you try to overthrow The Man. Vending machines everywhere already take physical bitcoins! They are accepted worldwide by our automated friends. Join the movement! Make Physical Bitcoins today! I already have. I expect their value to be infinite right now, as they are the only Physical Bitcoins in the world. If you make some, we can split the riches evenly!

I hope none of these are serious because some just sound like tat. Let's fill some out as Steve O'Luckless, the rich yet embittered retired brewer from Ireland (brewing potatoes or something):

$5: Your name is added as a random sentient historical figure at the beginning of worldgen.  You have a chance to see engravings of yourself being eaten by a dragon, or becoming lord of an empire. 
There is always someone named Steve O'Luckless, or (more likely for $5), Dicks McCock Boobs. Everyone else has an RNG name except for a mysterious bank of people who always show up identical. It's not like this will detract from the randomness of it all.
$25: Crayon picture (probably a copy)
A copy? Shame! Steve is sad now.
$50: DF Shirt or hat
Sewed personally by Toady's aging grandmother, her fingers working vile curses upon her kin and you as she tries to forget that she'll be paid far below minimum wage for this.
$75:  Signed DF poster
Steve is happy and hangs it in his room.
$100: Your name gets added to a list, from which the names of Fluffy Wamblers will be chosen.  All Fluffy Wamblers will have a name, drawn from this list.  Special thanks mention.  Limit 500
Why?! They're not even real creatures! They're vermin!! And they'll all be named things like ILIKEVAGINAZZ and xX69internetXxx! Except for Steve the fluffy wambler.
$250:  Towns in worldgen can be named in your honor, civ of your choosing. Limit 50
This is even worse! Because the naming pool is even smaller, pretty much every town Steve visits will be named Steve!
$500:  New animal you get to describe and name.  Subject to approval, obviously.  Limit 25
Oh, this is subject to approval but naming 2% of all towns isn't?! And how can you choose a civ when civs are randomly generated? Do you mean race?? Anyway, Steve likes potatoes a lot and has added potato men to the game. We're doomed.
$1000: A new "vein" stone is named after you, color and properties of your choosing. Limit 10
"Realistic geology with certain fantasy aspects? Pah! I'm looking forward to a collective union of trolls saving up enough to add penis ore to the game! And it's fuchsia!"

Seriously, though, you underestimate Toady's integrity. He's not famous and he's not going to let random people on the Internet make him add stuff for a small fee.

$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000: Death to all fiat currencies achieved
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000: Bitcoin Revolution
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000: Rape Dollar$ accepted as currency

Quote from: Seraphim342 on December 01, 2012, 09:58:10 pm

If we do get uranium, the only thing I would use it for is making it into blocks, then loading them in a Dwarven Railgun and shooting them at Goblins.  Probably while shouting "Goblin tank sighted!  Range:  1500 yards!  Load, Sabot!"

You're not expecting much special to happen, are you?

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Like the stained glass idea though, and can think of many possible ways to weaponize radiation.

See below for my point on radiation.

Quote from: Adrian on December 02, 2012, 06:49:51 am

Regarding radioactivity, i think that needs to wait until there are both some form of lighting system in Dorf Fort which can be used in calculating dosage and syndromes are refined into non-transmissible diseases.

I think radiation should wait until we have more radioactive materials.

Uranium isn't quite stable, but most forms have long enough half-lives that you'd need to be standing next to a chunk of uranium for a while to get much of a chance of radiation sickness. Uranium projectiles would be heavy, but not cancer-inducing (unless left in the wound too long, of course). Amd, of course,this is assuming you could smelt uranium into uranium at all.

1. It would be nice if uranium ballista bolts caught on fire and contaminated the ground, assuming we can smelt it, because there's a thing about uranium dioxide: its melting point is 2865 degrees Celsius, topping the much-feared bauxite (2072 degrees).
2. Alpha radiation is blocked by clothes. The only way it killed people before we started refining it was through mountain sickness: silver miners would start coughing up blood one day and within six months they'd be dead (of lung cancer, but they didn't know it at the time). This is as close as we're likely to get to radiation sickness for now, because powerfully radioactive materials aren't usually found in nature in large quantities (because they decay so quickly in order to give off noticeable radiation), so we had to refine them. The first was radium, I'm pretty sure. The problem is that radium is only found in tiny trace amounts in any amount of uranium, and one gram of radium bromide cost 22,000 pre-inflation (late 1800s) dollars - that was considered cheap. "Wait until powerfully radioactive materials"? How about "wait until the game handles and can handle miniscule traces of different materials interspersed together"?

Quote from: Reelya on December 02, 2012, 05:52:08 am

Hey I'm a Dwarf and
I'm digging a hole, diggy
diggy hole, diggy

Why did you bring that up
That Honeydew from the Yogscast drinks Jaffa's with a cup
You are a horrible person
I'm eating a raw morsel
Haiku is rocket science
I'm just going to sit in silence

The Yogscast remains
Tragically unfunny, and
Jaffa Cakes don't dissolve

So I forgot to put any points in any weapon proficiency and didn't notice until I found a lone goblin leader in the sewers. On my first shot, I took out one of his eyes with my dagger.