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What do i need to keep track of when makeing a mega beast and how can i try if it's "Mega" enough?

What files etc?

Is there currently any moding tools out there?

No not the ordinary cheats but any small program that for instance parses the file, giving you a overview of the creature and enables you to save them out again after doing changes?

One might argue there is no need since everything is plain text and just requires notepad but wouldn't it be easier if doing a large mod to be able to load a file, get a list of all creatures, get bool boxes (marked/not marked) for all attributes that exist text boxes where you can add specific data and and all possible changes you can do in a easy overview able way?

There are people with great skills on these forums, wouldn't take to long to put something like that together, hell, i would do it myself if i wasn't temporary banished to linux. Is there anything like this and/or is it something cry out for.

To my knowledge lava can be pumped out and refills over time, this challange is to make a "negative tower" going down the middle of the vulcano, possibly while expanding the size of the crater in the progress to fit a fortress.

This would require lots of pumps to my knowledge and work.

Should this be possible. Sounds like fun. Who is in? ^^
Has it been done?

For this to be valid i guess all contestents should be able to show a working pumping solution to re-empty the crater.

[ May 15, 2008: Message edited by: TheSpaceMan ]

have anyone found a map that looks like the old DF map.

What i am looking for is a river going from the top of the screen to the bottom and a allmost flat wall of rock to the right of the river. (don't mind if there is a vulcano on the map would otherwise be good) I just like the feeling of digging in that way i kind of miss it in the new version. So what i am looking for in essense is a cliff or mountin with a almost flat side faceing you on the right where the mountin is the majority of the area. nr of levels doesn't matter neither does it mather if the levels are not as flat as the ground area. It should be rock and not mud. preferably no aquafier.

[ May 09, 2008: Message edited by: TheSpaceMan ]

I started a new fort design, it's based around digging out a few floors under ground and start build a town under ground. New levels are added after a while by digging down the street level and bridges are used to connect the houses on higher  levels. When navigating my underground tower city i noticed a room in one of the houses filled with misma... looking closer i realized there was no door or stairs leading out from the room. After removing the wall letting the misma pour out, I find the remains of a dwarf, apparently a mason whos last mission in this world was to build the wall that sealed him into the room. This was connected to the re-planing of the floor to allow bridge access between the houses without dwarf having to run trough folks bedrooms... it looks like I forgot to add the new door...

My army keeps starving or thirsting to death, I in my ignorance was sure that a squad would get water and food when needed too. But no. Am I just very unlucky or is it suposed to be that way?

efter a large dig 4 of my miners got rock in their head and died. This resulted in the mayor having a tantrum, destroying the bridge to the food chamber. Dwarves quickly started to starve, and with hunger came more anger and violence. During this hard time I got two ambushes from large goblin parties. Assembling the few dwarves I had, I drove them off, sadly the majority of my army got criticaly hurt, with no food, all working men hurt, there where only two dwarves left fit to work, one miner and a female fish cleaner, the miner snaped, took his pick axe and killed all the hurt dwarves. During this time the fish cleaner gave birth to a boy. The Miner, done with his task started to hunt the Fish Cleaner, over bridges, trough stairs, this ended on top of the highest ledge in the town. Where no where left to run, the miner killed the fish cleaner and her baby. Leaving him alone in his new home of death and decay.

What am i doing wrong?