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Dear Competant Swordsdwarf,
You are one of the starting seven, bound by your rule that you live or die to the fort you make. You are our Militia Commander and armed in full steel. You are currently in charge of training up 3 more dabbling recruits.

And when the scouts raised the alarm, you told everyone to stay inside. The doors blocking the invaders were jammed by a leftover piece of dolomite and everyone else was too busy panicking to remove them.

You were the only one who stood against a 12 goblin squad, led by a Jabberer. I was watching you raise your axe and shield as you taunted them by our door. I never knew you had such colorful language.

No one else was brave enough to stand at your side but your pet war dog. When they came, you charged in unison. I thought you would die to the Jabberer but your dog saved you, allowing you to chop it up, the goblins fled in terror as you cut them by the heel.

But alas, your dog has fallen and now you are unhappy although we are partying because of your brave success. Not even a scratch! I applaud your self-less act, but we sadly cannot replace your dog. Just made a statue of you and it though.

Our hero is you.

-Overseer _________
Fortress Saramnir

I've never bothered making any clothes for my dwarves, but I've just found out that clothing can wear out. Does that mean it will eventually disappear? Even if the dwarf is wearing it? Am I gonna end up with a bunch of butt-naked dwarves running around my fort? And do I really need to bother making them clothes if the answer is yes?

Yes. Currently, they don't bother to get (wear) new clothes. They go claim em and sometimes leave them on the floor. To fix that, you put all civilians in the military and assign clothing to them.

It will take years for XxclothesxX to wear out though, represented by the 'X's.

Quote from: Tiruin on September 04, 2011, 07:26:24 pm

How can one add a weapon to a vanilla game? Like modding in a Longbow, different from a bow. Do you have to regen the world and maybe put some tokens in so the game will recognize the new item?

Yes. You make a new bow in the item_weapon folder, and add the tags for it under the entity section. You'll need a re-gen.

Thanks!! 

Hi Deon, I have minor thing to report (with version d)

Hippo in genesis are very timid and will run from dwarves. In RL hippo is extremely ridiculously aggressive. This might be the ruin of many a fort, but I believe hippo deserve the [PRONE TO RAGE] tag.

Hippos are territorial beasts, they are aggressive to those who intrude in their territory. If a dwarf lands in the river filled with hippos, they die. If they see a dwarf that is not in the river but on land, they run? The last sentence should be wrong...

Goblins are technically immortal...

Goblins and Elves do not die by old age, are they related? My guess is yes.

Started off as a Sylvan, I came lucky with this one as the speed was of over 2000. No modding except for the fact that it is Genesis. She proved to be a very valuable asset, bringing down many night terrors.

Sadly, the world was too young to see thieves or bandits so all she had to kill from the start were night creatures and Bogeymen. Impossible for a novice archer but since elves are skilled in blade and bow...well...

Using the terrain and height, she quickly became known and honored throughout the land. The law-giver of the humans decided to kill her off by sending her alone to face the last marsh titan, with 35 kills under its belt he knew she would meet her demise.

Amala went on alone, with only a longbow and buckler. (Modded in a weak short sword slashing attack to the longbow, the buckler for Role-playing reasons. I guess I was lucky to get a lightning fast elf.) For days she trudged through the land, resting where safety lay. The mountains, blessed by the dwarves to keep any terror of the night at bay.

Then she came upon the shrine and sighted out the titan, pure black in color with two gigantic wings. It was flying in mid-air.

Damn, this was tough. It did actually have 35 kills, corpses were strewn across the paved shrine floor. She only had one singing arrow left and that was what she used as a weakening shot.

It hit the head and lopped it off in one blow, the body crashing on the rocks below.

The titan was made of ash...and it had thirty-five kills

Truly anticlimactic.

Quote from: Deon on August 31, 2011, 06:28:22 am

Letters. If you play with letters and symbols instead of graphics, that's an ASCII variant (original).

ooooohhh....does it come wiht its own tileset?

Yes, the tileset is letters  . Genesis (Deon's Mod) has a graphics tileset or the normal ASCII tileset. The graphics uses pictures instead of letters. If you could search up what a roguelike game is, you will know what ASCII will be. Kind of simplified graphics.

(Sorry if this answer didn't sound right  )

And to the thread creator, Genesis adds what most mods have (like Wanderer's friend for one) and adds more from the creators (You now have special leather armor instead of normal leather.). But if you are going with Genesis, pick the ASCII one. The graphics is partly outdated since Deon is working on the ASCII.

i can see plenty of "dark goblin fortresses" on my map, i'v yet to be to one tho but i plan on going to one soon

You cannot go into a goblin fortress in the current version (nor can you visit DMH's or EFR's - Dwarven Mountain Halls or Elven Forest Retreats.). Toady is working on them currently so you can only visit Human towns/fortresses in an unmodded game.

And stuff spreads out in a town/camp/fortress, it doesn't get lost but just scatters. In a lair, it does not.