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My "Minotaur Slayer" got his lower spine broken when he won the fight that won him that name.
Is he a handcap forever or there is a way to fix the spine?

In my opinion every bone and tissue in the body (except nerves) regrow. Very slowly if it is the spine though.

You could edit the Raws but I guess you'll have to wait for someone with knowledge on that to post back 

There's your inspiration in mental form.

Welcome to the forums (late reply, very sorry) and don't forget, we bring fun with us in every step!

This ties up with me learning about brokers. Part of how I learned without the wiki.


Adventure mode:
I had a legendary elf bow/swordsman who decimated all who were against the quest-givers.
I had tons of loot including steel weapons and some armor too large for me.

The best part of it was, to buy more ammo.
I took the weight (with the funny symbol next to the name) in shops as the price of the item.
So what happened was that I sold my steel weapons and armor (not including the weaker steel armor I was wearing) for a bunch of arrows and a new iron bow.

Somehow, I felt something was so wrong in trading and thought it as a bug...

(I'm familiar to roguelikes so I guess that is how I lived far enough.)

Fortress mode:
-Idler Haven-
--Trade caravan has arrived!--

"Hey Urist, we have any brokers?"
"No, I'll talk to em. I'm the best speaker there is anyway, who needs brokers."
"You gotta be one to trade."
"Oh, right. Fine but you go first, I'ma take a drink."

Urist Mc 1 goes off to trade, I find my predicament the same, thought weight was the price, began trading some chairs and tables for a barrel of ale and a leather bin.

"What in Armok's name do you think we are, elves?!"
"Err...the broker is busy drinking away an-"
"Get someone who knows what he is doing! I want a profit on this one and I'm not leaving till I get it!"
*Urist McBroker finishes up and pushes aside Urist Mc 1*
"So...what do we have-. By Litasts bloody finger! We have no trade goods!"
"But we have finely crafted chairs, tables and door-"
"They sell at 20-50 each. The goods we need are over 1000."



That is where I noticed, there was a funny symbol next to the weight.

That was the price of it all.

Dungeons, a headache to those who dare to complete them only to find out in the end was that their reward was only a pile of rags and moldy silk.

If I may give advice, why not make complex lever rooms? since adventurers can use levers why not hook them up to the supports holding the roof? Give the adventurers a chance and make it only 1/5 chance that the pull will mean death.

The door to the next room? It is a floodgate connected to one of the levers, only then will they be able to get through.

Be nice to the cliche rewards. Have a nice set of masterwork armor/weapons of all type in the last room. Guard them with traps (for design unless somebody edits the raws  )

Decorate your dungeon, make the bins and chests out of lead, that way there will be less clutter (lead = heavy so on reclaim/revisit they won't be moved far from where they once were)

Dont forget that windmills/ waterwheels work after reclaim/revisit so you can still have those  pumps going, for any elaborate plan.

Remember that any invaders (ambush or siege) will remain upon revisiting, that means your adventurer has some monsters to get past.

Make every room closed off by doors/floodgates if you follow my plan, the invaders just stay in those rooms.

Don't forget the most important part, engraved walls/floors. They are always in those good looking dungeons so adventurers ignore the dried blood inbetweenthelines.
Have fun toying with the mice!

(Genesis Mod)

Tis' a sad day when you know you can kill dragons and its kin, you know you can kill titans, you know you can strike a headshot with your bow and arrow from 15 tiles away. And then it happens...

All these thoughts coursed through my mind, especially those of my last moments.

I was attacked and ambushed by dragon raptors, no match for bow and blade. A dusk elf did not fall so easily. A few steps out of the conflict and I get ambushed by goblins, 10 to 1. Sneak and snipe was my tactic then, my blade to finish off those too incapacitated by my arrows. Then as I neared a cliff side I get ambushed by harpies, it was truly beautiful seeing their bodies plummet 5 or so z-levels riddled with my arrow shafts.

And in that time I managed to corner a doe rabbit, as I peered down the cliff edge the rabbit decided it had enough of me.

It tried to bite me in the leg despite my armor. By utter reflex I dodged it.

What I didn't take in was the fact that I was standing near a cliff face, one of the tallest cliffs in the world.


Well, at least I had time to make my peace.

My archery tower, it can be part of your above-ground barracks or whatever it is. Just with less space, N by three tiles long.

If you want, you could use my archer tower/barracks ramparts design.
z-level + X (going up)

Open air/Outside
FFFFFFFFFF
Stairway Stairway
WWWWWWWW 

Ground level

WWWWWWW
Stairs, Stairs, Stairs
Ammo stockpile/Walls
Inside (where the invaders are hard pressed to get to)

You can either put the ammo stockpiles on the stairs but you'll have to deal with blinking soldiers though. Marksdwarves can shoot on stairs. More shooting, less walking-for-ammo time.
And you can switch the Fs for Walls.
F-fortification
W-Walls
I love creativity.

For the sake of speed. When you cut off all paths to your fort by a blockade, do the Bldg destroyers stop pathing since there are no more? and because of that, does the FPS rise again?

You can block building destroyers by an artifact door/grate but I'm not sure if they will still path through it.