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Are both eagles tame? If you caught one of them wild, and you haven't edited your raws, then the answer should be no. You can change exotic animals to be non-exotic midgame without repercussions.
Aye, I thought about that. The problem is, how do you say exactly how useful someone is to the fortress ? I thought of created value for the fortress, which would be simple to track. It would let indirect usefulness - such as the guy who cooks for the guy who creates - be unrewarded, which isn't fair but is pretty much the way it works. However, it lets the defense of your fortress completely out.
The point would be to keep this fairly simple. Also, elections are not based solely on the number of friends. For all we know, we could add a threshold of social skills or of willingness to take on the role.
If you never noticed, goblin breastplates have an image of the civ they came from.humans do that a lot too. and not just breastplates.
"Urist, why did you stud a wooden lute with adamantine spikes?"i'm kinda right there myself. i started building with the stuff i had so much extra.
"Eh, why not?"
z- stocks, near the end of the list is "corpses"Thank you!
press tab and scroll, and scroll, and scroll.
A lot of this stuff depends on what mode you're playing. For instance, as an adventurer, you can get away with disabling blows, retreating, then returning at leisure to finish off disabled opponents. In dwarf mode, your dwarves are relentlessly aggressive, and so disabling weapons (blunts, whips) don't work quite as well.whips are even more fearsome in the hands of an adventure mode baddie. nothing like the old "ignore armor one kit kill blow to the head" to get the adventure !!FUN!!, right?
One of the reasons whips have such a fearsome reputation is because they're ideal at taking out what dwarves in dwarf mode are good at: lower number of high quality, heavily armored foes. They don't do as well in the hands of a dwarf, because dwarves face completely different challenges: gigantic beasts, and huge numbers of relatively poorly armored foes.
The problem is that different targets are vulnerable to different attacks. You can fire a crossbow at a bronze colossus all year long without killing it. Battle axes can turn a goblin invasion into a gooey pile in a hurry, but have trouble against super large creatures, with limbs too large for something the size of an axe to cut off. It'll take a lucky head shot to kill even a small target with a spear or hammer, but a hammer can disable even the largest of creatures, and a lucky shot from a spear can kill something too huge for axes to slice apart.
If you were to play as an adventurer, probably the ideal setup would be something like:
a) Things to throw
b) Adamantine two-handed sword, for chopping up really big stuff
c) Platinum whip, for breaking any bones anywhere
d) Adamantine battle-axe and shield for regular bad guys
How well do whips do against bronze colossi and the like? The toughest-seeming beast I've whipped in adventure mode was a troll and it was knocked out by a single lash.
what is the best way to foster a relationship between two specific dwarves? two, side by side single tile burrows? when restricted to non-alert related burrows, civilians still can leave to get food, drink, and sleep, right?
trying to marry my duchess off to my king (which may not be possible, just thinking about how consorts are nobles of a different stripe themselves) and it's a bit slow going introducing the two.
Hrm, I would say put them in adjoining quarters with a very nicely made well between them, an artifact mechanism or bucket if possible. All in one burrow. The well should be a meeting area, and not actually inside the designated owned rooms of either dwarf. Keep other dwarves away with burrow assignments, and if possible, don't give the two you want to get along any jobs at all for a couple years. If it's going to happen, it will happen. I believe that dwarves can be incompatable based on their stats though. Unsure. To feed them, overlap burrows, but only the burrows where food and drink are stored.
That's what I would try anyhow. To build relationships, dwarves must idle near each other, so you need your dwarves to idle and congregate. A snazzy well will definitely help.
Oh, I definitely have a legendary dinning hall for happy thoughts, I just don't designate it as a "meeting hall", to avoid parties.
I also don't allow my soldiers to carry food, so they get happy thoughts from the waterfall leading into the legendary dinning hall and so forth.
It's just the sculpture gardens that scare me, but I've honestly never experimented with using them to see if the happy thoughts outweigh the friendships made.
I do have one large family that I try and keep safe, although it just occurred to me, that perhaps designating a sculpture garden to this family might keep the kids out of trouble.
Do people throwing parties only invite the dwarves they know? Or would that put my military in danger of making friends?
Until I get patrols set up, I do that as well, putting barracks for training in choke points, so any hostiles are greeted by dwarves looking up from sparring with big grins on their faces, ready to test their mettle and their metal.
I agree with doing as much real combat as possible for experience, sending a squad out as hunting party on occasion. I don't use hunters, so the military can do the hunting, gaining skill while providing meat to the fortress well.
bows and blowguns. i got a bow from a mood and have traded with the humans for some, and arrows. aside from the squad leader using the artifact bow, i let my marksdwarves pick their own weapon from all available.also bows, not crossbows, and blowguns for that matter, use swords as the melee skill, not hammer. so if you use actual bows, you might try giving them swords as well. if they do indeed shoot first, at least, before using the swords, i will be a happy overseer indeed.You can't make arrows. Elf.
...OH MY GOD! I'M CALLING PEOPLE ELVES FOR ALMOST NO REASON!
So, gem cutter goes fey, grabs a bed beryl and starts his mysterious construction. I sigh, "ooh, another perfectly cut gem, how simply fraking marvelous. Worth 4200 dwarfbucks. Lovely. Thanks."
I come back later. He has built a red beryl coffin. Out of ONE GEM. He is now a legendary gem cutter, which would be cool... if that was in any way USEFUL. It is almost as useless as legendary woodcrafters, I have NO use for those guys.
Still one gem is now a whole coffin. It must be micrometres think, one gem cut it infetesimal strips and built together to make a coffin. Wow. Just wow. 48000 dwarfbucks. Not bad.
