Bay 12 Games Forum

As stated, military units maintain their patrol routes in memory regardless of their current unit status.

Let's say you have 4 members, break them up, assign them different routes, then merge them. They will continue to move through their "memorized" routes instead of taking their group leader's route.

This may not matter in light of Army Arc modifications and editions to the current military command, but it exists and I *suppose* should be noted.

Generating worlds is fun, but sometimes you just need to tip the scales in favor of one side or another to get that "perfect" little world you want. My suggestion is a simple one - a "handicap" modifier for a civilization/creature/whatever to make it a little more resilient to the rigors of time during world generation. My inspiration for this? Mario Kart.

You see, two players start but one isn't very good, so has has his opponent play with a handicap so the race is more even - the better player moves slower. In the end the race is evened - or in my proposed suggestion, "bent" or "skewed" in favor of something.

In the context of Dwarf Fortress, I've already kinda...explained. Basically it will give specific creatures a leg up. Like Dragons? DRAGONS ARE ULTRA SURVIVABLE! Like marmots? MARMOTS ARE ULTRA RESILIENT THROUGH HISTORY! and so on and so forth. Naturally this wouldn't...really, effect adventure mode's combat, merely the history leading to that combat. The end population.

And so my suggestion ends. Mainly I considered this because I wanted to see more dragons....then I thought about it...and maybe I wanted to see more Yeti too. And here we are.

Apparently you can see your dwarf kill list in fortress mode. I'll kick off the thread with this guy - he has an artifact buckler and has managed to weather a HAIL OF ARROWS THAT WOULD BLOT OUT THE SUN.



Fort has been around for like..30 years, since .b - the end objective? survive until army arc. Insane? prolly.

There's another thread along these lines, but I thought I'd make this one to make sure this one gets drilled in. The current fatality rate among wounded dwarves is extremely high mainly because nobody brings them food or water despite occasionally (50% chance) get rescued, even with idlers and the current job cancellation bugfix. Anything beyond a yellow injury is a sure death unless the dwarf has some sort of miracle happen for him.

However this is not ALWAYS the case. Occasionally water and fed does arrive - the issue is that it's so rare that fatalities ensue.

Cowardice. Everyone hates it, and while it does happen, it seems to have to my dwarves the most.

I'm not sure why either. In order to facilitate the ease of mobilization I break my squads into single dwarves so they move as they can regardless of their leader's current status.

But this has an issue. You see, my Dwarves seem to flee from their opponents unless they have VASTLY superior training (elite) or by some number roll I'm not familiar with. 4 dwarves on 5 goblins? RUN FOR THE MOUNTAINHOMES LADS!

Is this a bug or just a feature to keep Dwarves from being moved around one at a time?

I tried to remove construction, but alas, nothing.

Generated a world, named it something... a little strange, but it turned out quite desireable.

Is there a way to find out what seed the world was generated with, if so, how?

Like the topic says. Using latest version (38c) and ponds on my biome do not appear to refill, period.

Additionally, when surrounded by walls, the ponds will dry up. JUST surrounded, not covered. I believe it may be causing a temperature variation.

This is going to be a big problem in a few years when I run out of water and injuries accumulate..