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To be fair, I'm not sure exactly how a horseshoe crab man would be able to attack. Unless it looked like a Kabutops. Actually, yeah, now I'm assuming that horseshoe crab men look like Kabutops. They need their fighting skills.

Wow... I can't wait till we get assembled night creatures or the ability to modify things for war (like Tolkein's orcs were tortured and modified elves) so that we can have a sorcerer taking over the world with an enslaved army of horseshoe crab men with scythes stitched into their arms. That would actually be a pretty cool worldgen scenario for 1.0 actually... it just goes until the world is being taken over by some sort of evil being with a large army of minions (with various castes of course) and you can either attempt to stop it yourself or, once you gain enough renown in the army or as a wanderer, get help, troops, or information from the generals of the free people. Maybe your adventurer could go on to found outposts in the heart of the evil territory where you have to send out forces to keep your trade paths clear while scouting to see if the evil being decided you were enough of a thorn in his side to crush you yet.

/rant. Sorry, the prospects of this game amaze me. But yes, I'm glad horseshoe crab people pose a threat now. Blue blood just isn't the same unless you earned it.

I'm kicking myself for not thinking about cage traps for the zombie plague. Right now I just have all of my fights in the entrance to the fortress directly beside a hallway with burial rooms and a corpse pit. All fallen citizens are buried and the door locked (it's worked well twice) while the badgers are dumped down the hole by one of five idlers... Is that going to prevent more wildlife from spawning, or am I going to have the equivelant of a zombie rave party going on down there eventually?

(Note: Fortress is dying. Apparently once you have to cart your dead citizens more than 10 steps to the nearest locked room they get up again)

Quote from: Malt_Hitman on February 20, 2012, 01:50:16 am

Immediately vomit on exposure to the sun allowing for more drinking.

WWUD if he killed a giant sponge?

Get caught in an infinite cleaning loop because of a bug with the soap, trying to clean the water off of himself.
WWUD if he was a were-wagon?

Repeatedly attempt to enter spaces only 2 tiles wide and kill fps with pathfinding spam

WWUD if he came back as a zombie with a =copper spear= in his upper left arm?

If you have a big chopping weapon like an axe or longsword then go for the lower body, you'll slice em right in two. Hit and run works best. Be sure to not aim for arms, hands, or heads as they'll all come after you after you slice em off. Cut, back up, cut, back up. Do it outside and if you go deeper into the tower be sure to move the bodies so you don't wind up getting boxed in. The necros themselves are easy as pie, even the chief ones are about as hard as a bandit leader.

I'm still laughing my ass off that we're all EXCITED for a sewer level (even if it's a z-level) in a game. Toady must be doing something extremely right or horribly wrong.

I was thinking of making a misc object user demigod who, instead of learning the secrets of life and death from artifact slabs, just hits people in the face with them. Would a slab make a decent weapon? Is misc object user a viable alternative to hitting things in the face with a hammer? Also, has anyone tested if necromancer dwarf adventurers that are retired in a mountain hall can migrate to your fortress?

Food should be easily procured from animals when you find them. If you're having trouble just run around outside of town (if you're in the borders of a town or hamlet the animals are most likely domesticated and the civilization will become your enemy if you kill them) and try to find something to kill and use the (X) menu on to (b)utcher them. Alternatively you could (T)ravel the wilds for a bit as you're assured to be ambushed, though whether by a pack of wolves or a bandit gang is up to chance. Water is found in wells in the city (Stand near them and (u)se them twice and then use the (e)at menu to drink the water from the bucket. The same menu can be used while near a river, a murky pool (it has said I couldn't because it was disgusting every time I tried, maybe you have to be dehydrated before it lets you) or a dead body. Going off of that, blood is actually a great substance to subside on as it can completely cover you depending on how messy you fight. Funny enough that makes your body the biggest waterskin of all.

Healing is instant when you (T)ravel or Sleep from the (Z) menu. Any damage that remains after sleeping or traveling will be there for good. My last adventurer had his ear torn to ribbons, a missing lower left arm, and an inhibited left ankle and lower leg. Those last three injuries were all inflicted by a swarm of zombies grasping and biting at my left side as I attempted to push them off with my shield so I could break free and limp from the tower away from the mass of crawling torsos and appendages. While the wounds might get annoying at times, I'd have never remembered or even considered the gravity of that event had the yellow wounds not stared at me every time I checked the status page.

After slaughtering two hundred notables including a great many dwarves, and recruiting a large number of dwarven companions who met grizzly ends, I can honestly say that I did not come across a single piece of metal armor from any of them. Nor did I find any on elves or kobolds that I killed. I didn't come across any goblins though except for ones that had been zombified so perhaps they would have had their standard goblinite equipment. I'm not quite sure how I would come across goblins though since the towers don't exist and there weren't any ambushing parties attacking me.

Perhaps sewers or lairs would be the best bet. I haven't been to sewers, but I know in DF:2010 I found dwarf sized copper gauntlets in a night creature lair.