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Are there any pictures of the new cities/towns in the zoomed in city fast travel screen? Perhaps we could see one of the maps already shown compared to the in game city travel screen if it's not too much trouble.

I'm actually fairly excited to see how they compare since I find the maps that are being put up now to have a strange kind of beauty and I hope at least some of that's carried over.

[And Graphene has many, many unusual qualities... Best leave it alone or give it its own thread.]

But... but... the 500 dorfs. The horizontal fortress that takes 3 months to cross... the possibilities!

Also,

nickel-phosphorous (on the rockwell scale) has an RC of 54, and to put this in perspective, high carbon steel has one of 55-66, so this thing is nearly as hard as the strongest steel available to mankind O_O

Jesus christ that's strong. I know that a certain material I just mentioned is estimated to take half a century to be put into commercial use, has anyone found a timeline for how long it'll take for them to implement this stuff? And when they do will we have bullet proof cars? It seems to have all the properties needed to stop a bullet (to someone who knows nothing about the properties required to stop a bullet), and it'll be much easier than stuffing phone books in the door whenever I plan on driving through a bad neighborhood...

I assume this is a troll question, so just to troll you a bit more, I have the answer. It already is.

Quote from: Hitty40 on November 26, 2011, 01:29:16 pm

Will mugs soon be weaponized?

Quote from: i2amroy on November 21, 2011, 03:19:06 pm

Also keep in mind that we have declared that anything that is throwable by an adventurer is weaponizable. This means that every single item that can be held is weaponizable. This includes dead plants, refuse, stones, bodies, pebbles, armor, unbuilt furniture, cooked meals, [mugs], and anything else that is haul-able by a dwarf. So if you are looking for something that isn't weaponizable you are going to need to look into things that can't be carried by a dwarf, such as snow (which I think has come closest to winning), clouds, mist, or other more intangible things.

From the 'A challenge' thread in Dwarf Mode discussion.

Bravo, you beat me to it. I don't know whether it's sad or exceedingly funny that people can't legitimately troll because we've already thoroughly defined and SCIENCEd everything we can think of.

Also,

Why did you choose to only let body parts with a head or grasp be animatable by necromancers, and not all body parts or those with a stance (e.g. feet and legs)? It seems sensible to be able to raise someone's lower half.

I can't recall any zombie lower halfs from any other games/movies I've seen. On many, MANY occasions in other games you'll strike down a zombie only to have the top half come crawling after you, but I've never seen a lower half hop up and run into things. I guess that's the big reason, what in the world would a lower half actually DO? I can't imagine they'd kick too hard since they have little to no weight behind em so unless they'd... throw their innards or something the only other possible attacks would require immediate brain bleach.

Dragons? Old tales of dual wielding them come to mind.

Anyhow, let me try. Gem windows.

Recently had an epic battle in an average embark with no flux and only 1/3 biomes with iron. At this time, only two years or so in, I had my dwarves living in a temporary home and making weapons (obsidian shortswords, hadn't found the iron yet) for the 5 man militia. I made more swords than I needed, so I assigned an inactive squad to any non mining/woodcutting dwarves and gave a few of them weapons. Not long after my screen pauses a million times in the row announcing, after all was tallied, an attack group of 30-40 elves with war grizzlies and war giant eagles. My militia was stationed behind some walls to be out of the way of the archers and when they were attacked took down 3 elves for every one of them, but the grizzlies proved too much for my unarmored military. I assigned my dwarves to wall off the entrance and to get down to the burrow, with an emergency squad stationed near the entrance. The elves killed my mason as he was about to put up the final wall and charged in.

I stopped watching for a bit, but when the fort didn't end immediately I decided to look at what was going on. There were two dwarves left alive (not counting crazies or people bleeding out outside) a mason and a miner. They were surrounded by dead bodies at the end of the hallway I was digging when the attack came. The miner was wounded at the mason was standing in front of him literally wrestling a bear, or maybe biting it, probably both if I remember the combat log correctly. He killed the bear and I stationed him beside the miner who I presumed to be his friend, though I didn't check his relationships. They sat there for a moment as the goblin seige that had just arrived slaughtered the elves and then, after much bloodshed, killed them both. I that little mason had nearly thirty kills with a rock sword when all was said and done.

Also, if anyone isn't aware elves come incredibly lightly armored, and I'm guessing the training he got from them allowed him to kill a few goblins before they took him down. Lashers are never fun, but always ‼Fun‼

I'm not 100% on this, but I believe bone armor is the same as leather in that it receives no bonuses or detriments from whatever it came from. A cloak from the leather of a single kitten is just as effective as that from a crocodile.

I'm curious to this as well because upon reclaiming an old fortress of mine the 30+ goblins making it their home as well as the elves that were previously at war with my civilization are now friendly. I've already slaughtered one caravan full of elves and the friendly goblins, so if I can incite something I'll try and post how long it took.