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@ OP: Don't forget to let your little captive out of the cage so he can get medical treatment. Also, food and drink because those are kind of important too.

You'd have to be pretty ninja to not fall into a trap when your unconscious body lands on it.

By the way, be sure to release your caged dwarves. They can starve in there if your other dwarves aren't nice.

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and I had to release him by building a cage and placing a lever to open it. he promptly went to hospital and had his leg fixed.

I got it. Dwarven tartare.



Minus the egg.

I didn't know how badly I missed the DF music and intro movie until I listened to/saw it after resetting the init. For some reason, it gave me such a feeling of nostalgia - I haven't heard/seen them in about a year and a half. I have them on now.

Being able to feel like a total badass for owning a N64.

Hell. I feel like a total badass now because mine still works, and I have a really nice game collection. Kirby64 is the one that always ends up being stuck in it, though.

I miss legal gunpowder and when you could actually see things go boom in physics/chemistry

fixed that for you.

Holy hell, where do I start...

Every dwarf gets at least a decent room, with all the basic furniture(bed, cabinet, chest), and more space then they will ever need. While(reasonable)nobles extravagant little houses with some artifact furniture, various rooms, paved floors, and whatever the hell else I fell like throwing in.

Massive, engraved dining halls(I actually needed to designate two tables on opposite ends of it, because it was too big to designate as a single room), lined with exceptional/masterwork brass statues. Small storerooms dug out in the walls for easy access to drinks and masterwork meals.

Eggs, meat, fish, flour, sugar, and shit loads of different plants(from both below and above ground farms) gives plenty of food and drink variety.

Small sculpture gardens(one indoors, one outdoors) with artifact statues as the centerpiece.

Wonderful healthcare.

dozens of adorable little critters running around for adoption. That wasn't really intentional...but I didn't slaughter them, so that makes it a feature!

The militia gets its own specially built keep to train in, and all soldiers get a half year off duty.

gigantic burial chamber, completely smoothed, where nearly every dwarf and pet gets an iron sarcophagus and a stone statue overlooking it. Except, for really special dwarves, who get royal mausoleums with a sarcophagus made of their favorite material.

That's where my megaforts get eventually - granted I don't make massive dining halls but some cafés next to the workshops, down 50 z-levels in the forges, many statue gardens... built a tower with an aquarium (colored floor tiles, captured fish inside large tanks made of windows... a zoo built of serpentine and garnierite with muddied floors and large windowed cages for wild animals. My whole fortress is engraved by a legendary engraver. 5 on-staff doctors that still get training since my enhanced vanilla mod make kobolds siege eventually - they naturally have [TRAPAVOID] and can waltz through doors so you do have to assemble a military. Food production is nice - masterful roasts of egg, meat, above and below ground plants... I modded sun berries to be exceptionally rare in certain biomes, and I got lucky with a caravan - so glowing booze for everybody. My dwarves get fine rooms, and gold sarcophagi by a legendary blacksmith. legendary mason + legendary engraver makes the fort 100% ecstatic. (fort's been around so long that I've gotten moods for nearly all artisan skills, and the engraver got all his skill smoothing all the stuff to be engraved... which is everything.

A reliable soap industy that doesn't require constant tweaking!!!  (But that's another topic)

My vanilla enhanced mod makes lye into bars instead of buckets so it bypasses bucket bugs. I don't have a easily sustained soap industry - I normally make 100 bars in a burst that lasts me 10 in game years... the manager screen for quantities is an awesome help.

Any stunned creature sets off a trap, even if [TRAPAVOID] if I recall correctly.

Intentional.

...gimme a sec to catch my breath - nearly had a heart attack...

My favorite three games of all time, in this order, are Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, and Half-Life 2.

I have a tendency of learning to mod the crap out of every game I play, and am adept in all three of those. I'm imagining that a super-awesome adventurer mode could be made with some heavy conversion modding, as well as a whole bunch of other possibilities.

Although only small chunks of the minecraft versions of DF maps can be converted at one time, anyone even slightly competent at using Source SDK can probably merge several separately-converted parts together. It might end up being very inefficient, performance-wise... I bet that nothing's func_detail'ed.

Inefficient? Yep. Better ways? Yep. Does merging preform many calculations to begin with? Nope... at least not how I'm imagining it. I'll look into it.

Quote from: ZJVavrek on November 27, 2011, 09:05:44 pm

This looks interesting.  Is it possible to convert through the Minecraft format without actually having Minecraft?

I don't think so. When I opened the DF map in Minecraft, Minecraft did some reformatting of the "region" folder DFHack had created.

Yeah, the df->mc converter seems to export into the old level save format, and minecraft automatically updates it to the latest one when you open it. But yes - you can do it without buying minecraft. Download it, run it, leave usr/pass blank, play offline, load the world in single player. You can't play multiplayer with a unregistered version but you can convert maps.

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