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Quote from: Girlinhat on September 27, 2011, 03:09:37 pm

If they desire to sleep in filth, let them.  I am busy overseeing the importing and construction of a solid gold block phallus on my front lawn.  I cannot be bothered to clean their bedrooms like some mother of 5 year olds.  The phallus will do that.  Once it's been fitted with a magma ejaculator.  It'll all be clean then...

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Does she terrify anyone else?

Every night I make sure to power off my laptop, close the lid, face it away from room, and armour myself in blankets for fear of the most recent Cave Johnson girlinhat post. 

zzZZzzZ

...no.... nooo..... phallus........ zzzZZZZzzzz.....NOOOOO NOT THE PONIES.....badgers... zzZzzZzzzzZZZ

What the artifact description doesn't mention is the mysterious disappearance of a pony coincidentally also named Sparkleleaf days before the artifact's construction.

Thanks for the burrow trick, haven't thought of that..

Ditto for getting your baron/count/duke to stay in his office when liaisons/diplomats come for meetings  . 

Yeah, have you ever even been to Internet?

My most recent emabark is in an Untamed Wilds Embark, and it seems the only wildlife on the surface is schools of badgers and pods of badger-people.  I swear I saw a giant badger at one point, but I can't be sure if my eyes were playing tricks on me.  At any rate, 5 years in they seem content to just harass the odd hauler, then become 'no longer enraged,' but I'm slowly growing more and more paranoid that they will eventually strike...

Quote from: Quietust on September 26, 2011, 10:02:01 pm

I always make the Bookkeeper, Broker, and Manager the same dwarf, and it's always worked reasonably well.

I do the same. The broker is usually too busy to trade though. Not that it really matters as most caravans get slaughtered by goblins anyway.

I always use the 'burrow over the trade depot' trick and add the broker to it whenever a caravan shows up.  Then you just want one with a strong work ethic personality trait so they aren't always on break/drinking during trade time (like my last fort, with Urist Diskon, the Broken Broker...)

For Bookkeeper, it seems like it doesn't really matter who you give it to, since they spend like 1 day a season doing it once it's set up, so their stats don't even seem to affect it much.  My current bookkeeper / manager has his organiser and record keeping skills at "V. rusty" and "rusty," so that must be an indication of how little time they need to spend doing those tasks, if it's not even enough to prevent rust. (Bookkeeping set to highest accuracy, tons of orders through manager)

Quote from: Xen0n on September 23, 2011, 04:55:31 pm

Quote from: Gizogin on September 23, 2011, 01:59:54 pm

A turtle bone cage!  It's been a while, so I forget the details, but I put it where everydwarf could see it.  I filled it with 200 cats and a (tame turtle).  Turtleception?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

YES

Quote from: Xen0n on September 26, 2011, 06:13:54 am

Quote from: Ibid Straydrink on September 26, 2011, 12:20:13 am

If I enter Adventure Mode and painstakingly remove every piece of garbage lying around an old fortress, and discard it off in the wilderness, will the site be clean when I go to reclaim it?

Yes, that should work.  Though if you don't mind cheating a bit, it's probably much faster to go in fortress mode with a quick embark, and use DFHack.  You can mark everything for dumping (either with mass dumping, d-b-d, or through the z-stocks screen) and use DFHAck's autodestroy function (a 'suboption' of the autodump tool.)  DFHack also has a tool called dflair which will cause items in a particular fortress to not be scattered upon abandon/reclaim.

Eureka! I did not know this existed. I wonder, will it work with version 31.18..?

Anything that preserves FPS is not cheating.

Yes, anything that makes the game run faster is fair game for me  . 
I don't know if the current DFHack would work with 31.18 or not, but there's this thread with the legacy version which may have a link to the version used at that time.  You could probably also find an older version of Lazy Newb Pack, since that came packaged with DFHack I believe.  At any rate, check at one of the DFHack threads to be sure, I suppose.