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That would make sense, then.  I can only guess that maybe in the air they all just smashed into each other and BOOM.  Clothes everywhere.

Oh god, someone explain this to me.

I'm doing a succession game with another goon. The entrance to the fortress is protected by two bridges. In peace time, the east bridge is retracted. Upon ambushes however, the safe north bridge goes up and the pressure-plated east bridge extends. This time, I stationed some military on the west side of the bridge. This is the farthest I've gotten in a game, so I didn't know how stationed dwarfs reacted to enemies. So they rush across and meet in the middle. Then a goblin steps on a trap.

The bridge falls (apparently. The other guy says he built it to retract by swinging down, to drop enemies into a killing pit) and the immediate area EXPLODES with clothing and blood. Dwarfs and goblins both fly to the east side of the all injured in ten or better places, mostly mangled parts. Two dwarfs died of bleeding almost immediately, the remaining goblins are dispatched but the survivors. The weird thing is, no goblins or dwarfs made it into the pit on that particular retraction, but there are like 40-50 pieces of clothing strewn about the pit floor, and about that much near the bridge.

Did the bridge do something funny? Can bridges retract differently if the same bridge is tied to several plates and they are stepped on in quick succession? There were two pressure plates right next to each other, and I'm sure that happened. I'm just not sure what happened exactly after that.

Here's the map if you want to kind of see what's going on.

lawl nm

[ June 01, 2007: Message edited by: Arehandai ]

Perhaps not, but I just had an image of making 100 dwarves farmers, making every but one square of the fortress a farm plot, then canceling the plots once he fortress was clear.  It intrigued me.

edit:  "farmers", keyword there...

[ June 07, 2007: Message edited by: Arehandai ]

Another question, but searching finds nothing.   I have 40ish empty barrels in furniture storage, but all of a sudden I got a ton of "Cannot place item in barrel: job item misplaced" messages, and alot of single food units in my stockpiles.  even making a new food pile results in food going straight into it with no barrels being moved to accomodate.  Know what I can do?

EDIT - Problem solved by just killing the stopckpiles and making new ones in the same spot.  Blargh.

[ June 05, 2007: Message edited by: Arehandai ]

Assigning workshops to specific dwarves could be an improvement both in gameplay mechanics and entertainment value.  On the one hand, If you have a few carpentries like I have, I kind of want the carpenters to stay close to the workshop I want them in, say one next to the residental areas making beds and one next to storage areas maing bins and barrels.  It helps assign a sort of priority to your jobs while still having two shops going.  Also, I'll have a better idea of exactly where each dwarf is where, as they will be in their own workshop or close to it.  As for the other bit, as we can now mess with job titles, a "Royal Chef" that only worked in the kitchen you built for the king's dining room (something I, at least, am likely to do) would be hella tight.

I always wanted to make a DF shirt with a block of all the different colored dwarf heads and said "know your role" at the bottom.

I was all ready to type a book here, but UncleSporky said it best.  This game is being written in the spirit of roguelikes.  It's like asking to play Unreal Tournament from a top-down view.  Same controls, runs the same, it just looks very wrong.  Now Dwarf Fortress II, sure, graphics everywhere.  Let's just finish this game first.  If you don't like it, it's not for you.