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On wildlife spawns:
I'd actually like something a bit more meta-game...  When you clear out an area of zombies you could access a menu and 'assess surroundings' and get a message 'the dead seem to be truly dead...' or 'there still seem to be shamblings nearby...' to indicate that the nearby X map tiles are (not) clear.  If enough are clear, then you can declare a safehouse, and there wouldn't be any animal spawns within X * 1.5 radius and it would later enable things like NPC wanderers, zombie migration events, overmap fast-travel, etc...

So as an example, you find a small town, and it has some sort of 50 zombie population.
You kill 20, and assess surroundings, get the message 'this area is still hostile'.
You kill all 50, and assess surroundings, get the message 'the area is secure'.
Bears and whatever still spawn.
You claim one map tile as a Safehouse, because a radius of 10 tiles are empty of zombie population.
Bears and whatever will not spawn in a 15 tile radius now.

When NPCs and such are more fleshed, then this could turn into a fortified base, with farming and rain collection going on.

I like that idea, but what about Zombies that might wander in.

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Is it normal for werebeasts to appear closer to the fort rather than at the map edge? this guy later transformed back into a human and dissapeared before reaching the actual edge. I think kobolds and snatchers MAY have been doing that as well, but no idea. Sieges, traders, animals, and migrants show at the edge as normal. I heard that kind of thing can happen with non square maps, but I'm very sure that this embark map is square. The fact that only one quadrant of the map is actually land may have something to do with it, no idea.

Edit: Getting some equipment mismatch spam from the marksdwarves after I made them inactive for some reason.......

Edit2: Theres this large gem laying out on the desert that I had forgotten about for a while and kobolds have yet to steal it, what the heck? DFhack slayrace says there are two kobolds on the map.....

They enter the map sneaking and can be spotted by fortress members, this includes animals. I think the observer skill influences the detection rate. Ambushes, thieves, snatchers and werebeasts all enter the map sneaking.

I'm downloading War thunder at the moment.
Thanks for the suggestions.

Quote from: Paaaad on August 05, 2013, 11:43:16 am

The Ignited Forest. At least that's not literal.

It's your Dwarven Duty to change that.

Alright, I'm sigging that.

Quote from: PDF urist master on July 11, 2013, 05:51:54 am

larimyam, neoyawned the candy shield. worth around 1400000 DB. it had a picture of a cloud made of candy on it.

two candy wafers for a shield is a solid deal considering most candy shield cost 4 wafers.

i believe it will have a poor shield charge attack, but great defensive capabilities due to candy being the strongest material in the game.

An artifact steel (or other heavy material) shield is better, since all artifact shields block 3x more than a normal shield, but you can't really bash things with candy shields. Also, all shields are indestructible and can block anything.

I disagree.
Light shields slow down your dwarves far less. You need a balance between offensive and light.

I dreamt that somebody ate all of my socks save for one pair.

That fiend!

Pumped.

All I can offer is this bit of advice: against armoured opponents, war animals are useless.
Provided you have a solid breeding stock to replace the casualties, using them to supplement your troops against forgotten beasts is a good idea. I can only provide anecdotal evidence for  that though.