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It says numbers in stone template raws are from marble?  I suppose I can look this up myself; however I have been hesitating looking in the raws, so as not to spoil the game.  Would marble and obsidian have the same numbers for:

Impact fracture: Used for blunt-force combat; higher is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa)
Shear fracture: Used for cutting calculations in combat; higher is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
Density: Used in conjunction with other factors - heavier weapons (higher numbers) hit with more force, light weapons tend to have less penetration. Value shown here is g/cm3, which is the raw value divided by 103

What file shows the raws for this?  I will look it up.  I'm curious how Obsidian Small Swords stack up against metals.  Some moves by the sword are blunt, that's why I also want the Impact fracture number.

Thank you,
Knutor

I read somewhere outside the game that encrusting ammo, is really encrusting armor and weapons.  Is it a typo?  or is it just encrusting ammo?  Thanks, Knutor

That's a great idea.  I like how the pressure plate works with the caged animal, I wonder what the flight/fright distances of various tame beasts are.  Prolly the best one is a bird-type, they tend to out run most everything.  Or a disposible kitty.  Thanks for this tip, Nan.  Never would have thought of that by myself.  I have difficulty linking up stuff, becuse I am still figuring out the DF's mechanics.

Is there anything besides bad timing that would cause a Weapon Trap to kill a Hunting Dog?  Like a Gremlin?  I just lost an artifact, and at very close time saw this.

Knutor

Nobilty != noble.

Knutor taps his Royal Assassin.  Bah-bye Noble!  Rare card in Magic the Gathering

That is true, a noble is anything a noble wants to be.  That is certainly the perspective a peasant would take isn't it, logically.  I don't feel like a peasant, but more a casual observer of consequences, when I select Nobles.  After all they don't choose themselves.  I've read some people here say they feel sort of like an matrix op, overlord, blip gardener, or spreadsheet tweaker when they play DF.  I guess they didn't have many spectator sports in the dwarf times, that Toady remembers.  Not one amusement game is simulated in DF.  Is there duel winners and losers?  I guess that'd be the closest game of chance. 

/emote pulls down the microphone and says, "Are you ready to rumble!"  Tonights Main Event.  Urist vs Zasit in two colored chat.  Almost Live!

Sincerely,
Knutor

Why shudder at that?  We have unlimited containerless storage.  Go down or build up.  Unless the player's world is prespec'd for a shallow magma pool, I cannot see this causing one goose bump, much less two.  I guess it was a point worth raising prior to this release.  *shrug*  Containerless worlds would be a possible fix.  At least for the interim, until the caravan patch.

Aachen, I just now saw your previous response up in there.  I am sorry I didn't respond earlier, Aachen.  Completely missed it. Bowyers are misrepresented, indeed.  As is the its tradesmen, fletcher.  As far as siege equipment, ya can't have a fortress game without them.  Just to me, the ammo for a ballista is close enough to bowyer to be placed in there, lock stock and barrel.  We don't need a whole workplace for siege engines, they are just machinery, like a windmill.  If they were mobile I would say, different.  As for range, I'm against the two having the same.  An arrow flys true.  A ball of rock?  Not so true.  Splash damage of rock, now that is  different.

ID'ing gems would aid in level randomization.  As things are now, the predictability is rather obvious to the player, as to which level has which gem, after 10% of a level is discovered, what gems might be in the rest of the level, stands out like a sore thumb.  Nothing new would I do. ID'ing, like other crafts would be slow and sloopy at low levels.  Sloopy as in illiterate and unreferenced.  I fail to see the train up as boring, but rather exciting.  This could be our differences in playstyles between you and me, however. 

I'm not interested in racing through a game, so I'd enjoy the level up, and the possible outcomes.  When I have a dozen or so legendary dwarfs strutting my halls, I sorta wanna restart.  As for cutting gemstones requiring magma.  Yes sir.  Gems would be a pinnacle craft, not a sideshow craft, like it is now.  Taking backseat to glassware and fabric.  I think of dwarfs as tinkers and hoarders.  Hoarders of gems.  So, yup.  Bollocks.  As for setting gems, that'd go into the Decorations station and be a simple task, since well, we could buy them out of Depot, or pick them up on the battlefield out of the gums of the dead.  Or even extricate them from already bedazzled setups.  That only requires a hammer.  In a modified melt way, the code of sorts, could include the destruction of precious things.

And your dislike of the term, Factory, is one we both share.  I'm all about just increasing the size of an already built station, as to generating a wholely new eyesore in the already cluttered ingloriously filled sub menus.  b-upgrade to bulk

What did you think of my suggestion to expand the kitchen and other stations that thwart 3x3 travel, as a result of their unspecified, walled edges?  The dwarfs can't pass that barrel in the kitchen, so its layout should be 5x5, not 3x3, to start with.  Any thoughts on that?

Sincerely,
Knutor

edit. spelling error

but you can also have a tile with some water and have the rest be units of oil.

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Brown being oild in this case. The whole stack above is just one tile. As I said in the beginning.

And which liquid would a dwarf of lv.1 swimming and a maple bucket be able to retrieve?
How would this ruin the buckets, some can't be used after contact with certain things?  Lye.

In this example I would rather it took on the bottom 4/7, since it is in majority, whatever that is.  Unless it was magma and water, I like having a way to form obsidian.  I would like one other step, and be able to form Adam Ant from obsidian.  He could always sing good.

Maybe this new-ish fluid system could be an extension of obsidian creation, linking it to another coveted compound. 

It certainly opens the door to many ideas.  Like including radioactivity, and magnitism.  Should be able to make compasses in this game.  To help traveling dwafs move quicker to their destinations.

It would be nice if an enterprising dwarf crafted banners from these x(socks)x on the floor.  Or clothing for cold kittens in the winter months.  A nice chew toy? 

The problem with banners I would think, in DF is how they were displayed.  I think each Military Noble, should have a coat of arms.  An actual coat of goblin arms. 

That'd be gruesome.  Something I could rap my mind around, something for the M version..  His banner could be a collection of the nobles kill data, and their various parts, described without graphics for flavor text purposes.  I'd offer an example, but I dunno if it'd be PG enough here.

Knutor