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It's an animal stockpile; there only choices are to permit cages, traps, and the long list of animals.

What font was the original tile set based on?

Flat plans favor cart travel, though there is sure to be a system for single-spiral and resource distribution.  Namely, I'm thinking that all carts come up/down the spiral and go to a single mass stockpile, which then uses wheelbarrows/more carts to dole the items out to different stockpiles and workshops.  Or, more likely, a single quantum stockpile which they then pick through and move about.  Carts can return down the spiral by falling through the hollow center.

You can have a single spiral as long as it's not automated; I'm building one now. One track for going up, one for going down. You can have routes between any floors you want this way.

"emberrased at being exposed"

made one of my elite military go berserk. He had a shirt and high boots, but having no pants under his greaves made him go nuts

It was probably the lack of socks. High boots aren't clothing, since they have an armor rating.
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Though the importance of feet over upper legs is surely a bug.

Is the ramp track direction what you think it is?

I think that if we are going to work on trees then we should add features before diversity.

I mean things like birds nests and wood ants. This would make trees a lot more real than 5000 more tree types that do the exact same thing.

Currently the no. 1 planned feature for trees is multi-tile trees with elves living in them.

In a thead like this I feel compelled to state my lack of qualification before posting. My only claim to knowledge of linguistics comes from being fluent in Russian and English.

One, an ambiguous-gender third-person (comparable to the so-called "informal" "singular they" in English), for entities known to be animate (sapient?), but whose gender is not known.

I'd like to add my support to this idea.

Dwarves currently don't have gender based names, and very little differences between the sexes, except for who bares and carries the child. Perhaps gender is not important to them. This also makes it easier to write legends in dwarven, because you don't have to keep mentioning the hero's gender like you do in English.

If you wanted to specify gender in dwarven, you could use an adjective as in: "Urist, the girl dwarf, was a good hammer-dwarf. He (She) slew many goblins."

Similarly profession names (like hammerdwarf) should be gender neutral. 


This also suggest a broader guiding principle for designing dwafish: try to use elements of gameplay to inspire the language. For example, burial is considered a hauling labor, so the dwarven word for dead and buried might have the same root, so it could plausibly be translated as "hauled into a coffin." This could be a common euphemism for death. Dwarves would probably have a lot of way to say that someone hit they hay, come to think of it. "Making lignite", "One with the rock" . . .

Currently if you have gold, then you have oodles of gold. There's a niche for a scarce and more valuable metal ore (that is not adamantine).

But that's exactly how metal ores should work. They are either abundant enough to put a mine site on, or not there at all. That said, I'm not against having small, rare aluminum veins clusters.