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Quote from: kontako on August 27, 2017, 02:01:08 am

Will artefacts be modifiable? - Such as the holy skull of a priest becoming a totem, or if I were to beat elves with a log of wood, name it as a significant object, and then construct a chair out of it.

Very unlikely. The skull of a priest will already be a totem (7/15/2016), and resource items like logs will not be nameable (Devlog of 2/15/2017 - only legally nameable items). In all likelihood, the only artifact transformation will remain quires into books.

Thanks for the reply

You state that Maps, sites, entities, historical figures, artifacts, myths, etc. will be part of the myth and magic update.
Does 'sites' include more natural sites? I'm referring to an extension beyond the current mountain peaks and volcanos as to include things like stone pillars, groves or tar pits.

I've also had situations where dwarfs store objects in strange places...

In one strange scenario, one had claimed a skeleton as their property and stored it in a cabinet in their bedroom!
Don't ask me why.

It could be that a caravan had broken and dropped all its items on that spot. It's happened to me in the past, a wagon had rotted (or something) and dumped its load; or potentially a merchant got spooked and dropped stuff.
Were the items forbidden on that spot when you found them? if so, this could be the explanation. Check your missing units page for a missing wagon.

Unsure if this has been touched on before, but:

What's your stance on immortality / respawning ingame? -- Not as a natural ability coming straight out of the womb of course, but a power gained through a relic or a spell allowing the player character or other non-player characters to return continuously or a limited amount of times. I recall a story in which a nightcreature regrows from severed limbs which escape a pyre, but beyond this perhaps respawning trapped in another plane to be freed out of ritual

Quote from: Eric Blank on July 29, 2016, 03:15:34 pm

With the artifact release, will residents of small settlements and towns/forts without a library have somewhere to store books and slabs? Will they appear in the owners' house or on their person, or a mead hall/civic structures?

Right now I think they just get scattered out in animal pastures and farm fields, because I occasionally stumble on a book just laying on the ground.

Sounds like no one in that town has Reading skill, and the pictures weren't very entertaining

Hahahah, either that or books are born out in the cabbage patch!

I couldn't find a specific reference to our adventurers naming items in the development notes, only that it would occur in worldgen.

You've mentioned that you intend to allow heroes in worldgen to name their weapons and armour, will this extend to our adventurer characters (say, after our character earns a nickname for heroic deeds)?
I could imagine my companions beginning disputes over who inherits my named items after my character dies.

I can't wait to become Caligula and insult hundreds by desecrating the relics of past heroes.

I got my brother to play Dwarf Fortress once, he settled in a terrifying region and was gobbled up by zombie turkeys within moments of starting. We laughed.