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How much do well-placed traffic designations help alleviate the open space issue? That could be another thing to test when you get around to the open-space testing.

It would be interesting to see if designating traffic zones like below would improve FPS noticeably, with larger rooms, of course.
F = Forbidden
H = High Traffic
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Quote from: Malarauko on April 03, 2012, 03:21:45 pm

682 FTW. Building destroyer, trap avoid, no stun, no pain, no eat, no sleep, can learn and basically immortal.

Why are most of these things nigh-immortal? It seems like having a fort besieged by one unstoppable monster after another would get..old, y'know?

For dwarves, nothing is nigh-immortal.  Some things just take more killing

But then, a metal bin needs 3 metal bar. There must be a place where it is indicated, right? I don't get what you say, you mean it is hardcoded?

Yes, these items are hardcoded, rather than in the raws, although if they were the [MATERIAL_SIZE:##] token would control this.  You could make a custom reaction that produced a cage and required whatever items you wanted, but I don't believe there is an easy way to disable the default cage-making reaction.

I'm going to preempt the inevitable derail into the whole 1 =? 0.999... argument that is likely to follow, and simply state that in this case, "Infinite" clowns simply means the game will never stop spawning them, as it won't bother to ever check how many are left.

Okay, forgive me, but I have two more questions.  One, was the blood you drank historical-figure tagged?  That is, was it called "human blood" or "Human McVampire's blood"?  This matters, because the vampire curse is only passed on through blood that actually has the vampire's name attached to it.  For my second question, have you tried pressing 'e' next to a sleeping peasant, to see if you can drink their blood?  If you have, and the answer is yes, then you are a vampire (obviously), but if the answer is no, you cannot, then I honestly don't know what's going on.

Is your game modded in any way?  Also, are you a necromancer, husk, or thrall?

I began construction of what was to be a huge megaproject-style fort.  First, I carved out the grand entrance, along with barracks and fortifications for my future marksdwarf squads.  The civilians temporarily take up residence in the barracks as work continues on the fortifications.

I didn't even get to finish the main gate before a necromancer and zombie horde shows up.


Reclaim one starts off with 7 armor-clad axedwarves clearing the fort of zombies and setting the basic industries back up.  Basic doors are installed as a precaution to future invasions.  Corpses are collected for disposal, once I get around to it.  Migrant wave 1 comes, and we begin working on the stairway down to the main entrance hall.  The basic shape is barely carved out when the zombies return.

Oops.  Next to the front gate is not a good place to store corpses awaiting disposal.  Due to a slow hauler, a single door remains uninstalled, letting the zombie hordes inside once again.  The final dwarf dies from thirst, locked in a room with no way out and no way to repel the zombies.


Three dead-and-zombified adventurers later, I decide to try my hand at reclaiming in dwarf mode again.  Reclaim two starts off badly.  A dwarf is seriously wounded, prompting the designation of a hospital.  On his way to rest, the soldier is ambushed and slaughtered by zombies hiding in the fort.  The rest fare no better.  The 6 dwarves are soon reduced to five, then four.  They charge at the one of the now-friendly necromancers, hoping to stem the zombie tide at it's source.  The first one goes down quickly, giving them false confidence as they charge toward the second one.  As I watch, one, two, then finally three dwarves fall to the terrible boning knife.  But wait! Were there there not four dwarves?  I quickly search for the fourth.  I find him in the meeting hall, with the "unable to fulfill order" job.  Inspecting him, I find his lower spine is broken, forcing him to crawl along the ground.

The stress of losing his friends, his fort, and his mobility prove too much, and he snaps.  He begins babbling nonsense and running about, wildly crawling about in a somewhat-wild fashion.  However, despite his madness and his disability, he still proves an able combatant, striking down any zombie unlucky enough to wander down to the meeting halls.  He finally dies of thirst, under the hungry gaze of the wagon donkey.  His passing marks the end of the final chapter in the story of Zilirurdim, The Eternal Tower.