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I doubt that it's the concentration of CO₂ that's making this unfeasible. There's little point to this technology, since the energy required is always going to be more than is yielded from the oil produced. So at this time, that'd mean burning coal to produce electricity to produce oil to... power cars? What's the point? Any carbon removed from the atmosphere is drowned by the carbon released in powering the thing in the first place, and since CO₂ is hardly the only emission released when burning oil and other complex hydrocarbons, even a 99% efficiency would still not be close to carbon neutral.

The only time when this would be reasonably useful would be in the example mentioned, where renewable energy sources use it as a kind of battery. But for that to happen, we'd need renewable energy to be the dominate supply, and by that time we'll probably not even be using oil to power vehicles.

But yeah, in dorf world, just slap a DWR on that and you'd have barrels of valuable trade goods for the magmaless humies.

Oh god, on the first run I did after getting the game, I ran into the crystal ship quest. I picked the weapon. Neh.

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Alright, it's only taming that can form a bond then. That's a good trick, to effectively assign animals without the risk of a negative thought.

Cats are an unreliable source of leather, since newborn kittens are nearly always too small to yield skin, meaning that you need to guess the age of the cat when butchering. It's also a pain to leave kittens alone to grow up, since there are always crazy cat dwarves adopting all your cats over time. Puppies are large enough at birth to yield skin, though. An easy change to make all kittens give skin is to replace [BODY_SIZE:0:0:500] with [BODY_SIZE:0:0:1000].

Also, there isn't much point to bring war dogs over normal dogs, since they can be trained quickly by any random dwarf. Granted, the dwarf will then be unhappy when they're killed (I think?), and the dogs will follow them around when possible, but it saves a good few points.

If the embark has vegetation (and isn't horribly evil), food and booze is easy enough to get from just gathering plants. Paying careful attention to the kitchen settings can let you cook surplus booze to create very large meals, using seeds as the necessary solid component. That, combined with the large draft animals always provided free, means that getting a massive amount of food in the first season is very easy. Cooked meals can also be absurdly valuable trade goods, so bringing a skilled cook may be a good idea.

As for skills, you want to find whatever balance suits you best of immediately useful skills and skills that are difficult to obtain in the long term. Your military is a good example of one that's useful in the long term, as unless you got lucky in choosing a warlike civ (or checked legends mode beforehand), then you may get hardly any migrants with military skill down the line. I'd also consider paying attention to attributes and preferences. Creative dwarves are better for pretty much any skill that creates items with a quality rating, and matching preferences can very significantly increase the rate of masterwork production later. Agility, strength, spatial sense, toughness, and willpower are the most important attributes for military dwarves. Recuperation and disease resistance may come in very handy when the proverbial shit hits the fan, and your military is coated in syndrome inducing blood. Something to consider.

So, getting close to 100% on my first vehicle, and it looks like a *ton* of new skills were added since beta. It's an SU-26, so I'm thinking mentor on the commander and camo on everyone else, but is mentor actually worth it? Or, alternatively, should I go for that Brothers in Arms thing first? I'll probably migrate this crew up to a higher tier SPG way down the line,  after going through the Soviet heavies, but for now it's kind of my best credit mule before getting a KV.

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Sounds like a Gradius game. I remember playing Gradius III on the SNES, but that was released in '91... not sure about any of the others.

Getting it trapped in an area with some steel upright spikes hooked to a lever is a good way to go. Then you can just have someone pull the lever on repeat, and eventually kill it. Or magma it, and then cast it in obsidian.