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Originally posted by Reasonableman:
<STRONG>The spinning Feces strikes the Dwarf in the upper body! It is mangled!</STRONG>
This is an image of a dwarf and rhesus macaques in dwarf leather. The dwarf is vomiting. The rhesus macaques are laughing.
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Originally posted by Eagle of Fire:
<STRONG>Yes, it's tedious. Yes, it's a lot of management... But isn't what the game is all about?</STRONG>
Actually, what we're after is automating enough of the management so that we can get to what the Fortress Mode is really about: Creating and growing a fortress! Otherwise, past a certain fortress size you'd be devoting all your time to micromanaging the fortress just to keep it afloat, and none to expanding and sending out armies and suchlike.
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Originally posted by rkyeun:
<STRONG>Heck, maybe they SHOULD play tug-of-war with it. Strongest wins, gets a positive thought. Weaker one loses, gets a negative thought, goes berserk, kills the other guy with his axe, gets a positive thought, goes about his business until the crippled sheriff shows up to dispense a beating.</STRONG>
Urist Kelerek cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Showing Young Whippersnapper Who's Boss.
...but what about the obsidian sword type weapons? What about embedding sharpened hunks of glass, obsidian, ceramic, or other sharp-but-brittle materials, in a sturdy but soft base material like wood? You could make wicked sick traps with green glass shards embedded in a wooden disc for your large serrated discs.
Also, do want leaded glass!
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Originally posted by Align:
<STRONG>Should the vents overflow as soon as you enter the area, much like the lakes boil away instantly in warmer climates? Dodging random lava flows would be an interesting way of paying for the convenience of surface lava...</STRONG>
Not as soon as you enter the area, but I seem to recall volcanic eruptions as random events were on the menu for future versions...
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Originally posted by TheSilverHammer:
<STRONG>Reverse Screwpumps: There is no reason they can't work in both directions. A giant screw in a tube can turn either way.</STRONG>
Yes, but if it is set in stone to draw water UP, then it's either vertical or at an angle. Pumping in the opposite direction would be unnecessary--you could do it by just opening a gate through. And pumping UP from the opposite direction would be impossible since the tube isn't positioned right for that.
So unless your screw in a tube is horizontal and uses siphoning to get water up from either side, you're screwed.
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Originally posted by DJ:
<STRONG>Or you could come sooner and sell them some of those medicinal plant extracts. It's not as profitable, but it's more stylish.Also, lycanthropy should be the first disease that gets implemented.</STRONG>
Seconded! I want a fortress full of wereelephants and weregibbons! And werecarp?
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Originally posted by Chthon:
<STRONG>Remember, happiness is manditory. If you aren't happy, you are committing treason, and the hammerer will be dispatched.</STRONG>
Assume the party escort submission position, or you will miss the party.
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Originally posted by Puzzlemaker:
<STRONG>I was thinking that berserk dwarves that berserk because of hostiles should seek and attack hostiles and hostile corpses at all costs. I can imagine a berserk grief-ridden dwarf run into a room filled with goblins, slaughter them all,then rip their corpses to pieces before finally calming down.</STRONG>
Seconded!!
"You killed my brother! Die dwarf!"
"You killed my brother, sister, mother, father, son, daughter, wife, and thirteen of my pet purring maggots! I WILL SLAUGHTER YOUR ENTIRE GOBLIN NATION WITH MY AXE OF JUSTICE!!! RAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!"
[ February 01, 2008: Message edited by: Alfador ]
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Originally posted by Fenrir:
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Originally posted by Fenrir:
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Are you sure it wasn't a fell mood?!</STRONG>
It's a platinum totem. Fell would involve a REAL dwarf skull--or in this case human. (In DF, you don't need fell moods to make human skull totems. )
[EDIT: Whoops, sorry...looks like the skull is really still there; it's just encircled with bands of platinum, studded with diamond, and menaces with spikes of diamond.]
[ November 16, 2007: Message edited by: Alfador ]
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Originally posted by WillNZ:
<STRONG>The hotel made entirely of iceSee it here</STRONG>
And they even have a magnetite sculpture garden!
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Originally posted by Turgid Bolk:
<STRONG>I just remembered about Centralia, PA. From Wikipedia: Eventually the town was abandoned. From a little further down: "There are no current plans to extinguish the fire, which is consuming an eight-mile seam containing enough coal to fuel it for 250 years." You really don't want to get fire near your fortress' coal mines!Also, this isn't a story, but it reminded me of DF: The longest place name in the U.S. and sixth longest in the world: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg "Englishmen at Manchaug territory at the meeting and fishing place at the boundary."
[ October 06, 2007: Message edited by: Turgid Bolk ]</STRONG>
This lake menaces with spikes of linguistics.
First up: A house built over a cyanide pit in China collapses, killing 9. If ever we can build beds on top of bridges over the magma river, this will happen!
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22499097-38197,00.html
