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but licking another completely random animal i found amusing as heck.

sadly the game was really confused by changing to adventurer mode, i change into another dwarf after sleeping whom had a broken leg and sucked with a crutch (recently broken, so no time to increase crutch skill)
Those ambushes in the announcements were still there, so i kinda got my head bashed in by a tigerman macelord (3 of them + war elephant)

I'll give it another try some other time, i want to run around with my 110 kill swordsdwarf for a bit

Decided i need a few more random dwarf cities to litter the countryside, so making a few colourful fortresses to leave with dwarves in (changing to adventure mode leaves all dwarves in the same city from fortress mode, they will rarely leave).

Might make running around the countryside a little safer with some havens to run to

I just used changemode to change my fortress to an adventurer, done it a few times before with weird responses.

This time i got lucky.



Shame i didn't get one of the guys with a named weapon, but an adamantine short sword will do i'm sure. Plus fully geared out in steel


Rofl, in my options of people to talk to it had "Uzol - Deity", sadly, speaking to him caused the game to crash, hilarious all the same.

Loaded it back up, wandered around in my fort, in my "animal room" this happened.



(note, the other announcements were from fortress modes, this was my first adventurer announcement).

Quote from: Bigheaded on August 11, 2013, 02:49:33 pm

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how do you level up swimming? i jumped in the river it said i was "swimming" but no it doesn't level up?!

You only gain swimming experience for moving around in water. 1xp for every "step" you take in water; just floating in one spot won't raise it, even if you use the wait key. At least, from what I have observed anyways.

I dont even get the 1 xp from moving around :/
Just shows as 0/700, will not rise. I've gone from one side to the other through the river (not one of those fords where u can just run across, one where you have to "jump in" use alt + move.

Are you playing a race with [swims_innate]? Because those can't raise their Swimmer skill, like Mermen for example.

dwarf on masterwork mod.
So not really sure why it isn't going up

The only animals I seem to encounter are raptors. Regular raptors and very rarely dragon raptors.

There is rarely anything else in the surface and silly woodland critters like rabbits and stuff appear to be completely gone so its pretty hard to get meat when you aren't strong enough to murder entire packs of raptors or patient enough to chuck salt pebbles until they die.

I have some but not ridiculously enormous amounts. quite fun knocking cranes out the sky by throwing stuff at them (found 3 of them in a short space of time), 3 sets of raptors (fled from), 2-3 bunches of foul blendecs, 2x sets of cheetahs, and various snakes.

Bit confused why my dwarf starts in some form of weird race's area. Trying to find some equipment.

Must admit though, i haven't tried much of adventure mode.

Option 1. "Alliance" creature with various different creatures as its castes

Result: creatures will coexist and happily intermarry and interbreed. Dwarves will give birth to kobolds as noted above. Also they will all bleed "allied" blood and share some other things that can't be defined at the caste level.

Option 2. Being of a race is a contagious disease: When a creature arrives in your fort, after 1000 phases, have it randomize into a race with cumulative body transformation probability. Make races then spread their race instantaneously, which is a permanent body transformation into that race (and this must be set to only affect creatures you intend to transform). Since you can't transform the already transformed...

Results: Genuinely different creatures living together. When a creature has a baby, it will make it be permanently of its own race (but it should be already). Intermarriages will still exist due to migrants being married before arrival randomization and who even knows what will happen then. Your screen is flooded with transformation messages when migrants are randomized to a race. Your creatures cannot become werecreatures.

Quote from: AutomataKittay on August 10, 2013, 12:50:21 pm

No non-buggy/hackish way to do it, unfortunately. It's something I'd like to do, too!

^

How difficult would this be to set up?

Would be a fun/interesting succession game with people having a year each.

Goblins also tend to be rather weak, especially individually. I send groups of 3-5 untrained, unarmed, unarmored migrants in to go kill the dudes, and they either get caught and die, or end up with skull-in-the-brain syndromes.

I would disagree about untrained ones. A group of 10 bow goblins will seriously make a mess of untrained unarmored (and most likely armored ones also) dwarves.
Personally i just train 2 ultra godly ones and kill massive sieges with it

A simple way to ensure you're good to go early on. Is of your starting 7, put 2 of them as military of the same type (hammer/sword i generally find the best). so proficient in weapon skill, (i also add +5 dodger to one and +5 striker to the other, as they level slowly without some points thrown in). At embark add copper weapons, if you can afford it, iron short swords/silver war hammers (silver is good for war hammer but bad for swords, iron is good for both but silver is better for hammers)

In a year you have 2 legendary dwarves whom will generally slaughter everything. Adding some metal armor helps also. To give you an idea, just these 2 will take out a 40 strong goblin siege without much trouble (also fun to watch!) if given the time to train (spar)

Do NOT add more dwarves to their squad. You're best off with 7x 2 man squads than 7x 10 man squads. Once they hit legendary no reason why not to chuck em all together.
There is something about setting training for 5 sets of 2x dwarves in one military squad, but i've tried to and it is no where near as effective as putting a new squad for each pair of dwarves.

use therapist to find the ones best for military a 60% dwarf for a weapon skill will hit legendary with a similar training partner in roughly 2 years.

Quote from: thepieslayer12 on August 02, 2013, 04:34:38 pm

As far as goals go, I just want build a large and wealthy fortress. Also, I lied when i said it was the whole cavern, but everything except the bottom z level that's filled with water is empty space and walls. And, as far as I can see, It's all water. Almost like an aquifer, but i turned aquifers off.

Caverns can get water from outside source ( the hollows off to the sides of embarks ), or have ponds of water in it.

If it's in the way, cave in something from above

You can remove water via cave in?!

Kitten claws a goblin off the map. Sadly the goblin survived so the cat didn't get a name or kill to it's name.
i must say also, that was one fast kitty. Anyone ever compared the speed of cats? they can change as much as dwarves it seems.

Still was hilarious watching this kitten chase the thief off the map though.