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Does anyone else ever have caravans donate War Humans? Those are somewhat useful.

This is a rope reed fiber thong. All craftmanship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with limestone, studded with adamantine and encircled with bands of clay and capybara leather. It is made from rope reed fiber cloth. This object menaces with spikes of pig tail fiber, violet spessartine and horse bone.
On the item is an image of Onol the Fiery Mountain, the deity of volcanos, fire and metals depicted as a male dwarf in rope reed fiber. Onol the Fiery Mountain is screaming.
On the item is an image of Boltpregnant the adamantine crossbow in zinc.


I can't blame Onol for screaming. What is worse, this fort has another artifact undergarment with an image of a different artifact adamantine crossbow 

A thong depicting the deity of volcanoes and fire brings to mind the olden days, when lepers had to cry out "unclean! Unclean!" wherever they went.

Quote from: ChuckWeiss on May 11, 2013, 02:00:35 pm

Hospitality? Trees!? Melt that god-damned elf-lover down and make a true dwarven deity! One that governs war and vomit!

But Urist, hospitality is a Dwarf right and it is decreed in holy law that only wooden beds shall ever satisfy Dwarven sleeps! You would doom us all to vomitwar!

The stone beds in the Dwemer ruins in Elder Scrolls games always confused me. They could build robots that run properly millennia later, but they can't trade for some goose down or something?

My latest fort is guarded by a Spearmaster who through his exploits in the first couple years has earned himself the title "The Moral Fury of Deifying." I thought it was an interesting title, because it makes sense in a way that most earned titles don't; it hints at a situation in which one person or group began to worship a mortal (perhaps even the legendary soldier himself) and someone else (again, perhaps the soldier) became angry with them for improperly elevating a mere mortal to a god-like position. It is a common and recurring problem/issue/trend in religion across the board.

Then I went into the dwarf's preferences and noticed, among others:

He is somewhat reserved
He is not given to flights of fancy
He admires tradition
He is candid and sincere in dealings with others

All of which are the sort of things that, I think, would contribute to the personality of the type of person who would say to his admirers, "I am not a god," and even become angry and speak out in fury when they refuse to listen.

I admit that such a conclusion likely gives even a weighted, sphere-based naming system far too much credit in its ability to connect groups of words with specific ideas. Still, the question is there: to what extent do a dwarf's preferences influence the titles they earn? Is a dwarf who likes bronze more likely to be called "The Bronze Gears of Puking" than "The Aluminum Gears of Puking," for example? And what would be a good method for testing large samples of Named dwarves, aside from the obvious and time-consuming series of decades-long forts?

Spoiler: Just make sure to keep an eye on your numbers, otherwise you might get a turkeysplosion, and your fort will eventually look like this: (click to show/hide)

Put the poults in a cage, then when some grow up butcher the extras from the top of the z->Animals screen down until you're back to the number of adults you want, and release those from the cage. Creatures born in the fort will always be listed oldest first on the Animals screen, so you can easily catch the turkeys before they die of old age while maximizing your production by butchering older creatures first.

Bad punctuation and grammer.
unclear what you are saying
stuff that's not in the game.

this has got all the qualities of a bad troll post. A very bad troll post. It might be easier to provoke the desired response if you put more effort into it.

You, sir, put the "ass" in "assasin." I guess we should be lucky you didn't spell it correctly, or there'd be two asses.

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Quote from: Centigrade on May 04, 2013, 07:44:08 am

I put a small drink stockpile in my dining area that is linked to a much bigger stockpile so that it is constantly full. As my dining halls are always cross-shaped, I put those little stockpiles in the corners. Here's a picture, using Phoebus tileset:

You have a lot of stills there.  How do you ensure your dwarves don't just convert all plants to drink instead of saving some pig tails for thread, for example?

Press [z]
tab over to 'kitchen'
From here you can toggle cooking and brewing permissions on every piece of food in your fort.  Don't want your biscuits to be made of anything but tallow? Don't want to brew the pig tails? Toggle it and make it so!

I think what Jez was getting at is if all 12 stills are on repeat, anything that allows brewing will no longer be available for anything else.  Using the manager screen instead to brew on demand should avoid that problem.

Well yeah, but that's really irritating micromanagement.  Having to look at whether you have enough booze all the time and ordering more.

Just order up some drinks every few months, there's no need to micromanage it. With a couple of poultry birds and even a single 15-tile farm devoted to growing brewable plants all year long you will easily get enough plants to keep a hundred dwarfs fed and liquored.

I use DFHack's workflow command to keep my booze in stock. Workflow takes some learning to use properly, but once you get the hang of it it's extremely useful. If you decide to use it, I'd recommend keybinding the 'gui/workflow' command so you don't have to mess with the command line.

The only downsides are the time and effort constructing the fort, building the walls and mostly roofing it over which can take thousands of lumps of stone

But think: if you dig into the mountain, the walls and roof are already built for you.

Personally, that's why I dig into mountains rather than build up. As the Overseer, I don't particularly care if the aesthetics of my fort are built in the light with marble blocks or dug out of the heart of the earth and smoothed over. What I do care about is the increased micromanagement of building scaffolding, churning out blocks, and tying up large numbers of dwarves, bins and pause time, all of which come with building large above-ground structures and not so much with below-ground. Simply because dig designations can be done in volume and without materials, it takes a small fraction of the time to designate and dig out an underground complex as it would to designate and build an identical complex on the surface.