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A lot of those issues come from the [SHAPED] tag on various items of clothing/armor. Each body part can only wear one [SHAPED] item each, and the list of those includes quite a bit of non-armor items. Leggings, shoes, caps, leather armor, and masks are all shaped, but can be made out of soft materials. It is quite annoying when you lose a perfectly good soldier because he's wearing all metal armor except cloth shoes instead of boots, then gets stabbed in the foot and killed when he gives into pain.

Also, each body part can only support up to a certain amount of total clothing/armor. I'm not quite sure how exactly that works, but it's here: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Armor#Size.2C_Permit.2C_and_layering_armor

For me, default worlds are for Dwarf mode, not Fortress mode.

I am disappoint. "Dwarf mode" and "Fortress mode" both refer to the mode officially called "Dwarf Fortress" in the game. The other modes are "Adventurer" and "Legends."

make dwarves immortal killing machines with adamantinr skin, no alcoholism or cave adaption, dragon breath, legendary in all skills, swimj innate, no hunger, resistance to temp, no fear, no nerves, etc. etc. While such dwarves are awesome it'd also make the game so pointless it'd just be boring.

Unless you also give them the "opposed to life" tag so that the embark immediately devolves into all seven dwarves engaging each other in eternal combat, burninating the countryside and all its life. The first two hardcoded migrant waves only add to the !!Fun!!

Quote from: Seraphim342 on October 16, 2012, 11:17:30 pm

Hmm... I'm not sure if caravan members are historical figures or not, like diplomats are.  Does anyone know?  If so, it's entirely possible one of the caravaneers could have been a werebeast.  I read a post about a clown caravaneer, but I'm not sure if that was modded or not. 

Either way, kill them with fire.  It's the only way to be sure.

Course they are. Remember the Trader-Migrant Bug?

That's the other way around though: they're Historical after they visit your fort. In my experience there's no evidence that traders are selected from a pre-existing pool of migrants, unless you count that you can meet "Trader" NPCs in Adventure mode, which is more likely due to the random distribution of skills to NPCs including Appraisal than to any notion of function linked to Fortress mode.

Other: Keas

I imagined that the climbing would just treat the space around a rough wall as stairs, basically. There's already pathfinding for stairs and I don't see any instance where a space adjacent to a rough wall would be functionally different than an up/down stair. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I consider the game won when my settlement crumbles, all the dwarves having fought valiantly to their last breath against goblins/humans/zombies/spoilers. Anything else I consider a loss.

I saved the fort with a single dwarf.

That's why I never quit until the only dwarves left are insane. Or children, because really, who wants to run the game for seven years while that kid grows up.