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Without modding, it's all up to luck. I don't know if any non-random creature that has a blindness syndrome, and the only other option is having both eyes gouged out and surviving. Good luck with that happening in fort mode!

With modding, you can mod out the eyes altogether (which, as mentioned, hits across the board and makes job performance horrid, among other things), or you can create a new crop that has an ingestion syndrome that causes blindness. You could even make it temporary in that case, since you presumably have a renewable source of said crop.

Of course, you could just eschew ballistae altogether. Without a modding fix anyways, they're pretty abysmal, I've found. I've seen these things barely bruise targets, even when made of metal.

aaaaargh

so I've got a material emission interaction. Two of them, as a matter of fact. They use the same material, come from the same creature. One of them is of the type UNDIRECTED_VAPOR and the other is of type TRAILING_VAPOR_FLOW. However, whenever I use the second one, it causes the target to start melting, which is nice, but not the intended effect. I've played around with melting/boiling points, fixed temps, and no matter what I do, the trailing vapor flow causes melting--but not the undirected vapor. What gives? D:

Hey, it's good training for Horrorfailed

though I may or may not even get a turn, given that Andreus is up next. Hoooooo boy.

Been genning a few worlds to get some data on my own modded race. One of their features is a third caste that is a one in a million birth chance, and the only caste eligible to rise to the throne. I made them super powerful, so they shouldn't be dying, but I've been seeing some of them die off in worldgen lately.

However, that's not the best part. The best part is that I saw one of them listed with the BEST DEITY EVER.

Four was a deity that occurs in the myths of The Praised Domination. Four was most often depicted as a female Spawn of Violet and was associated with suicide and death.

It's funny because, well, in several Asian languages (notably japanese) the word for 4 is pronounced (nearly) identically to the word for death.

EDIT: I genned their language using Talvieno's DFLangCreate. A little digging shows that the word "four" in their language translates to "grave" in common. BEST FUCKING DEITY EVER.

Coupled with the inability to hit the broadside of a barn at point blank

Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot that ballistae in this version are like squeaky rubber hammers. Derp.

I wonder if there's a way to mod ballista parts to actually not suck? They should be in the raws as an item file somewhere....

The only thing I personally have issues with is the labor designation. Table-based input needs, absolutely needs, to be implemented in vanilla DF, and I mean outside of Dwarf The Rapist or DFhack.

Or just play in ascii. >.>

Honestly, excepting the first week or so when I was adjusting to the switch from graphics to ascii, I had an easier time reading the game in ascii than in tilesets. At the bare minimum, it prevents the text from being garbled garbage.