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I just started a new fortress on a Taiga. My dwarves were clearing trees to build (aboveground fortress) when suddenly about a hundred black dots swarmed the screen. I thought it was some sort of Dwarven apocalypse or something, but when I looked closer I realised they were just bats. Lots of bats. Bats everywhere.

My dwarves don't seem to mind though... Oh well. One of the stranger things I've seen in DF, if you're looking at the small pile of 'non-violent' peculiarities.

Edit:  SO MANY BATS! They came down just after I dismantled the wagon and moved the food to the stockpile. Maybe that's what's drawing them? They're only swooping around the area I cleared and began to build on. There's so many bats I think it's actually slowing down the game D:

Can I turn them into bat stew somehow?

[ February 14, 2008: Message edited by: Caz ]

Takes only 4 rocks to dispose of excess waste.<P>Turn 3 of the rocks into mechanisms. <BR>Use the final one to make a 2-tile bridge that raises to one side.<BR>Connect a lever to the bridge next to it.<BR>Restrict the two tiles of the bridge to avoid dwarf-crushing.<BR>Make the tile of the bridge that raises a dump area.<BR>Dump your waste.<BR>Pull the lever.<P>

I think it'd be a nice addition if DF had more than about 8 base colours. All the ones in descriptor_color_standard.txt actually being coloured into the game would be great. It would be easier to tell the materials of items. Just now orthoclase and gold is the same colour, and there is no difference between brown stone and wood. The colours are already in the init files...

code:

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[COLOR:CHOCOLATE]
   [NAME:chocolate]
   [RGB:210:105:30]
[COLOR:CINNAMON]
   [NAME:cinnamon]
   [RGB:123:63:0]
[COLOR:COBALT]
   [NAME:cobalt]
   [RGB:0:71:171]
[COLOR:COPPER]
   [NAME:copper]
   [WORD:COPPER]
   [RGB:184:115:51]

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There could be an init option for people who just wanted the normal colours too. It'd give the game a fresher look imo.