Bay 12 Games Forum

I'm unclear how fullscreen is any better than a big window. There's a 20x20 tileset on the Wiki; with your font set to that, the MINIMUM window resolution would be 1600x500, and you can certainly make it bigger just by giving more tiles(which increases your playable view anyway, although not all things work intelligently with this). What are your settings like, that your window is too small?

Instead of fullscreen, try using a windowed resolution that approaches it(and, if you're using 40d, scale up  your tile dimensions to suit; in 40d## this is done automatically); that's about all I can suggest in the short term.

Getting released is a +1000 happy thought, intended to ensure that newly-released dwarves don't go on a rampage from the unhappy thoughts they endured during their sentence.

But keeping them from going insane while imprisoned is definitely a good idea.

One last bump before I toss this one into a bug request. Any thoughts?

Further discovery: Opening the PNG in MS Paint and saving it as a bitmap yields a file that doesn't work at all in 40d. As a 16-bit or 256 color bitmap, each unit is a black square; as a 24 bit, it's a jumbled graphical mess. What the heck could be going wrong with the conversion? The images look fine outside of DF, but in game:

Generally speaking, dwarves will only pick water over alcohol if there's something keeping them from the alcohol. Such as:

• All barrels are already being drunk from or hauled
• The dwarf is a soldier with a waterskin
• The dwarf is a hunter
• The dwarf is not drinking for himself, but bringing water to an injured, resting dwarf elsewhere

I'm not sure on hunters, but definitely, if soldiers are carrying waterskins, they will drink from them and periodically fill them. Once the new version hits, all but the first should be taken care of. As long as you have one barrel in stockpile per dwarf, you shouldn't see dwarves drinking water again.

There's unfortunately not much you can do about fire imps except to stay away from them - and barricade a path to the edge so wagons, at least, don't go near them. They can only shoot every so often, though - a few experienced marksdwarves should be able to clear them out with few or, if you're lucky, no casualties. You'd probably want to engage them with rock at your back, though.

If you have fire imps and vegetation, it's important to get underground as fast as you can, and keep a close eye on any dwarves that go aboveground for their jobs; if you see the flickering wall of doom, set dwarves to stay underground and wait it out.

It's one of the strange things about the critters, honestly. If you can get in close, they're weak, and any military dwarf should be able to deal with them - but a lucky shot can incinerate a dwarf in one blow, and even a miss could spell doom. Agile dwarves getting the jump on them, marksdwarves shooting from high ground(so misses sail into the open air) - you can mitigate the risks, but never entirely remove them.

If the imps do stay under the surface of the magma, you may be able to rig a water pump to flood over the pipe and put an obsidian cap over it. Since the nastier magma and fire men tend to start deep, you may consider doing this even if the imps surface - you think the imps are bad? Wait until you meet a huge burning monstrosity that doesn't bleed, doesn't feel pain, and will smash buildings in its path as it turns your fortress into a dwarf-b-q.

Or prehaps dump his body in a magma pit... heheh

...or into the clown car! That'd be almost fitting, it'd be returning him to where the stuff comes from, and there'd be other reasons to suggest it might keep his spirit from wandering the fortress.

And i added in that last part in my previous post to make it so you didnt lose very valuable objects.

And that's just it. There's no sensible reason for it in-game, and it doesn't make the game more interesting - it's only added for player ease. At that point, it compromises the whole mechanic.

Appeasing an angry ghost should not be an easy thing. Even if the item itself is returned, they might demand some further offering for the trouble. Beyond that, perhaps only a masterwork item that matches at least one of their prefs will blunt their anger at all(so if they like iron and battle axes, an iron sword or a silver battle axe might both help, but an iron battle axe is better still).

This would make the dwarves less interchangable. If your champion or one of your heroes dies, and his spirit insists on being buried with his valuable *d*m*nt*ne weapon, all the more reason to not send him into battle without proper support in the first place. As it is, champions are useful but ultimately expendable. Having them claim their gear would make them rather less so - and as it seems some of the major military stupidities are being removed with the next version, they'll be easier to keep alive, and thus treating them as cannon fodder won't be the only way to go.

Good Ideas. What if the dwarves get attached to weapons and armour? Then maybe they will not part with the weapons ever? Even after death.

Never mind "what if", see the dev log; dwarves WILL get attached to at least their weapons. I can see them being less particular about their armour - it's useful, yes, but their weapons(and MAYBE shields) are, if I may wax poetic, extensions of their will. They may want to be buried with good armour, but artifacts notwithstanding, it's the weapons that they'd REALLY come to know and love.