Bay 12 Games Forum

Assuming it is true, this might make sense since we can engrave constructed walls to avoid us gold plating every room. Not sure how one define room though.. if it is a zone there might be some room for exploits here.

Everything in the zone, from what I've heard. You use a bunch of unique low-value materials for the floors and walls, then 2 out of platinum (or w/e.) All the engravings will use the platinum multiplier.

You can also exploit the fact that walls, doors, and floors under doors (connected to walls) can overlap zones without value loss. Add that to the fact that zones don't need to be contiguous, and you can have a line of engraved walls and floors in the middle of nowhere that belongs to every room in the fort, making each one royal quality. (The engraved platinum floors do the heavy lifting, with the doors being irrelevant.)

Couldn't you alsi mark the water for dumping? Long ago, maybe I'm wrong.

Not anymore. Doesn't work by dumping the bucket either.

Also Difficulty Settings question: What does "Economic" difficulty mean?

Controls the triggers for becoming a barony, for instance. You can see everything it affects under the custom difficulty options.

[...] instead of simply using the engraved wall's material value, they instead look at a combined tally all of the tiles of the room they're in, both walls and floors, and use the value of the most common material in those tiles.

Apparently wall engravings use the material value of the most abundant material in the room and not the engraved wall itself? That's kind of weird.

I assumed the group symbol was just defaulting to the civ symbol, and this was just being indicated poorly in the embark menu. Does it actually change the civ symbol once you finish embarking? What happens if you retire and create a second embark?

If your fort isn't properly lit, dwarves will use their beards as torches.

Should I just send him out alone to conquer the world?

From what I know, sending him out on a raid can make him come back alive.

One way of getting ghost soldiers is to send intelligent undead on raids. Not sure how you got yours.

I STILL haven't found the sweet sweet blue metal that I've been looking for yet though, and I've uncovered most of the magma sea on a default size embark. is it not guaranteed now? do we sometimes get these gem walls instead? is it still there but deeper?

Pretty sure candy is always buried beneath one of the new gem clusters. (But not every magma sea gem cluster has a candy cane.)