Bay 12 Games Forum

I feel like inventions of leonardo fall slightly after the game's arbitrary historical cutoff, which seems to have been specifically chosen to avoid the renaissance. That said I am always in favor of more details.

each piece of equipment is treated as individual in the uniforms. so if you want your dwarves to equip a pair of boots, you need to have the uniform look for two boots.

I'm a control freak with my military usually. so typically I will manually assign each piece of armor. I recommend this, as it doesn't take too long and it's easier to do quality control.

this is a very minor fix. but in the menu where it asks if you would like to Play now! or prepare for the journey carefully, I don't think the options should scroll through. 20% of the times I try to create a fortress I will accidentally hold the down key for a little too long, and it will go back to Play now! and I will have already hit enter.

I actually don't mind being forced to occasionally take on hostile environments with 7 surgeon soapmaker tanner butcher miner dwarves. But this has happened to me a stupid number of times, and it would be so easy to fix. Has anyone else done this?

My hope regarding this, is that workshops become unnecessary. Once cheesemaking is incorporated into the physical model of the game, adventurers should be able to make cheese just by adding acid to milk and putting the result in a cave and waiting.

professions are an abstraction necessary to running a fortress, but not necessary to adventure mode.

so I think the change you are advocating for is more dynamic professions?

OP here: I want to be clear, There are very real computational barriers to making mining more realistic by adding rubble and physically realistic mining products. Tracking rubble, and pathfinding through rubble is not really in the spirit of the game. Additionally Toady himself has said repeatedly that he doesn't want to commit to defining the size of a tile which I understand as the choice of someone writing a game.

So I was suggesting a very specific mechanic. Mining products are all standing up, no two can occupy the same square without falling.

This is a very simple substitute for volume. It does not require taking spoonfuls of rubble away from your dig site. everything about the game would be the same except the order in which your dwarves haul stone, and maybe stonefall traps.

so

The realism added is like, a whole physical law. it's a good compromise between the minutia of adding and managing gravel managing rubble and the utter ridiculousness of a dwarf just mining by himself to HFS and bringing back what he found.

The whole point of having an AI do the hauling for you is so that the game can feel realistic, without feeling tedious. It stands to reason that a barrier to adding more realism, is the inability to add corresponding AI.

so I'm curious where this rule could break the AI, and what might be possible solutions in that case, because I think it's worth hashing out a little

I've been thinking about how I would try to improve mining realism, and encourage the use of mine carts.

because I think you lose a lot of the potential difficulty/ interesting problems to solve in your fort by equipping your miners with matter destroyers.

simple rule, Any tile containing a mining product can not be traversed by someone/thing carrying a mining product.

would anyone hate the game if they had to work around this constraint?

it's a sphere, clearly dwarves get smaller as they walk away from the equator. This effect is particularly noticeable at the caps. where size, and therefore momentum of the water molecules is decreased enough to become ice.

I think that's how it works on earth too.