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Utilities and 3rd Party Applications / Premium release 1-elevation constructions (for impulse ramps/stairs) possible?
« on: November 30, 2023, 07:35:22 pm »
With the steam release version of the game there appears to be no easy way to dig out things such as up/down stairs or tracks without a lot of pain.
If I want to dig a line of up/down stairs I need to go one z-level up, start the queue, go 2 z-levels down and make the line, then cancel the designations on the top and bottom designations.
Its worse when you want to build impulse ramps, which require you to dig out the level above, and channel down, then start a track above, end it below, then carve another track in the direction you want to go and then cancel the extra steps.

I was really hoping for a mod that could add back in the old functionality of being able to choose between just the simple 'dig stairwell' options with 'dig up stair', 'dig down stair' and 'dig up/down stair' as well as the construction of all the old track things like in old DF (ie the possiblility of 'construct ramp with NW track' etc rather than building the ramp and carving the track directly).

Is anyone aware if this is possible with modding or is this a vain hope?

Cheers!

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Increasing ocean spawns in DF0.44.05
« on: March 08, 2018, 05:06:01 am »
I've recently embarked on a savage ocean after being reminded of the breeding sea serpent thread and I was looking forward to catching some sharks or whales to put inside a giant terrarium. However I cannot seem to get ocean spawns.

I know that land spawns trumps ocean spawns so I did the trick with the bridges to block off all edge tiles around my world. The issue with this is that I keep getting birds spawning in ocean edge tiles, and I believe I've seen them spawn above the bridges as well (I could be wrong). (Can birds spawn in the air or do they have to spawn on the ground-most tile around the edge?).

Is there any way I can increase my ocean spawns without using dfhack to slaughter all species of birds, or needing to bother with hundreds of dwarven marksman and pray they fly close enough to them?

I've even tried a method I saw in a thread with a similar title to this one where he bridged off the whole edge except for a single tile on the beach, then made a tunnel out of bridges leading to that one space in the edge of the map and pumped water through. In his tests this resulted in fish spawning above land, inside this tube of water he created. I replicated this but nothing spawned (unless they immediately got pushed off the map again from the force of the water lol...)

Thanks in advance for any help!

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DF Adventure Mode Discussion / Help getting/completing quests,..
« on: September 14, 2015, 05:25:04 pm »
Okay so quests in 2012 were straight forward, you ask for a quest, you get a specific target to go kill, you did it and then told someone. Now I ask around looking for a quest and only get titans, armies and occasionally a bandit camp.

 So since none of them can tell me where to find the titans I go to the bandit camp and start killing, but no one fights back until I specifically attack them. An I meant to go say something before I attack? Currently I walk in and attack someone, and his mates watch the battle until their friend is dead and I come after them...

Then after this what do I do? When I go tell someone in the same civilisation that I killed these people all they say is, "it was inevitable", or " it is terrifying ", is that all I need?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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