April 23, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.13 has been released.
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News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
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Originally posted by Cthulhu:
<STRONG>*Wants to call subliminal imaging on the first panel of that comic, but is afraid he's the only one who saw it*</STRONG>
What, the motion line being something else?
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Originally posted by Skizelo:
<STRONG>(now each hammer has rifling and the goblins move like they're on hover-boots*) as well as adding another element of chaos to the fights and making it possible that the goblin flies straight upwards and knocks out your champion hammerdwarf on the descent (losing's fun, remember?).*I'd also be happy if every creature was given hover-boots.</STRONG>
Objects in motion tend to stay at the same altitude until gravity is noticed"
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Originally posted by Dasleah:
<STRONG>Marvel comics has the first use of the word 'Adamantium' in July 1969, and Chainmail didn't appear until 1971, and even then I'd wager it didn't appear until AD&D - and even then, in D&D it's called 'Adamantine' instead, so they share the same root, but aren't necessarily the same metal.</STRONG>
*Wikis* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamant
"Throughout ancient history, "adamantine" referred to anything that was made of a very hard material. Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine (Aeneid book VI). Later, by the Middle Ages, the term came to refer to diamond, as it was the hardest material then known, and remains the hardest non-synthetic material known."
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Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>Diamond swords, on the other hand... Fun.</STRONG>
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Originally posted by Sean Mirrsen:
<STRONG>Diamond arrowheads.</STRONG>
Quite discussed in the other thread. A diamond sword would shatter on impact with any armor harder than "leather," as would a diamond arrowhead, resulting in a net 0 damage to the target and the loss of a rather valuable weapon/ammo.
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Originally posted by Fenrir:
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Yes.</STRONG>
Because a channel as it used to exist, well, doesn't anymore. "Channel" magma and "non channel" magma are the same thing.
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Originally posted by Dasleah:
<STRONG>I heartily support this, so long as Toady includes orbiting bodies in world gen, so I can build my scaffolding to the Moon, and claim it in the name of the Mountainhomes.Plus: Dwarven Moon Base + Animal Pit = Dwarven Orbital Bombardment Cannon.</STRONG>
Urist McDwarfy cancles Construct Wall: suffocating in thin atmosphere
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Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG>I always manage to get screwed by a vampiric mist on the first room I enter.</STRONG>
I love how when it envelops (eats) you, you get to see its insides. XD
But yeah, vampiric mists are kinda deadly. At least you don't have to put up with polterguiets. Invisible and Incorporeal, all they do is cast Fear at you.
That's it, and it was the most annoying encounter EVER as you can't move towards a creature that you're affraid of, you can't hit it even if you made the save (you can't see it, therefor you can't target it) and even by sure CHANCE you get a swing at it, it's immune to your weapon (lulz, incorporeal).
It got banished to DL 2 after several complaints.
I managed to deal with them once--ONCE--when I found a wand of polymorph.
Also, Vampires who cast Charm are ghey. "Lolz, I've charmed you, your now my friend. Let me beat the crap out of you" *beat beat beat.* You: "Ha, you hit me, you're not my friend!" *targeting, attack, attack failed: can't hit allies* "Bwa? I thought Charm was broken when the caster attacked the target..." Vampire: "Nope!" *beat beat beat* You: *Death* x.x
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Originally posted by Sowelu:
<STRONG>Holy cats. While Incursion doesn't have anything LIKE the scale of Dwarf Fortress, it sure has about the same difficulty (if not harder).</STRONG>
It's all the half-demon graveborn undead orc skeleton archer warrior dwarf celestials wandering around on the first dungeon level.
code:
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etc. Incursion, I think, went up to 25 +'s wide
Walls should be like axles in any case.
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Originally posted by Fedor:
<STRONG>If Toady has indeed explicitly asked that that particular request not be made, then I support leaving it off this poll.</STRONG>
Of the five threads on DF being multi-threaded here's what Toady has had to say (in the two oldest ones).
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Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>I'm just not sure where to begin with this sort of thing, and things like multi-threading and so on, given that I have a giant mass of code that's currently being run in one sequence. It seems like it would take a lot of effort to figure this out and the best ways to use it and so on, when I still have plenty of regular optimizations to take advantage of.</STRONG>
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Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>Yeah, I really don't know the slightest things about threads or whatever. Somebody showed me something once, but it didn't like something I could use, and even if I could, it seems like quite a project.</STRONG>
Looks like a pretty definate "I'm not going to do it."
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Originally posted by Lightman:
<STRONG>...multithreading...Maybe we should be asking Toady about this?</STRONG>
He's said "NO, QUIT ASKING!" repeatedly. In fact, he doesn't even read threads that ask for it anymore. I don't blame him. Multi-threading is not a simple opperation, even for simple programs: what happens if one thread runs slower than the rest? How do the others know to pause?
