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Quote from: CaptainMcClellan on September 19, 2014, 02:42:52 pm

Nothing super advanced, but I think that an adventurer should be able to do things like lance infected pustules, amputate small appendages, bandage self, disinfect wounds ( which I believe can already be done? ), and leech off fevers. Of course, success in this would be based on a variety of skills including will-power, analytical ability, kinesthic sense, and perhaps a new medical skill. Also, reactions for surgery on companions and appropriate reactions would be nice with all sorts of new possibilities. I imagine it would be quite difficult to implement, but I suppose it could be feasible to do by DF2016 and I hope that Toady does because it sounds like a lot of fun to cruelly experiment on save the lives of my companions. Also being able to antidote minor syndromes would be nice if it's not already possible. Perhaps willow bark tea to bring down fever? Whatever's not too crazy, I guess.

I do not think the adventurer should do those things.  I think they should be able to request medical treatment from the appropriate NPCs.

Why shouldn't the adventurer be able to, when reading and apprenticeships are implemented, learn himself medical skills and heal his party members and do first aid on himseld?

I'm trying to figure out the code as you've written it. Unfortunately, my search function broke part way through it. Could you post a schematic of what the new race and ethnicity parts of a character do?

• For now, and until the next release, the Race part of a character do nothing, except determinate which culture will be received
• The Culture part determinates which first and last names will the character receives; this culture depends of the race (see the creaturenames.c file)

Note:
Race and culture are technically split, given the fact both are coded in separate enumerations.

There are also the games Cataclysm, crash developped during forty-eight hours for a competition and whose developpement was halted, and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, a community release of the former.

They are survival game in a Zombie apocalypse and very realist - it's basically "Dwarf Fortress meets Resident Evil."

The only problem is that I don't know how to make it work on my computer, with its Lua files.

I could see the following:

• Rafts and canoes, for animal-men, kobolds and other primitive cultures along with small-time use; useable on rivers and small lakes to transport few people, small animals and a little of goods; for small-scale trade between villages
• Sailing/rowing boats, for a larger use than a raft; can use all lakes; used for transporting greater suantities of goods, people and greater animals in fluvial trade
• Sailing/rowing ships, for larger lakes and oceans; intercontinental trade

We could also introduce the category Sailor and the skills Rower, Pilot and Manoeuver.

I can just imagine on the "Stupid Dwarf Tricks" wiki page.

"Armok's Ark:" Make a massive wooden boat, put two of all animals on it, and have a dwarf beat them all to death.
BONUS: put one male and one female animal on the boat
SUPERBONUS: Flood the map
MEGABONUS: Edit the raws and put two forgotten beasts on the boat. And beat them to death.

MEGADWARFBONUS: Flood with lava.

Some laptops have logic to save wear and tear on the battery by not charging it until it goes below X% discharged.  Otherwise apparently all the tiny discharge/recharge when you leave it plugged in for a long time wear the battery out quicker.  So possibly that's what's happening?

My laptop normally charge even for 1% missing in power.

And this problem came back - maybe because my computer is very hot.

How old is the computer, and how old is the battery? My old laptop (6 years old) doesn't really charge anymore. Batteries have a finite lifespan. I just have to leave it plugged in all the time to use it.

If it's not old and the battery isn't damaged or worn out, then I'm afraid I don't know.

This computer was handed to me, brand new, in 2009.

(Aside note, my main laptop, which has no WiFi access without a WLen device, came to my house in 2009 as second hand - its BIOS is from 2005 and its battery was already worn out.)

EDIT: The battery lost 5% of power during Saturday and Sunday, which will give to the battery 40 days before being down.

In the history we see temples great landowners in Ancient Egypt and some Abbeys treated, in all intents and purpose, as full-fledged states in some cases.

Could temples be able to exercise the same authority as a law-giver in his domain and/or enrich themselves with the offerings from pilgrims and faithful?