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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

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We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

17 (22.1%)

I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

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Total Members Voted: 77

[Talvieno]

It was supposed to be the mossy tunnels somewhere below the fortress where Mr Frog, Vanya, and Urist went through after the gorlak incident... close enough, though. Vanya was wanting Talvi to take her there before the cavern thing.

And guys: Hint taken. I'll set some time towards those replies.

[Splint]

I notice you've been a busy little bee on the wiki Talvieno. Excellent work I saw.

[Talvieno]

Not really - it looks like a lot more than it is. lol   Thanks, though.

edit:

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too much purple now... and it's really obvious that the texture isn't mapped properly, but, this is without the lighting effects I applied later.

[Mr Frog]

@Talvi:

That new one's a lot better, I think. It's easier to see all the colours and details in the texture, so it looks more obviously vegetation-y.

[Reudh]

@Talvi:

That new one's a lot better, I think. It's easier to see all the colours and details in the texture, so it looks more obviously vegetation-y.

I'm inclined to agree with Froggie. That one's far easier to see.

[Splint]

Welp, I have found jackborgs, while expensive, make excellent guards for cave entrances. Three pitgorlaks made attempts to get loose and all were met by semi-metallic aggression.

EDIT: Railguns modified lack the raw killing power they need to do anything substantial it seems. Someone went and wasted a little over a dozen slugs on a feral pit gorlak because all the could do without a center mass hit was break bones. on that note, a marksdwarf got the first megaspawn kill in my test fort with a center mass hit to the back sending it bouncing along the ground hard enough to damage its heart.

[Cynm]

@Splint
Go into the raws for the railgun ammo and change [BLUNT] to [EDGE], see if that gives you the looked for lethality. You should be able to change the tag in an existing save.

[TalonisWolf]

Megaspawn on the first year?

Why do I equate that to be the Spawn version of a preemptive Nuclear Strike?

Also, how long in-game does a Spawn burn? Because I had an idea which went along the lines of pitting Forgotten Beasts against them to buy time for squads to form up, but if a FB lights up a Megaspawn, those squads would be utterly destroyed...

[Splint]

Megaspawn on the first year?

Why do I equate that to be the Spawn version of a preemptive Nuclear Strike?

Also, how long in-game does a Spawn burn? Because I had an idea which went along the lines of pitting Forgotten Beasts against them to buy time for squads to form up, but if a FB lights up a Megaspawn, those squads would be utterly destroyed...

Seems the earliest they can arrive is late autumn. If memory serves, if the symptoms don't manifest in a month or so, you're fine and megaspawn may have their own megaspawnitis syndorome unless that was taken out.

@Splint
Go into the raws for the railgun ammo and change [BLUNT] to [EDGE], see if that gives you the looked for lethality. You should be able to change the tag in an existing save.

Changing attacks is basic stuff I already know how to do. What I mean is while they can pitch an enemy a good distance, it has to be an upper or lower body hit otherwise they'll be fruitlessly pegging the target and breaking bones. I never intended them to take limbs off (which is what edged damage would probably do,) in the traditional sense anyway. I intend to get reactions set up to negate ease of access, so I'll be returning them to proper lethality.

[Talvieno]

Threw this together really fast... not satisfied with it. It took a freaking 14 hours to render. I'm never setting the settings that high again. lol   And the "stick of gum" is for reference - it's two meters tall.

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Part of the lobby for Parasol's Division 3 (where they have a megaportal). Work in progress - running out of time for it.


lower-quality image with a closeup of the parasol, showing the magma underneath the glass. different marble texture here. 105-minute render time.

Also, how long in-game does a Spawn burn? Because I had an idea which went along the lines of pitting Forgotten Beasts against them to buy time for squads to form up, but if a FB lights up a Megaspawn, those squads would be utterly destroyed...

Live spawn never burn away. They'll burn literally infinitely, throwing off dense clouds of smoke. Spawn parts are different, however. They'll burn for about six months before they disappear - provided the spawn is dead.

[Cynm]

Really cool render Talvieno, what program are you using?

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Changing attacks is basic stuff I already know how to do. What I mean is while they can pitch an enemy a good distance, it has to be an upper or lower body hit otherwise they'll be fruitlessly pegging the target and breaking bones. I never intended them to take limbs off (which is what edged damage would probably do,) in the traditional sense anyway. I intend to get reactions set up to negate ease of access, so I'll be returning them to proper lethality.

Right now railgun slugs have a contact area of 50, which by my rough estimate would be about the size of an apple(Arrows and bolts have a contact area of 2). With that sort of contact and an edge attack, railguns de-limb with ease. A contact area of 2 and an edge attack wont take limbs off and is quite deadly against anything that bleeds.

[Splint]

Native railguns are meant to rely on sheer crushing force, not pegging targets and hoping something falls off. Ballpoint and Parasol models can/will most likely be set up in such a manner though. Also I dunno why you spoilered that.

Test fort has a statue of a megasapwn killing a banshee in it. Going to have to recheck and see if we just murderized a historical monster that the fort already depicted.

EDIT: Never before has the temptation to kill one of my dwarves been so great as to add to my Jackborg force.

[Cynm]

I'm not sure why I spoilered that.

Do the different civs have different railguns already, or does that need to be added?

[zacen299]

It dawns on me that I don't know how Jackborgs are made. So I guess the question is how the hell do you make a Jackborg.

[Splint]

Cybernetic surgery on grievously injured or dead dwarves, said surgery having been pioneered by Draconik Sankis. They're expensive but thanks to dwarves being who they are as a race, they're still readily available in many places.