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[Thisfox]

Apparently Dwarves are that thick that they'll fish in the same 1/7 water that they just threw into a pond.

You know how the first mouse came into being? A dwarf put a big wheel of cheese in a chest.

Dwarf Fortress proves Spontaneous Generation to be right after all!

Actually, vermin tend to happen when they leave the wheel of cheese on the floor. A barrel or chest or storage mechanism causes the vermin to not be able to get inside and thus no vermin materialise.

...Personally I feel that the first mouse came into existence in a meat scraps and bone stockpile. I generate bones much faster than cheese, and also they can't be stored in a barrel, they have to be left on the floor.

[Badger Storm]

The official euphemism for testicles is "geldables".  As in "the geldables have been torn away!".

[Splint]

The official euphemism for testicles is "geldables".  As in "the geldables have been torn away!".

I find this highly amusing.

[pisskop]

Guyz.  All males in DF have spore launchers on the naval with an effective range of 1 tile.

[pisskop]

Alligators don't actually have the ambush predator tag, despite their descriptions indicating so.
  So I added it, and then added a 'GIANT_GIANT_ALLIGATOR' to the game :v

[Dwarf4Explosives]

What size would that be?

[pisskop]

Large enough to put down a group of 6 elehants in one go.

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To be fair, its skin is so thick they can't really hurt it.

Im going to pit it againts a legendary dwarf w/wo armor.  See if metal helps.
  An attritious win for the sword and boarder.

[Larix]

What size would that be?

Depends on the way "giant giant" is defined. Assuming 8x as fitting "giant" multiplier for an alligator, it could be
giant + giant -> 16x
giant x giant -> 64x
giant ^giant -> ~ 16Mio.x
giant ^^ giant -> x ~ way too many to express in a meaningful fashion
A (8,8) -> absurdly larger than the last

PS: the 2x size multiplier put as default in the "giant" variation definition is just a fall-back; it is almost never actually used. Giant creatures usually have specifically noted sizes, typically between 8x and 10x as large as the normal versions.

[pisskop]

Giant in DF is defaulted to 200% size.

      [CV_NEW_TAG:CHANGE_BODY_SIZE_PERC:200]
      [CV_NEW_TAG:CHANGE_FREQUENCY_PERC:50]

I set my giant giants to be 20x by default.

  So 20 (400 000)
8million.

An elephant is 5mill.

[Arx]

The official euphemism for testicles is "geldables".  As in "the geldables have been torn away!".

It's because gelding isn't actually tied to the testicles, IIRC. You could make a female geldable by including the [GELDABLE] tag somewhere in the body plan.

[pisskop]

The official euphemism for testicles is "geldables".  As in "the geldables have been torn away!".

It's because gelding isn't actually tied to the testicles, IIRC. You could make a female geldable by including the [GELDABLE] tag somewhere in the body plan.

The part about there being no testicles is correct.  The part about gelding females is not.  Or at least not when I tried.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

What size would that be?

Depends on the way "giant giant" is defined. Assuming 8x as fitting "giant" multiplier for an alligator, it could be
giant + giant -> 16x
giant x giant -> 64x
giant ^giant -> ~ 16Mio.x
giant ^^ giant -> x ~ way too many to express in a meaningful fashion
A (8,8) -> absurdly larger than the last

Okay, I know nothing about advanced mathematics (including that ^-stacking stuff), but what if it was g(8g(g))?

[Arx]

The ^^ probably just denotes x to the y to the z.

Giant^GiantGiant, I think.

[Aslandus]

The official euphemism for testicles is "geldables".  As in "the geldables have been torn away!".

It's because gelding isn't actually tied to the testicles, IIRC. You could make a female geldable by including the [GELDABLE] tag somewhere in the body plan.

The part about there being no testicles is correct.  The part about gelding females is not.  Or at least not when I tried.

I think you have to generate a new world for gelding changes, my world generated before gelding was implemented couldn't do it at all...

[Badger Storm]

I think gelding technically applies only to horses, but perhaps Toady thought it was a more period-appropriate term than "neutering," which conjures up images of modern-day vet's offices.

"Gelding" a female creature would probably kill her, considering it's literally opening the abdominal cavity, and spaying was still fairly new in the 1930s.  Heck, they still only spay about a few kinds of animals, like dogs and cats and rabbits.