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DauntlessGolem

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Embarked on a !!spoiler!!
« on: January 14, 2018, 12:09:36 am »

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So I finally embarked on a vault after giving up trying to figure out how to get divine metals without adventure mode. I forbid all doors and it is going good right now but the first thing I saw that the slab for the demon was literally outside. Like a lawn ornament. The heck do i do with this?
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Re: Embarked on a !!spoiler!!
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2018, 01:13:21 am »

Spoiler: Is Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Put it in your library? I believe if the slab is destroyed it should be possible to banish or control the demon or something. Maybe that's not in yet.

But it would be funny to see what happens if a copy is made.

Edit: Put it in the library, then you know where the said library is. You can collect the slab as an adventurer.
Science: Make a fuckton of copies of the slab. See whether the copy works in adventure mode.
« Last Edit: January 14, 2018, 01:16:00 am by CaptainArchmage »
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Re: Embarked on a !!spoiler!!
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2018, 02:31:50 am »

Spoiler: Is Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Put it in your library? I believe if the slab is destroyed it should be possible to banish or control the demon or something. Maybe that's not in yet.

But it would be funny to see what happens if a copy is made.

Edit: Put it in the library, then you know where the said library is. You can collect the slab as an adventurer.
Science: Make a fuckton of copies of the slab. See whether the copy works in adventure mode.

Does a slab function like a book for libraries and etc? I thought it was always a stonecraft/engraving type thing
« Last Edit: January 14, 2018, 02:33:33 am by DauntlessGolem »
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PatrikLundell

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Re: Embarked on a !!spoiler!!
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2018, 04:45:38 am »

As far as I've seen on the forum slabs are not copied in player fortress libraries.
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Re: Embarked on a !!spoiler!!
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2018, 05:05:25 am »

I did science on this some time ago with a necro tower.

Slabs do not do the thing in fortress mode, only books.  Dwarves have no real interest in copying a slab.
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Re: Embarked on a !!spoiler!!
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2018, 11:14:56 am »

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Edit: Put it in the library, then you know where the said library is. You can collect the slab as an adventurer.
Science: Make a fuckton of copies of the slab. See whether the copy works in adventure mode.

Just tested this and it seems that the game crashes everytime it tries to write a book with this secret in it.
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Re: Embarked on a !!spoiler!!
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2018, 11:21:10 pm »

It makes in-game sense. Slabs are divine objects and their power comes from the object itself not from what's written on them and thus can't be simply copied, while necromancer books were written by the necromancers and what's written inside has the actual power not the book itself and thus can be copied.
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Re: Embarked on a !!spoiler!!
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2018, 02:06:39 am »

Edit: Put it in the library, then you know where the said library is. You can collect the slab as an adventurer.
Science: Make a fuckton of copies of the slab. See whether the copy works in adventure mode.

Just tested this and it seems that the game crashes everytime it tries to write a book with this secret in it.
Report it on the bug tracker.
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