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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: May 26, 2019, 07:50:41 pm

[PsychoAngel]

You can start whenever you want, then! I've got your name on the OP.

[foxstew]

"This is a masterwork lamb leather codex. It is titled foxstew's journal."

Late Autumn.

It is currently the 19th of Timber. Winter will be upon us soon, but fortunately, we have become sufficiently freeze-proof. Stocks are high, and the book I read recently was, quite interesting as I had thought.

But I digress. I have managed to obtain the position of overseer, or as it is called here, duck caretaker.

I have a few plans for my time here in Warbirds. First off, I have taken a good look at the fortress as a whole, and we dwarves are well off.

But the ducks!

They are ignorant! They do not have the pleasure that is a higher discussion! They do not know how to read! My first order as the caretaker is to have bookshelves constructed at once.

Yes, some ducks do reside with us in the library, but they simply oversee our study and do not join. This is a travesty! It must change.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(OOC So the stupid dwarf trick I want to do is to make a library for the ducks. I might edit the raws so that ducks can read later, but for now, I'll just construct the library. I had some screenshots earlier, but they're gone now and I'm not sure what happened to them.
I have not unpaused the game yet, only surveyed everything and made a few changes to my dwarf and stuff.
Also, if anyone could change the raws so ducks can read, I have no clue how to do that, and I don't want to edit the fortress into a !!fortress!!)

[PsychoAngel]

It looks like literacy isn’t its own tag, but [INTELLIGENT] is, which should allow for the ducks to have thought and feelings as well as read. You’d just have to add that tag along with the other ones near the top of the duck’s entry in the creature_domestic raws, but it may have unforeseen consequences. You should back up a save and do some testing.

[gchristopher]

Duck literacy is a noble goal if I ever heard one, so it's definitely worth a try! However, in my (extremely limited) modding experience, changing the raws after world-gen is usually a bad idea, for a variety of reasons including that lots of raws-specific data is already baked into the world.sav.

I wonder if you'd have better luck adding an intelligent duck race from scratch, then introducing that population as visitors who can petition for citizenship?

If nothing else, I suppose you can scribe a million copies of the book and cover every duck-accessible surface with reading material!

Good luck!

[EinsteinSatDown]

Save! can I play?

[EinsteinSatDown]

(I aint gonna be dru nk forever.... I ainr Bachuss....
]

[foxstew]

this isn't drunk fortress lol
In other news, I think I was able to modify the raws to allow the ducks to read, write, and learn. They also should have thoughts now. Should make games more !!fun!!, I think 
EDIT: like I thought, currently existing ducks do not have any tags that I added. This is because the ones that currently exist are unique creatures. New ducks, however, such as chicks and imported ducks should have the new tags. If not, no loss because I'm still going to waste all the adamantite on bookcases and nobody can stop me.

[foxstew]

or... not.
The natural skill appears to be the one that doesn't automatically add.
Well then.
IT BEGINS

[foxstew]

goddamn it.
I promise this wasn't on purpose, I really tried to not mine any 4x4 squares out.
I'll just wall off the main staircase if I can. If I can't, well, we have a bunch of war ducks and a military of 9 dwarves.

[foxstew]

walling off didn't work.
clowns in the main fort now
shit.
Edit: OH GOD THE MILITARY IS DEAD
Edit 2: OH GOD THEY GOT TO THE DUCKS
Edit 3: okay, things have calmed down. Everyone is left in the hospital, and the remaining ducks are smart enough to not go near the clowns. 9 people are left and are all in the hospital, including the doctor.
I think it's confident to say the non-military ducks are safe.
SuperDuck is also okay.
Should I just load up the old save again?
Or should my turn just be over?
or is the fort over?
EDIT 4: of corse. Hopefully, he can bring the clowns some !!fun!!
Last edit: that's it. the last dwarf and duck died. see edit 3

[Spriggans]

Are e some ducks alive ?
What are the livestocks ? 9 dorfs ? How many birds ?
Is duck-zilla alive ?

If you feel like the fort is playable, keep it going I'd say.

[foxstew]

again, the last dwarf and duck are dead. Ive abandoned fort.
Might make a proper journal entry later.

[gchristopher]

Now I really regret not modifying the save to turn all the clowns into duck clowns. I was trying to keep dfhackery to a minimum.

Reload, or reclaim? Once the building destroyers start serious flooding, it might be an FPS nightmare, even on a small map.

[foxstew]

Duck fortress 2: this time it's personal

[Spriggans]

Duck fortress 2: this time it's personal

Yay ! These basterds murdered our feathered friends ! I call for revenge ! XD