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[Strangething]

In case you haven't been keeping up with Toady's updates, generic statues are finally gone.



This is awesome. I can't wait to make themed rooms. 

[forsaken1111]

They're still as random as engravings and such for now, but this is kinda nice.

Only now I'll have to crank out 1000's of statues to get the ones I want...

[cowofdoom78963]

huh? Updates? Where?

[G-Flex]

They're still as random as engravings and such for now

And that's bad?

If my mason likes cheese and donkeys, I want to see statues of cheese of donkeys every now and then. It adds a bit of personality to things.

If they're treated the same as engraving and cloth decorations, I'm more than happy.

[forsaken1111]

huh? Updates? Where?

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html

[forsaken1111]

They're still as random as engravings and such for now

And that's bad?

If my mason likes cheese and donkeys, I want to see statues of cheese of donkeys every now and then. It adds a bit of personality to things.

If they're treated the same as engraving and cloth decorations, I'm more than happy.

No no, it's great... just before I was able to pretend the statues were whatever I wanted. Now I'll have to build hundreds to get the two dwarf statues I want to flank the throne, for example.

[cowofdoom78963]

They're still as random as engravings and such for now

And that's bad?

If my mason likes cheese and donkeys, I want to see statues of cheese of donkeys every now and then. It adds a bit of personality to things.

If they're treated the same as engraving and cloth decorations, I'm more than happy.

No no, it's great... just before I was able to pretend the statues were whatever I wanted. Now I'll have to build hundreds to get the two dwarf statues I want to flank the throne, for example.

Yes this could be quite the bother...

[Neonivek]

Actually we don't know if they are officially Statues yet or if Toady was just doing that as a physical example of why he didn't make statues that way.

[Untelligent]

Why would you think that? I can't gleam anything from the dev log entry that would suggest that they're not meant to be like that.

[Kanil]

A room full of tentacle demon statues.

And now I can cut down trees, turn them into wooden statues of trees, (lol) and stick them up outside my fort just to piss the elves off.

[Rowanas]

Instead of having two imagined statues  of dwarven warriors, now my people gather around the glorious toad statue!

All Glory To The HypnoToad!

[Warlord255]

As an added bonus, this gives you even more fun with the Obsidian Tomb Statue.

1. Dunk a goblin (or what have you) in water.
2. Drop magma onto the water.
3. Let cool into a single obsidian block.
4. Mine the obsidian.
5. Create a statue.
6. After X-dozen savescums, get a statue of the same creature type as the entombed creature - or even OF the specific creature, if it's named.
7.
8. PROFIT

[Sutremaine]

Now I'll have to build hundreds to get the two dwarf statues I want to flank the throne, for example.

Maybe a 'build generic statue' option? It would be a little odd having a plain statue alongside specific ones, but you could imagine it's such a symbolic statue that it's only comprehendable to a dwarf, and then only in its proper context.

The thing that immediately bothered me is that any material with a moderately long name will appear as '[material] statue of ' to anyone who plays with only one third of the screen given over to the menu.

[G-Flex]

I just really hope the descriptions work like engravings.

That way I can have a statue of an EPIC BATTLE in the middle of my meeting hall.

Well, epic battle or Cog Riddlesmiths hugging a groundhog. Whichever.

[Duke 2.0]

 This is a granite statue of a Square. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. On it is an image of a square in Alunite.

 "So... you make a cube."