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Author Topic: Could someone explain... The thread where we muse over what causes certain wtfs.  (Read 441247 times)

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Why is there no uranium?
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Why is there no uranium?
LOGICAL: Dwarves don't have the technology to extract it.
MAKES SENSE: A world where dwarves can extract uranium will last about a week before vanishing into a puff of radioactive smoke.

How come sweet pods can't be eaten raw?
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Uranium is present, in pitch- or hornblende, I forget which.
Sweet pods are like fungal beets. Have you ever tried to eat a raw beet? Add in some fungusy taste and various mechanisms to protect the pods from dralthas and crundles, and you have a sweet pod.

Why does everyone assume dwarves are all brain-dead morons, when they're just normal people who sometimes make famously bad mistakes? By that logic, all humans are brain-dead morons.
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Because Humans are the Real Monsters.
(In my own personal opinion, I think dwarves are geniuses, they just lack common sense.)

What happens if you stitch together a dwarf, goblin, elf, human, kobold, and troll all in one freakish monstrosity?
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It dies, whether through necrosis, killing itself, or starting out dead.

What happens when I run out of questions?
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You make up new ones, like the one you asked right now!

If Armok wanted to create his own race, why didn't he put them on par physically with the denizens below?
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You make up new ones, like the one you asked right now!

If Armok wanted to create his own race, why didn't he put them on par physically with the denizens below?
He's the god of BLOOD, not the god of conquest. And cavern-dwellers or demons don't bleed properly or in the right colour. One may argue that the serrated blade trap was his doing.

If miasma is a standard gas, could you power a rocket with ultra-densely compacted corpses?
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No. You just get a smelly coffin, packed with corpses. It's not even a gas, it's a visible representation of rotting particles in the air.

What happens if the humans invent some sort of explosive, be it gunpowder, TNT, or dynamite based?
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The dwarves would steal it and hilarity would ensue.

How are humans capable of doing anything when they are so beardless?
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They have these things called "Tools".
You see, humans can go into a fey mood at the drop of a Cap, and are capable of producing tools out of things like stone and wood. But these aren't conventional tools like Picks, or Axes, or Wheelbarrows. They're these tiny little items. Some of them, they call chisels. They use them to carve rocks in place of a beard. Then they have these things called knives. The use these to cut things in place of a beard. There are dozens more, but the humans always hide them on their person, so you can't loot them.
Mysterious indeed.

What about those elves? What do they do?
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If Armok wanted to create his own race, why didn't he put them on par physically with the denizens below?
He did. Even dwarven BABIES have killed forgotten beasts.

What about those elves? What do they do?
I think they cultivate trees in the shape of tools.

Why...um...who...I got nothing. Ah, I know! Who would win in  a fight between Cacame Apebalded and Tholtig Cryptbrain?
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Nobody would win. The world would be razed to the very bedrock, even the dwellers at the very bottom vanquished, as the fight continued forever. Armok would protect them from starvation to prolong the infinite battle.

What do you do with a drunken dwarf early in the morning?
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Put him in charge of the kingdom.  Dwarf experience a sort of reverse intoxication.  Alcohol speeds up their metabolism, rejuvenating them and increasing cognitive function.  Same as how I feel when I drink...

Where are the airships?
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In the 1800s or so, IIRC. Unless you mean plain ol' hot air baloons, in which case: In the 1500s or so, IIRC.

If an elf at dwarven flesh, would the elf get drunk? After all, dwarves drink far more alcohol than water....
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Where are the airships?
In the 1800s or so, IIRC. Unless you mean plain ol' hot air baloons, in which case: In the 1500s or so, IIRC.
What. But. You answered when, not where. And even then, Dwarf Fortress rarely reaches years that high, and I doubt airships would suddenly appear when it did.

If an elf ate dwarven flesh, would the elf get drunk? After all, dwarves drink far more alcohol than water....
A drunk elf is something nobody wants to see. They really do like trees a lot more than we think. Being drunk could cause some unfortunate accidents involving a sharp rock and some woodpeckers.

Why are creatures limited to eating only cultivated plants or cultivated meat?
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