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Dwarf Fortress: Is that a legendary sock?

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  • DracoGriffinDracoGriffin Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Not to derail much further:

    Tropico 3 is terrible. I seriously hope none of that gameplay is in Dungeons. But yes, the polish was well done on Tropico 3.

    Some people really like Tropico series though... not a whole lot though. :X

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I have a dwarf named

    Olon Bertakuth Cudistthak Iden, "Olon Earthchasms the Scalded Lock of Paddles"

    Is it normal for dwarves to end up with names like that?

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I have a dwarf named

    Olon Bertakuth Cudistthak Iden, "Olon Earthchasms the Scalded Lock of Paddles"

    Is it normal for dwarves to end up with names like that?

    Dwarfs have all kinds of awesome weird names

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Also, can you not build things with obsidian anymore???

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Also, can you not build things with obsidian anymore???

    Do you have it marked as an economic stone? That'll block general uses for it, I believe.

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  • BloodsheedBloodsheed Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I have a dwarf named

    Olon Bertakuth Cudistthak Iden, "Olon Earthchasms the Scalded Lock of Paddles"

    Is it normal for dwarves to end up with names like that?

    When a dwarf kills 5 named enemies they gain the extra name.

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  • JintorJintor Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Not to derail much further:

    Tropico 3 is terrible. I seriously hope none of that gameplay is in Dungeons. But yes, the polish was well done on Tropico 3.

    Some people really like Tropico series though... not a whole lot though. :X

    Tropic 3 thread plz - we'll talk about how wrong you are. : P

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    jothki wrote: »
    Also, can you not build things with obsidian anymore???

    Do you have it marked as an economic stone? That'll block general uses for it, I believe.

    uh, maybe not? how do I change that?
    When a dwarf kills 5 named enemies they gain the extra name.

    ! Ahahahaha, he got his title from throwing a tantrum and murdering five of my farmers.

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Is there any easier way to build the cage with my capture ettin in it than spamming all 30 of my cages and hoping?

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  • hailthefishhailthefish Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Press x while in the cage selection screen when building a cage.

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    thank yoooou

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  • BloodsheedBloodsheed Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    jothki wrote: »
    Also, can you not build things with obsidian anymore???

    Do you have it marked as an economic stone? That'll block general uses for it, I believe.

    uh, maybe not? how do I change that?

    It's a menu off the status screen. So (see if I can remember this), it's Z, and then look for a heading of "Stones" . Then look for Obsidian.

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Okay that's a pretty fucked up thing I hadn't seen yet:

    guts.png

    Kobold gets her belly cut open in a fight, but doesn't die. Her guts pop out, and she's wandering the map with two tiles of grey vomit looking stuff trailing behind her. Not bleeding, not in pain.. she's just got a trail of intestines behind her.

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  • BlueDestinyBlueDestiny Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hahaha GROSS.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    xzzy wrote: »
    Okay that's a pretty fucked up thing I hadn't seen yet:

    guts.png

    Kobold gets her belly cut open in a fight, but doesn't die. Her guts pop out, and she's wandering the map with two tiles of grey vomit looking stuff trailing behind her. Not bleeding, not in pain.. she's just got a trail of intestines behind her.

    her guts has popped out

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    xzzy wrote: »
    Okay that's a pretty fucked up thing I hadn't seen yet:

    guts.png

    Kobold gets her belly cut open in a fight, but doesn't die. Her guts pop out, and she's wandering the map with two tiles of grey vomit looking stuff trailing behind her. Not bleeding, not in pain.. she's just got a trail of intestines behind her.

    her guts has popped out

    Is there anything else found inside a body that's naturally plural?

    Heck, people don't even have 'guts'.

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  • hailthefishhailthefish Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Lungs, eyes, teeth, ovaries, testes.

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Lungs, eyes, teeth, ovaries, testes.

    Those are all individually tracked, though.

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  • hailthefishhailthefish Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Good point. Her left lung has popped out.

    I suppose he could track stomach, small bowel...

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Good point. Her left lung has popped out.

    I suppose he could track stomach, small bowel...

    large intestin irritated by gerbil

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    if i disable weather to get better FPS, does that mean my murky pools will never refill?

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  • hailthefishhailthefish Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Probably.

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    so one of my dwarves picked a fight with a deer and broke his spine.

    i made a hospital, stocked it up, and the dwarves put him in bed.

    now, whenever they try to do surgery on him, they take him out of the bed and immediately give SURGERY CANCELLED: PATIENT NOT RESTING and leave him on the floor.

    halp? :(

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  • TheOtherHorsemanTheOtherHorseman Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    so one of my dwarves picked a fight with a deer and broke his spine.

    i made a hospital, stocked it up, and the dwarves put him in bed.

    now, whenever they try to do surgery on him, they take him out of the bed and immediately give SURGERY CANCELLED: PATIENT NOT RESTING and leave him on the floor.

    halp? :(

    Try putting the table for surgery directly adjacent to the bed.

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  • BlueDestinyBlueDestiny Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I'm imagining the doctor shouting "START RELAXING DAMMIT" at the wounded dwarf and then dumping him on the floor in disgust.

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  • hailthefishhailthefish Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Has your FPS dropped considerably since he was injured?

    I had a dorf get injured by a creature that ended up getting trapped, and what would happen is every time they'd go to start the medical treatment, he'd start trying to path to the caged creature so my FPS hit the floor and they couldn't do anything with the dorf.

    Eventually I just used runesmith to kill off the dumb dorf.

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Has your FPS dropped considerably since he was injured?

    yes!

    i see, that's kind of a lame thing

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  • gilraingilrain Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hey, so what's the status on current bugs? I was under the impression one more cleaning-up release would be necessary before we were back at 40d-level stability... has that happened, with the latest release? It's playable without major bugs?

    I was going to wait until the very next release to start playing the new version, but it doesn't seems forthcoming. :P

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  • hailthefishhailthefish Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The next release will fix the last remaining real big issue that I know of, the problems with diplomats dying and never being replaced and the criteria for elevation to a barony being wrong.

    It will also add a bunch of new features.

    .12 is fairly stable, though.

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  • gilraingilrain Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Nice nice, thanks.

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    .12 is the first release where the military actually functions.

    It still has some quirks.. but your dudes will properly kill mans, which is really all it needs to do.

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  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Um, I am super confused as the why my dwarves just aren't working. I've changed their labor preferences, I have tons of dwarves capable of doing woodworking/carpentry, and none of them will do it...?

    Not to mention, no dorf will haul the chopped wood to my stockpile? bug?

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Are the shops forbidden for some reason?

    If you do a mass forbid of stuff and clip a workshop, it'll keep dwarfs from working at it. You won't even get a job cancellation about it.

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  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    nothing was forbid, I checked that too... Everyone is permitted to use them as well.

    They also won't construct new workshops or anything like that?

    EDIT: I'm so stupid.

    No one could get in or out because I built stairs going up on top of the stairs I CARVED going down... so they conflicted eachother.

    Also, how do I get a magma pipe on ever area... The settings do different thinks since I last played.

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  • TIFunkaliciousTIFunkalicious Kicking back in NebraskaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Im a big fan of adventurer mode when i don't have the time nor will to commit to fortress mode, but I hope it evolves more.

    As for now, El Fantismo the stealthy luchador is content with sneaking into caves and performing various wrestling moves until the thing is too embarassed to carry on (or i strangle it)

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  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I had thought, upon tunneling into Hell, that my dwarves would have survived by building a floodgate to protect them... unfortunately, the floodgate was able to be destroyed, and so, my dwarves were assaulted and killed in droves... and my alcohol stores were demolished.

    Wish i could have caved in the fortress..

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  • hailthefishhailthefish Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The only things the demons can't destroy are natural rock walls and stuff built with b-C. As far as I'm aware, though, they still can't destroy things that are above them.

    But HFS murders your FPS anyway, as they'll continue trying to path to your dwarves even with no available path.

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    It's because demons are tagged for flying.. it does something with their pathing that they keep trying to get to your dwarfs.

    Goblins, for example, will quietly idle if there's no path and not cause FPS hits. Demons will fuck your computer over and laugh while it happens.

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  • WishpigWishpig Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Can you butcher pets? You can't toggle the butcher item if their adopted right?

    If thats the case, do cats not adopt anymore? Cause I've been able to butcher any of them and they don't appear to have owners.

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  • hailthefishhailthefish Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    You can't butcher adopted pets and cats still autoadopt, but it's not instant. So if you work quick or your cats are caged, it's not a problem.

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