A rhesus macaque has stolen a (raccoon leather leggings)!
A rhesus macaque has stolen a (cave crocodile leather low boot)!
A rhesus macaque has stolen a (Bismuth bronze crossbow)!
A rhesus macaque has stolen a (hoary marmot leather armor)!
A rhesus macaque has stolen (Steel bolts [13])!
I'm not sure how they did it, but monkeys made off with my hunter's boots, pants, and crossbow.
Those fucking monkeys. A whole mob of them approached my settlers, so I made them all military and "Harass dangerous animals". Those monkeys were very literally torn limb from limb.
Heh, my dogs caught a troop of them before they reached my stockpiles, and I drafted the nearby dwarves to finish them off. Lucky me.
So, do other people have tiles that change color, and apparently what they are, rapidly?
I'm beginning to think that they're supposed to be trees, as once again I started in an area without trees, even though it was suppose to be moderately wooded.
Alright, so extracting the new Dwarf Fortress into the same folder that held the old one and thinking no problems was arise was kind of dumb. Making a new folder fixed this.
It's hard to tell from your description, but if the tiles are just changing icon with a neat little twirl, that means more than one thing is stacked there. When more than one thing is on a single tile, the icon cycles between the items with a little twirl animation between each.
Yeah, he did add the ability for them to move diagonally in this version. I forget whether he made diagonal movement take a little longer to keep it in line with horizontal movement.
re: the cave-in question from a few pages back, I was digging out a strip-mine quarry and didn't know of any way to dig out the "floor" layer-- and I still don't. So, after digging out each layer of the quarry, the floor above would crash down.
I think channels were suggested, but I never got any of my dwarves to try it.
re: the cave-in question from a few pages back, I was digging out a strip-mine quarry and didn't know of any way to dig out the "floor" layer-- and I still don't. So, after digging out each layer of the quarry, the floor above would crash down.
I think channels were suggested, but I never got any of my dwarves to try it.
Just channel from the higher layer. As I stated earlier, channels destroy the floor of the level you're on and the ceiling/tile below. In a way, it's like digging downwards.
How exactly do I make beds if theres no trees anywhere?
Disassemble your wagon first of all, that will get you 3 logs. You can also bring logs as items in the setup part, or trade for them with caravans. Finally, you can create an underground forest by muddying a large cavern and waiting 3 years, re-muddying a few times a year.
Newbie question: How do you disassemble the wagon? I tried reclaiming it and I tried chopping it down, and neither worked.
How exactly do I make beds if theres no trees anywhere?
Disassemble your wagon first of all, that will get you 3 logs. You can also bring logs as items in the setup part, or trade for them with caravans. Finally, you can create an underground forest by muddying a large cavern and waiting 3 years, re-muddying a few times a year.
Newbie question: How do you disassemble the wagon? I tried reclaiming it and I tried chopping it down, and neither worked.
How exactly do I make beds if theres no trees anywhere?
Disassemble your wagon first of all, that will get you 3 logs. You can also bring logs as items in the setup part, or trade for them with caravans. Finally, you can create an underground forest by muddying a large cavern and waiting 3 years, re-muddying a few times a year.
Newbie question: How do you disassemble the wagon? I tried reclaiming it and I tried chopping it down, and neither worked.
Press "T" to look at the materials in the building (in this case the wagon), then press "X" to slate it for dismantlement. You might also be able to do that from the regular building interaction menu you get by pressing "Q." I forget.
So, do other people have tiles that change color, and apparently what they are, rapidly?
I'm beginning to think that they're supposed to be trees, as once again I started in an area without trees, even though it was suppose to be moderately wooded.
Alright, so extracting the new Dwarf Fortress into the same folder that held the old one and thinking no problems was arise was kind of dumb. Making a new folder fixed this.
It's hard to tell from your description, but if the tiles are just changing icon with a neat little twirl, that means more than one thing is stacked there. When more than one thing is on a single tile, the icon cycles between the items with a little twirl animation between each.
Ah, no, I know that. What was happening was the color of the object was changing rapidly, as in it looked like a rainbow, and if you hit 'k' the object's name would change rapidly as well.
So far my current fortress is going on without a hitch, sand makes farming much much easier.
Here's my fort so far, the four major floors. What you don't see is that the bottom most floor has another floor below that filled with water, and above that is the bridge. Thanks to the lever I have, I can pull it and anything that tries to cross falls two layers into a small pond.
On top of the hill that I build the entrance to my fort is a tower, it's going to be the barracks for my base, having beds and weapon/armor racks.
I love the new version, even if DF runs horribly on my computer. Stupid 5-year old processor.
ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
edited October 2007
Hrm... an elven caravan just showed up and has a saltwater crocodile in a cage.. I kind of want to buy it... Actually I am not sure how buying caged animals works, so I am just going to buy the squirrel, but anybody have any ideas here?
Also, my settlement is next to a 3-story cliff that has a brook running over it, so I am hollowing out a path for the brook to run over to the side of the mountain and over, and then I hollowed out a pit (I have not released the water yet) on the side of the mountain, about 2 or 3 stories deep, and the lowest level is huuuge, so I am going to try to keep that as an aquifer... do you guys think I should build a pump down there right now before I can't access the water without some clever digging or what?
(to get down to it, I dug into the side of the mountain, and then down a few levels, and over to the new aquifer.)
Edit: OH GOD THE MIGRANTS. I was doing fine with 7 people, but holy shit it is 22 now and.. and.. ... also what does it mean when it says my community can now support a sherrif? How does one make one?
Hrm... an elven caravan just showed up and has a saltwater crocodile in a cage.. I kind of want to buy it... Actually I am not sure how buying caged animals works, so I am just going to buy the squirrel, but anybody have any ideas here?
Also, my settlement is next to a 3-story cliff that has a brook running over it, so I am hollowing out a path for the brook to run over to the side of the mountain and over, and then I hollowed out a pit (I have not released the water yet) on the side of the mountain, about 2 or 3 stories deep, and the lowest level is huuuge, so I am going to try to keep that as an aquifer... do you guys think I should build a pump down there right now before I can't access the water without some clever digging or what?
(to get down to it, I dug into the side of the mountain, and then down a few levels, and over to the new aquifer.)
Edit: OH GOD THE MIGRANTS. I was doing fine with 7 people, but holy shit it is 22 now and.. and.. ... also what does it mean when it says my community can now support a sherrif? How does one make one?
Press N to go to the nobles screen, and I guess you assign someone the job from there if you want to.
I tested out a screw pump on a random pond. Those things are really fast, I spewed half of the pond out over the surrounding area before the operator got tired.
Okay, so I need to refine my bituminous coal into coke, but the option doesn't appear at the smelter, even though I have coal in my stockpile waiting to be used. Anyone know what's up?
Anyone notice how some things (mattresses and the copy machines in Highrise) are totally impenetrable? A steel wall, yeah that makes sense, but bullets should obliterate copy machines.
I don't know about you, but I always buy a bullet proof printer. Its a lot more expensive, but I think the advantages are apparent.
"Morion or morion quartz is a dark-brown to black opaque variety of smoky quartz resulting from the natural or artificial irradiation of aluminium-containing milk quartz."
I had to do the same thing with Microcline (Micro-wha?). Looks like Toady is now an amateur geologist.
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
edited October 2007
So should I be digging deep into my mountain in the hopes of lava or coal?
Okay, so I need to refine my bituminous coal into coke, but the option doesn't appear at the smelter, even though I have coal in my stockpile waiting to be used. Anyone know what's up?
To make your first bars of coke, you need charcoal to fuel the reaction. You make charcoal at the wood furnace using a log. After you make the coke, you can use that coke to make more coke instead of charcoal.
Okay, so I need to refine my bituminous coal into coke, but the option doesn't appear at the smelter, even though I have coal in my stockpile waiting to be used. Anyone know what's up?
To make your first bars of coke, you need charcoal to fuel the reaction. You make charcoal at the wood furnace using a log. After you make the coke, you can use that coke to make more coke instead of charcoal.
Ahhhhhh, I see.
Another question, now. I have metricshittons of mudstone. Literally, I can't do anything with my floor. How do I get rid of this crap? This stone has dropped more than anything else I've ever encountered in this game.
Anyone notice how some things (mattresses and the copy machines in Highrise) are totally impenetrable? A steel wall, yeah that makes sense, but bullets should obliterate copy machines.
I don't know about you, but I always buy a bullet proof printer. Its a lot more expensive, but I think the advantages are apparent.
Okay, so I need to refine my bituminous coal into coke, but the option doesn't appear at the smelter, even though I have coal in my stockpile waiting to be used. Anyone know what's up?
To make your first bars of coke, you need charcoal to fuel the reaction. You make charcoal at the wood furnace using a log. After you make the coke, you can use that coke to make more coke instead of charcoal.
Ahhhhhh, I see.
Another question, now. I have metricshittons of mudstone. Literally, I can't do anything with my floor. How do I get rid of this crap? This stone has dropped more than anything else I've ever encountered in this game.
The release notes said that items now flow with currents. I don't know of anyone who's tested it.
You could try it, haha.
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
edited October 2007
God no whyyyy, okay guys. My Bowyer was taken by a fey mood and then went berserk... killed dogs... kittens.. people.. how do I kill him? I have been super not military, because I had great walls.. and he killed one of my hunting dogs... any ideas on how I can take him down?
Edit: nevermind, figured military out, took him down.. casualties: 2 dogs, 3 dwarves.
MAybe im just retarded, but I cant seem to dig the z axis...I used the upward ramp for a wall and set the area about it to be mined out, and they arent doing it. I looked for a downward ramp, couldnt find one, tried using a channel or stairs, neither work. Someone please save me from my retarded self
Digging on Z-axis can be tricky-- especially digging up.
Digging downward, the most direct way would be to dig a downward staircase (j). Once that's done, page down a level and build an upward ramp (r) immediately below the staircase to join the two floors. After that, you can dig adjacent to the ramp.
Digging upward is realistic in the sense you can't dig over your head. It's easiest to just build ramps up the side of whatever you're digging into until you reach the highest level you'd want to dig into, and dig down from there as necessary. Otherwise, what you're going to have to do is use rewalling to build scaffolding-- dig ramps up, and build walls as necessary adjacent to the ramps to give your dwarves room from which to dig more upward ramps.
So, how is adventure mode compared to the old version's? I like the Fortress mode, but my computer's a little too old to handle it reliably once I get an even medium sized fortress built, but I do so like poking out goblin's spleens. :O
I am finally becoming proficient at keeping dwarves alive but I lack any flare for building an appealing fortress, things just get strewn about and it angers me because I can't keep any kind of vision of how I want it to look.
Edit: do plump helmets naturally replenish their seed supplies when harvested? Also is their any way of finding out exactly how much and of what type seeds I have?
I am finally becoming proficient at keeping dwarves alive but I lack any flare for building an appealing fortress, things just get strewn about and it angers me because I can't keep any kind of vision of how I want it to look.
Edit: do plump helmets naturally replenish their seed supplies when harvested? Also is their any way of finding out exactly how much and of what type seeds I have?
Plump helmets, and other plants, create seeds when eaten/cooked/brewed.
As for the number, Z -> stocks, scroll down some, eventually you'll come to seeds.
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My 6 wide fort enterance (Old habit) was doored this way and works fine.
Yeah, dwarves can move diagonally now and they do it while digging too for some strange reason.
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They are different now. They remove the floor, and the main part of the tile below.
Dramatised side-view, as follows
Before After
They behave more like standard roguelike characters now, it seems.
I did read in the change log that 8 directional movement was implemented for adventurer mode, perhaps its a carry-over from that.
I think channels were suggested, but I never got any of my dwarves to try it.
Just channel from the higher layer. As I stated earlier, channels destroy the floor of the level you're on and the ceiling/tile below. In a way, it's like digging downwards.
All the keys can be rebound, so you shouldn't have any troubles.
Press q, put the cursor over it, and press x
So far my current fortress is going on without a hitch, sand makes farming much much easier.
Here's my fort so far, the four major floors. What you don't see is that the bottom most floor has another floor below that filled with water, and above that is the bridge. Thanks to the lever I have, I can pull it and anything that tries to cross falls two layers into a small pond.
On top of the hill that I build the entrance to my fort is a tower, it's going to be the barracks for my base, having beds and weapon/armor racks.
I love the new version, even if DF runs horribly on my computer. Stupid 5-year old processor.
Also, my settlement is next to a 3-story cliff that has a brook running over it, so I am hollowing out a path for the brook to run over to the side of the mountain and over, and then I hollowed out a pit (I have not released the water yet) on the side of the mountain, about 2 or 3 stories deep, and the lowest level is huuuge, so I am going to try to keep that as an aquifer... do you guys think I should build a pump down there right now before I can't access the water without some clever digging or what?
(to get down to it, I dug into the side of the mountain, and then down a few levels, and over to the new aquifer.)
Edit: OH GOD THE MIGRANTS. I was doing fine with 7 people, but holy shit it is 22 now and.. and..
I tested out a screw pump on a random pond. Those things are really fast, I spewed half of the pond out over the surrounding area before the operator got tired.
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"Morion or morion quartz is a dark-brown to black opaque variety of smoky quartz resulting from the natural or artificial irradiation of aluminium-containing milk quartz."
I had to do the same thing with Microcline (Micro-wha?). Looks like Toady is now an amateur geologist.
Ahhhhhh, I see.
Another question, now. I have metricshittons of mudstone. Literally, I can't do anything with my floor. How do I get rid of this crap? This stone has dropped more than anything else I've ever encountered in this game.
XBL: LiquidSnake2061
You could try it, haha.
Edit: nevermind, figured military out, took him down.. casualties: 2 dogs, 3 dwarves.
AKA [PA]Ilovepandas
Digging downward, the most direct way would be to dig a downward staircase (j). Once that's done, page down a level and build an upward ramp (r) immediately below the staircase to join the two floors. After that, you can dig adjacent to the ramp.
Digging upward is realistic in the sense you can't dig over your head. It's easiest to just build ramps up the side of whatever you're digging into until you reach the highest level you'd want to dig into, and dig down from there as necessary. Otherwise, what you're going to have to do is use rewalling to build scaffolding-- dig ramps up, and build walls as necessary adjacent to the ramps to give your dwarves room from which to dig more upward ramps.
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Edit: do plump helmets naturally replenish their seed supplies when harvested? Also is their any way of finding out exactly how much and of what type seeds I have?
Plump helmets, and other plants, create seeds when eaten/cooked/brewed.
As for the number, Z -> stocks, scroll down some, eventually you'll come to seeds.