I have a dwarf specifically labelled "kitten murderer".
He murders kittens.
That is his only function.
[edit] He started as a peasant, but having just checked, he's now become a competant butcher. If the numbers on the dwarf fortress wiki are accurate, that means he's murdered a minimum of 60 kittens.
I hate artifacts so much. Even when they wind up being statistically awesome.
One of my redshirts just finished a native platinum harp. Encryusted with native platinum and bands of gator leather. Adorned with hanging rings and menacing spikes of native platinum. With a dwarf surrounded by dwarfs in Alder.
Price tag: 198,000 dimdums.
What the fuck am I going to buy with 198,000 dimdums?
What the fuck am I going to buy with 198,000 dimdums?
It pushes up the value of your fortress, which supposedly can increase the number of goblin invasions. I think the game measures whether you get the King or not based on your fort's worth as well.
Not that you'd want that, because the king is annoying as shit.
well.. ask for all kinds of wonderful plate mail, shields, armor, etc... and just buy it all outright...
or seize it for a couple years then give him that.
I don't know if there's any easier way, but
-setting the target dwarf to unarmed
-forbidding all other weapons of that type
-locking your dwarf in a room with your weapon stockpile
-setting them to use that type of weapon
should work
I'm at late august I think, I'll try to finish the year tonight or tomorrow and get a save up so the next person can start. Write-up a day or two after that.
I get like 120 when I first start out at a 3x3 area.
There is, as I just discovered, a catch: it seems to only work if you use Embark Now instead of setting up your expedition. Though it COULD somehow be tied to the removal of [improve_equipment] from the entities raw which I did to see if they'd stop the beer I want in the gem-encrusted bone-banded with an image of a dwarf beating another dwarf to death with a twelve-inch rubber cock that I don't. I'll have to do some more testing.
...no, that's not it. I mean, it gives SOME increase, from ~350 (mind you this is an accelerated start with 27 dorfs and craploads of stuff) to ~600 using the same location as my current fort, but it ain't the thousand I'm getting with that one wierd one. Maybe it's just a lucky draw of site design or something.
EDIT: There is SOMETHING that is having an influence on the speed of that particular world, 'cause I just launched a 27-man party to a 3x3 literily right next to the other fort, and that's goin' ~600. I'll drudge up the old Entity raw and do a few more generations to see what's going on.
I don't know if there's any easier way, but
-setting the target dwarf to unarmed
-forbidding all other weapons of that type
-locking your dwarf in a room with your weapon stockpile
-setting them to use that type of weapon
should work
What? Your crafter didn't just keep carrying the weapon?
The third year of Ironhold bloodline A has been finished!
I meant to bring this up "last year", but forgot... so I do it now...
You guys have gotta be more creative than calling your chapters "The Second Year" or "The Third Year." That is sooooo un-Dwarvenly. Your chapter titles should, in a few words, reflect the year.
Like for yours, admanb, I might call your chapter "Animal Dissection 101" or perhaps "Insanity is the norm, here..."
But good writeup! Alright, Mighty, you're up on Universe A! Good luck! :winky:
EDIT: Also, damn, that poor goat...
MORE EDIT: Also, admanb, did you intend to link to ilmmad's map???
I don't know if there's any easier way, but
-setting the target dwarf to unarmed
-forbidding all other weapons of that type
-locking your dwarf in a room with your weapon stockpile
-setting them to use that type of weapon
should work
What? Your crafter didn't just keep carrying the weapon?
They stopped doing that in the most recent release.
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The third year of Ironhold bloodline A has been finished!
I meant to bring this up "last year", but forgot... so I do it now...
You guys have gotta be more creative than calling your chapters "The Second Year" or "The Third Year." That is sooooo un-Dwarvenly. Your chapter titles should, in a few words, reflect the year.
Like for yours, admanb, I might call your chapter "Animal Dissection 101" or perhaps "Insanity is the norm, here..."
I'll work on that one!
But good writeup! Alright, Mighty, you're up on Universe A! Good luck! :winky:
EDIT: Also, damn, that poor goat...
MORE EDIT: Also, admanb, did you intend to link to ilmmad's map???
I'm a dumbass. For some reason I was thinking that was something else. However, I can't seem to upload the map. I'm guessing it's because I'm on a mac, so I had to use the obsolete Java version of the fdf-map compressor. Would you mind exporting it and uploading for me?
So I'm a compete noob. I've really enjoyed reading through everyone's posts and hearing about all the great fun you guys are having with this game. I started off by generating my world, then jumping into the adventure mode (the fortress mode sounds WAY too complicated for me)
So, I start off in adventure mode with a human wrestler. I travel along until I have my first ambush. A cheetah! I'm not close enough to do any damage with my sweet wrestling moves, but luckily I have a backpack full of stones!
The first few miss, but on my fifth throw BAM! I hit! I successfully break the cheetahs neck with my throw. I come up behind it, wrap my right arm around it's neck and choke it till it passes out.
I figure now is a good time to practice some holds, etc... but all I seem to be able to do is grab onto it's head with X limb, and then let go of him again.
I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to progress through the holds onto the exciting stuff, so I just stood back a few paces and pelted his lifeless body with stones until he bled to death.
Would someone please post an idiot proof guide (pretend you're explaining the process to a four year old) on how to wrestle? I'd really appreciate that
I know, I know, the dwarfwiki, right?! I tried! I can't make any sense of it. If I could figure out how to progress through the menus, I might be able to use that info, but...
Anyway, tanks again in advance! Also, how do I travel back into zoomed in mode from the Travel screen?
EDIT: I should add, that while I was attemting to wrestle the beast, I took the liberty of lighting a few of the trees on fire, to up the intensity. After the fight, I went to grab the corpse, which I discovered was ON FIRE!
Cause - Effect. I'm on fire now! I ran through the forest, leaving an awesome smoke trail behind me, looking for the closest water source. I find a small pool, and jump in.
The flames evaporate the water, turning it to steam! I claw at the walls of the pool, trying to pull myself out as my body rages like a grassfire. Eventually, the water dries up, and I succumb to the flames at the bottom of a dried up pond.
So I'm a compete noob. I've really enjoyed reading through everyone's posts and hearing about all the great fun you guys are having with this game. I started off by generating my world, then jumping into the adventure mode (the fortress mode sounds WAY too complicated for me)
So, I start off in adventure mode with a human wrestler. I travel along until I have my first ambush. A cheetah! I'm not close enough to do any damage with my sweet wrestling moves, but luckily I have a backpack full of stones!
The first few miss, but on my fifth throw BAM! I hit! I successfully break the cheetahs neck with my throw. I come up behind it, wrap my right arm around it's neck and choke it till it passes out.
I figure now is a good time to practice some holds, etc... but all I seem to be able to do is grab onto it's head with X limb, and then let go of him again.
I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to progress through the holds onto the exciting stuff, so I just stood back a few paces and pelted his lifeless body with stones until he bled to death.
Would someone please post an idiot proof guide (pretend you're explaining the process to a four year old) on how to wrestle? I'd really appreciate that
I know, I know, the dwarfwiki, right?! I tried! I can't make any sense of it. If I could figure out how to progress through the menus, I might be able to use that info, but...
Anyway, tanks again in advance! Also, how do I travel back into zoomed in mode from the Travel screen?
EDIT: I should add, that while I was attemting to wrestle the beast, I took the liberty of lighting a few of the trees on fire, to up the intensity. After the fight, I went to grab the corpse, which I discovered was ON FIRE!
Cause - Effect. I'm on fire now! I ran through the forest, leaving an awesome smoke trail behind me, looking for the closest water source. I find a small pool, and jump in.
The flames evaporate the water, turning it to steam! I claw at the walls of the pool, trying to pull myself out as my body rages like a grassfire. Eventually, the water dries up, and I succumb to the flames at the bottom of a dried up pond.
IT WAS AWESOME!
I've never liked trying to wrestle, but to fast travel, just hit shift T.
I knew how to quick travel, I just couldn't figure out how to get out of the quick travel menu. I figured it out though. I basically held down shift and clicked every key on my keyboard one by one until I found the right combo.
And yeah, I just got destroyed by a salt water crocodile. He tore my arm off, and ripped out my throat.
I knew how to quick travel, I just couldn't figure out how to get out of the quick travel menu. I figured it out though. I basically held down shift and clicked every key on my keyboard one by one until I found the right combo.
And yeah, I just got destroyed by a salt water crocodile. He tore my arm off, and ripped out my throat.
I'm a dumbass. For some reason I was thinking that was something else. However, I can't seem to upload the map. I'm guessing it's because I'm on a mac, so I had to use the obsolete Java version of the fdf-map compressor. Would you mind exporting it and uploading for me?
By the way, you might PM Mighty, juuuust in case.
PM already sent to Mighty, and I'll see about the map tomorrow sometime.
I'm at late august I think, I'll try to finish the year tonight or tomorrow and get a save up so the next person can start. Write-up a day or two after that.
Man this game rules! I'm totally addicted to the Adventure mode. I was in a cave, completely wrestling the crap out of some troglodytes, when I came around a corner and found myself face to face with a giant cave spider...
You know the rest.
Battles of note: I choked a troglodyte until it passed out. I threw my sword at it, slicing it's left arm. I continued the assault by beating it to death with my shield.
If karma kicked in, that would explain why that spider was down there....
I'm at late august I think, I'll try to finish the year tonight or tomorrow and get a save up so the next person can start. Write-up a day or two after that.
I myself am eager to find out:
A) If I die If Baby Rith manages to survive
I'm going to be honest with you.
this was not a good year for babies
edit: is this Rith Onshenablel we're talking about here?
I think it's the baby with no parents. It just hangs out in the meeting area. For a while it was jumping down this 1 z-level pit into some 1/7 water and going back up the stairs over and over.
Oh man I love my military. They took out a squad of sword goblins and another one of speargoblins without sustaining any casualties, hell, none of them took any wounds except for one lightly wounded (light gray) neck. Each combat lasted for a very short time, usually ending with a head flying a few tiles away.
9 Champions with steel swords and full plate, 5 Marksdwarves and 6 recruits/novice swordsdwarves.
too bad the squad of ~10 hammergoblins was close enough to the border to flee before I could catch them.
Well I'm the best mayor ever! As I've said before the dwarf I named after myself has become the mayor and a chamipon and now has a title so long I can only see "The mortal father of".
Still taking names for dwarves.
First of Granite, 1055, Journal of Xtarath.
So, the 5th year of Frozendeeps. I've only seen 4 but I hope this mighty fortess to last for many more. A bone carver who withrew from the normal goings on is now taking wood, skulls, and gems to make something. I remember the last time we had a crazy dwarf, who made a trout bone war hammer. I shall have to check up on this masterwork hammer, whoever has it will be mighty indeed. In other news my comrade Risen had been in bed for years with a mangled hand, but is only now getting better. The horses are going beserk on the hunters. I'm wary of crazy animals since the mad elf and mad mule incident of '53. I look forward to the fresh meat this year will bring.
Our chef says kittens.
Oh joy of joys our bone carver now wood crafter made wildclutches, a mini-forge. Made out of wood. That's smart.
Preferably a girl dwarf. I like the idea of Sterling the rock-smoother living on elsewhere.
I LIKE SMOOTH THINGS
Done and Done.
Xtarath's journal, 22nd of Slate, 1055
At our population of 58 some things need to be done. Sterling Wdedcrafts came up to me and said she wanted to only engrave and smooth things, as she was already a legendary miner I said yes.
Now she is smoothing the mountain side. All of it.
Some migrants also arrived, I hope pushing us over 80 dwarves as I wish to test our army in battle with the goblins.
The elves also got mad when I tried to sell them some blood spattered goods. Then they were pushed further in their anger when I said that we I just ordered all the trees to be cut down. Such is the life of a diplomat.
Can I be a warrior dwarf who also engraves on the side? Because that would be awesome! I would not so much engrave the walls, but paint them ... with the blood of the enemies I smote.
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all that kitten meat....
I have a dwarf specifically labelled "kitten murderer".
He murders kittens.
That is his only function.
[edit] He started as a peasant, but having just checked, he's now become a competant butcher. If the numbers on the dwarf fortress wiki are accurate, that means he's murdered a minimum of 60 kittens.
Didn't do anything special.. just use a normal tileset at something like 800x400 resolution or whatever.
One of my redshirts just finished a native platinum harp. Encryusted with native platinum and bands of gator leather. Adorned with hanging rings and menacing spikes of native platinum. With a dwarf surrounded by dwarfs in Alder.
Price tag: 198,000 dimdums.
What the fuck am I going to buy with 198,000 dimdums?
It pushes up the value of your fortress, which supposedly can increase the number of goblin invasions. I think the game measures whether you get the King or not based on your fort's worth as well.
Not that you'd want that, because the king is annoying as shit.
or seize it for a couple years then give him that.
Librarians harbor a terrible secret. Find it.
Masterwork thong that menaces with spikes of obsidian? Yes please.
Also admanb, hows my guy doing? Jesus, if he broke another limb I'll be pissed.
They are going to make artifacts have a special trait so eventually your thongs might shoot obsidian spikes at what it perceives as threats.
How do you control who wields them?
-setting the target dwarf to unarmed
-forbidding all other weapons of that type
-locking your dwarf in a room with your weapon stockpile
-setting them to use that type of weapon
should work
And holy crap why did I not turn weather/artifacts/economy off sooner? I've gone from ~400 FPS on a new 3x3 fort to ~1000.
I get like 120 when I first start out at a 3x3 area.
Traditionally, whoever created them would wield them.
I haven't seen an artifact weapon since the change that caused dwarves to drop their artifacts, so I don't know who will use them.
I guess the only way to force a dwarf to use a specific item is to forbid everything else, and then tell him to pick up weapons.
I'm at late august I think, I'll try to finish the year tonight or tomorrow and get a save up so the next person can start. Write-up a day or two after that.
...no, that's not it. I mean, it gives SOME increase, from ~350 (mind you this is an accelerated start with 27 dorfs and craploads of stuff) to ~600 using the same location as my current fort, but it ain't the thousand I'm getting with that one wierd one. Maybe it's just a lucky draw of site design or something.
EDIT: There is SOMETHING that is having an influence on the speed of that particular world, 'cause I just launched a 27-man party to a 3x3 literily right next to the other fort, and that's goin' ~600. I'll drudge up the old Entity raw and do a few more generations to see what's going on.
What? Your crafter didn't just keep carrying the weapon?
I meant to bring this up "last year", but forgot... so I do it now...
You guys have gotta be more creative than calling your chapters "The Second Year" or "The Third Year." That is sooooo un-Dwarvenly. Your chapter titles should, in a few words, reflect the year.
Like for yours, admanb, I might call your chapter "Animal Dissection 101" or perhaps "Insanity is the norm, here..."
But good writeup! Alright, Mighty, you're up on Universe A! Good luck! :winky:
EDIT: Also, damn, that poor goat...
MORE EDIT: Also, admanb, did you intend to link to ilmmad's map???
They stopped doing that in the most recent release.
I'll work on that one!
I'm a dumbass. For some reason I was thinking that was something else. However, I can't seem to upload the map. I'm guessing it's because I'm on a mac, so I had to use the obsolete Java version of the fdf-map compressor. Would you mind exporting it and uploading for me?
By the way, you might PM Mighty, juuuust in case.
So, I start off in adventure mode with a human wrestler. I travel along until I have my first ambush. A cheetah! I'm not close enough to do any damage with my sweet wrestling moves, but luckily I have a backpack full of stones!
The first few miss, but on my fifth throw BAM! I hit! I successfully break the cheetahs neck with my throw. I come up behind it, wrap my right arm around it's neck and choke it till it passes out.
I figure now is a good time to practice some holds, etc... but all I seem to be able to do is grab onto it's head with X limb, and then let go of him again.
I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to progress through the holds onto the exciting stuff, so I just stood back a few paces and pelted his lifeless body with stones until he bled to death.
Would someone please post an idiot proof guide (pretend you're explaining the process to a four year old) on how to wrestle? I'd really appreciate that
I know, I know, the dwarfwiki, right?! I tried! I can't make any sense of it. If I could figure out how to progress through the menus, I might be able to use that info, but...
Anyway, tanks again in advance! Also, how do I travel back into zoomed in mode from the Travel screen?
EDIT: I should add, that while I was attemting to wrestle the beast, I took the liberty of lighting a few of the trees on fire, to up the intensity. After the fight, I went to grab the corpse, which I discovered was ON FIRE!
Cause - Effect. I'm on fire now! I ran through the forest, leaving an awesome smoke trail behind me, looking for the closest water source. I find a small pool, and jump in.
The flames evaporate the water, turning it to steam! I claw at the walls of the pool, trying to pull myself out as my body rages like a grassfire. Eventually, the water dries up, and I succumb to the flames at the bottom of a dried up pond.
IT WAS AWESOME!
I've never liked trying to wrestle, but to fast travel, just hit shift T.
And yeah, I just got destroyed by a salt water crocodile. He tore my arm off, and ripped out my throat.
EDIT: I fail at reading today, nevermind heh.
Steam: Drokmir
PM already sent to Mighty, and I'll see about the map tomorrow sometime.
I myself am eager to find out:
A) If I die
You know the rest.
Battles of note: I choked a troglodyte until it passed out. I threw my sword at it, slicing it's left arm. I continued the assault by beating it to death with my shield.
If karma kicked in, that would explain why that spider was down there....
I'm going to be honest with you.
this was not a good year for babies
edit: is this Rith Onshenablel we're talking about here?
9 Champions with steel swords and full plate, 5 Marksdwarves and 6 recruits/novice swordsdwarves.
too bad the squad of ~10 hammergoblins was close enough to the border to flee before I could catch them.
Still taking names for dwarves.
First of Granite, 1055, Journal of Xtarath.
So, the 5th year of Frozendeeps. I've only seen 4 but I hope this mighty fortess to last for many more. A bone carver who withrew from the normal goings on is now taking wood, skulls, and gems to make something. I remember the last time we had a crazy dwarf, who made a trout bone war hammer. I shall have to check up on this masterwork hammer, whoever has it will be mighty indeed. In other news my comrade Risen had been in bed for years with a mangled hand, but is only now getting better. The horses are going beserk on the hunters. I'm wary of crazy animals since the mad elf and mad mule incident of '53. I look forward to the fresh meat this year will bring.
Our chef says kittens.
Oh joy of joys our bone carver now wood crafter made wildclutches, a mini-forge. Made out of wood. That's smart.
Preferably a girl dwarf. I like the idea of Sterling the rock-smoother living on elsewhere.
I LIKE SMOOTH THINGS
Done and Done.
Xtarath's journal, 22nd of Slate, 1055
At our population of 58 some things need to be done. Sterling Wdedcrafts came up to me and said she wanted to only engrave and smooth things, as she was already a legendary miner I said yes.
Now she is smoothing the mountain side. All of it.
Some migrants also arrived, I hope pushing us over 80 dwarves as I wish to test our army in battle with the goblins.
The elves also got mad when I tried to sell them some blood spattered goods. Then they were pushed further in their anger when I said that we I just ordered all the trees to be cut down. Such is the life of a diplomat.
I only hope my term as mayor can be followed by an equally epic retirement.
Can I be a warrior dwarf who also engraves on the side? Because that would be awesome! I would not so much engrave the walls, but paint them ... with the blood of the enemies I smote.