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but then  I thought maybe his sister would inherit the throne now, but there was no popup message this time, no fanfare. The king was simply replaced by my chief medical dwarf. He isn't related to anybody noteworthy. He certainly isn't a member of the royal bloodline. I guess he's just king now. That's just how that works. Maybe succession only works correctly when the king dies in the world, rather than when he dies in his workshop screaming about wool cloth.
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Jul 22, 2014 15:36
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Dungeon Ecology posted:Damnit -- I embarked on a gorgeous tile, and dug my fortress entrance into the side of a bluff directly in front of a cascading waterfall. And then in year 1 was seiged by a single zombie (?) that killed everyone I'm having a lovely mental image of one dwarf running into the hovelcave screaming "SIEGE!!!!" The others wait inside while he peers outside to see the one zombie charging Python-Lancelot-style.
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Jul 22, 2014 15:51
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Thingyman posted:If you're on Windows 8, "windows key + prtsc" will save the capture to a Screenshots folder in My Pictures. For windows 7 (and vista, and probably 8 too if you want to crop something) you can use snipping tool. Bind it to a hotkey and go hog wild. Or press win then type snipp then press enter. After about a second your screen should grey out select the area you want and then press save. Its a ton faster then MS paint, and you can crop out part of a window if you just need a dialog box or something. It does have a max size in windows 7 that is pretty easy to hit if you are trying to go across multiple monitors though.
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Jul 22, 2014 16:09
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Mu. posted:I guess he's just king now. That's just how that works. I don't think dwarven succession checks anything but eldest living child. There's no notion of dynastic continuity--if you check the history files any given monarchy is a long chain of "new lines" occasionally broken by someone who actually managed to get married and pop out a kid who didn't die. In all other circumstances kings are apparently chosen via spin the bottle.
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Jul 22, 2014 16:15
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pixaal posted:For windows 7 (and vista, and probably 8 too if you want to crop something) you can use snipping tool. Bind it to a hotkey and go hog wild. Or press win then type snipp then press enter. After about a second your screen should grey out select the area you want and then press save. Its a ton faster then MS paint, and you can crop out part of a window if you just need a dialog box or something. It does have a max size in windows 7 that is pretty easy to hit if you are trying to go across multiple monitors though. Pffh, handling files? Just Ctrl-Alt-PrintScr to capture the contents of the window (be it fullscreen or not), then Ctrl-V in Imgur's upload window. Faster than lightning.
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Jul 22, 2014 16:22
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scamtank posted:Also, df-structures status: Not knowing anything about how this stuff works, does this mean that they have to do this process all over again for 40.04 or whatever Toady settles on for the next couple years, or will the update likely work with the latest version regardless? I want to use DFHack but I'd rather use the very buggy 40.04 instead of the GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY buggy 40.01.
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Gus Hobbleton posted:Not knowing anything about how this stuff works, does this mean that they have to do this process all over again for 40.04 or whatever Toady settles on for the next couple years, or will the update likely work with the latest version regardless? I want to use DFHack but I'd rather use the very buggy 40.04 instead of the GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY buggy 40.01. Nah once they get the memory mapped for the 2014 version it shouldn't be too difficult to keep it updated between bugfix versions. I'm pretty sure anyway.
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It'll still take some time but way less time than it's currently taking.
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Jul 22, 2014 16:56
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Yeah, jumping from one minor version number to another is just a matter of running the automatic offset checkers and stamp the new hashes on the package if nothing goes off. 2-3 days in the v.34 times.
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Cool, that's good to know, thanks.
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Having finally decapitated a night creature that had taken most of the day to defeat,my adventurer decided to get some sleep.I thought if you were up a tree you were safe from bogeymen.I was wrong. The next 1200 announcements were "The Bogeyman kicks/punches/bites you",with an occassional "You are having more trouble breathing!".I was pressing enter over and over and the red text just kept going.The sweet release of death finally came from a punch that made his upper body explode into gore.Have bogeymen been weakened?I've never seen them take this long to kill someone before.
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I hate bogeymen. I generate all my worlds without them if I remember to.
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scamtank posted:Pffh, handling files? Just Ctrl-Alt-PrintScr to capture the contents of the window (be it fullscreen or not), then Ctrl-V in Imgur's upload window. Faster than lightning. You are assuming you don't want a local copy for some reason though, or that you are trying to share the document. With snipping you can also just copy it after, again depending on if you need to crop part of the window or not. Sure most cases for Dwarf Fortress are probably for this thread, but sometimes I like to make a little document detailing my fortress so I don't forget what the gently caress I was planning if real life gets in the way and I can't play for a week.
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GreyPowerVan posted:If I was to do a Masterwork LP, what would you people who are interested in Masterwork like to see? I assume you all know how to get a fortress up and running, so would you want me to focus on the changes or...? How to set the bloody thing up, mostly. There still seems to be that entire 'if you don't know how this all works gently caress you n00b scrub you don't deserve to know' attitude over on the official forums. Even an idiots guide to changing the font/text/graphics/whatever back to the default DF one would be great. I can barely focus on the defualt masterwork one, literal. It's almost impossible for me to see.
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GreyPowerVan posted:Best way to take full-screen images from Dwarf Fortress? There's also 'export local image' during gameplay (esc menu) which gives you various options for exporting (absolutely huge) screenshots of whatever layer/s you want. If you're doing something like a timelapse, it's fairly easy to export layers like this, and then run a macro to crop them all exactly the same (and optionally add them to the animation file itself as a new layer).
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King Doom posted:How to set the bloody thing up, mostly. There still seems to be that entire 'if you don't know how this all works gently caress you n00b scrub you don't deserve to know' attitude over on the official forums. Now see, I'd be playing on either the default Masterwork tileset or the Phoebus one. What's so bad about the default tileset?
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King Doom posted:How to set the bloody thing up, mostly. There still seems to be that entire 'if you don't know how this all works gently caress you n00b scrub you don't deserve to know' attitude over on the official forums. Go into init.txt and scroll down until you see something along the lines of windowed font or fullscreen font and change the file to your desired font/tileset in the art folder. I may be completely wrong about this though, I don't normally use stuff other than what's included with graphics sets E: also zooming in past a certain point should make it switch to the default truetype Robot Randy fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Jul 22, 2014 |
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GreyPowerVan posted:Now see, I'd be playing on either the default Masterwork tileset or the Phoebus one. What's so bad about the default tileset? Using the bog standard Toady made and gives this one away free DF is fine, I can see that. The default stuff on masterwork I can't focus on properly. The letters are too thin. I'm not being dramatic, I genuinely do have problems even seeing the start menu when you use masterwork to open DF.
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King Doom posted:Using the bog standard Toady made and gives this one away free DF is fine, I can see that. The default stuff on masterwork I can't focus on properly. The letters are too thin. I'm not being dramatic, I genuinely do have problems even seeing the start menu when you use masterwork to open DF. Is it the font or the tileset? Because I think we can use say Phoebus tiles with the vanilla font.
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Dumb question: Do you have TrueType enabled? Try hitting F12 to toggle it, see if that does anything. Is there a way to bookmark locations? I know you can place notes and such, but I can't remember if there was any good easy / simple way to jump from one place to another without scrolling through a billion Z levels or menus.
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Hotkeys, man. Should be right there on the primary menubar.
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How come you never hear of famous bogeymen, or see any boogeys in fortress mode if theyre so drat common?
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GenericOverusedName posted:Dumb question: Do you have TrueType enabled? Try hitting F12 to toggle it, see if that does anything. capital 'H' you can set F keys to either follow an item, an entity, or jump to a specific place. I usually have the first few as hotkeys going to the main entrance, the various cavern levels, whatever. Then a couple on dwarfs I like so I can just jump right to them when I need to instead of looking through the units menu.
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Bitter Mushroom posted:How come you never hear of famous bogeymen, or see any boogeys in fortress mode if theyre so drat common? They cannot exist indoors, or during the day. Because days are so abstracted in fortress mode, they would pop into existence for a couple seconds then be wiped out.
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Never said I was very observant v v
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Gus Hobbleton posted:They cannot exist indoors, or during the day. Because days are so abstracted in fortress mode, they would pop into existence for a couple seconds then be wiped out.
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Zereth posted:Or near more than one person. I don't think anybody in the fortress counts as traveling alone at night. Especially since nobody could be said to travel; the fortress' area is only maybe a half square mile for most embarks. On the other hand, if a goblin snatcher were to show up only to be shredded by boogeymen on arrival, they would gain quite a following.
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Swan Curry posted:Having finally decapitated a night creature that had taken most of the day to defeat,my adventurer decided to get some sleep.I thought if you were up a tree you were safe from bogeymen.I was wrong. Did you not see my post a few pages ago detailing this very issue?  You should have, maybe your adventurer wouldn't be dead then.
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There's a forgotten beast that's sealed within the caverns and can't get at my dwarves in the shape of a huge blue bloated deer with three tails, that has some sort of noxious secretion. Unfortunately it has been doing nothing but swim in every single source of water in all of the caverns in criss-crossing X patterns. I like to think that it's purposefully fouling all the water it can find as a future  to the dwarves that it can't reach.
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The secretions kill all the bacteria. It's helping!
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What's the holdup on an OS X version of the rapist? Someone should get on that. I'm just the ideas guy.
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Bad Munki posted:What's the holdup on an OS X version of the rapist? Someone should get on that. I'm just the ideas guy. You scared me for a moment. Good job.
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Whoa! DF2014 is out??? I didn't even notice. I don't see much of interest in the changelog... it's more focused on Adventure Mode which I never really play. I was expecting that feature about the world changing around your fortress, being able to participate in diplomacy and wars and all that poo poo.
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Zomborgon posted:You scared me for a moment. Good job. Okay, that was fair, but seriously, what gives.
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Pochoclo posted:Whoa! DF2014 is out??? I didn't even notice. The world does change, actually; several people in this very thread have had kings die outside of their fort and someone in the fort succeed them.
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Pochoclo posted:Whoa! DF2014 is out??? I didn't even notice. Not only does succession happen, but you can retire forts and have them be a part of your civilization while you're playing another fort. Your dwarven liaison will also tell you about the various going-ons of the world at large. You'll also probably see dwarves from your retired forts migrate to your active one. The new morale and combat intents also have an effect on Fort Mode, but right now it means that everybody is terrified of any and all corpses and will drop everything to cower in fear and cry at the sight of a rotten yak corpse. Also fights against invaders will turn into a hilarious clusterfuck of dwarves and goblins crying and tripping over each other trying to flee as soon as someone drops dead. Trade caravans will also get scared and bug out if you leave corpses out for them to see. Toady is currently in bugfixing mode so expect these things to be fixed or tweaked in the near future.
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Elth posted:right now it means that everybody is terrified of any and all corpses and will drop everything to cower in fear and cry at the sight of a rotten yak corpse I had a merchant guard just kill a kea with a crossbow and then when the corpse fell and splattered on the ground nearby, all the merchants were horrified and immediately ran. Leaving behind all their stuff on the trading depot. 
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 I've found one of these at nearly every reclaimed fortress I've been at: a single troll, hanging above a vast chasm, clinging to the wall for dear life. Fake edit:  hahahahaha
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