Jewel posted:

Thank you a lot for this! I need more good Dorf Fort videos by people with great recording setups and alright voices. Hopefully he's funny or interesting too but I assume it'll be a good wtach regardless.

You are a nerd posted:

Wasn't there something in the last long hiatus about updating leather production? Because I just got 400+ meat chunks from a Roc that wandered into a buzzsaw trap, but only 2 units of leather.

hailthefish posted:

Nope, not even government supercomputers would work. Supercomputing clusters are operate on heavy parallelization, which Dwarf Fortress won't ever be able to make use of, not even in 2087 when Tarn Adams III releases Dwarf Fortress 1.0

OhCrap posted:

Toady breeding ...

Felime posted:

I make all fortress building decisions based on colors and color matching. Don't have enough of one color block to build the wall? NOT GETTING BUILT.

StrangeAeon posted:

Oh military, why do you continue to be the roadbump of my fortresses? I'm sick of making drawbridges and turtling up when Sieges start. Is there a way to make my militia train up faster, without needing a Danger Room?

I have this strange suspicion the answer lies in the scheduling screen. I usually set squads to train 8/9 minimum, and while they sometimes spar, more often they wait around and have endless dodging/striking demonstrations.

dragon_pamcake posted:

Got another Volcano + River embark site! This one has sand so you can have a glass industry. Pick the volcano in the lower left corner in the desert by the cave. Sadly, no iron on the map.

Created in DF v0.40.10.

StrangeAeon posted:

Oh military, why do you continue to be the roadbump of my fortresses? I'm sick of making drawbridges and turtling up when Sieges start. Is there a way to make my militia train up faster, without needing a Danger Room?

I have this strange suspicion the answer lies in the scheduling screen. I usually set squads to train 8/9 minimum, and while they sometimes spar, more often they wait around and have endless dodging/striking demonstrations.

Meat Street posted:

Am I the only one having issues getting TWBT working with the latest MacNewbie pack? I'm worried this might be Yet Another Retina Bug, but it seems like it's always using the Text tiles rather than intermingling them with the Graphical tileset I have configured. I occasionally see strangely-scaled flickering of the graphics, but nothing useful.

StrangeAeon posted:

Oh military, why do you continue to be the roadbump of my fortresses? I'm sick of making drawbridges and turtling up when Sieges start. Is there a way to make my militia train up faster, without needing a Danger Room?

I have this strange suspicion the answer lies in the scheduling screen. I usually set squads to train 8/9 minimum, and while they sometimes spar, more often they wait around and have endless dodging/striking demonstrations.

Meat Street posted:

Yeah, that's what I'm using; are you on a retina screen? I manually chose a graphics set in the launcher; maybe that's what blew out the TWBT config.

Glory of Arioch posted:

my dad posted:

Please go back to FYAD and send someone who actually knows how to troll.

iCe-CuBe. posted:

Am I wrong?

OhCrap posted:

Toady breeding ...

GulMadred posted:

Just mod it. The following is borrowed from someone in the previous Dwarf Fortress thread (and they probably borrowed it from bay12 so giving credit to the original author is ).

material_template_default.txt

pre:

[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SKIN_TEMPLATE]
	...
	[ROTS]
	[BUTCHER_SPECIAL:GLOB:NONE]
	[STOCKPILE_GLOB]
	[DO_NOT_CLEAN_GLOB]

A butchered/slaughtered animal will now drop a stack of (Cow Skin [14]) instead of a (Cow Skin). This new item is treated in the same way as a stack of fat or tallow: it can be hauled as-is without the aid of a bucket, it appears as an option for inclusion in Food stockpiles, it can be moved via minecart (presumably for quantum-stockpiling purposes), and it can be crammed into barrels if storage space is scarce.

reaction_other.txt

pre:

[REACTION:TAN_A_HIDE]
	[NAME:tan a hide]
	[BUILDING:TANNER:CUSTOM_T]
	[REAGENT:A:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][USE_BODY_COMPONENT][UNROTTEN]
	[REAGENT:A:150:GLOB:NONE:NONE:NONE][UNROTTEN]
		[HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:TAN_MAT]
		[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]  !! this is optional; see below !!
	[PRODUCT:100:1:SKIN_TANNED:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:TAN_MAT]
	[SKILL:TANNER]
	[AUTOMATIC]

The [USE_BODY_COMPONENT] tag demands that the reagent be a CORPSE or CORPSEPIECE. Our skins are now GLOBs (which makes them ineligible), so we just omit that tag from the reaction definition and then everything's fine. Tanning (which still occurs automatically) will now process your (Cow Skin [14]) into 14 individual units of (Cow Leather).

Note that this reaction occurs "all at once" by default - the entire stack is converted in a single job (like Rendering a stack of fat in a Kitchen, but unlike Spinning a stack of wool or Carving a stack of bones into figurines). If you feel that tanning ought to be a slow (or labor-intensive) operation then you can include the [DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT] tag after the reagent and then the aforementioned stack of Cow skin will require 14 consecutive jobs.

"Consecutive" is the key word - dwarves cannot split stacks, so multiple Tanneries are useful only if you're attempting to process skins from several animals simultaneously. If you manage to bring down a Forgotten Beast which yields a 200-stack of skin then you'd better hope that you have a Legendary tanner, because otherwise that thing is going to rot before you've processed a tenth of it. Or you can just use the default "all at once" reaction and bask in your unearned Leather bounty, you easymode casual-gamer. Note that dwarves earn experience points based on "number of jobs completed" rather than "number of products created" - dwarves will learn more from the consecutive version than the batch-processing version.

You can make these changes in a saved game and see what happens. The next butcher/slaughter job should yield a full stack of skin and it should be processed automatically, but the new skin options may not appear in your Food stockpiles (which would force you to site your Tanneries near the Butcher's Shop). If your saved fort has any old skins lying around, then they'll presumably be ineligible for the new Tanning reaction; you'll need to dispose of them before they stink up the place.

A new worldgen is the safest bet but isn't strictly necessary. A new worldgen would, however, allow you to plan for the adjusted resource balance in the initial months. You know that slaughtering your draft animals will yield a few dozen units of leather, which can be turned into bags, so perhaps you can cutback on embark gimmicks (e.g. "I'll bring one unit of each type of sand so that I can get free bags") and instead give one of your starting dwarves a few ranks in Leatherworking.

Note: this mod doesn't use the new reaction features, so it can be applied to both .34.11 and .40.xx.

Crimson Harvest posted:

I really want to make this work out for me, but what happens is the tanner grabs the stack of skin AND a skull, takes them to the tannery and works on them for a while, finishes, but neither reagent is consumed and produces nothing.

I re-did the raw edits and now the butchered animal produces a stack of skin as expected, but nobody's interested in doing anything with it beyond putting it in the food stockpile.

Turtlicious posted:

I know MacNewbie has TWBT installed but does LNP?