Nessus posted:

Can a dwarf use the Destructo Disk to substitute for an axe?

Nettle Soup posted:

Pretty much. I've got to the point where I run a destress or whatever it is in dfhack every now and again. Even Toady has admitted it's broken, so I don't feel too bad about it.

Sankis posted:

Woops. I had the wrong thread opened!!

Captain Invictus posted:

The Perfect Cell blasts Android Sixteen, smashing the body, tearing the flesh, and severing the head! The severed part sails off in an arc!

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Captain Invictus posted:

The Perfect Cell blasts Android Sixteen, smashing the body, tearing the flesh, and severing the head! The severed part sails off in an arc!

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I've tried looking up methods of poisoning weapons but they usually involved forgotten beasts or fortress mode. This method was discovered when I found a pool of venom randomly while stabbing things with poisoned darts. I then messed around with those pools which led to this.


This requires 3 things. You need a water source, a weapon with venom already on it (usually from subterranean animal people), and an animal or companion.


Take the venomous weapon, in my case it was a tower-cap blow dart with a helmet snake venom covering, and put it in your hand. Enter the water with it, and you will see a pool of venom form in the water tile. Normally, you can fill containers with an infinite amount of venom from a pool, but since it's in water it becomes laced with water, which is useless. In order to move it onto a land tile and purify it, you must move back and forth between the land and water tile until a pool of venom forms on the land tile because of the spatter spreading mechanic. This method of dwarven distillation concentrates the dilute venom in the water into a potent pool on land where you can either grab it with your hands or fill a water skin.


There are three methods of using this against your enemies. You may rub it on your teeth for biting, on your hands for scratching, or put it on a weapon. To get it on your teeth and hands, you must strip naked (or the venom will only covers your clothes) and throw venom on a wall until a line of venom pools are created. Then you crouch (doesn't work with standing) with (s) and crawl across from pool to pool multiple times until the spattering and smears turn into coverings. A single pool will not work, you must crawl from one pool to another only, multiple times. I tested this with four pools. By pressing (e) you can see your body parts are now covered with venom, including the teeth and fingers. Biting something will transfer the venom into the enemy, you can see this by pressing (l) on the enemy and seeing if it transferred onto the body part you bit. The same applies to scratching. I tested this on a cave crocodile and the bitten and scratched body parts swelled up with blood, so I assume it worked. To poison a weapon, you throw the venom at your companion or animal and smack him bluntly (edge might cause blood spattering instead) on the part it landed on with your weapon. I tested this by throwing helmet snake venom at my gorlak companion and hitting him with the pommel of my large copper dagger until a covering of venom formed on the weapon. This might require multiple fresh venom coverings since I'm not sure if a full covering can form from hitting a spattering or smear multiple times. I then slashed the same cave crocodile, ran away, and waited until the part swelled up from the venom. If the weapon embeds, it ruins the venom covering instantly since it replaces it with a blood covering. However it's usually good for a few slashes, and not every attack is guaranteed to apply the venom.

Have FUN.

P.S I also found out if your hands are full you actually CAN (g)rab venom directly from the water since it sends it to the backpack. If you try grabbing it with empty hands it doesn't appear in your hands for some reason. And if you try putting (i)t in a water skin it becomes laced water. So in case the back and forth method doesn't work (which it doesn't sometimes) try this instead.

Teriyaki Koinku posted:

So, for some dwarves, life in a fortress is just a morbid shitshow of endless trauma that will inevitably drive them insane? Is that it?

Why even live (as a dwarf)?

So Math posted:

Is anyone able to take over the current LP? We lost an overseer right after my turn ended, so you'd get the next year to yourself.

Ambaire posted:

Just saw this post on reddit about how to extract venom from weapons and apply them to your own weapons and even your teeth and fingers... anyone else know about this?

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Dwarves will sometimes get a bad thought from being away from family because they emigrated to your fortress alone, or because they've been too busy working, which makes sense even if it's kind of obnoxious.

But dwarves will also get a bad thought from being away from family because they've spent all their recreational time praying instead of socializing, or even because they coincidentally happened to be next to someone else in the tavern and fraternized with them instead.

If this goes on long enough it will eventually go from affecting focus (a meter that affects crafting and causes a few other job-related issues, but usually won't debilitate the dwarf by itself) to affecting stress (the meter that eventually causes melancholy, berserking, etc.)

This single factor doesn't affect stress very much by itself. But now combine that with food preferences, drink preferences, work satisfaction, worship, acquisition of new belongings...

e: Basically you can't actually make a dwarf be happy about everything, it ranges from impractical (requiring you to micro-manage their relationships, grow every single crop imaginable, etc.) to literally impossible. The best you can do is filter for dwarves who like the things you can provide so much that they eventually just achieve a state of semi-permanent bliss.

(This used to be a fair description of all dwarves, so all the change has really done is made is so you have to deal with entire waves of useless burnouts before things finally stabilize, if you're one of the apparently somewhat rare people who play fortresses for that long.)

Nessus posted:

Do the dwarflets that your dwarves beget eventually develop a preference for things they have laying around, or do they always develop completely random longings for things they've never heard of, and which indeed may not exist?

Sankis posted:

I'll do it but if agreed, know that I'll go in completely blind and under no circumstance will I read the rest of the lp thread before my turn is finished.

Edit: I'd just need to know any gimmicks, how people have been doing their turn write ups (i. e. is it in character? ) and whether I need to use a graphical tileset

Sankis posted:

I'll do it but if agreed, know that I'll go in completely blind and under no circumstance will I read the rest of the lp thread before my turn is finished.

Edit: I'd just need to know any gimmicks, how people have been doing their turn write ups (i. e. is it in character? ) and whether I need to use a graphical tileset

So Math posted:

That's fine. I ended my turn setting up the next player who vanished, so it's probably best to ignore that part anyway. But maybe don't ignore the active lava flow dribbling down the mountain from my last update?

All the tiles/mods are bundled in the giant zip we've been passing around on dropbox. I'll PM a link.

Captain Invictus posted:

Bastion of Beasts and the followup Largegate, assuming you've not watched Monsterkiller yet.

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At some point early on, perhaps before traitors, we'll also have to bring the fort in line with the new relationship model. This will expand what grudges and friendships mean, and it will also allow the new w.g. features like divorce and multiple lovers to happen in fort mode.

Shibawanko posted:

I want more marital drama in this game, including divorce proceedings. I want every dwarven marriage to basically be the Honeymooners with magma.

I also want interspecies marriage so that someone can, in theory, marry a Minotaur or something.

In general I want more possibilities for legal problems that would let me make use of my jail. Also a courtroom please.

GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:

does anyone really want to spend the majority of their time in a fortress churning out pants, shirts and shoes for 200+ dwarfs?