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Cats keep killing all the cave spiders. Pet-passable doesn't seem to have made it to the Steam version. Any way of having both cats and cave spiders?
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Dec 29, 2022 09:14
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A few years back, a dialogue popped up asking if I wanted my fort to be recognised as a city within my progenitor civilisation, on the condition that any posh dwarves moving in would be treated like royalty, and I said no. Since then, I haven't had a single trade caravan stop by. Is there any way to reverse that decision or get some trading going? Cos I don't want to have to figure out making instruments and clothes for myself, tbh. Also, there hasn't been a single pregnancy in this fort since its creation, like 20 years ago. It isn't a problem but it does seem unlikely. The animals are having lots of babies but not the citizens. They all have dormitories or bedrooms. Have I somehow created a colony exclusively for gay / menopausal dwarves?
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Dec 29, 2022 10:03
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PublicOpinion posted:No code tweaking necessary, when you generate a world you can set the number of werebeast types including setting it to 0 to remove them entirely. It's even simpler than this and doesn't require world regeneration. Find the difficulty settings, go custom, and find the setting for werebeast attacks
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Dec 29, 2022 10:09
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skooma512 posted:Cats keep killing all the cave spiders. Pet-passable doesn't seem to have made it to the Steam version. Any way of having both cats and cave spiders? Animal pens. Pro-tip: Keep your cats in your food stockpiles, they'll deal with vermin
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Dec 29, 2022 10:09
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Nitevision posted:It's even simpler than this and doesn't require world regeneration. Find the difficulty settings, go custom, and find the setting for werebeast attacks I think this doesn't prevent a tavern visitor from turning, only werebeast that enter the map in attack mode.
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Dec 29, 2022 10:10
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a7m2 posted:I think this doesn't prevent a tavern visitor from turning, only werebeast that enter the map in attack mode. Interesting. I generated two worlds without werebeast types and still got werebeast attacks until I flipped the difficulty setting, so maybe each of these things is orthogonal to the other
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Dec 29, 2022 10:12
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If you set the Number of Werebeast Curse Types to 0, the world has no werebeasts. At least that's how it's worked for me  I tried to build an open-air quarry fort!  Someone was unhappy about in in summer of year 2.  I don't even have doors built yet lmao. Hopefully it tires itself out punching the Great Warhogs' heads into gore and leaves. e: Oh my god a great warthog gored its eye out with a tusk and blinded it, then it killed the great warthog and summoned a Demon Dog from its corpse. But because it was blind it started attacking the Demon Dog and traumatized itself by killing its pet. Then it sat down to take a nap. e2: It has now been standing at the corpse of its dead Demon Dog for two full seasons. Because it feels no emotions, it is not bothered by being unoccupied. e3: Migrants showed up and stumbled across it on their way to the fort. it instantly transformed one into a lich and the two of them killed everyone. RIP. 
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Dec 29, 2022 10:16
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Dr. Clockwork posted:Well it took like three in-game years, but I achieved part of my goal for this fort. Insanely cool
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Dec 29, 2022 10:19
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Thanks for the werebeast tips: that'll hugely improve things for me.
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Dec 29, 2022 10:30
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Nuebot posted:How do I make my dwarves gather honey? I have many hives, but no one seems to gather from them. You need to have the hives set to be harvested from, and you need a jug to put the royal jelly in. (you also need a jug when you press the collected honeycomb at a screw press to put the honey in). Cage traps should work fine on flying creatures, but if you justs tick them outside they'll probably just fly over them. They'll work better in a 1 z level tunnel.
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Dec 29, 2022 11:37
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If you don't want to turn werebeasts off then the way of dealing with them is to check the combat logs and note down anyone who was bitten (not scratched or anything else) and had the skin broken through (bruises and dents don't count either). I personally just exile them but they tend to come back to bother you later, so a lot of people will just wall those guys into a room or magma them more permanently.
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Dec 29, 2022 11:40
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I walled off the caverns aside from a small bit I use for a farm a long while ago. Since then it has become home to a roving pack of rodentpeople. The rodentpeople have dispatched every single forgotten beast that has showed up with no loss of rodent life for like 5 years. Their civ shows as 'peace' with mine but is that just for lack of getting to my fort or what? I am tempted to just keep the 'forgotten beast killsquad' out there being bored, whining about the miasma and murdering snot monsters forevermore.
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Dec 29, 2022 12:31
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Nuebot posted:The elves don't like me much on account of deforestation. Speaking of taming things though; all of the tame like cows and stuff crawl into my caves and starve, everything else is fine; I don't know what to do about that besides kill them and eat them. You make a pasture and constantly check your livestock tab to make sure all the grazers are in it. Every time you get migrants is generally good enough, but sometimes babies of pastured things don't get the memo. Above ground with grass or below ground with cave fungus both work
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Dec 29, 2022 12:35
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Danaru posted:Is there no stockpile that accepts thread made from hair? I've been spinning them for hospital use but even my all everything stockpile won't get them hauled I don’t have the game in front of me now, but IIRC the spun animal thread is under Cloth -> Thread: Yarn. The unspun hair is a type of refuse, though.
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Dec 29, 2022 12:57
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In a first for all my years playing Dwarf Fortress, I finally managed to build a working magma pump stack, pulling the spicy orange stuff up 32 z-levels to my main fort area. Now what to do with it? I figured once my magma workshops get moved back up to a more manageable level I should do some landscaping. Specifically a magma moat around my noble's quarters, which both feels very dwarfy and (I hope) serve as a reminder for where they could end up if they start throwing a tantrum. With the moat dug out, and my magma pumps going full tilt I proceed to dig out a piece of wall with the intent to channel the inlet into this moat. I forgot that the pumped magma pool was on my main fort's z-level, not one below. Rookie mistake!  In an absolute panic I managed to wall off the corridor to the east, seconds before the magma reached the general populace. That staircase next to the pump near the middle goes all the way down and some poor bastard got melted before he knew what hit him.  In an effort to avert further disaster, I dug an emergency cistern to the west and just managed to get it done in time to prevent further overflow. Rockscurl will persevere!  Crisis averted, but holy poo poo that was tense! At least my forgotten beast trap worked in all the chaos. 
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chglcu posted:I don’t have the game in front of me now, but IIRC the spun animal thread is under Cloth -> Thread: Yarn. The unspun hair is a type of refuse, though. Thread spun from animal hair does not fit in any stockpile, and can not be used for making cloth. There are only a few animals that have wool, which makes yarn, which does fit in stockpiles and can be used to make cloth, but butchering most other hairy animals still leaves a pile of animal hair that will be spun into thread. Your best bet for getting rid of it, apart from use in hospitals or dumping, is to sell it to traders. nielsm fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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Dec 29, 2022 13:06
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nielsm posted:Thread spun from animal hair does not fit in any stockpile, and can not be used for making cloth. There are only a few animals that have wool, which makes yarn, which does fit in stockpiles and can be used to make cloth, but butchering most other hairy animals still leaves a pile of animal hair that will be spun into thread. Ah, fun. I probably need to check what’s been happening to all the stuff I’ve been spinning in my fort then. My hospital has been extremely busy the last few years, so it could just all have been going there I suppose.
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Dec 29, 2022 13:12
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There's some bug reports for it here: https://dwarffortress.mantishub.io/view.php?id=11482 (can't stockpile) https://dwarffortress.mantishub.io/view.php?id=4132 (can't be weaved to cloth) nielsm fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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Dec 29, 2022 13:12
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I found one of those wrestling and footrace demons too. Dude named "Thireg", at the start of times, he came up from underground, formed "The Cooperative dungeon" and basically Sauroned around the place for a bit out of his fortress "Spideryburned", but then around year 30 stumbled onto cool wrestling poo poo in Furnaceland, a Dwarf fortress, and spent out the rest of his days hanging out there watching Wrestling and Foot races until eventually he got ganked back at Spideryburned by some giant "Roc" eagle thing,.
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Dec 29, 2022 13:42
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I got a map with a volcano and river on it, what sort of dumb poo poo happens when you pour water into lava that I can exploit?
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Dec 29, 2022 14:12
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Porkness posted:I understand there is no ocean travel at all in this game. Jarvisi posted:I got a map with a volcano and river on it, what sort of dumb poo poo happens when you pour water into lava that I can exploit? Shitload of steam, that scalds and boils anyone alive.
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Dec 29, 2022 14:17
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Jarvisi posted:I got a map with a volcano and river on it, what sort of dumb poo poo happens when you pour water into lava that I can exploit? You can also perform obsidian casting, by filling a layer inside a scaffold with magma and pour water over to change to obsidian, and create structures that way. As far as I know you can also make a boiling foot bath by filling a pool with 3/7 water, then run magma on the layer right underneath. The water will be considered passable terrain, but it will be hot enough to boil anyone who actually walks through it.
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Dec 29, 2022 14:22
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Warbird posted:I’ve noticed that our favorited pointy eared tree fuccbois now take issue with being offered animal parts. Is that a new thing or is my memory failing me? iirc this was a thing waaay back in the 2D version. I believe it was removed when z-levels were added, and only recently re-introduced, but elven culture has always been particular about the treatment of animals. Could be wrong though, it's been years.
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Dec 29, 2022 15:00
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Are there any succession plays going on rn? (Steam version or not )
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Dec 29, 2022 15:19
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nielsm posted:Thread spun from animal hair does not fit in any stockpile, and can not be used for making cloth. There are only a few animals that have wool, which makes yarn, which does fit in stockpiles and can be used to make cloth, but butchering most other hairy animals still leaves a pile of animal hair that will be spun into thread. Back in the day I made a mod where all animal hair could be turned into felt, which you could make into bowlers and fezes and such. The steam version has made modding just different enough that I don't feel like figuring it out again.
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Man, I really wish we could use the "Wear armor over civilian clothing" option, and still have the militia use boots. Setting that to "Replace civilian clothing" seems to be the #1 reason for all the weird behaviour with militia just dropping stuff all over the place, but without it they won't wear boots which is the main reason for having to retire good military dwarves due to cut motor nerves in the legs.
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nielsm posted:You can also perform obsidian casting, by filling a layer inside a scaffold with magma and pour water over to change to obsidian, and create structures that way. One cool thing you can do if it's freezing outside is use magma to make an instant ice maze. First build a big water tower to have a pressurized water supply that opens to where you want to make the maze. Then carve out a maze one z level beneath the area you want the ice maze and fill it with magma. The ground directly above the magma will be hot, but the areas next to it will still be freezing. So when you let the water out it will rush out and almost instantly fill the tiles above the magma and create ice walls over all the adjacent areas. Anyone caught in it will either be frozen in an ice wall or trapped in the water filled maze. I guess it doesn't have to be a maze, you could just do a wall.
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cheetah7071 posted:Are the personalities of migrants influenced by what your fortress is famous for? I don't think people have done  on it, but I'm pretty sure it's true. It's a great reason to make a doctor guild stuffed with artifacts.Broken Cog posted:Man, I really wish we could use the "Wear armor over civilian clothing" option, and still have the militia use boots. Setting that to "Replace civilian clothing" seems to be the #1 reason for all the weird behaviour with militia just dropping stuff all over the place, but without it they won't wear boots which is the main reason for having to retire good military dwarves due to cut motor nerves in the legs. The solution is just to make sure military dwarves never take their uniform off. Change off duty/etc to armor/always.
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Tuna-Fish posted:
Also, I wish my dwarves would stop claiming inn rooms when there's still unclaimed bedrooms for fortress residents.
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My 10-year-old fortress is now crashing when I try to load anything past a specific autosave  Anyone know if this is salvageable or if I should just start over?
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Dec 29, 2022 16:19
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 There's some great sprites in this game.
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Dec 29, 2022 16:40
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Hamster Man Hammerman is an incredible descriptor.
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 This is "the lieutenant" who hangs around in my tavern, or aimlessly flies around
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Dec 29, 2022 16:56
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 Anyone know why this is impassable for wagons?
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Broken Cog posted:
The cage traps, I'm guessing
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I gotta figure out a way to slow the game down, besides being apparently way more optimized the steam version doesn't pause or anything to call your attention to major events so I didn't even realize my guards had found a loving dragon until they were walking away from its corpse doing one-liners [Alt -] and [Alt =] will change the framerate, search this thread for "announcements.txt" for a guide to fixing the notifications.
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Dec 29, 2022 17:07
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nielsm posted:The cage traps, I'm guessing Oh, wagons can't pass traps? That explains a lot, cheers! Mostly just had them there for random wildlife wandering by.
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Edit: beaten
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Broken Cog posted:Oh, wagons can't pass traps? That explains a lot, cheers! Mostly just had them there for random wildlife wandering by. The wiki suggests traps do block wagons (as well as certain other things like doors, even lever-operated ones left open), though it's good to make certain there is a clear path to the edge of the map as well that's not blocked by boulders or the like. Building a road to the edge of the map can keep a clear path that won't become obstructed by trees.
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