Dwarf Fortress v13 - Orkel looses a roaring laughter, fell and terrible!
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"In theory", animals are supposed to have that big ol' deathmatch brawl [B]only [/B]if the pasture is very small compared to the amount of animals in it.
In practice, it seems like animals are just assholes who like to kill.
Okay, why did they remove the "Dwarves don't go outdoors" order? I just lost ~30 dwarves to a goblin ambush, since I never trained a military, and raising the drawbridge trapped some outside.
Seriously, how do I forbid going outside?
[QUOTE=frznbxy;28946813]Okay, why did they remove the "Dwarves don't go outdoors" order? I just lost ~30 dwarves to a goblin ambush, since I never trained a military, and raising the drawbridge trapped some outside.
Seriously, how do I forbid going outside?[/QUOTE]
You'll have to make a burrow inside your fortress and then manage [a]lerts from the military screen. It's pretty confusing and I haven't really tested it yet..
Possessed Dyer, damnit.
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He's building something from limestone :|
[QUOTE=johnlukeg;28946809]"In theory", animals are supposed to have that big ol' deathmatch brawl [B]only [/B]if the pasture is very small compared to the amount of animals in it.
In practice, it seems like animals are just assholes who like to kill.[/QUOTE]
I've changed their pasture to an underground zone now, if those assholes still keep killing eachother I'm sending down the military.
Just killed my first forgotten beast, punched it to death with a militia of 5 wrestlers and a guy with pick
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Wow got over 400 bits of meat from that single forgotten beasty
Is there any way to smooth a tile? For example if I have a upward slope, how do I make it flat? If I channel, it will make a hole to the z-layer underneath.
d > z to remove natural ramps
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;28947633]d > z to remove natural ramps[/QUOTE]
Thanks.
Though now I feel stupid, it even says "Remove stairs/[B]ramps[/B]".
So my fortress is pretty much stable now, all I need is a decent military force (working on it) and a trap-lined entrance. I have forged ten large, serrated copper disks to serve as a hopefully decent line of weapon traps.
My walls are three blocks thick, and I'm gonna build them rather high, but traps first.
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[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/Dorf/toomuchwood.PNG[/img]
The fuck am I gonna do with this wood
over 1500 logs and uncountable numbers outside
You can never have enough barrels.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;28948257]So my fortress is pretty much stable now, all I need is a decent military force (working on it) and a trap-lined entrance. I have forged ten large, serrated copper disks to serve as a hopefully decent line of weapon traps.
My walls are three blocks thick, and I'm gonna build them rather high, but traps first.
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I have a trap with 10 serrated iron discs (well two actually, but the corridor is 2 tiles wide so), but I find that they mostly maim and wound things, then the military is required to come in and finish them off.
The iron spiked balls instead seem to be a lot better for killing, where the discs cut skin, fat, muscle and motor nerves, the balls seem to smash interior organs and bones better.
Well I'm awake, so that means more DF while I wait for a possible text message!
Also just had a fucking Goblin pikeman kill 2 of my military dwarves in 10 seconds, both times he stabbed them in the head immediately and they died. Aren't helms considered full helms?
how do i make a danger room to train a dwarf to be awesome at fighting etc`?
Aaaaand one goblin axeman killed my ten-man military, all of them at least competent swordsdwarves, wearing iron armor.
Toady should really fix the wrestling system anyway, I drafted all my 70 remaining dwarves and they attacked the axeman at once. He still managed to kill half of them for some reason, you'd think you wouldn't be able to do shit when 70 people are trying to wrestle you at once.
And my legendary marksdwarf didn't shoot a single bolt, but instead chose to pummel the attackers with his crossbow what the fuck
[QUOTE=acds;28948938]Also just had a fucking Goblin pikeman kill 2 of my military dwarves in 10 seconds, both times he stabbed them in the head immediately and they died. Aren't helms considered full helms?[/QUOTE]
Pikes and spears go through armor better than other weapons. DF helms are like the ancient Greek ones, they leave the nose/teeth/throat/eyes exposed etc. What armor did you have, and what was the pike's material?
Total losses: 52 dwarves, plenty still in hospital and most likely won't survive as my doctors died. I won't give up, though.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;28949075]Aaaaand one goblin axeman killed my ten-man military, all of them at least competent swordsdwarves, wearing iron armor.
Toady should really fix the wrestling system anyway, I drafted all my 70 remaining dwarves and they attacked the axeman at once. He still managed to kill half of them for some reason, you'd think you wouldn't be able to do shit when 70 people are trying to wrestle you at once.
And my legendary marksdwarf didn't shoot a single bolt, but instead chose to pummel the attackers with his crossbow what the fuck[/QUOTE]
Your dudes prolly lacked dodging and armor user skill, they're nearly as important as the weapon skill.
Success! Migrants, and a couple nice potential soldiers.
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Half of my legendaries died, including three legendary miners.
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[QUOTE=Orkel;28949106]Your dudes prolly lacked dodging and armor user skill, they're nearly as important as the weapon skill.[/QUOTE]
You'd think ten guys would be able to cut down one axeman.
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You'd think ten guys would be able to cut down one axeman.[/QUOTE]
Recreate it in arena mode.
[QUOTE=Orkel;28949094]Pikes and spears go through armor better than other weapons. DF helms are like the ancient Greek ones, they leave the nose/teeth/throat/eyes exposed etc. What armor did you have, and what was the pike's material?[/QUOTE]
I'm quite sure the pike was silver, while the armour was iron. Though it must have hit the face (the exposed area) because it didn't say ", through the X".
Wish I could make full helms, lost quite a few dwarfs like this.
[QUOTE=acds;28949529]I'm quite sure the pike was silver, while the armour was iron. Though it must have hit the face (the exposed area) because it didn't say ", through the X".
Wish I could make full helms, lost quite a few dwarfs like this.[/QUOTE]
Only way to get full protection is giving them masks, but the problem with that is you can't wear a mask and a helmet at the same time.
Another ambush, lost two of my idiotic military dwarfs that were off duty (which means unarmed and unarmoured, even though I fucking said "Uniformed when off duty").
Now that I think about it, what the fuck were they even doing out there? The only ones that need to go out are the fisherdwarfs.
War dog got killed by a second kobold.
Copper knife in the head.
:(
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One of my militia got mad at him for that.
Strangled the kobold then beat it to death.
Shit! A goblin thief snatched a dwarf child..
[QUOTE=acds;28949529]I'm quite sure the pike was silver, while the armour was iron. Though it must have hit the face (the exposed area) because it didn't say ", through the X".
Wish I could make full helms, lost quite a few dwarfs like this.[/QUOTE]
Silver is a heavy material, it doesn't go through iron because it's soft but it causes blunt injuries. Silver arrows, too.
So the most likely thing is that the silver's penetrating force got turned into blunt force and it crushed the skull and brain thanks to the buggy heads.
Wow, the snatchers keep coming, like, when one leaves another comes... Is this a prelude to an attack?
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FUCKING SHIT one of the snatchers just fucking shanked my fisherman in the stomach with his iron dagger!
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Now the poor guy is vomiting everywere.... And since when to goblins have iron daggers?
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The hell? My captain of the guard just fucked up my carpenter with a sword
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