Dwarf Fortress V10 - DF2010 Release Edition - OH GOD THE SCREAMS

[Canuhearme?]

[QUOTE=Parakon;21151690]you'd think he'd notice something like that.[/QUOTE]

You'd also think he'd notice something like acid rain.

[Parakon]

It would be nice if sea water didn't melt your face off too.

[Steven Seagul]

why does my mason make walls then pretends to be one?

[Soren1]

no tileset pisses me off because it isn't aligned right. srsly, someone explain how 2 make it aligned.

[editline]12:24AM[/editline]

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;21150571]Best tileset is still no tileset. What you're doing is like being handed a long lost Greek Epic - in original Greek - and dribbling at it until somebody translates it into Pigin English for you. And misses out all the vowels. Greek up and take it as it comes.

The only issue I've had is with combat, it seems to take forever after a creature has collapsed in agony to finish them off. I spent 2 minutes stabbing an unconcious yeti in the face with a pike before I finally squashed its brain. Nothing like the salt water, in fact I even managed to (Attempt to) swim across an entire ocean (Which was SUPPOSED to be frozen) to reach the uninhabited barren icy wastes of the practical continent I had built a fortress on. The fortress was too painful because the cliff I built it into was more of a glacier with no rock to be found and collapsing ice stairways. The map was pretty nice actually, it was a flat icy plain which was an ocean frozen solid with a glacier to one side and a frozen seabed many, many Z levels down.[/QUOTE]
hey lets try to compele people who don't fucking care to use a tileset.

[Destragon]

Trading wagons can move through doors right?

[Parakon]

[QUOTE=TheServer;21151911]why does my mason make walls then pretends to be one?[/QUOTE]

he probably accepted a wall deity and is practicing worshiping him with his wall brothers.

[No_0ne]

I fucked up while modding and made my dwarves immaterial.

[Newbienice99]

[QUOTE=Death Dragon;21152141]Trading wagons can move through doors right?[/QUOTE]

Maybe, but you can't build a 3 door thing, so it doesn't matter.

[Themage]

TS seems to be fucking up

[Destragon]

[QUOTE=Newbienice99;21152400]... you can't build a 3 door thing ...[/QUOTE]
I actually have a 4 door entrance at the moment.
You just need to build walls and remove them after the doors are built.

[boomersocks]

Spend ages on making this, anyone got any idea what I should use this(/these) room(s) for? (ramps will be walls)

[url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/barasdrk.png[/url]

[Parakon]

I guess i'll stick to adventure mode until some major bugs get fixed, even though 99.99% of the megabeasts needed to be killed are those invincible bronze bastards.

[editline]12:48AM[/editline]

[QUOTE=Boomersocks;21152529]Spend ages on making this, anyone got any idea what I should use this(/these) room(s) for? (ramps will be walls)

[URL]http://filesmelt.com/dl/barasdrk.png[/URL][/QUOTE]

maybe turn the middle part into a dropping pit, where you drop prisoners, and the star part should be full of traps, my 2 cents.

[Newbienice99]

[QUOTE=Death Dragon;21152496]I actually have a 4 door entrance at the moment.
You just need to build walls and remove them after the doors are built.[/QUOTE]

I would have thought that that would be fixed. Oh well.

[FunnyGamer]

[QUOTE=Silly Sil;21147501]Deleted mayday.bmp and changed maydayMIX.bmp to mayday.bmp?
Are you sure you didn't change maydayMAX.bmp?[/QUOTE]

I followed directions exactly.

Set dimensions are 1280x800, grid at 80:50, deleted mayday and rewrote maydayMIX.

No dice.

However I did also change WINDOWED to YES from PROMPT, and SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS to YES.

[Parakon]

MOTHERFUCK WHY IS EVERY GOD DAMN QUEST FOR A FUCKING BRONZE COLOSSuS

[Canuhearme?]

[QUOTE=Parakon;21153065]MOTHERFUCK WHY IS EVERY GOD DAMN QUEST FOR A FUCKING BRONZE COLOSSuS[/QUOTE]

The only thing that can beat a Bronze Colossus is a Dragon.

Guess how many Bronze Colossus vs. Dragon (with the Dragon winning) battles there were in your world's history.

[Parakon]

evidently not too many.

[editline]01:29AM[/editline]

is it possible to delete creatures?

[Canuhearme?]

[QUOTE=Parakon;21153205]evidently not too many.

[editline]01:29AM[/editline]

is it possible to delete creatures?[/QUOTE]

You could always remove it entirely from the creature files.

Yes, I know you're talking about the Bronze Colossus.

[gen0]

For some reason my dumbass dwarves are cleaning mud off of farm plots.

[Parakon]

nevermind found it

[Canuhearme?]

[QUOTE=gen0;21153352]For some reason my dumbass dwarves are cleaning mud off of farm plots.[/QUOTE]

Is it on a soil layer?

[editline]09:36PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=Parakon;21153370]any idea which text file it's in?[/QUOTE]

Creature_Standard.

[Parakon]

[CREATURE:COLOSSUS_BRONZE]
    [DESCRIPTION:A gigantic magic statue made of bronze and bent on mayhem.]
    [NAME:bronze colossus:bronze colossuses:bronze colossus]
    [CASTE_NAME:bronze colossus:bronze colossuses:bronze colossus]
    [CREATURE_TILE:'C'][COLOR:6:0:0]
    [MEGABEAST]
        [ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:10000:100000]
    [FANCIFUL]
    [POPULATION_NUMBER:15:30]
    [NOPAIN][EXTRAVISION][NOBREATHE][NOSTUN][NONAUSEA][NOEMOTION]
        [NOTHOUGHT][NOEXERT]
    [NO_DIZZINESS]
    [NO_FEVERS]
    [BUILDINGDESTROYER:2]
    [LARGE_PREDATOR]
    [NO_DRINK][NO_EAT][NO_SLEEP]
    [SPHERE:METALS]
    [SPHERE:STRENGTH]
    [SPHERE:WAR]
    [CANNOT_UNDEAD]
    [CANOPENDOORS]
    [NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
    [BIOME:ANY_LAND]
    [EQUIPS]
    [NOFEAR]
    [PREFSTRING:height]
    [NOBONES]
    [BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:HUMANOID_JOINTS:5FINGERS:5TOES]
    [NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT]
    [TISSUE:BRONZE]
        [TISSUE_NAME:bronze:bronze]
        [TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:BRONZE]
        [MUSCULAR]
        [FUNCTIONAL]
        [STRUCTURAL]
        [RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
        [CONNECTS]
        [TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
    [TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:BRONZE]
    [BODY_SIZE:0:0:20000000]
    [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
    [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
    [ATTACK:PUNCH:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:GRASP]
        [ATTACK_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE]
        [ATTACK_VERB:punch:punches]
        [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
        [ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
        [ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
    [ATTACK:KICK:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:STANCE]
        [ATTACK_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE]
        [ATTACK_VERB:kick:kicks]
        [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
        [ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
        [ATTACK_PRIORITY:SECOND]
    [ITEMCORPSE:STATUE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:BRONZE]
    [ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY:5]
    [DIURNAL]
    [SWIMS_LEARNED][SWIM_SPEED:2500]

any idea if anything here can make it not invincible?

[gen0]

No, it is not on a soil layer, I flooded an area of rock.

[kylel999]

[QUOTE=Parakon;21153433]

[CREATURE:COLOSSUS_BRONZE]
    [DESCRIPTION:A gigantic magic statue made of bronze and bent on mayhem.]
    [NAME:bronze colossus:bronze colossuses:bronze colossus]
    [CASTE_NAME:bronze colossus:bronze colossuses:bronze colossus]
    [CREATURE_TILE:'C'][COLOR:6:0:0]
    [MEGABEAST]
        [ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:10000:100000]
    [FANCIFUL]
    [POPULATION_NUMBER:15:30]
    [NOPAIN][EXTRAVISION][NOBREATHE][NOSTUN][NONAUSEA][NOEMOTION]
        [NOTHOUGHT][NOEXERT]
    [NO_DIZZINESS]
    [NO_FEVERS]
    [BUILDINGDESTROYER:2]
    [LARGE_PREDATOR]
    [NO_DRINK][NO_EAT][NO_SLEEP]
    [SPHERE:METALS]
    [SPHERE:STRENGTH]
    [SPHERE:WAR]
    [CANNOT_UNDEAD]
    [CANOPENDOORS]
    [NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
    [BIOME:ANY_LAND]
    [EQUIPS]
    [NOFEAR]
    [PREFSTRING:height]
    [NOBONES]
    [BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:HUMANOID_JOINTS:5FINGERS:5TOES]
    [NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT]
    [TISSUE:BRONZE]
        [TISSUE_NAME:bronze:bronze]
        [TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:BRONZE]
        [MUSCULAR]
        [FUNCTIONAL]
        [STRUCTURAL]
        [RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
        [CONNECTS]
        [TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
    [TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:BRONZE]
    [BODY_SIZE:0:0:20000000]
    [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
    [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
    [ATTACK:PUNCH:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:GRASP]
        [ATTACK_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE]
        [ATTACK_VERB:punch:punches]
        [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
        [ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
        [ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
    [ATTACK:KICK:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:STANCE]
        [ATTACK_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE]
        [ATTACK_VERB:kick:kicks]
        [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
        [ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
        [ATTACK_PRIORITY:SECOND]
    [ITEMCORPSE:STATUE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:BRONZE]
    [ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY:5]
    [DIURNAL]
    [SWIMS_LEARNED][SWIM_SPEED:2500]

any idea if anything here can make it not invincible?[/QUOTE]

remove nopain, noexert, nobreathe, nostun, noemotion, etc.

[Themage]

How does military work now? I got raccoons invading by the dozens

[Parakon]

sweet, I got rid of the bronze colossus and had a quest that involved an ettin punching a hole in my skull :D

[Themage]

[quote]I think I'm getting the hang of the new military options, so I'm going to write up a post sharing what I've learned so far. I'm going to try to put everything in a logical order so that you can just follow along step by step.

Forming Squads
Before you can do ANYTHING with your military, you need to designate a militia commander in the noble screen (n). Don't worry, he doesn't have any requirements and doesn't set mandates. While you're at it, designate an arsenal dwarf too, and give him an office somewhere - he's the fortress quartermaster, and without him your squads won't end up with any equipment other than what they were already wearing.
The way it works now is that every squad leader is designated in the noble screen - once you designate a militia commander it will open up a slot for "Militia captain", and once you designate one of those it opens another captain slot, etc. As far as I can tell, these roles are all functionally equivalent.
Once you've designated a commander/captain, going to the military screen (m) will show that dwarf under the "Squads/Leaders" heading and you'll notice an option to create a new squad. Doing that changes the the display of the dwarf from his name to the squad's name. You can then fill out the squad from anyone in the fort by filling in the "Squad Positions" heading.
Okay, here's where people seem to start getting lost: Equipping your squad. The first thing you should look at is the "Uniforms" tab. You don't actually need to change anything here, but it's good to understand how just in case you want to. Each option under the "Uniforms" heading is essentially a pre-designed set of equipment that you can quickly apply to any individual soldier or entire squad. You can create new uniforms if you want and add or remove items from any uniform by navigating this menu.
Now go over to the "Equip" tab. Here's where you can apply those uniforms to individuals or squads. You can also straight edit a dwarf's equipment from this screen - if you want to give someone an artifact for instance, you can just select him, go over to his equipment list, get rid of whatever the normal uniform option is for that slot, and hit the hotkey listed at the top for whatever type of item the artifact is - if you select "Specific X" it will give you another list of all the items of that type in the fort (I believe it sorts by highest quality at the top, so you don't need to hunt around for the best stuff). If your squad is using ranged weapons, head over to the "Ammunition" tab and assign them something from there (If you don't care what they use, you still need to give them ammo - just pick "Bolts" and it will default to any bolts they can find).
If you've got an arsenal dwarf with an office, your squad should now retrieve their assigned equipment as soon as the arsenal dwarf signs off on it (Assuming they can find any that meet the types you set).

Getting your Squad to do Something
Here's another big stumbling block a lot of people are having - training. It's not quite so simple as just designating a barracks and letting your dwarves have at it anymore - though once you know what to do it's not that complicated, and it gives you a LOT more control over military behaviour than before.
First thing you should do is designate a barracks somewhere, the same way you would have in the previous version (Though you can also designate barracks from a lot of other object types than beds now - any storage object can also be used to designate a barracks or armoury room).
Once you've designated a barracks, you'll notice a list of the squads in your fort in the info pane. This is where you set how the squad uses the barracks - it defaults to empty so if you don't do anything here, your squad won't even know the barracks exists. You probably want to at least enable "Train" and "Sleep", though really what you set here is up to you, it's more important that you know it exists. If you don't have the squad set to "Train" at any of your designated barracks, they won't train. There are also options for storing equipment here - I haven't seen my dwarves doing this but I've got them all set to just leave their stuff on even off-duty, so I imagine it's more meaningful if they switch to civvies. There's also a "Position" option where you can assign specific beds/storage to specific dwarves. I don't think this is too important unless you REALLY want a particular dwarf to have the NICE armour rack. If they aren't assigned they'll just use whatever they feel like, as normal.
Now, just designating the barracks won't get them to train - because they're still off-duty. Head back to the military screen and go to the "Alerts" tab. This is sort of like the uniform tab in that it's a way to quickly assign specific behaviours to a squad - though unlike the uniform tab you really HAVE to use this one. All squads default to inactive until you set them to an alert level - you can create your own custom alerts but to keep it simple for now, just set a squad to "Active/Training". Note that to set a squad alert level, first you scroll down to the alert, then you scroll across to the squad, THEN you hit enter. If you just hit enter on the alert itself, it will set the civilians in the fort to this - for "Active/Training" it's essentially meaningless, but you can use this to order civilians to a safe area in the event of an attack (Kind of like the old "Keep indoors" option, but much better since they don't keep trying to run out the front door and turning around).
Once you've set the squad's alert level, head over to the "Schedule" tab. Along the top you'll have a list of all the squads in your fort, and on the side will be a list of the game months. Now, this is important, on the VERY top of the screen, above the squad list, is the name of the currently selected alert level. You can change this with the */ buttons on the numpad - what you're doing here is setting the squad's orders for each month when they're set to the selected alert level. If you're on "Active/Training", every month probably says "Train".
Here's the thing - the game defaults to a REALLY stupid option that most people are probably going to miss - notice on the bottom, in blue, how it says "Train, 10 minimum"? What that means is that if you have less 10 dwarves in that squad set to training (Which will always be the case since squads max out at 10), it will FORCE members of the squad to train, even when they're exhausted or starving. If you don't change this, your dwarves will be EXTREMELY miserable after a while - they might even starve to death while training - I'm not sure. Either way, hit "e" to edit the order, and use the /*-+ buttons to set the minimum to something like 1 or 2 less than the number of dwarves you have in your squad.
If you hit "o" while on this screen, you can scroll through all the other options for orders you can give your squads. All of them except for Train will require you to set either burrows or notes while I'll explain in the next section. For now just leave it on train.
Don't forget that orders are set per month - so you only set the minimum down for one month. Copy/paste the order into all the other months. Alternatively, if you want to give your dwarves time off, you can just hit x on an order and it will set them to inactive for that month. You can also use "o" to give them more than one order during a given month, though I'm not sure how this works (My guess is that if you set your minimums properly, the squad will split evenly between the two activities to maintain the minimum values of both).
If you've set everything I mentioned above, your dwarves SHOULD spend some time training in the barracks now. Bear in mind this is a new release and pretty buggy, and dwarves weren't exactly rocket scientists in the last version either, so it might seem like they spend a lot of time waiting around for an instructor or instructee. If you just leave them alone and don't worry about it, eventually they'll figure it out and start getting some training done.

Burrows and Notes
This is a more advanced feature of the new military options - it's similar to the old station and patrol options, but a lot more flexible because of the new alert level settings.
First things first - if you want your dwarves to guard an area, you need to set a burrow. It's pretty self-explanatory how to do that once you hit "w" from the main menu - just cover the area you want the dwarves to defend. Note that bigger is better here, at least if you want your dwarves to cover a wide area. Dwarves will detect intrusions into a burrow, and if they're set to guard that burrow, they'll immediately run to the point of the intrusion - so don't set the burrow to one square to try to get the dwarves to stand at the entrance or something. Just set it to the area you want guarded.
Burrows have a few other uses as well - you can assign civilians to burrows and what that means is that they'll only use things that are in that burrow - workshops, dining rooms, etc. Note that they'll still gather material from outside the burrow if it's not close at hand, so don't worry about dwarves starving in a burrow because there's no food in it.
Notes are how you set a patrol route. This is a bit more complicated than it used to be, but essentially, first you have to plant notes at all the points you want the dwarves to patrol, then you need to hit "r" from the note menu to bring up the routes list, and create a new patrol route and then add waypoints to it. It might seem excessively cumbersome, but the reason behind this is that you can use the same points for multiple patrol routes, if you want different squads to follow different paths.
For either of these, once you've set up the burrow/route, you can set a squad to use them via the "Schedule" screen, the same way you edit their training schedule. You can also set dwarves to just stand at a particular note like the old station option, but honestly using burrows sounds better to me. A good idea is probably to create a new alert level for "Active" duty versus just training, so you can quickly have switch your dwarves between patrolling and training.
There's also a "Burrows" header on the alerts tab of the military menu. To be honest, I don't actually know what this does. My guess is it's used to send civilians to certain burrows if you set the civilian alert level to a burrow restricted alert.

Direct Control
This is probably the simplest thing to figure out of all the new options, but I figure I might as well be thorough. First thing is open the squad menu with "s" and select a squad with a,b,c etc. (You can also select multiple squads by holding down shift and selecting a squad). Honestly, from here it's pretty intuitive. Just hit the appropriate button for the order you want to give, pick a target, and watch them go.
You can also give orders to individual members of squads by toggling from "Select squads" to "Select individuals" with p, then selecting a squad and picking someone/multiple people from inside it.

I'm pretty sure that covers most of the basics. There's probably more advanced stuff I haven't gotten the chance to see yet, but that should at least get people far enough to have a squad training or patrolling the fort. If you guys think this looks good, I'll probably post it to the DF wiki.[/quote]

Some awesome Guy on SA made this for Military

[Canuhearme?]

You should be able to [B]ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL[/B] of your Champion.

Also, you should be able to have the option (after a certain population/wealth, of course) to not abandon your fortress, but rather "leave" it. That way, it becomes an actual city in the game, one you can visit and buy shit from.

[Parakon]

that'd be cool

[kylel999]

[QUOTE=Themage;21153956]Some awesome Guy on SA made this for Military[/QUOTE]

I can't fucking read the second paragraph, that guy should learn how to use paragraphs..