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How do I remove the Phoebus tileset and play with the curses font again?  I'd like to try some of the 'utility' aspects of the mod, but the phoebus font is bugging out window resizing and causing no end of problems.  I went into the 'init editor' and put back in font: curses_640x300.png - I even manually searched for every init.txt in the folders (six of them!?) and changed the windowed and fullscreen mode lines to read Font:curses_640x300.png - but it's STILL the awful phoebus one, and the window problems persist.

Solutions?

Found a bug:  You can make a hoodie from 8 rags, and chop it up into ten rags.  If you have no other use for sewing kits, you can profit two rags!

Pretty sweet to know the creator is reading this . 

I broke into a bank vault just recently using my 1337 h4x0r skillz, but it was sadly empty.  Also, I couldn't think of any way to use it as an impentrable fort that didn't involve locking myself inside a bank vault (not possible, anyway).  Could there be a terminal to open/close the door on the inside too?  I'm pretty sure it's standard in bank vaults due to the high possibility of people getting locked in forevar.

I found a portal generator, but the shimmering portals it generated didn't seem to do anything.  I tried putting them in between me and monsters to no effect, and I stepped in them a few times myself.  Using 'e'xamine on them lets you try to disarm the 'trap', which is a bit weird.

It would be nice to not have the 'too many items' restriction.  I'm already juggling weight and volume, and although I can understand the concept of a)not enough letters for 50+ items and b)it's pretty impractical to carry 50+ items even with a backpack...it can make it kind of annoying to do some of the clothing recipes particularly, having to drop practically everything to pick up the 20+ rags.  It got really irritating on some characters where I had a bunch of meds or small pieces of whatever and had 30+ volume and 100+ weight to spare, but couldn't pick up an apple to save my life (note: I did not actually die due to being unable to pick up an apple, but I could see something similar happening).

A minor thing:  maybe 'a'pplying an MP3 player or similar battery charged thing could give you the option to recharge it?  At the moment recharging my mp3 player is a little tedious - drop weapon, wield mp3 player, reload mp3 player, wield nothing, pick up weapon.

Another minor thing:  Perhaps the "'e'xamine a gas pump" dialogue should go more like this:  "Pump Gas? Y/N" Y "Do you want to fill a container with gasoline? Y/N" N "You pour gasoline on the ground."  It seems minor, but I didn't even realise you could fill up various containers with gasoline for a long time - I just kept on pouring it on the ground instead.

A possible 'fix' for 'too many items':  If possible, maybe make common small things stackable?  I don't /really/ need a dedicated keyboard shortcut for every one of my fifteen rags.  Maybe just 'r - rags x 15'?  Really, the only things that /need/ independent keys are the ones that can actually vary within the item type.  Drink and food that aren't multiple-use are all identical, so they could stack.  If things like potato chips and jerky were one use, they could stack.
If it wasn't a coding nightmare, you could even just add things like meds together - a box of 17 caffeine pills and a box of 20 caffeine pills = one item with 37 caffeine pills.  Make it so the volume/weight increased by a box worth for every 20 and it would still take up the same amount of space without taking up so many keys.

e.g - 11 caffeine pills = volume 1, weight 1.  20 caffeine pills = volume 1, weight 1.  21 caffeine pills = volume 2, weight 2.  40 caffeine pills = volume 2, weight 2.  And so on.

As always, I am completely ignorant of the sort of coding and work that goes into a game of this sort, having given up C++ and games coding loooong ago.  If any of my suggestions are wildly impractical or would require massive overhaul, by all means, ignore them .

Love the game, it makes for some great times.

It's always good to start your time in a new fortress with a heaping helping of horror and trauma.

Don't forget turtle shells.<P>A fishing fortress... Nice idea.
I'll name it Innsmouth.

It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Fish-men

Is he under orders not to go outside (with an outside place being the target area)?

Do you get reports of why he's cancelling work if you turn on the o->x option to 'dwarves annouce all job cancel'?

My first word-list altered attempt at the poem thing netted me this:

ENDURANCE, ADVENTURE, AND ADVENTURE.
STORMY, SMALL DOGS CALMLY KILL A DEAD, COLD ELF.
THE BIG CAT CALMLY DESIRES THE DWARF .
WHY DOES THE CAT GROW?