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ChaosSonic

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« on: November 20, 2007, 10:02:00 pm »
I think I may have found a way to make a boat. Looking through the raws, I saw that the wagon was a creature. Well, couldn't you make a boat a creature with really good swimming? I'm not quite sure if you could use a boat for dwarf transport, but you mgiht be able to get it tocarry goods, like a wagon. If this works out, you could construct an elevator!
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Karlito

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Re: Boats
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2007, 12:22:00 am »
I don't know if that would actually work.  Too much of this stuff is hardcoded.
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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2007, 12:56:00 pm »
try it dude
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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2007, 01:12:00 pm »
The only problem would be the people going through the water...
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jamesyco

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Re: Boats
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2012, 09:36:16 pm »
maybe make it a mount?
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Re: Boats
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2012, 09:44:31 pm »
Quote from: jamesyco on July 23, 2012, 09:36:16 pm
maybe make it a mount?

Then it would drag the people who were riding it underwater and drown them...

But yeah, this won't work, mainly because any creature that is like a wagon (I.E has the EQUIPMENT_WAGON token) will look like a wagon, act like a wagon, smell like a wagon, and be used like a wagon--I.E, by merchants only. The wagon you embark with is a building, not the creature.
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Re: Boats
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2012, 10:14:38 pm »
If you take the wagon tag away from the wagon creature you even get a normal 1 tile creature made of wood, with wheels as bodyparts. It can move, cant fight, and all in all boats are not possible it what I am getting at.

Well, I do remember sphalerites whalehunting boat, but that is a construction...
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Re: Boats
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2012, 12:10:23 am »
Well if you get enough speed on a minecart, you could skip large distances across water. (theoretically)
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Re: Boats
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2012, 04:39:14 am »
Ha, did you too gen an archiepelago world with too much of a distance between islands and forget that DF has no boats or easy way to cross the ocean?
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Re: Boats
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2012, 01:15:54 pm »
orrrrrr make the wheels rudders  and then make it drag people under water
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Re: Boats
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2012, 02:29:03 pm »
the only way to get a 3x3 "creature" is to add the [wagon] tag, which makes it exclusively act like a wagon. Making boats are impossible.
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« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2012, 06:51:29 am »
Quote from: Sorcerer on July 26, 2012, 02:29:03 pm
Making boats are impossible.
Unless you're Toady.  This is one of his future plans, but a low priority so it's going to be a while.  Just as well, given the community.  Those forts that don't flood in an attempt to re-create Venice will find a way to weaponize boats by having them gather speed as they go down multiple Z-levels before shooting out the main entrance, knocking over two goblin squads and a line of trolls.
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« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2012, 07:45:12 pm »
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boats are the enemy of tiles. And tiles are the enemy of boats.
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