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[Koji]

Does anyone know why dwarves are fascinated with mangrove trees and engrave them all over everything? Is it just 'cause they're the only currently likable tree, or what?

[gloogorshkin]

It could be a symbol representative of either the civilization or the group that founded the fortress.  You can determine that with more certainty by making a backup of your save, abandoning the fortress and then looking at the engraving with an adventurer.  Then just put back your original save and go back to playing as normal.

[jester]

dwarves get obsessed with weird things, at the moment every fifth engraving I get seems to be of a coffin. (I hadnt had any deaths when it started).

[SnowWhite]

I like it when they make engravings of engravings.  Two fortresses ago, someone made a masterful engraving of a barrel and all the other engravers loved it.  So I kept getting "This is a masterful engraving of a rendition of a barrel."

[Capntastic]

It depends on the craftsman's personality.

[Koji]

I know how it works, but mangroves show up ridiculously often in the dwarves' pref  lists. Totally bizarre.

[Lightning4]

And finally next release, we will be able to settle in a mangrove swamp, satisfying all our mangrove-obsessed dwarves.

Though then I bet they'll be obsessed with some other tree then.

[Faces of Mu]

Maybe it's because mangrove sized trees are REAL trees to dwarves, and don't hide elves well.

[DR]

I seem to remember hearing that this is a bug, and that dwarves currently only like mangrove out of all the possible wood types.

[Lightning4]

You are probably right. I don't think I have ever seen a dwarf that likes tower cap or cedar or something. It's annoying tailoring rooms to dwarf preferences since mangrove is pretty hard to come by.

[ October 25, 2007: Message edited by: Lightning4 ]

[Mookie Love]

Actually, not JUST preferences dictate engravings.

I put my Lengendary Miner on Engraving while making for the magma, and noticed a sudden increase in the number of engravings that featured flies. After looking around in that Miner's thoughts later, I noticed flies are her most-hated vermin.