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condonzack

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Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« on: June 18, 2015, 08:03:33 am »
WHERE ARE THE DINOSAURS!?

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Re: Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2015, 08:19:25 am »
Quote from: condonzack on June 18, 2015, 08:03:33 am
WHERE ARE THE DINOSAURS!?
They're easily modded in.  One effort that takes it quite seriously is here.
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Re: Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2015, 08:32:05 am »
Extinct. :P





More seriously, Toady has mentioned that dinosaurs & co may have a chance to exist as savage-biome creature, though the question would be how they would be named. Also, dinosaurs exist as base creatures for the various big random monsters, like titans.
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Re: Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2015, 07:20:39 pm »
I'm pretty sure something that big couldn't survive in the world of Dwa- wait, nevermind. We've got bigger.
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Re: Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2015, 08:39:56 am »
pfftt.. Everyone knows dinosaurs went extinct from the sudden spike in demand for +Tyrannosaurus Rex meat roasts+ in year -4.

But dinosaurs do exist in DF, they just take the form of dimetrodons as forgotten beasts and titans.
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Re: Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2015, 08:54:06 am »
Birds ARE Dinosaurs ... so Roc ;]
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Re: Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2015, 10:29:53 am »
Quote from: Rip0k on June 21, 2015, 08:54:06 am
Birds ARE Dinosaurs ... so Roc ;]

That's a little like saying that lungfish are lizards.  They simply share ancestry.
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Re: Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2015, 12:59:22 am »
Quote from: NW_Kohaku on June 21, 2015, 10:29:53 am
Quote from: Rip0k on June 21, 2015, 08:54:06 am
Birds ARE Dinosaurs ... so Roc ;]

That's a little like saying that lungfish are lizards.  They simply share ancestry.

Simply not true.
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Re: Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2015, 04:31:57 am »
Quote from: condonzack on June 18, 2015, 08:03:33 am
WHERE ARE THE DINOSAURS!?

In the bituminous coal.

Edit: My bad, coal's made of plant fossil.
« Last Edit: June 22, 2015, 04:36:14 am by Boltgun »
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Re: Glaring, obvious oversight: Why is this not in Dwarf Fortress!?!?!?
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2015, 05:17:58 am »
There's also Beak Dogs, which are a form of more basal theropod which goblins keep (or kept, in previous versions – I haven't seen many lately) as domestic critters.
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