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[Areyar]

light inside. (an adventurer goal, so probably also in the works for Dwarfmode)

Besides wooden/ratweed torches, bitumen braziers and possibly oil lamps:
captured critters in glassjars for illumination (fireflies/glowworms/magmabeasts)

Still, only daylight should stave off cave adaptation (aka agoraphobia?)

Just a wistfull thought.

[Puzzlemaker]

I think this is planned on the dev list.

[Boksi]

Maybe, but I think he's done some innovation there by suggesting the captured creatures as light sources. Imagine:

You enter a colossal cavern. Interspersed evenly around are ferociously bright pinpricks of light, suspended on pillars, lighting up the darkness. Upon asking, you are informed that these light sources are actually magmamen, held capture inside steel cages.

[Draco18s]

See: Fire and Lighting Arc

[Areyar]

Yeah, I knew torches and such were planned. (scanned the devnotes yesterday)

just suggesting some functional use for glassware and captured critters besides merchandise and keeping nobles happy.
I figure a terrarium filled with fireflies would give light, but a jar has better aestetics.

Possibly number of critters and size/luminescence determines the size of lighted area.

There aren't excessively many details in the dev notes. (lots of notes though!)

[Align]

That'd make fire snake vermin attractive. I like.

[Sowelu]

Lighting your fortress with living beings?  Cue Ignus's theme song.

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by Sowelu:
<STRONG>Lighting your fortress with living beings?  Cue Ignus's theme song.</STRONG>

He has a theme song?  Aw... I want my own theme song...

[Patarak]

If you want a theme song, I suggest thus:

Go to a town with a fatcat magistrate and poverty-stricken workers. Spend a few days in the town so that everyone knows who you are. Steal all the magistrate's money and one of his planes. Fly over the town and drop all the money in town square. Come back a few years later and you should find yourself a folk hero, complete a giant statue of yourself in town square and your own theme song.

Cookie for reference.

[ March 22, 2008: Message edited by: Patarak ]

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by Patarak:
<STRONG>Cookie for reference.</STRONG>

Insert witty reference about Jaynestown here.

Unfortunately I can't think of anything appropriate, gorram memory of mine.

[Asehujiko]

Gem window+shaft=colored lighting as well.

[Areyar]

hehe, I'd like that. With Visualization incorporated it should be more incentive to build windows.

suggestion 2 :  use minerals/gems/sands to stain glass pretty colours.
suggestion 2b: craftmanship-stained glass leadbars+coloured glass -> +Well-crafted stained glass window with an image in, red and green glass, of a dwarf looking stern upon a vermin, the vermin looks insulted+

[beholder]

"as far as i can see you people have been handed the shortest gorram stick in the glaxy. but you took that stick, and you.... well, you took it, and i guess thats something"

[Mikademus]

quote:Originally posted by Boksi:
<STRONG>these light sources are actually magmamen, held capture inside steel cages.</STRONG>

Excellent. What could go wrong?  :p

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by beholder:
<STRONG>"as far as i can see you people have been handed the shortest gorram stick in the glaxy. but you took that stick, and you.... well, you took it, and i guess thats something"</STRONG>

Aye.