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Crossroads Inc.

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Engraving glitches?
« on: November 03, 2010, 04:16:09 pm »

Has anyone else noticed that as a fort progresses, engravers tend to engrave more and more "people" ?
Normally we  don't notice it since so many of us use MayDay variation where you don't See engraved pictures.  but going back to the ASCII version, I realized that about 90% of all my Dwarfs Engrave only pics of other Dwarfs.  there is virtually no random other things, trees, dragons, goblins, items, etc.  Its just all Dwarfs now.

anyone else notice this?
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Re: Engraving glitches?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2010, 05:02:39 pm »

Edit d_init.txt and enable display of history in Dwarf mode engravings, and you'll see that they're probably engraving historical events that involved a dwarf.
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Re: Engraving glitches?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2010, 05:05:17 pm »

As your engravers become more skilled, they are more likely to engrave images of important historical events and less likely to engrave random shapes or objects.  If you want a lot of low-skill engravings of squares and trees, disable engraving on any dwarf who starts to get skilled and only let unskilled dwarves engrave.
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Re: Engraving glitches?
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2010, 07:12:50 pm »

Edit d_init.txt and enable display of history in Dwarf mode engravings, and you'll see that they're probably engraving historical events that involved taming giant eagles

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