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pivole

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Commissioned carvings?
« on: November 11, 2012, 12:53:07 pm »
Sorry if this is a repeat, but I couldn't seem to find anything similar.
I was thinking, what if you could do a single tile carving designation, in which you could designate what sort of thing was to be carved?
So, you could search through a list of characters, animals, nouns, or events, and hit enter on one or so options as you actually wanted carved. I'm sick of carvings of lungfish and rope reeds, and a labouring hyena.
Thoughts/desire for clarification?
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Re: Commissioned carvings?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2012, 04:45:01 pm »
hyenas labouring?
I can't even get them to work as seeing eye hyenas! (Seeing Eyenas?)
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Re: Commissioned carvings?
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2012, 07:46:15 pm »
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Re: Commissioned carvings?
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2012, 08:49:28 pm »
I'm pretty sure this has been planned and know it's been suggested before, typically as part of a more general suggestion. That said, it's a good idea.

And I have never seen pictures of anything but civ-building creatures laboring. Usually dwarves.
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Re: Commissioned carvings?
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2012, 05:55:51 am »
This is just one hyena, it has a name that I've forgotten. Apparently this hyena founded dwarven civilisation.

No. Me neither.
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Re: Commissioned carvings?
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2012, 06:07:13 am »
I rarely bothers with engraving, preferring statues and decorated ropes in constructed rooms.

But I think that this idea could be expanded to those, so it would be useful all around!
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Re: Commissioned carvings?
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2012, 06:11:15 am »
If dwarves engrave a historical figure settling in chosen place of residence, they display the said figure as "labouring", so if a hyena had ever settled in your otherwise unremarkable steppe after eating a chicken or two, you're going to have pretty much of it labouring.
I guess that has to do with dwarves always of settling somewhere as of digging their rooms there first.
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