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atat

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jungle retreats and dwarf cities
« on: June 01, 2009, 08:12:07 pm »

is it just me or is it impossible to find the leaders of these places?
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Re: jungle retreats and dwarf cities
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2009, 11:16:08 pm »

is it just me or is it impossible to find the leaders of these places?
Its a real bitch, that it is. But the leaders of dwarves are always pretty low in the fort. As for the elves?

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Re: jungle retreats and dwarf cities
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2009, 07:22:03 am »

I've already managed to find the elven druids but i've given up on the dwarves...
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Re: jungle retreats and dwarf cities
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2009, 09:07:04 am »

druids, ok. but ive never ever found a dwarven civ leader yet. some of those mountainhomes are too bloody big, and from reading around on the forums the leader moves around the place, although they tend to hang on the lower levels.

adventure mode is still pretty sparse unfortunately, toady has been focussing on other stuff. some kind of direction thingy like the one that tells you where quest locations are would be nice though.
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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2009, 09:25:19 am »

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adventure mode is still pretty sparse unfortunately, toady has been focussing on other stuff. some kind of direction thingy like the one that tells you where quest locations are would be nice though.

Do you mean places where you get quests or where the quest monsters are?
Because there are possibilities to find out both, even when they aren't very accurate.
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Re: jungle retreats and dwarf cities
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2009, 08:02:38 am »

i mean how a cave that you need to go into to kill something will appear on your compass. it would be nice if, when you asked a guard where the king/druid/civ leader was, it showed up on your compass as if he had given you real directions. with some way of telling the z level in a dwarf fortress. because right now dwarf civ leaders are so very very hard to find, specially in a very big fort.

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Re: jungle retreats and dwarf cities
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2009, 09:57:03 am »

I searched the whole mountainhome for a king once turns out he was outside.Thats one dead king now...
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Re: jungle retreats and dwarf cities
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2009, 12:13:59 pm »

Yes, I also think mountainhomes are way too long. Just as well all of the rooms inside are empty... And dont have doors for some reason...

...and have nothing inside of them.

So how do these dwarves survive? No kittens either, and even you would probably starve to death or dehydrate before finding it.
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Re: jungle retreats and dwarf cities
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2009, 04:14:55 pm »

They feed on dwarf spores, or they feed on !!pig tail sock!!s. That's the only thing I can think of.
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Re: jungle retreats and dwarf cities
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2009, 04:25:59 pm »

I fought a druid today.  He gave me a blank "I challenge you" screen (hell, even a craftself decided to tell me about some random kobold he'd killed) and within moments had no eyes and two broken wrists.  Leaders of human places are pretty hardcore, though.  Dwarven places are too damn big, although I challenged a goblin master lasher and one through breaking both his arms.
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