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OhJesusMagma

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Travel Mode: Travelling to specific creatures
« on: February 20, 2010, 02:49:46 pm »
It only happened once in my playthrough, but I recall while in travel mode and after pressing the > key, I was given an option to travel to "Creature" or "Do not Travel". This was really handy, as I could get to creatures near caves or just something to hunt down. Any idea how I can access this menu again? It was all fluke off my part.
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Re: Travel Mode: Travelling to specific creatures
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2010, 04:28:08 pm »
If you see a dash, a - on the map, that means there is a creature traveling in that area.  If you are on the map on one of those tiles and go to that area with > it will ask if you'd rather travel to that creature. 

Sometimes, though, if a creature is out in the wild, it wont show up on the map and you get the same option.  Seems almost random though, but, it happens a bit with caves.
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Re: Travel Mode: Travelling to specific creatures
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2010, 07:40:01 pm »
My personal theory was that you can only teleport directly to creatures you've seen before, but I never heard you can do it with caves.
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Re: Travel Mode: Travelling to specific creatures
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2010, 06:06:01 pm »
It appears to give the travel to creature option when the creature in question is outside the area of the map square designated as the location.  I've mostly gotten travel-tos for dwarfs outside their mountain halls, but I think they also come up for creatures that wander well away from their cave mouths.
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Re: Travel Mode: Travelling to specific creatures
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2010, 09:40:47 am »
Only works for historical figures.  I've been able to use that to get close to named critters like alligators and such.
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Re: Travel Mode: Travelling to specific creatures
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2010, 10:10:55 am »
A nice feature - I used it just yesterday to wipe out all the refugees trying to flee the elven community I annihilated.  I do wish we could get more info than just "creature" though.  Maybe it could be tied to the ambusher skill so it goes creature-->elf-->swordself.  I know tracking and hunting will do this in DFv1, but I'd appreciate an improved stop-gap.
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