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[Deus Machina]

You guys are almost making me want to actually give adventure mode a shot.

Did I read something about posthumously-designated tombs!? 

On the other hand, I think that the continuously rising zombies might be a serious balance problem. I really think that they should arise once, maybe twice after original death.
Do coffins at least prevent dwarves from returning hungry? Or am I going to have to appoint a cryptkeeper with armor and a hammer?

[Splint]

You guys are almost making me want to actually give adventure mode a shot.

Did I read something about posthumously-designated tombs!? 

On the other hand, I think that the continuously rising zombies might be a serious balance problem. I really think that they should arise once, maybe twice after original death.
Do coffins at least prevent dwarves from returning hungry? Or am I going to have to appoint a cryptkeeper with armor and a hammer?

I agree on them maybe getting two max chances for vengence.
And yes. You will indeed need an armed cryptkeeper from what I've read.

[orius]

I did some poking around in a Terrifying map just to see how fast I'd die.  I had a big river on the map, so maybe that kept some undead at bay, it was a month before anything came near my fort.  One dwarf and a war dog got killed fighting a grasshopper man corpse, but I abandoned not long after that, I wasn't playing that for keeps anyway.  More interested in how an evil biome looks than actually trying to survive.  The grasshopper man's limbs and dog refusing to stay dead were annoying.

Also need to set up some proper embark profiles.  I used my bog-standard generic calm wooded area profile which wasn't ideal in some cases (I was just setting it up for future use anyway), herbalism was totally useless with all the dead crap around.  Do 31.25 embark profiles work ok in this version?  If so I'll just copy-paste.  There was also some weirdness with starting with a bunch of prepared giant tick  intestines or something that I couldn't get rid of.  Usually I just take a bunch of meat from the various domestics the dorfs can start with.

[Yaotzin]

Is it just me or are home civs really rubbish at finding ore suddenly? Half the time I'm getting "no iron anvil!" and most of the civs have no copper ore :/

[kizucha]

Anyone else have always crashes in the change from spring to summer? Or i'm the only with a "summer-crash"? Hm maybe i have to big maps? I take the halve of the maps but i dont have lag's.

[Montague]

Is it just me or are home civs really rubbish at finding ore suddenly? Half the time I'm getting "no iron anvil!" and most of the civs have no copper ore :/

It might be your parent civ consists of a single mountainhome on a crappy embark. Try decreasing the number of civs in worldgen settings to around 6-7. It'll make a handful of powerful, sprawling civs and a dwarf civ will end up having almost everything available.

Anyone else have always crashes in the change from spring to summer? Or i'm the only with a "summer-crash"? Hm maybe i have to big maps? I take the halve of the maps but i dont have lag's.

Sounds like it has something to do with a human trade caravan? Some corrupted historical figure data or wagon or something. Might want to DL the lastest bugfix and try another world gen.

[Kento]

Is it just me or are home civs really rubbish at finding ore suddenly? Half the time I'm getting "no iron anvil!" and most of the civs have no copper ore :/

From not-so-careful experimenting, I believe the best way to have the parent civilization to have ore is to have them inhabit several nearby (but not connecting) small mountain clusters, or long, thin mountain chains (since dwarves can not build settlements in anything but the edges). Dwarf civilizations do not seem to have to be connected by tunnels, but the mountainless gap needs to be reasonably small. Dwarves seem unable to settle in good or evil aligned biomes, so minimizing the chances a mountain cluster will be anything but neutral should help. I suspect lowering the number of total civs also helps.

It is possible to have parent civs with all eleven pure metals, I have generated about a half dozen worlds in 34.01 that have at least one civilization with all of them. All ending in the year 250.

[Montague]

Is it just me or are home civs really rubbish at finding ore suddenly? Half the time I'm getting "no iron anvil!" and most of the civs have no copper ore :/

From not-so-careful experimenting, I believe the best way to have the parent civilization to have ore is to have them inhabit several nearby (but not connecting) small mountain clusters, or long, thin mountain chains (since dwarves can not build settlements in anything but the edges). Dwarf civilizations do not seem to have to be connected by tunnels, but the mountainless gap needs to be reasonably small. Dwarves seem unable to settle in good or evil aligned biomes, so minimizing the chances a mountain cluster will be anything but neutral should help. I suspect lowering the number of total civs also helps.

It is possible to have parent civs with all eleven pure metals, I have generated about a half dozen worlds in 34.01 that have at least one civilization with all of them. All ending in the year 250.

This is all good advice, especially with going for long, thin mountain ranges. I always set the min and max elevations to 100 and 375 and elevation variance to something like X-600 and Y-1000.

[kizucha]

Sounds like it has something to do with a human trade caravan? Some corrupted historical figure data or wagon or something. Might want to DL the lastest bugfix and try another world gen.

A Bugfix? Where? I haven't seen a Bugfix.^^ Or only download DF on the webseit again?

[YetAnotherStupidDorf]

While Toady already started my favorite (as receiver, not doer heh) phase in development cycle, he did not yet released 34.02.

[Brewster]

Awww... how I have missed you old friend(s).

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Trader wagons have returned.

[Loud Whispers]

Awww... how I have missed you old friend(s).

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Trader wagons have returned.

Welcome home Urist McMerchantCaravan, welcome home

[jamesadelong]

I think it is unanimous, all hail the Urist-Wagon!

[pivole]

What is this? Upon trying to name my fortress, I find neither anus nor whores. I am disappointed.

[orius]

What is this? Upon trying to name my fortress, I find neither anus nor whores. I am disappointed.

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