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[moondowner]

1. Your parent civilization also determines what items you can make.   Some may not have access to high boots, for example.

But there's no way to find this out before you actually choose it, so I guess choosing by name remains the only option.

Pity about goblin caravans. I'd like to hope it's still possible, only very unlikely (well, as it should be).

[i2amroy]

Yeah, it's theoretically possible to be at peace with the goblins, it's just not very likely. The only time I ever saw it happen was in a "dawn of the world" embark, which started out in year 1. Not sure if the date was related or if it was just coincidence.

IIRC the [BABYSNATCHER] token makes peace nearly impossible in vanilla. Without that token though, it would be fully possible to be at peace with goblins and get caravans from them.

[Garath]

maybe I'm just lucky that way, but I've nearly always have had "at peace" in the civ screen after embark. And maybe I've been just unlucky in still never seeing any caravans from the goblins

[greycat]

Different parent civs may also have different resources available.  Some of them may not have access to iron ores, for example, which means they can send you steel (or you can embark with a steel anvil) but not iron (meaning you cannot embark with an iron anvil, so it costs 200 points more).

The only way to find out what each civ has available is to embark with that civ.  (You can force-kill (SIGKILL on Linux, or Task Manager kill on Windows) the Dwarf Fortress process and choose a different civ, if you're into that.)

[Garath]

dfhack "die"

[zzedar]

If I manage to kill a Forgotten beast made out of metal, do I get a metal statue/corpse/whatever to melt down, like with BCs?

[FuzzyZergling]

If I manage to kill a Forgotten beast made out of metal, do I get a metal statue/corpse/whatever to melt down, like with BCs?

No, you just get a useless corpse.

[Boltgun]

maybe I'm just lucky that way, but I've nearly always have had "at peace" in the civ screen after embark. And maybe I've been just unlucky in still never seeing any caravans from the goblins

Goblin cannot trade without modding because they have no puller animals. Adding [COMMON_DOMESTIC_PACK] to the EVIL civilization will have them come. Every. Single. Season.

[Garath]

I just had a vision of a goblin caravan with cave dragons carrying the stuff... And then it is recognised as one tht attacked the fort earlier and fled and attacked on the spot. A massacre ensues

[KroganElite]

How dangerous with this be?:


My dwarves are taking forever to train so they have really terrible skills. They have steel/silver weapons but crappy copper armor with some steel helms/greaves added to some. One guy has an adamantine short sword(not masterful).

It beelined to my fortress, but thankfully I already placed a drawbridge there so I can engage when I want.

So should I fight or wait until I get adamantine weapons and full steel? It moves really fast and it has webs, maybe only marksdwarves should engage?

[Garath]

it's just flesh, no armor or strange material, so steel/iron/silver weapons ae fine. Usually a steel helmet is advisable against web spitters, but a FB or titan slamming on the head won't be stopped by any helmet (when webbed, attacks usually automatically target the head). Try to give it a target to web in front and then attack in the flank. Soften it up with bolts to damage arms and legs and such. A Lucky killshot would be kind of an anti-climax though

[i2amroy]

Bolts, bolts, and more bolts. Don't engage it in melee unless you absolutely have to due to it's webs. IF you are really co-ordinated you can try a pincer attack with a group of expendable melees and a bunch of crossbow dwarves.

[hiroshi42]

Is there any way to stop the creation of masterwork items from being entered into legends?  I have tried removing D_D from the MASTERPIECE_ARCHITECTURE and MASTERPIECE_CONSTRUCTION items in announcements.txt but they still appear in the logs and in legends.  I also tried to remove those two lines entirely with no avail.

[i2amroy]

Not that I know of. DF tracks a lot, and masterpiece creation is one of those things.

[kudzis]

Hi,

I'm getting spammed by messages "... cancels plant seeds: needs plump helmet spawn". I've googled for an answer, and the problem was that all seeds were put in one barrel, and when I was being transported, dwarfs could not take seeds from it (the barrel was regularly transported from stockpile to dining hall, I imagine dwarves were trying to collect seeds from eaten plump helmets).
I've forbidden seeds in all my stockpiles, created a small stockpile (6 tiles) near the farm plot, and allowed barrels: 0, enabled only food>seed>plump helmet seeds. Now tricksy dwarves started using cloth bags instead of barrels, and problem repeats - they run to dining hall with bag in hand, and others can't access it

What should I do to solve this problem?