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[DS]

Btw when I embarked on that birthday volcano I got the message that a shrine had been discovered. I assume this shrine is the random perfect rectangle of basalt, with basalt pillars of random height and a hill titan chillaxin in it. WTF is this. Doesn't seem like something that could be modded in so I assume its a vanilla feature. Never encountered or heard of this. So what gives?

They're primarily only encountered in Adventure Mode, when you get quests to kill titans. Otherwise, they rarely come up.

[slothen]

wasn't there a happy birthday fort that worked by pulling a lever and seeing happy birthday form in plumes of magma-mist ?

[ASCIt]

I'll be putting something here, probably a fort with war giant toads. Who can talk. And are nobles.

[Girlinhat]

All significant creatures live somewhere.  Titans don't just wander in from the mist, they live in shrines.  You can stumble upon them extremely rarely.

[khearn]

I have a dremel and a box of old Saguaro ribs that are ~1 ft long from my old DF materials property research.

I've been toying with the idea of making an "artifact" out of it for Toady and shipping it over in a tube mailer, but I'm a dabbling wood carver at best.

Any ideas?

Hope for a strange mood.

[Uristocrat]

Hope for a strange mood.

I forgot to scale it down before uploading.  Oops.

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This is a saguaro rib figurine carved out of saguaro rib wood. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. On it is carved an image of "Happy Birthday" and dwarves in saguaro rib wood. This relates to the birthday of Toady One in 2012.

Unfortunately, the strange mood that created this was a possession, so the lack of skill gain is an obvious drawback. This is why you make sure that your moody dwarves have access to better materials and try to make sure that they have better moodable skills than wood carving, lest you wind up with useless wooden artifacts instead of artifact armor or weapons.

This must have been a possession, because there was definitely no skill gain.  So assuming I can find an appropriate tube mailer reasonably soon, Toady will end up with a crappy wooden artifact and maybe a few dwarfbucks.  That's pretty dwarven... right?

...

I just hope I don't end up in an "unfortunate accident" after this....

[King DZA]

Man, now I want a birthday log...

[Eric Blank]

As do I. If I got anything on my birthday, I would be ecstatic for the next of the season!

Unfortunately I'm too broke to donate and too busy with !!PSYCHOLOGY!! assignments to actually play DF, so I can't do anything for Toady's birthday...

[tootboot]

Happy birthday Toady, eat healthy so you'll have many more!

[Uristocrat]

As do I. If I got anything on my birthday, I would be ecstatic for the next of the season!

Unfortunately I'm too broke to donate and too busy with !!PSYCHOLOGY!! assignments to actually play DF, so I can't do anything for Toady's birthday...

I actually offered to send saguaro rib wood samples to anyone who wanted to replicate my experiments in deriving its density, but nobody ever took me up on the offer.  I still have a huge box of it sitting right beside me in my room and no clue what to do with it now that I know that the density of saguaro rib wood is approximately 430 kg/m^3.