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[SQman]

So did anyone notice that the DF raws are Bioprinter compatible and someone wrote a algorithm to fill in the gaps? I certainly didnt but recognized the fileformat in the genetics subfolder. Well i decided to print out a fox-cub since i like pets ... yeah so i must also have added a wrong option so i got a Fox-man-cub and have a daughter now.

Yeah, it's still really wonky. It will print an animal person, giant animal, or a normal one randomly if there are variations available. I guess it's because [TRANSFORM:X:Y] tags are so simillar to [TRANSFORMED:X] from before advanced genetics was a thing, and the algorithm actually borrows a lot from the unofficial holoprojector plugin from 2036. It would take a simple tweak to fix, and it's hardly a minor bug, so we can probably expect a patch soon.

Anyaway, has anyone else had problems with automatons? I mean, I know metals corrode, but automatons seem to crumble into dust way too fast. Brass golems, on the other hand can work for ages before they start getting damaged. Is it because of the high temperature and steam? Is there a way to make non-corroding automatons with industrial era tech? I have better uses for my mages than recharging golems, and I don't like playing with complicated factory machines, conveyor belts, etc.

[Whisperling]

Anyaway, has anyone else had problems with automatons? I mean, I know metals corrode, but automatons seem to crumble into dust way too fast. Brass golems, on the other hand can work for ages before they start getting damaged. Is it because of the high temperature and steam? Is there a way to make non-corroding automatons with industrial era tech? I have better uses for my mages than recharging golems, and I don't like playing with complicated factory machines, conveyor belts, etc.

You could definitely throw in a ward against corrosion when you create the automaton, but that would need recharging as well. Is your fortress on top of a ley line? Depending on spheres and such, you might be able to tap it and free up your wizards.

[FantasticDorf]

Eurgh, i have a colony of Night Trolls on my dwarven intranet network underneath my terrestrial base posting exceptional quality cringeworthy memes of dancing boogiemen with trumpets that are inspiring negative thoughts and creating more trolls in my public library via host - victim meme transmission. My IT manager noble (he elected himself) is shouting at his less experienced interns to fix it but they are partying in my on-board statue garden and its going unsolved.

I have airdropped a delivery of fine quality giant cave spider black/brown dye fedoras via the GI-ANT 3-AGLE hauling carrier in a bid to negotiate to leave me alone so that they may be preoccupied with hat-tipping social actions and the meming behaviour will slow down or stop.

[Calidovi]

dancing boogiemen with trumpets

🎺💀🎺

[FantasticDorf]

dancing boogiemen with trumpets

🎺💀🎺

I have become a changling night troll bride. Jokes on you, there are no girls on the internet

Spoiler:  Political Correctness Announcement P.C.T and a byword from Urist McGristlepants IT Tech (click to show/hide)

"Females do actually exist on the internet, above statement applied in humour, the local dwarven govenment and IT department would like to apologise for any offence given except and especially if you are a elf or a enemy of the dwarven state"

[Starver]

Spoiler:  Political Correctness Announcement P.C.T and a byword from Urist McGristlepants IT Tech (click to show/hide)

"Females do actually exist on the internet, above statement applied in humour, the local dwarven govenment and IT department would like to apologise for any offence given except and especially if you are a elf or a enemy of the dwarven state"

It is a firmly established Internet principle, over these last 75 years or so, that the question of whether a person on the internet is female is exactly as moot as whether or not Urist is female.

Almost exactly so, at least.  There's the same issue of taking babes-in-arms into combat during hostilities with others, although only with dwarves can you guarantee that it is truly the biological mother who does this.  Such long-established traditions as selfie-wars between fashion bloggers have been known to have much less discriminating use of 'accessory' children in their attempt to out-image each other.

[TinFoilTopHat]

Spoiler: a little actual spoiler content here (click to show/hide)

So I tried to make a new world with a very insane size,  360 civilisations, and a 1500 year world. It went mostly well at first, but I noticed a few oddities. First of all, every single dark fortress and underworld spire on the map was empty. I sent an adventurer into one of the vaults, but there weren't any angels to be found. I started up a fortress, and my outpost liason said that all the goblins disappeared 10 years prior after lights shot up from each fortress and spire. I decided that it was alright not having to deal with goblin raids and just played for another 500 years until I unlocked space rockets. I decided to put a dwarf on the Moon, but then my sensors picked up a vast demonic civilization. It was eons ahead of Dwarven technology, and suddenly hundreds of thousands of demonic hellships launched towards the planet.  The goblins apparently had unlocked lunar colonies early, and  the demons conquered the moon. The lights were rocket launches, and now they're coming back. The reckoning is upon us.

[Amperzand]

Spoiler: In response (click to show/hide)

You should probably set up some deep research bunkers, get slade over your people's heads, and start in on nukes. If you get a few moods in the right place, you can get to crude fission gun-types within months.

[TheBiggerFish]

Spoiler: Hey, fix your spoiler! (click to show/hide)

Yeah.  I made it out of a similar situation the same way.  But don't forget about magic.  Transmuting the steel or aluminum in those ships to wood would be very good for yew.

[khearn]

In 2050, DF players will probably say:

Gaah! How do I keep my marksdwarves from rushing into melee?! Shouldn't they be staying back and firing bolts?

And why do my civilians keep rushing onto the battlefield to grab socks while the battle is still going on? they keep getting killed, then more civilians rush out to grab *their* socks!

[TheBiggerFish]

Bah.

[Starver]

In 2050, DF players will probably say:

Gaah! How do I keep my marksdwarves from rushing into melee?! Shouldn't they be staying back and firing bolts?

And they'd be wrong to.  You don't 'fire' crossbows (or bows in general), you 'loose' them.

[Chevaleresse]

In 2050, DF players will probably say:

Gaah! How do I keep my marksdwarves from rushing into melee?! Shouldn't they be staying back and firing bolts?

And they'd be wrong to.  You don't 'fire' crossbows (or bows in general), you 'loose' them.

[inset argument stretching for several pages about whether language is statistical]

[hops]

Median mode standard deviation? Bell curve whisker box! Dot graph, trend line...

[Starver]

In 2050, DF players will probably say:

Gaah! How do I keep my marksdwarves from rushing into melee?! Shouldn't they be staying back and firing bolts?

And they'd be wrong to.  You don't 'fire' crossbows (or bows in general), you 'loose' them.

[inset argument stretching for several pages about whether language is statistical]

[decimates your argument, thus leaving it uncomfortable but still 90% valid]