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[Garn]

so I made a large island with an assload of megabeasts and whatnot, threw it to year 1500, and I made a peasant outsider, since starting with clothes is too easy, and what I'm wondering is, will I ever get my hands on a backpack?
without a backpack it'll take at least twice as long to grind up throwing, I can't carry weapons of varying metals for werebeasts, different weapon types, vanity stuff like a pond turtle or a night creature horn, and more importantly I can't carry meat around with me, or other animal products that I can sell at a town for its currency. I've been looking around bandit camps and trying to look for backpacks and waterskins but all I'm finding are bags and chests; waterskins are something I can work around though, since I can drink blood or water that gets on my skin/weapons

I've had such a bad experience trying to find backpacks for sale with all of my adventurers overall after DF2012, that I haven't found  single one, and my current dude only knows of one town, this one in particular is humongous and infested with abandoned shops and houses, some of which have $$ surrounding their items, and none of the stores I've found so far have any backpack inside; additionally I haven't found any outdoor auctions in this town, probably because theres like 20 lairs containing multiple vampires around the town and cause it has a sewer filled with the skeletons of various animal people. The only place I'll have left to look is inside the vampire caves, where theres usually a vampire deep in the 1-wide entrance. Obviously I don't wanna sneak in there since most of these guys have killed over 500 people, and I won't be going to kill em for a long time.

Has anyone ever seen a naturally spawned backpack or waterskin in vanilla DF2012 adventure mode that wasn't on them when they made their dude?

[McFeel]

Hi,

  I don't play as outsider for now, but I usually find backpacks, waterskins and quivers in the keeps of the towns, and in the dungeons (with a lot of more valuable stuff).

  I hope that you find your preciate backpack.

[XXSockXX]

Yeah, I always find those in keeps, dungeons and lairs. Especially in an old world you should be finding lots of them.

[Cassandra]

Keeps, dungeons, titan lairs, yes. Titan lairs also have a high chance for elven sized armor, amazingly enough.

[Dyret]

Keeps, dungeons, titan lairs, yes. Titan lairs also have a high chance for elven sized armor, amazingly enough.

Elves, Goblins, and Dwarves all use the same size. The game only takes volume into account when determining armour fit these days.

[laularukyrumo]

Dry-clean it, it'll stretch.

Start a fort somewhere near the city, make 8000 backpacks, abandon, then bring your adventurer in there to raid.

[xominxac]

You're gonna find one eventually, just keep looking.

[Garn]

ok so long story short I found a backpack in a vampire's lair with legendary+5 ambushing, grinded some attributes to super, slow some titans and vampires, including a serpent man vampire, slaughtered bandit lords, and now I'm in a necromancer tower with novice reading and now I have a bigger problem
I finally found the slab at the top of the tower, its name is Onolgedor
when I interact with it after picking it up and then press [a] to read, it says the following
You read Onolgedor.
"The secrets of life and death"
and thats it
just after that, I dropped the slab, pressed x, and looked under both acquired powers and natural abilities, and I see no abilities there
do I need more than novice reading to become a necromancer?
edit: I tried reading it more than once, it says the same thing each time, and when I [l]ook at myself, is still doesn't say necromancer anywhere; additionally when I press u on top of a corpse and interact with it, then corpse doesn't become animated

[XXSockXX]

No, reading the slab should make you a necro immediately. You should have "animate corpse" as acquired power.

[McFeel]

One of the books that are scattered in the tower will make you a necromancer, after reading it. You will see it beacuse will be added to your name necromancer and a pink curse icon. You have to read all the books until you find the one.

[Cassandra]

Are you an elf or a goblin?

[Eric Blank]

Are you an elf or a goblin?

This. If you're already immortal, you cannot possibly comprehend what it is to age and die. You cannot become a necromancer.

[Garn]

Are you an elf or a goblin?

This. If you're already immortal, you cannot possibly comprehend what it is to age and die. You cannot become a necromancer.

damn
im an elf btw, i love that speed

[pisskop]

Three easy fixes.

1) Play as a non-outsider.  Drop your bag somewheres you can find later as an outsider (cheater )

2) Quivers.  with the power of quivers, the worst part of it is the micromanaging.  Though compared to the rest of DF its really onkly a minor step up.

3) Mod.  I'm sure there is a mod to make one or 'find' one.

Are you an elf or a goblin?

This. If you're already immortal, you cannot possibly comprehend what it is to age and die. You cannot become a necromancer.

Not true.  They lack the correct (or any in goblin's case) pantheon.  Lemme grab the thread link. . .  (They need religions)

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=116730.msg3628331#msg3628331

No Gob in this tower, but an elf and a serpent man.

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

There are quite a number of simple mods that add crafting reactions to allow an outsider to forage, kill and craft all his supplies.