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[jester]

Farming really isnt required to live, its just an extra food source, you can live quite easily once you get going by hunting large game, good trap fences, a few fishing nets or the like.  By the time ive got my hut up and some decent traps in, im usually burning alot of small stacks of meat in my fireplace because I know ill never get around to eating them, what with the 100s of smoked meats in the cellars. 
  Hell, I made a cannibal who lived off only long pig and he did fine till he got stabbed in the eye by a foreign trader.

[Tiruin]

Anyway...Is Agriculture a feasible way of getting food for the coming years? I find hunting more fun and profitable - but this may just be me speaking. Currently at Autumn of the first year with a whole cellar full of dried elk in the hundreds

Beans are very nutritious, one can live on three handfuls of beans a day.  But agriculture doesn't give you hides, which are awesome.

Wait. Isn't the last sentence not-awesome? I mean, hides = foreign trader commodity! D:

  Hell, I made a cannibal who lived off only long pig and he did fine till he got stabbed in the eye by a foreign trader.

I never knew your characters can be pigs...

Unless I'm missing something here.

Also, ty@ answers to my questions.

[Mephansteras]

His point is that hides are awesome, so not getting them is a downside to farming.

Long pig (pork) is a slang for Human Flesh, since supposedly it tastes a lot like pork.

[sebcool]

Long pig (pork) is a slang for Human Flesh, since supposedly it tastes a lot like pork.

Not that we know... Right?

[Mephansteras]

Long pig (pork) is a slang for Human Flesh, since supposedly it tastes a lot like pork.

Not that we know... Right?

That's according to cannibal tribes, I think. Maybe have been confirmed by serial killers who eat their victims as well. Not really sure, it's not exactly a subject I have much interest in.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

nonsense, it tastes nothing like pork

[EuchreJack]

nonsense, it tastes nothing like pork

It tastes like chicken, because everything tastes like chicken!

More seriously, I think comparing humans to pork stems mostly from appearance.

[scriver]

Also the fact that we are both omnivores with very similar (natural) diet and generally share somewhat alike physiology (or whatever the word would be. You know what I mean).

[Haspen]

I found a small Driiki village which was devoid of villagers except two shopkeerers - one with tools, other with armors.

So I sneak behind one and insta-kill him with my axe. The other runs up to me, he has just a knife and I got lotsa of fur/leather clothes on me, so this should be easy, right?

"He stabs you perfectly in the eye."
"You die."

I:

[Sirus]

I've heard that equinephobia is the "best" phobia to have, since horses are apparently extremely rare.

For starting scenarios, try the Hunting Trip Gone Wrong one. My latest character managed to snag some really nice equipment off her dead father's body, including a bow, 10 arrows, two knives, and a woodsman's axe.

[Tiruin]

I found a small Driiki village which was devoid of villagers except two shopkeerers - one with tools, other with armors.

So I sneak behind one and insta-kill him with my axe.[...]

Is the ally/enemy thing about NPC villages just like in DF that they're telepathic? Meaning: Hit one - everyone's against you?

Or is it different here. I've never been able to figure it out. Also...why do villagers try to kill you when you accidentally dismantle part of their housing like a shelter - I can easily remake it :/

When do villages kill you, also. I've seen them inform you to stop doing it, but what if they're too far away to inform you? KoS?

[DeKaFu]

I've heard that equinephobia is the "best" phobia to have, since horses are apparently extremely rare.

So rare that I'm pretty sure they're not found anywhere in-game. Also, supposedly phobias have not had an in-game effect for a few versions now. They're mostly there for roleplaying at this point.

[Skyrunner]

When do villages kill you, also. I've seen them inform you to stop doing it, but what if they're too far away to inform you? KoS?

Tiruin died because he picked some turnips outside the village. When he went to enter the walled village, everyone ran at him and his dog met a death in combat. Tiruin stupidly tried to fight from the wall, but a lucky hit knocked him unconscious and he met an ignominious death...

[Tiruin]

When do villages kill you, also. I've seen them inform you to stop doing it, but what if they're too far away to inform you? KoS?

Tiruin died because he picked some turnips outside the village. When he went to enter the walled village, everyone ran at him and his dog met a death in combat. Tiruin stupidly tried to fight from the wall, but a lucky hit knocked him unconscious and he met an ignominious death...

Hmm, so there's a perimeter of ownership?

Also, I'm a character

Edit:

Just found a funny, and probably game-breaking bug. You can trade food/equipment, with emphasis on the former to woodsmen/adventurers to make them your temporary ally, right?

Well, you can also get your food AND their equipment when they are. Also, their contract lasts until they die/time lapse, despite any injury.

Spoiler: I mean, wow. Look at my adventuring party. All from 15 delicious roasted elk cuts (click to show/hide)

Name removed

Still, now to test if villages are telepathic as like in DF.

Hypothesis: Raiding this Driik village with these Driik people as it contains iron helms and other nice iron things will result in no change in relation with other surrounding villages.

Nobody will escape due to it being fortified and having 1 tile exits. Rocks are climbable though.

Edit II:

Spoiler: Results (click to show/hide)

Hypothesis proven.

> Driik NPC villagers recruited under command/request of helper/hunting request are officially allies with you and will fight their own people. And somehow, even others with you but of different type (eg adventurer vs woodsman) - unsure if this is due to the fact that I recruited from several other villages before taking this one on.

> The whole village goes hostile and everyone rushes to your position other than hide in their homes or retreat to adjacent villages - they loiter about if they retreat. I just stood in place and defended my 1 tile patch of land while my allies cleansed the area.

> Wounded/fainting/unconscious allies can still be brought around until their ally timer ends. I've had an allied woodsman fallen and fainting to be brought around every shift > world map area. He just stays at the area I press 'enter', shifting world map > local view and faints in his position XD

> No adjacent or any other local villages turned hostile. NPCs aren't telepathic unlike @DF.

On another note:
> Just learned that after buying animals, you have to 'a'pply the rope given to them first to bring them along >.> Lost a cow because of that, thought it was already leashed.

Gah.

[beorn080]

Now, the real question would be this. If you free the meat from a wounded ally, do the rest turn on you?