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Yes. Text gets cut off too often.

No. I dont care/like the names as they are.

Dont you have anything better to do then making such tiny adjustements?

[Meph]

Craftsdwarf.

[CheatingChicken]

I noticed something about the Earthkin (and probably other mages).
They tend to spam the combat reports a lot, even when inactive (the rock armor triggers quite often).
Is theree any way for you to change that? It makes it quite difficult to see actual combat reports when they pop up since the "New Reports" Icon is up most of the time.

[Meph]

Yeah, I think I can alter that... but atm its earthkin and some of the white mages. Unfortunately I can only do it with combat messages, OR they use the ability without making any feedback about it.

[Z1000000m]

Please set the occurance of fire users to 0. Possibly every mage caste.

Seriously, I just started a new fort for .i and the first caravan that came was a freakshow. I had some normal critters going around the map as per usual, so the caravan guards decided to kill them. One of those was a firemage. Two firebreaths, one dragonfire and two fireballs later, all my map went to shit thanks to literal friendly fire. I am not amused.

Seriously though, mages should not ever be caravan guards. I can only imagine how guards or even traders themselves can just accidentally kill some caravan unit and the whole caravan goes away and you get shit pinned on you for it.

[BoffoDorf]

Actually I have to agree here, firemages and fire based weapons are bad news to begin with unless one fireproofs the area they are to be used in. The last thing anyone needs (particularly the caravan itself ) is a caravan guard spilling fire left at right at the first sign of a wild boar and setting the map aflame. There just are not enough ways to combat forest fires, especially early on.

Anyway, thanks for the crafts dwarf heads up so to speak. Would it not make more sense to actually move at least the wicker reaction to the thatchery? I mean the manual states as much and you need to make wicker at the thatchery anyway, not to mention the craftsdwarf shop is overfull with enough random reactions as it is.

Looking at the raws it looks like making a scarecrow doesn't require any skill at all, would that have to do with the new form of spawning critters from thin air?

I also noticed the kiln doesn't return the seeds of the plants it drys. Intentional or an oversight? It's bad enough the kiln eats fuel, last thing anyone needs in addition is yet another seed sink (I'm looking at you vanilla cooking )

[Meph]

I can make firemages a lot rarer. Honestly, its only a problem if you play on flat maps... which most people seem to do.

Seeds will be added, was an oversight.

[Bolland]

I've been looking at the priests and noticed they cannot gain skill levels in anything but Priest/Shaman. I understand this is intentional.

However, it also affects social skills.  I feel that this is a bit out of whack. Are the priests so focused on their duties, which may include preaching, that they can't get better at persuading/intimidating their subjects to worship Armok? Are they so focused they can't learn to lie to or judge the intent of their worshippers and Armok?

I also see that the Witch Hunters get their skills set very high because of their training. Other guild descriptions contain phrases similar to the Which Hunters', such as the Engineers (accepting inventors), Fishing Guild (probably attracts mostly patient dwarves), Healers (altruistic dwarves), the military castes (previous training) and so on. Should they not receive similar treatment? Is it possible to only affect migrants with the caste (maybe one caste for transforms and a copy with the skill bonus/malus)?

[Broseph Stalin]

I'm not a huge fan of corpses as items, not really based on anything rational I just don't like having the whole siege boxed up and hauled to the finished goods stockpile in bins. Maybe you could add a caste that drops "intact limb" or something like that that the biologist could study while general corpses are treated like corpses.

[Meph]

I can make rare castes, 1 in 33, which go to the biologist, yes... but I cant use normal corpses in reagents, so the entire "sacrifice to armok", "extract clockwork here", "search kobold corpse for loot" and so on would also go.

Its just a silly workaround for the bugs vanilla DF has, I simply cant use CORPSE:NONE:NONE:NONE REACTION_CLASS:GOBLIN in a reaction, it takes any corpse...

[Billy Jack]

I can make rare castes, 1 in 33, which go to the biologist, yes... but I cant use normal corpses in reagents, so the entire "sacrifice to armok", "extract clockwork here", "search kobold corpse for loot" and so on would also go.

Its just a silly workaround for the bugs vanilla DF has, I simply cant use CORPSE:NONE:NONE:NONE REACTION_CLASS:GOBLIN in a reaction, it takes any corpse...

Couldn't you make a new material with the reaction class and add that to the body make up of the particular creatures?

[Putnam]

No, I don't think so. Corpse materials are different.

[Meph]

I tested with GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT, and corpses give bone-items, so I figured its the bone material, but even after I gave goblins a custom body material and body tissue template with a unique reaction class it wouldnt work.

Thats why I had to use the workaround with itemcorpses... I would gladly use proper corpses again, but I dont know if thats possible.

[moseythepirate]

This is just a personal thought, but I would rather like for Cobalt to have more uses. As it is, the only real use for it is as an iron replacement, if you lack iron. If your map has both, the cobalt seems pretty pointless, especially considering how steel requires naught but iron, flux, and fuel at a smelter, while welded cobalt requires cobalt, silver, copper, and fuel at a crucible and a metallurgist.

So, cobalt and its welded variant is substantially more difficult to produce than iron and steel, and slightly inferior. Even if they ARE a really nice shade of blue.

[Meph]

I am open to suggestions. It currently is in fact a alternative to iron/steel. cobalt/welded cobalt. Thats the basic idea.

[jimboo]

Blue glass.  I'd still like to see my glassmaker come up with a Portland vase.  Since the word cobalt comes from superstitious German miners, perhaps there could be a warpstone-like chance when mining. 

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The Portland Vase; great story on Wikipedia