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[Cain12]

For some reason I imagine halflings as diplomatic, acquiescent, yet crafty and best-not-messed-with in good mood, while being paranoid, reclusive, and territorial as their mood decreases until they go mad and try to kill anyone who looks at them funny. At least that's how I would try to roleplay the slow descent of any halfling fort playtest I may do in the future.

I kinda get the image of a simple folk with no walls (except for the rich who have their land walled up), small huts for families with fields outside that everyone tended to. A peaceful lot, they drink despite not being able to handle it in their local tavern during festivals, the kind that with no real ambition expect for the rare halfling that wanted more from his life than comfort and community. The kind of home that gets razed not far into the beginning of a heroes quest due to their lack of real defenses against the spider-centaur invaders. But that is just me projecting the peaceful race I wish to play sometimes that never felt right with dwarfs.

[Vgray]

Why do Formics drink booze anyway?

[Cain12]

Why do Formics drink booze anyway?

I figured it was an efficiency thing, if rivers freeze or they have nothing else, tarnish stalk booze is cheap and easy enough to make, that its worth puking for a season or two to sustain the colony/hive.

[StLeibowitz]

That basically covers it - beer is better than dying of thirst, and tarnish stalks are cheap. Also, alcohol is addictive (or at least is in real life, not sure how to model that in-game ((probably some interaction-y stuff Halfling will come up with in five seconds that'd take me a week of deep thought)) ) and Formics are no less susceptible to that than other races, so a long dry spell could lead to an entire hive's addiction and subsequent mass production of tarnish stalk liquor.

Also, the idea of Halflings as an aggressively pastoral hegemonizing swarm, stoning to death the invertebrate ecology and replacing it with ducks and hounds wherever they go, amuses me greatly

[WillowLuman]

As does the fact that they're not very good at it XD

Nearly done with my Civ...

[Vgray]

Okay I checked. When my Halflings chop a tree down they get apple tree logs not "apple tree plant logs" needed for the reaction.

[StLeibowitz]

That'll be a bug, then. We should probably get that fixed soon-ish...

Added a few pages on bugs onto Best Wiki, just an FYI. It's best wiki because it most resembles the official wiki for DF and it has fewest ads.

[Aseaheru]

Did we not try to fix that bug last release?

[Gnorm]

Just registered for the shout wiki. I'll work on both it and mine until we definitively decide what is to be done.

[StLeibowitz]

I'm fairly sure you don't need to register. I didn't and just added four pages.

[Vgray]

Wow. I didn't observe it, but the combat logs say a river squid picked a fight with a cuttler. The squid threw the cuttler at itself somehow. The cuttler bit the squid in its lung equivalent and it looks like the squid bled out. It's in a 1x1 pool of murky water.

[WillowLuman]

Woo! Cephalofight!

[Vgray]

I'm going to tame and breed cuttlers now.

[Kazimuth]

I just embarked in an evil biome with this huge waterfall, it's fairly nifty.
There's a giant herd of panserblekk at the south end of the map- luckily my hobbits haven't engaged them yet, but they seem to be getting closer. (Note: in their description, 'cephalopod' is misspelt as 'ceolapod' or something, so we should fix that.) Also, the river squid are scaring the fishermen half to death, and they keep complaining about the lack of things to catch, which may or may not be a bug?
I like this settlement... might write it up if I have enough energy in the next few days. Can't wait to start growing tea.

[Vgray]

I have identified the culprit. He has a dent on his eighth arm from when a Halfling stoned him.