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[-Nihil-]

Yeah, I don't know... It could be a mistake token, a balance thing, or they just step over traps when their giant sense is tingling.

[smakemupagus]

Yeah, I don't know... It could be a mistake token, a balance thing, or they just step over traps when their giant sense is tingling.

Pretty sure it's not a mistake, they're supposed to be the harbingers of the end times, and Meph didn't want them being defeated out of hand with a few cage traps on a twisty path

[-Nihil-]

Yeah, I figured if it was intentional it is a balance thing. Traps are pretty overpowered.

[bennerman]

I managed to catch 5 but half my fort burned down and my web turret was killed. The rest drowned or were killed by my archers. On the plus side, my "buildings doubling as watch towers" worked out nicely

Edit: And for harbingers of the end times, they sure are vulnerable to, what are essentially flying sharpened chicken-wings

Edit 2: Snake Men are trap-avoid too?

Edit 3: I thought ironbark and steeloak were armour materials :<

[Aristion]

Edit 3: I thought ironbark and steeloak were armour materials :<

Process them first.

[bennerman]

Edit 3: I thought ironbark and steeloak were armour materials :<

Process them first.

Where? (as humans). I have them processed into logs at the carpentry guild, where next? (And no one can say I didn't check the manual this time XD)

[Splint]

If it's the same as dwarves, my guess is at whatever their equivalent to an alchemy or herbalism lab is.

[bennerman]

"Carpenter - Exotic Woodworker
Makes items from rare woods, including good/evil and cavern woods."

Maybe that?

[Splint]

Hrmm... Fool around with it I guess. The manual doesn't really say, but your best bet is probably the academic guild's east extension. You can use that to  make ironbone and bloodsteel if you're hurting for metals that badly if nothing else. Can always use that steeloak and ironwood for high quality furniture.

[bennerman]

That's the plan. I have 10 elite archers with bone arrows and shell armour, but bone and shell will suck in melee

[bennerman]

FPS death. We seriously need multicore support

Imagine two or 4 or 8 times the framerate. I think toady should've been working on that since 2010

Edit: I just heard that it's very hard for certain programming languages to be converted for multi-core use. That sucks

[SharpKris]

i'd suggest playing warlocks as they are the least fps intensive for me so far

[Niveras]

I personally have more trouble with FPS as warlocks, but maybe it is other factors in the embark. (I have bone. so much bone. oh god the bone. So much bone...). I really should stop raising zombies... but I need the corpses for souls and the meat makes blood (for bloodsteel) and it's less of a hassle letting them run around and occasionally kill things than sending military around manually.

Oh god, the bone.

Maybe I'll turn it all into blocks and build a ziggurat with them. I've wanted to build the structure out of various colors of ethereal blocks but I don't have enough warlocks to run the gates full time so I may as well use bone blocks.

[Splint]

Warlocks don't need to be the ones running them. Skeletons and ghouls can run them full-time (albeit at a very slow speed,) if you have sorcery enabled on them. Same goes for soul syphons.

[SharpKris]

4 dedicated skellies for 4 gates would get you building a tower in no time.
and with torture chamber being broken and all it should be easy to just dish out supplies