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[Geneoce]

Hate to be spamming your thread Meth but was the lack of siege operator skill in the inscriber intentional? As far as I go no warlock citizens have natural growth in this ability.

EDIT: The Emissary is also missing a bait dwarfs reaction i've noticed.

[Meph]

Meth

Meth

Meth

There it is again... has been a while since I have been called Meth.

Siege Operator = Good point. It was in the military skills in the wiki, thats why that one slipped through my grasp. I will add it.

[Neri]

Don't worry Meph, he's only calling you that because we all need our Masterwork fix.

[Geneoce]

Whoops! Guess I shouldn't be Dark Towering while foruming. My apologies Meph.

[Szarrukin]

OK, I have my first problem - warlocks don't want to store souls in soul siphon. I have souls, I have hourglasses, they have alchemy enabled, but aren't doing anything but standing with "no job".

[Splint]

Other jobs, sorcery. It should really be listed in the description in the manual for that...

[hanspeter]

Two things so far: Magma Well doesn't spawn anything. dfhack console reads:

[DF folder]\hack\scripts/eruption.lua:69: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'ry' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
[DF folder]\hack\scripts/eruption.lua:69: in function 'eruption'
[DF folder]\hack\scripts/eruption.lua:125: in main chunk
(...tail calls...)

Spawned ghouls can't join the military as they don't have a reaction for masterwork items. How about spawning them with legendary Discipline as well and add a temporary [NO EMOTION] to the masterwork reaction which lasts just long enough for the item to decay (and then perhaps sets the discipline skill to zero as it's not really needed for anything but the reaction, is it?).

[mahrgell]

Wouldn't it be possible to spawn the ghoul and some sort of dummycreature that gets killed instantly by the ghoul? And maybe remove the dummy creature afterwards to prevent it from screwing up the unitcount (see cathedral) That should make the ghoul notable....

[Jaso11111]

Two things so far: Magma Well doesn't spawn anything. dfhack console reads:

[DF folder]\hack\scripts/eruption.lua:69: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'ry' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
[DF folder]\hack\scripts/eruption.lua:69: in function 'eruption'
[DF folder]\hack\scripts/eruption.lua:125: in main chunk
(...tail calls...)

Same here. I wanted to make a lava moat

[hanspeter]

Something else, pretty sure it's a hardcoded bug: Skeletons get tired while military training and fighting (I think) but have no means to rest. Maybe some sort of "skeletal maintenance" reaction would be in order?

Couldn't reproduce it to properly verify but I think Ghouls are affected by their own (or maybe zombie, I couldn't check) bites and start rotting away which leads to endless surgery loops and never healing.

Also, how about a Demonic Steamengine? Like a normal power generator just fired with souls instead of regular fuel.

[dukea42]

Holy Cow I get a siege by Dwarves in the first winter.  22 axes and one mace rider.  They have everything from iron to welded metals.  I don't think my fort value is that high (I can verify the exact value later), but the only thing I could do was finish my wall and gate before they made it to my Tower grounds.  I barely have any weapons made, no ironbone industry, no new skeletons or ghouls created beyond migrants, nor any magic or alchemy.  I am forced to wait this out, but luckily the stream is providing enough food and drink.  I now am forced to use the graveyard to get enough bones and souls to get some sort of skeleton archer defense ready.

After my last fort that had early goblin siege take me out basically in the same situation (there I atleast had time to get ironbone and ashland glass started), I am wondering what am I doing that is raising hatred towards me so quickly...

Does anyone have any other options I should take?  I lost a few skeletons and a warlock outside the wall, I may be able to field 2 ghouls, 6 Skeletons and 4 Warlocks if I can get this unprocessed iron smelted enough for weapons and mail shirts.

Also as a balance concern.  I have a dream of fielding Dreadnaught Skeletons with Ebonyglass Armor just for the mental image (and dreadnought is really expensive!).  However, where does Ebonyglass, Ashlandglass fit in with other "slightly better than steel" metals like mithril and bloodsteel or dreadnought.  I ask, because the cost of Ebony is much higher than Ashland or Mithril and even really bloodsteel (it needs 3 semi-rare ingredients to find in one embark), but with it's weight, it's not clear from the stats if that's worth the cost for armor's or cutting weapons, etc.

[Meph]

I had a dwarven siege first autumn as well, the siege triggers have to be raised.

[Boltgun]

I had a dwarven siege first autumn as well, the siege triggers have to be raised.

I found out that the siege triggers are acting weird when you are a babysnatcher civ. Usually the enemies attack at year 2, with one squad depending of your production.

[Jaso11111]

So can warlocks make pearlash? My KON kinda wants a clear glass window in his (underground) room.

[Godlysockpuppet]

Hey Meth just popping by to tell you it's looking good! Ain't had much time the last year or so to play df, but just here to offer a little support!