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MeMyselfAndI

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In memory of a wagon
« on: June 04, 2014, 06:57:44 am »


Must have been a memorable wagon.
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2014, 07:35:17 am »
This happens surprisingly often.
It's just one of those amusing little jewels that makes DF so memorable.

(Now, I am just waiting to see this immortalized in other ways. I would LOVE to see a ghost wagon one of these days.)
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2014, 08:06:07 am »
I chuckled. And I am at work.
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2014, 03:29:15 pm »
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Reading his name would trigger it. Thinking of him would trigger it. No other circumstances would trigger it- it was strictly related to the concept of Bill Clinton entering the conscious mind.

THE xTROLL FUR SOCKx RUSE WAS A........... DISTACTION        the carp HAVE the wagon

A wizard has turned you into a wagon. This was inevitable (Y/y)?

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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2014, 05:23:29 pm »
Obligatory:

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It's a dwarf.  Their natural habitat is "trapped on the wrong side of a wall".

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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2014, 03:35:13 pm »
To my amusement I had this happen in my most recent fortress. Shortly after being memorialised, one of the dorfs used the wagon wood in an artifact:

Rashgurod, "Attacktunnelled"

Attacktunnelled was a legendary wagon wooden (sic) goblet

Interestingly, the wagon wood would not be hauled to the wood stockpile, so I don't think it actually counts as wood at all. I think it's a corpse?

The engraved slab read: "In memory of a wagon, scuttled in Oarbells in <date>"

Despite saying it was scuttled, I think it just deconstructed when it couldn't path to my depot properly.
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2014, 04:14:05 pm »
Wagon wood is considered wood, it just isn't on the list of "normal" wood types.  Wood stockpiles just don't have wagon wood as a wood type, so you can never set them to be accepted there.  I've seen wagon wood artifacts and "menaces with spikes of wagon wood" plenty of times.

Scuttling is the intentional scrapping of a vehicle (originally used with drilling holes in the bottoms of your own ships to deny them to your enemies).  I don't see it as conflicting with a wagon deconstruction: it was stuck somewhere and couldn't move, so it was destroyed by the driver -- scuttled.
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2014, 04:28:15 pm »
Mine actually says "In memory of a wagon / Born 127 / Scuttled in the year 353". Pretty sure this wagon was a caravan wagon that got ambushed by goblins, not my embark wagon. I kinda feel bad about it now--it was an antique.
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2014, 07:27:21 am »
Don't elves accept objects made of wagon wood without complaint?
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2014, 07:43:11 am »
Haven't tried it myself, but it's been reported that elves are indeed perfectly o.k. with wagon wood:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=34430.msg5147992#msg5147992

Since elves won't complain that it was "once a beautiful tree", it follows that there are no such things as wagon wood trees (or they're too ugly for elves to protect??), wagon wood is the wooden "meat" or bone of the wagon animal. My personal belief is that wagons hatch from eggs, a.k.a. puzzleboxes (those are listed under various materials, but that's just the material of the shell).
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2014, 08:24:35 am »
Quick! Someone start farming wagon wood and selling it to elves just to spite them!
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2014, 03:18:13 am »
Maybe wagon wood is in the refuse stockpile settings? :)
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2014, 08:15:08 am »
Quote from: MeMyselfAndI on June 12, 2014, 08:24:35 am
Quick! Someone start farming wagon wood and selling it to elves just to spite them!

Bwahahahahaha! And they can't be bitching about it since it doesn't come from trees! Genius!
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Re: In memory of a wagon
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2014, 08:24:19 am »
Is it possible to mod in breeding wagons?
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