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[Inarius]

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Urist McBard (to Urist McAudience1): "In a time before time, Dedak Storydwarf struck down Urist Legendaxe in the Fake Hills."
Urist McAudience1 (to Urist McBard): "That is terrific!"
Urist McAudience1 (to Urist McAudience2): "In a time before time, Dedak Storydwarf struck down Urist Legendaxe in the Fake Hills."
Urist McAudience2 (to Urist McAudience1): "That is terrific!"
Urist McAudience2 (to Urist McBard): "In a time before time, Dedak Storydwarf struck down Urist Legendaxe in the Fake Hills."
Urist McBard (to Urist McAudience2): "It was inevitable!"
Urist McBard (to Urist McAudience1): "In a time before time, Dedak Storydwarf struck down Urist Legendaxe in the Fake Hills."

Because Urist McBard already knows.

[Urist_McDagger]

Will we be able to create fixed events during world creation; things such as a specific text/book, or perhaps a song, that will then appear in the game by someone either not specified or a person of importance?

[SupremeSandwich]

Will recipes (when added) include non-food recipes? i.e recipes to recreate artifacts

[Knight Otu]

Will recipes (when added) include non-food recipes? i.e recipes to recreate artifacts

The recipes will likely only be for consumables, and probably only for actual food rather that other things like alchemy, at least at the start. Either way, artifacts would not be among the things recipes would be used for.

Will we be able to create fixed events during world creation; things such as a specific text/book, or perhaps a song, that will then appear in the game by someone either not specified or a person of importance?

It seems possible, though not particularly likely, that songs and stories get a raw format of their own, which could work like (or be part of) the descriptions raws. I wouldn't count on it for the time being though.

[Manzeenan]

I feel like this has been asked but will there be books that grant experience to the reader? Or more aquired abilities?
Similar to necromancy

[Naryar]

With the tavern update, will all of our fortress some of the more immoderate dwarves will actually become drunk, with different degrees of drunkenness (I suppose it would be shown in the Wounds screen as Tipsy, Drunk, Dead Drunk, etc., like Stunned and the other status effects), and cause drunken shenanigans all over your fort ?

[Tabris01]

If books are used in some way, will they or some kind of writing material be needed in administration, at least from a certain point of time?

[Zarathustra30]

I feel like this has been asked but will there be books that grant experience to the reader? Or more aquired abilities?
Similar to necromancy

I don't think this quite answers your question, but Toady mentioned something about a knowledge system in the November FOTF reply, potentially going in during start scenarios, though it's really up in the air at this point.

Which brings me to a related question. How do you intend to mitigate feature creep during starting scenarios?  It's beginning to sound like a magical, solve-everything release, which means it will take a very long time to implement.

[Dirst]

I feel like this has been asked but will there be books that grant experience to the reader? Or more aquired abilities?
Similar to necromancy

I don't think this quite answers your question, but Toady mentioned something about a knowledge system in the November FOTF reply, potentially going in during start scenarios, though it's really up in the air at this point.

Which brings me to a related question. How do you intend to mitigate feature creep during starting scenarios?  It's beginning to sound like a magical, solve-everything release, which means it will take a very long time to implement.

It's related to the scenarios because your mission might be to acquire new knowledge for your civ.  Right now the only civ-level knowledge is domesticating animals, but that might be expanded to learning how to work new-to-your-civ plants or ores or items.  This could easily wait to a second or third release of the scenario feature.

If scenarios differ only in their embark resources and Mountainhome mandates, they seem relatively lightweight on gameplay.  If running an Outpost is practically a different game from running a Temple, then yes it could turn into a bloat catastrophe.  I have faith in Toady that he won't do the minimum, nor will he destroy the game.

[neblime]

something I have long wondered about:
do you have plans on how to implement multi tile creatures graphically?  for example, will a bronze collosus be a bunch of Cs in the shape of a collosus, or using existing characters to make different parts look like a foot or a head or whatever?
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[Urist Tilaturist]

Wagons are already in the game, so I expect they should be modelled like that, at least at first. Eventually I would like to see different body parts on different tiles, so dwarves would have to climb on a colossus to attack its head.

[neblime]

Eventually I would like to see different body parts on different tiles, so dwarves would have to climb on a colossus to attack its head.

well that's in the current dev list, so maybe within 10 years? 
you make a good point with the wagons but that's a pretty easy creature to represent so I don't know if that would be the approach later

[Manzeenan]

Wagons are already in the game, so I expect they should be modelled like that, at least at first. Eventually I would like to see different body parts on different tiles, so dwarves would have to climb on a colossus to attack its head.

siege engine revamps, no military is going to take on a multi tile chunk of hostile bronze lol

[Urist Tilaturist]

A bronze colossus is supposed to be 1/4 as big as the Statue of Liberty. That means it should take up that many tiles. A bunch of dwarves with hand weapons should not give it much trouble. That is what giant, deadly contraptions and magma are for.

As I often say, beasts are generally too weak at the moment.

[Dirst]

A bronze colossus is supposed to be 1/4 as big as the Statue of Liberty. That means it should take up that many tiles. A bunch of dwarves with hand weapons should not give it much trouble. That is what giant, deadly contraptions and magma are for.

As I often say, beasts are generally too weak at the moment.

The issue isn't so much that the militia can hack a bronze colossus until it stops moving if they have hard enough weapons.  The issue is that it can scamper down a narrow staircase to get at your militia while a merchant's cart requires a 6m-wide ramp.