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[Staalo]

Too bad dorfmist doesn't give any happy thoughts. Or at least I haven't noticed any, and there's been a LOT of mist flying around.

I wish I had some way to produce a gif of the school running... it is quite hilarious and mesmerizing to see the little red beardlings run around and then fly over the edge with a (I'd imagine) dumbfounded look on their faces.

[Col_Jessep]

You could use OBS (free) to make a youtube vid and there are tools to turn those into gifs if you want.

[Bumber]

You could use OBS (free) to make a youtube vid and there are tools to turn those into gifs if you want.

GifCam would be easier.

[uggi]

You know you can record a movie in DF and upload it to DF Map Archive.

[Sprin]

After mass dumping stone from my arena/school a cyclopse came in and murdered the only child I had... daaaang...

[Max™]

Staalo: capable of understanding the intricate art of horrifying dorflets with ‼Science‼ while horrifying everyone with their Dog Bone Doctor atrocities, but never hit the record a movie keybind, not even accidentally*.



*I'm not actually sure which key it is, I think it is shift+R or something else I don't use for anything because I've only ever hit it accidentally and had to poke around to figure out how to turn it off.

[Staalo]

Yes, I know about the movie feature but that's way overkill when I only want few frames of splashing dorfs in a loop. GifCam seems to be just what I had in mind; I will play with it later.

[Staalo]

So, I captured this little thing with GifCam:

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It's a bit choppy but I think that can be corrected with correct settings. Anyway, it shows how the swimming pool works. Dwarves are quite tenacious when they have decided to get that drink on the other side; they'll try again and again to cross the bridges.

[rmblr]

Nice! What do you have turning the spear traps on/off?

[Max™]

Oh my god how do you play without herniating yourself laughing?

[Naryar]

That's not dwarven child care. That's a dwarven comedy generator.

[Staalo]

I'm not embarrassed to admit I have spent hours laughing at the swimming pool slapstick action.

Meanwhile, I drafted all eight parents to special squad "The Army of Lovers" and assigned them to spar at the observation training barracks. There they will live, train and ahem, "wrestle" free from any other duties. Bit like the armies of old Sparta, except with  straight couples.

I now realize things will get awkward when I send their kids as planned for "Observation" training...

[Staalo]

Oh, and rmblr: I simply have a dwarf flicking one lever on and off. I could have linked a repeater to all spear traps but this has the advantage of speed: when I need to get the traps stopped now I simply have to tell the lever puller to stop what he's doing and it's done. With more complex systems there are all kinds of various delays involved.

[Max™]

Wait, isn't there a water repeater that is like super fast to stop?

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Put a pressure plate in there, link a lever to the door, the 6 square will wander back and forth triggering the plate and opening the door dumps the water level too low, killing it immediately. Can make it faster to refill but that was just a quickie example for an auto-stop switch, seen much better in the dorfputing threads.

[Staalo]

Yes, I looked into that one also; it would be a good alternative but triggering the door opening instantly when I want it would be a problem.

I'm sure there could be some super-dwarfy automated solution that would do the same thing better but I wanted to simply get this thing built and didn't research things that far. I haven't yet tried my hand at complex automation; that would be a thing in some future fort.