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[utunnels]

It is possible to see magma crabs before you see magma.
My miner reached a layer of warm stone yesterday.
Then a magma crab sneaked into my fort.

[Putnam]

The official euphemism for testicles is "geldables".  As in "the geldables have been torn away!".

It's because gelding isn't actually tied to the testicles, IIRC. You could make a female geldable by including the [GELDABLE] tag somewhere in the body plan.

The part about there being no testicles is correct.  The part about gelding females is not.  Or at least not when I tried.

Nope, part about females is right.

[ptb_ptb]

I've been doing some research, and I've come up with some findings on migrants.

Although you can get 'historical' migrants, those from fortresses, camps or even retired adventurers, the majority of migrants are newly created from thin air. For example, when I had 14 retired adventurers in a fortress and started a new fortress very near to the first, it took around EIGHTY migrants arriving before FIVE of the retired adventurers arrived.

That was in a civilization where the only fortresses were the two I created. I'm not sure if having more sites in your civilization results in a greater percentage of historical migrants.

[pisskop]

I dont think the game generates migrants on-site unless it has no choice.  Your adventurers, for example, are far from standard dwarves.  You cant count them as normal civilians because they themselves were procedurally genned.

Best would be getting an almost dead civ with only a few sites and tracking pops

[utunnels]

1) Corpse on a tree
2) Blast the tree using ballista = floating corpse
3) Design a floor betwen the tree and corpse
4) Remove design, corpse falls

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Does ballistaing a tree give wood?

[utunnels]

Does ballistaing a tree give wood?

No.

[Putnam]

Ballistas haven't been updated since the game was 2D.

[Sadrice]

I dont think the game generates migrants on-site unless it has no choice.  Your adventurers, for example, are far from standard dwarves.  You cant count them as normal civilians because they themselves were procedurally genned.

Best would be getting an almost dead civ with only a few sites and tracking pops

I'm pretty sure the game regularly generates new dwarves for migrants.  There seem to be two categories of migrants.  Historical migrants, with a random selection of skills and skill levels and a smattering of social skills, and generic migrants, which I suspect are generated on the spot, which have semilogical sets of skills, usually no social skills, ad within a particular skill, all "generated"  migrants have the same skill level if they have the skill.  For instance, most dwarves that have a melee weapon skill have competent in that skill, a lesser level (plain x in dwarf therapist's glyph display mode.  Adequate, maybe?) in assorted generic combat skills, like fighter, dodger, and armor user, and no social skills.  Marksdwarves seem to be more commonly "historical", since they are usually hunters, which is a fairly common profession in worldgen, and arrive with recorded kills, more random skill levels and types, and often some social skills.  It seems to me, though I may be imagining it, that "historical" migrants make up a much much larger portion of the migrant pool in 40.x than before.  For instance, I got an adequate lasher with one recorded dwarf kill the other day.  I really want to know whathappened in that dwarf's past, I should hunt him down in legends mode, but I have never gotten a lasher or other foreign weapon skill (aside from miner, of course) from migrants in any previous version since dwarf therapist was released.  He also was only an adequate lasher.  Previously, migrant melee weapon skill was competent or nothing.  Now I'm gettig a smattering of both higher and lower weapon skills, almost always corresponding with presence of social skills and a more random distribution of other skills.  But I still get a lot of migrants (seemingly more on low dwarf population worlds, though I may be imagining it) that are generic migrants, with predictable skill levels and no social skills.


TL;DR: I'm pretty sure I've been seeing "generated" migrants in every world, even ones with lots of surviving large dwarven civilizations.  But I might be making up imaginary distinctions, I'm not quite sure...

[utunnels]

Well I saw a big white O on my refuse stockpile.

At first I thought it was a Giant Olm corpse. But after months, no one went to butcher it.
Then I checked the name: Giant Olm bone [18]. So it was a bone stack.

I checked the stock menu, it was under corpses, not body parts.
It was eventually fetched by a bone carver and used to deocrate finished goods.

[utunnels]

I dont think the game generates migrants on-site unless it has no choice.  Your adventurers, for example, are far from standard dwarves.  You cant count them as normal civilians because they themselves were procedurally genned.

Best would be getting an almost dead civ with only a few sites and tracking pops

I'm pretty sure the game regularly generates new dwarves for migrants.  There seem to be two categories of migrants.  Historical migrants, with a random selection of skills and skill levels and a smattering of social skills, and generic migrants, which I suspect are generated on the spot, which have semilogical sets of skills, usually no social skills, ad within a particular skill, all "generated"  migrants have the same skill level if they have the skill.  For instance, most dwarves that have a melee weapon skill have competent in that skill, a lesser level (plain x in dwarf therapist's glyph display mode.  Adequate, maybe?) in assorted generic combat skills, like fighter, dodger, and armor user, and no social skills.  Marksdwarves seem to be more commonly "historical", since they are usually hunters, which is a fairly common profession in worldgen, and arrive with recorded kills, more random skill levels and types, and often some social skills.  It seems to me, though I may be imagining it, that "historical" migrants make up a much much larger portion of the migrant pool in 40.x than before.  For instance, I got an adequate lasher with one recorded dwarf kill the other day.  I really want to know whathappened in that dwarf's past, I should hunt him down in legends mode, but I have never gotten a lasher or other foreign weapon skill (aside from miner, of course) from migrants in any previous version since dwarf therapist was released.  He also was only an adequate lasher.  Previously, migrant melee weapon skill was competent or nothing.  Now I'm gettig a smattering of both higher and lower weapon skills, almost always corresponding with presence of social skills and a more random distribution of other skills.  But I still get a lot of migrants (seemingly more on low dwarf population worlds, though I may be imagining it) that are generic migrants, with predictable skill levels and no social skills.


TL;DR: I'm pretty sure I've been seeing "generated" migrants in every world, even ones with lots of surviving large dwarven civilizations.  But I might be making up imaginary distinctions, I'm not quite sure...

Well to me most of the dorfs can't be tracked.
I once viewed their history in Legends Viewer, but they don't have any history before my site was created.

I also tried to find my king, but there was only a message about the dorf settled in some cave. But when I created an adventurer or embarked in the cave, it was just empty.

[bigcalm]

Trivial finding: Pearlash is magma safe.

(not mentioned on the wiki anywhere but immersion of pearlash bars in magma with no effect confirms that they're fine).

[TheFlame52]

On militiadwarves, student and concentration raise at the same time.

[utunnels]

Gem window and windows can stop water. So I can build swimming pools over floors.

[Sutremaine]

If you can engineer a situation in which your military beat up an unconscious creature for eternity (or until they go mad of sleep deprivation), you can get the following benefits:

:Armour User skill
:Discipline
:Observer
:Excellent stat gains. This is the main draw for me.
:Daycare -- burrow the kids there and let them watch. It's great for their focus and intuition. Who knows, if you have a sufficiently fight-happy child, maybe they'll join in the beating.
:Dinner at the end of it. Animals don't get the skill benefits of fighting, but they do get the stats. Camel bacon for everyone!