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[Jacob/Lee]

Kitten stepped on my keyboard, and changed some setting in DF. I think it's in... Truetype now? Changed the font of all the menus so it's not using ascii anymore.

F11 should fix that!

No, F11 appears to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode. Oh well.

Try F12.

[XXSockXX]

Kitten stepped on my keyboard, and changed some setting in DF. I think it's in... Truetype now? Changed the font of all the menus so it's not using ascii anymore.

F11 should fix that!

No, F11 appears to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode. Oh well.

F12. And maybe pasture the kitten...

[MrWillsauce]

Kitten stepped on my keyboard, and changed some setting in DF. I think it's in... Truetype now? Changed the font of all the menus so it's not using ascii anymore.

F11 should fix that!

No, F11 appears to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode. Oh well.

F12. And maybe pasture the kitten...

Wait until it's mature so it's tallow is the tastiest. I mean, er, pet it.

[nbp]

So I've been very laboriously casting a giant block of obsidian on the surface, with the intent of carving it into an awesome, gleaming black epic fort for my dwarves to live in while laughing at all the other pathetic creatures that live in anything other than an awesome, gleaming black epic fort.  It's 80 urists long, 40 urists wide, and, at 47 urists tall, is almost tall enough to accommodate my original plans.  But I'm starting to get greedy, and I'm tempted to add more on top of the original planned structure.  With the ideas I'm tossing around, the extension wouldn't need to be as wide, so it'd be faster going to add subsequent levels.  The problem is that I'm rapidly approaching the top of the embark, which is a measly 67 stories above ground level.  Does anyone know if there is any possibility of hacking the saved game so as to extend the embark ceiling up a bit more?

[Daveorock]

New fort. Haven't played df or been on here for quite a while. On the 4th embark site I struck gold. Trees everywhere, surrounded on 2 sides with mountain, fire clay, loads of magnetite, gold, hematite and plenty of flux. Also kaolinite, platinum, and a deep map. There's also a brook.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In fact, this map has the same oddity the one before I went on a df hiatus had. In insanely deep layer of SMR. In fact this time it is 2/3 times deeper. Totaling roughly 101 layers of the stuff. You know what this means. CANDY. LOADS AND LOADS OF CANDY. 20K TILES OF IT. I found the deepest tube section that has no cavity, and it is 80 layers deep. CCAANNDDYY!!!

Only downside is no lignite, coal, or sand.

[MrWillsauce]

New fort. Haven't played df or been on here for quite a while. On the 4th embark site I struck gold. Trees everywhere, surrounded on 2 sides with mountain, fire clay, loads of magnetite, gold, hematite and plenty of flux. Also kaolinite, platinum, and a deep map. There's also a brook.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In fact, this map has the same oddity the one before I went on a df hiatus had. In insanely deep layer of SMR. In fact this time it is 2/3 times deeper. Totaling roughly 101 layers of the stuff. You know what this means. CANDY. LOADS AND LOADS OF CANDY. 20K TILES OF IT. I found the deepest tube section that has no cavity, and it is 80 layers deep. CCAANNDDYY!!!

Only downside is no lignite, coal, or sand.

Mine it all. Mine it all right now. Plate the entire fortress with it.

[Splint]

I have no idea what happened, but evidently the novice of my two hunters managed to suvive being bitten in the head, injected with venom multiple times, and before it could pray a fifth volly of web, brain the offending cave spider with her crossbow. Evident;y even a GCS that has alot of natural strength behind its fangs can't bite through a combination of a rope reed hood and a leather hat far enough to kill. Why she thought trying to attack an ambush predator was smart is beyond me but then so is the fact she survived (she may be crippled though, I'm not sure, unless the paralysis made her drop her crossbow.)

Is it normal for someone to survive multiple GCS venom injections to thier head?

[Eric Blank]

Nope. GCS venom is a guarantee of suffocation due to lung paralysis for most smaller creatures. Especially dwarves and under.

If she didn't visibly become winded on her wounds screen, I suggest testing her for vampirism.

[Talvieno]

-snip of drowning kobold-

Bahaha. What rotten luck, eh?

[nbp]

So I've been very laboriously casting a giant block of obsidian on the surface, with the intent of carving it into an awesome, gleaming black epic fort for my dwarves to live in while laughing at all the other pathetic creatures that live in anything other than an awesome, gleaming black epic fort.  It's 80 urists long, 40 urists wide, and, at 47 urists tall, is almost tall enough to accommodate my original plans.  But I'm starting to get greedy, and I'm tempted to add more on top of the original planned structure.  With the ideas I'm tossing around, the extension wouldn't need to be as wide, so it'd be faster going to add subsequent levels.  The problem is that I'm rapidly approaching the top of the embark, which is a measly 67 stories above ground level.  Does anyone know if there is any possibility of hacking the saved game so as to extend the embark ceiling up a bit more?

The casing looks kind of funny, being constructed from a mix of block types.  Still, it's impressive, no?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Splint]

Nope. GCS venom is a guarantee of suffocation due to lung paralysis for most smaller creatures. Especially dwarves and under.

If she didn't visibly become winded on her wounds screen, I suggest testing her for vampirism.

Oh she did become winded (even cannot breath for a breif instance) quickly. I don't know if it was her sheer size being a human or her disease resistance but she's alive and well (if currently needing her head stitched up.) She's also not old enough either in age, appearance or skills. I thought this was the case for Ghost but he's barely into his thirties and showed up with a wife and ten year old son in tow.

[MrWillsauce]

Nope. GCS venom is a guarantee of suffocation due to lung paralysis for most smaller creatures. Especially dwarves and under.

If she didn't visibly become winded on her wounds screen, I suggest testing her for vampirism.

Oh she did become winded (even cannot breath for a breif instance) quickly. I don't know if it was her sheer size being a human or her disease resistance but she's alive and well (if currently needing her head stitched up.) She's also not old enough either in age, appearance or skills. I thought this was the case for Ghost but he's barely into his thirties and showed up with a wife and ten year old son in tow.

There's only one way to truly be sure. Drowning chamber.

[monk12]

Quite impressive, nbp. Also, don't hack the height of the map higher, just grab some picks and lower the surface. Bonus points if you then submerge the rest of the map so you have an awesome, gleaming black epic fort rising out of a steaming doom lake.

[Splint]

Nope. GCS venom is a guarantee of suffocation due to lung paralysis for most smaller creatures. Especially dwarves and under.

If she didn't visibly become winded on her wounds screen, I suggest testing her for vampirism.

Oh she did become winded (even cannot breath for a breif instance) quickly. I don't know if it was her sheer size being a human or her disease resistance but she's alive and well (if currently needing her head stitched up.) She's also not old enough either in age, appearance or skills. I thought this was the case for Ghost but he's barely into his thirties and showed up with a wife and ten year old son in tow.

There's only one way to truly be sure. Drowning chamber.

To valuable as a markswoman to risk. Plus our water source is forzen or has job interrupting cave squids (I fucking hate pond grabbers) in it and I'm still building the settlement. Honestly we're accidently living like dwarves as it is at the moment out of necessity. Thankfully caravans and enemy troops have been more than happy to provide us with food however. Plus most human settlements need to import good stuff like  dwarven sugar, syrup, beer, and fabric. This place, thanks to the caverns being a measily 6 z's below has access to that stuff all on site.

[Eric Blank]

Perhaps she has amazing endurance/disease resisitance, then. I once had a miner drop himself into a cavern lake 3 z-levels underwater. Took him an astounding amount of time to climb out, but he survived regardless. He most certainly was drowning, though.

Sometimes the RNG favors individuals without any particular reason. And then the next day, dumps them in the magma sea as a result of a string of unfortunate coincidences.