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JAL28

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Astrological Events
« on: December 27, 2020, 12:50:11 am »

We have a lot of things on worlds themselves, but what about beyond the world, in space? It would be nice to have astrological events that could change things globally.

For example, comets could occasionally fly past the world, giving a mega-message when occurring and giving dwarves happy thoughts about it.

Also, meteorites may strike down onto the world, bringing with them procedurally generated rocks/metals which range from terrible to adamantine/slade level of toughness and durability.

Just a few things that might be cool to work into the game.
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A_Curious_Cat

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Re: Astrological Events
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2020, 03:17:06 am »

First, you might want to familiarize yourself with the difference between “astrology” and “astronomy”...
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Re: Astrological Events
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2020, 03:57:55 am »

First, you might want to familiarize yourself with the difference between “astrology” and “astronomy”...
This suggestion is quite clearly both. Dwarves get happy thoughts from the movement of celestial bodies due to their beliefs as generated in Mythgen. That's pretty much Dwarven astrology.
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Azerty

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Re: Astrological Events
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2020, 08:53:40 pm »

This thread had good ideas about both astrology and astronomy.
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