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RPB

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Revisiting sites in 27.169.33b
« on: November 17, 2007, 02:30:00 am »
Now that fortresses can be reclaimed/revisited without the game crashing, I've gone back and had a look at my abandoned fortress.

First off? Your fortress's junk gets scattered everywhere. Like in the old version, where all your items would be scattered throughout the fort... except there's no predefined "fort", so you get items strewn across the entire local map. It makes things even more eerie and deserted when there's loose spools of thread, stacks of bones, pieces of furniture and other leftovers from the fortress just scattered across the landscape growing weeds.

Secondly, I took a look at all my engravings. All that business about a dwarf being "surrounded by dwarves" is for inductions into the Fortress Guard and appointments to administrative positions. Pictures of dwarves being "refused by dwarves" is for dwarves getting kicked out of admin positions or guard membership.

Thirdly... unlike before the fort isn't repopulated by monsters, at least if there's not any convenient source of monsters. Unfortunately, this does not in fact mean that the abandoned fortresses are perfectly safe. As I wandered around the catacombs looking at all the engravings I had made earlier, I suddenly started receiving combat messages: the hydra my dwarves had captured and tamed? It's still loose.  :eek:

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Misterstone

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Re: Revisiting sites in 27.169.33b
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2007, 02:57:00 am »
They had a pet hydra, and they didn't take it with them when they left?  St00pid dwarves...
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Tyrving

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Re: Revisiting sites in 27.169.33b
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2007, 03:28:00 am »
That's awesome. Now I want to make a gigantic fort, stick a couple adamantine items in it, and populate it with all sorts of nasty captured beasties. Room-flooding, dwarf-eating fish releasing pressure plate trap, anyone?
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Re: Revisiting sites in 27.169.33b
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2007, 07:04:00 am »
Fish aren't anything majorly special now that Toady has removed the stat bonuses for them constantly swimming.
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Re: Revisiting sites in 27.169.33b
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2007, 07:16:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by Skeeblix:
<STRONG>Fish aren't anything majorly special now that Toady has removed the stat bonuses for them constantly swimming.</STRONG>

Alright then, replace the fish with sharks. Plus, there's still the issue of OH MY GOD THE ROOM IS FILLING UP WITH WATER

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