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This is how I play Dwarf Fortress!

I use pieces of it

I use it for modding examples

I don't, I was just curious

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[Mephansteras]

Odd. Well, I'm glad it's all working now.

[Shurhaian]

I seem to have a problem with growing glowcaps. From time to time, seeds will get stuck - they show up as in the farm plot, but they're not marked with {B} (straight braces made curly because of BBCode). Farmers keep trying to get those nodes to plant, and will cancel plant seeds: needs glowcap nodes.

If I forbid the seeds in question, the spam stops, but then the ones that WERE planted successfully can't be harvested because the workshop is forbidden. The only way to clear it up seems to be to let the field go fallow, let everything else get harvested, and desconstruct. (Well, maybe destroying the plot earlier would do it, not sure.)

I've never encountered this with any other crop, not in CF or otherwise. Only glowcaps.

Thoughts?

[Mephansteras]

Hmm...no idea. Maybe an odd bug with the game in general? I know I've never had that issue before, and I rely on Glowcaps a lot for a reliable quality booze source.

Maybe get a save set up which shows the problem and submit a bug report to Toady?

[Kiberkiller]

This mod seems interesting, i always wanted more variety in races but please please could someone make a version that displays names and tiles correctly in MikeMayday's DFG19?
I would really like to try this mod out.

[Shurhaian]

If I can get it to repeat, I may indeed make a bug report of it. I think it may have had to do with the irregular shape of the plot - I found stone after starting to dig out a 5x5 square, and undesignated it as it appeared. So not only was the plot irregular, the farmers couldn't even walk around normally. No idea if that's relevant, but eh.

[Shurhaian]

Apologies for the double post, but a few little things - spelling points:

-The curved sword is a falchion in English(wouldn't surprise me if other languages drop the h)
-I'm pretty sure verdant is intended, rather than verdent.
-Larva(e.g. for giant beetles) is usually pluralized as larvae. This can make it a bit easier to interpret birth messages at a glance.

All very minor things. So far, in general, I'm liking the mod!

(Ed.: Prefstring for slime molds could probably be changed to a visual feature. People who like something for its (PREFSTRING) don't necessarily like to consume it, I don't think... at least the prefstring isn't used there.)

[Kiberkiller]

This mod seems interesting, i always wanted more variety in races but please please could someone make a version that displays names and tiles correctly in MikeMayday's DFG19?
I would really like to try this mod out.

Someone? Please?

[Mephansteras]

Thanks, Shurhaian , I'll look into those.

@Kiberkiller, I'd help but I honestly have no experience with working with the Graphics pack. Maybe you could also try posting in Mayday's thread about DFG19 to see if anyone there can help you?

[Shurhaian]

Another minor point of detail, concerning the large insects...

Insects don't have a cephalothorax. Spiders do(and I think scorpions; arachnids). Insects have a separate head and thorax, though in many cases there's not much of a visible "neck". All the legs attach to the thorax, as does the abdomen.

Very minor thing. I'm not sure if there are even big insects in stock DF, offhand, never mind how they're modeled...

[Mephansteras]

That's what I get for being lazy, I think. I probably just grabbed the same body info from the Giant Scorpion or Spider. I'll have to model them correctly for the next version.

[Shurhaian]

The problem looks to be in the INSECT body, actually. So I think this one can get blamed on Toady - unless you spliced that into the middle yourself.

Crab is even worse off in that regard. I think. I'm not sure what a crab's body parts are properly called, anymore...

[Mephansteras]

I think INSECT_BODY was my copy of whatever the spider and scorpion use. I probably meant to go back and find out the correct terms for everything and just didn't get around to it.

Oh, well, I've got to redo everything with the next version of DF anyway. I'll just do it right this time.

[Shurhaian]

Indeed, these things I've been bringing up lately are all little, nitpicky; they don't actually interfere with anything(haven't had the glowcap problem since I started a new fortress, for instance; maybe it was just the irregular plot). With so much changing come the new version, that's probably an ideal time to overhaul those little things.

[funktopus]

I think I just found an interesting bug/feature, and I don't know what exactly happened.

Vamari traders came along, and I gave them a bunch of syrup roasts for leather and stuff. When they left, this happened:

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd134/disrobespierre/whaaaaaat.png

The wagons just caught fire spontaneously and filled my halls with smoke for a while, and then filled the halls with blood.

The only thing that I could possibly think would cause this would be that they had to walk over stone that's 1 z-level above magma.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, looks like wagons might need 3 tiles wide of no-magma