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Neoskel

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Polar bears have paper skulls....
« on: July 07, 2008, 09:40:19 am »

So, i'm starting a skull collection (again... :-[) and i've found a nice place near a glacier. So right now i have an elk skull, a deer skull, a rhesus macaque skull, a wolf skull, a black bear skull, a cougar skull and a fox skull, but for the life of me i can't get a polar bear skull. I've gone out on the ice repeatedly and killed dozens of polar bears, but every time i burn the bodies i only get bones. I even make sure not to damage the heads by strangling the bears until they bleed to death, but no dice. Should i just keep at it until i get a polar bear skull or should i change my strategy somehow? Had a similar problem with the black bear skulls, but the 4th or 5th one yielded a skull.

On a side note, whats the chances of me encountering a grizzly bear in adventure mode and is there any way for me to improve those chances?

On a further aside, how do i get down to the beach in adventure mode in such a way that i can get back up? I want to go walrus hunting.
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Re: Polar bears have paper skulls....
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2008, 09:43:27 am »

Alt-Move off the cliff.  One Z-level will only stun you.

To leave, just 'T'ravel.
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Re: Polar bears have paper skulls....
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2008, 07:07:15 am »

2 z levels will cause some minor injuries but i've bled to death from them before so be careful.
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Re: Polar bears have paper skulls....
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2008, 10:11:29 pm »

Ive also jumped into chazms just to find out whats at the bottom.

apperiently theres no bottom
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Re: Polar bears have paper skulls....
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2008, 03:17:46 am »

Apparently there is. But it kills.
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Re: Polar bears have paper skulls....
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2008, 03:19:17 am »

There must be some random chance or something else... Polar bears are the same as other bears in raws.
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Re: Polar bears have paper skulls....
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2008, 03:17:20 pm »

I tried this in my current adventurer with humans (kill town burn corpses) and got the same problems. No skulls whatsoever. Some of them were decapitates, and i was careful to put the heads in too. But no human skulls  :'(
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Re: Polar bears have paper skulls....
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2008, 07:40:20 pm »

I tried this in my current adventurer with humans (kill town burn corpses) and got the same problems. No skulls whatsoever. Some of them were decapitates, and i was careful to put the heads in too. But no human skulls  :'(

Heads leave bones but not skulls. Sasquatches have also given me this problem, though the first grizzly i fought gave up his skull right and proper.
Semi-megabeasts are reluctant skull givers too.
Point is moot now, my ultra stats dwarf just had his head smashed in by a goblin macelord....

Question: If i carry a corpse around does it rot like food does? If so, does it leave the bones afterwards?
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Re: Polar bears have paper skulls....
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2008, 03:24:09 am »

Maybe, and if so yes.
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