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Author Topic: Cruel Engravers and Psychic Dwarves  (Read 3526 times)

Blucher

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Re: Cruel Engravers and Psychic Dwarves
« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2008, 07:11:26 am »
How are you guys reading the more detailed descriptions?  I toggle the engraving option in the designation menu, but all that does for me is add icons for the engravings in the display...
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Brendan

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Re: Cruel Engravers and Psychic Dwarves
« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2008, 07:23:48 am »
In your dwarf fortress directory, go to data/init and then edit init.txt. Look for
[SHOW_ALL_HISTORY_IN_DWARF_MODE:NO] and change it to
[SHOW_ALL_HISTORY_IN_DWARF_MODE:YES]

Also, the spiders aren't my civ's symbol or my government's symbol (those are a centaur and a skull totem respectively) and the engravers' profile doesn't show any preference for cave spiders. Maybe he's just a closet arachnophile :D
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Re: Cruel Engravers and Psychic Dwarves
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2008, 07:26:53 am »
Quote from: dreiche2 on August 11, 2008, 05:54:24 am
Quote from: Brendan on August 10, 2008, 05:00:15 pm
...dead demons.

That is not dead which can eternal lie...

Ia ia Cthulhu f'thagn R'hyle
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Re: Cruel Engravers and Psychic Dwarves
« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2008, 02:36:00 pm »
I keep getting engravings of my mayor surrounded by roaches and looking terrified. He does hate roaches, and I do habitually catch, train, and cage vermin. Sort of a hideous zoo.

But I don't see why this a historical event.
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Re: Cruel Engravers and Psychic Dwarves
« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2008, 10:58:53 am »
engravers will engrave about thier own preferences/experiances/fears when they do so
everyone killed at your fort counts
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Blucher

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Re: Cruel Engravers and Psychic Dwarves
« Reply #20 on: August 12, 2008, 11:06:15 am »
Quote from: Brendan on August 11, 2008, 07:23:48 am
In your dwarf fortress directory, go to data/init and then edit init.txt. Look for
[SHOW_ALL_HISTORY_IN_DWARF_MODE:NO] and change it to
[SHOW_ALL_HISTORY_IN_DWARF_MODE:YES]

Thank you!
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Brendan

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Re: Cruel Engravers and Psychic Dwarves
« Reply #21 on: August 12, 2008, 12:37:35 pm »
Another cool thing I noticed about the engraving explanations is that the dorfs name all the different ambushes; the first snatcher I killed was 'the Fourth Attempted Abduction', so I guess the goblins had been sending snatchers before and left since I didn't have any children. This is supported by the fact that I had 'Goblins' on the civilization list before I had ever actually seen a gobbo in my fort. But for some reason the counting system seems to be screwed, because later when another snatcher was killed it was considered 'the Zeroth Attempted Abduction.

Kobolds get 'attempted thefts' it would appear. I haven't had a siege yet, but it seems likely that would just be 'First Siege' or the like.
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