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[atomfullerene]

I think were-moss and lichen (lichenthropy?) would have an interesting effect gameplay-wise because of how moss slowly appears on constructions.  Imagine: you have the rare fort which has outlasted many catastrophes and is now however many years old it takes for moss to start appearing.  Everything's going just fine until one of your dwarfs has the misfortune to walk over one of the mossy patches during a full moon.  Next thing you know he's growing green fuzz once a month and wandering slowly around doing....well that's a good question....maybe weathering holes in your walls and causing levers and mechanisms to clog up with plant debris or something.  And spreading moss everywhere, because moss is cool.  Heh, maybe the problem with were-mosses is not that they do things, but that they DON'T do things.  The disease (curse?) spreads rapidly and simply results in your dwarves spending lots of time trying to find a nice, shady wall to lean against.

[Gurt02]

Forgive me if this has been asked before, and if it has could someone kindly point me to the answer, but:

Will we be able to use custom workshops and reactions to produce creatures, or modified versions of creatures, much like how the kennel takes a dog and turns it into a war dog?

[Dwarfu]

I know the last posted raws weren't final, but in regards to the Captain of the Guard and Hammerer, it shows squad:10 or somesuch, and only the civ level army appears to have captains & lieutenants as underlings.

Does this mean that the fortress guard and royal guard will only have 10 members at any given time?  Or will their number still have population based requirements?  Or does it mean the two leaders can only command 10 at one time and the rest are individuals?

[Dwarfu]

Something that just occured to me.

With the new wound system, how do injuries affect a unit's capabilities?

No head = bad.

[Lord Shonus]

I was more concerned about things like leg wounds (short of amputation) making it harder but not impossible to move around.

[Dwarfu]

I was more concerned about things like leg wounds (short of amputation) making it harder but not impossible to move around.

Yeah, I was just being stupid, it was a good question.

Here's another one!

With being able to set patrol points and kill orders, can this be expanded to give 'guard' orders and target, say, a noble?

I'd really like to enter an alert status where the royal guards run off to guard/follow certain nobles (like the king, duke, their consorts, children, etc.) until the alert is canceled.

[James.Denholm]

I'd really like to enter an alert status where the royal guards run off to guard/follow certain nobles (like the king, duke, their consorts, children, etc.) until the alert is canceled.

Waaaaait...

So let me get this strait: You want the guards to actually do something?

[Footkerchief]

With the new wound system, how do injuries affect a unit's capabilities?

I was more concerned about things like leg wounds (short of amputation) making it harder but not impossible to move around.

A leg wound causes pain and blood loss like in the current version (which can slow you down in various ways), but the degree of both will now depend on the PAIN_RECEPTORS and VASCULAR settings of the affected tissues.  Also, if a MUSCULAR tissue is damaged, movement is inhibited.  If a STRUCTURAL tissue (e.g. bone) is damaged, movement is severely inhibited.  If you get stabbed in a body part with special functions, such as your heart, damage to FUNCTIONAL tissue will cause reduced function of the body part.

I don't know if that answers your question or not.  "A unit's capabilities" was kind of vague.

[LordDemon]

Just to jump backto the whole bucket full of water discussion:

Did I understand correctly, that buckets full of water (or water in general) can't be used as in reactions, because the dwarfs won't know how to fill them?

Would it still work, if you actually had bucket filled with water (this can be done with very long distance between wounded dwarf and watersource, since dwarffs stop for food and drink and drop the bucket.)?

Another question, if you made a stockpile, filled only with buckets, then flood the stockpile, and drain it, will the buckets be full of water? And  would you get bucketts filled with magma in the same way? (magma safe buckets, obviously)?

[Footkerchief]

Did I understand correctly, that buckets full of water (or water in general) can't be used as in reactions, because the dwarfs won't know how to fill them?

Yes, that's the problem.

Would it still work, if you actually had bucket filled with water (this can be done with very long distance between wounded dwarf and watersource, since dwarffs stop for food and drink and drop the bucket.)?

Judging from the soap-making reaction, the game would have to support a CONTAINS_WATER flag (it probably doesn't).

Another question, if you made a stockpile, filled only with buckets, then flood the stockpile, and drain it, will the buckets be full of water? And  would you get bucketts filled with magma in the same way? (magma safe buckets, obviously)?

Nope.  Good idea though.

[CobaltKobold]

Forgive me if this has been asked before, and if it has could someone kindly point me to the answer, but:

Will we be able to use custom workshops and reactions to produce creatures, or modified versions of creatures, much like how the kennel takes a dog and turns it into a war dog?

No.

[Mel_Vixen]

Gah my terrible translation powers have struck again By "sea foam" i ment "Meerschaum".

[snelg]

Would it still work, if you actually had bucket filled with water (this can be done with very long distance between wounded dwarf and watersource, since dwarffs stop for food and drink and drop the bucket.)?

I thought the water would leave the bucket to create a puddle when dwarfs decide to drop them and do something else. Maybe I was just wrong. But where did all those puddles (water stuff that gets cleaned up) come from if this was not the case? ._______.

[James.Denholm]

But where did all those puddles (water stuff that gets cleaned up) come from if this was not the case? ._______.

Poor bladder control.

[Orkel]

I remember Toady mentioning something about a forgotten underground temple, I'm not sure if he has added it though. So here's my question:

Will we have other, special things underground in addition to the three cavern layers and possible new HFS? Stuff like treasure, forgotten cities etc?