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[PsyberianHusky]

Hey, I've always wanted to know.

Do you guys think that Legendary Wrestlers pull of Fist of the North Star style crap from time to time? Like, they just punch people and watch them explode? I'd love to see randomised martial arts (Like, *RNG name*, martial art based on *bodypart*) made in worldgen.

(Bonus points if you can guess what I'm watching.)

I would also like issues of diplomacy settled by mahjong.

[NerfJihad]

I'd like to point out that this is the only game forum where people argue about glassmaking, metallurgy, geology, geophysics, biology, weapon and martial arts tactics, and horrible things for people to do to each other whilst still remaining on-topic and discussing a relevant and important part of the game at hand. Bravo.

Also: is there some way I can just set up a little sandbox to test stuff in? I hear all sorts of things from the devlog and am curious how that works. <_< is it part of the program already? Can we get that in the next release? That sounds ridiculously fun, to be honest.

[Neruz]

The Arena is available in the next release, lets you experiment with stuff.

[Samoorai]

I would also like issues of diplomacy settled by mahjong.

There it is! RISING SUN!

Most awesome series ever.

[nogibator]

Hey, I've always wanted to know.

Do you guys think that Legendary Wrestlers pull of Fist of the North Star style crap from time to time? Like, they just punch people and watch them explode? I'd love to see randomised martial arts (Like, *RNG name*, martial art based on *bodypart*) made in worldgen.

(Bonus points if you can guess what I'm watching.)

nah, toady made perfect wrestling and legendary wrestling is all about throwing and locking just very precise and fast and powerfull. and you watch too much anime, bro.

[Neonivek]

I am a bit surprised Toady caught onto what I was asking (Well at least the gist) so thank you Toady for answering my question.

I really gotta start showing up around here more and finish some of those projects I said I would.

[tfaal]

nah, toady made perfect wrestling and legendary wrestling is all about throwing and locking just very precise and fast and powerfull. and you watch too much anime, bro.

I wouldn't say it's perfect. Pinching is a far too effective way of delivering pain, being prone makes you three times slower in doing everything, and whenever you punch someone, it just chooses a random body part, regardless of skill, effectiveness or geometry. Also, if your holding two wolf corpses, you can grapple someones little toe with each corpse, each hand, each elbow, and each shoulder, for a total of eight holds on a single, tiny bodypart.

[Mel_Vixen]

for the Crystal glass discussion (the second time in this thread i think):

I like to prompt you Selenite. The stuff looks like this and this. We germans Nicknamed selenite "Marienglas"   (translates roughly to: "St. Marie's Glas") because sheets of selenite were used as glass replacement in shrines and show cases during the middle-ages because it was clearer then normal glass and had a uniform thickness. 

Selenite crystals should be findable in gypsum.

[bombcar]

Punching with gore explosions is the Doom berserker pack. I can still hear that sound ...

[dragnar]

and you watch too much anime, bro.

Not possible. There is never too much anime.

[Lancensis]

Well a Giant can cave your chest in with a single punch, and a really high legendary dwarf is probably more dangerous than a low-level giant so, I'd say that heads probably do get smashed into bodies now and again by wrestlers.

[CobaltKobold]

Toady seems to be about three days away, and we're forty-five pages from 1000! Come on, guys! Last push!

Cut that out. It's meaningless if you're posting for posts.

( Carry on the story. A single sentence / statement is what works best. )

There's a Forum Games forum for that.

Spoiler: FKC beat me to it (click to show/hide)

Please could you release a list of new creature names so that those making tilesets can prepare them in advance?

He a'ready said no. Sorry.

I am positive I remember Toady mention that a single burrow can span multiple z levels.

However when I tried to steal Foot's thunder by finding the quote I failed.  I think he has the search function bribed to do his bidding, and anybody but him searching for an answer comes up with nothing.

is 'cause it's in the devlog, not this thread.

Hey Toady, i've heard you gonna make little fixes and additions after A release, so heres questions/requests, i'm particulary interested in minor code improvements that may be simple for you, but add drastic modding possibilities, and thus change gameplay.

He's said the gates closed for that a while back.

On the topic of Footkerchief:

I'm pretty sure, he just compiles in a text or word file every post made by Toady. Then, any time someone has a question about something already posted, he just searchs that file, which is a lot better than the in-forum search engine.

Or maybe he's set up a wiki, and interlinked everything? That'd be pretty crazy.

Noah

The In-forum search engine is better than you might think, if you know how to grok it. If you've got a good memory it becomes fairly trivial to find something you remember Toady saying.

Damn. I'll never be any good at it then, my memory is terrible.
P.S. you can't know how to grok something, you either do or you don't. Knowing how to grok is a meaningless and impossible statement.

This forum's search function is tricky because you can't phrase-search, and it doesn't e'en stop substrings. First, remember the author. Barring that, the trick is to remember 3-5 Important Words (as few as 1 if uniquely there). Example: "Oregon/Dwarven Trail mode" for describing the expedition to get to the fort site.

Also grok is a stupid word.

Not least because of its original context.

Is not. (non-Scots?)English lacked a word for this, some other lingua did not. Compare wissen to kennen in German, for instance.

Also, Heinlein's certainly worth reading, though some of his later works Got Weird.

Ahaha. Tell this to graphite and diamonds.

Ouch, chemical burn! 

Bwahahaha! Well played.

[Rafal99]

The problem with rock crystal being difficult to find is due to part of DF's geological simulation. The area around your fort is going to have a lot of a specific mineral, or very little--probably none--of it. There's a lot of possible gems, so the likelyhood that your mountain contains the only one you can use for crystal glass is rather slim.

The likelyhood for other gems is about the same, yet I find some of them very often in every fort. Like clear tourmaline and clear zircon for example.

[nogibator]

nah, toady made perfect wrestling and legendary wrestling is all about throwing and locking just very precise and fast and powerfull. and you watch too much anime, bro.

I wouldn't say it's perfect. Pinching is a far too effective way of delivering pain, being prone makes you three times slower in doing everything, and whenever you punch someone, it just chooses a random body part, regardless of skill, effectiveness or geometry. Also, if your holding two wolf corpses, you can grapple someones little toe with each corpse, each hand, each elbow, and each shoulder, for a total of eight holds on a single, tiny bodypart.

yea, i know, thats why i soo looking forward next release.

[tfaal]

I wouldn't get my hopes up. The pinching problem may be fixed, but the rest of the issues are pretty much unchanged, if I remember correctly.