I understood the "thin body layered with fat" comment, but I feel like "frame" would be a better word than "body" in cases like that, just to make it more clear.
I use frame in a lot of the similar situations, but I didn't want to use it all the time. I don't know if there's a third word that works.
Actually, that's assuming that being fat will have a bad effect on your fitness. Will it? And will it possibly make dwarves want to eat more in future?
It makes them move slower right now. There are health problems right now, and most actions (like walking) don't make the dwarves tired to begin with, so it couldn't make them more tired. The exertion system should probably be slowly extended to more actions.
will be implemented some "cosmetic workshops" like barber shops, and related skills or something like this?
There's nothing like that now, but it's a reasonable suggestion.
and what exactly is the "squad control mode"?
It's like the current 'x' mode or whatever it is. You can select squads and give them orders that override their scheduled orders.
16th dwarf has TWO chins. One is flat and square, 2nd is very round
It doesn't know how to handle >=4 adjectives on a single part yet (it being the skull in this case, not just the chin). You get it a lot with hair too. It needs to be able to do multiple sentences or compound sentences when it has to report more than three things, eventually.
hair color not being displayed
I think the problem here is that when they have shaved heads, it doesn't display their hair color, even if they have beards. I'll have to teach it more. When they have head-hair, it always displays the hair color. You can see this with the skin/eye color as well, which is always displayed. It doesn't know how to evaluate the importance of it though, so it is tacked on the end if it couldn't find a way to work it in earlier.
In general, since some people missed it before, it already orders descriptions by their deviation from the norm in the creature raw file. I think it would be too confusing to order them by deviation from the fortress's norm, since you'd have to also say what that norm is some place, whereas with a dwarf in general, you have a reasonable idea coming in what you think that is.
Aside from the lack of hair color, I'm also having a bit of a hard time judging the shape of these dwarves' faces. We tend to think of people as having a certain sort of jaw structure: Someone might have a long face, or a round one, etc. I saw cheekbones and chins mentioned, so maybe what I'm thinking of is sort of an amalgamation of those, but I'm not sure.
Right now there are sort of odd phrases for the head that I think get at what you are talking about. I think it calls the head tall and short, when it should probably be more like long and squat or something. It also does the overall width of the head, I think.
I would prefer that the "His X A is Y" format be dropped in favor of the simpler "His A is X and Y". I find it scans better, and it's also more flexible. For instance you could then merge "His nose is somewhat upturned and somewhat broad" to "His nose is somewhat upturned and broad" without changing the sentence structure.
I don't know. I think it's good to use different formats. I think it would be better to add more of them, really, to make the entire paragraph read better. If we want scanning we should just have a list instead, which is something I'm not sure about overall, since I don't want the game to become too much like a spreadsheet.
Are you still looking at a ladder/thing that can be built from above for this release? So long as animals can't climb them we can dump them in an animal pit only once, and butcher as they prosper. As it stands, even pet impassible doors are a big nono since they continually try to path past them and slow the FPS down to a crawl.
Probably not there yet, but is there any plans to make the rope/ladder system that allows dwarves to climb into a lower area only a temporary solution for getting down? For example could it take damage every time a dwarf uses it or prevent hauling making the player have to replace the rope eventually with more permanent constructions?
I thought part of the point would be to prevent animals from climbing it. Primates and other animals capable of grasping a rope with hands could definetly be able to climb it, but realistically a horse wouldn't be able to.
I thought it was ropes and ladders because those are physically possible, while building a staircase downward into open space is not. Which would hardly be the first law of physics DF breaks, but it would get the job done.
Yeah, it's a bit odd to build staircases from above, though it's unclear what will happen in the end. If I do add ropes, all critters will probably be able to use them, because I don't have more control over path-finding. Hopefully that will change at some point, but it's not as urgent a concern as being able to get down into open spaces, which will be a pressing matter for this release.
Hm...
Can the descriptions be modded? That is, be able to change which body parts can vary and how. Especially for creatures with different anatomies, so you can describe someone's short, rounded mandibles and gnarly antlers.
No, that's not in yet. I remember it being mentioned back in the devlog quite some time back. All that stuff is hardcoded at the moment
It depends on what you want. You can apply appearance modifiers to any part. So you can do short, round mandibles. However, the modifier types are hard-coded, so "gnarly" antlers wouldn't be possible. The thing I think I mentioned in the dev log was related to this -- that you could have a "borgle", but you couldn't have a "borgly borgle". There's just a lot of supporting text that would be needed to get custom modifiers into the descriptions. I'll probably be adding more hard-coded types before I add custom ones, and the overall format of the paragraphs would need to be further settled before I expose it to the raws in that way, to avoid wasting a huge chunk of time on a dead format.
What color will the healthcare profession dwarves/etc be?
I imagine they could be like craftsdwarves or mechanics instead, but they are currently purple.
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