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[Flaede]

I understand that from an in-game perspective, it's more realistic to have the currency named by the various kingdoms, but when talking about it here on the forums, I kind of don't like having to look at a unicode table to get the ☼ symbol, and calling it dwarfbucks sounds silly.

You say that like sounding silly is a bad thing.  Although dwarfdegrees is a little clunky.

It's not "Dwarf Degrees" it's degrees Elfius. based on standard measurements of elves' cooking, boiling, and ignition points. However, those living with the old Imperial have temp Dwarfenheit, and that's why there's still confusion between some of the temp numbers.

[Christes]

Tunneling enemies, remember?  Although that means you could get HFS after having not dug at all, I guess.

This could work if Tunneling enemies had a "preferred" stone types to dig through. Since they're always encapsulated in Adamantine, you could just set they're tunneling preferences to "Never dig through adamantine, but it's OK to dig through anything else" and you could have the best of both worlds.

This makes perfect sense to me. In lore terms, you could think of it this way:

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In the ancient mists of prehistory demons plagued the world, terrorizing the mortal races who called out to their gods for protection. The elven gods bent entire forests into mighty cages of wood and vine, but the fire demons just burned through them. The human gods sent mighty armies against them, only to see them fall or be dragged away screaming (possible source for those unnamed humans?). The dwarven gods tried burying them in the very earth, but the demons melted through the rock as a mole digs through soft loam. The gods themselves despaired.

Then it was that only the dwarven gods, masters of earth and ores, devised a solution. All of the gods' attempts had failed because they were using pieces of Creation against creatures outside of Creation. So they created a new metal stronger than all the other gifts of the earth, imbued with divine essence itself. They called this wondrous substance adamantine, and tricking the demons into assembling together in one place, they called into being a rough sphere of adamantine around the demons, trapping them. Then they caused mountains to rise up over the sphere, locking the demons deep within the earth where they would stay undisturbed for all time.

In time, the legends became distorted so that the dwarves remembered that adamantine was a wondrous metal, and a gift from their gods, but they had forgotten why it came to be...

I like this; make it canon.

It's been unofficial canon for a while now, I think.

[Neruz]

I understand that from an in-game perspective, it's more realistic to have the currency named by the various kingdoms, but when talking about it here on the forums, I kind of don't like having to look at a unicode table to get the ☼ symbol, and calling it dwarfbucks sounds silly.

You say that like sounding silly is a bad thing.  Although dwarfdegrees is a little clunky.

It's not "Dwarf Degrees" it's degrees Elfius. based on standard measurements of elves' cooking, boiling, and ignition points. However, those living with the old Imperial have temp Dwarfenheit, and that's why there's still confusion between some of the temp numbers.

It's Degrees Urist fool, named for the Dwarf that discovered them.

[Rose]

Toady, will it be possible to use a workshop to change a creature's caste?

[Sean Mirrsen]

No. Custom workshops can't use creatures.

[Protactinium]

It's been unofficial canon for a while now, I think.

Uhhh...? Isn't that an oxymoron?

[Sean Mirrsen]

TVTropes has the definition "Fanon".

[Christes]

Yeah, there are plenty of unofficial things that are widely accepted.

And because I like ruining someone's day:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Fanon

[Puzzlemaker]

Clowns are very hilarious creatures.

Just read this account and see for yourself.

edit: Puzzlemaker, weren't you the one with a very famous run-in with clowns?  You breached the funhouse and everyone was like "Don't tell him how funny it is!  Let him find out heehee!"

Yes I was sir.  It was an interesting experience.

[Nadaka]

I have not been paying the greatest attention, but is milking for non-carried animals (like cows) in the work set for this next release?

[Footkerchief]

I have not been paying the greatest attention, but is milking for non-carried animals (like cows) in the work set for this next release?

No, unfortunately.

1: Will milking be updated? To where we can milk cows?

1 Nope.

However, there's a livestock-oriented item on dev_next which will probably end up including a fix for milking.  So it's in the relatively near future.

[JoshuaFH]

I have not been paying the greatest attention, but is milking for non-carried animals (like cows) in the work set for this next release?

No, unfortunately.

1: Will milking be updated? To where we can milk cows?

1 Nope.

However, there's a livestock-oriented item on dev_next which will probably end up including a fix for milking.  So it's in the relatively near future.

Why can't he just make it so that animals can produce a unit of something every now and then, and dwarves can just go and pick it up? Like, a cow could just spill some milk on the ground every now and then, and a dwarf could come scoop it into a bucket for processing.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Because that would be so wrong...

Especially if multiple things can be specified. Then, every animal could be set to have its..  leavings.

Actually, no. I think it'd be a case of "Gone Horribly Right".

[Neonivek]

Why can't he just make it so that animals can produce a unit of something every now and then, and dwarves can just go and pick it up? Like, a cow could just spill some milk on the ground every now and then, and a dwarf could come scoop it into a bucket for processing

Because you know that isn't what you mean! ANGRY FACE!

[Footkerchief]

Why can't he just make it so that animals can produce a unit of something every now and then, and dwarves can just go and pick it up? Like, a cow could just spill some milk on the ground every now and then, and a dwarf could come scoop it into a bucket for processing.

Well, this is... kind of possible in the next version.  You could make cows spit globs of solid "milk," and create a Dairy workshop with a custom job to convert the globs into normal liquid milk in a bucket or barrel.  To make them spit the globs, though, I think you'd have to 1) set up something like the GCS silk-milking firing ranges people contruct, and 2) train them as war cows.  It's entertainingly demented at least?