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[smjjames]

Perhaps kobolds would all live in one large tent made of a patch work of cloth and leather stolen from other civs, with a single fire in the middle and kobolds sleeping in a circle up against the edge of the tent. There would always be 2 kobolds awake guarding the door with their spears/copper daggers.

You're talking about ahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt I believe.

[Stormrage]

Perhaps kobolds would all live in one large tent made of a patch work of cloth and leather stolen from other civs, with a single fire in the middle and kobolds sleeping in a circle up against the edge of the tent. There would always be 2 kobolds awake guarding the door with their spears/copper daggers.

You're talking about a Yurt I believe.

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[smjjames]

Perhaps kobolds would all live in one large tent made of a patch work of cloth and leather stolen from other civs, with a single fire in the middle and kobolds sleeping in a circle up against the edge of the tent. There would always be 2 kobolds awake guarding the door with their spears/copper daggers.

You're talking about a Yurt I believe.

fix'd

oops, thanks for fixing that. heh.

[Shoku]

I don't think building large structures out of bones is very feasible for... well, anyone. It would take a pretty ridiculous amount of engineering to do properly, unless you just mean "hiding out in an elephant ribcage with a big sheet of something thrown over it for shelter".

Of course, that's why they live in caves.

Definitely not multi-story but easily walls and maybe a passable roof.

I don't think building large structures out of bones is very feasible for... well, anyone. It would take a pretty ridiculous amount of engineering to do properly, unless you just mean "hiding out in an elephant ribcage with a big sheet of something thrown over it for shelter".

Of course, that's why they live in caves.

Sedlac Ossuary disagrees.

http://www.dolc.de/home/attachment/200910/22/144347_125622316069jJ.jpg

Except that's not even built out of bones. It's adorned with them on the inside.

Seriously, that's kind of like saying that my house is built out of wallpaper and light fixtures.

I don't see my room made out of anything else. Well, paint rather than wallpaper but what could be on the other side of it???

[Bauglir]

I don't think building large structures out of bones is very feasible for... well, anyone. It would take a pretty ridiculous amount of engineering to do properly, unless you just mean "hiding out in an elephant ribcage with a big sheet of something thrown over it for shelter".

Of course, that's why they live in caves.

Sedlac Ossuary disagrees.

http://www.dolc.de/home/attachment/200910/22/144347_125622316069jJ.jpg

Except that's not even built out of bones. It's adorned with them on the inside.

Seriously, that's kind of like saying that my house is built out of wallpaper and light fixtures.

I don't see my room made out of anything else. Well, paint rather than wallpaper but what could be on the other side of it???

Drywall, I'd imagine. Possibly wood. Probably not bones.

Still, bone walls and suchlike are very evil-themed, and appropriate magics or alchemical treatments could probably strengthen them sufficiently. Make them weaker than most wood, statwise, but they're thematically appropriate enough to include them in the game... although it's doubtful kobolds would use them often. So perhaps I'm a bit off-topic. Oh well. Can always define a custom reaction at an Alchemist's Lab or whatever in the next version to convert bones to rockbone or whatever you want to call your building material.

[Aqizzar]

Well, for one thing, you don't see walls made of bones because it's kind of hard to stack them in a wall shape.  There's some other ossuary-type place, I forget the name, where the walls are made of like plaster or medieval concrete, but stuffed with as many bones as they could fit.  That count as made of bones, or would you still call that adorned with them?

[smjjames]

At whoever said about the huts made from mammoth bones. I saw something about that once and it was likely just one hut which was used for ritual purpouses or served as the shamans hut.

Mammoth ribs are certainly big enough to serve as suppourts, so they could have done that. However I don't see the kobolds as big game hunters.

[CobaltKobold]

Of course not. We're skulking so you won't notice.

[smjjames]

Won't stop you from scavenging carcasses, after all, thats what you are, scavengers.

*ducks from a few thrown copper daggers*

[Sysice]

I'm not going to green this, because somebody on the forums certainly knows.

There is a cap for attributes for this release, right? What percent of the normal attributes can you get to now? 200? 300?

[CobaltKobold]

The most direct mechanism is creature-specific (or caste-specific if you want) attribute ranges:

"The attributes have entered the raws. You can set the range of the 19 attributes, with a slight bit of lumping how you like (the default is more bell-shaped, if you draw the bell with 6 lines), and you can also set the rate at which the attributes increase and decrease with use or lack of use, as well as the maximum value related to the starting value."

= Yes and Toady appears not to ha'e said.

[Shoku]

The way I was saying doesn't really require a solid wall of bone- just one that's enough of an obstacle that people wouldn't usually try to go through it. I suppose you could maybe achieve something more impossible to get through with a ton of bones if you looked at how beaver dams are put together.

About how fast would bones rot inside of a cave? These things could maybe grow over the centuries of world gen.

[dragnar]

Perhaps kobolds could build giant towers of junk. Constructed from all the things they have stolen over the years.

...That makes kobolds sound like earth-bound birds doesn't it?

[SirHoneyBadger]

However I don't see the kobolds as big game hunters.

Pygmies hunt African bull elephants with spears.

[smjjames]

However I don't see the kobolds as big game hunters.

Pygmies hunt African bull elephants with spears.

Theres a difference, they are humans, not kobolds.