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[CobaltKobold]

Can you station him within 4 tiles of any other edges? I suspect the 4-square thing is just 'nother instance of the "no building at the edge".

if so, I dunno. Check legends to see what the name means, and 'historical map' to see extents of territories if that's it.

[Martin]

No, just that edge. I only recently noticed it because the other edges are relatively flat, so when a siege squad is camped out there, it was just as easy to station him 10 tiles out. On the west edge it's kind of steep, so putting Morul 4 tiles out means going 4 z-levels up from where I spot the squad. I just stationed him in the northeast corner and then in the southeast.

I guess I need to get him to kill a horse or something along the west edge and see how that gets recorded.

[Vicid]

Would it be possible to mod animals for him to skill up on?

[Taco Dan]

Would it be possible to mod animals for him to skill up on?

It'd be too late for modding I believe, He's already genned the world a long time ago.

[Grax]

Would it be possible to mod animals for him to skill up on?

It'd be too late for modding I believe, He's already genned the world a long time ago.

No, there's always a possibility to edit existing animals. ;-)

[Ieb]

Editing the animals would be the same as editing the orcs. Just make some wildlife up-sized and so on, and BAM.

[Martin]

Well, I've got a bunch of wild horses caged up, so I can just do a cage release out there. And the non-vermin wildlife is all back, so it's just a matter of catching one of the mountain goats that spawn there. Maybe I'll have him patrol there for a while.

[Jim Groovester]

Ok, I've got a newbish question here.

Morul's kills are, of course, mostly in Lashedwines, but he has a very few (4 out of 1589 lesser kills) in 'The Grim Rust of Arenas'. Along the west edge of the map, there's a 4 tile wide strip that I cannot station Morul or any other soldier in. I get a red X instead of the usual yellow. Is it possible that's actually considered a different region?

For some reason the left edge of the map does that. It doesn't prevent squad stationing there as far as I can tell.

[Martin]

Another siege. It's always a good sign when the sieges show up before your dwarves have removed all the armor and bones from the last battle, though they had quite a few jobs to do already cleaning up around the chasm project. A few got away this time since they spawned so close to where the dwarves were cleaning up - I had to send Morul straight out to defend the haulers. Didn't get him past accomplished swordsdwarf, but he's right on the cusp to great swordsdwarf. 1775 notable kills. I think y'all will get him before he hits 2000.

I'm going to have him patrol the west edge of the map to see if he gets a 'Grim Rust of Arenas' kill.

[Satarus]

I'd look up the Grim Rust of Arenas in legends.  It is probably outside of the Fortress and is instead the Region.

[sproingie]

Morul's kills are, of course, mostly in Lashedwines, but he has a very few (4 out of 1589 lesser kills) in 'The Grim Rust of Arenas'.

Maybe it counts where his kill landed.  He knocked them into the next region.

[monk12]

Morul's kills are, of course, mostly in Lashedwines, but he has a very few (4 out of 1589 lesser kills) in 'The Grim Rust of Arenas'.

Maybe it counts where his kill landed.

The dwarves of Lashedwines call the Moon 'The Grim Rust of Arenas'? Thats an odd name.

[Martin]

Ok, points to Satarus for pointing out the obvious solution.

For Morul, I shifted the Dwarf Heaven map east and south one tile so that I have more chasm (thought I'd need it for the spiders) and trees (thought I'd need it for everything else) and caught the kobold cave. Caves are named. This one is named 'Grim Rust of Arenas' which describes well how they fared when the first batch of orcs ran down the funnel. Anyway, it looks like any kills on that embark square (and only that square) count toward that. Morul just killed a horse there and sure enough it showed up. Killed another to the south one square and it showed up under Lashedwines.

The More You Know!

Oh, and a general update. The orcs have been very shy the last few years. Not a terribly large amount of production lately, mostly just gathering webs. Though I did find a 3rd GCS web in the chasm, no GCS yet. I'll start turning out adamantine bolts. That's always good for some income.

Anyway, Morul is up to High Master Swordsdwarf just through sparring. If the 'higher skills = fewer injuries' during sparring theory is correct, it's possible he's going longer before hurting his opponent now. I noticed before they'd start sparring and almost instantly break it off even though nobody was seriously hurt. Morul appears to spar longer now, so maybe that's it.

[CobaltKobold]

>_>

if so, I dunno. Check legends to see what the name means, and 'historical map' to see extents of territories if that's it.

[Martin]

>_>

if so, I dunno. Check legends to see what the name means, and 'historical map' to see extents of territories if that's it.

Yeah, okay, so everyone is smarter than me!