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[Holy Mittens]

Yay for Morul! Coolest thing I've seen done in DF yet.

[Satarus]

Comming from the guy who discovered Cacame, that is quite a compliment.

[Lumbajak]

Personally I think the title of coolest thing to happen in Dwarf Fortress goes to Tarn himself for making a game where even he doesn't know what's going on half the time.

Something tells me that's how moody dwarves feel.

They get possessed by some powerful entity and then strap a bunch of anonymous stones together with duct tape cat leather and then embed it with half a dozen miscellaneous stones that were going to be donated to charity.

Then they finish their construction and they don't know what the hell it is but they fall so in love with it that even a hairline crack on it will throw them into a berzerker rage where the only way to stop it would be to drown the entire fortress in magma.

But I suppose that's a typical sunday afternoon for most regulars here anyways.

[Rockphed]

Then they finish their construction and they don't know what the hell it is but they fall so in love with it that even a hairline crack on it will throw them into a berzerker rage where the only way to stop it would be to drown the entire fortress in magma.

And lock the door.  Forever.

Hey, new theory on the origin of demons.  They were once dwarves who had their artifact destroyed, so they went berzerk and got sealed away by the other dwarves and slowly mutated in their rage into monsters.

[Lord Shonus]

^ Must..resist..urge..to make GIF..

Why resist?

[Cheddarius]

This is cool. I'm definitely watching.

[Urist Imiknorris]

^ Must..resist..urge..to make GIF..

Why resist?

Resistance is futile.

[Heliomance]

^ Must..resist..urge..to make GIF..

Why resist?

Resistance is futile.

Only when <1Ω

[Lord Shonus]

Nah, if you get E high enough, R doesn't matter.

[Simmura McCrea]

Nah, if you get E high enough, R doesn't matter.

I'm pretty sure Morul could punt an elf high enough.

[Cheddarius]

I'm pretty sure Morul could punt an elf high enough.

And it all circles back to the beginning.
o/

[Martin]

I don't want the huge amount of work Martin's done to be devalued.

I get that it takes a long time, but really now. It's not like he built a house with his bare hands. The dwarf does most of the work.
[/quote]

It's a fair point, but there's more work involved here than people might realize. The trapping and trapping related skills were brutal. Every trap triggers at least one pause/recenter and usually 2-3 due to stolen bait, and each needs to be set up by hand each time. Trapping was probably 8 hours of continuous effort, and then to get enough vermin for fish dissector and animal dissector required about that much additional trapping by other dwarves to collect enough vermin. It was 1500 or so pause/recenters total, just for those 3 skills. Milking was hard too because it needs to be micromanaged else the dwarves come in and eat the maggots (which I had extincted, so I needed to preserve every one).

The military skills were also very time intensive because Morul had to maximize his time fighting without putting the fortress at risk. Sparring just doesn't cut it that far into the skills.

So, of the 71 skills, I'd say 60 were easy and not terribly time intensive, other than just keeping the fortress running. The other 11 were a pain in the ass.

[happydog23]

Hey Martin,

I just recently read the whole thread, and I'm not sure if you ever got visualizer shots of Moruls home.  I think some of the shots i took ended up being stupidly huge, but here they are... unfortunately I only got one shot of Morul's sphere... and it was frustrating just to get a mediocre shot.

Fortress from the entrance:

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Fortress from above:

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Bottomless pit:

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Morul's Chamber:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also, I know this isn't the write place to ask, but if its not an easy answer I can hit up the modding forum... 
First, how did you  change the orcs to wear steel instead of iron, and 2nd can you change that without a regen like you did with damblock and size?

[Blargityblarg]

It's the [METAL_PREF] or something tag in their entity file; for the exact spelling, search pref until you find the one in the Dwarven entry. I think it probably will require a regen, but I don't know.

[dogstile]

There's a sizable region between "grammar nazi" and "communicating effectively" that you also appear to be not in.

Since when did we all become pricks?