Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1] 2

Author Topic: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?  (Read 1737 times)

Redhades

  • Bay Watcher
  • That boy needs therapy
    • View Profile
    • My Linkedin.com profile is all bout me
Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« on: April 30, 2009, 09:30:29 pm »

A "platinum nuggets" is 6420 and the dwarf hauling it is really slowed down.

But is there something heavier that a dwarf can haul?
Does hauling super heavy objects makes a dwarf stronger or a better hauler?
If so, do heavier objects provide more experience points in some way?
Logged

Jim Groovester

  • Bay Watcher
  • 1P
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2009, 09:42:26 pm »

There's no upper limit to what a dwarf can move around, but his speed will drastically reduce the heavier it gets.

As for the heaviest thing ever, probably a cage stuffed with every animal in the fortress.
Logged
I understood nothing, contributed nothing, but still got to win, so good game everybody else.

Albedo

  • Bay Watcher
  • Menacing with spikes of curmudgeonite.
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2009, 10:06:24 pm »

(I was going to say a bin of lead bars, or perhaps galena or native gold blocks, but yours wins hands down.)

Look up "speed" in the wiki. 

Ignore all the blather and go straight down the bottom, the little chart under "encumbrance".

That'll answer some of your questions.
Logged

Redhades

  • Bay Watcher
  • That boy needs therapy
    • View Profile
    • My Linkedin.com profile is all bout me
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2009, 10:21:54 pm »

Look up "speed" in the wiki. 

Oh cool, I was looking for "Weight" in the wiki but didn't find what I wanted.
Also, from there, I went into the "Attributes"  page and found this:

Quote
Dwarves will not gain attributes if they are doing something that does not involve a skill -- hauling, being stationed on duty (and not in combat), on break, etc.

So then hauling heavy object does not raise Strength skills.
I was hoping to do some sort of hauling gym for dwarfs to haul heavy weights and get stronger.
Logged

pokute

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2009, 10:36:02 pm »

My dwarf hauled a buggy 1436477r rock barrel the other day, so yes, there appears to be no direct upper limit, but it was slow as hell.
Logged
If history wasn't written by the victors, humanity's failures would be self-evident.

Derakon

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2009, 11:11:30 pm »

Constructing such a gym would be straightforward -- put some heavy stuff in Stockpile #1, then set Stockpile #2 to take from Stockpile #1 and Stockpile #1 to take from Stockpile #2.

Make you own Sisyphean dwarves!
Logged
Jetblade - an open-source Metroid/Castlevania game with procedurally-generated levels

Albedo

  • Bay Watcher
  • Menacing with spikes of curmudgeonite.
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2009, 02:41:22 am »

Make a pump gym.  Out of wood if you've got any sort of forests.  2 pumps/5 dwarves, more or less.  They'll get beefy in no time.
Logged

Yanlin

  • Bay Watcher
  • Legendary comedian.
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2009, 07:33:08 am »

The universe.

/thread.
Logged
WE NEED A SLOGAN!

Tormy

  • Bay Watcher
  • I shall not pass?
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2009, 08:23:57 am »

There's no upper limit

Correct...and I guess it's needless to say that this is very unrealistic?  ;D Hopefully Toady will fix this soon enough, along with the infinite big cages.
Logged

Duke 2.0

  • Bay Watcher
  • [CONQUISTADOR:BIRD]
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2009, 09:55:53 am »

The universe.

/thread.

Code: [Select]
[MATGLOSS_STONE:Universe]
[VALUE:9999999999][COLOR:0:7:1][TILE:15]
[GEM:Universe:Universes]
[ENVIRONMENT:SPACE:CLUSTER_GALACTIC:100]

 Admittedly this could be done better...
Logged
Buck up friendo, we're all on the level here.
I would bet money Andrew has edited things retroactively, except I can't prove anything because it was edited retroactively.
MIERDO MILLAS DE VIBORAS FURIOSAS PARA ESTRANGULARTE MUERTO

Yanlin

  • Bay Watcher
  • Legendary comedian.
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2009, 10:06:20 am »

Pfft. It's worth far more than that. It contains far more stuff.
Logged
WE NEED A SLOGAN!

Wild Goose

  • Bay Watcher
  • My Avatar Has Something Green. Yay solidarity!
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2009, 10:07:31 am »

Eh, I figure Dwarves are stubborn enough to haul just about anything.
Logged
"Adventurer's Motto; Take everything not nailed down and nail down whoever tries to stop you."

"Whatever happens, we have got the ballista and they have not."

The dwarven economy is just a stand-in, from what I understand. As it is, it represents an actual economic system about as well as poison ivy represents a salad.

Yanlin

  • Bay Watcher
  • Legendary comedian.
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #12 on: May 01, 2009, 10:09:51 am »

I know one thing a dwarf can't haul. Another living dwarf. Caged dwarves don't count because the dwarf is in a cage and he's carrying the cage.
Logged
WE NEED A SLOGAN!

Wild Goose

  • Bay Watcher
  • My Avatar Has Something Green. Yay solidarity!
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2009, 10:19:44 am »

What about babies?  And Recovering Wounded?
Logged
"Adventurer's Motto; Take everything not nailed down and nail down whoever tries to stop you."

"Whatever happens, we have got the ballista and they have not."

The dwarven economy is just a stand-in, from what I understand. As it is, it represents an actual economic system about as well as poison ivy represents a salad.

ThtblovesDF

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Single most heavy object a dwarf can haul?
« Reply #14 on: May 01, 2009, 11:08:01 am »

The universe.

/thread.

Obviously you could actually carry the dwarfen pocket universe.

Just catch evry single living thing and put them in a cage and then put evry single item and stone in a *modded* bin.
Logged
Pages: [1] 2