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[CobaltKobold]

I've been trying to regenerate the world and have it run several decades past where it stopped the first time to see what would have happened to Cacame naturally. But some point after I genned the world, I must have altered something in the raws, because regenning with all the same seeds doesn't work.

There is a saying: "When they made him, they broke the mold."

[Shima]

It's possible that history is running somewhat differently.  In that alternative gen, Cacame may never have been born, may be under another name, or may even still be with the ELVES.

For Cacame's sake, man, don't hit the Gen button!

*Slowmo dive* NOooooooooooooooooo

[Random832]

If we're gonna do a DF family tree, we need to do it right- as a PHP that lets you click on the names to see each person's history/kill screenshot.

Then we can make some good fiction from that.

Is there a way to get an entire worlds' legends as a text dump? I could probably make a program to parse it and generate an interactive thing.

[Rowanas]

Unfortunately not, but that would be awesome. I think we're going to have to do it by hand.

[lastofthelight]

Its a pity this is bugged - I'm referring to the original thread here - because this is actually a neat feature. Imagine a civ of dwarves being ruled over by a Galadriel-esque immortal Elf-Queen.

Pansie my ass, just wait till she reads your mind and then DEVOURS YOUR FLESH ELF STYLE...all while looking good, of course.

[Rowanas]

Urist McLateMandate: What a beautiful floral pattern on your dress...
Urist McElfQueen: Actually, that's the last dwarf who failed to meet a mandate.

[abcd_z]

There is a saying: "When they made him, they broke the mold."

I read that as "When they made him, they broke the mod".
Which, you gotta admit, would make sense.

[RedWarrior0]

Pansie my ass, just wait till she reads your mind and then DEVOURS YOUR FLESH ELF STYLE...all while looking good, of course.

Of course, by joining the dwarves, she adopts their ethics code, which, unlike the elves', does not condone kill-eating until they have been properly butchered.

[lastofthelight]

Mandate: Human Skin Dress!

Perhaps tissue layers are good for something...

[Holy Mittens]

None of the historical figures or events matches up. The names are the same (at least to begin with), but they rapidly diverge from the fort I'm currently running. I'm scouring my raws, trying to figure out what the problem is, but I can't think of anything I might have modded between year 1 and year 2 of the fort (when I did a backup of the save and the objects folder, just in case).

[Rowanas]

Until they have been properly butchered... DWARVES ARE JEWISH!

Except dwarves go one further than simple circumcision. They remove EVERYTHING.

[Vester]

Until they have been properly butchered... DWARVES ARE JEWISH!

Except dwarves go one further than simple circumcision. They remove EVERYTHING.

What.

None of the historical figures or events matches up. The names are the same (at least to begin with), but they rapidly diverge from the fort I'm currently running. I'm scouring my raws, trying to figure out what the problem is, but I can't think of anything I might have modded between year 1 and year 2 of the fort (when I did a backup of the save and the objects folder, just in case).

Maybe Dwarf Fortress really works that way - maybe a given seed won't generate the same history over and over again because world generation itself has a random factor. (Who gets born, who dies, who kills who, who wins the war).

[Lord Dakoth]

Let's not degrade others ethnically on these forums, please. Unless, of course, they happen to be elves.

[Sensei]

Not true, Vester. The only randomly generated number is the seed.

I've heard of the butterfly effect occurring from things as small as changing a stone type from vein to cluster, so it's probably something really small you changed.

[Vester]

Not true, Vester. The only randomly generated number is the seed.

I've heard of the butterfly effect occurring from things as small as changing a stone type from vein to cluster, so it's probably something really small you changed.

Yeah, sorry, that's what I meant. The seed starts you off with a world, but in between, something happens.

(So if you gen a world and one civ wins a war over another, and you gen it again with the same seed, will the same outcome happen? I am curious to know.)