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[Cheddarius]

"Oh crap!! Dwarves! Activate the exploding leather, boys!"

Haha, sigged.

[Danjen]

when dwarves catch fire, it's the clothing item in their inventory that is on fire, not the dwarf.

So, does that mean a naked dwarf is more or less immune to fire?

[Akura]

I suspect an incorrectly modded or duplicate creature, which caused the caravan to bring " leather" which boiled and froze the caravan and your dwarves to death (since the boiling point defaults to a temperature of 0, which is about -5000K - yes, that's below absolute zero). Had you hovered the cursor (in "k" mode) over the "cloud of blood", you probably would have seen it described as "boiling leather".

That explains as to why sometimes migrants will explode in a cloud of blood, whilst being frozen to death.

And the many leathers lying around.

Screenshots of that would be awesome.

Yeah, it seems like there were antipode leathers in the caravan that freezerburned the booze they were bringing. Hmm. I got to learn how to mod.

[Kagus]

when dwarves catch fire, it's the clothing item in their inventory that is on fire, not the dwarf.

So, does that mean a naked dwarf is more or less immune to fire?

"More or less" would indeed be the appropriate term.  Although they don't catch on fire themselves, they will still heat up to the point of getting hurt.  However, moving away from the heat source will quickly sort that out.  Nudist dwarves only get hurt by standing in a fire for extended periods of time.


And as far as modding goes, " leather" and freezeburn explosions are symptoms of a mod gone wrong.  Terribly, terribly wrong.  Checking for it is one of the first things you learn with modding.

It is, however, remarkably easy to duplicate.  The whole process takes maybe five seconds, and then you're ready to create your very own utterly f*-ed up world where sun-worshiping goblins who live in forest retreats will launch attacks against the squirrel mountainhomes and their muskox allies who live in obsidian towers and praise the slugman messiah.

Plump helmet anvils and bat silk earrings are not unheard of, either.

[arghy]

I tried to mod elephants to be available on the embark screen and it messed the world up so bad. There were rivers frozen in 14 Z level walls, when i started i would lost half my dwarves to spontaneous boiling leather that would appear without warning over the dwarf. The outpost liaison appeared with horrible wounds and was finished off before he could reach my dwarfs by the teleporting boiling leather. 

[Cheddarius]

I tried to mod elephants to be available on the embark screen and it messed the world up so bad. There were rivers frozen in 14 Z level walls, when i started i would lost half my dwarves to spontaneous boiling leather that would appear without warning over the dwarf. The outpost liaison appeared with horrible wounds and was finished off before he could reach my dwarfs by the teleporting boiling leather. 

Hah, this thread is a goldmine.

[Zaranthan]

Hah, this thread is a goldmine.

Tell me about it.

Plump helmet anvils and bat silk earrings are not unheard of, either.

[Kyronea]

when dwarves catch fire, it's the clothing item in their inventory that is on fire, not the dwarf.

So, does that mean a naked dwarf is more or less immune to fire?

"More or less" would indeed be the appropriate term.  Although they don't catch on fire themselves, they will still heat up to the point of getting hurt.  However, moving away from the heat source will quickly sort that out.  Nudist dwarves only get hurt by standing in a fire for extended periods of time.


And as far as modding goes, " leather" and freezeburn explosions are symptoms of a mod gone wrong.  Terribly, terribly wrong.  Checking for it is one of the first things you learn with modding.

It is, however, remarkably easy to duplicate.  The whole process takes maybe five seconds, and then you're ready to create your very own utterly f*-ed up world where sun-worshiping goblins who live in forest retreats will launch attacks against the squirrel mountainhomes and their muskox allies who live in obsidian towers and praise the slugman messiah.

Plump helmet anvils and bat silk earrings are not unheard of, either.

I have to wonder...is a world like this actually playable? Would it be possible to run a community/succession fortress with this sort of insanity?

It might be more amusing than Boatmurdered.

[Kagus]

Well, as the OP has clearly shown, it is possible to play in corrupted worlds.  However, they pose a host of new and utterly unexpected dangers and quirks.

It all depends though.  In some cases the corruption is moderate, and you can play just fine, with just a few oddities.  In other cases, dwarves will be replaced by two-legged rhino lizards, thus making the game unplayable.

[Karnewarrior]

How would I begin to make this world MINE?

[Argonnek]

Simple: Just find a creature, any creature, in the raws and copy/paste its entry.
Let cook for one worldgen, and done! Instant madness.

[Raddish]

crazy madness worlds seem like fun 

What examples can you give of what i should expect to find in a twisted world?

Also do you get different results if you screw up different raws?

[Cheddarius]

Alligators live in houses. You will embark as purring maggots and thus the game will be unplayable. Your dwarves (if they even are dwarves) will be constantly assaulted by a swarm of exploding leather and will die horrible deaths. Everything will be ridiculous.

[Tarran]

I also remember boiling Sphalerite, profit apparently made the boiling point wrong in Molten Rocks, I don't know if its fixed yet, but I fixed it myself, I was wondering what was happening when my dwarves were dieing.

[Cheddarius]

Man, that would make an interesting challenge fort. Half the rocks having boiling points of room temperature or something, I mean. You'd have to have intricate workarounds (especially if you made the most important stones and ores boil) and your fortress would look really weird, but on the other hand, you have an instant solution for nobles.