Hmmm...
Would I have to restart a fortress if I changed it so Female Dogs were named Bitches (Eh, technically correct once they pop out some pups) For easier destinction... For horses it's Stallion and ... erm ... Mare right?
Yea dog bitch might sound funny, but its what female dogs are called in my version too. Also dog mares for the female horses. i left the male names as they were. after all, if a horse is a horse, then its a male horse. if its a horse mare, then its female.
While i usually like spending hours reading various seemingly unrelated wikipedia entries, i kinda got bored of hunting for gender specific race names, so after a while i simply added a (m) to the male of the species. Did this for about every animal you can start with or would want to domesticate
It makes life soooo much easier. Btw: the term 'bitch' is used for non sterilized (that is, breeding) female dogs, in fact all canines, over a certain age. At least thats what i gathered from the wiki.
quote:
"In literal, non-slang use, bitch is a term for female canines, particularly amongst dog breeders"
To answer your question, no. you do not have to restart your fort. You just have to restart the game, if you edit the raws. Im not sure if thats true if you edit other attributes too, but adding those specname tags do not require you to start over.
Actually, I always have embarked with an anvil, and used that to forge axes for woodcutters. But now that I think of it, 2 axes gives me 400 more points, and one axe gives me 700 more. And heck, even when I do have an anvil, I've never used it beyond the first axes until at least 5 years or so into my fortress... So 1 axe is far, far cheaper than an anvil, and is essentially the same benefit (at least until a few years in, when you'll be rolling in dough anyway).
Actually, that 1 axe can also be dropped in favor of 100 extra wood, which
a) saves you the trouble of going outside chopping trees
b) saves your haulers from going outside hauling logs inside
c) you will get an anvil first autumn anyway, or second autumn at worst, which means that you can pretty much forge all the axes you want, if not buying them outright from the traders as well. copper axes are ridiculously cheap if the trader happens to have some.
In fact, i do believe that 200-250 logs would pretty much last a good two years unless you go crazy on barrel / bin production.
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