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[Max™]

I used photobucket for a while but they started giving me crap about traffic, adspam, and whatnot so I jumped ship to imgur. Didn't you grab the pic with a screenshot tool? Not sure what's native on windows these days.

[Paaaad]

I just used [alt]-[Prnt Scrn]. Takes a screen shot of the topmost window.

[conein]

You could use lightshot, it's pretty fast. You install it, and when you press prnt scrn you just pick the area you want to save and press the save button.

[Max™]

Yeah, that's what I do with ksnapshot (the KDE default) to snip out the stuff of interest.

My adventurers lately have mostly been unwilling test subjects for my coding stuff but thanks to the rather schizophrenic dorfs with frequently changing names sitting on piles of legendary weapons and armor, I have triumphed! I was finally able to create right or left artifact gauntlets which show up properly in legends mode as being created by my dorf and I can rename said artifacts or her with access to the full dictionaries by pulling up the same screen you use when naming your adventurer!

Now to see if I can tackle the whole inserting them into world-gen idea from over in modding.

[NJW2000]

Wait, adding artifacts into stuff other civs/sites make? Historical real legendary artifacts? I am misunderstanding you, surely?

[Max™]

No no, I have the basic idea of how to do this now.

As it is I've got the stuff in so I tell it to grab the unit I'm looking at (or the adventurer unit as a default) and it fills out the stuff to make the item then inserts a new historical event for said artifact creation:


So, if I ran a script during world-gen and had it say, check every 5~10 years for a site with say, a megabeast/20+dorfs/slabs, then I could have it choose a suitable unit and have them be the creator of an artifact which will have an appropriate historical event entry and can thus be stolen/looted/found by us after world-gen.

So yes, I am working out the ideas for this currently, and it'll hopefully tide us over til Toady brings out the real ones, and it should be interesting to see what new stuff I can do after the artifact update.

[NJW2000]

Awesome! Then again, it *might* make artifacts less special... still, I'd love to be able to create a world where pretty much every civ was entirely full of artifacts...

[Max™]

Well, I'd put the option in the script to run a lot or a little, probably just have it be arguments like:
artinsert -years 5 -freq 2 -dorfs -megas

So it would drop two in every five years and try to place them at dorf and megabeast sites, naturally you could do -years 1 -freq 10 -all or something and it'll just scatter em everywhere.

[Eric Blank]

I claimed ladyship of the hamlet of Conflictroar. The village is halfway abandoned, the locals said "there's nothing organized here." Perfect anarchist state, I suppose. They seem to like me well enough anyway. Told them I'd killed a giant. Hired a few as hearthspeople. Then went for an extended swim in the river, returned to pick up my companions, a couple elves, and set out to find the fabled goblin capitol. First we visited the elven capitol. My people were at war with the elves. Nobody attacked me, despite the game refusing to let me travel.

They must have thousands of animals there, though. Lions, tigers, cheetahs...

Anyway, anther few days in the wilderness with only one dingo ambush got us into goblin territory. Where we promptly ran into a platoon of hardened warriors and a human recruit. Both my companions died, but the goblins routed when I had killed four of them, then a few more to help the message sink in. Got an awesome title too: Tikbo Plotbarb the Rapid Frost of Myth. I did eventually find the capitol, but the lag generated by 50,000 goblins wouldn't let me actually pass into the site. Slaughtered a few more goblin-raised elf recruits on my way out, including this guy:

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Poor bastard.

A couple alligator ambushes returned me home, and now I'm off to slaughter every megabeast in the world and become a werebeast to cure a couple potentially fatal infections.

[Max™]

That is why I did the goblin pop control stuff, I can deal with them not having trolls if it means I can visit dark fortresses lag free.

[Adragis]

That is why I did the goblin pop control stuff, I can deal with them not having trolls if it means I can visit dark fortresses lag free.

I once visited a dark fort to find them all asleep, so no lag.
However, apparently Gobs don't need to sleep.
Any reason for this?

[Eric Blank]

In vanilla they still need to sleep, just not eat or drink.

Reducing goblin pops is going to be a priority next world gen. Right now, I don't think I can do much about the forest of towers and trenches. I've set out to stop an army from a different goblin civ conquering a dwarven hillocks, though. Should be Fun.

Edit:

Well, I was late for the party in the hillocks. Four such sites were conquered by the goblin army before I arrived. When I slaughtered everyone in the tents and told the dwarves about it I was branded a murderer. They wouldnt acknowledge the occupation was over until I did so, then they decided they didn't like that. Nobody was willing to join me in fighting off the goblins, either. It was, overall, a waste of time.

The game crashed anyway. So whatever.

[Tawa]

I think I had something pretty close to a "successful game".

My character was a mighty knight, who, wielding his Mighty *Bronze Longsword* of Justice, killed four notable things.

They were, in order, a night troll, a towering cobra beast with a poisonous sting, some unsuspecting local guy bandit, and a dragon, which had upward of fifty kills and was the first monster listed in Legends mode.

He then retired to a life of luxury after telling a small-time lord of his exploits and gaining tribute from him, subsequently ruling a land from a hamlet.

[StagnantSoul]

I had a hammer in one hand, a spear in the other. Break the hands, stab the head. Break the legs, stab the head. Stab the hand, break the head. My adventurer slaughtered his way through dozens of bandits and savage wildlife, and even fell into the caverns by accident. After killing a jabberer, a few draltha, and a pair of blind cave ogres, plus a few crundles, I encountered my equal: a cave dragon.

I could feel the beast's every movement... Smell it's breath as it moved through the air. The tip of it's tail twitched. That leg muscle tensed a little. In response, my hammer arm tensed in unison, the same minuscule movement, registered by both combatants. I was slowly backing towards the wall behind me, crushing the odd blue moss under foot. Once my back finally reached the wall, I placed my spear against the wall. A single rock was dislodged from the wall, tumbling down beside my iron boot. The beast took a pair of steps forward, ever cautious of my hammer arm. While the battle of flesh had yet to begin, we were already years into a war of wills. The moment the dragon heard the rock tumble, it charged. I reached quickly into my bag, past the jabberer skull, draltha tooth, and blind cave ogre hand, bumping into several pieces of stolen food, before I found the treasure I longed for: a steel carving knife. I threw the glistening, infinitely sharp blade at the dragon, spinning end over end, reflecting light around. The dragon, anticipating this move, dodged, the blade falling uselessly where the beast resided moments ago. As I grabbed my spear, the dragon charged: claws extended, it cut into my head, the whole construct falling into a pile of gore. And so, I was vanquished.

[Adragis]

I'm fairly sure Garden Cress Leaves are the ultimate weapon. I killed a demon with one once, and they're so plentiful and light (and edible!) that having an inventory full of them is never harmful.
I say this because I finally got a vault slab, using a character who wielded a two shields and just threw garden cress leaves and shield bashed his way through.
He died to a roc later. Sad.