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[Broseph Stalin]

I've opened up a dojo, by which I mean I'm practicing my combat skills by handing a one wooden stave to a confused villager then whacking them with my own wooden stave until they pass out then starting again with a new one. I gelded an elf with a lower body shot and he passed out from the pain. Technically a low blow means that's a win for him.

[Uzu Bash]

I can't seem to get a companion who'll survive long enough to develop more survival competence. I had recruited an elite crossbowman a little after killing the titan, but he disappeared when I retired, and I didn't see him show back up after checking all the taverns in town. I might see him about on the way back there, but by then he'll be outleaged and I'll have to fucking handhold a damn NPC to get him up to speed.

I'm so sick of playing escort quest with every fucking companion who's supposed to support me. Can I get a companion who doesn't suck balls? A companion who isn't a fucking load? Is there such a thing?

[Max™]

Retired and dance-recruited adventurers are the best companions ever, terrifyingly competent.

I've opened up a dojo, by which I mean I'm practicing my combat skills by handing a one wooden stave to a confused villager then whacking them with my own wooden stave until they pass out then starting again with a new one. I gelded an elf with a lower body shot and he passed out from the pain. Technically a low blow means that's a win for him.

You need a Pai Mei beard and laugh.

[Uzu Bash]

I hesitate to recruit any performers because they don't perform anything they've got after they're recruited. I have to initiate every performance, and any new forms they should have to contribute inevitably die with them. Another bunch of worthless redshirts.

[Rumrusher]

the follow adventurer mechanic would override any idle performance bit. now have any unit walk over to the bar to start a song or just seem to spawn there and started one?

[Uzu Bash]

Waiting for their idle performance is already pretty dull. So what I really want to do is invite them to never even do that. Wtf is the point of that, again?

[Max™]

I don't grab people who break out into performances to accompany me, generally I grab the best dancing soldiers or one of my previously retired adventurers.

[Rumrusher]

I don't grab people who break out into performances to accompany me, generally I grab the best dancing soldiers or one of my previously retired adventurers.

ehh I just grab anyone because in the end their going to have a story to tell after I'm done, and a Rum-Venture always ends with some feat accomplished... or companion gets suck into the void.
*sheds tear to those loss from vanishing into thin air*
in other news I walked another elephantperson to the fort in hopes of seeing if toady fixed the whole adventurer 'hostile' after retiring at the site or that I proved you can only control those characters if their originally apart of the fort Civ from the start.
so far the fort bringing in all kinds of different races like trolls, goblins, blind cave orges, humans, jagaurmen, wagons before they die from fort mode scuttling.

edit: UHHHH OOOOPPPSS Looks like the elephant man Cacame Died in Thob's room on returning to fort mode.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Uzu Bash]

I don't grab people who break out into performances to accompany me, generally I grab the best dancing soldiers or one of my previously retired adventurers.

And how many forms do you learn from doing that? Wait, let me venture a guess: fucking zero. Am I right?

[Rumrusher]

I don't grab people who break out into performances to accompany me, generally I grab the best dancing soldiers or one of my previously retired adventurers.

And how many forms do you learn from doing that? Wait, let me venture a guess: fucking zero. Am I right?

max already making new forms with Dfhack... soooo he could just grab the knowledge from their noggins/souls and learn to perform them, or custom make some kind of weird dance that needs to clothesline the partner then do a spinning powerbomb to perform.
also I kinda roll characters that learn how to make songs of their own and don't grind out knowing songs oh and I didn't github the prototype Dfhack copy.
edit: also too busy sticking adventurers into fort mode so they might learn some songs that way from the tavern.

[Uzu Bash]

I don't grab people who break out into performances to accompany me, generally I grab the best dancing soldiers or one of my previously retired adventurers.

And how many forms do you learn from doing that? Wait, let me venture a guess: fucking zero. Am I right?

max already making new forms with Dfhack... soooo he could just grab the knowledge from their noggins/souls and learn to perform them, or custom make some kind of weird dance that needs to clothesline the partner then do a spinning powerbomb to perform.

I'd prefer to do this legitimately, but I think I'd be speaking some language you don't understand. I have looked at the character file with gui/gm-editor, but the information you're referring to is not in the soul.

[Rumrusher]

I don't grab people who break out into performances to accompany me, generally I grab the best dancing soldiers or one of my previously retired adventurers.

And how many forms do you learn from doing that? Wait, let me venture a guess: fucking zero. Am I right?

max already making new forms with Dfhack... soooo he could just grab the knowledge from their noggins/souls and learn to perform them, or custom make some kind of weird dance that needs to clothesline the partner then do a spinning powerbomb to perform.

I'd prefer to do this legitimately, but I think I'd be speaking some language you don't understand. I have looked at the character file with gui/gm-editor, but the information you're referring to is not in the soul.

oh good because I had no idea if there in the soul or brain or personality of the unit... because of lacking dfhack.
so how long does it take for an Ghost to pop up in fort mode again?
ehhh in finally modding 04 news I'm adding Wagon men.

[Uzu Bash]

I only know that a ghost appears a season after accidentally atomsmashing a dwarf and hoping no one notices. I haven't done the !!SCIENCE!! though.

[Rumrusher]

okay so uhh with no knowledge of modding I didn't notice animalmen bit not picking up on body-wagon.
so this thing is literally has the front and back and 4 wheels of a wagon with none of the man part.
and because of that it can't attack a damn thing also jump, or climb.
but it can talk and perform so that's a plus.

Spoiler: "here incase anyone wants to mess around with Wagon-men" (click to show/hide)

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creature_equipment

[OBJECT:CREATURE]

[CREATURE:EQUIPMENT_WAGON]
[DESCRIPTION:A rolling platform for carrying passengers or cargo.]
[NAME:wagon:wagons:wagon]
[OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE]
[CASTE_NAME:wagon:wagons:wagon]
[CREATURE_TILE:'W'][COLOR:6:0:0]
[EQUIPMENT_WAGON][COMMON_DOMESTIC]
[NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
[BODY:WAGON]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:WOOD:WOOD_TEMPLATE]

Wagons-as-creatures is most likely going to be replaced once moving siege engines are in, so we'll just use a generic "wood" material here instead of worrying about coding up race glosses again.

[TISSUE:WOOD]
[TISSUE_NAME:wood:wooden]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:WOOD]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:WOOD]
[ITEMCORPSE:WOOD:NO_SUBTYPE:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:WOOD]
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:1200000000000]
[ALL_ACTIVE]
[TRADE_CAPACITY:15000]
[MUNDANE]
[ODOR_LEVEL:0]


[CREATURE:WAGON_MAN]
[COPY_TAGS_FROM:EQUIPMENT_WAGON]
[OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:ANIMAL_PERSON]
[GO_TO_END]
[SELECT_CASTE:MALE]
[CASTE_NAME:wagon man:wagon men:wagon man]
[SELECT_CASTE:FEMALE]
[CASTE_NAME:wagon woman:wagon women:wagon woman]
[SELECT_CASTE:ALL]
[NOPAIN][EXTRAVISION][NOSTUN][NOFEAR]
[NOBONES][NO_SLEEP][]
[ATTACK:GORE:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:TUSK]
[ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
[ATTACK_VERB:Runs-Over:Multi-Hits]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:1:1]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:PUNCH_ATTACK]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:KICK_ATTACK]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:NAIL_SCRATCH_ATTACK]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:TOOTH_BITE_ATTACK]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:TUSK_STAB_ATTACK]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_BIPED_GAITS:1:1:0:0:1:1] 30 kph 2 wheeler mode
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_CLIMBING_GAITS:20:57:25:31:10:10] 12 kph
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_SWIMMING_GAITS:29:22:15:7:43:61] 12 kph
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_CRAWLING_GAITS:0:0:1:1:0:1] 12 kph Car mode
[GO_TO_START]
[NAME:wagon man:wagon men:wagon man]
[DESCRIPTION:A large person made of wood with head of an wagon.]
[POPULATION_NUMBER:5000:10000]
[CLUSTER_NUMBER:15:30]
[MAXAGE:60000:800000]
[CREATURE_TILE:'W']
[COLOR:7:0:0]
[GO_TO_TAG:BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:HUMANOID_RIBCAGE_POSITIONS]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:NAIL_MATERIALS]
[GO_TO_TAG:USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:NAIL:NAIL_TEMPLATE]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:FINGER:NAIL:FRONT]




edit: finds the first library in the new update and I CAN'T READ ANY OF THESE... because I can't pick up the books not because of lack of reading.

when you normally defy death on a norm, Dwarf fortress finds new and exciting ways for you to Lose.

okay time to find a temple so I can smash this wooden cart into it and gain arms and legs.

good news I an topple statues, bad news no curses happen so I guess Wagon boy is stuck as a wagon boy.

also this happen

[Max™]

I haven't figured out how to make new forms from scratch yet, but the groundwork is in place when we get a stable dfhack.

Unsurprisingly they're under df.global.world.dance_forms and one of the entries lists the entity number which made them.

Still not sure exactly where the list that stores the ones YOU know are at yet... but I digress.

Wagon men are a really fucking impressive bit of fuckery you just did there, seriously kudos on that.

I am afraid I have one-upped you though.

My early attempts at doing this ended up with the game crashing, but I found as long as you simply insert the cage general_ref_contained_in_itemst and mug general_ref_contains_itemst properly then just untoggle the caged flag in the unit you can in fact give them a mug which contains a cage WHICH THEY ARE CONTAINED WITHIN


IT DID NOT CRASH... THEY WERE STANDING BETWEEN THE BOOK AND I... AND THEN

THEY
WERE
GONE!