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[sir_laser]

Age Change in Legends

Is there any way to determine exactly what event catalyzed an age change in Legends Mode? A newly genned world, The Dimension of Cyclones, progressed from Age of Myth to Legends to Heroes. From what I understand, Megabeast and Semimegabeast survival rate determines these age changes. When I go to view the first entry of the new age and the last entry of the old age no Megabeast or Semimegabeast has died/been slain, so I'm kind of at a loss here.

Thanks

[PainRack]

Here's a question. Can fishing ever be sustainable, or will it ultimately be overfished and the counter reach zero? I asked because on a recent fort run, I seemed to have an everlasting supply of yak cows/bulls run through the land even though I trapped/killed like 75% of each appearence.

Yaks have the [PET] tag, and are non-vermin, so they will breed, even as untamed yaks in the wild.  So long as a few of each group that appear escape, you'll always have wild yaks.  Fishable vermin fish don't breed, so you will eventually run out of them.

So, if I want say turtles to regenerate, I just to have to mod in the PET tag? Or?

[Sphalerite]

Here's a question. Can fishing ever be sustainable, or will it ultimately be overfished and the counter reach zero? I asked because on a recent fort run, I seemed to have an everlasting supply of yak cows/bulls run through the land even though I trapped/killed like 75% of each appearence.

Yaks have the [PET] tag, and are non-vermin, so they will breed, even as untamed yaks in the wild.  So long as a few of each group that appear escape, you'll always have wild yaks.  Fishable vermin fish don't breed, so you will eventually run out of them.

So, if I want say turtles to regenerate, I just to have to mod in the PET tag? Or?

Turtles are vermin.  I don't think vermin breed at the moment even with the [PET] tag.

[Urist McTravis]

oops! wrong subforum, reposting in modding section.

[Mister Always]

Does flowing magma sweep items along? Also, does magma completely destroy metal items or just turn them into meltable chunk-things? And, perhaps most important - if I drop a 7X7X1 square of magma on a 7X7X1 grid of (magmasafe) grates with a bunch of goblins on top of the grates, will the magma instantly fall through and barely harm them at all or will it take a while to "seep" through the grates and so slowly burn them and their useless cloth and leather junk to cinders?

...I'm working on a little execution thing. Don't mind me.

[Sphalerite]

As far as I can tell, magma behaves like water as far as pushing objects.  Magma at 7/7 will not push anything, but flowing magma at less than 7/7 will push.  Pushed objects sometimes vanish into limbo, just like with water.  Magma-safe metals like iron or steel will not melt, but non-magma-safe metals like copper or silver will turn into useless blobs of molten metal.  There doesn't seem to be any way to turn these into useful bars.  Grates seem to act like open space to fluids - the magma will fall right down as if the grate wasn't there.

[Shiv]

Do fortifications protect your dwarves at all?  I have an exterior wall that's lined with fortifications in the thought that it'd protect them from incoming arrows, but I'm wondering if that's true.

It sure makes using marksmen hard because they have to be right up next to the fortification.  Thinking about just removing them all together. 

[Mister Always]

As far as I can tell, magma behaves like water as far as pushing objects.  Magma at 7/7 will not push anything, but flowing magma at less than 7/7 will push.  Pushed objects sometimes vanish into limbo, just like with water.  Magma-safe metals like iron or steel will not melt, but non-magma-safe metals like copper or silver will turn into useless blobs of molten metal.  There doesn't seem to be any way to turn these into useful bars.  Grates seem to act like open space to fluids - the magma will fall right down as if the grate wasn't there.

Hmm. So...if I throw the gobbos into a pit filled with iron-mechanism iron-spike traps hooked to a lever and spike them to death, and then have my dorfs pick out the metal scraps to melt...then I could safely magma the rest'a that nonsense.

Sheesh.

[Niccolo]

Do fortifications protect your dwarves at all?  I have an exterior wall that's lined with fortifications in the thought that it'd protect them from incoming arrows, but I'm wondering if that's true.

It sure makes using marksmen hard because they have to be right up next to the fortification.  Thinking about just removing them all together.

It does protect them.

At ground level, it can protect them from melee invaders, while it does also make it harder for archers to shoot them. Just like fortifications on castles.

[Buttery_Mess]

Fortifications are especially useful for defending against flyers; an exposed part of your fortress will allow flyers in, and you can seal parts off with forts.

[melkor]

i cant seem to engrave walls that i have build is there a othere way to engrave walls, exept with D?

[Haedrian]

i cant seem to engrave walls that i have build is there a othere way to engrave walls, exept with D?

Constructions can't be engraved. Sorry.

[Major SNAFU]

What does the red "c" in the upper-left corner of the screen signify?

[Shiv]

Oh one more thing I've always been curious about.  On the schedule screen for the military, is it better to have a high or low minimum?  It'd seem that if you have a high minimum, it'd never get accomplished due to not everyone being able to be present (due to sleeping, eating, whatever), so a low minimum (of 1 [or 0 if possible]) would be optimal, so that any dwarfs that could train would and any that were busy doing something else could do that instead, but I wonder if by 'minimum' it means that they *have* to train, even if they don't want to (can they even opt not to due to laziness?  I don't know how they're programmed).   

I wonder if by having a low minimum, I'm really stunting their growth.  They sure seem to gain weapon skills at a snails pace when I've run out of stuff to throw in the pit with them.

[jaxy15]

What does the red "c" in the upper-left corner of the screen signify?

A red C in the corner means new combat (r)eports, a blue S means new sparring reports, and a green H means new hunting reports.