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[assimilateur]

What are the odds of getting "normal" animals in an evil area? I'm thinking about embarking on a "haunted" tropical shrubland and I'm wondering if all elephants will be undead or not. Not only is the ability of catching some of them for breeding the main point of embarking on tropical shrublands or forests, but undead are only a petty nuisance, and hence a waste of time, in the current version.

[Flaede]

So, in order for a Bee hive to be successful, all it needs is to be in an outside tile, right? Does it matter if it's built on, or covered by, a floor?

Well, and I'm going off of how windmills work here, I would say completely uncovered. Windmills need to be "outside" and stop spinning when you cover certain of their tiles with a floor (or anything else), no matter how many z levels up they are "covered".

In answer to my own question, yes, the hive can be successful even when it's Inside. However, the test was done with the hive being built upon natural above-ground soil.

It states that it needs "Outdoor access", so it's the Above-ground tag that's probably needed, not the Outside tag.

Hm. I stand corrected. Thank you for testing.

[Mister Always]

So a wild turkey laid eggs in one of my nest boxes. I forbid my dwarves from taking them out...what now? Do I build cage traps around the nest box and hope for the best when the little buggers hatch?

[RiderofDark]

What are the odds of getting "normal" animals in an evil area? I'm thinking about embarking on a "haunted" tropical shrubland and I'm wondering if all elephants will be undead or not. Not only is the ability of catching some of them for breeding the main point of embarking on tropical shrublands or forests, but undead are only a petty nuisance, and hence a waste of time, in the current version.

If trees aren't dead, yes, you can get normal animals. Haven't stuck around in an area that started with dead trees, but I'd imagine they still would.

Edit: Answering question:

So a wild turkey laid eggs in one of my nest boxes. I forbid my dwarves from taking them out...what now? Do I build cage traps around the nest box and hope for the best when the little buggers hatch?

That's what I'd do.

[Flaede]

What are the odds of getting "normal" animals in an evil area? I'm thinking about embarking on a "haunted" tropical shrubland and I'm wondering if all elephants will be undead or not. Not only is the ability of catching some of them for breeding the main point of embarking on tropical shrublands or forests, but undead are only a petty nuisance, and hence a waste of time, in the current version.

If trees aren't dead, yes, you can get normal animals. Haven't stuck around in an area that started with dead trees, but I'd imagine they still would.

Grazing might be a bit interesting, though. What with the eyeball flowers and tentaclegrass and all.

[assimilateur]

What are the odds of getting "normal" animals in an evil area? I'm thinking about embarking on a "haunted" tropical shrubland and I'm wondering if all elephants will be undead or not. Not only is the ability of catching some of them for breeding the main point of embarking on tropical shrublands or forests, but undead are only a petty nuisance, and hence a waste of time, in the current version.

If trees aren't dead, yes, you can get normal animals. Haven't stuck around in an area that started with dead trees, but I'd imagine they still would.

Grazing might be a bit interesting, though. What with the eyeball flowers and tentaclegrass and all.

I'm playing .18 (.19 seems, from what I've seen, a bit too unpolished for my taste) so I'm not worried about grazing. From what you're saying there's no way of knowing what animals I'll get until I actually start playing? That's less than ideal, though as long as I'll get data as soon as I arrive that should be good enough.

[FearfulJesuit]

How many frames are in a dwarven day?

[Bouchart]

Do scales do anything yet?

[RiderofDark]

Is dacite magma safe?

[TolyK]

magmawiki says no.

[RiderofDark]

magmawiki says no.

Magmawiki uses the information out of the raws. The raws themselves say nothing. There's no temperature setting for dacite.

So, again, is dacite magma safe?

[Kogut]

magmawiki says no.

Magmawiki uses the information out of the raws. The raws themselves say nothing. There's no temperature setting for dacite.

So, again, is dacite magma safe?

a)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_%28object-oriented_programming%29

b)[INORGANIC:DACITE] [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]

c)Raws for [MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]:

[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
   These are the state names, adjectives and colors for the material.
   [STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:GRAY]
   [STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:stone]
   [STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:stone]
   [STATE_COLOR:LIQUID:ORANGE]
   [STATE_NAME:LIQUID:magma]
   [STATE_ADJ:LIQUID:magma]
   [STATE_COLOR:GAS:ORANGE]
   [STATE_NAME:GAS:boiling magma]
   [STATE_ADJ:GAS:boiling magma]
   [DISPLAY_COLOR:7:0:0]
   The modifier used to all values involving the material.
   [MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
   Temperature information.
   [SPEC_HEAT:800]
   [IGNITE_POINT:NONE]
   [MELTING_POINT:11500]
   [BOILING_POINT:14000]
   [HEATDAM_POINT:NONE]
   [COLDDAM_POINT:NONE]
   [MAT_FIXED_TEMP:NONE]

[Lord Shonus]

To clarify. dactite uses the generci stone properties unless the raws for dactite itself overwrite it. They do not, so it uses normal meltiness.

[Ferrus]

Quick, noobish question: Stone lying around won't do anything but look stupid. It won't block space in my stockpiles, right?

I always clear away stones before designating stockpiles so I never actually bothered with testing this.

[Bouchart]

Typically stones stop dwarves from putting things in a stockpile.  Full barrels seem to be an exception I've noticed.