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[TomiTapio]

Meanwhile, in the town of Ceilingtuft, famous for its legendary weaponsmith... It is year 3 mid-summer.

Beast cages, metalworks area, small farm, wells, and the cagetrapped main entrance.

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still six, five in bedrest. 33 able citizens.
caravan looks stuck. build two MORE bridges, militia watches out while build.
Build walls to protect the insane caravan from ambushes.
Year 3 spring, migrants! we are 59.
Hooray only 3 in bedrest anymore!
The gloomer soldier is the happiest dorf in the town.
animaltrainer gets mood: a gypsum crown, 9600, pic of gobliness and pic of a keruing tree.
maybe the military elite should read teaching books.
buy a mighty giraffe.
Dismiss the elves' silly request.

Year 3 early summer, a tree-cutting operation: about 3 cutters, lots of haulers, militia squads take turns guarding against ambushes.
stop the operation, and one fool hauler takes a nap far from our walled and trapped area.
a misheard order turned mayor's wall engravings job into ramp-carving... patch it up with microcline walls.
The sounds of giant olm vomiting echo through the caverns. Mebz the hunter is doing her job. Dangerous.
Four anatomical theaters enlighten some yougn dwarves to their future professions.
It's great to have six miners.
Make more crucibles. And excess steel mails.
The young pelican chicks are soiling the dining hall.
Really should have washing-pool at the ghoul-pussed entrance.
Time for an ore stockpile. Iron ores litter the main area, no need to haul those, but the silvers need hauling.
The very agile ice-lass's thumb is still busted and she refuses to leave the hospital.
The mayor finally gets an armor stand (iron one).

(Crash, the wrath of gods hits the fort.)
Year 3 early summer, woodcutting operation....
bin-making makes a big toys-n-crafts shuffling party.
Adil grows up to be a war boar. We put a hat on him for fun.
Melbil the one-wing one-leg hen is learning to adjust.
The insane caravan is still eating dirt and beetles outdoors.
13 citizens do smelter duty.
Should give more work to the superlegendary weaponsmith. Stop the party and elite weapons start appearing!
The insane caravan is dead and rotting; need more furniture storage for those sand bags.

(Crash, the wrath of gods hits the fort.)

[TomiTapio]

The important part of combat imho is to use a lot of cannon fodder, once they get amputated you swap them out since they can still do other jobs. Fill in the empty slots as soon as possible. My baron is an ex-spear dwarf who lost his right hand.

Do your soldiers wear THREE steel mail shirts? Which is allowed.
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Armor#Some_more_workaround_about_Size.2C_Permit_and_Layering

[Deon]

Hey, what are those "dots"? Do you use it for ground?

[TomiTapio]

Hey, what are those "dots"? Do you use it for ground?

I had to fix the eye-hurting text: period, comma, singlequote (Urist's possessive). Rarer _`_ start-single-quote I left as is, it's only in nicknames.

[Deon]

Doesn't it make it hard to spot an edge of a channel or a hole?

[TomiTapio]

Doesn't it make it hard to spot an edge of a channel or a hole?

Nah, the air-dot is tiny and in the center, the period is big and in the bottom.


I adjusted the dwarves: 115% learning xp.
[SKILL_RATES:115:60:12:120] --custom
my previous xp rate (85% I think) was rather slow _in military training_.

[Vherkin]

Did you ever though of making a reaction for training wrestling with a dummy. I though it's was kinda sad to se them used for every melee weapon but not wrestling. I wanted to see my dwarf do like martial-art movie and use them to train a little.

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In reaction_training.txt
[REACTION:TRAIN_WRESTLING]
   [NAME:train Wrestling]
   [BUILDING:TRAINING_DUMMY:CUSTOM_w]
   [REAGENT:A:1:Item_gloves:ITEM_GLOVES_GLOVES:NONE:NONE][PRESERVE_REAGENT]   
   [SKILL:WRESTLING]

In entity_default.txt:
In the dwarf entity entry represented by this line: [ENTITY:MOUNTAIN] (It's normally the first one)
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_WRESTLING]

They even use glove for some protection! it's like boxer

About the orc:
I love dungeon keeper but im confuse, why did you remove the orc ?
I think is because the conclusion that the 3 evil civilization where near the same in a way.
And i think is, maybe, because the work on orc mod seems to have stopped, atleast by is original author and you don't want to take the relay in genesis .

I know dk, i love it, i see it as a fitting choice to remplace the greenskin. They are legion, they live underground in dark dongeon and they want to make your life miserable and turn everything that live EVIL! That a good choice.
But i still love the orc, do you plan to implant them back ? Do you have projet for them? or should i forgot them and fight the horde of the evil overlord ? 

Here i will suggest something if you plan to get them back:

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it's would be cool if they where they're own civilization. I actually see them remplace osmans. I enjoy asian mythology but without it, in a mostly european/western mythology, it's just feel like guys running around with katana.
 Without the context, the universe around, they are the same as wesman.

Here an idea to make orc more unique:
It's would be cool to see orc building city in tropical biome. A southern nation with talent for fight and blacksmithing but lacking talent in more fine art like jeweling. I see them liking the way of dwarf and northman, disliking the way of living of wesman and totally hating the elf. Proud, warrior but not savage like in D&D. It's a crude description, it's need some work, but i think it could be really fun.

[Zokinin]

So is it just me or do jade dwarves learn stuff at exactly the same rate as everything else?
I had two miners: One stone, one jade. Both mined non-stop from the beginning till about 15 minutes in and afterward both were at accomplished and started at proficient.

[TomiTapio]

The scrolls of Ceilingtuft unfold...

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The insane caravan is dead and rotting; need more furniture storage for those sand bags.

(Crash, the wrath of gods hits the fort.)
A different tree-harvesting operation.
61 fps, 4x3 embark, 60 citizens, 13+57 animals, ? cavern layers (at least 1 opened). 635k wealth. 2400 stones.
late summer, wesman traders.
Those humans think they're so funny, claiming to be from the Mountainhomes.
Time to thin out the pelican chicks and kittens.
ezrakim caravan.
buy all thread, plants, alcohols and dogs, metals, wood.

Year 3 autumn.
Dig in the caves. Foudn sphalerite, neat.
Dume the Elite gets a mood: an aspen earring... the gutter-crawling fool! 14400 coins, says the broker-mayor.
first squad gets to killa giant toad. Trogs pop up. Kill them. More trogs come running.
Oh, that's GOLD, not gypsum on -10.
The happy gloomer had a baby.
A trog and war boar fight. Good thing the best miner has a protection animal.
big gold-to-home hauling operation!

home caravans and osmans. expect trouble, place squads on guard duty.
Two thieves get busted by cages. And a snatcher.

A goblin ambush from the north. Revealed by cagetrap noise.
Another goblin ambush from the south, on narrow bridge. ARCHERS. Copper and bronze jagged arrows.
Lost a dog. Snakeman ambush! from the southeast.
Raku shroomaxe died. And Solon. Dume the elite (very flimsy obsidian) gonna bleed out.
Fourth ambush.

Think the caravan guards handled the rest. A huge trail of camel vomit.
Looks like five injured citizens.
A war sand lion broke a leg. It watches as the battlefield is hauled clean.

Year 3 winter.
The legendary weaponforger starts a party.
Choose a new militia commander.

Dom, soldier, has lung damage and broken rib. She nailed one goblin.
Expand the caged beasts area. Spit on the goblins.
Dom is better already, she is damn tough.
Wish we could train that cave croc. Or at least tie it up for moving, and leash it near the wall, and untie it.
Train six more war dogs. The outdoors pools freeze.
Dom rests some more...? How will her baby fare?

Yes, my goblin/barghest/orc civ has been upgraded to have brass and bronze.

[Deon]

Cool story, Tapio. Build a nice tomb for you dead... or don't .

Vherkin: Actually it could be a cool idea to have an orc civ with an eastern flavor... And peaceful. It would be different and spice up the situation a little. Now I plan to replace osmans with an orc civ and to rename wesmen to "order". It will come along with paladins and witchhunters they have. This way we will get rid of weird "racial" names, and it would give more flavor IMHO.
Also the wrestling, how could I forget that.

It would be a nice change for 3.0 along with some other entity tweaks.

Zokinin: skill rates work a bit differently now. I will check it for 3.0.

[Vherkin]

Im trying to do a little "workshop" to trains architect, siege engineer, kicking and biting because i though library and/or mannequin was just not fitting for them. I just finished the graphic design.

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It's a 10x10 miniature city with miniature catapult. I think is fitting and funny.
The siege engineer will trains to "prepare siege" with miniature catapult.
The architect will train building miniature thing in the city.
The kicking and biting training part? It's for dwarf who want to go Godzilla style!

Construction phase:
1. rassembling material
2. Setting a barrier for the construction
3. Commencing the construction proper
4.  A little city is born with in the lower right corner a desk, a chair and a lamp for them to have fun with calculation!

What do you think people, are you interested or i just scrap that because it's would seems off in a fortress ?

[Deon]

I think I will reduce it to a smaller size (and no way I will use THAT many material for a workshop) but the idea is awesome. Thank you.

[Vherkin]

Funny actually, i wanted to use more material than represented.
Something like: 5 raw green glass, 10-20 wood and 50-60 stone. 
Wanted to do it bigger too but was afraid of cave-in 
Maybe, next time when i try to design a workshops i need to use more my imagination and less graphic representation 

I used the tool Custom Workshop Workshop! Maybe it will help, atleast if you did not know it's existed before
I learned something, the awsome graphic from genesis come from the graphic set. Now i have to learn how to actually use that too. The wiki calling me 

[Urist Imiknorris]

If I like the mod during my "test run" with Sparkgear XIII, I'll be playing it.

[Medicine Man]

Hey Deon,is it possible to make a "gather stone" feature on the "create" menu to create mining in Adventure Mode?