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[Pan]

PM me, if you want to share, what machine is this.
if it's shutting down like that, it really may be hardware/bios settings problem, maybe fixable in some easy ways. also, i can strongly recommend checking air flow in coolers' vents, sometimes small dustball may have quite an impact on temps and stability..
sometimes(especially, if it is athlon xp, i.e.) bios can set cpu wrong way, or memory has wrong timings set..etc etc...maybe i can help.
you'd better avoid worst scenario for progressing blackouts: dying capacitors on mobo(check for not flat caps on these), or dying power source(quick-check of voltages in bios)...

anyway, PM me, if crashes persists.

for getting more fps by init edit you may try changing engine used([PRINT_MODE:STANDARD] to some other one). it may be very dependable on machine, so who knows(standard usually works best, but..).

Good luck.

upd: you may try embarking on medium/small map, with embark 3x3 or smaller to check, if you get more fps, btw. some may recommend editing world cave parametres to ease cpu strain..

also, limiting pop_cap may help you in long-term game too(and it changes game style, in nice way).

 Hey, thanks man. I was gonna go get my computer's insides and outsides cleaned one of these days (damn you procrastination  ), then wiped clean for a fresh start.

Whenever I embark at a 3*3 site, the sedimentary layers have too little bituminous coal and lignite in them to fuel the metal industries I run, and since I play desert forts (for the moniter lizards and camels. saves me getting 'dwarven' war and food animals like mastiffs and cave tortoises. besides,war lizards are cooler than war dogs), I have only the underground for charcoal. And mind you, that's not alot.

[omglazers]

Whenever I embark at a 3*3 site, the sedimentary layers have too little bituminous coal and lignite in them to fuel the metal industries I run, and since I play desert forts (for the moniter lizards and camels. saves me getting 'dwarven' war and food animals like mastiffs and cave tortoises. besides,war lizards are cooler than war dogs), I have only the underground for charcoal. And mind you, that's not alot.

Look for peat. Peat is an amazingly helpful stone

[Pan]

Yea, guess they would help if I were gonna start a fortress in a swamp.

Hey, Deon, could you perhaps add more kinds of coal found in the sedimentary layers? In the Dig Dwarfier (and possible Dig Deeper) mod, theres a Anthracite Coal. Theres also subbituminous coal (which i searched up on google), and also something about graphite being usable as fuel. Would you consider those additional fuel sources?

 By the way, speaking of metal industries, does magma industries negates the use of coal fuel entirely? I've never used magma before (shame on me), and is rather curious on that paticular area.

[Still Standing]

If you have magma none of your forges or smelters need fuel!

[omglazers]

If you have magma none of your forges or smelters need fuel!

For some reason I always fail to bother to dig down to magma and get my industry going near magma. I guess I just like to have my smelters work on tons of peat and coal to buff up their smelting skill.

[TomiTapio]

Pan, you can try making Your bituminous coal more abundant with
inorganic_stone_mineral.txt

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[INORGANIC:COAL_BITUMINOUS]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:bituminous coal][DISPLAY_COLOR:0:7:1][TILE:138]
[ENVIRONMENT:SEDIMENTARY:VEIN:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:IGNEOUS_ALL:VEIN:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:METAMORPHIC:VEIN:100]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:2] --for embark
[ITEM_SYMBOL:7]
[SPEC_HEAT:409]
[IGNITE_POINT:11440]
[MELTING_POINT:NONE]
[BOILING_POINT:16708]
[SOLID_DENSITY:1346]
[IS_STONE]

And rolling a new world. Or in existing world, make one bituminous explode into 50 coke instead of 3. (In reaction_smelter.txt)

To Deon: I just put POPRATIOs into serpentfolk, made salamanders and medusas rare and put child:7 instead of 1.

[Spaghetti]

hell ya i made it to where i can cremate my corpses old school viking style at the altar of nature

[TomiTapio]

From the journal of Inkyslings:

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late spring, year 4, a big flayer siege!
one macelord, one spearmaster, one gith, 4+ fleshwarper, 1 archmaster, 2 Void Masters, raptors, giant lions, lions.
civilians to big cabin. three squads versus monster army!
a goblin bowsquad!
we will die. (4 screenfuls of invaders.)
Vesuri bowdwarf is first to fall.
8 dw dead, 32 left.
squad 4, melee noskills.
The siege is over!!! 16 hostiles still roam.
we 31 still live! Grand victory!!

13 in hospital.
Healthcare month. Military promotions. (view and rename in Dwarf Therapist)
Year 4 summer.
half the workshops burned away. this time make them from non-military metals.
the doctors work, and only 5 in rest now. one legs-crippled, one grasp-poorly.
Öljy the bowlord sets broken bones.
95-105 fps, 3x3 embark, 31 citizens, 2+38 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 opened). 114k wealth. 0 stones. never-dig. 2nd siege defeated.
all cages have burned, except the puppy-storage??
only 2 in hospital, good work.
Had only two tantrums, during battle.
burials.
build wells 2 and 3, had lost well 2 to the fires.
tame 3 turkeys.
make bronze daggers.
should melt enemy weapons.

late summer, sylvans. ezras.
have a military drill, armors on.
wolves bother us. Whoa, a lizardfolk ambush!
recruit-shrink died. bah, medusas and salamanders.
11 in hospital.
a hammergoblin ambush! 3 died. keeper caravan comes. Lost 3 more!!! elite damn goblins! Lost many more.
20 dw left, 14 in bed, 6 able... 1 war animal left.
3 barghest hammerers still out there.
the best soldier Kello mile (mil-elite) was killed.
Pasuuna died. 3 gobs come to the settlement. 17 dw left, 4 able.

Year 4 autumn. 3 gobs wait near hospital...
victory! with caravan guard and hospital's cage trap.
13 of 17 in rest.

..(session break)

merge two hospital zones into one. Try to get less injured ones out of beds.
Force Öljy Bowlord to diagnose people, soldier-legend or not. 10 in rest.
There's a Keeper fisherman hanging around. Our leader is resting.
Many bulldogs grow up and get trained.
No autumn migrants.. 9 of 17 in rest.
Do more zero-skill doctoring.

late autumn, duskies. home caravan,
speargoblin ambush.
hammer and macegoblins.
lost three dwarves... more lost. 12 of us left, with 3 able.
war hammers smashed goblin heads!

Year 4 winter.
Haarniska tries to start a party. 4 able.
88 fps, 3x3 embark, 12 citizens, 4+23 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 opened). 115k wealth. 0 stones. never-dig. 3 caravans. too strong goblins.
7 of 12 in rest, good suturing!
Hooray, only 4 resting! caravans try to leave.
Change uniform: two chain mails, and must have AXE. only have 10 mail, not enough. 2 in rest.

Magic statue smashes loom. Kills bulldog. Grumpy commander has two fits.
Smash one of the two statues. Hospital's cage or other caught the other!
only the leg-cripple in rest, we have recovered!
Two mastiffs have grown up.
Change uniform, not enough axes.
Oh wow, Kanjoni's broken ankle is better and he's out and about!
later winter, ezras come. Nords too. trade some. sylvans come.

A FLAYER SIEGE. from north and south. we'll fight among the trees of the east section, let the caravans show their skills first.
(7 screenfuls of invaders; flayers, giant felines, 3 dragon raptors and 31 UNICORNS. (psionic powers let them control GOOD animals too) )
Dragonfire x20, Void masters...
One dwarf left, Lamppu, and she has zero kills ever, not even a turkey.
About 90 (5 x 18) invaders left.
Stand inside the hospital, away from the horde. Nap. Die. The Inkyslings settlement is no more.

Siege begins, overview:

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Here's the region-zip, for Legends, Adventuring!, and reclaiming by digging dwarves. (large, 22 MB)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8967397/Tomis_after-Inkyslings_region6.zip

[Z1000000m]

Wow, why noone noticed that one before?
Vermin remiains are renamed in stocks menu, eg nord is rat and horse is 2 legged lizard. Judging by the stats, they have sexes :s
Also outpost minds are again broken, one can pound them for days and do nothing or can kill them in 2 swings. That or turning temp off makes them invincble.

Also, deon, please make keepers and ezrakim elves less violent. Its not my fault that the diplomat or caravan happens to run into an ambush. One such incident and they both start a 2 year long siege that makes the caravans to stop coming and reduces fps big time for no reason.

[Pan]

If you have magma none of your forges or smelters need fuel!

For some reason I always fail to bother to dig down to magma and get my industry going near magma. I guess I just like to have my smelters work on tons of peat and coal to buff up their smelting skill.

 Heh. Same here. But it's also kind of because I don't feel like killing my FPS by digging through all three cavern layers.

 Thanks Tomitapio for the raw thingy. Guess I won't be running out of coal anytime soon!

Also, deon, please make keepers and ezrakim elves less violent. Its not my fault that the diplomat or caravan happens to run into an ambush. One such incident and they both start a 2 year long siege that makes the caravans to stop coming and reduces fps big time for no reason.

 Well, you could try getting really good relations with them by giving them large profit margins and loads of offerings to their leaders. Dead enemy gear is good for that, and so is a ton of lavish prepared meals. I always figured the diplomatic relations is a bit like a dwarf's mood. As long as he dined in a legendary dining room, then admired a completely sublime Trade Depot, he will still be ecstatic if his wife died. Not sure if I'm right, but I never got a siege from them, even once where their entire caravan was massacred along with the diplomat. That happened twice. I also siezed some goods once. They kept coming.

[Still Standing]

If you have magma none of your forges or smelters need fuel!

For some reason I always fail to bother to dig down to magma and get my industry going near magma. I guess I just like to have my smelters work on tons of peat and coal to buff up their smelting skill.

 Heh. Same here. But it's also kind of because I don't feel like killing my FPS by digging through all three cavern layers.

 Thanks Tomitapio for the raw thingy. Guess I won't be running out of coal anytime soon!

You could always use reveal.exe to show you were to build your stairs so you don't breach the caverns.

[negorath]

Ok, this is getting silly, we really need some kind of cod piece, because them testicles are getting hurt WAY too much

[Pan]

You could always use reveal.exe to show you were to build your stairs so you don't breach the caverns.

Never figured out how to get the utilities in.

Ok, this is getting silly, we really need some kind of cod piece, because them testicles are getting hurt WAY too much

 I agree.

[rainekage]

Ok, this is getting silly, we really need some kind of cod piece, because them testicles are getting hurt WAY too much

That reminds me (When we're talking about testicles, that may not be the most common phrase); I'm new to adventure mode, and have been trying to work out wrestling.  I find it kind of odd that I can grab individual toes and fingers, arms, and legs, and break them, take enemies down, or throw them by those limbs (I presume Take-down and throw stun enemies?) - but then my random companion can take an enemy by, say, the upper body or the phallus and shake them violently.

Are there any moves that can be done on the head, torso, or extremities like facial tentacles or the phallus?

I second the cod piece on grounds that bears and alligators tend to go straight for the phallus or testicles for their wrestling moves, and it's getting old!

[Still Standing]

Instead of putting more armour into a ridiculously complex armour system, why not just remove the sex organs?  They serve no useful purpose anyway.