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[Torgan]

When you place buildings and you get the shape of it in green crosses, some of them are darker.  These are impassable.

Off the top of my head, for smelters, kilns and glass furnaces it is the top middle square.  Forges are middle left and right squares.  Can't remember for the new Genesis metalworks buildings though.

[LordShotGun]

So I downloaded this and for some reason the +- buttons are both linked to the same action. So I cannot customize my dwarfs and caravan at all. When I try to change my keys to [ and ] for the secondary selector it changes nothing in that it still says that  [ and ] are linked to the same action.

Whats up with this? Is it this mod or my computer?

[BigD145]

When you place buildings and you get the shape of it in green crosses, some of them are darker.  These are impassable.

Off the top of my head, for smelters, kilns and glass furnaces it is the top middle square.  Forges are middle left and right squares.  Can't remember for the new Genesis metalworks buildings though.

On my laptop, with the current color settings, the light and dark greens are almost identical. I end up having to look at the screen at a sharp angle to see the difference.

[TwilightWalker]

When you place buildings and you get the shape of it in green crosses, some of them are darker.  These are impassable.

Off the top of my head, for smelters, kilns and glass furnaces it is the top middle square.  Forges are middle left and right squares.  Can't remember for the new Genesis metalworks buildings though.

On my laptop, with the current color settings, the light and dark greens are almost identical. I end up having to look at the screen at a sharp angle to see the difference.

Another way is to move a corner into 'unbuildable' areas. When the building changes colour to show that you can't build it, the impassible blocks show up with much better contrast. You do have to move it around a bit to see if the part you placed in an unbuildable area is impassible or not though.

[TomiTapio]

So I downloaded this and for some reason the +- buttons are both linked to the same action. So I cannot customize my dwarfs and caravan at all. When I try to change my keys to [ and ] for the secondary selector it changes nothing in that it still says that  [ and ] are linked to the same action.

Whats up with this? Is it this mod or my computer?

It's definitely not the mod. Tried with numlock on/off ofcourseyoudid. Laptop?
Might want to look at the interface.txt's

Code: [Select]

[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_UP:REPEAT_SLOW]
[KEY:-]
[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_DOWN:REPEAT_SLOW]
[KEY:+]
[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_PAGEUP:REPEAT_SLOW]
[KEY:/]
[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_PAGEDOWN:REPEAT_SLOW]
[KEY:*]
and put your desired keys there.

[Bitoru]

Ents are apparently lacking graphics on ASCII mod.

Nevermind, just me being stupid.

[Deon]

When you place buildings and you get the shape of it in green crosses, some of them are darker.  These are impassable.

Off the top of my head, for smelters, kilns and glass furnaces it is the top middle square.  Forges are middle left and right squares.  Can't remember for the new Genesis metalworks buildings though.

On my laptop, with the current color settings, the light and dark greens are almost identical. I end up having to look at the screen at a sharp angle to see the difference.

I was thinking about it. I will make the difference better.

By the way, I am back. I still have some real problems with the university (last exams, diploma and stuff in two weeks) but I've got an urge to fix the major problems right now. Like, dwarves not being affected by magma and stuff.

Anything you want to request for the patch?

[Deon]

I have a question about the scriptorium, specifically the platinum books they have a small chance of producing. What do they do? I got the weaponsmithing book "the Ultimate Weapon," but looking through the raws for the library revealed no reaction for using it. Are they useful? A half-implemented feature? Just for Show?

Put them in a display case, they decorate a room a lot. Or sell them.

Deon, the ASCII version(and maybe even the graphical version) has a bunch of mistakes that were reported in earlier versions and while you supposedly fixed them, they are back again. Namely:

Deon, Cave Chilies, Carrots, Quarry Bushes and Cucumbers use '(' for their picked tile. Now, as I mentioned long ago any tile selections in Apostrophes results in empty spaces instead of the tile, at least, for the tileset I use (slightly modified version of Dorten's tileset). So please change their picked tiles to the number 40, which results in the correct tile being displayed.

Glow berries also use '"' for their shrub tile, picked tile, and dead shrub tile. They should all be replaced with the number 34.

They were supposedly fixed a while ago. However, most of them are back. ((For you people paying close attention, yes, this is the second time I reported this. However, I think Deon missed my post)).

Another one that's back is:

Um, minor question Deon, why is light yellow diamond cyan if it's light yellow?

I have been noticing that "light yellow diamond" clusters show as blue while in situ. Is that deliberate?

Apparently you fixed it twice. However, it's cyan again.

That's what happens when you overuse WinMerge... I will fix it now.

[Deon]

By the way, I want to thank TomiTapio for the "tweaked" version. It fixes a lot of minor and important little problems, I am looking into it right now and fixing my own turf.

[Flaede]

Is it possible now to give those platinum books a bludgeon attack? a la the "tools" section?
I bet they'd be an awesome improvised weapon. They could even train recordkeeping! Or reading!

[Deon]

If I make new tools it crashes worldgen. I hope it's fixed for the next version.

[TomiTapio]

By the way, I am back. Anything you want to request for the patch?

Hey man!
I'll email you my current tunings, I have added a few creatures, which currently use other similar creatures' graphics.

- I reduced bones' pain receptors so that wildlife faints usually on fourth or fifth +wooden bolt+ and not the first that chips bone.
- changed mummy and lost adventurer and illithid toxins. See my earlier postings.
- Genesis wiki's ironworks graphic needs "magma furnace only" mention on red steel.
- wiki should mention Ironwood is METAL straight off the tree.
- I have the GOODWOOD_TEMPLATE, superior material for the good oak/ash/chestnut/mahogany/highwood/redcedar and others. More valuable furniture, better wooden bolts and crossbows and shields and elf (*spit*) armor.
- calling toughleather "hide" and toughteeth "fang".

Edit: D&D advice column, oddest questions. http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/12/16/weird-dd-questions-dungeons-dragons/

My latest fort's mayor-log:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-- Rockcontrolled, region8
3x3, tropical marsh & lake, untamed.
bring: no animals, 5 tin and 12 copper bars, 2 coke.
start digging reservoir, distant from central area.
Summer. warthogs, angry swans.
7 migrants.
autumn. make wells in reservoir.
mandrill attack.
4 migrants.
320 fps, 3x3 embark, 18 citizens, 0+5 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 open). 33k wealth. Ramps instead of stair stack.
home caravan.
winter.
a swan killed a spaniel puppy.
260-275 fps, 3x3 embark, 18 citizens, 0+5 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 open). 45k wealth. 770 stones. Ramps instead of stair stack.
Year 2 spring.
19 migrants, to 37! 210 fps.
bucket-pond time.
pure iron goblets by grandmaster metalcrafter.

Year 2 summer.
artifact: leather elf boot 22k.
have much ironwood. also highwood and palm. featherwood.
migrants to 46.
185 fps, 3x3 embark, 46 citizens, 1+17 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 open). 140k wealth. 900 stones. Ramps instead of stair stack.
Year 2 autumn.
..
artifact: dog leather helm, 5k.
farmer had a baby boy.
(four wooden bolts to make a bog frog faint from pain.) or one ironwood to guts. 5 and not faint. 4 featherwood bolts faints swan, good. 4 ironwood bolts through clothes, faints dark elf thief.
orc and dwarf trading, got good items!
make washing pond for entrance.
120-151 fps, 3x3 embark, 54 citizens, 1+27 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 open). 140k wealth. 1580 stones. Ramps instead of stair stack.
make a novice archer squad, wood bolts are plentiful.
Right! Make four finishing forges. First large quantities of steel.

Year 3 spring.
squad-shoot snailmen. a gator comes and rips two fellows to pieces!!
a croc comes, order its death, super-fast wrestler Nil goes to beat it, and promptly dies.
we are 50.
cut down all trees we see.
one migrant. metalsmith-leatherworker-siegeop, welcome! 124 fps.
bolts and ironwood crossbow bashing a warthog: 35 pagefuls, won't die! (makes bash-area much narrower. and muscles bleed more.)
..
Year 3 summer.
squad-hunt.
forge-mood: steel mace, 91k! image of itself, image of founding Rockcontrolled.
one migrant.

flayer siege and keeper caravan.
They brought a WAR GRAY DRAGON! (new smaller red dragon.) And three outpost mind (floating-brain) spearmen...
victory, but lost FIVE.
Bim's back is broken. And the bushfire melts her lower body. Gone.
Aban bled out.
we are 44, including 3 not able. Four of the marksdwarf squad survived.

Year 3 autumn.
Solon bled out. Bad surgery?
105-122 fps, 3x3 embark, 43 citizens, 0+33 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 open). 845k wealth. 2000 stones. Ramps instead of stair stack.
two migrants.
two spots keep smoking outdoors.
rock salt floorings, to keep people busy.

two caravans.
a flayer siege on _28_ war gray dragons... umm.... modding failure.
every dwarf died of course. Only 28 less-weight megabeasts. Flayers' war wolves melted too.

[Deon]

I am releasing the patch right now, maybe in an hour.

I've applied most of your fixes, also dwarves are now affected by magma and cold again. Since ice dwarves lost their cold immunity (it would be applied to EVERY caste otherwise which is the way DF works) they now gain medical skills and ability to study them quickly. So think of them as of good doctors.

[D_E]

By the way, I am back. I still have some real problems with the university (last exams, diploma and stuff in two weeks) but I've got an urge to fix the major problems right now. Like, dwarves not being affected by magma and stuff.

Hi Deon, welcome back.  Glad to see you're feeling better

A while back I put up a patch that separated out the materials for the Obsidian and Ice dwarves, and switched the Doom dwarves back to Aspid dwarves (though I think I messed up their special attacks, did the Aspid dwarves have both a venomous bite and a poison breath attack?). 

Not sure if that's the direction you want to go, but in case it is I thought I'd let you know.

ASCII
Graphical

[Deon]

Thanks for all the help, right now I upload 3.18b and disappear for a moment again (exams, stuff ). I've made obsidian guys to be great at furnace operating/forging and ice dwarves to learn doctor skills fast.