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[Deon]

Did you get the latest patch?

[DarkSinnerzZz]

patch? where ? on the first page ?

[dragonshardz]

Latest patch = most recent version

[DarkSinnerzZz]

yup!just download it,FIXED!

[TomiTapio]

Why does all soldier in ALL the fortress that i go is a WRESTLER!no spearmen no swordman,THERES ONLY WRESTLER! why ?

My bad, I gave all civs some baselines skills and DF counts wrestling as a main military skill and not a secondary skill like dodging.

Here try some Groove Salad for you fortressing chillout. http://somafm.com/groovesalad/


Latest fort happenings:

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-- Bridgerim, region4
3x2 tropical grassland hot, wilderness, 3 biomes with only stone layers difference between them.
bring no animals, 26 copper. We shall be well armed early.
make axe and pick.
collect silks. got 10 cloth then ran out.
mid-spring 16th, begin reservoir. not much water pools outdoors.
a herd of elands! They look delicious!
ok have 12 copper weapons, time to hunt! got two warthogs slain.

3 migrants. planter, bonecarver, architect... bah!
elands. ezras.
Year 1 autumn.
migrants to 15. home caravan.
hunt the mighty elephants!
mine coal.
good trading with nords.

Year 2 spring.
woodcutter-doc and weaponsmith married.
many migrants to 33! Hooray! 42k wealth.
pigeon flock hangs around the drained pool...
trade mechanisms to sylvans.
smith mood: giant copper axe blade, for trap.
Year 2 summer.
275 fps, 3x2 embark, 33 citizens, 0+24 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 open). 114k wealth. 850 stones. Ramps for main entrance.
migrants to 41.
soldier and armorer married.
make shell armor pieces.
keepers, ezras. decent trading.
..
orc traders, mood,
16-were siege. everybody indoors. We have only 6 cage traps waiting.
spear-orc slays one were and the rest of the weres ignore her...
A giantess comes!
Kol died.
weres fight the giantess! Huh.
fight outdoors, lost many.
one gray were kills many of us --  enormous build and very skinny. (51 pageful of report, finally spear tears brain.)
victory.
we are 43.three in bedrest.
mood done: silver short sword, 49k!

Year 2 winter.
have no armorer anymore.
captain speared hunter dead...
captain killed a peasant.
new squads.
nord caravan. everybody indoors!
Year 3 spring.
migrants from 43 to 53.
140 fps, 3x2 embark, 53 citizens, 0+21 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 open). 375k wealth. 1500 stones. Ramps for main entrance.
3 in rest, remove their beds, zero in rest! 2 in rest later.
late spring, sylvans.
forbid the stupid pigeon soap.
Year 3 summer.
dumping, 111 fps. brewing isn't working.
flayer snatchers.
baby to 54.
keepers, ezras. 100 fps.
mood, ashen amulet.
6x6 reservoir down to 4/7.
125 fps, 3x2 embark, 54 citizens, 3+28 animals, 3 cavern layers (0 open). 592k wealth. 2100 stones. Ramps for main entrance.

a were siege comes! three squads, 2.5 pagefuls of them. late autumn.
9-10 weapon traps softened them up well.
9 foes left. dread were lasted 11 pagefuls.
orc traders. go outside.
flayer ambush. and 2nd.
six in rest.
2nd caravan, 65 fps.

[Jacob/Lee]

So if I dropped a balor in water, would it extinguish it or just boil off all the water?

[Flaede]

So if I dropped a balor in water, would it extinguish it or just boil off all the water?

Balors by themselves aren't the problem (well, they are, but they're not a boiling problem. Balors bleeding are the problem. If a Balor gets so much as a papercut, then your bits will start melting off. I wouldn't recommend biting one.
I don't know if contaminants can boil the water they're in, though. In adventure mode, the blood from thrown balor parts don't make steam, but that is a weird case.

[Sanjeetsuoh]

TomiTapio, Noticed the Fps degradation above in the "Latest fort happenings" and just figured I would mention to give your dwarfs a forced bath, because on another FPS improving topic the amount of stuff (dirt, blood etc. etc.)that accumulates on your dwarfs will cause a huge hit in what your comp has to process.

I'll just leave this here cause slow FPS annoys the heck outta me, and I hope you didn't already know this. Yeah, long time lurker, recently random poster.

[rephikul]

I hope you didn't already know this

That really stick out in an otherwise helpful post O.o

[Sanjeetsuoh]

I hope you didn't already know this

That really stick out in an otherwise helpful post O.o

Typed it with the best of intentions, just a half-polish slip'o da keyboard.

[TomiTapio]

Yea I know contaminants, but I think object and stockpile count is hurting more. And rotting enemy limbs. Right, I should rockgrinder-atomsmash some dacite and limestone
Probably magma workshops would save some fps, less wood stockpiling or lignite mining. Then again stairs down to the magma sea would be Long.
The main penalty in a 2x2 map is too few trees, so a small embark should rely on magma.


Trading away excess meals... (sort by value) (36 ginseng extract swirlcakes, 14000)


The state of the militia, have a total of 54 citizens. (mtr=militia trainee)

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[dennislp3]

So if I dropped a balor in water, would it extinguish it or just boil off all the water?

I tested it in the arena by becoming a balor and hoping in the water. You get tons of steam and eventually they get rid of the water.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

What happens if you pit a balor and a frost wyrm to fight?

[LordShotGun]

What happens if you pit a balor and a frost wyrm to fight?

Well in my experience Frost wyrms are pretty wussy. I had my troop of 3 miners with skilled ax dwarfship and redsteel equipement totally distroy a frost wyrm. I mean it managed to bruise one guy on his TOE before being bisected.

Either way fire plus frost equals lots of steam so you may not be able to see what happens.

[SalmonGod]

One of my soldiers just hacked an illithid in the head, tearing apart the muscle and shattering the.... fleshwarped spear?

Edit:  He just did the same to another one, shattering its fleshwarped mace.  This is the first that I've seen this.

Edit Edit:  Ok apparently one illithid has been knocked down and several dwarves are striking it repeatedly in the head.  Every time it reports that they've shattered some variety of fleshwarped weapon.  They seem unable to kill it, even though they're all wielding adamantine or red steel weapons.