Deon, something catches me every time I'm making a world; Ice on the planet extends well into the range of where it SHOULD have melted. Is this a bug?
NOTE: I found a patch of iceland on the very hottest part of the planet. Odd? Yes.
Whatever excuses are made for this, I'd call it a bug. At the very least, I doubt this was intentional. And it definitely breaks suspension of disbelief for me.
Just lost one of my starting seven - a swordsdwarf - to harmless minnows...
I plan to call them piranhas and limit their biomes a bit. The problem is the lack of swimming skill on your dwarves as you pointed out. Why don't you train your military in swimming? It's one of the first things I do with my military guys.
It's good advice to training swimming. (Lock them inside a "
Swimming Pool" room with 4/7 to 6/7 water.)
However, I'm not convinced that simply renaming them "
piranha" makes them fit the role. For
one thing, minnows are tiny and
piranhas need to be bigger. At least,
piranha should be big enough to eat. Wikipedia reports they are usually 6 to 10 inches long and can grow up to 18 inches long. Also, it is common for people to eat them.
(Incidentally, Wikipedia also mentions some research that dispels the Hollywood hype and myths about piranha attacking anything in the water and devouring stuff in seconds. Apparently, they "may occasionally" attack humans, but this is unusual. But then, vanilla DF already had man-eating Carp!)Yeah, with the addition of centaurs werewolves will come only in winter (and centaurs in summer) so you will have a spring and an autumn to breathe. I will also move traders towards those seasons so you do not get every caravan ambushed.
Ok cool. I like a challenge as much as the next lunatic but that is a bit much. On the plus side the difficulty makes adventurer mode much more fun. Once I got one that survived enough fights to gain skill.
Yeah... It's probably good that Deon is changing the werewolves and caravans to give dwarves a fighting chance. However, even then, I will
still edit them out as I'm not so much the the lunatic type.