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[TomiTapio]

is there any way to make an animal eat rock so i can make some sort of pasture inside my fort with out having to find an area of grass for them

can remove the grazer tag, then they don't eat anything ever, just like old DF, and like dogs and other carnivores.
I suggest you drain a pond into a cave you dig into soil layer: get a reservoir of drinking water (channel some 3x2 pools there), wet soil, and grass & cave trees grow there safely (if the wild caverns have been opened for plant spores.)

Jeoshua: thanks, I'll try that farming tag.

[BigD145]

Seconded on the no .chm.  PDF or RTF are the choice picks here.

Or epub.

[TomiTapio]

Or epub.

I've never seen a epub file. Have you seen .djvu .lit .pdb .prc book files? I have a folder of "bad formats ebooks".

[Morwaul]

Or epub.

I've never seen a epub file. Have you seen .djvu .lit .pdb .prc book files? I have a folder of "bad formats ebooks".

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

Try this.  The free version is great but only does 10 books at a time I think. You can use it to convert ebooks to whatever format you need.  I use .epub mostly but .lit is good.  It's a little complicated but your a DF player so...cake.

For documentation please use .pdf or .html.

Deon, Thanks for the update.  You are awesome.

[MiamiBryce]

Please no .chm (compiled html windowshelpfile) files, use PDF or RTF or plaintext. And I put some tips into the wiki this week.

should we add more cookable tags to boozes?

Other proposal: "recycle silk" reaction, in goes 5 silk items, out comes one cheap "spider silk cloth". It's like "burn clothes into ash" but better! Also same reaction for fiber clothes.

I second PDF, though really it makes much more sense to spruce up and flesh out the wiki.  Having both is just double-work.

I think cooking booze is too much like cheating, kind of like the high value of jams.

I'd like something to do with cloth items other than just throwing them in the atom smasher.

[Jeoshua]

Why are there so many book formats? Couldn't PDF do all those things if players would only read it? It's free, it's easy, and you can get a "pdf printer" driver that writes it for you.

[Torgan]

The manual is good, it's nice to see what all the dwarf castes do after so many changes here and there for them.  Demons/goblins and centaurs are missing from the race list.  I guess it might be worth saying keepers and nords are humans as well, not really a big deal though.

It was time to start a new fort anyway, down to one dwarf, immigration of five, then a balor appeared followed by a werewolf siege mounted on giant moose and dragon raptors so that was the end of that one.  Are werewolves meant to have mounts, I imagine them running on all fours.

[BigD145]

PDF's, like most all Adobe formats, are bloated, slow, and generally awful. I was thinking of ePub largely for those people that might want to use mobile devices. It will also keep the file size of Genesis itself smaller. You can always convert to the larger file size of a pdf.

I have yet to find any limitation with Calibre. I've converted and downloaded metadata for up to 50 books at a time.

[BigD145]

I just thought I'd post this interesting map for people. It's made with Genesis [3.22] (DF 31.25).

Minerals were at 250.
1050 years of history.
10000 embark for tons of leeway. You can just not use whatever you want.
20 or 30 volcano, I forget which.

It's really for those people that might not want to wait to make a new world, but can get a 25mb file in less time.
Just the zipped region file-> http://www.mediafire.com/?ge97pm4m3so5m7p

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The valley down south is Ezrakim. Lots of hostile and big river to play with. You can even be in a frozen desert.

[TomiTapio]

Just had a spectacular crash. And 1100¤ rhino hide boots crafted. And first-winter gobbo siege, quite unexpected at 40k wealth 16 dorfs. Traders defeated them, good depot placement!

Two 6-strong squads were slaughtering bog frogs. A mystery forest fire starts in the splatter area. (zero tame animals, that means no fire mephits, and dorfs have no firebreath.)
Everybody indoors, 5 of 16 die in the fire, no worries right? Then migrants come while the countryside burns! Crash!

Deon: my errorlog says
Duplicate Object: reaction DECORATE_GEM_BANDS
Duplicate Object: reaction DECORATE_SMALLGEM_BANDS
which is today-new stuff.

PDF's, like most all Adobe formats, are bloated, slow, and generally awful.

PDF may be awful, but it's the closest thing we have to a standard that has vector graphics and images inside. Even my mom gets PDFs as email attachments. If your mobile device (like my 40-MB-for-java-games 2005 gsm) doesn't do 25-70 MB PDFs... you should stick to txt/rtf/html files.


Oh dear, a kobold ambush! Thanks Deon! (and I put the outdoor farming into kobbos)

[Deon]

I don't like PDFs because they are slow to open and Adobe reader eats 25% of my CPU for some reason .

Is there any format which allows categories (like those in .chm files) so I could organize a manual? And which also allows pictures AND is not slow?

Yeah, I forgot to remove obsidian female firebreath, sorry. I was hurrying because it was my mom's birthday and I was late to the party while I was updating it, so the issues are here . I will release a version with bread cooking tomorrow morning (GMT+3) with appropriate fixes.

[ATR]

Never seen this before but my embark came with a sexless Water Buffalo (ie. I did not choose it for points). When I bring up its status, it says "it", no gender pronouns. And there is no symbol on its name, ie. no sack (male) or Christmas tree thing (female). I am using the latest 3.22 Ironhand.

[Deon]

Hey Tomi, by the way I've made most flours/extracts cheaper, not more expensive. So 10-15 is okay for a jam.

[Deon]

Deon: my errorlog says
Duplicate Object: reaction DECORATE_GEM_BANDS
Duplicate Object: reaction DECORATE_SMALLGEM_BANDS
which is today-new stuff.

Yeah, those should be RINGS instead of BANDS. I am reuploading 3.22a right now which fixes this problem. I am afraid to update my mod more today because I am under alcohol so I am not sure if I am able to do it without major errors, so just this small fix for now .


3.22 - Duplicated raws fixed.

[TomiTapio]

I don't like PDFs because they are slow to open and Adobe reader eats 25% of my CPU for some reason .
Is there any format which allows categories (like those in .chm files) so I could organize a manual? And which also allows pictures AND is not slow?

PDF, or single html (table of contents at the top) with the images in a sub-folder. Type and link in OpenOffice's Writer and export as both pdf and html!
RTF also allows images but I wouldn't recommend for that.
(When Firefox, Chrome and MSIE support EPUB(zipped and metadataed xhtml), then it might be viable.)

Don't use adobe reader then, try Sumatra PDF Portable (which I changed to this year). It's fast!
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html

Hey Tomi, by the way I've made most flours/extracts cheaper, not more expensive. So 10-15 is okay for a jam.

I say flour should be pricier than jam, due to miller skill being more specific than plantprocessing, special quern object required, and bag required. Perhaps flours at 12 and jams at 8. Boozes 2-5. Extracts 12-30 because of the damn vials requirement.