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[Ahra]

LONG POST IS LONG, and now I am going to bed. |Da

Which means you're on... something like the west coast of the States? I always find it so great that all of us can get together and communicate effortlessly over the net - I mean, Deon is Russian, TomiTapio is Finnish, I'm Swedish and there's a ton of people from all over the rest of the world too, and here we are creating something cool together. In fact, I thought Deon was British for some reason until yesterday when I actually checked his profile... and discovered he's from S:t Petersburg, Russia. Isn't that great?

Just thought I'd share it. And continuing on my quixotic quest to get my fort back to the latest versions... we'll see.

//A, basking in sunlight

you´re swedish too? kul.

[Alarion]

LONG POST IS LONG, and now I am going to bed. |Da

Which means you're on... something like the west coast of the States? I always find it so great that all of us can get together and communicate effortlessly over the net - I mean, Deon is Russian, TomiTapio is Finnish, I'm Swedish and there's a ton of people from all over the rest of the world too, and here we are creating something cool together. In fact, I thought Deon was British for some reason until yesterday when I actually checked his profile... and discovered he's from S:t Petersburg, Russia. Isn't that great?

Just thought I'd share it. And continuing on my quixotic quest to get my fort back to the latest versions... we'll see.

//A, basking in sunlight

you´re swedish too? kul.

We are legion. But not as many as even the people in NYC or SF or even Moscow, yet we Scandinavians seem to make our disproportionately large mark on the structures of the 'net. It's probably to do with the climate... :p

//A, about to embark on a legendary update-quest

[Raul]

LONG POST IS LONG, and now I am going to bed. |Da

Which means you're on... something like the west coast of the States? I always find it so great that all of us can get together and communicate effortlessly over the net - I mean, Deon is Russian, TomiTapio is Finnish, I'm Swedish and there's a ton of people from all over the rest of the world too, and here we are creating something cool together. In fact, I thought Deon was British for some reason until yesterday when I actually checked his profile... and discovered he's from S:t Petersburg, Russia. Isn't that great?

Just thought I'd share it. And continuing on my quixotic quest to get my fort back to the latest versions... we'll see.

//A, basking in sunlight

'Tis marvelous indeed, and I may be the only brazilian in these forums, but oh well. Most brazilians aren't very dorfy, I guess

[spriksprak]

the title music plays fine but the in-game music (the 10+ minute track) just... won't play. At all. I've checked the init files and it's not auto-muted, I've checked in the in-game options and it's not muted, my speakers and my computer's internal sound aren't muted (an easy check since, you know, the title music plays)... it's just no go.

I have this same issue - any idea on how to get the right ogg codec to play those files in game? On the translation front if you want Deon I'm happy to do half of S, say from system to sorcerer but am a little bit busy at the mo so do you have a specific time you want it by or will sometime this weekend do?

[Alarion]

Alright, after several hours of work I've officially given up on porting the save and are just generating a new world. The end came when, after having gone through everything that was missing one thing at at time, I got the error "Warning: Missing reaction definition". Hooray. So, I'm about to make another, even more legendary fort! Can't wait ^^

//A, relieved

[Deon]

Grazing animals won't trample grass - does this mean my cows will no longer attempt to starve themselves by churning their food source into the base layer?  Or am I misreading?

It means that any animal which is "grazer" now will remove grass ONLY by eating it, not by walking on it. This way you can have sane amount of animals in indoor pastures. It's for gameplay purpose obviously, I doubt cows IRL dodge grass stalks to avoid trampling them .

Deon, You left a region1 save in the latest phobeus download, which is why it is 43meg instead of 22meg.

Just letting you know.

Oops, that's what happens when you test and upload stuff at 5 AM before going to work without sleep .

Any chance of getting a Goldplated version of this quasi-final update, Deon? *bats eyelashes* ♥♥♥

You need a bigger picture of the puppy eyes this time. Deal?

the title music plays fine but the in-game music (the 10+ minute track) just... won't play. At all. I've checked the init files and it's not auto-muted, I've checked in the in-game options and it's not muted, my speakers and my computer's internal sound aren't muted (an easy check since, you know, the title music plays)... it's just no go.

I have this same issue - any idea on how to get the right ogg codec to play those files in game? On the translation front if you want Deon I'm happy to do half of S, say from system to sorcerer but am a little bit busy at the mo so do you have a specific time you want it by or will sometime this weekend do?

Can you open it and listen to it via your common audio player? I will try to figure it out for the next release.

[Deon]

Okay, a small release will be out soon, I hope the orcish language will be more complete by that time .

I am adding sounds to animals right now. All domestic animals already squeal, bark, moo, gobble, meow etc, so as an adventurer it should be fun to visit farmhouses... Oh wait, only the next version will feature people actually keeping pets in their houses and yards... Oh well, still it's fun to travel mountains and listen to random bleats from mountain goats and screams of eagles.

[Jeoshua]

Yay animal noises!

*spins the wheel*

The Cow goes... "MMOOOOOOO!!"

*spins again*

The Dwarf says... "ACH!!"

*sping again*

The Forgotten Beast says... uh... I got nothin'

[Phoebus]

Okay, a small release will be out soon, I hope the orcish language will be more complete by that time .

I am adding sounds to animals right now. All domestic animals already squeal, bark, moo, gobble, meow etc, so as an adventurer it should be fun to visit farmhouses... Oh wait, only the next version will feature people actually keeping pets in their houses and yards... Oh well, still it's fun to travel mountains and listen to random bleats from mountain goats and screams of eagles.

Is that update going to change the plants?

[Deon]

Vocalizing plants? Cool idea, Phoebus!

Seriously though, no, new updates won't change anything that breaks save games.

[Blackdutchie]

You'll hear the worm-grass squiggle and the Ironwood leaves will ring in the wind.

[TomiTapio]

Yaaaaaaaayy! I''m gonna go find what everyone's been squawking about badgers for now

Is like Giant Gargoyles but much friendlier. Watch out for the tropical swamps' crocodiles! (but crocs don't have rage. dragon raptors do. Please hide indoors when raptors come.)

Any chance of getting a Goldplated version of this quasi-final update, Deon? *bats eyelashes* ♥♥♥

Sounds like a five-minute WinMerge stitch from prev goldplated to 3.25b.

Am I the only one who doesn't use ingame music in DF? I just have WinAmp play various chillout/newage/downtempo ShoutCast channels. Yay SomaFM and psyradio!

If I were to go back to an old fort with DF 3.25 exe... CRUTCHWALKING! And MORE FPS.

Edit: Happenings in Helpedcraft, a town that has learned how to make bonfires.

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Helpedcraft, Usenrigoth.
3x3 region14, trop swamp SMs, mountain SMs hot, bottom right area 1sq trop swamp terrifying DMs
embark problem: no copper in parent civ!
4 dogs, 6 rabbits, 40 drinks, cobalt: 4 daggers, 2 picks 2 axes. 40 leather, 10 iron bars.

dig reservoir, it's very hot here.
hematite veins on mountain! In Obsidian! (and tetrahedrite, which looks like normal rock.)

mining areas... found caves1, -7 to -9.
dig home in gneiss AND OBSIDIAN, on -6. Hit hornblende!
312 fps, 3x3 embark, 7 citizens (0 idle), 0+12 animals, 2-3 cavern layers (1 seen, flier-open). 8k wealth.
zombie capybaras.

Summer 1. make all sorts of stone items.
lovely featherwood and highwood in the evil area.
Reg the mioner is going hungry.
Zombie capybara hurt one dog badly.
5 migrants  to 12! hurrah!
first major home-digging is completed. Now mine ores!
ezras.
autumn 1.
hooray migrants to 19! Do some trading.

Winter 1. Home caravan, of course.
random CRASH, hauling bars, dumping gneiss. *sigh*
..
244 fps, 3x3 embark, 19 citizens (0 idle), 4+19 animals, 2-3 cavern layers (1 seen, flier-open). 38k wealth. 1720 stones,  23 weap, 50 bodywears, 2 corpses 41 BPs. 57 pots 42 barrels.
nords. they brought a giant moose! Didn't buy.
Spring 2.
slay zombie cobra and some capybaras. TWO soldiers drowned! Damn that lack of safety ramps! Drain the pool to recover items and bodies.
Migrants to 41!
Duskies. Sylvans.

Summer 2.
mood: tetrahedrite scepter, 12k.
low on wood! Maybe should try for magma.
7 migrants to 48.

Ezras. Get indoors. Keepers.
A centaur siege! Good thing we have prepared, four weapon traps with obsidian blades. 4 cages.
dogs make cents waste their silver arrows, good.
gob ambush in stairs. fall back and let weapon traps slice.
lost a dorf in corridor.lost axer.
victory. soon it is time to burn caged foes.
hmm need a HOSPITAL.
hurrah, traders brought LOADS of wood!

Autumn 2.
a zombie python in stairwell, killed Cerol!
six puppies have grown up!
child's mood: tetrahedrite bracelet, 11k.
a damn crocodile comes! Hua! It is faster than a copper-gear average shroomer.
Its buddy killed an axer. Croc with middle spine fractured, still at FULL SPEED. (was Not a nopain creature.)
Migrants to 52.
thieves, home caravan. orcs, 16k of goods bought.
..
dump more rubble from home area.
Winter 2.
gonna burn caged enemies in a section of the caves. Ten hostiles taken care of! One arachna gets Angry, novice squad slices it.
smith mood: copper ring, 30k.

a flayer ambush hits zombiecapybaramen! Then flayers get stuck in a pool, forever spamming area blast.
Nords.
A cyclops comes! AND CRUSHES THE FLAYERS. (cyc punches only did bruises, but flayers fled)
Cyc crushes a nord guard, we crush skinny cyclops.
buy 16k Nord goods with 25k.
melt anvils. Wow, we have 4 diagnoser-skill people.

Spring 3.
Have 24 3x3 bed areas in a grid, and engravings to guide people to their beds.

A BALOR COMES! Woe!
No bushfire, fight (only 4 pages whaaat. 5 arteries opened.) happened on dead evil grassless spot. Lost only three dorfs.

Edit2: The settlement's trap-corridor:

First traps catch some babysnatchers. Just put battle area cage traps to further contain invaders. Statues are a new twist: cause happiness, and stop a hail of enemy arrows.

[Deon]

Wow, we now have Tomi's stories with PICTURES! Priceless . Thank you Tomi, I always read your reports.

[TomiTapio]

Thanks D. I should make a PDF of the best two places, because there's many screenshots. Forum not so good for three screenfuls of text and six screenshots.

Balor needs boosting, it died too soon from five arteries cut. Maybe put iron or steel skin on it. Or fighting skill 15 for much parrying.

[Ult1mara]

Cant wait to get stuck into the Alchemy Deon really cant wait. Keep up the good work dude ^_^ always a pleasure to play this mod

Btw u should know who I am ^_^