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T600

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Equipping Hunters and Boredom
« on: April 27, 2010, 04:50:38 pm »
So.. My fort has yet to be attacked by kobolds or goblins or anything for that matter. The most exciting thing to happen to my fort was a giant toad I found in the caverns and my hunter shot it dead in a few shots. Anyway, how can I equip hunters with better armor? I feel not so comfortable with them hunting in pig tail sox and such.

Also, the only civilization I see when looking at the civ list is some other dwarven civ, and a olm man civ I think which is under ground, which I have not found yet. Does this mean I will never get a kobold attack on my fort or anything? If so, I may abandon because I have this small military of like 4 spear dwarves who do nothing but train!

Any ideas?
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Stik

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Re: Equipping Hunters and Boredom
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2010, 05:23:03 pm »
I only had a dwarf civ in my list until 2nd year, then i had human and elf added, i hope that helps
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T600

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Re: Equipping Hunters and Boredom
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2010, 06:25:44 pm »
Quote from: Stik on April 27, 2010, 05:23:03 pm
I only had a dwarf civ in my list until 2nd year, then i had human and elf added, i hope that helps

so civs can grow over time?
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Re: Equipping Hunters and Boredom
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2010, 06:43:27 pm »
Even if you start out with access to civs on the embark screen, inside the actual Fortress Mode civ screen, they don't actually appear there until you encounter a unit that is a member of that civ.
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Vastin

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Re: Equipping Hunters and Boredom
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2010, 08:53:56 pm »
My related question is: how do you get hunters to hunt AT ALL.

I have yet to have a hunter actually hunt in any game since I started 0.31.03. Through much conniving I can eventually get them to grab a crossbow, quiver, and bolts, but then they STILL don't use the things on the critters running about.

So far I have only been able to hunt with my military, and they have a tendency to destroy wildlife completely rather than just killing it so it can be butchered.
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