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[Veroule]

During worldgen the dwarven civilisations are occasionally wiped out by war, with many dwarves fleeing to the hills.  At what point do you see it being possible for the player to launch a reclaim mission on the original Mountain Halls?  Do you see this as more of an adventurer mission that would be ordered by the king?

[monk12]

During worldgen the dwarven civilisations are occasionally wiped out by war, with many dwarves fleeing to the hills.  At what point do you see it being possible for the player to launch a reclaim mission on the original Mountain Halls?  Do you see this as more of an adventurer mission that would be ordered by the king?

Reclaims of Worldgen sites would be fantastic.

In fact, as sieges get expanded, could you attempt to reclaim a fortress that had been conquered and settled by an enemy of some sort? This would be way cool to do to fortresses lost in world gen, but even cooler if a fortress you built was lost in a siege and settled by an enemy, allowing you to reclaim with your own siege force to take it back.

[NW_Kohaku]

Before you can reclaim a worldgen site, there needs to be code to generate dwarven fortresses procedurally...

I need to make that suggestion, already...

[Neonivek]

Before you can reclaim a worldgen site, there needs to be code to generate dwarven fortresses procedurally...

I need to make that suggestion, already...

Toady already commented on it and he wants to make them like Player fortresses (which I don't think is really all that needed) and frankly I don't see what is soo difficult about making a Dwarf City proceedurally when Toady already created limitations within known as "Noise".

Dwarf Fortresses are easy enough.

It is the Dwarf towns and cities that are the more questionable aspect. Are they above ground or huge sprawling underground cities?

[NW_Kohaku]

Before you can reclaim a worldgen site, there needs to be code to generate dwarven fortresses procedurally...

I need to make that suggestion, already...

Toady already commented on it and he wants to make them like Player fortresses (which I don't think is really all that needed) and frankly I don't see what is soo difficult about making a Dwarf City proceedurally when Toady already created limitations within known as "Noise".

Dwarf Fortresses are easy enough.

It is the Dwarf towns and cities that are the more questionable aspect. Are they above ground or huge sprawling underground cities?

Mashed one out: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63054.0

[Eduren]

I would imagine that dwarven sprawl settlements might look similar to Hobbit-holes.

They would be underground but still have a noticeable affect on landscape.

[Halconnen]

Actually, it would be kind of nice if there was code that could keep skeletons together for the purposes of making undead, but could recognize when it's just normal-dead, and things could just plain rot so our stockpiles don't fill up with various unrotting body parts either for all eternity or until we use some kind of exploit like an atom smasher to get rid of them.

It's not like this HAS to be either-or.

Yeah, this could also lead to skeletons just plain falling apart after you 'kill' them, when the magical flag keeping them together vanishes. I'd like that.

[Acanthus117]

That could also be useful for modders.

Imagine monsters made of metal and stuff simply falling apart when they're 'killed'.

That would be fun.

[NW_Kohaku]

That could also be useful for modders.

Imagine monsters made of metal and stuff simply falling apart when they're 'killed'.

That would be fun.

Actually, I remember someone asked in a thread a few weeks back about how much bronze they would theoretically be able to get out of "melting down" a Bronze Collosus.  The answer was about 2300 bars of bronze.

That's basically bronze to then subsequently build an 80z-level tall statue of a bronze collossus.

This is largely thanks to having all bars of metal be only 2 liters of metal (I.E. your average soda bottle), yet still be capble of making a full tile cubic wall...

[Greiger]

Dwarves just melt it down into really really thin sheets and  just stack them together like cards.

[SmileyMan]

Or they have the technology to make metal foam.

[NW_Kohaku]

Or they have the technology to make metal foam.

Unfortunately, not even that works, as it's only about 5% as dense or 20 times as voluminous as regular metal.

If we go by the 3-meter-cube assumption for tiles, we are turning a 2-liter bar of metal into a 27m³ or 27,000 liter wall, a change of 13,500 times the volume.

[tfaal]

The image in the new dev post looks pretty promising for adventurer mode. Walking from town to town with an adventurer without [T]raveling should get a lot easier, now that we can stop and rest more frequently. I just wish there was a better way to do that, one involving actual doctors, rather than magical retire/unretire healing. Plus, if the farming settlements are anything like current towns, they'll get savaged by ravenous woodland creatures every time you come out of retirement. What's up with that bug, anyway?

[Mel_Vixen]

WTF? The lasted update of the dev-log ... its beautiful ... like a black Monolith from outer space only filled with villages instead of Stars!

Anyway keep working like that toady! Never since Daggerfall (TES 2 by Bastheda) someone programmed something like this for a game - atleast i am not aware of any game that does something like this - and your code seems better as theyrs already!

So lets see Daggerfall had 5000 villages and 750K NPCs. Lets say we have 50 civs on a middle-sized map with a average of 100 villages. 50 * 100 = 5000. Ok that record is broken! Now with 5000 villages a 50 village-people makes 250000 - not so much . But we have still 50 Mayor citys with say 3000 people each we get another 150000 NPCs. So 400K NPCs! And yours are even 10 more detailed  . So the game with the biggest game world ever? The prize goes over to DF and its one man Army Programming Studio.

edit: Will we get the villages be included into the xml output? How many historical persons are there per Village? Are there new Buildings (Barns, shrines, artificial ponds for fishing and fire-fighting)? Road-signs?

[Cruxador]

Or they have the technology to make metal foam.

Unfortunately, not even that works, as it's only about 5% as dense or 20 times as voluminous as regular metal.

If we go by the 3-meter-cube assumption for tiles, we are turning a 2-liter bar of metal into a 27m³ or 27,000 liter wall, a change of 13,500 times the volume.

I would assume it's only about one meter or five feet cubed, based on the sizes of the intities which construct buildings and whatnot. Bigger creatures will likely be multitile, once that functionality goes in.