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[Vaftrudner]

Dwarves who are thirsty and don't have access to anything else will try drinking magma! It's the funniest thing I've seen in DF in a long time. I accidentally had this dwarf in a magma channel, the magma was slowly moving towards her while I ordered the floodgates to be opened to let her out, but instead of running away she went over to the magma, scooped it up, tried drinking it and then ran away bleeding heavily and dropping grease.

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She's ok now but the fat is burnt away from her upper lip and a finger.

[Rijjka]

I discovered that a single broken index finger on the left hand requires three years of bed rest and seveteen different stiching sessions from the medical dwarf. And that the same wound can infact be cleaned out, after being stiched over.

[Flaede]

That if two sieges arrive at the same time from two different civ's, they will battle eachother to the death in front of your fortress gates.

And you reap all the rewards.

Unless you are the only one anyone is at war with. In which case they will surround your fortress on all sides, destroying you utterly if you open the gate.

I have had 5 sieges at once... and a year or two where I had at least 3 civs sieging me year-round. (genesis mod)

[CrackFile]

Dwarves who are thirsty and don't have access to anything else will try drinking magma! It's the funniest thing I've seen in DF in a long time. I accidentally had this dwarf in a magma channel, the magma was slowly moving towards her while I ordered the floodgates to be opened to let her out, but instead of running away she went over to the magma, scooped it up, tried drinking it and then ran away bleeding heavily and dropping grease.

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She's ok now but the fat is burnt away from her upper lip and a finger.

When possible she prefers to consume magma.

[Flaede]

Dwarves who are thirsty and don't have access to anything else will try drinking magma! It's the funniest thing I've seen in DF in a long time. I accidentally had this dwarf in a magma channel, the magma was slowly moving towards her while I ordered the floodgates to be opened to let her out, but instead of running away she went over to the magma, scooped it up, tried drinking it and then ran away bleeding heavily and dropping grease.

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She's ok now but the fat is burnt away from her upper lip and a finger.

When possible she prefers to consume magma.

...which is never. 'Cuz it's not possible to consume magma. Magma consumes YOU!

[geoduck]

Not any great revelation, but I recently embarked on a site that had a road passing through, and learned that sometimes roadbuilders construct bridges across gaps.

[Quietust]

Not any great revelation, but I recently embarked on a site that had a road passing through, and learned that sometimes roadbuilders construct bridges across gaps.

Except that in 0.31, they build way too many bridges in hilly areas, and a lot of them end up resembling diving boards...

[Flaede]

That if you capture all those War-Mounts the enemy shows up with, you can keep them in cages and tame their offspring. (Note, outside the cages, they will attack their own kids).

[fivex]

Gremlins have the [PET_EXOTIC] tag.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Dwarves who are thirsty and don't have access to anything else will try drinking magma! It's the funniest thing I've seen in DF in a long time. I accidentally had this dwarf in a magma channel, the magma was slowly moving towards her while I ordered the floodgates to be opened to let her out, but instead of running away she went over to the magma, scooped it up, tried drinking it and then ran away bleeding heavily and dropping grease.

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She's ok now but the fat is burnt away from her upper lip and a finger.

Am I the only person who finds it hilarious she had a 'wonderful drink' recently? On topic, I finally reached barony status with my sixth or seventh fort and didn't know there was a dialog where you got to pick who the baron is. That was pretty cool. (31.12 is what I'm playing, just for reference)

[Maulrus]

The "t" screen to display what items are in a building. Found out about that, like, yesterday.

The most useful thing it took me FOREVER to find out about was the manager screen. Learned about it early on in my last fort, and it has become my best friend since then.

[Indricotherium]

Assigning lots of war animals to legendary military dwarfs can have repercussions if said swarms are decimated in combat.

Yeah, I'm pretty new to all this.

In a related vein, I was surprised how much of a beating my mayor could take - it looks like he will even survive! Albeit without his nose and right hand. And he may never walk again. And the speardwarf is still 'attending meeting' standing vigil by his bedside in the hospital waiting for him to awaken. With two of his war gorillas.

[LilGunmanX]

I recently learned that it is possible to have three different caverns on your map, all at varying depths. I was trying to dig down and find the HFS and blue metal [one of my areas of expertise is mining the blue without breaching into HFS] and I accidentally stumbled upon two other caverns, one of which is filled to the brim with bloodthorns, which I then learned are extremely good for crafting into ballista bolts... so now I might have to actually transfer from catapults to ballistas.

Also, I have a question:

From the Wiki...

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"All creatures will trigger traps if they fall unconscious on top of them, including those with TRAPAVOID. This was rather famously used back in 40d to trap frog demons and tentacle demons, but not spirits of fire (due to them being un-knockout-able). All titans, forgotten beasts, and demons in version 0.31 have TRAPAVOID and are, like the spirit of fire of 40d and earlier, similarly immune to being knocked unconscious and are thus impossible to trap. --Quietust 00:37, 13 August 2010 (UTC)"

If this is all true, then why have people been reporting the ability to catch anything in cage traps? Is there some gimmick to it, or was the inability to fall unconscious on spoiler monsters fixed in a recent update or something?

[Urist Imiknorris]

The theory is that random critters don't have [WEBIMMUNE] in their raws (according to the string dump) and can thus be captured by being webbed on a cage trap. I don't think anyone has actually tried this though.

[iceball3]

The theory is that random critters don't have [WEBIMMUNE] in their raws (according to the string dump) and can thus be captured by being webbed on a cage trap. I don't think anyone has actually tried this though.

Well it HAS been done with clowns before...