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[Farthing]

Hmm... while this wouldn't have much effect on players viewing a map, should fog and smoke have some kind of vision effect on enemies? Maybe they wouldn't know that enemies on the other side of the fog or in fog exist. Just throwing it out there.

[Farthing]

One idea that seems to have been kicked around but not really explored is treants a.k.a tree-people. On post (on another thread noted that they were listed in the Raws but don't seem to appear anywhere?  I'm just wondering how they appear. Are they megabeasts? are they their own civilization? part of the Elven civilization?

[Andeerz]

Treants would be a Fun surprise for woodcutters to say the least...

[monk12]

Treants are what happen when you cut down a whole bunch of trees in a Good biome, of course! The good biomes really need some more diversity...

[Farthing]

Hmm...so would it be possible to have good Megabeasts? I mean, if your chopping down trees as a treant walks onto your map, he's not likely to be happy about it, but all things equal, could there be big friendly giants in the future?

[ZebioLizard2]

Reviving this thread a bit, Maybe a bit of thoughts on oxygen? I mean you can build a base completely underwater and still be okay.

Maybe really, really high peaks would have low oxygen content, which would slow dwarves down a bit when their at the top of a 500 Z-level mountain. (not sure on this one, how high is a Z-level exactly in dwarf fortress?)

[Waparius]

Treants are what happen when you cut down a whole bunch of trees in a Good biome, of course! The good biomes really need some more diversity...

That, and/or they're the Elvish version of trolls.

[Andeerz]

Reviving this thread a bit, Maybe a bit of thoughts on oxygen? I mean you can build a base completely underwater and still be okay.

Maybe really, really high peaks would have low oxygen content, which would slow dwarves down a bit when their at the top of a 500 Z-level mountain. (not sure on this one, how high is a Z-level exactly in dwarf fortress?)

I like to think dwarves as having ridiculously high red blood cell counts to deal with mining in deep mines with sub-optimal ventilation, and having good constitution to boot to deal with dangerous gasses ans stuff... In that case, maybe they wouldn't suffer much at high altitudes.    Though I like the idea in general!

[SanDiego]

Regarding the impacts, this site may be of interest: http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/ - it simulates effects of asteroid impact based on input (how large and dense the asteroid is, impact angle and velocity, surface it hits, how far from impact you are).

[Misterstone]

It would be cool if you could find coins sometimes in the soil at the sites of abandoned cities.  Even cooler if the coin shows a giant tentacled hedgehog treading on a pile of corpses, and you then you run across said monstrosity in the ruins you are visiting.