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[BlackFlyme]

All necromancer books and slabs are artifacts, and behave exactly as an artifact would in Fortress Mode. Meaning that they cannot be destroyed and are identified by name, not by "leather-bound book" or by "slab".

Collect them all and toss them into a volcano for great justice! Or just hoard them inside of a lair for your other adventurers, unless you ended up with one of the dud books which are only the author's musings on random things. Or, Armok forbid, poetry.

[Atomic Chicken]

I just started playing a new adventurer and I went to a fort to get some friends. There was a item inside the fort that was simply called "It Is Death" what does this do? is it a easter egg?

Sounds like a book about necromancy. Try reading it.

If it were a book, it would be identified as a book rather than "It Is Death". 

Actually, all books are considered artifacts and so are identified by their name (i.e.the book's title) rather than being identified as "donkey leather bound book." That shows up on the book's description screen though. I'm more curious as to what a book is doing in a fortress-my first guess is that a clown masquerading as a deity is living in there. However its title has the word "death" in it, which is usually a characteristic of books holding the secrets of life and death.

OP:try reading it (pick up book, press "I" and select book) and see what happens. Then explore the fortress' keep.

Edit:Woops, didn't realise that there were already replies to this; sorry.

[Norkrak]

yaaaa...I'd do that, but I kind of got killed by some mules I tried to eat...

[Lida_Brainbroken]

yaaaa...I'd do that, but I kind of got killed by some mules I tried to eat...

Don't kill tame animals.  To the civ, it's no different than killing a citizen and results in ALL citizens and tame creatures of that civ attacking you on sight.

Now that your adventurer is dead, start a new one and head back to where the book is.  If you talk to locals in settlements near the "battle" scene repeatedly, you may hear a story about how Urist McMulemurderer was slain by Nowhasaname The Mule. 

[blazing glory]

can you...

1 spill someones guts and not have him bleed to death?

2 remove someones organs?

[Bloax]

There was a funny discussion little discussion about just that topic some time ago.


In short, yes - if you can find a way to fast-travel away from the gutting scene before the creature dies from blood loss.

[Bloax]

Doublepostan as fuck (boo), but erm - how do you check your exact stats as an adventurer? Anything in DFHack for that, perhaps?

[blazing glory]

thanks

[Tirion]

I found a curious underground structure (if you know what I mean), and it was completely empty of life and unlife. The sword was there. I generated the world with 0 random demons and 0 random regional interactions, but there were custom critters for cavern level 5 in the raws, some with [FLIER]...I found one's webs in the lower labyrinth levels but not the living article. Also, there are no civilized animal men in my raws, but back in the Deebus thread I heard cavern animals can be animated too, instead of random snakemen.

So, question: did this happen to others, too? What parameters did you use when the circus tent wasn't empty?

[redmenace.uk]

Hi all...been playing dwarf fortress for about 5 years now, but have now started playing adventure mode and wondered if someone could help me...I'm in the middle of an underground cavern and have come across something in the wall....its described as a rough-hewn old chest cluster...?? unfortunately i cant seem to do anything with it, have i unearthed a world altering treasure trove or is it simply a piece of the scenery? Cheers in advance....RED

[Atomic Chicken]

Hi all...been playing dwarf fortress for about 5 years now, but have now started playing adventure mode and wondered if someone could help me...I'm in the middle of an underground cavern and have come across something in the wall....its described as a rough-hewn old chest cluster...?? unfortunately i cant seem to do anything with it, have i unearthed a world altering treasure trove or is it simply a piece of the scenery? Cheers in advance....RED

Sounds like something out of a mod. Are you playing Masterwork? I believe it included chests (treated as gems by the game) that could be mined out and used in reactions. They won't affect your adventurer in any way, unless you use Advfort.

[redmenace.uk]

Hi all...been playing dwarf fortress for about 5 years now, but have now started playing adventure mode and wondered if someone could help me...I'm in the middle of an underground cavern and have come across something in the wall....its described as a rough-hewn old chest cluster...?? unfortunately i cant seem to do anything with it, have i unearthed a world altering treasure trove or is it simply a piece of the scenery? Cheers in advance....RED

Sounds like something out of a mod. Are you playing Masterwork? I believe it included chests (treated as gems by the game) that could be mined out and used in reactions. They won't affect your adventurer in any way, unless you use Advfort.

Cheers fella, yeah using masterworks sorry forgot to mention that...thanks 4 lettin me know onwards and downwards....:]...RED

[redmenace.uk]

what material is the strongest between ironbone, copper, steel and gold for a blocking bracer....seem to have had a run on them and dont know which one to equip and is there a way to find out the strengths of certain materials etc.. cheers peeps...:]....RED

[Rockphed]

what material is the strongest between ironbone, copper, steel and gold for a blocking bracer....seem to have had a run on them and dont know which one to equip and is there a way to find out the strengths of certain materials etc.. cheers peeps...:]....RED

Well, in general, Adamantine is the best material for armor, followed by steel.  Iron and Bronze are about equivalent.  Copper is next.  Everything else, I think, falls below that.

That said, I do not know what the mod in question does.  On the other hand, Shields always either work, or do not.  Whether they work or not is dependent on your shield skill and the quality of the shield.  Possibly also on whether it is a shield or a buckler.  Masterworks, the big stars, are the best unless you can get an artifact shield.  Artifacts are mostly nice for the coolness factor though.

[Bloax]

what material is the strongest between ironbone, copper, steel and gold for a blocking bracer....seem to have had a run on them and dont know which one to equip and is there a way to find out the strengths of certain materials etc.. cheers peeps...:]....RED

Since it's a shield (and I know it is), whichever is the lightest. (So probably ironbone)

Otherwise steel armor would be the best of those four.