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DDR

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If it had wings, would it fly?
« on: March 05, 2011, 08:38:56 pm »
Woah. I just noticed another level of detail in DF. You know how you normally have a dwarf who's gone insane listed as 'running around, babbling'? Well, my insane dwarf seems to have lost his feet to rot, so he's actually listed as 'crawling around, babbling'! :o
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Re: If it had wings, would it fly?
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2011, 08:48:39 pm »
IIRC, it's always been 'crawling around babbling'.
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Re: If it had wings, would it fly?
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2011, 08:49:29 pm »
If it had the [FLIER] token, it would fly, otherwise the wings are just for show, such as dragons cannot actually fly :P

That's very interesting though, especially since footless dwarves are normally just hungry paperweights.  They never walk again.  Ever.  Unless they get a strange mood or go insane, and then they'll crawl around in all the ways you wish they would have before!
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Re: If it had wings, would it fly?
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2011, 10:14:44 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on March 05, 2011, 08:49:29 pm
otherwise the wings are just for show, such as dragons cannot actually fly :P
Well duh, that's because they don't have any wings. :P

Don't ask about the cave dragons.
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Re: If it had wings, would it fly?
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2011, 10:29:32 pm »
Dwarfs that have the [FLIER] token are quite funny , but kinda annoying because they tend to only use their wings to fly in dire situations or to run away so thus i end up finding small army s of my dwarfs stuck on top of a wall and they only get down after the start starving or dehydrating >.<
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Re: If it had wings, would it fly?
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2011, 01:09:08 am »
I thought whether something would actually fly was a hard-coded thing, due to pathing and whatnot.
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