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RTiger

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Safe fishing
« on: April 29, 2011, 04:45:11 am »
What is the best way to go about safe fishing when the local river is full of carp and aligators?
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Serrational

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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2011, 04:49:47 am »
...do dwarves like chipping their own carp out from obsididan lumps?
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2011, 04:55:38 am »
Quote from: RTiger on April 29, 2011, 04:45:11 am
What is the best way to go about safe fishing when the local river is full of carp and aligators?

Have you considered keeping livestock instead?
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2011, 04:58:42 am »
I'm confused.

Is anything in DF ever safe? Really?
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I like fortresses because they are still underground.

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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2011, 05:09:02 am »
Quote from: Jeoshua on April 29, 2011, 04:58:42 am
I'm confused.

Is anything in DF ever safe? Really?

Hahahahahahahaha!

...no~
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2011, 11:07:15 am »
IIRC they can fish fine through grates. While creatures cannot attack dwarves through a grate, they can scare the dwarf through the grate.
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2011, 11:08:26 am »
Quote from: Hyndis on April 29, 2011, 11:07:15 am
IIRC they can fish fine through grates. While creatures cannot attack dwarves through a grate, they can scare the dwarf through the grate.
Time for an extremely inconvenient EPIC DODGE!
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2011, 11:11:07 am »
Grates do not block vision. A scared dwarf will just keep interrupting his fishing job, but the grate will keep him absolutely safe from the creature and from drowning.
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2011, 11:14:27 am »
Quote from: Hyndis on April 29, 2011, 11:11:07 am
Grates do not block vision. A scared dwarf will just keep interrupting his fishing job, but the grate will keep him absolutely safe from the creature and from drowning.
Err...

So we shouldn't put a grate?
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Hyndis

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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2011, 11:25:19 am »
Quote from: Necro910 on April 29, 2011, 11:14:27 am
Quote from: Hyndis on April 29, 2011, 11:11:07 am
Grates do not block vision. A scared dwarf will just keep interrupting his fishing job, but the grate will keep him absolutely safe from the creature and from drowning.
Err...

So we shouldn't put a grate?

If you want to keep out megabeasts from eating your fisherdwarves or destroying your pump stack you should build a grate.
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2011, 11:27:07 am »
Quote from: Hyndis on April 29, 2011, 11:25:19 am
Quote from: Necro910 on April 29, 2011, 11:14:27 am
Quote from: Hyndis on April 29, 2011, 11:11:07 am
Grates do not block vision. A scared dwarf will just keep interrupting his fishing job, but the grate will keep him absolutely safe from the creature and from drowning.
Err...

So we shouldn't put a grate?

If you want to keep out megabeasts from eating your fisherdwarves or destroying your pump stack you should build a grate.
NOT THE PUMP STACK! D:
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2011, 12:35:20 pm »
Set your military to always wear their uniforms and turn on fishing for the otherwise useless ones.  My military are all fishers/hunters/woodcutters, allowing the soft meaty dwarves to stay inside. 
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2011, 01:00:51 pm »
Quote from: RTiger on April 29, 2011, 04:45:11 am
What is the best way to go about safe fishing when the local river is full of carp and aligators?

Make a safe pond somewhere in the same biome (and on the same level) as the river and fish out of that.
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Quote from: Uristocrat on January 09, 2011, 03:46:41 pm
You could have berries on the rocks and the dwarves would say it was "berry gneiss."
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2011, 07:46:38 pm »
Your Biome does have winter, right? So when the river freezes, dig in, establish grates, then when water comes flowing back, the carp will live in happyville while the dorfs fish in the grate established territories.
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Re: Safe fishing
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2011, 01:59:55 am »
Not in a hot climate
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