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[Pan]

Wait a bit.

[Asra]

Wait a bit, export more wealth etc. Also you made sure you embarked somewhere where the other races actually had access to your fort?

[lleu]

I embarked in the middle of the field by a river, no issues with being able to reach my fort. Is there any other way besides checking in the embark screen to see the neighboring civs? Exporting wealth might be the issue, I didn't get much I wanted in the caverns, so I didn't export much.

[Stirk]

I embarked in the middle of the field by a river, no issues with being able to reach my fort. Is there any other way besides checking in the embark screen to see the neighboring civs? Exporting wealth might be the issue, I didn't get much I wanted in the caverns, so I didn't export much.

Did you find Magma yet? Just set up some magma labs and set them to making gold, then make the gold into something you can export for a ton of money. It can be done without magma, but that uses up a ton of fuel.

You can hit the C key, but that only shows civs who have sent someone to you already.

[Meph]

Just wanted to let you know:

Science for tame/civ member spawning in workshops proved unsuccesful, BUT I noticed something else. The AI of friendly units works, so you can spawn buildings destroyers, guzzlers, thieves, lever-pullers and curious creatures. Could be a use, maybe spawn a "imp of termat" as a sideeffect of a reaction that causes some mischief... or a leprechaun having a 1% chance appearing when gold is smelted.. objects getting possessed by poltergeists and you have a alcohol-drinking barrel. You would have to send you military with a kill order after them. The good thing is that they dont frighten civilians, so people dont overreact to a little imp in the dining room. Might be an option worth exploring. I found that out when  spawned a building-destroyer 2 that slowly mangled every workshop I had, with my dwarves just watching. 

[Alkhemia]

Poor meowkin they keep coming to my fortress just to be lit on fire, silly cats

[Stirk]

Poor meowkin they keep coming to my fortress just to be lit on fire, silly cats

Angering the Meokins? Not a wise idea. You should see what they do in legends....

[tahujdt]

Poor meowkin they keep coming to my fortress just to be lit on fire, silly cats

Angering the Meokins? Not a wise idea. You should see what they do in legends....

Actually, legends combat is semi-independent of dwarf mode combat. Someone once modded bunnies to be a playable race, with cute little bunny picks and bunny-sized armor. The bunnies regularly clobbered bronze colossi in legends, but bunnies fully clad in bunny sized steel armor couldn't kill hardly anything.

[wyrdness]

I suddenly want a new npc race of bunnies to come trading to my fort. The thought of tiny bunnies with picks and little miner helmets is adorable. Well, up until they inevitably do something horrible. This is Dwarf Fortress after all.

[tahujdt]

I suddenly want a new npc race of bunnies to come trading to my fort. The thought of tiny bunnies with picks and little miner helmets is adorable. Well, up until they inevitably do something horrible. This is Dwarf Fortress after all.

Bunnies with beards...

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Someone needs to photoshop this!

[Pan]

How are things going narhiril?

[Alkhemia]

your ASCII download has a error in the Dwarf creature

Change HORN:HORN_FIREIMMUNE_TEMPLATE to HORN_FIREIMMUNE:HORN_FIREIMMUNE_TEMPLATE. The idenifiers need to match.

also one in RAKSHASA_ILLUSIONARY_COPY

[Stirk]

Anyone know anything about a spirit binder? Ill put my little story into spoilers so not to ruin anything if it is a Easter egg.

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I was just starting to go on an adventure and was asked to go take down an outlaw, who was known as something like an agumentor. I thought it was interesting, of course, that he had such an interesting name, so I went on the quest weary of what would happen. I arrived at her nearby camp swiftly and went in fists raised (I was playing a martial arts character, for a challenge) and managed to walk right in the middle of the camp without anyone stopping me. I took a few coins in the bag just for fun, and still seeing no one I went looking again. I finally found him, but instead of threatening me she did a standard animal thing ..., if I remember correctly. I just noticed it now while I think about it. I had expected it to be a like a dwarf, except with powers, like a god troop, but when I finally came up to it it looked more like an ocean tile. I ran toward it and raised my fist, taking an aimed hit. All it had was a body, with no other body parts. After a single punch it exploded into pieces, covering me in will-o-wisp something or other that seems to have no effect. Anyone know anything about it?

!EDIT!

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It happened again, this time I was able to clearly see it was a nephal spirit binder. This happened right after the other one, in the same in-game day even. I was able to examine it and everything, but I think this one is white while the last one was blue. Looking at the kill list, the last one was a "Human Augmentor" and the other was a "Nephal spirit binder". Are these some kind of secret like necromancery? It seems to actually make them weaker.


In continuing, there are two nearby towers. I am going to pay them a little visit and see if I am correct.

But before I go off I notice a pile of cloths and other supplies, it kind of looks like he was generated with them but dropped them? The family I went to stay with asked me to kill ANOTHER spirit bended, it looks like they are really common in these parts.

And after coming back from mothers day things and two days in game going around a river, I finally make it into the tower. There are a ton of banshee, so I lure them out of the castle and hit them one by one until they are down, two punches each. After taking out most the banshee, I go in to the tower to see a Meokin spiritbinder sleeping peacefully. This one looked like a K instead, a normal Meokin, and when I tried to attack it, a propt asking me if I was sure popped up. Seeing no harm in letting him live, I went into the next room. There were a few more banshee I took care of quickly, when another spiritbinder came. A voidwalker this time, and he was angry. I retreated a little in order to fight him one on one, and after taking out another banshee went into combat with him. I did one attack, which didn't do much, and he seemed to have normal biology for a voidwalker.

But I didn't for long. The message came up "The warlord spirit binder prays for healing! You are renewed" but I only noticed after I was dead. Next it says "You have transformed into a will-o-wisp", perhaps those things I had seen before? It doesn't matter. He attacked me twice while I was a will-o-wisp, one missing but knocking me down and the second a scratch that cut me in half. I blew up just as the will-o-wisps I killed did. Interesting story, ah?

[Meph]

These guys are healers, and the "You have transformed into a will-o-wisp"-thing is narhirils way of resurrection and full healing. You transform for 10 ticks, than come back as your original creature, with full health and all lost limbs attached.

[Stirk]

These guys are healers, and the "You have transformed into a will-o-wisp"-thing is narhirils way of resurrection and full healing. You transform for 10 ticks, than come back as your original creature, with full health and all lost limbs attached.

Interesting, so why did my enemy use it on me to heal me? It worked out for them, I guess....

!!EDIT!!

And now I started a new character, another martial artist. His starting weapon? Void walker hurling staff, made of copper to boot. No ammo, just an interesting happening.