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[narhiril]

Regarding the new Vanguard tile : Ancient Vanguard Armory

This tile does not process in the Archeology Lab after it has been mined as the other Vanguard materials do.  The command to process a Vanguard Weapons Cache is available, and requires a Weapons Cache as the ingredient.  Is there an intermediate step I am missing to process the Armory into a weapons Cache?

Thanks much!

Huh.  There should be, but it's missing - that file must have gotten reverted on accident somewhere.  I'll be sure to fix that.

How do I gen a world without it crashing.
.34.11 version

I'm not sure what causes this, but try generating a world with a very short history.

[Paranatural]

Hey, quick question. I have a couple of peasants with 'Legendary Savant' as a skill. I have some other Savants, and Armor and a Weapon one. But These seem...generic?

[Remuthra]

Hey, quick question. I have a couple of peasants with 'Legendary Savant' as a skill. I have some other Savants, and Armor and a Weapon one. But These seem...generic?

Legendary=Alchemist

What, did you expect a dwarf good at only one skill to not be generic?

[Paranatural]

I remember reading where you said you were not sure if the Grum were working right...I got a grum ambush last night. Or was it specifically sieges you were talking about?

[narhiril]

I finally have my answer.  Thank you!

[Paranatural]

NP. They came right after a shelled FB with a poisonous cloud wiped out my Military. They came in, fucked up the place, and left out the 'top' of my fort while I had snatchers and thieves all over the place. This is a pretty dangerous mod.

[mober6]

I also have a tiny question about the dfhack console, since I can't get the labor manipulation part of DF hack, and its a huge pain to have to use a 3rd party program like therapist instead of directly managing labors,
The menu, with normal DFhack allows you to hit [l] and get a list of all dwarfs happy/labor, and generally allows the game to be played much faster

[Pan]

So… how're things going, Narhiril? 

Edit: By which I mean LFR things... but feel free to throw in something about your day

[Remuthra]

Hey, Narhiril?

Do you happen to be responsible for this?

Spoiler: Legends of Forgotten Writers (click to show/hide)

[narhiril]

So… how're things going, Narhiril? 

Edit: By which I mean LFR things... but feel free to throw in something about your day

Unfortunately, it's midterm season, so I've not got a whole lot to share at the moment.  I'm going to push to finish the tech tree with the next update and finally get golems working.  I've also been testing a couple of plagues.  >:]

Hey, Narhiril?

Do you happen to be responsible for this?

Spoiler: Legends of Forgotten Writers (click to show/hide)

Shockingly, no, I'm not. 

[Ashenblaze]

Are the Grum supposed to be unarmored and wielding advanced weaponry?
While I'm here I'll just narrate how I indirectly met the Grum:

Having breached the ceiling of the 2nd cavern, I noticed some devourer silk. With a measly militia injured by a recent goblin ambush, I wanted to strengthen my army for a while before I explore what lies in the 2nd cavern.

Having forgotten all about the 2nd cavern, 2-3 months passed and an ambush was detected in the unexplored regions of the 2nd cavern VERY near the area I can see from the hole I made in the ceiling.
I waited for somewhat a minute, then a squad of Grum showed weilding Grum pulverizers and heraldic shields that are made of materials ranging from copper to damascus steel to voidshard, and some wielding Kexel's pulverizers and heraldic shields.

Also, these Grums are coated with forgotten beast blood+ichor and with the forgotten beast showing up in my "dead creatures list" seems like the Forgotten Beast revealed the grums before revealing itself to me and died moments later. (So that's why the Grums took a while to show up on the visible areas of the cave)

Now they lie in wait for me to come down, which seems to be a long time before I do since I want to make sure I can defend the caves, haven't had any experience dealing with underground seiges (and devourers).

[narhiril]

Having forgotten all about the 2nd cavern, 2-3 months passed and an ambush was detected in the unexplored regions of the 2nd cavern VERY near the area I can see from the hole I made in the ceiling.
I waited for somewhat a minute, then a squad of Grum showed weilding Grum pulverizers and heraldic shields that are made of materials ranging from copper to damascus steel to voidshard, and some wielding Kexel's pulverizers and heraldic shields.

That should definitely not be happening.  Thanks for the report.  I think I know why that's happening, and I'll get a bugfix release up here as soon as possible.

[Ashenblaze]

No problem!
Also, while I'm here, I'll drop some "not that useful" information because I don't have anything better to do at the moment:

Down in the caverns with the Grum Hammerers:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A month passed then I said I'll drop a zinger above them but at the same time they stoped caring and went home so they didn't mind the unconscious corrosive zinger. In 3-5 minutes time, another ambush appeared, this time it's a squad of earthrenders (which I assumed are axemen because of the blue font color) wielding rockcleavers with the same materials mentioned before (plus bismuth and ethereal). Covered in corrosive zinger acid, the squad is dieing from infections, piling up a bunch of rockcleavers and heraldic shields made different types of materials for my dwarfs to stockpile after I go down there.

Meanwhile, up on the surface:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A thresher withdraws from society and claimed a Bowyer's workshop, sketching pictures of stacked cloth, a forest, bars of metal, a quarry, and cut gems, the dwarf finally makes it's way to gather the materials and began working secretly.

The thresher shouts to the fort "Gaze at Tressedsieged the glittery prestige!". A willow void energy projector encrusted with oval limestone cabochons studded with bronze, decorated with cave spider silk and encircled with bands of willow, cave spider silk, and oval limestone cabochons. The object menaces with spikes of limestone.

The dwarven scientists and mechanics stare in awe thinking how a regular dwarf could make such a thing, and out of wood too!.
Sadly, all the appreciation is replaced with numerous insults and laughter as a dwarf pointed out that none but the voidwalkers knows how to make the ammo for such a thing. Now the thresher goes back to his regular work, threshing plants and hauling wood and refuse.
And what comes of the artifact? The willow void energy projector lies in a corner of the stockpiles, gathering dust. Waiting to be eaten by termites. Unused and Forgotten.

[ArchAIngel]

No problem!
Also, while I'm here, I'll drop some "not that useful" information because I don't have anything better to do at the moment:

Down in the caverns with the Grum Hammerers:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A month passed then I said I'll drop a zinger above them but at the same time they stoped caring and went home so they didn't mind the unconscious corrosive zinger. In 3-5 minutes time, another ambush appeared, this time it's a squad of earthrenders (which I assumed are axemen because of the blue font color) wielding rockcleavers with the same materials mentioned before (plus bismuth and ethereal). Covered in corrosive zinger acid, the squad is dieing from infections, piling up a bunch of rockcleavers and heraldic shields made different types of materials for my dwarfs to stockpile after I go down there.

Meanwhile, up on the surface:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A thresher withdraws from society and claimed a Bowyer's workshop, sketching pictures of stacked cloth, a forest, bars of metal, a quarry, and cut gems, the dwarf finally makes it's way to gather the materials and began working secretly.

The thresher shouts to the fort "Gaze at Tressedsieged the glittery prestige!". A willow void energy projector encrusted with oval limestone cabochons studded with bronze, decorated with cave spider silk and encircled with bands of willow, cave spider silk, and oval limestone cabochons. The object menaces with spikes of limestone.

The dwarven scientists and mechanics stare in awe thinking how a regular dwarf could make such a thing, and out of wood too!.
Sadly, all the appreciation is replaced with numerous insults and laughter as a dwarf pointed out that none but the voidwalkers knows how to make the ammo for such a thing. Now the thresher goes back to his regular work, threshing plants and hauling wood and refuse.
And what comes of the artifact? The willow void energy projector lies in a corner of the stockpiles, gathering dust. Waiting to be eaten by termites. Unused and Forgotten.

Just wait until a voidwalker ambush comes. Then the artifact projector is turned into a death machine of horrible-wonderful murdering for all!

[Hotawotwot]

If its not too much to ask could a basic description (or picture if a real weapon was in mind) of the more vaguely named weapons be posted? Some of the voidwalker weapons in particular leave me wonder what they're supposed to be.