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[Dradym]

have you seen the movie gremlins? toady keeps the population low so they dont do all that.

on a side note, it would be !!FUN!! to see them reproduce with water

[Neonivek]

Toady is back YEAH!

[tps12]

i was more putting that there for in case someone(who didn't know what they were talking about) tried to tell me otherwise.

i do get that a lot

Sort of asking for it with that username.

[Neonivek]

Yikes, hope Threetoe feels better.

Edit addition: I REALLY hope I didn't just develop psychic powers.

[monk12]

Re: Bay12 Report

Wow, that was a pretty good Autumn for no release- still fallout from that NY Times article, you think?

[Neonivek]

Re: Bay12 Report

Wow, that was a pretty good Autumn for no release- still fallout from that NY Times article, you think?

Well Dwarf Fortress has been making more money over time. Though yeah the Newyork article was likely the cause of that burst.

[monk12]

Re: Bay12 Report

Wow, that was a pretty good Autumn for no release- still fallout from that NY Times article, you think?

Well Dwarf Fortress has been making more money over time. Though yeah the Newyork article was likely the cause of that burst.

Oh my, I just realized I typed "Autumn" instead of "August"- I think I need to take a breather from DF.

[Sphalerite]

Re: Bay12 Report

Wow, that was a pretty good Autumn for no release- still fallout from that NY Times article, you think?

Well Dwarf Fortress has been making more money over time. Though yeah the Newyork article was likely the cause of that burst.

Oh my, I just realized I typed "Autumn" instead of "August"- I think I need to take a breather from DF.

At least you didn't type Galena instead of August.

[kasan]

Nah, the butchered bones animate by themselves (as separate objects), so the skeletons are headless if you animate them from a butchery (or otherwise).  Skulls themselves are an odd case, because they don't have teeth or even a head flag, so they don't animate, and they don't get lumped with the other bones.  You still get skeletons properly from heavily rotted zombies.  It has to understand the relationship between teeth and a skull before the basic animation will work right, and then there's the skull's relationship to the spine that needs to be worked out.  In many cases, even if the skull and other bones are detached, you'd still want them to animate together, and that might just take some kind of structural grouping tag for the animation effect.

Since animating a skull by itself isn't possible to create a skeleton, would it to be possible to animate a skull into a different form of critter/unit type?

When I read this, it made me think of Morte the skull from Planescape: Torment, which in turn made me think of http://www.wowhead.com/spell=53316 (which is a mini non-combat pet in that game for those unfamiliar).

With that being said, would it be possible to implement a reanimation of parts as pets that are unsuitable for Zombies or Skeletons?  I'm semi clueless as to how the internals of DF work so I might be suggesting the not feasible with out major code rewrites here.

[PTTG??]

Well, that ties into an interesting concept. You can't animate a skull, since it's not enough of a creature's remains to simply be that creature with a template applied, and anyway. However, it seems reasonable that a new  it wouldn't be able to move. It does make sense for necromancers to be able to assemble "strange" undead out of parts that don't have the normal rules applied. Perhaps a "floating skull" creature instead of "Urist Bonebreaker's Skeleton" consisting of just a head.

[Organum]

The just-a-head style of reanimated creature would make sense from a role-playing perspective. Say you're a necromancer on a quest to learn all the secrets of the gods. So, you end up decapitating a magically endowed priest or whatever. "Oh no," you might say,"How ever shall I learn the secret now? OH WAIT." At this point you reanimate the head of the priest and trap his soul within it. Bent to your will, the priest has no choice but to give to you his secret.

[zwei]

The just-a-head style of reanimated creature would make sense from a role-playing perspective. Say you're a necromancer on a quest to learn all the secrets of the gods. So, you end up decapitating a magically endowed priest or whatever. "Oh no," you might say,"How ever shall I learn the secret now? OH WAIT." At this point you reanimate the head of the priest and trap his soul within it. Bent to your will, the priest has no choice but to give to you his secret.

You know, I imagine my dwarves reanimating my legendary armorcrafter and have his eyeless skull instruct newbie armorcrafter on how to make decent shields...

And if we take it to extreme, building whole galery of legendary teachers. Sometimes by arranging unfortunate accidents.

Head museums, just like from futurama. Except that our heads are undead monstrosities.

[Hitty40]

Will there be a way to become a leader of a civ in adventure/fort mode?

And maybe a possible 'marrage/family' system in adventure mode?

[MrWiggles]

Will there be a way to become a leader of a civ in adventure/fort mode?

And maybe a possible 'marrage/family' system in adventure mode?

Its a goal, but I dont think we're anywhere near being able to do that.

[Footkerchief]

Will there be a way to become a leader of a civ in adventure/fort mode?

And maybe a possible 'marrage/family' system in adventure mode?

It has been an explict dev goal:

# AFFILIATION ARC: You should be able to rise to the top of an entity (civilization, town, etc.) in adventure mode. While the full set of responsibilities that would entail will have to wait, it should at least be possible to attain this status for the first version. You should be able to do things for individuals. This could earn you favors from sleeping in their home and food gifts all the way to a marriage offer. There can be smaller entities like bandits and cults which could offer more unsavory tasks for similar privileges (steal, kill, kidnap, etc.). Can earn right to sleep in the large hall in town if you've become affiliated with them, but vagrancy needs to be punished and the camping must be harsher before this is meaningful.

# RELATIONSHIPS ARC: You should be able to take a spouse, make a household, and create playable heirs as an adventurer. The dwarven relationships and personalities can also be expanded upon.