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redmenace.uk

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i can assign a dwarf as a dungeon lord but cant seem to find out what he does..trawled the internet but cant find a thing please help cheers in advance
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Re: WTF is a dungeon lord....dwarf fortress query....help please
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2011, 01:32:18 pm »

the dungeon master tames and trains exotic animals, he also steals and wears all of your cloaks.
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Re: WTF is a dungeon lord....dwarf fortress query....help please
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2011, 01:36:49 pm »

thanks for the quick reply m8 yr a legend .... ;] on with the fort.....thanks again
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Re: WTF is a dungeon lord....dwarf fortress query....help please
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2011, 02:17:11 pm »

In the vanilla version of Dwarf Fortress, the Dungeon Master does nothing.  He never shows up at all, and can't be appointed.

If you are seeing an option to appoint a dungeon master, then you've installed a mod.  What the Dungeon Master does then will depend on what mod you've installed.  What he doesn't do is train exotic animals - that function is broken even if you mod the game so he can be manually installed.  He also won't steal and wear every cloak in the fortress.  That was a quirk from an old version that has been gone from the game for a while.

Most likely he'll demand nice rooms and then pass random production mandates, like a mayor or duke that doesn't do anything useful.
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Re: WTF is a dungeon lord....dwarf fortress query....help please
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2011, 05:42:59 am »

In the vanilla version of Dwarf Fortress, the Dungeon Master does nothing.  He never shows up at all, and can't be appointed.

If you are seeing an option to appoint a dungeon master, then you've installed a mod.  What the Dungeon Master does then will depend on what mod you've installed.  What he doesn't do is train exotic animals - that function is broken even if you mod the game so he can be manually installed.  He also won't steal and wear every cloak in the fortress.  That was a quirk from an old version that has been gone from the game for a while.

Most likely he'll demand nice rooms and then pass random production mandates, like a mayor or duke that doesn't do anything useful.
Thanks m8 very informative cheers....:]
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