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Author Topic: Could someone explain... The thread where we muse over what causes certain wtfs.  (Read 474790 times)

crazyabe

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A disk is what Armok runs the universe on, and most mortals cant comprehend it

what causes the game to make it so easy to avoid the sperm whales i drop in The O.T.A
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They ran out of bags and canceled the job; or, they can't path to the sand gathering area; or, they can't path to the glassmaker's workshop where the "gather sand" job is/was queued; or, plants grew on the designated sand gathering area and so they think it's not sand anymore.

It was none of those.  I had tons of bags (and no job cancellations), clear paths, a roaded sand collection area, a second sand collection area.  It seems to have been a profile problem.  The wiki says sand collection is unskilled item hauling, but it lies.  It doesn't get performed if the workshop with the sand collection jobs is restricted to non-glassmakers.

what causes the game to make it so easy to avoid the sperm whales i drop in The O.T.A

They're toying with you.  Haven't you ever read Moby Dick?

Why do moody dwarves keep stealing the parapalegic's private burrow restricted workshop?
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An inspired Dwarf is incapable of respecting anyone or anything.  Nothing personal, just a side-effect of creating an object which is literally indestructible.

Why do underground plants, where there is effectively zero temperature or PH variance, have seasonal restrictions, and surface crops do not?  Give me a patch of soil and I can grow Strawberries on a glacier.  But try growing Pigtails during 'Spring'?  Forget about it.

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Because "Seasons" in the underground are when certain types of insects and lizards are active, and all of the underground plants are carnivorous.


Why Is it not "Hot" In The HFS.
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Flame demons consume ambient heat to fuel themselves, keeping hell at a balmy 73 degrees.

Why won't any trees grow in hell, even if you get the slade muddy?

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For the same reason Slade can't be mined- it is an otherworldly stone, incapable of supporting natural life.

If that is true, why can I pasture my burrowing animals atop Slade, and they continue to happily nom on grubs and such?

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They're actually digging in the ether for said extradimentional bugs.

If slade can't support life, then why can cave moss and such grow on it when muddied?

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I said Slade can't support natural life.  Cave moss is clearly supernatural (or at least its' reproduction rate is).

On the subject of excessive digging; Why is it that Invaders never bring tunneling equipment?  I mean sure, no race can dig faster than Dwarves, but even Hippies must have something equivalent to a shovel.

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I said Slade can't support natural life.  Cave moss is clearly supernatural (or at least its' reproduction rate is).

On the subject of excessive digging; Why is it that Invaders never bring tunneling equipment?  I mean sure, no race can dig faster than Dwarves, but even Hippies must have something equivalent to a shovel.

Well, with the elves, they find the defacement of nature quite...  grim.  For the walking dead, they're kinda mindless undead that want brains, so there ya go.  As for the humans and goblins, I guess they don't like destroying good architecture.

Why are giants...  well, giant wusses?
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Because they're only big friendly giants that come to help save your Dwarve's dreams, when they're viciously attacked by said Dwarves.

Why is there no night time in Dwarf Fortress?
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Because they're only big friendly giants that come to help save your Dwarve's dreams, when they're viciously attacked by said Dwarves.

Why is there no night time in Dwarf Fortress?

Because the sun never sets on the glorious Dwarven Empire. Or something like that.

What are the chief criteria of becoming/being a Prophet of Armok?
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The criteria are: Knowing Armok, Being enslaved, killing three thousand elves, and Being dead twelve times over

what happens when you delete a save?
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The Armokalypse.

What happens when you copy a save?
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The Armokalypse.

What happens when you copy a save?

Everything Splits like an amoeba, and floats off to another place in the universe

What happens when a save gets corrupted?
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The Armokalypse.

What happens when you copy a save?

Everything Splits like an amoeba, and floats off to another place in the universe

What happens when a save gets corrupted?

The world is swallowed by the sun, like the Earth will be in about 5 billion years.

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Isn't Clown Land supposed to be made of slade?
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