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[WanderingKid]

Recycling is the dwarven way.  Just ask the goblinite.

Speaking of... how do I recycle goblins without necromancy?

[wierd]

Use a mummy. It's different!

Why are humans so gullible about escaped clowns, that they feel compelled to worship them like gods, when all the other races, excepting goblins, can see right through the ruse?

[acetech09]

Use a mummy. It's different!

Why are humans so gullible about escaped clowns, that they feel compelled to worship them like gods, when all the other races, excepting goblins, can see right through the ruse?

Ergonomics. Elves and dwarves get tired of looking up at such a high angle. Humans are tall enough that it works out OK, and goblins don't care about pain for it is the lifeblood of a warrior. Dwarves make their gods real by looking down at their current engraving, not looking (way, way, way) up at a demon.

Why can't we use magma buckets?

[shinyarceus4]

Because the buckets repel all magma, like soap repels water.

Why do no dwarves worship Armok?

[Baffler]

They feel it's best not to attract his attention.

How were the Forgotten Beasts made?

[wierd]

No one remembers! That's why they are forgotten!

If alcohol dehydrates you, why don't dwarves dry out like raisins, given that they only use the well to wash (infrequently), and only drink water when there is no alcohol?

[WanderingKid]

Because dwarves are simply pickled to the point that they won't dehydrate from further pickling.

Why oh why do pressure plates have to have delays to the things they're attached to?

[Imp]

Everything, including pressure plates, has to run the full course of adamantine circuitry - takes no set up, but adamantine is a long and slow circuit just the way it is.  All 'newly built' circuitry just hooks into this and inherits the existing rate.

Moving that adamantine might disrupt the circuitry inside, enough to risk further increasing delays.


Why do vamps wait until a target is sleeping in order to feed, instead of using some of their superior abilities to just 'take' what they want from any weak-seeming available dwarf or animal?  After all, it's not -that- hard to knock something out through pain if nothing else, without to much risk of killing it, should you avoid striking the head.

[wierd]

Paranoia. They are afraid that somebody will see, hear, or worse, REPORT that they were assaulted, or that the vampire was assaulting someone/thing.

More to the point, why don't vampires volunteer for military service, and "eat and run" during sieges? Surely, the dwarven civ would actually DESIRE having vampires around if they only actively went after invaders?

[dresdor]

not a WTF but are horn and hooves useful for anything

[WanderingKid]

More to the point, why don't vampires volunteer for military service, and "eat and run" during sieges? Surely, the dwarven civ would actually DESIRE having vampires around if they only actively went after invaders?

Because even dwarven vampires know that fast food is bad for them.

(Horns and Hooves: Bone carved trinkets)

While we're pondering our vampiric friends, I'm down for a good meal as much as the next guy but how do these guys actually stay alive so long?  They've got THE most voracious appetites I've ever seen.

[Urist Mcfortwrecker]

the blood isn't to maintain their immortality, it's to maintain their youth, because 892 year olds look UUUUUGLLY

why can't cartilage and nervous tissue be turned into useful things?

[WanderingKid]

They can, you just need to add SHELL to the raws. 

No matter how much I plan, my minecart systems always seem to end up as dwarven grinder systems... why don't my goblin grinder systems ever work this well?

[Mr Space Cat]

You don't plan the dwarven grinder minecart systems out in a high goblin-trafficking area. Throw more goblins at it and -boom- it's a goblin grinder.

Why do goblins build and live in towers?

[Larix]

Their demonic overlords like a throneroom with a view.
(nitpick: in-game, goblin locations are normally called 'dark fortress')

Why does a legendary axelord/teacher take longer training up two axedwarfs than he'd take to train a hammer- and a speardwarf?