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[☼!!Troll Fur Sock!!☼]

Dwarves think?
However, their beards and cats (secondary brains... In case of cats, ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROLL) probably appreciate them. If it improves the surviving % of dwarves, new victims, yay!




Why necromancers either don't come, or come with 200 zombies, while other players get 30-70 waves most of the time? ;_;
And why do my dwarves cancel building the traps saying that job item was misplaced? I'm not sure how can you misplace a damn boulder. And a mechanism, when there are thousands of them at the stockpiles.

[Bihlbo]

Why is it so hard to spot an ambush from a distance? The bastards have to be right next to anything to get spotted, it seems.

[Proudnerd]

Because the kobolds imitate dogs until they get close enough to hit you. Only then do your dwarves realize they aren't dogs. Elves just cut off the tops of their ears, tie grass to their chins and crouch walk so they look like dwarves until they get close enough to attack.


Why are feet so easy to hit compared to everything else?

[misko27]

Bit of actual science on hit zones. The quote had the link.

Hit zones

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Why do dwarves feel the need to repeatedly remind me that yes, they are digging next to a warm tile?

[imperium3]

They are dropping subtle hints that they want a beach holiday.

Why doesnt magma have pressure?

[shadenight123]

Because Magma...chills.
(Hooooooooo)

Why do caravans never understand they should come with more armed guards? Since I never 'cleanse' the ambushes?

[Urist McRas]

Those are not caravans, those are reconnaissance parties disguised as caravans.

Nobody seems to answer this:

Why necromancers either don't come, or come with 200 zombies, while other players get 30-70 waves most of the time? ;_;
And why do my dwarves cancel building the traps saying that job item was misplaced? I'm not sure how can you misplace a damn boulder. And a mechanism, when there are thousands of them at the stockpiles.

[Larix]

Sorry, we don't serve zombies here.

Re: caravans - blame the dispatchers. Paying the fees to widows/widowers and orphans is cheaper than hiring enough guards.

Magma's density is close to that of solid stone, well over twice of that of water. Real-world living creatures will float or barely sink in water. How come creatures in DF can sink all the way down a lava pipe? How dense do they have to be? (O.k., that sort of answers the question for dwarfs, but kittens in the game still sink, i've tried.)

[Urist McRas]

Dwarven physics. Since magma doesn't have pressure, it doesn't create Archimedes force. Hence things don't float in magma regardless of dense.

Why don't dwarven child go to some sort of school?

[Akura]

How many dwarves do you see with the Teacher skill?


Why did it take so long for my dwarves to start training the first batch of Semi-Wild emu chicks?

[Cuddles]

Why the hell can I not build fortifications or walls on a constructed floor?
this is stupid.

[☼!!Troll Fur Sock!!☼]

Why did it take so long for my dwarves to start training the first batch of Semi-Wild emu chicks?

Taming wild dwarven chicks was higher priority
I SO had to.

Why the hell can I not build fortifications or walls on a constructed floor?
this is stupid.

Fortifications are little more than stuff placed in such a way so you can duck behind it if you see an projectile incoming. And they are so high that you can't just jump over them, and even FB can use them as cover...
Conclusion: They are high pillars of stone.
A high pillar would just wall over if it wasn't dug in the ground or attached to holes or stuff carved in the cavern floor.
*science*


How the hell would a dwarf survive a beard amputation? (planned for justice system)
On a side note... If the beard works like a secondary brain, that would explain why every single mage in fantasy has one that almost reaches his knees...

[Cuddles]

So something kinda bizarre just happened.

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I think my entire fortress just started raiding the caravan which just arrived of hospital supplies.

It looks like they're all carrying thread, cloth, or what-have-you.
I don't know what the hell happened here.
Oh, it looks like they lifted approximately 1,800,000 units of cloth.
So that seems to be... about 180 pieces of cloth. All fitting into one chest by the way, which I find retarded and hilarious.
What the fuck is going on here.

[Eric Blank]

You put a chest in the hospital, that's what's going on. There's some bug which causes dwarves to assign all of the cloth/thread they can get their hands on to the hospital, which leaves none for your clothing industry. They'll also steal all your adamantine threads before they can be forged into wafers.

[Cuddles]

You put a chest in the hospital, that's what's going on. There's some bug which causes dwarves to assign all of the cloth/thread they can get their hands on to the hospital, which leaves none for your clothing industry. They'll also steal all your adamantine threads before they can be forged into wafers.

Yes but the issue is that they're stealing from a caravan.
Like they ran out to the caravans while they were coming in and just systematically stole every bit of cloth on them.