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[Urist McRas]

He plays hide-and-seek with my giant war tiger.

Why doesn't gelding use and train the surgeon skill?

[Foxite]

Gelders don't remove rots and stuff, surgeons do.

Why doesn't gelding produce an item?

[Magistrum]

Because dwarf fortress is family friendly when there aren't limbs flying everywhere.


Why do the mountain home keeps ordering mugs?

[UnicodingUnicorn]

They're starting to become more and more human.

Why isn't GCS blood blue?

[Tiruin]

Unlike trolls or other subterranean creatures, a GCS is both exposed to the aboveworld and is under the same zoological classification as other arachnids, only a lot bigger. Given that, its blood color--or ichor, in a somewhat more common term--shares the same details and characteristics as its minor cousins.

Why don't fortifications have 'roof's above them (that 'floor' tile in the next z-level)? [any pic as an idea for a representation too? That'd REALLY help)

[Arx]

They have irregular non-smooth tops:

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So dwarves can't stand on them. I imagine carved fortifications as being slits cut into the wall.

Unlike trolls or other subterranean creatures, a GCS is both exposed to the aboveworld and is under the same zoological classification as other arachnids, only a lot bigger. Given that, its blood color--or ichor, in a somewhat more common term--shares the same details and characteristics as its minor cousins.

But, but arachnids do have blue blood. Hemocyanin.


Why are my dwarves always entirely OK with sleeping under the stars for months while I slowly set up a fort?

[Tiruin]

Unlike trolls or other subterranean creatures, a GCS is both exposed to the aboveworld and is under the same zoological classification as other arachnids, only a lot bigger. Given that, its blood color--or ichor, in a somewhat more common term--shares the same details and characteristics as its minor cousins.

But, but arachnids do have blue blood. Hemocyanin.

((I know ._. but its not actually the same blue {in terms of a giant arachnid} we know and consider [ie that deep blue like the sea or the sky]...which is how I saw that question))

Your dwarves see the fort, and are pretty much alright because they know one day--they will get to live in a better place. Home, though slowly being built. (also thanks for the pic)


Why do Necromancers ambush at times instead of lay sieges all the time?

[Magistrum]

Because they know you leave all those corpses laying around, so why bring your own?


Why there is no lm666 IC?

[UnicodingUnicorn]

Same reason as the lack of a lm557 IC.

Why don't elves mind trading in a wooden trading depot?

[Quartz_Mace]

The don't want to, but Dwarves already occasionally hunt them for sport, so they let it slide for their safety.

Why do Elves load so much junk onto poor, poor pack animals and force them to travel miles by dragging them with ropes and leads? It is enslaving the very nature they so ruthlessly protect.

[Arcvasti]

Because most animals are unholy. They exist through the murder and destruction of innocent defenseless plants. Plants are holy because they harm no one and derive all sustenance from soil, water and sunlight. Therefore, as penance, animals are worked and killed for food for their sins.

Who is convection, and why is it sobbing over there in the corner?

[UnicodingUnicorn]

Meh, probably no one important.

What are the chances of DF turning out to be just an object lesson in the theory of relativity?

[Foxite]

Zero, considering that everything in DF is just a loose incoherent collection of kittens, dwarves, magma, and plump helmets.

Why does it take so much windmills in an array to power a pump stack?

[Button]

Zero, considering that everything in DF is just a loose incoherent collection of kittens, dwarves, magma, and plump helmets.

Why does it take so much windmills in an array to power a pump stack?

Because the game is punishing you for using windmills instead of Dwarven Perpetual Motion Generators.

Why don't dwarves ever play their instruments?

[UnicodingUnicorn]

Play? Oh, you mean caving someone's face in! Nah, we have hammers for that.

Why do dwarves kill Giant Toads without a second thought?