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Sutremaine

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Some accidental science on the range of the 'witnessed death' thought
« on: October 19, 2011, 08:37:10 pm »
I ordered the atomsmasher lever pulled before all the dumping was done. Coincidence then led me to see just who was traumatised by the death.

1. Dwarves do need line of sight to have the bad thought. Hearing death doesn't faze them.
2. Range for the bad thought is estimated at nine tiles from the one on which the death occurs.
3. The impassible tiles of workshops don't block line of sight?



Dwaves with a yellow background were traumatised. The red tile is the one the dwarf was standing on.
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Quote from: fivex on March 07, 2011, 02:37:19 am
I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
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Honestly at the time, I didn't see what could go wrong with crowding 80 military Dwarves into a small room with a necromancer for the purpose of making bacon.

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Re: Some accidental science on the range of the 'witnessed death' thought
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2011, 08:41:58 pm »
Exploits in adventure mode have assured me that workshop tiles do NOT block sight, but they block movement.

Thus, my dining hall shall be 19 wide.  1 tile for splatter and 9 surrounding tiles for viewing.  Maximum desecration levels.
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Re: Some accidental science on the range of the 'witnessed death' thought
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2011, 08:44:55 pm »
I imagined they functioned rather like statues in that respect, but when I googled to try and check if statues actually allowed LOS I spent a couple of hours reading SCP entries. Damn them and their love of creepy inanimate objects.
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Quote from: fivex on March 07, 2011, 02:37:19 am
I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
Quote from: Loud Whispers on July 22, 2012, 03:32:08 pm
Honestly at the time, I didn't see what could go wrong with crowding 80 military Dwarves into a small room with a necromancer for the purpose of making bacon.

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Re: Some accidental science on the range of the 'witnessed death' thought
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2011, 08:47:14 pm »
Statues do not block line of sight.  They act like fortifications - you can see through them and shoot through them, and they don't block fluid flow.  They just block creatures from pathing through them.
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Re: Some accidental science on the range of the 'witnessed death' thought
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2011, 08:52:56 pm »
I assume more like wall grates then, in that allow fire from any range?
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