Dwarf Fortress Succession Game III:Jawmetal

Maybe not, but it's easy to lose track of that stuff, plus you can lose control of the fire and lose to lag death via keeping track of the fires spreading.

A lot of the reason that Masterwork cuts lag is because it drops a lot of the stuff the game keeps track of. You can't store wombat meat and dingo meat in the same barrel. But it doesn't matter when all meat is the same. It also simplifies wood down to just wood.

But all of that is optional.

Lava doesn't seem to be too much of an issue as long as it is not flowing. The problems though with a lava moat is if anything that doesn't melt falls in it becomes a pain to fish out.

The big problem with lava is that it causes HUGE amounts of temperature jitter.

There's a bunch of threads over on Bay 12 about how to pump magma in a way that minimizes FPS losses, if you're interested.

edited 4th Aug '13 3:22:37 PM by Archereon

I have heard mention of the MAGMA CON CARNE?

Since we've delved into abbreviations again, perhaps I could supply a few?

MAGNET (What I've got is Magma-Augmented Goon Neutralizer for Every Threat)

WATERMILL (Water-Augmented Tool Enriching Riches via Magma Induction Like Life)

I can't think of any more, but if you guys needed names for megaprojects involving water or magma, here ya go!

You know, sometimes I can't help but think what the forts would look like as adventure maps in Minecraft. I'd love to explore those.

Goddamn, Azreal, that's a great idea. Actually, if someone could try getting me Beigeknife pre-"Everything gets fucked up by the Circus", broken into layers, I could at least try to make a reproduction of Beigeknife, minus the atom crushers and pieces of awesome dorf technology

I know nothing of how either EG or Minecraft store their worlds, but shouldn't there be some way to automate that?

IIRC there was a tool that converted DF forts into Minecraft maps.

Hell yes.

Don't get too excited. It is limited and hasn't been updated in a while.

edited 5th Aug '13 7:33:32 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Just woke up after getting home from my wisdom teeth extraction. I wonder how sucessful a fort can be if the overseer is doped up on painkillers? Anyway, I think the next few days of having to do absolutely nothing except eat ice cream and play DF are going to be quite interesting.

Very successful. Very, very successful.

Doped up on painkillers? I think instead of Fun, you're going to have FUN.

If I knew how to legitimately play Dwarf Fortress as opposed to trying to figure everything out by winging it on an ancient laptop, I'd try that on a day off.

There is (or was) a drunk fortress thread on Bay 12 where to be Overseer you had to be drunk (insert some Captain Obvious joke) and had to pass on the save file as soon as you sobered up. I can't recall how it ended.

Again, if I could figure out this godforsaken interface, I'd get mindbendingly blitzed and try that.

It's the micromanagement that kills me, not the interface.

In my case, it's how quick to build is what mangles me, at least when goblins and undead are involved. I just can't seem to develop the fort quick enough to thwart the 'blins, yet also have a trade depot lockable when necessary to the cave.

I didn't even get to the point where micromanagement would run me over x.x

D is for anything you can do by Digging. B is for anything you have to construct.

I have started up a new fort. I think my dwarves in this one are acting the part of a shut-in. The Plan was that I would make all the items for a happy hellhole first, then start worrying about trade goods. There were just too many migrants, though, and I couldn't get ahead of the coffer curve. So now five years into the fort and I have no idea what the Fort's worth, because my broker's never actually brokered anything.

I do have a squad with steel weapons and armor, though, so that's good.

Journal of G.A.R, Adamantine Chef Apparently, the people who had proposed Beigeknife were at it again, plotting out a new experiment with the gracious dwarven population. There’s nothing like the feeling of fresh continuity – the possibilities are open once more! In the meantime, I had joined in a similar experiment, assisting the furries with their town planning, and more recently escaped exasperating encounters with the – well, actually, I don’t want to even mention it again. Dredging up painful memories, you see.

Moving on: '''Gatalushtul, or “Jawmetal”, the year 255:'''◊ Apparently, the dwarf with whom I shall interact with everyone is female, and is both empathic and uncreative. I should look for something inspiring… The first thing I found out when I looked through the fort was that its official name was not “Jawmetal”, but “Bustpaged” instead. I don’t know what caused that oversight, but since we have an official Hammer-er and no other judiciary, I have more important things to do.

Here we have a view of our volcano’s crater.◊ At twenty-four… units of measurement above sea level, I wish I knew if it received a name. If not, I propose “The Ceiling of Heat”, since dwarven names always seem to need to include some reference to furnishings.

Just South of the Ceiling of Heat lies the courtyard,◊ facing West, with a drawbridge functioning as a sort of giant makeshift door to our entire town. Without so much as a hallway, I immediately see our stockrooms, farms, a communal dormitory, and a dining room that apparently seats 8. One storey directly beneath it, and further North, around the volcano, lie the surprisingly large deposits of that dangerous ore.◊ Beneath that, not pictured, we have our presumably brand-new hospital with its own nearby well. Very well-designed; very secure.

I also see, pictured below,◊ the reason why no pictures have been made public before. Infinitus, currently the mayor of Bustpaged, has sunk much time and effort into giving himself royal furnishings, with a large food and drink stockpile in his personal dining room. I expect a tantrum when he’s inevitably thrown out of office and forced to relocate.

The military training room◊ is further below ground (five floors, to be exact), which I plan to expand. Its dormitory is currently haunted by one of Bustpaged’s ten ghosts. That cannot be good for morale.

One floor below said dormitory, we come to the mortuary. It currently has almost a dozen unclaimed coffins, which I plan to expand to include a hall of headstones, and some cheap sarcophagi for dead pets. It has actually been so long since I last read about the town itself that I feel as if it’s been neglected. I shall keep everyone informed as the year progresses.

Yeah, I probably should've said more about the stuff I did with the structure of the fort, I'd actually forgotten I'd built us a hospital, it just seemed to be part of something you do when you establish a military presence in DF.

While building a ridiculous palace for the mayor may seem a bit wasteful, should Jawmetal become a barony and so on, it'll be a good way to stop "bad thoughts" from the Baron. Plus, we now have adamantine armored soldiers; I'd recommend you make weapons and armor for the squad of sword dwarves I was prepping for duty when I ran out of time.

Bustpaged does not sound as cool as Jawmetal. I vote we ignore this "real" name.