Dwarf Fortress

Copper bones would be no bueno.

Yeah, we really don't want the bones to be softer than the skin.

Yeah I thought of that after the fact. The Bones should be the toughest bronze the skin the softest and the rest of the parts according bronze bits. I could give it a copper brain and molten tin blood.

Well, regular bronze and bismuth bronze are identical for everything but value. Black bronze is slightly denser, and hardness is a mixed bag due to DF not just having a linear "hardness" value: basically, black bronze has a lower threshold for being bent or broken (through impact or cutting), but is bent less by attacks.
So attacks are less likely to glance off and do nothing, but it takes even more successful attacks to damage it.

Also, when looking through the material raws I say he listed molar mass. Why does he need molar mass?

I noticed that in the raws as well. I imagine it is in there for a as of yet unimplemented feature. What Molar Mass is for the curious

Black Bronze sounds excellent as bronze flesh then. The bones can be bismuth bronze and any organs I care to list can be regular bronze just for difference and flavor. Molten tin for blood. I like the idea of copper for the brain.

edited 12th Dec '10 5:14:51 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Ok replaced regular bronze with black bronze and it works more or less. Getting in bones and blood is going to be a bit trickier.

Tin used in the blood template as a liquid produces bronze titan n/a splatters.

However my current modification of replacing all but a handful of tokens makes it die like a giant.

edited 13th Dec '10 12:12:54 AM by TuefelHundenIV

So the danger room produces ludicrously competent soldiers. Somehow, a marsh titan squeezed into my fortificationed-off well, and I sent one axe squad over. Two guys beat it down before the entire squad even got dressed.

My fortress is way too hardcore; I don't even know what to do. Like they've been using bolts made of goblin bone to shoot other goblins in the throat, and the trade depot will instantly flood with magma at the pull of a lever. I don't really feel like digging down yet because I don't want to open up more objects to keep track of.

Maybe I should start culling the weaker ones. Anyone have ideas? I was thinking maybe a gauntlet of repeating spikes.

-_- bah I lost the file I was working on for living metal golem.

Hmm...my cousin is thinking about getting into Dwarf Fortress after finals. Advice?

Tell him to look at other playthroughs in Fortress Mode to see if playing it interests him enough to try a tutorial, and if it doesn't just try Adventure Mode.

So here I am playing a fort in the same world my adventure was running around in.

I am doing ok working on getting water for my indoor farm. I have cage traps to dissuade unwelcome guests.

I get three different trade caravans. Dynasorai, High Elves, and regular elves. The First two set up in the depot. Then all of a sudden they start a war in my trading area murdering each other. The elves cam out on top and left with an elephant and two party members. No sooner do they leave then then map then not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE ambushes happen at once.

One dinorasari, two bug men, and two goblin. They proceed to murder the merry hell out of each other outside my gates. A couple try to get in my front door but the cage traps stop them. Soon its only about 5 goblins as the rest have been isolated on the other side of a river. All but one gets caught.

He makes it through my iron bridge/door just before it closes and proceeds to raise hell. My war beetles then find him and pull him limb from limb but not before he gets nerves ripped up and a foot cut off by a pissed off miner. Oh the regular elves got run down the dynosari ambushers. I have a fields worth of free stuff and bodies I have to bury.

edited 13th Dec '10 10:59:01 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Can you make stuff from elf bone/flesh/skin?

bone maybe the other stuff I do not know.

Also, did anyone read the blog post today. It was very to-the-point:

• You can now shear wool.
• 16 new domestic animals.
• Eggs, vegetable oil, and clay are coming.

VEGETABLE OIL!? Finally, my prayers have been answered!

We're currently making as to what those 16 new animals are when he's previously only mentioned pigs, sheep, and chicken, though it's likely some will be Horse of a Different Color.

My guess:

• Rabbits
• Honey bees
• Ostriches

Very cool. Now when we can use burning oil as a weapon :P

edited 13th Dec '10 11:38:39 PM by TuefelHundenIV

WARBEEEEES!

Dwarf Fortress: where any and all advances will be weaponized and used to kill elves.

So i put the unliked dwarves, unarmed and unarmored, in the death pit to beat up any goblin prisoners I threw in, but since they had numbers and didn't have broken bones or weren't impaled on spikes, none of them sustained anything more than a bruise.

I should not disarm the prisoners next time.

Nah then you just get an elite cadre of unarmed combat dwarves. Then in the next siege send them charging out wildly in the buff.

I swear this fort is at the crux of a war zone. I have had up to four ambushes at once from four different factions. TWO invasions from two factions an ambushes during the invasion with other factions and they all slugged it out out side my fort.

I just tried reclaiming the fort...5 armies were busy making a very bloody mess of the place.

I think it is time to see if I can bring my Master swords out of retirement and gather a crew of soldiers fast enough to march on the fort and kill everyone around it.

edited 14th Dec '10 3:02:41 AM by TuefelHundenIV

Tuef, what mod are you playing? That sounds crazy!

Civilization Forge.

I usually only have to worry about gobbos and the occasional pissed off bugman trader.

Literally can not reclaim the site because there are five full invasions duking it out on top of the fort.

My adventurer and a small contingent arrive to find this.

edited 14th Dec '10 3:38:20 AM by TuefelHundenIV

Hoooo EE. Well, at least you have plenty of materials to work with.

Some of them look like cabinets, slabs, and chests but that is misleading because I use the mayday pack. They are in fact invaders of multiple varieties. While touring the battle field I found Human military, Gobblin, Sand raider, dynasorai, Xelic bugmen, Dark Dwarves, Regular dwarves, and regular elves. And arrows, blood, bits, and weapons every where.

edited 14th Dec '10 10:54:11 AM by TuefelHundenIV