Dwarf Fortress

I want to make guns and dwarven snipers

1: It is just modifying the text files, but that's 'easy' like an elephant is 'benign'. It can be, if you know what you're doing.

2: Guns, unfortunately, have been proven to not work. You can't change firing speed, and the bullet can basically only bruise the skin and muscle, save for the lucky headshot or critical hit, which can gib them.

Then again, it's been said that nothing is impossible for Dorf Fort, only more difficult to figure out...

There is a fallout mod with guns in it.

I've been reading up on the forums and they seemto have had some success. I'll need to read up more

Ok Finally got the kinks worked out of the first stage of Bio Metal Colossus. Problem is the bastard is still tough as nails even with the black bronze in place of standard bronze. I will begin testing various metals to see if any are a bit more reasonable. The test was still a 15-20 minute battle in the vanilla test arena. I am looking for a softer metal. I will test tin next and see how it goes. I may just make it the Living Metal Colossus instead of a bio metal bronze colossus.

Modding Dwarf Fortress is easy, what's hard is getting the mod to work.

So far the easiest thing to mod is the weapons and ammo.

I think I have figured out what makes most weapons spin. They have two different damage types like spears have stabbing and beating with the stave end which is why they "spin" when thrown instead of fly at the target. I compared this with arrows which only have one damage type.

edited 25th Dec '10 11:31:42 AM by TuefelHundenIV

Nope that is not what does it. its being ammo that does it go figure. Incidentally I was goofing around and my file got corrupted. Lesson: do not forget your back up's Tuefel.

So much for the Wommera and the javelins. I will make the disks again those were kinda fun and gave me a good excuse to have a throwing skill other then random stuff.

I'm considering modding black bears to hunt vermin so I can throw away all my cats. I've already modes hem to e trainable without the DM, so as of right now, I've got at least 10 war bears to use.

I keep saying this, but my newest fort is even more badass than the last. The maze is longer and has 5 ballista firing down it. It ends at a pressure plate triggering a war dog/bear nuke and a small arena for one legendary squad. A second legendary squad camps under the maze to catchfalling goblins. The third legendary squad hides behind a fake wall at the fort's entrance that I drop down when the siegerstarter to retreat.

One of my guys has 29 kills. He wields the Maze of Glories, a steel axe, and his title is the Ashen Hand of Conflict. I want to adventure as him.

There are certain ways, either through bugs or dfusion, to switch character you are playing as.

I had to abandon my fortress. Due to bad planning I had a good thirty dwarves starving and doing nothing.

Things to remember for next time:

1) Dorfs migrate in larger numbers in the spring. 2) Don't bother getting dorfs their own bedrooms until you have time to plan such things out. 3) Make underground farms immediately.

I'd been shying away from swords because it's the weapon practically every game possible already lets or even requires you to use, but decided to take another crack at it. To make it even more extreme, I decided not to use a shield this time, because if you can force your adventure to parry instead of block they'll learn even faster.

The first three failed miserably because of improper measures taken against archers (didn't help that two of them had to face camps where archers consisted of more than half the forces).

The most recent has decent success against bandits by Dual Wielding a short sword and long sword (the former being used to almost always have a free sword for parrying if the other gets stuck), but really found his calling with night demon slaying with a 2-handed sword: it was pretty cool when he was cutting people up, but now he's like motherfucking Guts with literally every slash taking off a night demon limb. They also all connected, though that was sort of lucky because the crashed into a wall when it failed a charge (giving a free back attack) then made the mistake of grappling the swordsman (preventing either from dodging) while the second stupidly spent all its time attacking my Maceman.

Spears and pikes are not bad either. A nice pike blow does a lot of horrible damage.

I am disappointed that the only reason my dorfs engraved ten thousand pictures of some human named Emoth Grizzlecombined was that he made a pilgrimage to the area where my fortress was. I was hoping for a more exciting story than that.

Emoth did have an exciting life, leading successful campaigns against goblins every year (not counting a couple years of pilgrimaging) as the lawgiver for his home. He ended up getting killed by a troll.

I need to make a hall of engravings sometime.

Is there a way to automatically not show engravings? I like making them, but having my dining hall suddenly be covered in the letter U looks like it's covered in corpses...

My swordsmen finally became my second adventurer with a title: Tukstis Mushroommountains the Skirts of Certainty!

UGH, at least the last one was stupid in a funny way. And to add insult to injury, this is one of my few male adventurers.

I tend to just engrave walls so I don't have to deal with weird symbols on the floor. Otherwise, I think you can designate an area to hide engravings with the designations menu.

I know there's a designation option, but I was wondering if hiding engravings could be made default...

Edit: The answer is yes, there's an option in d_init.

edited 31st Dec '10 1:01:34 PM by Funnyguts

editing d_int is your friend. Also in your world files you can pretty much nuke bogey men forever. I found out there are apparently a limited number of night creatures. So I am guessing if you manage to kill all the night creatures you won't fear the night, the night will fear you.

So I am guessing if you manage to kill all the night creatures you won't fear the night, the night will fear you.

I'm nominating that for the quotes page.

Also, what numbers are we talking about? Dozens, hundreds?

When I was tinkering with it I noticed it was different for each world just like the mega beasts. In one world I had 15, another 22, another over 55 (this is the on my adventurer is in)

I should note Gensis game worlds with anything above middle savagery are horrifically brutal. 12 dead adventurer's and a bandit army later I had a legendary hero with over 74 unique kills. That was a pretty hellacious string of quests. There were a few camps that were almost back to back. I would be fighting and stumble into the next camp and stir them up there. -_- I hate deon's desert elves. But I love throwing copper hand axes and sun gold sickle bladed swords at them :3

I need to experiment with loading up that world and deliberately drawing out the night creatures and killing some via various methods and then checking the worlds night creature count after I save and see if it changed at all.

Also folks if you want to know how to do something check out Deon's mods. He has the Fallout Mod (it has guns) and his Gensis mod they are chock full of various useful ways of doing code contained in the mod including custom reactions.

edited 31st Dec '10 4:28:45 PM by TuefelHundenIV

You've sponsored the gila monster! I remember when I was down in Arizona, wandering through the desert on a family vacation growing up, and there one was, trying to scamper up a pebbly slope! One of my earlier animal memories.

I am also a champion. I will post my ASCII story once I get it.

Funnyguts has been ecstatic lately.

This month's report is up.

Damn, Toady did pretty well this year: about $54,501.15 (nearly $22,000 more than the previous year), more than $16,000 and $9,000 from April and December alone.

edited 1st Jan '11 2:48:03 PM by thatother1dude

Yeah, he's making a shitload of ca- Wait, damn, I hope he has a part time job, that's not nearly enough to pay for a house and such.

edited 1st Jan '11 2:49:42 PM by Hydrall