Dwarf Fortress Megathread! - Necro'd enough to count as a vampire

[Jacob/Lee]

but are ogres just big walls of meat for pummeling invaders?

Adult body size
6,000,000 cm³

Yes.
For comparison, goblins are 60,000 cm³ at full size and dwarves are the same. Humans are 70,000 cm³ full size, and humans are the biggest (in terms of size) civilized race.

Also, sometimes when I try to click things on the main page I end up downloading stuff, like index.gz. Why do I keep doing that?

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[Captain Crazy]

how do u start as goblin

[CIV_CONTROLLABLE]

Yes.
For comparison, goblins are 60,000 cm³ at full size and dwarves are the same. Humans are 70,000 cm³ full size, and humans are the biggest (in terms of size) civilized race.

oh holy

will there be any sort of seiges when going Goblin? or do the "good" races leave them alone?

[Jacob/Lee]

oh holy

will there be any sort of seiges when going Goblin? or do the "good" races leave them alone?

Natural hostility is determined through ethics I believe, and goblins are basically anarchists. This puts them at odds with other races and it's likely everything on the planet will be out to kill you.

[Captain Crazy]

Natural hostility is determined through ethics I believe, and goblins are basically anarchists. This puts them at odds with other races and it's likely everything on the planet will be out to kill you.

that should be interesting.

[Jacob/Lee]

Yeah, reading Toady's post on ethics and looking at the wiki a bit shows that hostility is pretty much always caused by ethics. I'll cut it short, if race A and B both have [ACCEPTABLE] for all matters (which isn't the case in the vanilla game) they'll be best buds during worldgen. However, if race A has [ACCEPTABLE] for everything and race B has [UNTHINKABLE] for everything then they'll be at each others throats all the time, I think. It seems wars can just randomly start as well, which is why you see humans and elves fighting despite their ethics being close enough to each other to keep them at peace.
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Ethic#Ethics_values
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=22151.msg240207#msg240207

   [ETHIC:KILL_ENTITY_MEMBER:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:KILL_NEUTRAL:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:KILL_ENEMY:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:KILL_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:KILL_PLANT:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:TORTURE_AS_EXAMPLE:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:TORTURE_FOR_INFORMATION:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:TORTURE_FOR_FUN:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:TORTURE_ANIMALS:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:TREASON:PUNISH_CAPITAL]
   [ETHIC:OATH_BREAKING:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:LYING:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:VANDALISM:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:TRESPASSING:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:THEFT:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:ASSAULT:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:SLAVERY:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_KILL:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]

Everything is either [ACCEPTABLE] or [PERSONAL_MATTER], which is likely to piss off every race in the vanilla game.

[Jacob 123456789]

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dwarf fortress the first time I played it

[Captain Crazy]

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dwarf fortress the first time I played it

i'd call you a scrub but I still don't know how to catch live animals

[Jacob/Lee]

i'd call you a scrub but I still don't know how to catch live animals

Cage traps.

[Captain Crazy]

DWARVEN PICKUP LINES:

- Baby, you make my helmet plump
- I'd like to detect your damp stone, if you know what I mean
- It is a dwarven booty. All craftdwarfship is of the highest level.

[Jacob/Lee]

Just got a dwarf that was nothing more than a novice comedian. 5 platinum bars says he told a stuffty joke and the leader felt sorry for him and let him come along.

[?]

Just got a dwarf that was nothing more than a novice comedian. 5 platinum bars says he told a stuffty joke and the leader felt sorry for him and let him come along.

What are you going to do to him?

[Jacob/Lee]

What are you going to do to him?

I've spared him his sixty-five years of uselessness and given him a job as a furnace operator. In a month he's collected more experience than the rest of his life put together.

Also, an armorer got a fey mood. HELL YES. Even though he's going to make a totally useless coarse iron piece we'll have a legendary armorer!

[nienhaus1]

Hey Jacob you should get on Steam.

[?]

If you make an adventure mode character, kill a bunch of people and rob a lot of things, and then retire and make a new character, will you be sent after the robber/murderer character eventually?

[Jacob/Lee]

*elves arrive to trade*
"Alright, we'll give you these for that thread for the hospital..."
"Once a beautiful tree, and now? It is a rude bauble, fit for only your kind."
*sees a wooden crutch in the list of items to trade*

Well, there goes your trade goods and right to live, bastards.