Dwarf Fortress

[sbr]

You playing the new version that just came out recently?

[MadImmortalMan]

Yes. It's missing the "all dwarves get the fuck inside" button, I noticed. Is there another way to accomplish the same thing? I hate when they run out to loot the corpses of their fallen brethren in the middle of a slaughterfest.

[Solmyr]

Turn off the "recover items from the dead"?

[MadImmortalMan]

Yeah I did that, but they still go out to hunt, fish, gather plants, whatever else.

The all dwarves inside command was easier.



Here's an interesting question--

I got an event that a huge angry weretortoise had shown up, and it started thankfully slaughtering some of my more useless mouths to feed out on the prairie. Then it just went away. I got a message that it had turned into a dwarf in the event log. A little while later, it came back and killed a few more dumb gatherers or something. Then it was gone again. Is this weretortoise one of my own dwarves transforming under the full moon? If so, how do I figure out which one?

[Solmyr]

DF has used burrows since last year's version to define areas where dwarves can and cannot go. So you can define a burrow to include your safe indoors areas and restrict the civilians to it during invasions. It's a bit complicated but versatile once you figure it out.

[fhdz]

huge angry weretortoise

I love DF.

[jimmy olsen]

Here's an interesting question--

I got an event that a huge angry weretortoise had shown up, and it started thankfully slaughtering some of my more useless mouths to feed out on the prairie. Then it just went away. I got a message that it had turned into a dwarf in the event log. A little while later, it came back and killed a few more dumb gatherers or something. Then it was gone again. Is this weretortoise one of my own dwarves transforming under the full moon? If so, how do I figure out which one?

Awesome!

[garbon]

Here's an interesting question--

I got an event that a huge angry weretortoise had shown up, and it started thankfully slaughtering some of my more useless mouths to feed out on the prairie. Then it just went away. I got a message that it had turned into a dwarf in the event log. A little while later, it came back and killed a few more dumb gatherers or something. Then it was gone again. Is this weretortoise one of my own dwarves transforming under the full moon? If so, how do I figure out which one?

Awesome!

That's not a very helpful answer.

[jimmy olsen]

Never played the game, I just find the AARs hugely entertaining.

[MadImmortalMan]

I ended up deciding to leave it alone in the hope that the lycanthropy would spread. Three others have since become monsters too. I hope to eventually have a fortress full of weretortoises that descends into a chaotic bloodbath once a month.

[MadImmortalMan]

Now that I have enough weretortoises to be able to figure out what they are doing, I'm noticing something cool. They don't get unhappy like the other dwarves do. What I think is happening is that every time they change form their needs all reset, so they are always happy even if they are starving and haunted by the ghosts of the dwarves they have brutally slain and whose stinking rotting corpses are fouling the hallways. I've been able to stave off a tantrum cascade so far, but I suspect the last dwarves standing in the event it all falls apart will be the lycanthro-turtles.

Makes me wonder if I can use them for some cool dwarfy shenanigans. Like trap one in the archery range for the marksdwarves to take pot shots at while he's transformed and train their skills up. He won't starve to death or anything. I could just chain him to the wall.

[MadImmortalMan]

Interesting note: Dwarves who had been weretortoises during life and went unburied after death to return as ghosts continue to periodically change form into ghostly weretortoises as they haunt your living dwarves. 

[Tonitrus]

As a werewolf, cleaning up after the hair is bad enough.  Dealing with the shell must be a bitch.

[fhdz]

Interesting note: Dwarves who had been weretortoises during life and went unburied after death to return as ghosts continue to periodically change form into ghostly weretortoises as they haunt your living dwarves. 

[Alcibiades]

Urge to re-download so strong