i like how the forum litterally died the day dwarf fortress 2010 came out

the ACTUAL reason that carp are overpowered (as zoom has kind of stated) is that they were erroneously given a bite attack that does 1-6 damage.

As a frame of reference, the average creature's punch attack (dwarf, human, elf, etc) does 1-2 damage.

So carp are doing around 2.3 times as much damage as a full-grown human punch with each attack, plus bite attacks have additional flags that make them more deadly than punch attacks (such as [CAN_LATCH] which indicates the carp can bite and rip out chunks of flesh with a successful attack)

This, combined with the fact that by default, dwarves can't swim and dwarves frequent streams/rivers for fishing and drinking, makes for a very lethal combination.

A carp (even the skeletal variety) will still easily lose in combat to a practiced military dwarf, but on the odd chance that the dwarf dodges into a body of water and can't get out, it will still result in the death of said dwarf.

anyway I think zeke is a little nancy boy for not playing the new version. Sure it's bugged as hell and unliving creatures are basically invincible, but that's what dwarf fortress is all about.... Fun.

BONUS ROUND! Dwarf therapist with minimum functionality for the new version of DF: http://dwarftherapist.googlecode.com/files/DwarfTherapist-0.4.3.zip

 

"little nancy boy"?

The starting creature list after embarking on my last fortress before the update (was human and therefor build overground)

Anyway, since pickled is a MASSIVE HIPPIE i might try a long-term fortress just to defy him like some little kid, becouse i got a great urge to do so atm.

lol


edit: also that tool is win!

 

Waiting for decent graphic set....

 

maydays already included in one of the mirrors, but appears little broken to me

 

I nnneeeeed stonesense (the iso graphic interpreter) for the new version,
theirs no reason to build colossal stuff if you cant watch it in fancy pixel, iso graphics...

 

fix is out

 

is the mayday tileset now working? than i can finally try DF, not too fond of the standard ASCII...

 

Zeke fucking A how many pages did you search in google images to find this jesus...

 

"dwarf fortress+lulz"

first page, 7th pic.

 

what do you mean by working?
it was working for 01, so is the newest version for 02
if you had any graph problems, the solution was just to reaload the game

 

Well, I can say that I have now dug into a cavern after getting ready by only using the first couple of z-levels down, lots of webs, some corpses even, but nothing alive. It is somewhat terrifying, I don't know where the army of cavern dwellers is hiding out to kill all my dwarves, but I guess this is what legendary axedwarves are for.

 

There are living things down there.

For the sake of spoiling your experience, I won't tell you exactly what.

But you should probably go down there with a military instead of exploring with miners and peasants.

 

Their 2 two good looking tilesets out for the
new version mayday and another one.

Yeah theirs stuff down their that might fuck you up in seconds.

 

Carp?!

 

carp on steroids, with years of combat experience and mastery of elemental magic

 

I see, just someone said that it would be better to wait for a fix.

 

considering that if a noble die that position will disappear from ur list forever... that all unliving things are nearly immortal... a lot of weaponry and fight styles are downright useless... medic system being broken... sometimes labors are not available in the menus after embarking... etc...

i think the best option is to wait a wee bit.

well, atleast if you plan to make some big cool thing.

if ur plan is to make a quick fortress to just try out the patch, then go ahead lol.

 

Forgotten Beast just appeared down there, giant hairy lizard, curling trunk, long straight violet hair. Good thing I still haven't actually entered the cavern, just using the fact I know about it to grow tower-caps. It also happens to be the only living thing I have seen down there.

 

Lol, Goblin ambush met my awesome axedwarf, she killed all 6 of them, I don't know why they even tried.

 

some of the forgotten beasts got a quite unusual type of blood...

tip: AVOID IT AT ALL COST... (even walking in it)

you wont realise why untill its too late. :p