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v0.34:Bookkeeper

2012-11-14T19:30:38Z

HiEv: That's not really a "d for dwarf" thing

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{{Noble
|noble=Bookkeeper
|office=Meager Office
|arrival=Appointed on the [[nobles screen]].
|function=
* Accurate accounting of [[stocks]] and [[wealth]].
}}

The '''bookkeeper''' is an appointed [[noble]] who updates the [[stocks]] and [[wealth|created wealth]] screens with more accurate information. The bookkeeper needs to work in an [[office]] to do this job. The bookkeeper uses the [[record keeper]] skill, which grants the profession [[clerk]].

The desired level of accuracy can be set in the {{key|s}}ettings menu from the {{key|n}}obles screen (when the bookkeeper is highlighted). To increase above the lowest level of accuracy, the bookkeeper needs a [[office|meager office]]. He must work not only to attain an accuracy level, but also to maintain it. When first assigned, a bookkeeper spends a long time creating a full list of the stocks, but once done, it takes only a bit of time to maintain this level of detail (even at maximum quality), so most of Urist McBookkeeper's time can eventually be assigned somewhere else.

A dwarf cannot update stockpile records if he loses his ability to grasp, as dwarven mathematics revolves around counting on one's fingers.

{{gamedata|[POSITION:BOOKKEEPER]
[NAME:bookkeeper:bookkeepers]
[SITE]
[NUMBER:1]
[RESPONSIBILITY:ACCOUNTING]
[APPOINTED_BY:EXPEDITION_LEADER]
[APPOINTED_BY:MAYOR]
[PRECEDENCE:180]
[DO_NOT_CULL]
[COLOR:5:0:0]
[DUTY_BOUND]
[REQUIRED_OFFICE:1]}}

{{Nobles}}
{{Category|Appointed Nobles}}

v0.34:Gem

2012-11-14T19:23:46Z

HiEv: /* Gem Cuts */ Alphabetized list

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Small clusters of rough '''gems''' can be found almost anywhere while [[mining]]. After they have been mined by a [[miner]] and cut by a [[gem cutter]], a [[gem setter]] can use them to [[encrust]] [[furniture]], [[crafts]], and [[ammunition]]. In addition, raw [[rock crystal]]s are required to make crystal glass goods. '''Cut gems''' can also be used to create [[window]]s and are often required as a source material for [[legendary artifact]]s. Gem encrusted [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be found in game, but cannot be made in fortress mode. Stones, including the various types of clay, can also be cut into gems.

The majority of these gems can be brought by and requested from the dwarven caravan, in both cut and rough form. Humans are capable of bringing [[glass]] gems, also in both forms.

Sometimes, rough gems will be cut into [[craft]]s or '''large gems'''. Note that these will ''replace'' a cut gem and cannot be used to encrust goods. The value of such crafts can easily reach hundreds, even thousands depending on the gem. A dwarf with a [[strange mood]] can take a single gem and cut it into a [[legendary artifact]] known as a perfect gem. They function much like large gems.

If you have any bags of sand, you can also manufacture [[Glass|raw glass]], which is the same as a lower-value, uncut gem.

[http://imgur.com/ML6w2 Gizzard stones] can also be found as a by-product of butchering animals, and appear to function like cut gems. It has not yet been confirmed if gizzard stones can be found in domesticated or surface animals.

== Value ==
Gems have base [[value]] of 3 in rough form, which is multiplied by the appropriate value modifier from the table below. They gain value after they are cut in a [[jeweler's workshop]]. Cut gems have a base value of 5. Items can be decorated (encrusted) with cut gems; all such decorations have a value of 10 times the gem type's value multiplier. See [[Gem cutting]] and [[Gem setting]]. Large gems have a base value of 10, and can also have a [[quality]] modifier which increases value.

== Varieties ==
Gems come in many varieties, with their own color and value multipliers:
{{Gem table head}}

{{Gem table row|rarity=[[#Glass|Synthetic]]|name=[[green glass]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=[[Glass furnace]]|fhow=Manufactured}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=[[#Glass|Synthetic]]|name=[[clear glass]]|value=5|color={{Raw Tile|☼♦|3:0}}3:0|fwhere=[[Glass furnace]]|fhow=Manufactured}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=[[#Glass|Synthetic]]|name=[[crystal glass]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=[[Glass furnace]]|fhow=Manufactured}}

{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[amber opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[aventurine]]|value=3|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[banded agate]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[bloodstone]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[blue jade]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|1:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|1:1}}1:1|fwhere=[[Alluvial]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[bone opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:0}}7:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[brown jasper]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[carnelian]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[cherry opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:1}}4:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[chrysocolla]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|3:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|3:1}}3:1|fwhere=[[Malachite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[chrysoprase]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:1}}2:1|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[citrine]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[clear tourmaline]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:0}}7:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Sedimentary]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[dendritic agate]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:0}}7:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[fire agate]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[fortification agate]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[gold opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[gray chalcedony]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:0}}7:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[jasper opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[lace agate]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|1:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|1:1}}1:1|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[lapis lazuli]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|1:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|1:1}}1:1|fwhere=[[Igneous intrusive]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[lavender jade]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:0}}5:0|fwhere=[[Alluvial]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[milk opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[milk quartz]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[moonstone]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[morion]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|0:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|0:1}}0:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[moss agate]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[moss opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[onyx opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[onyx]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|0:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|0:1}}0:1|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[picture jasper]]|value=3|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[pineapple opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[pink jade]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:1}}5:1|fwhere=[[Alluvial]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[pipe opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[plume agate]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[prase opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[prase]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[pyrite]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[resin opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[rock crystal]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[rose quartz]]|value=3|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:1}}4:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[sardonyx]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[sard]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[schorl]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|0:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|0:1}}0:1|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Sedimentary]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[shell opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:0}}7:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[smoky quartz]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[sunstone]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Basalt]], [[Gneiss]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[tiger iron]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[tigereye]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[tube agate]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[turquoise]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|3:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|3:1}}3:1|fwhere=[[Igneous extrusive]], [[Kaolinite]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[variscite]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=[[Bauxite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[wax opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[white chalcedony]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[white jade]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=[[Alluvial]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[wood opal]]|value=10|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Ornamental|name=[[yellow jasper]]|value=2|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Sedimentary]]|fhow=Small clusters}}

{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[alexandrite]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:1}}5:1|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[almandine]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Diorite]], [[Gabbro]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[amethyst]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:1}}5:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[aquamarine]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|3:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|3:1}}3:1|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[bandfire opal]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[black opal]]|value=30|color={{Raw Tile|☼|0:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|0:1}}0:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[black pyrope]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|0:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|0:1}}0:1|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Kimberlite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[black zircon]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|0:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|0:1}}0:1|fwhere=All [[igneous]], [[Metamorphic]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[blue garnet]]|value=30|color={{Raw Tile|☼|1:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|1:0}}1:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[brown zircon]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=All [[igneous]], [[Metamorphic]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[cat's eye]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[chrysoberyl]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:1}}2:1|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[cinnamon grossular]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=[[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[claro opal]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|1:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|1:1}}1:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[clear garnet]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:0}}7:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[clear zircon]]|value=25|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[igneous]], [[Metamorphic]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[crystal opal]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[demantoid]]|value=30|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=[[Chromite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[fire opal]]|value=15|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:1}}4:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[golden beryl]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[goshenite]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[green jade]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:1}}2:1|fwhere=[[Alluvial]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[green tourmaline]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Sedimentary]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[green zircon]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=All [[igneous]], [[Metamorphic]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[harlequin opal]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[heliodor]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:1}}2:1|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[honey yellow beryl]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[indigo tourmaline]]|value=25|color={{Raw Tile|☼|1:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|1:0}}1:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Sedimentary]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[jelly opal]]|value=15|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[kunzite]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:1}}5:1|fwhere=[[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[levin opal]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[light yellow diamond]]|value=30|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=[[Kimberlite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[melanite]]|value=15|color={{Raw Tile|☼|0:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|0:1}}0:1|fwhere=[[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[morganite]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:1}}5:1|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[peridot]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:1}}2:1|fwhere=[[Gabbro]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[pinfire opal]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[pink garnet]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:1}}5:1|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[pink tourmaline]]|value=15|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:1}}4:1|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Sedimentary]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[precious fire opal]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:1}}4:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[purple spinel]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:0}}5:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Diorite]], [[Gabbro]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[red beryl]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:1}}4:1|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[red flash opal]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:1}}4:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[red grossular]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[red pyrope]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Kimberlite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[red spinel]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Diorite]], [[Gabbro]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[red tourmaline]]|value=15|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Sedimentary]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[red zircon]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=All [[igneous]], [[Metamorphic]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[rhodolite]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:0}}5:0|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Kimberlite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[rubicelle]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Diorite]], [[Gabbro]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[tanzanite]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:1}}5:1|fwhere=[[Gabbro]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[topazolite]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[topaz]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[tsavorite]]|value=30|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=[[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[violet spessartine]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|5:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|5:1}}5:1|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[white opal]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=All [[stone]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[yellow grossular]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[yellow spessartine]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Metamorphic]], [[Granite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Semi-Precious|name=[[yellow zircon]]|value=20|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=All [[igneous]], [[Metamorphic]]|fhow=Small clusters}}

{{Gem table row|rarity=Precious|name=[[emerald]]|value=40|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=[[Granite]], [[Schist]], [[Marble]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Precious|name=[[faint yellow diamond]]|value=40|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:0}}6:0|fwhere=[[Kimberlite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Precious|name=[[ruby]]|value=40|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Bauxite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Precious|name=[[sapphire]]|value=40|color={{Raw Tile|☼|1:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|1:0}}1:0|fwhere=[[Bauxite]]|fhow=Small clusters}}

{{Gem table row|rarity=Rare|name=[[black diamond]]|value=60|color={{Raw Tile|☼|0:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|0:1}}0:1|fwhere=[[Faint yellow diamond]]|fhow=Single gem}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Rare|name=[[blue diamond]]|value=60|color={{Raw Tile|☼|1:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|1:0}}1:0|fwhere=[[Faint yellow diamond]]|fhow=Single gem}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Rare|name=[[clear diamond]]|value=60|color={{Raw Tile|☼|7:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|7:1}}7:1|fwhere=[[Faint yellow diamond]]|fhow=Single gem}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Rare|name=[[green diamond]]|value=60|color={{Raw Tile|☼|2:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|2:0}}2:0|fwhere=[[Faint yellow diamond]]|fhow=Single gem}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Rare|name=[[red diamond]]|value=60|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:0}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:0}}4:0|fwhere=[[Faint yellow diamond]]|fhow=Single gem}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Rare|name=[[star ruby]]|value=60|color={{Raw Tile|☼|4:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|4:1}}4:1|fwhere=[[Ruby]]|fhow=Single gem}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Rare|name=[[star sapphire]]|value=60|color={{Raw Tile|☼|1:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|1:1}}1:1|fwhere=[[Sapphire]]|fhow=Single gem}}
{{Gem table row|rarity=Rare|name=[[yellow diamond]]|value=60|color={{Raw Tile|☼|6:7:1}}{{Raw Tile|♦|6:1}}6:1|fwhere=[[Faint yellow diamond]]|fhow=Single gem}}

|}
See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Auy0R4dx5JF6dEdwQ3B5WkdCeUp0SjZYSl9vc3lteFE&hl=en_US#gid=0 here] or [https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApoOG6GC8_0RdHR5QkNDZlYwa1RYeUpCSzJSNUZIRkE&hl=en_US here] for a sortable, print-friendly spreadsheet with all gems and their values.

Unlike other gems, diamonds can [[Fire|ignite]] if they come into contact with [[magma]].

== Gem Cuts ==

Finished gems have a particular cut. These cuts do not affect the gem's value. A gem can have multiple cuts, such as a "square brilliant" cut or "tapered baguette" cut. Some gem cuts are also known as "cabochons." Cabochons have a basic "shape" cut but not any more complicated cut. Gizzard stones do not have cuts.

List of cuts:
* baguette
* brilliant
* briolette
* cushion
* emerald
* marquise
* octagon
* oval
* pear
* point
* radiant
* rectangular
* round
* single
* square
* table
* tapered
* trillion

== Rare Gems ==
Faint yellow diamonds only appear in [[kimberlite]] (which itself only appears in [[gabbro]] layers) and sapphires and rubies only appear in [[bauxite]] (which occurs in any sedimentary layers). Colored diamonds only occur in pre-existing clusters of faint yellow diamonds. Star sapphires and rubies only occur within clusters of their peers.

== [[Glass]] ==
Raw glass is treated as an uncut gem. There are three subtypes of raw glass (and, once cut, of cut glass gems):

Gems

{| style="border-spacing: 0"
|-
! Gem name
! Value
! Color
! Requires
|-
|green glass||2×||{{Raw Tile|☼♦|2:0}}||[[bag]] full of [[sand]]
|-
|clear glass||5×||{{Raw Tile|☼♦|3:0}}||[[bag]] full of [[sand]] + [[pearlash]]
|-
|crystal glass||10×||{{Raw Tile|☼♦|7:1}}||rough [[rock crystal]] + [[pearlash]]
|}

Making raw glass requires a dwarf with the [[glassmaking]] [[labor]] designated, and, just like working [[metal]], it also requires [[fuel]] (either [[coke]] or [[charcoal]]) at a normal glass furnace, or [[magma]] at a magma [[glass furnace]]. Like all gems, raw glass has no [[quality]] modifiers.

Raw gems are only one of the many things your [[glassmaker]]s can make from glass. See [[glass]] and [[glass industry]] for more information.

{{Category|Materials}}

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:''You may also like to see the [[Main:Tileset repository|Tileset repository]] or [[Main:Graphics set repository|Graphics set repository]].''

Here are third party applications useful for Dwarf Fortress players and modders.
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==Dwarf Fortress filesharing services==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/ Dwarf Fortress File Depot] ===
The Dwarf Fortress File Upload Service - an excellent place to store mods, community games, tilesets and other files. Courtesy of [[User:Janus|Janus]]; for files related to Dwarf Fortress only.

=== [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ DF Map Archive] ===

* http://mkv25.net/dfma/

The Dwarf Fortress Map Archive is a large collection of user-submitted maps and a nice flash viewer for perusing them.
Maps are uploaded, stored, and downloaded in a special compressed format created by the DF Map Compressor (see below).

Read more about the [[User:Markavian/DF_Map_Archive|DF Map Archive]] on [[User:Markavian|Markavian]]'s User page.

=== DF Map Compressor ===

*[http://shadowlord13.googlepages.com/dfmap-index.html SL's DF Map Compressor - Website] (currently not accessible)
*Download from [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF File Depot]

The DF Map Compressor encodes multiple bitmaps exported from Dwarf Fortress into a single, very compressed, .fdf-map file, and functions as a viewer for this format. It can also export the maps to PNG format.

The .fdf-map file can then be shared with your friends by uploading to the [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ DF Map Archive] that features an online viewer (written in Flash).

The map compressor was created by Shadowlord in May 2007. The web site is currently not accessible. Extract from the website :
<blockquote>
"The '''DF Map Compressor''' is a program I made to encode Dwarf Fortress fortress or world map images into a much smaller format than is possible with normal image formats. Here's a quick summary of how it works: It determines the size of your tiles from your DF font file (or asks you), splits the map up into tiles, identifies duplicate tiles, writes out every unique tile image, and then writes out a list of ID#s for each tile position which points to the tile image for that tile. What it outputs is piped through the LZMA compressor (the one used in 7-zip), to compress it further. The .df-map file which it writes out is usually less than 100 KB in size. (By comparison, a PNG of the same map can exceed 2 megabytes, depending on how well you compress it, whether you change the color depth, and whether you are using a graphical tileset or detailed font)."
</blockquote>

There is a little bit of information at the [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF File Depot] page, where the compressor can be downloaded:
<blockquote>
"It requires either .NET 2.0 or newer (If you have Windows Vista, you already have this, if not, you might need to get it), or if you're on Linux or a Mac or other non-Windows OS, requires Mono.
* .NET 2.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5
* Mono: http://www.mono-project.com/"
</blockquote>

To get it working on OSX, according to [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64174.msg1511109#msg1511109 this forum post]:
:1. [http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/ download the Mono Framework] and install it. If you're on a modern Mac, you want the [http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/2.8.1/macos-10-x86/3/MonoFramework-2.8.1_3.macos10.novell.x86.dmg latest Intel version], which requires OSX 10.5 or 10.6. [http://www.mono-project.com/OldReleases Older versions are available] but no longer supported.
:2. export your map from Dwarf Fortress (Esc -> Export Local Image)
:3. download the [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF Map Compressor from the DF File Depot].
:4. open the terminal, navigate to the DF Map Compressor folder and type:
mono DwarfFortressMapCompressor.3.3.4.exe
:5. WAIT a bit for the DF Map Compressor windows to appear (''I almost thought it had crashed, it's rather slow'')
:6. follow the on screen instructions

== 3D Visualizers ==

=== [[Utility:Stonesense|Stonesense]] ===
[[File:stonesense.jpg|208px|thumb|right|Stonesense Screenshot]]
''by Jonask, Solifuge, Kaypy and Japa''

Stonesense is a third party real-time visualizer that lets you view your Dwarf Fortress world in a classic isometric perspective.

More information is available in [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=43260.0 this forum thread].

Stonesense is now in version 2.3 Slate, supports v0.31.21 - [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/files/Stonesense_Slate_2.3.zip Download]

----
It is possible to get a quick working version of Stonesense for versions up to v0.31.21, without compiling the SVN development version (or downloading the new non SVN version), by downloading the updated [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Memory.xml Memory.xml] and overwriting the file of the same name in the base directory of Stonesense 2.2. If (and only if), this does not work, download and replace [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/dfhack.dll dfhack.dll]. If it still doesn't work, replace [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stonesense.exe stonesense.exe]. If it displays a problem with missing dlls, download these .dll files [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro-5.0.dll 1], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_dialog-5.0.dll 2], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_font-5.0.dll 3], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_image-5.0.dll 4], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_primitives-5.0.dll 5], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_ttf-5.0.dll 6] and place them in the Stonesense base directory.

=== [[Utility:Overseer|Fortress Overseer]] ===
''by thewonderidiot and sexymustard''

Overseer is a full 3D visualizer for v0.31 using the DFHack library. Its appearance is highly customizable and will be even more so in the near future. Check out its [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63484.0 forum thread] for more details or download it from [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3882 here].

== Music and Sounds ==

=== [[Utility:SoundSense|SoundSense]] ===

SoundSense is a tool that parses game logs and reacts to game events with sound effects, incidental music and dwarfy comments.

[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60287 forum thread], download at [http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/ homepage].

== Interface tools ==

===[http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=50643.0 Dfterm2]===

Dfterm2 is a tool to run Dwarf Fortress via terminals remotely. Multiple people can connect and watch or join in.

Main article here: [[Utility:Dfterm2]].

== Game manipulation tools ==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=645 Reveal] ===

The standalone Reveal utility is obsolete due to missing source code. [[v0.31:Utilities#DFHack|DFHack]]'s dfreveal module works like Reveal did, and has built-in undo capability.

Reveal (or Reveal.exe as it is commonly referred to) is a program that runs alongside Dwarf Fortress and shows all "unexplored" or "undug" tiles of the map (in fortress mode). To reveal entire map designate the entire bottom level to be mined and then remove designation before running reveal (Not required in the latest version using the parameters below, simply start the .exe file.). Playing on revealed map might ''(read "will")'' cause some bugs (like not being able to build magma buildings or a tower-cap farm, losing all plants/trees on the map, and a lot more). '''Using Reveal has been known to corrupt saved game folders.''' and, as such, it is highly recommended to only use Reveal to preview a biome's layout and then restart without running Reveal.


===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=66525 Dwarf Therapist]===

Dwarf Therapist gives you an advanced GUI to manage and check dwarf job allocations, military assignments (40d), statistics (such as attributes, personality traits and happiness), plus sort dwarves by various criteria (eg. profession, migration wave, happiness, number of assigned jobs etc.) and generally manage the Dwarven Resources of your fortress in a very convenient way.

Version 0.6.12 is out. This version supports DF builds up to 0.34.02..

''NOTE'': DwarfEngineer has taken over chmod's task in maintaining this MOD.

New dedicated support forum: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/

Read the full changelog here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/source/browse/CHANGELOG.txt



Instruction for making it work with new versions here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/wiki/MappingNewVersions This page also tends to have the new addresses within an hour or two of new releases of Dwarf Fortress.
N.B. Dwarftherapist appears to be automatically updating; 0.6.9 updated automatically from 0.31.19 to 0.31.21 on Windows SDL.

====For Mac users====
A mac version of this utility (built by ghalidrim and compatible with the DF version 31.25) is free for download at [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4463 the DF file depot]. Beware though : this is a test build, so there may be bugs, use with care! It is also possible to use it with the latest version of DF by using Wine. A DT version for natively running it on OSX is in the works by DwarfEngineeer and should be ready in 2012 March-April.

=====Dwarf Therapist and Dwarf Fortress on Mac using Wine=====
# Download latest windows versions of [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ DF] and [http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/downloads/list DT].
# Download winebottler http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/. It should also download wine. Launch them both.
# Click the Wine icon on your taskbar and find Change Prefix.
# From there, create a prefix (it may auto-detect some other games and create prefixes for them, don't bother with that) in a convenient directory, call it 'generic' or something.
# Click Change Prefix again after it's done configuring and make sure Wine is using that one.
# Move DF and DT to the Program Files associated with the *general* prefix. DT won't find any running versions of DF otherwise. Mine was located in *username*/documents/generic/drive_c/program files.
# When launching DF and DT a small window pops up asking which prefix you want to use, choose general.
# Strike the earth.

If Dwarf Therapist in Wine starts running slow or gets really laggy, find it's preference file, "Dwarf Therapist.ini," and trash it.
It is located in *username*/documents/generic/drive_c/users/*usernameagain*/application data/UDP Software/.

====For Linux users====
There is a repository with a Linux version of DwarfTherapist available for download.

=====Instructions (Ubuntu)=====
Run "Software Sources" (super/windows key, type "software s" and click) [System->Administration->Software Sources]
Click Other Software, then Add
Paste: <pre>deb http://dwarftherapist.com/apt maverick universe</pre>
Click on line that says (Source Code) on the end; Remove.
Open a terminal and
<pre>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dwarftherapist</pre>
To run, run "dwarftherapist" from the terminal or create a shortcut on the desktop.
When you run, a box asking for root privileges should pop up.

See http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/wiki/LinuxVersion for updates.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59056.0 Runesmith] ===
Runesmith is a Dwarf information viewing and editing tool inspired by the original Dwarf Companion. It uses the DFHack library to interface with Dwarf Fortress and Qt to provide a robust and professional looking cross-platform GUI. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59056.0

Version 0.1.9 is out for Windows, currently supporting 0.31.25. Since it uses DFHack, all versions of DF that DFHack supports, Runesmith supports!

* Windows: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2538
* Linux: to follow (the windows one is reported to work fine under wine though)

"A tool that allows smithing (editing) of the digits and runes (letters) that control all life in DF. By smithing these runes, the metagods (players) can meddle with DF mortals to suit their games, be it recasting a soul into a new species body, blessing and cursing indiviudals or just to make predictions of when a mortal will attain the next degree of competence to guide them on how they should spend their limited time." - Psieye - (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57003.msg1324765#msg1324765)

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=91166.0 DFHack] ===

DFHack is a Dwarf Fortress memory access library and a set of basic tools using this library. The library is a work in progress, so things might change as more tools are written for it. The last release supporting this version of DF is 0.31.25 r9 (released February 2012) and it runs on both Windows and Linux.

Code and binary releases are available from the [http://github.com/peterix/dfhack/downloads Github site].

=== [[Utility:DwarfForeman|Dwarf Foreman]] ===
Dwarf Foreman is a third party program to automatically dispatch jobs to your workers.

=== [[Utility:DwarfScript|Dwarf Script]] ===
Dwarf Script is a program and allows you to manipulate DF's memory using a script.

== Fortress layout tools ==

=== [http://sun2design.com/quickfort/ Quickfort] ===

Quickfort is an AutoHotkey-based utility for Dwarf Fortress that helps you build fortresses from "blueprint" .CSV files (comma separated values). These files are easily created and edited in an app like Excel. Most building-oriented DF commands are supported through the use of multiple .CSV files to describe the different phases of DF construction (designation, building, stockpiles, and making adjustments. Also see [[Main:Quickfort Community Blueprints|Quickfort Community Blueprints]].

=== [[User:Soundandfury/DF_Designer|DF Designer]] ===
DF Designer, by [[User:Soundandfury|soundnfury]] is a fort layout planning tool. It enables you to work out your designs before you start to build, and even see how they look in 3-D.
It's written in C with SDL, and both Linux and Windows builds are available. The source code is freely available under the GPL.
Since DF Designer does not 'talk to' Dwarf Fortress, it is version-independent. Supports exporting to Quickfort-compatible CSV files.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=55025.0 ChromaFort] ===
Chromafort allows you to convert 24-bit bitmap (.bmp) images into Quickfort-compatible CSV files.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64723.15 DF Architect] ===
DF Architect is a short cut to using Chromafort in conjunction with DF Designer. It uses 24-bit bitmap files and directly designates them into Dwarf Fortress. It is an early release program and currently only supports digging, stairs (up, down, and both), and ramps. Its defining feature is the use of an 'index' which allows for the designer to visually connect the cursor to the image. Be careful when using this program as it had no abort or terminating ability while designating, nor will it check to see if you've uploaded correct formats.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=87731 DF Designator] ===
DF Designator helps you build fortresses from either image files or Quickfort .CSV files. It also has a user interface that allows you to assign hotkeys to blueprints and to combine blueprints in multi z-level designs. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.

=== [http://www.nickskvarla.com/dwarf/ Quickfort Mapping Tool] ===
Quickfort Mapping Tool is a simple to use web app for creating Quickfort blueprints graphically.

== Modding tools ==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2068 Custom Workshop Workshop] ===
WYSIWYG editor for designing the raws for a custom workshop.
(Not all raws, just the tiles and colors) Lets you see how it will look at each stage of construction. Comes with the default 16x16 CURSES font built in, but you can load any .BMP formatted DF font you like, keeping in mind that if its bigger than 16x16 it won't fit.

Accommodates up to 32x32 workshops, not that there's any reason for such a large workshop, right?

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1996 Uristmod] ===
A program which uses text files to automatically change/update raw files. Makes installation of mods easier. However at this time, the documentation is a little confusing and makes creating mods harder for beginners. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53028.0 Forum Thread]

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2088 Accent replacement tool] ===
A small application to remove accented characters from a file. A quick solution if you need the language files for a tileset that has images in place of special characters.
Alternatively, you can use this 20-line perl script: http://github.com/rofl0r/df-mayday/blob/master/charfix.pl

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=90725.0 NightS' Easy metal creator] ===
A small script in batch which lets you make new metals easily by introducing their raw values. It provides values of ingame metals as example for the most obscure values.

== Raw tile tools ==

=== [[Utility:Raw tile selector]] ===

Provides an easy to use graphical interface to select which tiles and colors should be displayed for plants, stones and small creatures.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws. It will also be useful for users that dislike decisions made by tileset creators or users that could not find the edited raws for a tileset.

[http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2113 Download]

Currently for windows only.

=== Raw tile merger ===
Provides an easy to use interface to change the tile and color data of raws to match the data of another set of raw files.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws when new versions of df are released. The edited raws for your tileset for a new df version can now be created with a few clicks.

[http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2178 Download]

== World Map / World Gen Tools ==

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428 PerfectWorldDF] ===
Very detailed Windows program to help create customize world gens.
 [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428 Bay 12 forum link]
 [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2354 Dwarf Fortress File Depot link (may be old version)]
 [http://dffd.wimbli.com/who.php?id=1314 Dwarf Fortress File Depot listing for the author]

It is a Windows program but can also be run under Linux with help of Mono. You can install the required Mono packages by typing this into the terminal (Debian and Debian-based distributions only):
sudo apt-get install libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil
After installing this you should be able to double-click on the exe and it should work.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73095.msg2261106#msg2261106 Map Maker] ===
Tool to create realistic-looking fantasy maps out ouf worldgen export. [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4359 download link]

== Other/miscellaneous ==

=== [http://www.mindwerks.net/projects/exita/ Exita] ===
Exita is a python program that takes your DF world map exports and dump them into several different text outputs.

=== [http://winmerge.org/ WinMerge] ===
Winmerge allows you to compare the contents of folders or files. It highlights any differences between files and allows you to merge them. It is most useful for modders or users of mods. If you compare modified raw files with unmodified ones you can quickly see any differences.

=== [http://kmkeen.com/df2ttf/ df2ttf] ===
df2ttf allows you to convert any Dwarf Fortress tileset (png or bmp) into a TrueType Font equivalent. It's great for running Dwarf Fortress in ncurses mode.

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4238 Dwarven Guidance Counselor] ===
The Dwarven Guidance Counselor is a JavaScript/HTML page that lets you input a dwarf's attributes and traits, and gives an estimate of how well that dwarf will serve in a particular job.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 Lazy Newb Pack] ===
Everything you could possible ever need all in one handy program. It includes graphics packs, DF Hack tools, StoneSense, and much more.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72702.0 Legends Viewer] ===
Recreates Legends Mode from exported data. Browser like navigation, including tabs, allows to easily view other people/places/entities by just clicking names in the event logs or search lists.

= Tools under development =

'''The tools listed below are under development for DF 2010, but cannot perform the task they are intended for at this time.'''

=== [[Utility:Obsidian|Obsidian]] ===
''by Skeggox''

Obsidian is a toolset for converting DF maps into a renderable scene, manipulating the result, and displaying it directly in 3D or exporting to 3rd party renderers and raytracers.

Its a modular Lua framework, using Open Scene Graph for rendering and DFHack for talking with Dwarf Fortress.

This [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57920.0 forum thread] has more detail.

[[Category:Utilities|*]]

v0.34:Room

2012-11-08T07:17:28Z

HiEv: Added "See Also" section with link to relevant forum thread

{{quality|Exceptional|05:28, 2 May 2011 (UTC)}}{{av}}

A functional '''room''' is a [[zone]] extending out from a piece of [[furniture]] that defines the room, created when the room is ''defined from'' that piece of furniture. A room, as the game understands it, is not defined by [[wall]]s and [[door]]s. A chamber with a [[bed]] in it, for example, is not yet a [[bedroom]]; you have to select the [[bed]] and ''define'' a bedroom from it in order for it to be a room.

Everything covered by that zone is considered part of the room, and will contribute to both the room's [[value]] and its effectiveness. This zone does '''not''' need to extend to the walls. It is well possible to define several such rooms in one actual enclosed space; they may even overlap, although this comes at a penalty to the room's value. The maximum size of a '''room''' is 60x60 tiles.

== Creating ==
To create a room, you must first have built something capable of supporting a room from the {{k|b}}uild menu, such as a [[table]] or [[bed]]. Then you must select the completed item in question with the {{k|q}} command and choose to create a room. The room's radius extends outward in a rectangle, but will stop when it hits walls or external [[door]]s. If you first build the door to create a closed space, then the game will define the room so you won't need to resize it unless it is very big.

If you want to have a door dividing a single, defined room into multiple areas without blocking the room's zone, you can set the door to "internal" in the door's {{k|q}} menu. Rooms do not have to be blocked off on all sides, and can even overlap, but for various reasons you will usually want to avoid overlapping rooms and give them proper boundaries.

In general, you only need to define a room from ''one'' object in the room. For instance, a communal [[dining room]] is defined from one table -- just give the room a large enough radius to cover the whole space.

Rooms can not span z-levels; when you define a room it can only be on a single level.

== Assigning ==
Rooms can be assigned to specific [[dwarves]]. When dwarves have their own room, happy thoughts occur when they sleep in it (alternatively, unhappy thoughts can occur when they do not have their own room to sleep in). Also, most [[noble|nobles]] require an assignment to a room.

You can assign rooms to dwarves manually or automatically. If a dwarf (who does not already have a room) is ready to sleep and there is an unassigned room available, it will be spontaneously claimed by that dwarf. Married couples will share a bedroom, with the exception of some nobles. In previous versions, dwarves were required to pay rent for their bedrooms once the [[economy]] started, but the economy feature has been removed in the current version.

== Quality ==
Most dwarves don't have high expectations when it comes to rooms. A communal [[dining room]] and a communal [[dormitory]] is enough for the general populace, though making the communal dining room high quality and giving them individual quarters will give them happy [[thoughts]], helping to avoid [[tantrum]]s.

[[Nobles]], on the other hand, require rooms of a minimal quality, containing a minimum number of [[Furniture]]. Not meeting their demands will make them [[thoughts|unhappy]], and also make them not function at their full capacity.

Room quality is determined by the total value of the room's floor and walls, plus the value of any furniture or other constructions in room. If the floor area of two rooms overlap it decreases the value of each room, but a wall can be part of multiple rooms without causing a decrease in value.

Room quality levels can be viewed through the View Rooms/Buildings ({{K|R}}) command.

{| border="1" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Bedroom name
! Dining room name
! Office Name
! Grave Name
! Numeric Value
|-
| Meager Quarters
| Meager Dining Room
| Meager Office
| Grave
| 1
|-
| Modest Quarters
| Modest Dining Room
| Modest Office
| Servant's Burial Chamber
| 100
|-
| Quarters
| Dining Room
| Office
| Burial Chamber
| 250
|-
| Decent Quarters
| Decent Dining Room
| Decent Office
| Tomb
| 500
|-
| Fine Quarters
| Fine Dining Room
| Splendid Office
| Fine Tomb
| 1000
|-
| Great Bedroom
| Great Dining Room
| Throne Room
| Mausoleum
| 1500
|-
| Grand Bedroom
| Grand Dining Room
| Opulent Throne Room
| Grand Mausoleum
| 2500
|-
| Royal Bedroom
| Royal Dining Room
| Royal Throne Room
| Royal Mausoleum
| 10000
|}

== Increasing room value ==
Making a large room, so that it has more floor and wall space, is an easy way to start out a high quality room, as is digging the room out of valuable [[stone]] like [[limestone]] or [[obsidian]] (to make a ''really'' valuable room, put it in a mined out [[magnetite]] cluster) or keep eye on [[gem]] clusters. Once a room has been mined out, its value can be increased by [[smoothing]] and [[engraving]] the floor and walls.

Afterwards, placing valuable furniture (Preferably [[encrust]]ed with gems or [[artifact]] quality) is an option for increasing value, but not the only one. Constructions (including workshops) inside a room increase a room's value, so you can use non-furniture artifacts in a construction to increase room value:

{| border="1" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Type
! Building
|-
| Weapon
| [[Trap#Weapon Trap|Weapon Trap]]
|-
| Barrel
| [[Dyer's shop]], [[Ashery]]
|-
| Bucket
| [[Dyer's shop]], [[Ashery]], [[Well]]*
|-
| Mechanism
| [[Lever]], [[Gear assembly]], [[Trap]], [[Well]]*
|-
| Chain
| [[Restraint]], [[Well]]*
|-
| Anvil
| [[Forge]]
|}
:''* - gains additional quality from skilled architecture and construction''

[[Trap#Weapon Trap|weapon trap]]s are an excellent way to increase room value while being conservative with space: One trap can contain 10 valuable components plus a mechanism, all of which can be encrusted with gems.

Also, [[Lever]]s have the special property that they can be used to stack an infinite number of [[mechanism]]s, all of which count towards room value, in one tile. To add mechanisms simply link the [[lever]] to a deconstructible building such as a [[cage]] and pull the lever — one of mechanisms used for the link will remain in the lever. You can repeat this process as many times as you want until you increase the room's value to the desired level.

== See Also ==

Forum thread: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=118751.0 Room Values - !!SCIENCE!!] - The mathematics to help calculate room value.

{{Buildings}}

v0.34:Wood furnace

2012-11-08T06:23:03Z

HiEv: Added verify tag

{{Furnace|name=Wood furnace|key=w|job=[[Wood burner]]
|construction=
* [[Fire-safe]] [[building material]] (non-[[economic]])
|construction_job=
* [[Architecture]]
* [[Masonry]] or [[Metalsmithing]]
|use=
* [[Wood]]
|production=
* [[Ash]]
* [[Charcoal]]}}
{{av}}{{Quality|Fine|05:48, 14 June 2010 (UTC)}}

A '''wood furnace''' is used to convert [[wood]] into [[ash]] or [[charcoal]]. It must be built out of [[fire-safe]] materials.

Operating a wood furnace requires the [[Wood burner|wood burning]] [[labor]] enabled.

Building a wood furnace requires the [[architecture]] skill and a skill relevant to the material used to make the furnace ([[masonry]] for [[stone]] or stone, [[glass]] or [[soap]] [[block]]s, or any of the [[Metalsmith#Metalsmith_profession|metalworking]] skills for metal bars or metal blocks).

[[Wood]], [[charcoal]], and [[coke]] are not an option as building materials for this workshop, as these are not [[fire-safe]] materials.

A wood furnace is the closest thing to a fire place. If you build one in a meeting hall, Dwarves will admire it and recieve a good [[thought]], unlike any other workshop or furnace.{{verify}}

{{Workshops}}

v0.34:Tissue definition token

2012-11-02T22:47:48Z

HiEv: Added missing linebreaks

{{quality|Fine|21:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)}}{{av}}

__TOC__

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#999999"
! Token
! Arguments
! Description

|-
| TISSUE_NAME
|
*name
*value
|name = name.
value = plural name, NP (No Plural) or STP (Standard Plural, adds an 's' on the end).

|-
| TISSUE_MATERIAL
|
* [[material token]]
| Defines the tissue material.

|-
| RELATIVE_THICKNESS
|
*value
| The thickness of the tissue. A higher thickness is harder to penetrate.

|-
| HEALING_RATE
|
*value
| Lower is faster. Omitting the token will result in a tissue that never heals.

|-
| VASCULAR
|
*value
| Related to how much said tissue bleeds. Higher = More bleeding 
(Which is why the heart has the highest value.)

|-
| PAIN_RECEPTORS
|
*value
| Related to how much pain your character will suffer when said tissue is damaged. Higher = More pain when damaged 
(Which is why the bone tissue has a much higher value than other tissues. A broken bone hurts a lot more than a cut.)

|-
| THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH
| N/A
| The thickness of the tissue increases when character strength increases.

|-
| THICKENS_ON_ENERGY_STORAGE
| N/A
| Thickness of said tissue increases when the character eats and doesn't exercise sufficiently.

|-
| ARTERIES
| N/A
| The tissue contains arteries.

|-
| SCARS
| N/A
| Simply whether or not the tissue will be scarred once healed.

|-
| STRUCTURAL
| N/A
| ?

|-
| CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR
| N/A
| ?

|-
| SETTABLE
| N/A
| The tissue will not heal unless it is set.

|-
| SPLINTABLE
| N/A
| The tissue will not heal unless it is set in a splint.

|-
| FUNCTIONAL
| N/A
| The tissue performs some sort of special function (e.g. sight, hearing, breathing, etc.) An organ with such a function will stop working if a sufficient amount of damage is sustained by its FUNCTIONAL tissues. If an organ has no FUNCTIONAL tissues, it will stop working only if it is severed or destroyed entirely by heat or cold.

|-
| NERVOUS
| N/A
| Unknown - not used.

|-
| THOUGHT
| N/A
| If a creature without NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT has no functioning parts with the THOUGHT token, it will be unable to move or breathe.

|-
| MUSCULAR
| N/A
| Seems to affect where sensory or motor nerves are located, and whether damage to this tissue will render a limb useless.

|-
| SMELL
| N/A
| Unknown - not used.

|-
| HEAR
| N/A
| Unknown - not used.

|-
| FLIGHT
| N/A
| Unknown - not used.

|-
| BREATHE
| N/A
| Unknown - not used.

|-
| SIGHT
| N/A
| Unknown - not used.

|-
| CONNECTS
| N/A
| Holds body parts together. A body part will not be severed unless all of its component tissues with the CONNECTS tag are severed.

|-
| MAJOR_ARTERIES
| N/A
| Causes tissue to sometimes severely bleed when damaged. This is independent of its VASCULAR value.

|-
| INSULATION
|
*value
| Tissue supplies the creature with heat insulation. Higher values result in more insulation.

|-
| COSMETIC
| N/A
| ?

|-
| STYLEABLE
| N/A
| The tissue can be styled as per a tissue style (defined in an [[Entity_token|entity]] entry)

|-
| TISSUE_SHAPE
|
*value
| Value can be one of the following: 
LAYER: Regular layer tissue. 
STRANDS: Seems to be harder to sever. 
FEATHERS: Edge attacks will pass right through the tissue. 
SCALES: ? 
CUSTOM: ?

|-
| SUBORDINATE_TO_TISSUE
|
*value
| Tissue is implicitly attached to another tissue and will fall off that tissue layer is destroyed. Used for hair and feathers, which are subordinate to skin.

|-
| TISSUE_MAT_STATE
|
*SOLID, LIQUID, or GAS 
(possibly others, such as POWDER as well. Needs testing.)
| Sets/forces a default material state for the selected tissue.

|-
| TISSUE_LEAKS
| N/A
| The selected tissue leaks out of the creature when the layers above it are pierced.

|}

==Tissue Layer Tokens==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="60%" | Description

|-
|SET_LAYER_TISSUE
|
* tissue
| Sets a tissue layer to be made of a different tissue.

|-
|TL_RELATIVE_THICKNESS
|
* value
| Sets a new relative thickness for selected tissue layers.

|-
|TL_CONNECTS
|
| Gives the CONNECTS attribute to selected layers.

|-
|TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES
|
| Gives Major Artery attribute to selected layers.

|-
|TL_HEALING_RATE
|
* value
| Sets a new HEALING_RATE of the selected tissue layers.

|-
|TL_VASCULAR
|
| Sets a new a VASCULAR value (which modulates bleeding) for selected tissue layers.

|-
|TL_PAIN_RECEPTORS
|
| Sets a new number of pain receptors for selected tissue layers.

|}

==Defaults==
Default values (as of 0.31.21)
{| {{prettytable}} style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 70%;"
|- bgcolor="#999999"
! style="font-size: 150%;"| TISSUE_TEMPLATE !! TISSUE_NAME !! TISSUE_MATERIAL !! TISSUE_MAT_STATE !! RELATIVE_THICKNESS !! HEALING_RATE !! VASCULAR !! PAIN_RECEPTORS !! SUBORDINATE_TO_TISSUE !! INSULATION !! TISSUE_SHAPE
|-
| SKIN_TEMPLATE || skin:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SKIN || || 1 || 100 || 1 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| FAT_TEMPLATE || fat:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:FAT || || 1 || 100 || 3 || 5 || || 100 || LAYER
|-
| MUSCLE_TEMPLATE || muscle:muscles || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:MUSCLE || || 3 || 100 || 5 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| BONE_TEMPLATE || bone:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BONE || || 2 || 1000 || 3 || 50 || || || LAYER
|-
| SHELL_TEMPLATE || shell:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SHELL || || 2 || 1000 || || || || || LAYER
|-
| HORN_TEMPLATE || horn:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HORN || || 2 || || || || || || LAYER
|-
| HOOF_TEMPLATE || hoof:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HOOF || || 2 || || || || || || LAYER
|-
| CARTILAGE_TEMPLATE || cartilage:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:CARTILAGE || || 2 || || || || || || LAYER
|-
| HAIR_TEMPLATE || hair:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR || || 1 || || || || SKIN || 100 || STRANDS
|-
| CHEEK_WHISKERS_TEMPLATE || cheek whisker:STP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR || || 2 || || || || SKIN || || STRANDS
|-
| CHIN_WHISKERS_TEMPLATE || chin whisker:STP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR || || 2 || || || || SKIN || || STRANDS
|-
| MOUSTACHE_TEMPLATE || moustache:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR || || 2 || || || || SKIN || || STRANDS
|-
| SIDEBURNS_TEMPLATE || sideburns:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR || || 2 || || || || SKIN || || STRANDS
|-
| EYEBROW_TEMPLATE || eyebrow:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR || || 2 || || || || SKIN || || STRANDS
|-
| EYELASH_TEMPLATE || eyelash:eyelashes || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR || || 2 || || || || SKIN || || STRANDS
|-
| FEATHER_TEMPLATE || feather:STP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:FEATHER || || 2 || || || || SKIN || 100 || FEATHERS
|-
| SCALE_TEMPLATE || scale:STP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SCALE || || 1 || 100 || 1 || 5 || || || SCALES
|-
| NAIL_TEMPLATE || nail:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:NAIL || || 2 || || || || || || LAYER
|-
| CLAW_TEMPLATE || claw:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:CLAW || || 2 || || || || || || LAYER
|-
| TALON_TEMPLATE || talon:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:TALON || || 2 || || || || || || LAYER
|-
| TOOTH_TEMPLATE || tooth:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:TOOTH || || 2 || || || || || || LAYER
|-
| IVORY_TEMPLATE || ivory:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:IVORY || || 2 || || || || || || LAYER
|-
| EYE_TEMPLATE || eye tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EYE || || 1 || 100 || 3 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| NERVE_TEMPLATE || nervous tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:NERVE || || 1 || || 3 || || || || LAYER
|-
| BRAIN_TEMPLATE || brain tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BRAIN || || 1 || || 3 || || || || LAYER
|-
| LUNG_TEMPLATE || lung tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:LUNG || || 1 || 100 || 8 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| HEART_TEMPLATE || heart tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HEART || || 1 || 100 || 10 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| LIVER_TEMPLATE || liver tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:LIVER || || 1 || 100 || 8 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| GUT_TEMPLATE || gut:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:GUT || || 1 || 100 || 3 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| STOMACH_TEMPLATE || stomach tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:STOMACH || || 1 || 100 || 3 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| PANCREAS_TEMPLATE || pancreatic tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:PANCREAS || || 1 || 100 || 3 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| SPLEEN_TEMPLATE || spleen tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SPLEEN || || 1 || 100 || 5 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| KIDNEY_TEMPLATE || kidney tissue:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:KIDNEY || || 1 || 100 || 8 || 5 || || || LAYER
|-
| FLAME_TEMPLATE || flames:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:FLAME || GAS || 1 || || || || || || LAYER
|-
| CHITIN_TEMPLATE || chitin:NP || LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:CHITIN || || 1 || 100 || 1 || 5 || || || LAYER
|- bgcolor="#999999"
! style="font-size: 150%;"| TISSUE_TEMPLATE !! TISSUE_NAME !! TISSUE_MATERIAL !! TISSUE_MAT_STATE !! RELATIVE_THICKNESS !! HEALING_RATE !! VASCULAR !! PAIN_RECEPTORS !! SUBORDINATE_TO_TISSUE !! INSULATION !! TISSUE_SHAPE
|}

Default flags (as of 0.31.21)
{| {{prettytable}} style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 70%;"
|- bgcolor="#999999" style="font-size: 70%;"
! style="font-size: 150%;"| TISSUE_TEMPLATE !! THICKENS_ON_ENERGY_STORAGE !! THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH !! ARTERIES !! SCARS !! MUSCULAR !! FUNCTIONAL !! STRUCTURAL !! CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR !! CONNECTS !! SETTABLE !! SPLINTABLE !! COSMETIC !! STYLEABLE
|-
| SKIN_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || || || || X || || || ||
|-
| FAT_TEMPLATE || X || || || X || || || || || X || || || ||
|-
| MUSCLE_TEMPLATE || || X || X || X || X || || || || X || || ||
|-
| BONE_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || X || X || X || X || ||
|-
| SHELL_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || || X || X || X || ||
|-
| HORN_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || || X || || ||
|-
| HOOF_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || || X || || ||
|-
| CARTILAGE_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || || X || || ||
|-
| HAIR_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || || || || || || X || X
|-
| CHEEK_WHISKERS_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || || || || || || X || X
|-
| CHIN_WHISKERS_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || || || || || || X || X
|-
| MOUSTACHE_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || || || || || || X || X
|-
| SIDEBURNS_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || || || || || || X || X
|-
| EYEBROW_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || || || || || || X || X
|-
| EYELASH_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || || || || || || X || X
|-
| FEATHER_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || || || || || ||
|-
| SCALE_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || || || || X || || || ||
|-
| NAIL_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || || X || || || ||
|-
| CLAW_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || || X || || || ||
|-
| TALON_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || || X || || || ||
|-
| TOOTH_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || || X || || || ||
|-
| IVORY_TEMPLATE || || || || || || || X || || X || || || ||
|-
| EYE_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| NERVE_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || || || X || || ||
|-
| BRAIN_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| LUNG_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| HEART_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| LIVER_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| GUT_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| STOMACH_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| PANCREAS_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| SPLEEN_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| KIDNEY_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| FLAME_TEMPLATE || || || || || X || X || X || || X || || ||
|-
| CHITIN_TEMPLATE || || || || X || || || X || X || X || X || X || ||

|- bgcolor="#999999" style="font-size: 70%;"
! style="font-size: 150%;"| TISSUE_TEMPLATE !! THICKENS_ON_ENERGY_STORAGE !! THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH !! ARTERIES !! SCARS !! MUSCULAR !! FUNCTIONAL !! STRUCTURAL !! CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR !! CONNECTS !! SETTABLE !! SPLINTABLE !! COSMETIC !! STYLEABLE
|}

==See Also==
*Material definition token

{{Category|Modding}}
{{Category|Tokens}}

v0.34:Weather

2012-11-02T22:38:24Z

HiEv: /* Evil weather */ Grammar fix

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'''Weather''' refers to any type of weather effect in DF. It includes snow, rain, and special features in evil surroundings.

Weather can be disabled by changing [WEATHER:YES] to [WEATHER:NO] in the [[d_init.txt]] file. Disabling weather is a quick and largely harmless fix to improve framerate on older machines if required.

== Normal Weather ==
=== Rain ===
It is raining.

Normal rain cleans any tile it lands on, removing blood, [[vomit]] and other bodily fluids on contact. Any dwarf caught outside when it rains will receive a minor unhappy [[thought]].

When rain hits a tile labeled as a [[murky pool]], it will begin to fill it up with 1/7 [[water]], and if that does not evaporate the water will grow deeper, until the pool is full. Murky pools do not overflow from rain, but this extra water can be drained off and stored or used. (See the [[Well guide#Using ponds/pools in areas with heavy rain|Well Guide]].) While not much, it can really help maps without 'unlimited' water supplies such as [[river]]s and [[brook]]s.

=== Snow and Cold ===
Winter is here.
A snowstorm has come.

When water comes into contact with a [[freezing]] climate, such as winter months in a moderate [[biome]], or at any time in a [[tundra]] or [[glacier]], it will freeze into a wall of [[ice]]. Freezing ice acts much like [[obsidian]], and will instantly kill anything caught inside of it -- including creatures otherwise extremely hard to kill. In moderate biomes after winter has passed, walls of ice will melt back into ponds. No matter what the height of the water was before freezing, it will always thaw back into a full 7 units of liquid.

Dwarfs outside during a snowstorm can also freeze to death, so a very high priority when embarking on a glacier is to dig out some place warm for your idlers to rest.

== Evil weather ==
Certain [[surroundings|evil surroundings]] feature freakish weather, such as fogs, clouds, and rains. They may afflict those caught in them with various kinds of [[syndrome]]s or curses, such as poisonings or transformation into [[Undead|zombies]]. Names for evil weather are randomly generated, typically something along the lines of "abominable mist", "unholy gloom" (clouds) or "creeping murk", "horrid goo" (rain).

Two kinds of evil weather exist - evil rain and evil clouds. The type of weather effect and their associated syndromes (if any) are different and randomly chosen for every evil biome in a generated world. Usually there will be only one weather effect for a given evil biome, often in conjunction with the effect of [[Undead|corpse animation]].

=== Evil Clouds ===
A cloud of haunting fog has drifted nearby!

Evil clouds are made of a generated inorganic gas or dust. They start in one tile and spread out in a similar manner to [[miasma]] vapor; when the game announces the cloud's presence, it will zoom into this tile. Evil clouds cause more serious syndromes than evil rains, similar to those of [[forgotten beast]]s, [[titan]]s and [[demon]]s. Certain evil clouds transform living beings caught in them into dangerous [[Undead|zombie]]-like thralls, turning them against all life while significantly increasing their strength and toughness [[attribute]]s.

Evil clouds inflict worse syndromes than evil rains; thralling clouds are especially dangerous in the extreme, as the zombies produced are much stronger than those produced via ambient effects. These [[undead]] are very hard to kill and are '''much''' stronger than the unit they inflicted. Evil clouds have a tendency to roll over your outdoor trade depot and convert traveling merchants into a band of dwarf-hungry savages, which can be crippling to a fortress reliant on trade.

Thralling clouds are also dangerous in adventure mode. Undead status means hostility from civilized beings, reduced speed and no regeneration. However, other undead will ignore you.

=== Evil Rain ===
Evil rain can be made of either the [[blood]] of a civilized race (dwarves, goblins, etc.) or a randomly generated inorganic substance. Blood rain typically causes no syndromes, only giving whomever caught in it an unhappy [[thought]]. Generated substances are more dangerous, causing minor symptoms such as vomiting, blisters and fevers, as well as inspiring the aforementioned unhappy thought. Dwarves caught into evil rain will spend a lot of time washing up after any outdoors work.

=== Dangers of evil weather ===
One of the dangers of evil weather is that ponds will never refill. Store water into underground basins and plan accordingly. Another annoyance is the total lack of wild bees in an evil climate. Though evil rains (excluding rains of blood) usually cause the "milder" types of [[syndrome]]s, these may still cause death as a secondary result of that syndrome: e.g. suffocation from blisters, dehydration from chronic nausea.

Some evil weather effects condense on creatures, making their effects semi-permanent - symptoms won't go away until the source is washed. Those effects also can spread like a disease. In most cases, it will just infect dwarves that carry contaminated bodies to caskets. Thralling dust clouds, however, [[fun|can quickly lead to an unstoppable zombie apocalypse]] if the dust is not completely washed off somehow.

==== Movement of evil weather and safeguarding ====
Evil weather forms on the edge of the map and moves about the screen in one direction as the wind blows. Because the clouds inflate similarly to [[miasma]], they can very quickly dissipate, fly out of the map immediately, carry on at a steady pace, or spread rapidly engulfing very large areas. They will not, however, change direction.

Although it will glide along a single Z-level, it will climb straight walls and pass over structures. It will not move through a closed door or raised drawbridge, but it can descend from an open roof and it will pass through fortifications with ease. If you choose to fortify outside, be sure to have any open areas secured with floodgates to act as shutters to keep the clouds out. Adding doors throughout the structure to stop any accidentally contained clouds from moving further inward does not hurt.

Undead created by evil weather gain immediate strength bonuses and acquire a status of Opposed to Life. They will tirelessly seek out living things to kill until they are struck down, which can take considerable effort.

{{Category|World}}

v0.34:Weather

2012-11-02T22:28:40Z

HiEv: /* Snow and Cold */ Link fix

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'''Weather''' refers to any type of weather effect in DF. It includes snow, rain, and special features in evil surroundings.

Weather can be disabled by changing [WEATHER:YES] to [WEATHER:NO] in the [[d_init.txt]] file. Disabling weather is a quick and largely harmless fix to improve framerate on older machines if required.

== Normal Weather ==
=== Rain ===
It is raining.

Normal rain cleans any tile it lands on, removing blood, [[vomit]] and other bodily fluids on contact. Any dwarf caught outside when it rains will receive a minor unhappy [[thought]].

When rain hits a tile labeled as a [[murky pool]], it will begin to fill it up with 1/7 [[water]], and if that does not evaporate the water will grow deeper, until the pool is full. Murky pools do not overflow from rain, but this extra water can be drained off and stored or used. (See the [[Well guide#Using ponds/pools in areas with heavy rain|Well Guide]].) While not much, it can really help maps without 'unlimited' water supplies such as [[river]]s and [[brook]]s.

=== Snow and Cold ===
Winter is here.
A snowstorm has come.

When water comes into contact with a [[freezing]] climate, such as winter months in a moderate [[biome]], or at any time in a [[tundra]] or [[glacier]], it will freeze into a wall of [[ice]]. Freezing ice acts much like [[obsidian]], and will instantly kill anything caught inside of it -- including creatures otherwise extremely hard to kill. In moderate biomes after winter has passed, walls of ice will melt back into ponds. No matter what the height of the water was before freezing, it will always thaw back into a full 7 units of liquid.

Dwarfs outside during a snowstorm can also freeze to death, so a very high priority when embarking on a glacier is to dig out some place warm for your idlers to rest.

== Evil weather ==
Certain [[surroundings|evil surroundings]] feature freakish weather, such as fogs, clouds, and rains. They may afflict those caught in them with various kinds of [[syndrome]]s or curses, such as poisonings or transformation into [[Undead|zombies]]. Name for evil weather is randomly generated, typically something along the lines of "abominable mist", "unholy gloom" (clouds) or "creeping murk", "horrid goo" (rain).

Two kinds of evil weather exist - evil rain and evil clouds. The type of weather effect and their associated syndromes (if any) are different and randomly chosen for every evil biome in a generated world. Usually there will be only one weather effect for a given evil biome, often in conjunction with the effect of [[Undead|corpse animation]].

=== Evil Clouds ===
A cloud of haunting fog has drifted nearby!

Evil clouds are made of a generated inorganic gas or dust. They start in one tile and spread out in a similar manner to [[miasma]] vapor; when the game announces the cloud's presence, it will zoom into this tile. Evil clouds cause more serious syndromes than evil rains, similar to those of [[forgotten beast]]s, [[titan]]s and [[demon]]s. Certain evil clouds transform living beings caught in them into dangerous [[Undead|zombie]]-like thralls, turning them against all life while significantly increasing their strength and toughness [[attribute]]s.

Evil clouds inflict worse syndromes than evil rains; thralling clouds are especially dangerous in the extreme, as the zombies produced are much stronger than those produced via ambient effects. These [[undead]] are very hard to kill and are '''much''' stronger than the unit they inflicted. Evil clouds have a tendency to roll over your outdoor trade depot and convert traveling merchants into a band of dwarf-hungry savages, which can be crippling to a fortress reliant on trade.

Thralling clouds are also dangerous in adventure mode. Undead status means hostility from civilized beings, reduced speed and no regeneration. However, other undead will ignore you.

=== Evil Rain ===
Evil rain can be made of either the [[blood]] of a civilized race (dwarves, goblins, etc.) or a randomly generated inorganic substance. Blood rain typically causes no syndromes, only giving whomever caught in it an unhappy [[thought]]. Generated substances are more dangerous, causing minor symptoms such as vomiting, blisters and fevers, as well as inspiring the aforementioned unhappy thought. Dwarves caught into evil rain will spend a lot of time washing up after any outdoors work.

=== Dangers of evil weather ===
One of the dangers of evil weather is that ponds will never refill. Store water into underground basins and plan accordingly. Another annoyance is the total lack of wild bees in an evil climate. Though evil rains (excluding rains of blood) usually cause the "milder" types of [[syndrome]]s, these may still cause death as a secondary result of that syndrome: e.g. suffocation from blisters, dehydration from chronic nausea.

Some evil weather effects condense on creatures, making their effects semi-permanent - symptoms won't go away until the source is washed. Those effects also can spread like a disease. In most cases, it will just infect dwarves that carry contaminated bodies to caskets. Thralling dust clouds, however, [[fun|can quickly lead to an unstoppable zombie apocalypse]] if the dust is not completely washed off somehow.

==== Movement of evil weather and safeguarding ====
Evil weather forms on the edge of the map and moves about the screen in one direction as the wind blows. Because the clouds inflate similarly to [[miasma]], they can very quickly dissipate, fly out of the map immediately, carry on at a steady pace, or spread rapidly engulfing very large areas. They will not, however, change direction.

Although it will glide along a single Z-level, it will climb straight walls and pass over structures. It will not move through a closed door or raised drawbridge, but it can descend from an open roof and it will pass through fortifications with ease. If you choose to fortify outside, be sure to have any open areas secured with floodgates to act as shutters to keep the clouds out. Adding doors throughout the structure to stop any accidentally contained clouds from moving further inward does not hurt.

Undead created by evil weather gain immediate strength bonuses and acquire a status of Opposed to Life. They will tirelessly seek out living things to kill until they are struck down, which can take considerable effort.

{{Category|World}}

v0.34:Release information/0.34.11

2012-11-01T19:44:11Z

HiEv: /* Other bug fixes/tweaks */ Removed doubled word (which was in the original text)

-- 4 June 2012

== Major bug fixes ==
* Stopped crash from forbidden or otherwise lost containers in haul jobs
* Stopped crash from naming routes when no routes are present
* Stopped crash from renaming non-squads in the military screen
* Stopped adventurer from turning into an underground creature when solid ground for placement couldn't be found
* Stopped children from having missing/damaged clothing thoughts

== Other bug fixes/tweaks ==
* Stopped dwarves from walling/isolating themselves oftentimes
* Worker chooses the closest tile instead of preferring tile at the top left of each designation job location (they don't use path distance, nor does this impact global behavior like choosing which designation job is picked overall)
* Removed ramps near natural waterfalls
* Added confirmation for burrow deletion
* Added generic armor options (like those in the default uniforms)
* Stopped haulers from wandering in loops in certain circumstances
* Stopped removed constructions from injuring dwarves
* Stopped dwarves from looping between civ/squad equipment if they can't follow their orders
* Allowed dwarves to ride/push minecarts even when they don't have walking access to destination
* Made dwarves equip items based on clothing layering order (there can still be conflicts if some items are already worn)
* Made dwarves eat from backpacks/drink from waterskins earlier
* Made armor objects count for missing clothing thoughts
* Made dwarves drop extra equipment more promptly when they are hungry/thirsty
* Stopped empty bags from popping out of minecarts
* Cleared kill orders when completed (they can take a few extra clicks to clear up)
* Non-fire-immune creatures will dodge out of hot squares
* Fixed extra flashing _ problem when naming routes
* Random seeds can now be typed up to the proper number of characters
* Auto-assign new baby animals to mother's pasture/pond
* Stopped certain game actions from advancing when designations are placed
* Added indication of items which are already assigned in specific item assignment on military screen
* Stopped objects from being forbidden on enemy deaths if they are associated to fort military equipment
* Made command line world gen exit without forcing a key press confirmation
* Made command line understand quotes so that parameters with spaces in their names can be used (doesn't seem to work on linux/osx, not sure how to fix)

v0.34:Creature token

2012-10-22T14:23:57Z

HiEv: /* Tissue Modification */ Tweak to Iron Man tissue sample

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A full list of all known creature tokens.

__NOTOC__

<div align="center">
{{alphabetical TOC}}
</div>

==A==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| ADOPTS_OWNER
| Caste
|
| Tame creature cannot be made available for adoption, instead automatically adopting whoever it wants. It appears that the basic requirements for adoption are intact; for example, the creature is more likely to adopt an owner which likes creatures of that species.{{verify}}

|-
| ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT
| Caste
|
| Creature needs alcohol to get through the working day.

|-
| ALL_ACTIVE
| Caste
|
| Sets if the creature is active in day, night, and twilight. Seems to be a separate value from DIURNAL/NOCTURNAL/CREPUSCULAR, rather than implying them.

|-
| ALTTILE
| Creature
|
| If set, the creature will blink between its [TILE] and its [ALTTILE].

|-
| AMBUSHPREDATOR
| Caste
|
| Instead of charging relentlessly at prey, a creature with this tag will wait till the prey is within a few squares before charging.{{verify}}

|-
| AMPHIBIOUS
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to breathe with or without [[water]]. Implies [AQUATIC].

|-
| APP_MOD_DESC_RANGE
| Caste
|
*Range
| [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60554.msg1766793#msg1766793 Forum post describing how description ranges work]

|-
| APP_MOD_GENETIC_MODEL
| Caste
|
*Model (Accepts DOMINANT_MORE, DOMINANT_LESS, and MIX)
| Defines a genetic model for the relevant appearance modifier(s). May or may not do anything significant at present.

|-
| APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE
| Caste
|
*number
| Determines how important the appearance modifier is, for determining whether it shows up in the creature description.{{verify}}

|-
| APP_MOD_NOUN
| Caste
|
*noun
*SINGULAR or PLURAL
| creates a noun for the appearance and whether it is singular or plural

|-
| APP_MOD_RATE
| Caste
|
*Rate (integer)
*Scale (DAILY, YEARLY)
*min:max of growth
*start year:start day
*end year:end day
| setting the growth rate of the modifier. The last two tokens can be replaced by NO_END to have growth continue indefinitely.

|-
| APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION
| Special
|
*CV TEMPLATE NAME
| Loads the Creature Variation Template specified.

|-
| APPLY_CURRENT_CREATURE_VARIATION
| Special
|
| Applies loaded Creature Variation

|-
| AQUATIC
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to breathe underwater, but causes it to "drown" out of [[water]].

|-
| ARENA_RESTRICTED
| Caste
|
| Does not appear in arena mode list

|-
| ARTIFICIAL_HIVEABLE
| Creature
|
| Can be kept in artificial hives by beekeepers.

|-
| AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE
| Caste
|
| Does not attack or frighten wildlife.

|-
| ATTACK
| Caste
|
*token
*bodypart
*selection criteria
*location
| Defines the attack name, and the body part used. See [[#Attack Tokens|below]] for valid subtokens
'''Example:''' 
[ATTACK:GORE:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HORN] 
''GORE'' : name of the attack 
''BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HORN'' : the horn is used to attack (presuming the creature has one)

|-
| ATTACK_TRIGGER
| Caste
| pop:exported wealth:created wealth
| Specifies when a [[megabeast]] will attack the fortress.

|}

<div align="center">
{{alphabetical TOC}}
</div>

==B==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| BABY
| Caste
| integer
| Age at which creature is considered a child. Default is zero. One can think of this as the duration of the baby stage.

|-
| BABYNAME
| Caste
| singular:plural
| Defines a new name for a creature in baby state at the caste level. For non-caste-specific baby names, see GENERAL_BABY_NAME.

|-
| BEACH_FREQUENCY
| Caste
|
| [[Whale]]s and [[Sea nettle jellyfish|jellyfish]] have this. Controls the beaching frequency of the creature.

|-
| BENIGN
| Caste
|
| The creature will only show up in "tame" biomes. Such creatures will generally avoid dwarves, although they may chase and/or attack them if they get too close, notably including [[elephant]]s.

|-
| BIOME
| Creature
|
* [[biome token]]
| Select a [[Biome]] the creature may appear in.

|-
| BLOOD
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*matter state (LIQUID, GAS, SOLID)
| Specifies what the creature's blood is made of.

|-
| BLOODSUCKER
| Caste
|
| Seems to be required to make the creature denouncable as a creature of the night.

|-
| BODY
| Caste
| body parts
| Draws body parts from OBJECT:BODY files (such as body_default.txt)
'''Example:''' 
[BODY:BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG:HEART:GUTS:BRAIN:MOUTH] 
This is the body from a [[Purring maggot]]. It creates a body with head, a heart, some guts, a brain, and a mouth. Thats all a maggot needs.

|-
| BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER
| Caste
|
*ATTRIBUTE
*lowest:lower:low:median:high:higher:highest
| These body modifiers give individual creatures different characteristics. In the case of HEIGHT, BROADNESS and LENGTH, the modifier is also a percentage change to the BODY_SIZE of the individual creature. The seven numbers afterward give a distribution of ranges. Each interval has an equal chance of occurring.
'''Example:''' 
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110] 
''HEIGHT'' : marks the height to be changed 
''90:95:98:100:102:105:110'' : sets the range from the shortest (90% of the average height) to the tallest (110% of the average height) creature variation.

|-
| BODY_DETAIL_PLAN
| Caste
| PlanName, PlanName:type:type:type:etc
| loads a plan listed OBJECT:BODY_DETAIL_PLAN files, such as b_detail_plan_default.txt. Mass applies USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE, mass alters RELSIZE, alters body part positions, and will allow tissue layers to be defined. Tissue layers are defined in order of skin to bone here.
'''Example:''' 
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:VERTEBRATE_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE:BONE:CARTILAGE] 
This creates the detailed body of a [[fox]], the skin, fat, muscle, bones and cartilage out of the vertebrate tissues. 
A [[Purring maggot|maggot]] would only need: 
''[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:EXOSKELETON_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE]''

|-
| BODY_SIZE
| Caste
| years:days:size
| Sets size at a given age. Size is in cubic centimeters, and for normal body materials is roughly equal to the creature's average weight in grams.
'''Example:''' 
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:10000] 
[BODY_SIZE:1:168:50000] 
[BODY_SIZE:12:0:220000] 
This describes the size of a [[minotaur]]. His birth size would be 10,000 cm3 (~10 kg). At 1 year and 168 days old he would be 50,000 cm3 (~50 kg). And as an adult (at 12 years old) he would be 220,000 cm3 and weigh roughly 220 kg.

|-
| BODYGLOSS
| Caste
| gloss
| Substitutes body part text with replacement text. Draws gloss information from OBJECT:BODY files (such as body_default.txt)

|-
| BONECARN
| Caste
|
| Creature eats bones. Implies CARNIVORE. Civilized creatures (e.g. Kobolds) with this tag tend to die out during world generation.

|-
| BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER
| Caste
|
*QUALITY
*lowest:lower:low:median:high:higher:highest
| sets up the breadth of possibilities for appearance qualities for a selected BP group. EG. Eyes (CLOSE_SET, DEEP_SET, ROUND_VS_NARROW, LARGE_IRIS),Lips (THICKNESS), Nose (BROADNESS, LENGTH, UPTURNED, CONVEX), Ear (SPLAYED_OUT, HANGING_LOBES, BROADNESS, HEIGHT), Tooth (GAPS), Skull (HIGH_CHEEKBONES, BROAD_CHIN, JUTTING CHIN, SQUARE_CHIN), Neck (DEEP_VOICE, RASPY_VOICE), Head (BROADNESS, HEIGHT)

|-
| BUILDINGDESTROYER
| Caste
| 1 or 2
| Allows a creature to destroy furniture and buildings. Value [1] targets mostly doors, hatches, furniture and the like. Value [2] targets anything not made with the b + C commands.
|}

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{{alphabetical TOC}}
</div>

==C==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| CAN_DO_INTERACTION
| Caste
| interaction token
| The creature can perform an interaction. See [[interaction token]].

|-
| CAN_LEARN
| Caste
|
| The creature gets skills and professions. Note that this token makes the creature unable to be butchered by an adventurer so it is not recommended for uncivilized monsters. Adventurers lacking this token can allocate but not increase attributes and skills. skills allocated will disappear on start.

|-
| CAN_SPEAK
| Caste
|
| Can talk. Note that it is not necessary for a creature to gain social skills. If a member of a civilization (such as a pet) has this token, it'll need to eat and drink.{{verify}}

|-
| CANNOT_UNDEAD
| Caste
|
| Alias for NOT_LIVING

|-
| CANOPENDOORS
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to open doors.

|-
| CARNIVORE
| Caste
|
| Creature ''only'' eats meat. If the creature goes on rampages in worldgen, it will often devour the people/animals it kills.

|-
| CASTE
| Creature
|
*name
| defines a caste

|-
| CASTE_ALTTILE
| Caste
|
*tile number or "letter"
| Caste-specific alternate tile. Requires CASTE_TILE.

|-
| CASTE_COLOR
| Caste
|
*fg
*bg
*brightness
| Creature tile color of the caste.

|-
| CASTE_GLOWCOLOR
| Caste
|
*fg
*bg
*brightness
| GLOWTILE color of the caste.

|-
| CASTE_GLOWTILE
| Caste
|
*tile value or "letter"
| Caste-specific glowtile

|-
| CASTE_NAME
| Caste
| singular:plural:adjective
| The name of the caste of the creature in the game.

|-
| CASTE_PROFESSION_NAME
| Caste
|
*[[Unit type token]] (Profession)
*singular
*plural
| alters the name of the given profession, caste-specific

|-
| CASTE_SOLDIER_ALTTILE
| Caste
| 'character' or tile number
| Creatures of this caste active in their civilization's military will blink between their default soldier tile and this one. Requires CASTE_SOLDIER_TILE.

|-
| CASTE_SOLDIER_TILE
| Caste
| 'character' or tile number
| Creatures of this caste active in their civilization's military will use this tile instead.

|-
| CASTE_SPEECH
| Caste
| speech file?
| Possibly a caste-specific instance of the SPEECH token

|-
| CASTE_TILE
| Caste
|
* tile number or "letter"
| Caste-specific creature tile.

|-
| CAVE_ADAPT
| Caste
|
| Gives the creature a bonus in caves. Also causes [[Cave adaptation]].

|-
| CDI
| Caste
| Varies
| Specifies details for the preceding CAN_DO_INTERACTION token. See [[Interaction token]].

|-
| CHANGE_BODY_SIZE_PERC
| Caste
|
|

|-
| CHILD
| Caste
| integer
| age at which creature is considered an adult. One can think of this as the duration of the child stage. Without this token, a creature will not reproduce in Fortress mode.

|-
| CHILDNAME
| Caste
| singular:plural
| Defines a new name for a creature in child state at the caste level. For non-caste-specific child names, see GENERAL_CHILD_NAME.

|-
| CLUSTER_NUMBER
| Creature
|
*min
*max
| The minimum/maximum numbers of how many creatures per spawned cluster. Certain vermin fish use this token in combination with temperate ocean and river biome tokens to perform seasonal migrations.
e.g. [CLUSTER_NUMBER:1:3]

|-
| CLUTCH_SIZE
| Caste
|
*min
*max
|Number of eggs laid in one sitting.

|-
| COLONY_EXTERNAL
| Caste
|
| Caste hovers around colony.

|-
| COLOR
| Creature
| foreground:background:brightness
| Color of the creature's tile.

|-
| COMMON_DOMESTIC
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to be brought with immigrants and when creating a new fortress, as long as the creature also includes at least one of the following tokens: PET, PACK_ANIMAL, WAGON_PULLER, MOUNT. In addition, the creature must be NATURAL rather than FANCIFUL

|-
| CONVERTED_SPOUSE
| Caste
|
| Creatures of this caste's species with the SPOUSE_CONVERTER and NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER tokens will kidnap SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGETs of an appropriate sex and convert them into castes with CONVERTED_SPOUSE.

|-
| COOKABLE_LIVE
| Caste
|
| Set this to allow the creature to be cooked in meals without first being butchered / fishcleaned.

|-
| CRAZED
| Caste
|
| Creature is 'berserk' and will attack all other creatures, except members of its own species that ALSO have the CRAZED tag.

|-
| COPY_TAGS_FROM
| Special
|
*CREATURE NAME
| Copies tags from another specified creature.

|-
| CREATURE_CLASS
| Caste
|
*classname
| Creature class. Can be anything, but only existing use is GENERAL_POISON. Appears to only be used for Syndromes. Supposedly can also be used for entity positions.

|-
| CREATURE_SOLDIER_TILE
| Creature
| 'character' or tile number
| Creatures active in their civilization's military will use this tile instead.

|-
| CREATURE_TILE
| Creature
| 'character' or tile number
| The symbol of the creature in ASCII mode.

|-
| CREPUSCULAR
| Caste
|
| Sets if the creature is active at twilight.

|-
| CURIOUSBEAST_EATER
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to steal and eat edible items from a site.

|-
| CURIOUSBEAST_GUZZLER
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to (very quickly) drink your alcohol. Or spill the barrel to the ground. Also affects undead versions of the creature.

|-
| CURIOUSBEAST_ITEM
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to steal things (apparently the highest value it can find). If the creature goes on rampages in worldgen, it will often steal items instead of attacking.

|-
| CV_ADD_TAG
| Special
|
*TAG NAME
| Adds a tag. Used in conjunction with creature variation templates.

|-
| CV_REMOVE_TAG
| Special
|
*TAG NAME
| Removes a tag. Used in conjunction with creature variation templates.
|}

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==D==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| DEMON
| Caste
|
| Found on generated [[demon]]s. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

|-
| DESCRIPTION
| Caste
| text
| A brief description of the creature type.

|-
| DIE_WHEN_VERMIN_BITE
| Caste
|
| Dies upon attacking. Used for bee stings.

|-
| DIFFICULTY
| Caste
| integer
| Toady: "Difficulty determines how deep it places them in adventure mode/reclaim caves, and the chance that they are wounded the first few river attacks." (Outdated? This particular quote referred to version .23a) Also increases experience gain during adventure mode.

|-
| DIURNAL
| Caste
|
| Sets if the creature is active in day.

|-
| DIVE_HUNTS_VERMIN
| Caste
|
| Found on [[peregrine falcon]]s. The creature hunts vermin by diving from the air. May be bugged due to fortress pets remaining earthbound.

|-
| DOES_NOT_EXIST
| Creature
|
| Creature does not actually exist; used for fanciful creatures.
|}

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==E==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| EBO_ITEM
| Caste
| [[item token]]:[[material token]] (ANY_HARD_STONE can be used for the material)
| Defines the item that the creature drops upon being butchered. Used with EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT.

|-
| EBO_SHAPE
| Caste
| gem shape
| The shape of the extra item of the creature upon butchering. Used with EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT.

|-
| EGG_MATERIAL
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*state (SOLID, LIQUID, or GAS)
| Egg material. Egg-laying creatures will define this 3 times, using LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL, LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE, and then LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK. Eggs will be made out of eggshell. Edibility is determined by tags on whites or yolk, but they otherwise do not exist.

|-
| EGG_SIZE
| Caste
|
*size
| Determines how long it takes for eggs to hatch{{verify}}. The larger the number, the longer it takes.

|-
| EQUIPMENT_WAGON
| Creature
|
| Makes the creature into a large 3x3 creature responsible for carrying trade goods, pulled by two [WAGON_PULLER]s and driven by a merchant.

|-
| EQUIPS
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to wear or wield items.

|-
| EVIL
| Creature
|
| Creature is considered evil and will only show up in evil biomes. Has no effect on cavern creatures.

|-
| EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT
| Caste
|
* BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
* TYPE, CATEGORY, or TOKEN
| The creature drops an additional object when butchered (typically a gizzard stone), defined by EBO_ITEM and EBO_SHAPE.

|-
| EXTRACT
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
| Defines a creature extract which can be obtained via [[small animal dissection]].

|-
| EXTRAVISION
| Caste
|
| Creature can see regardless of whether it has working eyes.
|}

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==F==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| FANCIFUL
| Creature
|
| Makes every civilization know about the creature. The creature won't occur in regular material preference lists. The tag also adds some art value modifiers. Used for things like dragons and other legendary creatures. Conflicts with [COMMON_DOMESTIC]

|-
| FEATURE_ATTACK_GROUP
| Caste
|
| Found on subterranean animalmen.

|-
| FEATURE_BEAST
| Caste
|
| Found on [[forgotten beast]]s. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

|-
| FEMALE
| Caste
|
| Inside a female caste, sets femaleness. Outside of a caste, sets all individuals female unless overridden by caste.

|-
| FIREIMMUNE
| Caste
|
| Renders a creature immune to being damaged by FIREBREATH's short range cone attack.

|-
| FIREIMMUNE_SUPER
| Caste
|
| The creature is immune to DRAGONFIREBREATH. Implies FIREIMMUNE.

|-
| FISHITEM
| Caste
|
| Needs to be cleaned at a fishery

|-
| FIXED_TEMP
| Caste
| temperature
| The natural heat generated by the creature.

|-
| FLEEQUICK
| Caste
|
| Determines how soon a creature flees in a losing battle. Creatures with this tag will flee at the first sign of resistance.

|-
| FLIER
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to fly. Fortress Mode pathfinding only partially incorporates pathfinding - flying dwarves need a land path to exist between them and an area in order to access it, but as long as one such path exists, they do not need to use it, instead being able to fly over intervening obstacles.

|-
| FREQUENCY
| Creature
|
*number, max 100
| Determines the chances of a creature appearing within its environment, with higher values resulting in more frequent appearance. The game effectively considers all creatures that can possibly appear and uses the FREQUENCY value as a ''weight'' - for example, if there are three creatures with frequencies 10/25/50, the creature with [FREQUENCY:50] will appear approximately 58.8% of the time. Defaults to 50 if not specified. Not to be confused with POP_RATIO.
|}

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==G==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| GENERAL_BABY_NAME
| Creature
| singular:plural
| name at creature level

|-
| GENERAL_CHILD_NAME
| Creature
| singular:plural
| name at creature level

|-
| GENERAL_MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER
| Caste
| A:B
| Attacks against the creature have their force modified by A/B. For example, 1:2 will halve the force of an attack made against the creature. {{verify}}

|-
| GENERATED
| Creature
|
| Found on procedurally generated creatures like [[Forgotten beast]]s, (biome name) [[titan]]s, [[Demon]]s, and [[night creature]]s. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

|-
| GETS_INFECTIONS_FROM_ROT
| Caste
|
| Creature can get infections from necrotic tissue.

|-
| GETS_WOUND_INFECTIONS
| Caste
|
| Creature's wounds can become infected.

|-
| GLOWCOLOR
| Creature
|
*foreground
*background
*brightness
| The colour of the GLOWTILE of the creature.

|-
| GLOWTILE
| Creature
| ascii character
| If present, the being glows in the dark (generally used for Adventure Mode). The tile is what replaces the being's current tile when it is obscured from your sight by darkness. The default setting for kobolds (a yellow quotation mark) provides a nice "glowing eyes" effect. The game is also hardcoded to automatically convert quotation mark GLOWTILES into apostrophes if the creature has lost one eye. This works at the generic creature level - for caste-specific glow tiles, use CASTE_GLOWTILE instead.

|-
| GNAWER
| Caste
| verb
| The creature can and will gnaw its way out of [[animal trap]]s and [[cage]]s using the specified verb, depending on the material from which it is made. Due to a bug, however, they will only escape from [[artifact]]s.{{bug|6117}}

|-
| GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS
| Caste
| class
| The creature eats vermin of the specified class.

|-
| GOBBLE_VERMIN_CREATURE
| Caste
| creature:caste
| The creature eats a specified vermin.

|-
| GO_TO_END
| Special
|
| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags at the end of the creature.

|-
| GO_TO_START
| Special
|
| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags at the beginning of the creature.

|-
| GO_TO_TAG
| Special
|
| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags after the specified tag.

|-
| GOOD
| Creature
|
| Creature is considered good and will only show up in good biomes, for example [[unicorn]]s. Presumably has no effect on cavern creatures.

|-
| GRASSTRAMPLE
| Caste
| value
| The value determines how rapidly grass is trampled when a creature steps on it - a value of 0 causes the creature to never damage grass, while a value of 100 causes grass to be trampled as rapidly as possible. Defaults to 5.

|-
| GRAVITATE_BODY_SIZE
| Caste
| target value
| Used in Creature Variants. This token changes the adult body size to the average of the old adult body size and the target value and scales all intermediate growth stages by the same factor.

|-
| GRAZER
| Caste
|
*number
| Animals is a grazer. The higher the number, the less frequently it needs to eat in order to survive.
|}

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==H==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| HABIT
| Caste
| type:probability
| Defines certain behaviors for the creature. The habit types are COLLECT_TROPHIES, COOK_PEOPLE, COOK_VERMIN, GRIND_VERMIN, COOK_BLOOD, GRIND_BONE_MEAL, EAT_BONE_PORRIDGE, USE_ANY_MELEE_WEAPON, GIANT_NEST, and COLLECT_WEALTH. These may require the creature to have a lair to work properly.

|-
| HABIT_NUM
| Caste
| number or TEST_ALL
| "If you set HABIT_NUM to a number, it should give you that exact number of habits according to the weights.".[[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60554.msg1719248#msg1719248 source post]] All lists of HABITs are preceded by [HABIT_NUM:TEST_ALL]

|-
| HAS_NERVES
| Caste
|
| This makes the creature susceptible to severed motor and sensory nerves when muscles are torn in limb, grasp and stance parts. Some butchering yields nervous tissue.

|-
| HASSHELL
| Caste
|
| The creature has a shell. Seemingly no longer used - holdover from previous versions.

|-
| HIVE_PRODUCT
| Creature
|
*number
*[[time]]
*[[item token]]s
| What product is harvested from [[Beekeeping industry|beekeeping]].

|-
| HOMEOTHERM
| Caste
|
| Default 'NONE'. The creature's normal body [[temperature]]

|-
| HUNTS_VERMIN
| Caste
|
| Creature hunts and kills nearby vermin.

|}

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==I==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| IMMOBILE
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot move. Found on [[sponge]]s. Will also stop a creature from breeding in Fortress Mode (MALE and FEMALE are effected, if one is IMMOBILE no breeding will happen)

|-
| IMMOBILE_LAND
| Caste
|
| The creature is immobile while on land. Only works on AQUATIC creatures which can't breathe on land.

|-
| IMMOLATE
| Caste
|
| Will ignite, and potentially completely destroy, items the creature is standing on. Keep booze away from critters with this tag. Also gives the vermin a high chance of escaping from [[animal trap]]s and [[cage]]s made of certain materials. Due to a bug, however, they will only escape from [[artifact]]s.{{bug|6117}}

|-
| INTELLIGENT
| Caste
|
| Shortcut for [CAN_SPEAK] + [CAN_LEARN].

|-
| ITEMCORPSE
| Caste
|
* [[item token]]
* [[material token]]
| Determines if the creature leaves behind a non-standard corpse (i.e. wood, statue, bars, ash from ghost etc).

|-
| ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY
| Caste
|
| The quality of an item-type corpse left behind; 5 is masterpiece-level.
|}

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==L==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| LAIR
| Caste
| type:probability
| Found on megabeasts, semimegabeasts, and night creatues. The creature will seek out sites of this type and take them as lairs. The lair types are SIMPLE_BURROW, SIMPLE_MOUND, WILDERNESS_LOCATION, SHRINE, and LABYRINTH.

|-
| LAIR_CHARACTERISTIC
| Caste
| characteristic:probability
| Defines certain features of the creature's lair. The only valid characteristic is HAS_DOORS.

|-
| LAIR_HUNTER
| Caste
|
| This creature will actively hunt adventurers in its lair.

|-
| LAIR_HUNTER_SPEECH
| Caste
| speech file
| What this creature says while hunting adventurers in its lair.

|-
| LARGE_PREDATOR
| Caste
|
| Will attack things that are smaller than it (like dwarves). Only one group of "large predators" will appear on any given map (possibly two groups on "savage" maps). In adventure mode, large predators will try to ambush and attack you (and your party will attack them back). When tamed, large predators tend to be much more aggressive to enemies than non-large predators, making them a good choice for an animal army. They may go on rampages in worldgen, and adventurers may receive quests to kill them. Also, they can be mentioned in the intro paragraph when starting a fortress e.g. "ere the wolves get hungry."

|-
| LARGE_ROAMING
| Creature
|
| In Fortress Mode, spawns outdoors and is not a vermin creature.

|-
| LAYS_EGGS
| Caste
|
| Creature lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young.

|-
| LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS
| Caste
|
* [[item token]]
* [[material token]]
| Creature lays a particular item instead of regular eggs.

|-
| LIGAMENTS
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*healing rate
| Defines the material and healing rate of ligaments.

|-
| LIGHT_GEN
| Caste
|
| The creature will generate light, such as in adventurer mode at night.

|-
| LIKES_FIGHTING
| Caste
|
| The creature will attack enemies rather than flee from them. This tag has the same effect on player-controlled creatures - included modded dwarves.

|-
| LISP
| Caste
|
| Creature uses "sssssnake talk" (multiplies 'S' when talking - "My name isss Recisssiz.")

|-
| LITTERSIZE
| Caste
|
* minumum
* maximum
| Determines the random chance of how many creatures are generated when giving birth. [LITTERSIZE:1:2]

|-
| LOCKPICKER
| Caste
|
| Lets a creature open doors that are set to forbidden in Fortress Mode.

|-
| LOOSE_CLUSTERS
| Creature
|
| The creatures will scatter if they have this tag, or form tight packs if they don't.
|}

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==M==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| MAGICAL
| Caste
|
| Unknown.

|-
| MAGMA_VISION
| Caste
|
| Creature's able to see while covered in magma.

|-
| MALE
| Caste
|
| The species or caste is all male.

|-
| MANNERISM_*
| Caste
|
*occasionally body part
| Adds a possible mannerism to the creature's profile.
Refer to [[Creature mannerism token]]s

|-
| MATERIAL
| Creature
|
*material id
| Begins defining a new material.{{verify}}

|-
| MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER
| Caste
|
*[[Material token]]
*A:B
| Set the force multiplier of a specific material against the creature to A/B. For example, 10:1 multiplies the force by 10. {{verify}}

|-
| MATUTINAL
| Caste
|
| Sets if the creature is active in dawn.

|-
| MAXAGE
| Caste
| min:max
| Range of time in years in which death from old age may occur. Once a creature reaches the min value, it has a random chance each season of dying from old age. Unknown if the chance increases with further age.

|-
| MEANDERER
| Caste
|
| Gives a creature random movement.

|-
| MEGABEAST
| Caste
|
| A 'boss' creature. A small number of the creature are created during worldgen, their histories and descendants (if any) will be tracked in worldgen (as opposed to simply 'spawning'), and they will occasionally go on rampages, potentially leading to worship if they attack the same place multiple times. Their presence and number will also influence age names. When appearing in Fortress Mode, they will have a pop-up message announcing their arrival.

|-
|MENT_ATT_CAP_PERC
| Caste
|
*[[DF2012:Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*Cap %
|Default is 200. This means you can increase your attribute to 200% of its starting value (or the average value + your starting value if that is higher).

|-
| MENT_ATT_RANGE
| Caste
|
*[[DF2012:Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]]
*lowest:lower:low:median:high:higher:highest
| Sets up a mental attribute's range of values (0-5000). All mental attribute ranges default to 200:800:900:1000:1100:1300:2000.

|-
| MENT_ATT_RATES
| Caste
|
*[[DF2012:Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*cost to improve
*unused counter rate
*rust counter rate
*demotion counter rate
| Mental attribute gain/decay rates. Defaults are 500:4:5:4.

|-
| MILKABLE
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
* frequency
| Allows the creature to be milked.

|-
| MISCHIEVIOUS
| Caste
|
| Alias for MISCHIEVOUS

|-
| MISCHIEVOUS
| Caste
|
| Will pull any levers it comes across. Also makes creature spawn invisible and with several ranks in Ambusher. "They go on little missions to mess with various fortress buildings, not just levers."

|-
| MODVALUE
| Caste
|
| Seemingly no longer used.

|-
| MOUNT
| Caste
|
| Creature may be used as a mount.

|-
| MOUNT_EXOTIC
| Caste
|
| ?

|-
| MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE
| Caste
|
| Makes litters with more than one offspring rare.

|-
| MUNDANE
| Creature
|
| Marks if the creature is an actual real-life creature. Only used for age-names at present, and determining whether a creature will attack creatures with the AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE token.
|}

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==N==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| NAME
| Creature
| singular:plural:adjective
| The generic name for any creature of this type - will be used when distinctions between caste are unimportant. For names for specific castes, use CASTE_NAME instead. If left undefined, the creature will be labeled as "nothing" by the game.

|-
| NATURAL
| Caste
|
| Alias for NATURAL_ANIMAL

|-
| NATURAL_ANIMAL
| Caste
|
| Animal is considered to be natural.

|-
| NATURAL_SKILL
| Caste
| [[Skill_token|Skill token]]:value
| The creature possesses this skill at this level inherently. It begins with this skill at this level, and the skill may never rust below this level. Requires CAN_LEARN or INTELLIGENT to function (changed in .25 or earlier that CAN_LEARN is no longer required).

|-
| NIGHT_CREATURE_BOGEYMAN
| Caste
|
| Found on bogeymen. Creatures with this tag will join other bogeymen in attacking adventurers at night, and will also adopt their other behaviors, such as vanishing in smoke upon being killed. This does not affect the creature's presence elsewhere, such as for generated megabeasts, normal creatures, entity members, etc. Setting the number of bogeyman types to zero in the world gen parameters will remove only the randomly-generated bogeymen.

|-
| NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER
| Caste
|
| A very small population of the creature will be created during worldgen (sometimes only a single individual will be created), and their histories will be tracked (that is, they will not spawn spontaneously later, they must either have children or convert other creatures to increase their numbers). The creature will settle in a lair and go on rampages during worldgen. If this creature has SPOUSE_CONVERTER, it will actively attempt to seek out potential conversion targets to abduct, convert, and have children with (if possible).

This tag causes the usual behaviour of [[werebeast]]s in worldgen, that is, fleeing towns upon being cursed and conducting raids from a lair. If this tag is absent from a deity curse, the accursed will simply be driven out of towns in a similar manner to [[vampire]]s.

|-
| NO_AUTUMN
| Caste
|
| This creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|autumn]].

|-
| NO_CONNECTIONS_FOR_MOVEMENT
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't require connected body parts to move{{verify}}; generally used on undead creatures with connections that have rotted away.

|-
| NO_DIZZINESS
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot become dizzy

|-
| NO_DRINK
| Caste
|
| Creature does not need to drink.

|-
| NO_EAT
| Caste
|
| Creature does not need to eat.

|-
| NO_FEVERS
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot suffer fevers

|-
| NO_GENDER
| Caste
|
| Creature has no gender.

|-
| NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN
| Caste
|
| The affected caste cannot gain any physical skills.

|-
| NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST
| Caste
|
| The affected caste cannot lose any physical skills.

|-
| NO_SLEEP
| Caste
|
| Creature does not need to sleep.

|-
| NO_SPRING
| Caste
|
| This creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|spring]].

|-
| NO_SUMMER
| Caste
|
| This creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|summer]].

|-
| NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't require an organ with the [THOUGHT] tag to survive or attack; generally used on creatures that don't have brains.

|-
| NO_WINTER
| Caste
|
| This creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|winter]].

|-
| NOBONES
| Caste
|
| Creature has no bones.

|-
| NOBREATHE
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't need to breathe or have [BREATHE] parts in body. Cannot drown or be strangled.

|-
| NOCTURNAL
| Caste
|
| Sets if the creature is active in night.

|-
| NOEMOTION
| Caste
|
| The creature has no emotions, and does not rage.

|-
| NOEXERT
| Caste
|
| Creature can't become tired or over-exerted.

|-
| NOFEAR
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't feel fear and will never run away from battle.

|-
| NOMEAT
| Caste
|
| Creature will not drop meat on butcher.

|-
| NONAUSEA
| Caste
|
| Creature can't vomit.

|-
| NOPAIN
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't feel pain.

|-
| NOSKIN
| Caste
|
| Creature will not drop skin on butcher.

|-
| NOSKULL
| Caste
|
| Creature will not drop skull on butcher, rot, or decay of severed head.

|-
| NOSMELLYROT
| Caste
|
| Does not produce miasma when rotting

|-
| NOSTUCKINS
| Caste
|
| Weapons can't be stuck in creature.

|-
| NOSTUN
| Caste
|
| Creature can't be stunned. Creatures with this tag never wake up from sleep in Fortress Mode and stay drowsy. If this creature must eat and drink while playing, it WILL die.

|-
| NOT_BUTCHERABLE
| Caste
|
| Cannot be butchered

|-
| NOT_LIVING
| Caste
|
| Cannot be raised from the dead.

|-
| NOTHOUGHT
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't require a [THOUGHT] body part to survive. If it does not have NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT as well, it will be unable to use any attacks other than the default 'push'.
|}

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==O==
{| {{prettytable}}
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! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| OPPOSED_TO_LIFE
| Caste
|
| Is hostile to all creatures except undead and other non-living ones. Used for [[Undead]].

|}

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==P==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| PACK_ANIMAL
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to be used as a pack animal. Currently only used by merchants. Also prevents creature from dropping hauled items on its own -- do not use for player-controllable creatures.

|-
| PARALYZEIMMUNE
| Caste
|
| The creature is immune to all paralyzing special attacks.

|-
| PATTERNFLIER
| Caste
|
|

|-
| PEARL
| Caste
|
| In earlier versions, creature would generate pearls. Does nothing in the current version.

|-
| PENETRATEPOWER
| Caste
| value
| Controls the ability of vermin to find a way into containers when they are eating food from your stockpiles.

|-
| PERSONALITY
| Caste
|
*ATTRIBUTE
*lowest:median:highest
| Determines the range and chance of personality traits. Standard is 0:50:100. See [[Personality trait]] for more info.

|-
| PET
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to be tamed. Also allows all females of the species to breed regardless of marital status.

|-
| PET_EXOTIC
| Caste
|
| The creature can be tamed, but it is much harder to tame and most civilizations have limited knowledge.

|-
| PETVALUE
| Caste
| value
| How valuable a tamed animal/pet is. Actual cost in points in the embarking screen is (PETVALUE/2)+1 for an untrained animal, PETVALUE+1 for a trained(War or Hunting) one. Note that for an animal to be selectable in this screen, it must have the COMMON_DOMESTIC token.

|-
| PETVALUE_DIVISOR
| Caste
| value
| Divides the creature's PETVALUE by the specified number. Used for bees to prevent a single hive from being worth a fortune.

|-
|PHYS_ATT_CAP_PERC
| Caste
|
*[[DF2012:Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*Cap %
|Default is 200. This means you can increase your attribute to 200% of its starting value (or the average value + your starting value if that is higher).

|-
| PHYS_ATT_RANGE
| Caste
|
*[[DF2012:Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]]
*lowest:lower:low:median:high:higher:highest
| Sets up a physical attribute's range of values (0-5000). All physical attribute ranges default to 200:700:900:1000:1100:1300:2000.

|-
| PHYS_ATT_RATES
| Caste
|
*[[DF2012:Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*cost to improve
*unused counter rate
*rust counter rate
*demotion counter rate
| Physical attribute gain/decay rates. Defaults for STRENGTH, AGILITY, TOUGHNESS, and ENDURANCE are 500:3:4:3, while RECUPERATION and DISEASE_RESISTANCE default to 500:NONE:NONE:NONE.

|-
| PLUS_BP_GROUP
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, or BY_TOKEN
*body type, category, or token
| Adds a body part group to selected body part group. Presumably used immediately after SET_BP_GROUP.

|-
| PLUS_MATERIAL
| Creature
|
*material
| Adds a material to selected materials. Used immediately after SELECT_MATERIAL.

|-
| POP_RATIO
| Caste
|
| Weighted population of caste; Lower is rarer. Not to be confused with FREQUENCY.

|-
| POPULATION_NUMBER
| Creature
| min:max
| The minimum/maximum numbers of how many of these creatures are present in each world map tile of the appropriate region.

|-
| POWER
| Caste
|
| Allows the being to represent itself as a deity. Requires CAN_SPEAK to actually do anything more than settle at a location (e.g. write books, lead armies, profane temples). Doesn't appear to do anything for creatures that are already civilized.

|-
| PREFSTRING
| Creature
| string
| Sets what other creatures like about this creature. "Urist likes dwarves for their beards." Multiple entries will be chosen from at random

|-
| PROFESSION_NAME
| Creature
|
*[[Unit type token]] (Profession)
*singular
*plural
| The generic name for members of this profession, at the creature level. In order to give members of specific castes different names for professions, use CASTE_PROFESSION_NAME instead.

|-
| PRONE_TO_RAGE
| Caste
| number
| Small creatures with this tag will occasionally attack larger creatures on sight instead of running away; the number indicates how likely it is to do so. They are also more likely to enter a 'rage' state during combat, increasing their offensive power.

|-
| PUS
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*matter state (LIQUID, GAS, SOLID)
| Specifies what the creature's wounds will ooze when infected.
|}

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==R==
{| {{prettytable}}
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! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| RELSIZE
| Caste
|
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*body category, type, or token
*Relsize
| Specifies a new relative size for a part than what is stated in the body plan. For example, Dwarves have larger livers.

|-
| REMAINS
| Caste
| singular:plural
| What creature's remains are called.

|-
| REMAINS_COLOR
| Caste
|
| What color creature's remains are.

|-
| REMAINS_ON_VERMIN_BITE_DEATH
| Caste
|
| Goes with VERMIN_BITE and DIE_WHEN_VERMIN_BITE, the vermin creature will leave remains on death when biting. Leaving this tag out will cause the creature to disappear entirely after it bites.

|-
| REMAINS_UNDETERMINED
| Caste
|
| Unknown.

|-
| REMOVE_MATERIAL
| Creature
|
*material token
| Removes a material from a creature.

|-
| REMOVE_TISSUE
| Creature
|
*material token
| Removes a tissue from a creature.

|-
| RETRACT_INTO_BP
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY or BY_TOKEN
*TYPE, CATEGORY or TOKEN
| The creature will retract a body part when threatened. It will be unable to move or attack, but enemies will only be able to attack the specified body part.

|-
| RETURNS_VERMIN_KILLS_TO_OWNER
|
|
| Used with HUNTS_VERMIN, causes the creature to return killed vermin to its owner.

|-
| ROOT_AROUND
| Caste
|
| Creature will occasionally root around in the grass, looking for insects. Used for flavor in Adventure Mode, no practical effect known.

|}

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==S==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| SAVAGE
| Creature
|
| The creature will only show up in "savage" biomes.

|-
| SECRETION
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*Material State
*location secreted from (by_type, by_category, by_token)
*body part
*tissue layer
| creates a secreted material on given tissue on a given part of the body.

|-
| SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE
| Creature
|
*caste name
| adds an additional previously defined caste to the selection. Used immediately after SELECT_CASTE.

|-
| SELECT_CASTE
| Creature
|
*caste name, or ALL
| selects a previously defined caste

|-
| SELECT_MATERIAL
| Creature
|
*Material token
| Selects a locally defined material. Can be ALL.

|-
| SEMIMEGABEAST
| Caste
|
| Essentially the same as MEGABEAST, but more of them are created during worldgen.

|-
| SET_BP_GROUP
| Caste
|
*selection criteria BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*category, type, or token
| Begins a selection of body parts.

|-
| SET_TL_GROUP
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token
*tissue
| begins a selection of tissue layers

|-
| SHEARABLE_TISSUE_LAYER
| Caste
|
* tissue modifier
* required value
| Tissue layer can be sheared for its component material. The specified modifier must be at least of the desired value for shearing to be possible (a llama's wool must have a LENGTH of 300 before it is shearable).

|-
| SKILL_LEARN_RATE
| Caste
| [[skill_token]]:percentage
| The rate at which this creature learns this skill. Requires CAN_LEARN or INTELLIGENT to function.

|-
| SKILL_LEARN_RATES
| Caste
| percentage
| The rate at which this creature learns all skills. Requires CAN_LEARN or INTELLIGENT to function.

|-
| SKILL_RATE
| Caste
| [[skill_token]]:percentage:value:value:value
| As SKILL_RATES for individual skills. Requires CAN_LEARN or INTELLIGENT to function.

|-
| SKILL_RATES
| Caste
|
*% of improvement points you get
*unused counter rate
*rust counter rate
*demotion counter rate
| Affects skill gain and decay. Lower numbers in the last three slots make decay occur faster ([SKILL_RATES:100:1:1:1] would cause rapid decay). The counter rates may also be replaced with NONE.
Default is [SKILL_RATES:100:8:16:16]. [SLOW_LEARNER] changes the 100 to a 50. Requires CAN_LEARN or INTELLIGENT to function.

|-
| SKILL_RUST_RATE
| Caste
| [[skill_token]]:value:value:value
| The rate at which this skill decays. Lower values cause the skill to decay faster. Requires CAN_LEARN or INTELLIGENT to function.

|-
| SKILL_RUST_RATES
| Caste
| value:value:value
| The rate at which all skills decay. Lower values cause the skills to decay faster. Requires CAN_LEARN or INTELLIGENT to function.

|-
| SLOW_LEARNER
| Caste
|
| Similar to [CAN_LEARN], but slower; skills are gained at a fraction of the rate. Present in the entries for ogres and giants; can be applied to civ or player races.

|-
| SMALL_REMAINS
| Caste
|
| If a creature has this token, it'll leave "remains" instead of a corpse.

|-
| SOLDIER_ALTTILE
| Creature
| 'character' or tile number
| If this creature is active in its civilization's military, it will blink between its default tile and this one.

|-
| SOUND
| Caste
|
* Sound application (currently accepts ALERT or PEACEFUL_INTERMITTENT)
* Sound range (in tiles)
* Sound delay (lower values = sound is produced more often)
* VOCALIZATION or NONE (determines whether the sound requires breathing or not)
* First-person description
* Third-person description
* Description when out of sight
| Creature makes sounds periodically, which can be heard in Adventure mode.

|-
| SPECIFIC_FOOD
| Caste
|
* PLANT or CREATURE
* Plant/creature ID
| Indicates that the creature is only capable of eating a particular type of food.

|-
| SPEECH
| Creature
| speech file
| Boasting speeches relating to killing this creature. Examples include dwarf.txt and elf.txt in data\speech.

|-
| SPEECH_FEMALE
| Creature
| speech file
| Boasting speeches relating to killing females of this creature.

|-
| SPEECH_MALE
| Creature
| speech file
| Boasting speeches relating to killing males of this creature.

|-
| SPEED
| Caste
| value
| Sets the creatures' movement and work speed, 1000/[100 + SPEED X] is the resulting effect on creatures movement and work rates from default. See [[Speed]] for more information.

|-
| SPHERE
| Creature
|
*sphere name
| Sets what religious spheres the creature is aligned to, for purposes of being worshipped via the [POWER] token. Also affects the layout of hidden fun stuff, and the creature's name.

|-
| SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGET
| Caste
|
| This creature can be converted by a night creature with SPOUSE_CONVERTED.

|-
| SPOUSE_CONVERTER
| Caste
|
| If the creature has the NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER tag, it will kidnap SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGETs and transform them into the caste of its species with the CONVERTED_SPOUSE tag during worldgen. It may also start families this way.

|-
| SUPERNATURAL
| Caste
|
| Gives the creature knowledge of any secrets with SUPERNATURAL_LEARNING_POSSIBLE that match its spheres. Other effects are unknown.

|-
| SWIM_SPEED
| Caste
|
*speed
| How fast the creature swims. Typically 2500 (0.38 times the default speed).

|-
| SWIMS_INNATE
| Caste
|
| The creature naturally knows how to swim, as opposed to [SWIMS_LEARNED] below. Currently, an AI bug prevents this from being useful on PC races in fortress mode.

|-
| SWIMS_LEARNED
| Caste
|
| The creature doesn't know how to swim unless it has learned the skill. Requires [CAN_LEARN], obviously.

|}

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==T==
{| {{prettytable}}
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! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| TENDONS
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*healing rate
| Defines the material and healing rate of tendons.

|-
| THICKWEB
| Caste
|
| The creature's webs can catch larger creatures.

|-
| TISSUE
| Creature
| name
| Begins defining a tissue in the creature file.

|-
| TITAN
| Caste
|
| Found on [[titan]]s. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

|-
| TL_COLOR_MODIFIER
| Caste
| COLOR:freq:COLOR:freq etc
| Creates a list of color patterns, giving each a frequency.

|-
| TLCM_GENETIC_MODEL
| Caste
|
| tissue layer color modifier is passed to offspring genetically?

|-
| TLCM_IMPORTANCE
| Caste
|
*number
| Presumably modifies the importance of the tissue layer color modifier, for description purposes.
HOWEVER using this appears to remove all mention of colour from creature descriptions. It does not appear in any default creatures.

|-
| TLCM_NOUN
| Caste
|
*name
*SINGULAR or PLURAL
| names the tissue layer color modifier, and determines the noun

|-
| TLCM_TIMING
| Caste
|
*ROOT
*start change window years:days:end change window years:days
| determines the point in the creature's life where the color change begins

|-
| TRADE_CAPACITY
| Caste
|
| How much the creature can carry when used by merchants.

|-
| TRAINABLE
| Caste
|
| Shortcut for [TRAINABLE_HUNTING] + [TRAINABLE_WAR].

|-
| TRAINABLE_HUNTING
| Caste
|
| Can be trained as hunting beasts by way of kennels.

|-
| TRAINABLE_WAR
| Caste
|
| Can be trained as war beasts by way of kennels.

|-
| TRANCES
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to go into martial trances.

|-
| TRAPAVOID
| Caste
|
| The creature is immune to traps. Probably every procedurally generated megabeast has this.

|-
| TRIGGERABLE_GROUP
| Creature
| min:max
| A large swarm of vermin can be disturbed, usually in Adventure mode.{{verify}}

|-
| TSU_NOUN
| Caste
|
*noun
*SINGULAR or PLURAL
| Noun for the TISSUE_STYLE_UNIT, used in the description of the tissue layer's style.
|}

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==U==
{| {{prettytable}}
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! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| UBIQUITOUS
| Creature
|
| Creature will occur in every region with the correct biome. Does not apply to evil/good tags.

|-
| UNDERGROUND_DEPTH
| Creature
|
*mindepth
*maxdepth
| Depth the creature appears underground. Numbers can be from 0 to 5. 0 is actually 'above ground' and can be used if the creature is to appear both above and below ground. A single argument may be used instead of min and max. Only magma creatures use 4 or 5 in the default raws. Civilizations that can use underground plants or animals will only export (via the embark screen or caravans) things that available at depth 1.

|-
| UNDERSWIM
| Caste
|
| Creature swims under the water and can't be seen. Currently appears to have no effect as of 31.25.

|-
| UNIQUE_DEMON
| Caste
|
| Typically found on generated [[demon]]s; causes the game to create a single named instance of the demon which will emerge from the underworld and take over civilizations during worldgen. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

|-
| USE_CASTE
| Creature
|
*new caste token
*old caste token
| Defines a new caste derived directly from a previous caste. The new caste inherits all properties of the old one. The effect of this tag is automatic if one has not yet defined any castes: "Any caste-level tag that occurs before castes are explicitly declared is saved up and placed on any caste that is declared later, unless the caste is explicitly derived from another caste."

|-
| USE_MATERIAL
| Creature
|
*new material ID
*old material ID
| Defines a new local creature material and populates it with all properties defined in the specified local creature material.

|-
| USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE
| Creature
|
*new material token
*material template
| Defines a new local creature material and populates it with all properties defined in the specified template.

|-
| USE_TISSUE
| Creature
|
*new tissue token
*old tissue id
| Defines a new local creature tissue and populates it with all properties defined in the local tissue specified in the second argument.

|-
| USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE
| Creature
|
*new tissue token
*tissue template
| Loads a tissue template listed in OBJECT:TISSUE_TEMPLATE files, such as tissue_template_default.txt.

|-
| UTTERANCES
| Caste
|
| Changes the language of the creature into unintelligible 'kobold-speak', which creatures of other species will be unable to understand. If a civilized creature has this and is not part of a SKULKING civ, it will tend to start wars with all nearby civilizations and will be unable to make peace treaties due to 'inability to communicate'.
|}

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==V==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
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! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| VEGETATION
| Caste
|
| unknown

|-
| VERMIN_BITE
| Caste
|
*chance of occurance{{verify}}
*verb (bitten, stung, etc)
* [[material token]]
| Vermin bites, and injects something.

|-
| VERMIN_EATER
| Creature
|
| The vermin creature will attempt to eat exposed food. See PENETRATEPOWER. Distict from VERMIN_ROTTER.

|-
| VERMIN_FISH
| Creature
|
| The vermin appears in water and will attempt to swim around.

|-
| VERMIN_GROUNDER
| Creature
|
| The creature appears in "general" surface ground locations. Note that this doesn't stop the creature from flying if it can (most vermin birds have this tag).

|-
| VERMIN_HATEABLE
| Caste
|
| Some dwarves will hate the creature and get unhappy thoughts when around it.

|-
| VERMIN_MICRO
| Caste
|
| This makes the creature move in a swarm of creatures of the same race as it. I.E. Swarm of flies, swarm of ants, etc.

|-
| VERMIN_NOFISH
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot be caught by fishing.

|-
| VERMIN_NOROAM
| Caste
|
| The creature will not be observed randomly roaming about the map.

|-
| VERMIN_NOTRAP
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot be caught in baited animal traps; however, a "catch live land animal" task may still be able to capture one if a dwarf finds one roaming around.

|-
| VERMIN_ROTTER
| Creature
|
| Present on flies, knuckle worms, acorn flies, and blood gnats. Probably means either the creature is attracted to rot, the creature speeds rotting, or both.

|-
| VERMIN_SOIL
| Creature
|
| The creature randomly appears near dirt or mud.

|-
| VERMIN_SOIL_COLONY
| Creature
|
| The vermin will appear in a single tile cluster of many vermin, such as a colony of ants.

|-
| VERMINHUNTER
| Caste
|
| Shortcut for [AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE] + [RETURNS_VERMIN_KILLS_TO_OWNER] + [HUNTS_VERMIN] + [ADOPTS_OWNER].

|-
| VESPERTINE
| Caste
|
| Sets if the creature is active in evening.

|-
| VIEWRANGE
| Caste
| value
| Value should determine how close you have to get to a critter before it attacks (or prevents adv mode travel etc.) Default is 20.
|}

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==W==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| WAGON_PULLER
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to pull caravan wagons.

|-
| WEBBER
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
| Allows the creature to create webs, and defines what the webs are made of.

|-
| WEBIMMUNE
| Caste
|
| The creature will not get caught in thick webs.
|}

==Attack Tokens==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
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! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| ATTACK_SKILL
| Caste
|
*skill used ([[Skill token]])
| defines the attack skill used

|-
| ATTACK_VERB
| Caste
| 2nd person:3rd person
| descriptive text for the attack

|-
| ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC
| Caste
|
*% value
| amount of available tissue used in attack, or possibly percent chance the attack makes contact

|-
| ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC
| Caste
|
*% value
| probably amount of material that makes contact when penetration is done, or possibly percent chance the attack penetrates (as in sharp items. Default is 0, so it can be left out for blunt attacks, if this is what it does)

|-
| ATTACK_PRIORITY
| Caste
|
*MAIN or SECOND
| use of the attack in combat. Secondary attacks are only used if main attacks are impossible.

|-
| ATTACK_VELOCITY_MODIFIER
| Caste
| number
| Modifies the attack velocity. 1000 is normal, same as weapon velocity.

|-
| ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH
| Caste
|
| Enables an attacker to occasionally latch on with the bodypart used by an attack when an attack with this flag in its definition is made. It will then be able to 'shake' the body part for further damage.

|-
| ATTACK_FLAG_WITH
| Caste
|
| In adventure mode, displays the name of the body part used by an attack when announcing the attack.

|-
| ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE
| Caste
|
| The attack will deal edge-type damage.

|-
| SPECIALATTACK_INJECT_EXTRACT
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*state (SOLID, LIQUID, GAS)
*min:max
| attack type addition that injects a material into the victim.

|-
| SPECIALATTACK_INTERACTION
| Caste
| interaction
| When this attack lands successfully, an interaction with I_SOURCE:ATTACK will take effect on the target creature. The attack must break the target creature's skin in order to work. This will take effect in worldgen as well.

|-
| SPECIALATTACK_SUCK_BLOOD
| Caste
| min:max
| Successful attack draws out an amount of blood randomized between the min and max value.
|}

==Important Related Tokens==
These next groups of tokens include several tokens that are not technically classified as creature tokens in string dump, but bear mentioning in this as they are used frequently in creature raws. (Some regular creature tokens may also be reprinted for the sake of ease of navigation)

===Tissue Modification===
This next group of tokens deals setting and modifying tissue properties. (See also [[Tissue definition token]])

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| PLUS_TISSUE_LAYER
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token
| Adds a tissue to those selected

|-
| PLUS_TL_GROUP
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token
*tissue
| continues a selection of tissue layers

|-
| SELECT_TISSUE
| Creature
|
*tissue token
| Selects a tissue for editing.

|-
| SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token | Selects a tissue at a location
* (optional) FRONT, BACK, LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, BOTTOM, AROUND.
| Selects a tissue layer for descriptor and cosmetic purposes.

|-
| SET_LAYER_TISSUE
| Caste
|
| Sets a tissue layer to be made of a different tissue.

|-
| TISSUE_LAYER
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*TYPE,CATEGORY, or TOKEN
*TISSUE
*LOCATION
| Adds the tissue layer to wherever it is required.
Non-argument Locations can be FRONT, RIGHT, LEFT, TOP, BOTTOM. Argument locations are AROUND and CLEANS, requiring a further body part and a % of coverage/cleansing

|-
| TISSUE_LAYER_OVER
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*TYPE,CATEGORY, or TOKEN
*TISSUE
*LOCATION
| Presumably a counterpart to TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER (see below).

|-
| TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*TYPE,CATEGORY, or TOKEN
*TISSUE
| Adds the tissue layer under a given part.
For example an Iron Man has a gaseous poison within and this tissue (GAS is its name) has the token [TISSUE_LEAKS] and its state is GAS so when you puncture the iron outside and damage this tissue it leaks gas (can have a syndrome by using a previous one in the creature sample.) [TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:{tissue}] {tissue} is what will be under the TISSUE_LAYER here is an example Tissue from Iron Man: 
[TISSUE:GAS] [TISSUE_NAME:gas:NP] [TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:GAS] [TISSUE_MAT_STATE:GAS] [RELATIVE_THICKNESS:50] [TISSUE_LEAKS] [TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
|-
| TISSUE_LAYER_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER
| Caste
|
*QUALITY
*lowest:lower:low:median:high:higher:highest
| sets the range of qualities, including LENGTH, DENSE, HIGH_POSITION, CURLY, GREASY, WRINKLY

|-
| TISSUE_STYLE_UNIT
| Caste
|
*tissue
*shaping
| sets tissue to be in a certain shape, mostly used with tissues HAIR, BEARD, MOUSTACHE, SIDEBURNS.

|-
| TL_CONNECTS
| Caste
|
| Presumably gives the CONNECTS attribute to selected layers.

|-
| TL_HEALING_RATE
| Caste
|
| Presumably changes the HEALING_RATE of the selected tissue layers.

|-
| TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES
| Caste
|
| Gives Major Artery attribute to selected layers.

|-
| TL_PAIN_RECEPTORS
| Caste
|
| Seems to set new number of pain receptors for selected tissue layers.

|-
| TL_RELATIVE_THICKNESS
| Caste
|
| Seems to set new relative thickness for selected tissue layers.

|-
| TL_VASCULAR
| Caste
|
| Seems to set new a VASCULAR value (which modulates bleeding) for selected tissue layers.

|}

==See Also==
*[[Body detail plan token]]
*[[Body token]]
*[[Material definition token]]
*[[Syndrome]]
*[[Tissue definition token]]

{{Category|Modding}}
{{Category|Tokens}}

v0.34:Bedroom design

2012-10-18T01:37:09Z

HiEv: /* Magical Three-way Doors */ Alternate layout; added doors to old layout and corrected size; changed section title since old design only used two-way doors

{{av}}
{{quality|Masterwork|02:13, 08 November 2010 (UTC)}}
There are many ways to design the layout of [[bedroom]]s. Simplicity, ease of designating, efficiency, and aesthetics are all important factors in designing dwarven housing. The ability to modify the design to enlarge, improve, or add rooms can be important as well. Proximity of the rooms to [[noise]] should also be considered.

The simplest approach resolving dwarven sleeping requirements is to have all your dwarves sleep in a large communal [[dormitory]]. The smallest ''bedroom design'' possible is a corridor with notched spaces for beds.

Players frequently want designs which maximize positive thought and minimize the path distance between a dwarf's food, drink, job and home. This process is further complicated when the [[dwarven economy]] kicks in, and a wide range of "[[Room#Specific room quality grades|room qualities]]" are needed, and low-budget dwarves are kicked out of any over-priced quarters. To this end, a number of solutions, some surprisingly elegant, have been produced.

Many of the designs shown here were taken from [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=16901.0 this forum post].

=Minimalism=

Sometimes, simpler is better... not always, but sometimes...

=== 1x1 bed only, no walls ===

By far the most minimal design is to take a bed, place it anywhere you want, then set it as a 1x1 room. This bed 'room' can be assigned to a dwarf early on, or rented once the economy kicks in, and will at least serve the bare minimum purpose of avoiding unhappy thoughts from the lack of a room. It will not, of course, leave the dwarves with any space to store any possessions at all -- but with the economy active, it will also have an absolute minimal rent, which makes it worth having a few such rooms set up. And, of course, it requires the absolute minimum work to set up; all you need is existing empty space, preferably with no noise nearby, and a bed to place in it.

An additional refinement is to expand the room area of each bed to 3x3, deliberately causing them to overlap. This lowers the value of each bed, which in turn lowers the rent and provides some low-rent housing for impoverished dwarves to stay -- it can drop as low as 7 coins depending on the arrangement.

Alternatively if you are building compact merely to save space or improve framerate, a 1x1 bedroom on a smoothed, engraved floor can have quite a high room value, particularly if the beds are packed into a mined out vein of valuable metal or gemstones.

=== Communal dormitory ===

The simplest form of dwarven housing. Stick a bunch of beds in a room, designate a [[dormitory]] from one of them (do not assign the bed to anyone), and voilà, instant flophouse. On maps with no [[tree]]s, this is pretty much your only option for sleeping quarters before breaching a cavern or importing large amounts of wood. (Dwarves will sleep on the floor of the dormitory if no beds are available, which at least keeps them from sleeping in the wilderness.)

This setup only causes a single negative thought ("slept without a proper room recently"), although you miss out the benefit of the happy thoughts generated by personally-owned furniture. However, as long as you compensate by offering your dwarves high-quality [[food]] and [[alcohol]], an expansive [[dining room]], and other luxuries, your dwarves will remain happy enough to be productive throughout the life of a fortress. (You may still wish to give [[noble]]s their own rooms, however; they tend to [[mandate|get]] [[demand|upset]] when their [[Noble#Room Requirements Summary|requirements]] are not met)

More than one dormitory can be built in a fortress; if they do not own their own bedroom, dwarves will gravitate to the nearest empty bed when it is time for them to sleep.{{verify}}

Communal dormitories are more appealing in .34 due to the presence of [[vampire]]s among fortress populations, as it increases the likelihood of the offending bloodsucker being caught. If unhappy thoughts are a concern, individual spaces around the beds may be assigned as bedrooms instead (and optionally, furniture built on those spaces).

=== Plain square design ===
[[Image:square_bedroom.png|right]]
If it is 2×2, 3×3 or more, square designs are probably the first choice of many players. Easy to plan, easy to put in place, this kind of design is one of the best when the player values his playing time instead of the overall layout of his fortress. While square designs are easy to reproduce en masse, most are not optimized either for beauty or space efficiency, two aspects that other designs excel at.

=== Line design ===
[[Image:line_bedroom.png|right|thumb| '''Line design''', laid out (left) and finished (right)]]
Line designs have the advantage of being very space efficient and very adaptative. From 1×1 to 1×4 and longer, it can fit almost anywhere, can be upgraded later on as long as you have the space behind your first original line and do not need excessive corridor space for the bedroom access. Simply dig a few lines out of an access tunnel already in use in your fortress and voilà, you have new living quarters. This kind of minimalistic design is perfect for when the economy kicks in, as it can be adapted in a flash for any kind of low wage citizen.

===Decentralized living===
In larger fortresses, one of the bigger problems is traffic. Dwarves have a tendency to all get hungry, thirsty, and tired in waves, and a crowd of 50 of them storming your centralized food stockpiles, one big dining room, and dormitory tunnels can cause a lot of lost time while the hordes shuffle by each other. A good solution to this is decentralized architecture, incorporating most of the essentials of every day life into numerous smaller areas. This isn't to suggest that you shouldn't have a legendary dining hall set as a meeting area, capable of holding half your fortress at once. You definitely should! But decentralizing from that dining hall relieves a lot of congestion in the halls surrounding the main dining hall, and makes it easier for dwarves just to pass through.

[[image:Living.GIF|right]]
In this image, the access stairwell (blue fields in the center), spread out in all directions to a public dormitory and dining room for poorer dwarves on the left/right and to 3x3 private rooms on the top/bottom. The design allows for two small stockpiles of food (gray fields) to minimize the walk to a dining hall.

There are also built-in areas for impressive things like [[Main:statues|statues]] and [[Main:cages|cages]] (for zoos) to keep dwarves admiring your handiwork. The 3x3 rooms are easy to get up to decent or higher to keep your most useful dwarves happy as clams. They're also convenient for impromptu noble housing, since you can just knock out a wall between two rooms and convert one into a dining room for a whiny noble. You could even expand the corner rooms a bit more on both the X and Y axes to make four 3x3 rooms to give the noble a dining room, tomb, and office all in one area. This is especially useful for the mayor, who gets replaced every so often. When a new Mayor is elected, one can reassign all the trappings to the new mayor in one go. If you want an even more decentralized and calm traffic pattern, put tables and chairs in all the private rooms; dwarves will prefer to eat in their quarters. The walls between the doors leading to the dormitory and Dining Room allow for 2 entrances and 2 exits to each predictably higher-traffic room while leaving a pillar of rock for an engraving. The main corridor also allows you to branch off into 4 restraints per floor in a private 1x2 prison. Since it's flanked by an animal cage and a statue (or alternatively, 2 statues. This may be better because Statues block movement and it's effectively the same as surrounding the prisoner with walls). Additionally, in an area you want smoothed and engraved to begin with, it gives prisoners a leg upon their happiness immediately and -- once again -- prevents traffic jams from convicts being brought food and water in larger prisons.

Another option for maximizing traffic throughput is to put a 1x3 line of upward stairwells on one end of the blue field, and a 1x3 line of downward stairwells on the other. This simulates a 3-wide vertical corridor without the safety risks of up/down stairwells.

You may also, at your discretion, knock out the statues and cages near the stairwell to make the entire plan a little more compact (though you lose the easy prisons in this case). This plan can stretch on the x axis as much as you like, but note that the 1 wide corridors leading to individual rooms can get crowded if more than 10 dwarves are living along each one. Even with the given layout, though, one floor supports 26 private rooms and as many as 14 public beds. This works out quite nicely since one floor is enough to handle most immigrant waves, while existing floors' public beds can handle a decent amount of overflow. The public dormitory rooms can also be converted into prisons very easily (just put chains next to every bed) if you decide not to go with the main design.

=== High density single floor housing ===

[[Image:Housing_by_Marble_Dice.png|thumb|244px|This is the 61x61 housing plan]]

This fractal-inspired design combines space efficiency with wider access hallways to alleviate traffic jams. Stairs are placed in the middle, and the design can expand indefinitely. To decrease the size, remove the outermost perimeter hallway, and all connected bedrooms. To increase the size, use the picture as a guide and follow the same radial pattern.

{| class="wikitable" style="padding:"
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Size
! style="text-align:left;" | Capacity
! style="text-align:left;" | Max walk distance from center
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 29x29 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 48 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 23 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 45x45 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 120 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 39 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 61x61 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 224 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 55 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 77x77 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 360 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 71 steps
|}

 

=== The multiply-overlapping single bedroom ===

A variation on the dormitory can produce large numbers of cheap, high quality bedrooms, very easily. Start with a large room, perhaps 20 x 20 tiles, and put many beds in it. From each of those beds, create a bedroom that covers the entire room. Each of the rooms overlaps the other rooms, and therefore suffers a quality modifier, but the room is large enough that its size can dominate the quality calculation. A room this size with a couple hundred beds in it, and some combination of smoothing, engraving, or multiple pieces of cheap furniture, can be of any quality level that is desired, from modest to royal.

=High density,single floor, quick housing=

[[Image:Dwarf-bedroom-simple.jpg|thumb|250px|This is a 35x35 housing plan]]

This design is nice in that it is very quick to lay since using shift to move the cursor moves in steps of 11 tiles. Additionally the rooms made this way can be used even after the economy activates since it is very easy to increase or decrease their value. Each 1-tile wide walkway is shared by 10 dwarves reducing congestion and each room can fit a bed, a chest and a cabinet leaving 1 free space for any miscellaneous items such as a statue for legendary dwarves, the free space is in the back of the room for the reason that it allows you to place blocking items that cannot be moved over there without sealing your dwarves in/out.

=High density, multi-level=

Optimizing space, minimizing walking distance, these are good things... for some...

===Magical Multi-way Doors===

The main point of this design is that it squeezes six bedrooms in a space of 9x8 squares (including walls) by using two-way doors. It's meant to be built across several Z-levels, making it take up a minimal amount of practical space. It can be easily mirrored, although that requires a wider corridor (or the use of four bedrooms instead of six on the other side).

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Level -1 ¦ Level 0 ¦ Level 1
+-----+ ¦ +-----+ ¦ +-----+
¦..¦..¦ ¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦ ¦..¦..¦
+-+.¦.+-+ ¦ +-+.¦.+-+ ¦ +-+.¦.+-+
¦.+D-D+.¦ ¦ ¦.+D-D+.¦ ¦ ¦.+D-D+.¦
¦..¦X¦..¦ ¦ ¦..¦X¦..¦ ¦ ¦..¦X¦..¦
¦---D---¦ ¦ ---+.+--- ¦ ¦---D---¦
¦...¦...¦ ¦ ......... ¦ ¦...¦...¦
+-------+ ¦ ¦ +-------+}}

'''Alternate layout:'''

This is a simpler (though slightly less compact) design using three-way doors.

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+---+---+
¦...¦...¦
+---+---D---+
¦...¦XXX¦...¦
+---D---+---+
¦...¦...¦
+---+---+}}

One apartment "unit" gives you 6 rooms using only 2 doors and it fits within a 13x7 space (including walls). Access to the apartments in the unit is through the 1-3 up/down stairwells in the center. This design can be expanded by repeating the same pattern one level down and/or by tiling together multiple units together on the same level.

Both designs mean that you have to build less doors per bedroom, which helps save time and materials.

===Sandwich===

A design to move bedrooms vertically spread across many unused Z levels easily. The rooms can be preferentially scaled up or down depending on needs. If space is reserved serves well for expansion of each bedroom as suitable.

The sandwich basically consists of a three tile wide hallway or wider. Up/Down Stairways are evenly distributed in increments which lead to one or more bedrooms as needed. Hatches can be used between the individual bedrooms as vertical doors.

{{diagram|spaces=yes|\
Level -1 ¦ Level 0 ¦ Level 1
+-----------+ ¦ ¦ +-----------+
¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦ ¦ ¦ ¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦ ------------- ¦ ¦..¦..¦..¦..¦
¦X.¦X.¦X.¦X.¦ ¦ .X..X..X..X.. ¦ ¦X.¦X.¦X.¦X.¦
¦--+--+--+--¦ ¦ ............. ¦ ¦--+--+--+--¦
¦X.¦X.¦X.¦X.¦ ¦ .X..X..X..X.. ¦ ¦X.¦X.¦X.¦X.¦
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦ ------------- ¦ ¦..¦..¦..¦..¦
¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦ ¦ ¦ ¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦
+-----------+ ¦ ¦ +-----------+}}

The bedroom design can be copied several times further up and down starting from Level 1 or -1 to exploit available space in neighbouring Z levels. The design is excellent as the space surrounding the hallway can be used for directly tying to the dining/meeting hall.

===6-room clusters===

[[File:ClusterBedrooms.png|thumb|350 pix|'''6-room clusters''' ''(click to enlarge)'']]
This one is quite dense. There are six bedroom clusters. They can be built close to each other.

There are 7 6-room clusters here. If 5 Z-Levels of this are built, that's 5*7*6=210, which is plenty for most any fortress.

=== Living Pods (Residential Flats) ===

This design is compact and allows for a large number of rooms. Each room has 3 tiles plus a door. To add to the complex build an apartment level one level above or below the lobby - the stairs allow direct access. The design can be stretched to make the rooms 3x2 or 3x3, or to allow more rooms per floor, depending on your preference. Though not as visually impressive as the fractal patterns it is very efficient in that it can allow for large numbers of dwarves to easily access the main hallway. The pods are very quick to deploy as the interior (mined out) width of the pods exactly equals one {{k|Shift}}+move of the cursor. Highlight a full square with a horizontal shift+move then a vertical. Then ''un''mark the 3 internal walls in both horizontal and vertical directions (each also 1 shift+move distance long), and finally mark in the four staircases. Sixteen bedrooms with extremely efficient pathing laid out in as many seconds.
{{diagram|spaces=yes|\
Upper/lower
Apartment Level: Lobby Level:
+-----------+ +-----------+..
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦..¦..¦.. O
¦.+-+.¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦.+-+.¦.. u
¦-¦X¦-+-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X+---+X+-+.. t
¦.+-+.¦.+-+.¦ ¦.++..O........ e
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦........... r
¦--+--+--+--¦ ¦--¦O...O+--+..
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦.....¦..¦.. H
¦.+-+.¦.+-+.¦ ¦.++..O..++.¦.. a
¦-¦X¦-+-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X+---+X¦-¦.. l
¦.+-+.¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦.+-+.¦.. l
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦..¦..¦..
+-----------+ +-----------+..}}

==== Pod variant ====

This is an example of varying the above to suit personal taste. Three significant changes have been made:

:1) 2 pair of vertical access stairs feed upward, instead of one horizontal hallway.

:2) The entire design has been expanded (to 15x15, vs 13x13 above), but rooms have not been expanded to fill all available space - not yet. That will be done if/as need arises, and many of the 3-tile rooms can become 5- or 7-tile1, or two joined together to become 12-tile suites2.

:3) Allow for a central waterfall with drain system*.

<pre>
Upper Apartment Level(s*): Lobby Level: Lower Apartment Level(s*):
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦
¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦
¦.+¦+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+¦+.OOO.+-+.¦ ¦.+¦+..¦..+-+.¦
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦.......¦..¦ ¦..¦.+---+.¦..¦
+--+-------+--+ +--¦..###..¦--+ +--¦.¦~~~¦.¦--+
¦XX#~#XX¦ ¦<<#~#<<¦ ¦-¦~¦~¦-¦
+--+-------+--+ +--¦..###..¦--+ +--¦.¦~~~¦.¦--+
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦.......¦..¦ ¦..¦.+---+.¦..¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.OOO.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+..¦..+-+.¦
¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+</pre>Legend:
:X = up/down stair
:< = up stair
:~ = flowing water, in waterfall and drain
:<nowiki>#</nowiki> = [[grate]] or floor [[bars]] over drain
:¦ = solid block at base of waterfall
:O = [[statue]]s (though a [[zoo]] or booze stockpiles could work as well)

Notes:
:1) Expanding out one more tile can create size 5-11 rooms, or size 19 if two are connected.
:2) A size 15 room is ample for any noble, with the possible exception of a [[king|king/queen]].

:<nowiki>*</nowiki> The floor plan for the waterfall/drain system may vary from floor to floor, and by personal taste. Eventually it can be routed off and out one side, and the full interior area of all levels below that reserved for apartments.

''(Note - It's easy to [[flood]] an area with a waterfall such as this - be sure you are familiar with the technique before risking an entire dormitory (or the lower parts, at least) on it.)''

=== Greek Cross design===
[[image:VaniverGreek48.png|right|thumb| 48 tile design]]
Minimizing walking distances requires good use of vertical space. This plan is simple, scalable, and only takes up a few floors - 6 if you have 32 per floor, 4 if you have 48. The maximum walking distance should be less than 20 (walking up/down stairs counts as one distance.).[[image:VaniverGreek32.png|center|thumb| 32 tile design]]

=== Shaft design ===

[[Image:Shaft_bedroom_design.gif|thumb|Shaft bedroom design with a few possible variations.]]

The Shaft design allows various options for entry direction and central "shaft" use. The central shaft may be altered to create dining rooms and offices for minor nobles, "deluxe" bedrooms, hospital beds, or simply more bedrooms. The design can easily accommodate several different room sizes while maintaining efficiency. However, the design utilizes Z-levels for efficiency, and you must build several levels of Shaft designs to accommodate a fully grown fortress.

The Shaft design can fit 20 2x2 rooms, or 30 1x1 rooms.

=== Tileable shaft design ===

The tileable shaft design is a further expansion of the general shaft design above, coming in somewhere between the simple geometric designs and the vastly more complex fractal designs. These are designs that can be symmetrically tiled, that means concatenated in all six directions and are thus suited both for manual design as well as macro-automation. They allow the user to extend the same pattern over very large areas and to easily extend the available space per room up to a given size by tearing down just a few walls. Additionally, they can be suited for bedrooms as well as work and storage.[[Image:tileable_shaft_big.png|thumb|Tileable shaft design with a few possible variations.]]

The downsides are that they're not especially optimized for walking distance or large hallways, and the necessity of the main access shaft on the z-level (stairs) having to be in the central-most tile (marked red in the examples) to allow z-level stacking.

=== Modified Windmill Villas ===

This is the most efficient method I have seen, and it keeps the central stair case as well.

(Calculations use 8 levels)
*Dwarfs per level = 28
*Levels needed for 200 = 7.1
*Max distance (including Z) = 15
*Average distance = 10.2
*Average distance per level = 5.4

[[Image:Modified_Windmill_Villas.png|Modified windmill villas]]

=Repeating patterns & fractals=

Art for art's sake... and if it's functional, so much the better...

=== Tessellated Apartments ===

[[File:Tessellatedrooms.jpg]]

Access can be from above and/or below by the stairs, or a hallway can be run into the dining room level by removing the bedroom at one of the cardinal points. This design can be repeated as far as desired in the X, Y, and Z directions.

===Noble Hive Pods===

A geometric pattern for Noble housing trying for interesting aesthetics and high mobility. The basic tiling pattern is shown on the left; one possible way to join them, involving surrounding corridors and a central staircase and a jillion doors, on the right.

[[File:Noblehive.png]]

=== Fractal designs ===

Betting on design beauty and on geometrical symmetry first, fractal designs can also be, at the same time, very space and walk efficient. They however require a lot of time and space both to plan and execute and are most likely out of reach of all but the most serious players. Fortunately, most of the designs displayed below would be avoided by the most serious players, due to their lack of serious Z-level access and incongruity with almost any general access plan. Most players however agree that they are the most incredible of all the designs around, if not for the sheer challenge of successfully executing something as complex, as for the extra touch it gives to the fortress as a whole once it is done.

[[image:Raynard_square_delight1.png]] [[image:Raynard1.png]]

[[image:Raynard_whirlpool_housing.png]]

[[image:Hactar1_3_branch_tree.png]] [[image:Hactar1_Mandelbrot_Tree.png]]

[[Image:SavokisLeaf08a032.png]]

[[image:Andrelius_Windmill_Villas.png]]

[[image:4bh0r53n_h-fractal.jpg]]

More fractal bedroom designs based upon the H-Tree (pictured above) can be found at [[User:Tenebrous|this user page]].

===Fractal modified for 3d===
This was created by palin88 from [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=17784.msg17413 Bay12Games forum] in order to make a three-dimensional version of Raynard's Fractal Design.

[[File:Palin88_Bedroom_Design.png]]

===Hallway with office by multibeast===

¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦-+ +-¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B+ ¦
¦ +---------+╤¦ ¦b+---------+ +
¦ ¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦╥¦ ¦r¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦ ¦
¦ ¦k¦k¦k¦k¦k¦H¦ ¦H¦k¦k¦k¦k¦k¦ ¦
¦ ¦c¦c¦c¦c¦c¦ ¦c¦c¦c¦c¦c¦ ¦
¦ ¦D¦D¦D¦D¦D¦ ¦D¦D¦D¦D¦D¦ ¦
X
¦ ¦D¦D¦D¦D¦D¦ ¦D¦D¦D¦D¦D¦ ¦
¦ ¦c¦c¦c¦c¦c¦ ¦c¦c¦c¦c¦c¦ ¦
¦ ¦k¦k¦k¦k¦k¦H¦ ¦H¦k¦k¦k¦k¦k¦ ¦
¦ ¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦╥¦ ¦╥¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦ ¦
¦ +---------+╤¦ ¦╤+---------+

H=door or chair if you want to keep it only 2blocks big
you can repeat this roomplan and use the staircases as big rooms for nobels
or leave the center 9blocks full and dig a chanel from the floor above in the middle for a well above

{{Buildings}}
{{Category|Design}}

v0.34:Hatch cover

2012-10-15T01:13:05Z

HiEv: Undo revision 178222 by Nkosi (talk) (Yes, you can dump garbage on same Z-level, but then you may have miasma problems, thus dumping down levels)

{{quality|Fine|21:36, 4 April 2012 (UTC)}}{{av}}

A '''hatch cover''' (also called a '''floor hatch''' or just '''hatch''') is, in effect, a [[door]], but controlling the passage between Z-levels instead of along the same Z-level. They can be placed over downward [[stairs]] or [[ramp]] or open space, as long as they are supported by an adjacent floor tile.

Like doors, they can be linked with mechanisms, locked, and kept tightly closed to keep out water, pets and foes alike. They can be set as internal, but as [[room]]s cannot occupy multiple Z-levels, this has no effect at this time.

When closed, hatches appear as {{Raw Tile|¢|0:7:1}} and are not visible when open. A hatch cover's color is determined by the [[material]] it is made from.

As [[building destroyer]]s can only destroy buildings on other z-levels under [[Building destroyer#Destroying from underneath|certain conditions]], hatch covers can be quite effective at keeping out enemies if used properly.

They can be constructed from a [[Mason's workshop]], [[Metalsmith's forge]], [[Carpenter's workshop]], or [[Glass furnace]] from [[stone]], [[metal]], [[wood]], or [[glass]] respectively. Once {{k|b}}uilt, they may be placed with {{k|H}}.

A dwarf falling down stairs will be stopped by a closed floor hatch.

Using a hatch cover, a garbage dump can be designed to drop items on the same Z level as the dwarf doing the dumping, thus removing risk of falling items causing injuries. This is done by channeling one square, and then constructing the hatch over the hole. Designate a dump zone over the hatch, and haulers will neglect to open the hatch, leaving the hauled items on the floor nearby instead.

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v0.34:Metal

2012-10-15T00:18:05Z

HiEv: /* Weapon and armor quality */ Linked to research on various bolt types

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'''Metal''' is a [[material]] extracted from [[ore]] at a [[smelter]], turning the ore into '''bars''' of pure metal. (One [[adamantine|special metal]] becomes wafers instead of bars.) It is sometimes combined with other materials to form an '''alloy''' metal, which is also measured by the bar. An alloy usually improves on the properties of its components to give more uses or increased [[Item value|value]]. The metal bars resulting from [[smelting]] are used to make items such as [[weapon]]s, [[armor]], [[furniture]], and [[crafts]] at a [[Metalsmith's forge|forge]].

Smelting pure ores into the corresponding bars raises the base value from that of stone (3) to that of bars (5). This value is then multiplied against the [[value#Material multipliers|material multiplier]] of the metal to give the final value for the bar.

==Alloys==
There are only eleven pure metals in Dwarf Fortress (plus a twelfth [[Adamantine|special metal]]). Many of these can be mixed together to create '''alloys''' of one type or another, of which there are another fourteen. In some cases making alloys will result in an overall increase in value, or the resultant alloy will be more powerful when used to forge weapons or armor, though many alloys result in no overall increase in utility or [[Wealth|created wealth]]. (These increases in value can be compared in the "Difference" column of the below table.)

There are many uses for alloys:
* Increased performance for armor or weapons.
* Stretching your supply of scarce metals.
* Creating items with distinct colors (for instance, [[rose gold]] is [[Color scheme|magenta]]) for furniture, color-coding rooms or levers, or artistic constructions (including [[floor]] mosaics).
* Increasing [[thought|happiness]] or perceived [[room]] value for a dwarf who particularly likes a given alloy.
* Decreased [[fuel]] consumption if making the alloy directly from ores (e.g. [[bronze]] requires only one smelter task to make 8 bars from 2 ores).

The number of bars used to create an alloy always equals the number of bars produced: the number of bars input equals the number of bars of output. However, the number of bars produced from smelting ores is four times greater (X ores in = 4X bars out).

== List of metals ==

===Pure Metals===

{{v0.31 metal table head}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Adamantine|color={{Tile|≡|3:1}}{{Tile|‼|3:3:1}}3:3:1|source=[[Raw adamantine]]|notes=Can be used to forge anything except beds; Blades are 10x sharper than any other material|soliddensity=0.200|mp=25000|val=300|valinc=+50|impactyield=5.00|impactfracture=5.00|impactelasticity=0|shearyield=5000|shearfracture=5000|shearelasticity=0
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Aluminum|color={{Tile|≡|7:1}}{{Tile|‼|7:7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native aluminum]]|notes=|soliddensity=2.70|mp=11188|val=40|valinc=+0|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=1421|shearyield=20|shearfracture=50|shearelasticity=77
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Bismuth|color={{Tile|≡|5:1}}{{Tile|‼|5:5:1}}5:5:1|source=[[Bismuthinite]]|notes=Only useful for alloying into [[bismuth bronze]]|soliddensity=9.78|mp=10488|val=2|valinc=+1|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=3484|shearyield=30|shearfracture=50|shearelasticity=250
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Copper|color={{Tile|≡|6:0}}{{Tile|‼|6:4:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Native copper]], [[Malachite]], [[Tetrahedrite]]|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, and picks|soliddensity=8.93|mp=11952|val=2|valinc=+0, +0, -1*|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=771|shearyield=70|shearfracture=220|shearelasticity=145
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Gold|color={{Tile|≡|6:1}}{{Tile|‼|6:6:1}}6:6:1|source=[[Native gold]]|notes=|soliddensity=19.32|mp=11915|val=30|valinc=+0|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=600|shearyield=50|shearfracture=100|shearelasticity=185
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Iron|color={{Tile|≡|0:1}}{{Tile|‼|0:7:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Hematite]], [[Limonite]], [[Magnetite]]|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, picks, and [[anvil]]s|soliddensity=7.85|mp=12768|val=10|valinc=+2|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=635|shearyield=130|shearfracture=200|shearelasticity=159
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Lead|color={{Tile|≡|0:1}}{{Tile|‼|0:7:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Galena]]|notes=|soliddensity=11.34|mp=10589|val=2|valinc=-3*|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=2348|shearyield=10|shearfracture=12|shearelasticity=179
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Nickel|color={{Tile|≡|7:0}}{{Tile|‼|7:3:0}}7:3:0|source=[[Garnierite]]|notes=|soliddensity=8.80|mp=12619|val=2|valinc=+0|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=660|shearyield=20|shearfracture=160|shearelasticity=26
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Platinum|color={{Tile|≡|7:1}}{{Tile|‼|7:7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native platinum]]|notes=|soliddensity=21.40|mp=13182|val=40|valinc=+0|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=470|shearyield=100|shearfracture=200|shearelasticity=164
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Silver|color={{Tile|≡|7:1}}{{Tile|‼|7:7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native silver]], [[Horn silver]], [[Galena]] (50%), [[Tetrahedrite]] (20%) |notes=Can be used to forge melee weapons and ammunition|soliddensity=10.49|mp=11731|val=10|valinc=+0, +0, +5*, +7*|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=1080|shearyield=100|shearfracture=170|shearelasticity=333
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Tin|color={{Tile|≡|7:0}}{{Tile|‼|7:3:0}}7:3:0|source=[[Cassiterite]]|notes=|soliddensity=7.28|mp=10417|val=2|valinc=+0|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=1862|shearyield=12|shearfracture=100|shearelasticity=66
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Zinc|color={{Tile|≡|7:0}}{{Tile|‼|7:3:0}}7:3:0|source=[[Sphalerite]]|notes=|soliddensity=7.13|mp=10755|val=2|valinc=+0|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=1542|shearyield=50|shearfracture=150|shearelasticity=116
}}

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===Alloys===
''(Unless specified, ores of the ingredients may be used instead of bars for alloy reactions)''
{{v0.31 metal table head}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Billon|color={{Tile|≡|7:0}}{{Tile|‼|7:3:0}}7:3:0|source=[[Silver]] + [[Copper]]|notes=Can be made with [[Tetrahedrite]] or [[Galena]] instead of [[Silver]] for a high value reaction. |soliddensity=8.93|val=6|valinc=+0|mp=11952|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=771|shearyield=70|shearfracture=220|shearelasticity=145
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Bismuth bronze|color={{Tile|≡|6:1}}{{Tile|‼|6:6:1}}6:6:1|source=1 [[Tin]] + 2 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Bismuth]] '''!'''|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, and picks|soliddensity=8.25|val=6|valinc=+4|mp=11868|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=600|shearyield=137|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=200
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Black bronze|color={{Tile|≡|5:0}}{{Tile|‼|5:6:0}}5:6:0|source=2 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Silver]] + 1 [[Gold]] '''!'''|notes=Unique color|soliddensity=8.93|val=11|valinc=+0|mp=11952|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=771|shearyield=70|shearfracture=220|shearelasticity=145
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Brass|color={{Tile|≡|6:1}}{{Tile|‼|6:6:1}}6:6:1|source=[[Zinc]] + [[Copper]]|notes=|soliddensity=8.55|val=7|valinc=+5|mp=11656|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=600|shearyield=200|shearfracture=550|shearelasticity=200
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Bronze|color={{Tile|≡|6:0}}{{Tile|‼|6:4:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Tin]] + [[Copper]]|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, and picks|soliddensity=8.25|val=5|valinc=+3|mp=11868|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=600|shearyield=137|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=200
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Electrum|color={{Tile|≡|6:1}}{{Tile|‼|6:6:1}}6:6:1|source=[[Silver]] + [[Gold]]|notes=Can be made with [[Tetrahedrite]] or [[Galena]] instead of [[Silver]] for a high value reaction.|soliddensity=8.65|val=20|valinc=+0|mp=11828|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=600|shearyield=50|shearfracture=100|shearelasticity=185
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Fine pewter|color={{Tile|≡|7:1}}{{Tile|‼|7:7:1}}7:7:1|source=3 [[Tin]] + 1 [[Copper]]|notes=|soliddensity=7.28|val=5|valinc=+3|mp=10417|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=1862|shearyield=12|shearfracture=100|shearelasticity=66
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Lay pewter|color={{Tile|≡|3:0}}{{Tile|‼|3:7:0}}3:7:0|source=2 [[Tin]] + 1 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Lead]] '''!'''|notes=Unique color|soliddensity=7.28|val=3|valinc=+1|mp=10417|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=1862|shearyield=12|shearfracture=100|shearelasticity=66
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Nickel silver|color={{Tile|≡|7:1}}{{Tile|‼|7:7:1}}7:7:1|source= 2 [[Nickel]] + 1 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Zinc]] '''!'''|notes=|soliddensity=8.65|val=3|valinc=+1|mp=11620|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=600|shearyield=20|shearfracture=160|shearelasticity=26
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Pig iron|color={{Tile|≡|0:1}}{{Tile|‼|0:7:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Iron]] + [[flux]] stone + [[fuel]] '''!'''|notes=Only used to make [[steel]]|soliddensity=7.85|val=10|valinc=+0|mp=12106|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=635|shearyield=130|shearfracture=200|shearelasticity=159
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Rose gold|color={{Tile|≡|5:1}}{{Tile|‼|5:5:1}}5:5:1|source=3 [[Gold]] + 1 [[Copper]] '''!'''|notes=Unique color|soliddensity=19.32|val=23|valinc=+0|mp=11915|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=600|shearyield=50|shearfracture=100|shearelasticity=185
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Steel|color={{Tile|≡|0:1}}{{Tile|‼|0:7:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Iron]] + [[Pig iron]] + [[flux]] stone + [[fuel]] '''!'''|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, picks, and [[anvil]]s|soliddensity=7.85|val=30|valinc=+20|mp=12718|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=675|shearyield=520|shearfracture=860|shearelasticity=500
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Sterling silver|color={{Tile|≡|7:1}}{{Tile|‼|7:7:1}}7:7:1|source=3 [[Silver]] + 1 [[Copper]] '''!'''|notes=|soliddensity=10.49|val=8|valinc=+0|mp=11602|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=1080|shearyield=100|shearfracture=170|shearelasticity=333
}}

{{v0.31 metal table row|name=Trifle pewter|color={{Tile|≡|7:0}}{{Tile|‼|7:3:0}}7:3:0|source=2 [[Tin]] + 1 [[Copper]]|notes=|react=|soliddensity=7.28|val=4|valinc=+2|mp=10417|impactyield=1.08|impactfracture=1.08|impactelasticity=1862|shearyield=12|shearfracture=100|shearelasticity=66
}}

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''Legend:''
:* '''Tile Color''' corresponds to how items made from that metal are displayed in game, foreground and background colors.
:*'''Reaction''' indicates the basic recipe for an alloy - this does not include the [[fuel]] used in that creation. See the article for that alloy or [[smelting]] for possible alternatives.
::'''!''' - ''You can use only [[bar]]s of metal in this reaction, not ores.
:*'''Density''' is used to determine the different weight of finished objects.
:*'''Melting point''' is used to determine if a material is [[magma-safe]] or not: magma is 12000°U.
:*'''[[Material value]]''' is what the base value of an object made of this metal is multiplied by to determine its worth.
:*'''Value difference''' indicates the difference between the average [[value]] of the required bars of metals vs. the value of the resulting bars of alloy - what went in vs. what comes out, measured per bar. "+0" indicates that the resulting alloy is a perfectly average value of the component metals. For pure metals, this indicates the difference in value between the metal and the ore, separated with commas in cases where multiple ore values differ.
::'''*''' - Values marked with an asterisk denote ores that can yield multiple metals. For metals that have a less than 100% chance of production, the stated value increase is for occasions on which metal is produced; on average, the difference in value from smelting either [[tetrahedrite]] or [[galena]] is +1.

== Weapon and armor quality ==

{{v0.31 material metal table head}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Adamantine|color={{Tile|/|3:1}}3:3:1|source=[[Raw adamantine]]|notes=Can be used to forge anything except beds; Blades are ten times as sharp as any other material aside from obsidian|soliddensity=0.200|mp=25000|val=300|valinc=+50|impactyield=5000|impactfracture=5000|impactelasticity=0|shearyield=5000|shearfracture=5000|shearelasticity=0
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Steel|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Iron]] + [[Pig iron]] + [[flux]] stone + [[fuel]] '''!'''|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, picks, and [[anvil]]s|soliddensity=7.85|val=30|valinc=+20|mp=12718|impactyield=1505|impactfracture=2520|impactelasticity=940|shearyield=430|shearfracture=720|shearelasticity=215
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bismuth bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:1}}6:6:1|source=2 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Tin]] + 1 [[Bismuth]] '''!'''|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, and picks|soliddensity=8.25|val=6|valinc=+4|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Tin]] + [[Copper]]|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, and picks|soliddensity=8.25|val=5|valinc=+3|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Iron|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Hematite]], [[Limonite]], [[Magnetite]]|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, picks, and [[anvil]]s|soliddensity=7.85|mp=12768|val=10|valinc=+2|impactyield=542|impactfracture=1080|impactelasticity=319|shearyield=155|shearfracture=310|shearelasticity=189
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Copper|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Native copper]], [[Malachite]], [[Tetrahedrite]]|notes=Can be used to forge all weapons, armor, ammunition, and picks|soliddensity=8.93|mp=11952|val=2|valinc=+0, +0, -1*|impactyield=245|impactfracture=770|impactelasticity=175|shearyield=70|shearfracture=220|shearelasticity=145
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Silver|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native silver]], [[Horn silver]], [[Galena]] (50%), [[Tetrahedrite]] (20%) |notes=Can be used to forge melee weapons and ammunition|soliddensity=10.49|mp=11731|val=10|valinc=+0, +0, +5*, +7*|impactyield=350|impactfracture=595|impactelasticity=350|shearyield=100|shearfracture=170|shearelasticity=333
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bone|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes=Can be used to make crossbows, ammunition and some armor|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Wood|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Trees|notes=Can be used to make crossbows, ammunition and some armor and weapons|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=1000|shearyield=40|shearfracture=40|shearelasticity=1000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Shell|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes=Can be used to make some armor|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Cloth{{!}}Plant cloth|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Plants|notes=Can be used to make clothing|soliddensity=1.52|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=100000|shearyield=600|shearfracture=600|shearelasticity=100000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Cloth{{!}}Silk cloth|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Silk|notes=Can be used to make clothing|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=100000|shearyield=1150|shearfracture=1200|shearelasticity=100000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Cloth{{!}}Wool cloth|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Hair|notes=Can be used to make clothing|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10508)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=100000|shearyield=60|shearfracture=120|shearelasticity=100000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Leather|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes=Can be used to make armor|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=50000|shearyield=25|shearfracture=25|shearelasticity=50000
}}

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*''Combat information'' is used internally by the game to determine the combat properties of weapons and armor made from this metal:
:'''Density''': Used in conjunction with other factors - heavier weapons (higher numbers) hit with more force, light weapons tend to have less penetration. Value shown here is g/cm3, which is the raw value divided by 103
:'''Impact yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
:'''Impact fracture''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
:'''Impact elasticity''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.
:'''Shear yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
:'''Shear fracture''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
:'''Shear elasticity''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.

*General Term Explanations (From Wikipedia)
:'''Yield Strength''' - The stress at which material strain changes from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, causing it to deform permanently.
:'''Fracture Strength''' - The stress coordinate on the stress-strain curve at the point of rupture.

:'''Stress''' - Force per area = F/A
:'''Strain''' - Deformation of a solid due to stress = Stress/Young's Modulus

So...
:Explanations!
::'''Yield Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently deform (bend) a material (plastic deformation)
::'''Fracture Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently break (rupture) a material
::'''Elasticity''' (or ''IMPACT_STRAIN_AT_YIELD'' in RAWs) is the amount of deformation (bending) that occurs at the yield point
:Implications to Dwarf Fortress Combat
::Yield combined with Elasticity can tell what a material will do under stress (be it from a hammer, axe, or arrow)
::Higher yield means that it takes more stress to deform
::Lower elasticity means that it will deform less when stress is applied

'''Preliminary Combat Testing & Analysis'''

Adamantine and Steel take first and second place respectively, with Iron the third best material in the game. Beyond which, bronze is in a close tie with copper as to being the second worst material. As in older versions, silver continues to hold steady as the worst material available (no longer beneficial with wooden training weapons being available now) in regards to edged weaponry.
Additionally, with regards to blunt weapons almost all of the non-adamantine materials perform equally well, with a very slight edge towards steel and silver. Here is the thread with the details:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53571.0

Keep in mind with how unbelievably complicated this system is nothing should be taken as word of law yet.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#999999"
!
! Best
! Better
! Good
! Fair
! Poor
! Terrible
! Notes
|-
| Armor
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
|
|
|-
| Edged Weapons
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
| Silver
| For piercing iron armor, copper is better than bronze. For piercing copper or bronze armor, bronze is better than copper.
|-
| Ammunition
| Steel, Iron, Bronze, Bismuth Bronze, Copper, Silver
|
| Adamantine
|
|
|
| Adamantine bolts deflect off of adamantine armor, but otherwise their performance is on par with bolts made out of other metals.
|-
| Blunt Weapons
| Steel, Silver
| Copper, Bismuth Bronze, Bronze, Iron
|
|
|
| Adamantine
| All six non-adamantine metals perform nearly identically. Steel has a slightly higher rate of critical wounds, while silver is slightly more likely to penetrate armor.
|}

Cross referencing this table with the table at the top of this section seems to indicate that low densities, high impact fractures, and high shear fractures contribute to the killing power of edged weapons

See also:
:Some [[User:Shinziril#Weapons_and_Armor|outstanding research]] on armor vs. different weapon types by Shinziril.
:[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=116151.0 Dwarven Research: A Comparison Study on the Effectiveness of Bolts vs Armors].

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v0.34:Weapon

2012-10-15T00:15:55Z

HiEv: /* Combat testing */ Added notes on ammunition

{{quality|Exceptional|02:06, 17 May 2012 (UTC)}}{{av}}
:''This page deals entirely with manufactured weapons. For natural weapons, see [[Natural weapon]].''

A '''weapon''' in the sense described on this page is any object specifically designed to be wielded in the pursuit of bodily harm to others. In [[fortress mode]], weapons can be made at a [[metalsmith's forge]] (all metal weapons) using a single bar of metal, a [[bowyer's workshop]] (wooden and bone crossbows), or a [[craftsdwarf's workshop]] ([[obsidian]] short swords).

== Basics ==
=== Native vs. foreign ===
Weapons fall into two categories: those that you can produce, and those that you can't. [[Weaponsmith]]s can produce seven types of native weapons at a [[metalsmith's forge]], but there are also fourteen foreign weapons that can be found in the hands of enemy combatants, or bought from trading caravans. These cannot be reliably produced by your dwarves, and may use skills they are unfamiliar with. It is also impossible to buy them in bulk, and considering they are of variable quality and material and usually quite expensive, they are rarely worth it, except when they are products of [[strange mood]]s (see strange moods, below). Since they are bread-and-butter for other nations, it is important to understand their properties when you have to fight enemies wielding them.

=== Types of weapons ===
{{main|Attack types}}
One can divide weapons in dwarf fortress into three categories. The first is slashing weapons, like the shortsword and battle axe. These weapons work by concentrating their force along a blade, allowing them to make gashes in or completely sever body parts, and given the opportunity, make the quickest work of their foes. They are far less effective against armored targets, however, as armor will block most hits and convert them into weaker blunt damage.

The second is piercing weapons, like the spear and foreign pike. These weapons work by concentrating their force at a point, allowing them to punch through armor and damage internal organs, often getting stuck and giving their wielder further leverage on the target. Note that ranged weapons - [[crossbow]]s, bows, and blowguns, (blowguns cannot be used as a ranged weapon currently), - are effectively piercing weapons with range to them. When used in melee, these weapons function like weaker war hammers.

The third is crushing weapons, like the war hammer and mace. These weapons work by concentrating their force behind a large, blunt mass, putting dents in armor and breaking bones beneath their blows. These weapons are slow to kill their targets - dwarves have a habit of breaking every bone in their opponent's body before moving on to the next target - but are the most effective weapons against heavy and heavily armored foes which shrug off damage more easily.

There's also training weapons. Training weapons are all wooden, and all made at the [[Carpenter's workshop|carpenter's workshop]]. Training axes, spears, and short swords can be constructed in dwarf fortress mode. They used to be useful for avoiding sparring injuries, but since dwarves sparring generally do not carry that risk, they are mostly useless, except in [[danger room]]s.

=== Types of targets ===
One can divide the types of foes you will meet into three categories. The first is organic and unarmored (or poorly armored) enemies, like [[thief|thieves]], non-sentient [[creature]]s (be it local wildlife or siege mounts), [[semi-megabeast]]s and [[megabeast]]s besides the [[bronze colossus]]. Weapons that deal slashing damage work best and quickest against these types of enemies, severing whole body parts and leaving them severely incapacitated.

The second is organic and armored enemies, like [[ambush]]ers and [[siege]]rs. The way [[armor]] works, slashing blows that are countered by a piece of armor are converted into generally less effective blunt damage; the best damage against these kinds of enemies are piercing weapons, which punch through armor and damage their internal organs, incapacitating them and allowing the wielder to finish them off. Crushing weapons work as well, although they are slower.

The third and most dangerous types of enemies are inorganic enemies (or ones that [[Giant cave spider|don't feel pain]]), which are [[titan]]s, [[forgotten beast]]s, [[bronze colossus]]es, and [[HFS|hidden fun stuff]]. These enemies ''have'' no internal organs, and depending on the material they are made of, may be very difficult to slash at (although a forgotten beast made of, for instance, mud is laughably easy to kill). Against these enemies, crushing weapons are the best, because they can chip at their foes until they collapse from cumulative damage.

=== Weapon skill ===
{{main|Combat skill#Weapon skill}}
Every type of weapon has its own associated [[military]] [[skill]]. The higher a dwarf is in his skill with a weapon, the better he will be able to use it in combat, connecting hammer blows to more advantageous sweet spots and sending spears right through enemy hearts and lungs with greater accuracy. The higher the weapon skill, the better at fighting the dwarf will be.

Once a dwarf has reached "Great" skill in a certain weapon, they become weapon lords for that specific weapon. They are listed as such on the [[status]] screen, will love fighting, and will no longer complain about long patrol duties. Weapon skill is trained in fighting enemies in combat, demonstrations, and combat drills, but if you leave your dwarves shieldless, a [[danger room]] will train their skill very, very quickly. Note that this does not quite work for marksdwarves - danger rooming ranged weapons increases their melee skill, increasing their hammerdwarf skill, although [[Cross-training|this may be the point]].

=== Attachment ===
A dwarf that has has used a particular weapon for a long time will grow attached to it, equipping it whenever their uniform allows them to. This is fine if they are wielding a ☼Steel Mace☼, but a major problem if they are wielding what is meant to be a training weapon (be it a wooden axe or a copper spear). You can avoid this pitfall by not using training weapons and not forging weapons until you have real weaponsmithing underway. These events generate [[announcement]]s.

In addition, dwarves that reach a certain number or level of kills with a weapon will name it. This prompts a major announcement, and usually happens after a dwarf manages to put down something significant — a forgotten beast for instance. Only the last shot counts for the [[kill list|kill]]. Once named, the weapon will appear in the artifact list, albeit in blue.

Dwarves may also become attached to shields and name them in the same way.

=== Quality and strange moods ===
The quality of a weapon has a significant (and currently poorly understood) impact on its combat performance, as well as being significantly more valuable.
{{v0.31:Item quality/Table}}

Weaponsmithing is a moodable profession, which means that you can get [[artifact]] weapons. This is a bit of a mixed bag: although a legendary [[armorsmith]], [[engraver]], or [[stone crafter]] would be more useful, it's certainly better then a legendary [[mechanic]]. Artifact weapons have a 3x combat bonus, but do ''not'' have to be made of logical materials; ordinarily a [[rainbow trout]] [[bone]] spear is impossible, but a moody dwarf can create one with a single bone. Thus artifact weapons made of totally inappropriate materials are inferior to regular ones made of weapons-grade metal, although the exact balance is still under discussion.

Dwarves in strange moods are not held to producing native weapons, and in fact often don't, as the number of foreign weapons outnumbers the natives. In the case where they create a valuable and battle-worthy foreign weapon (like a steel two-handed sword), it's worth it to manually go through your dwarves to find someone who can best utilize it, and assign it to him. See the caveats of foreign weapons however, discussed below.

=== Weapons as tools ===
[[Hunter]]s use crossbows, [[Wood cutter]]s use battle axes, and [[miner]]s use picks. They must be in possession of these items to do their jobs, and it's as simple as that.

=== Ammunition ===
:''Main article: [[Ammunition]]''

Crossbows and other ranged weapons require [[ammunition]] (in the case of the crossbow, [[bolt]]s). This ammunition is carried in a [[quiver]] in packs of about 25, and when they run out they will switch to using their ranged weapons as crude hammers. It's often a good idea to get them to retreat once they run out of ammo — crossbows are for shooting, not bashing.

=== Secondary weapons ===
Although it sounds like a cool idea, equipping a marksdwarf with a backup shortsword just in case doesn't often work, as dwarves are just as quick to run up their foes and start bashing them with a crossbow as they are to draw their swords and do it properly.

See [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=112008.0 this forum post] for details.

== Weapons ==
=== Native weapons ===
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Hands Used
! [[Weaponsmith|Metal]]
! [[Bowyer|Wood]]
! [[Bowyer|Bone]]
! [[Stone crafter|Obsidian]]
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Battle Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Edge || 40000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp?
|rowspan="3"| Yes
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 40000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|-
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp?
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
|-
| Mace
| 800
| Bash || Blunt || 20 || (200) || 2.0x
| Mace
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|-
| Pick (foreign)
| 500
| Strike || Edge || 100 || 4000 || 2.0x
| Mining
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Short Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 10000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="2"| Yes
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| War Hammer
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10 || (200) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|}

Note that although the [[pick]] is a foreign weapon, it can be produced by dwarves and is therefore considered native.

=== Details ===
*If you find your dwarves wearing more than one weapon -- or any unwanted [[armor]], for that matter -- one way to get rid of them is to dump the weapon from their {{k|v}}-{{k|i}} inventory screen. This does not always work, as they might re-equip the item. Another option is to remove any weapons and/or shields listed on their military equip screen. This too does not always work. At least "left-handedness" seems to not pose a problem. If you cancel the work by {{k|v}}-{{k|p}} and selecting a job that needs a tool they will sometimes put it back in the pile. Example: Miners use picks, cancel their mining job and they will put the pick away AFTER you ordered it to be dumped.
* Using weapons is much more effective than unarmed combat -- an untrained swordsdwarf with an [[iron]] weapon can defeat a grand master [[wrestler]], provided neither is wearing armor.
** Larger weapons with more heft tend to do more damage. How damage is calculated is currently not fully understood, and this is an area requiring more research.
* The size for a weapon is its volume in cm3.
* Attacks of type EDGE will either slice or pierce their target, depending on the contact area and penetration depth, while BLUNT attacks tend to damage internal organs without necessarily causing significant damage to outer layers.
* The contact area represents the area of contact of the weapon, and the penetration determines how deep the attack goes (and is apparently ignored entirely for BLUNT attacks -- indicated by numbers in parentheses). Large contact areas combined with low penetration represent slashing attacks, while small contact areas with high penetration behave as piercing attacks.
* The velocity seems to adjust the amount of actual force used during the attack (otherwise based on the size of the weapon, the material from which the weapon is made, and the strength of the wielder) - for example, war hammers have a 2x velocity multiplier, presumably to model the fact that the hammer's mass is concentrated at the tip which, when combined with a long handle, permits swinging it harder than a weapon whose mass is evenly distributed (such as a sword).
* Crossbows can be made of metal, wood, and bone. Metal crossbows are made by a [[weaponsmith]] at a [[forge]], while wood and bone crossbows are made by a [[bowyer]] at a bowyer's workshop. The material of a crossbow does not affect its firing ability, only its melee damage. A dwarf's marksmanship skill is only affected by the core [[item quality|quality]] of the bow. This may be a consideration when deciding which dwarf you want outfitting your marksdwarves: a [[experience|legendary]] bowyer is a better choice than a proficient weaponsmith.

=== Training weapons ===
All training weapons must be made of [[wood]] at the [[carpenter's workshop]].

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Training Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Training Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|-
| Stab || Blunt || 50 || (2000) || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Training Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Blunt || 200 || (10000) || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|}

=== Foreign weapons ===
Using any multigrasp weapon in a single hand (ie. with a shield in the other hand) gives you a disability to hit. Do not equip two-handed swords with a shield, for instance.

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Used by
! Hands Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| 2H Sword
|rowspan="4"| 900
| Slash || Edge || 100000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="4"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 4000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 100000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 150
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| Subterranean animal peoples
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 300
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| [[Elf]], Goblin, Human, [[Kobold]]
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 500
| Bash || Blunt || 200 || (4000) || 2.5x
| Mace
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Great Axe
|rowspan="3"| 1300
| Hack || Edge || 60000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Halberd
|rowspan="3"| 1200
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 20000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Dagger (Large)
|rowspan="3"| 200
| Slash || Edge || 1000 || 800 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Kobold
|rowspan="3"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 5 || 1000 || 1.0x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 20 || (600) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Long Sword
|rowspan="4"| 700
| Slash || Edge || 60000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Elf, Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 3000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 1300
| Bash || Blunt || 100 || (6000) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Goblin, Human
| Multigrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Morningstar
|rowspan="2"| 500
| Bash || Edge || 10 || 500 || 2.0x
|rowspan="2"| Mace
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| 800
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 12000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Multigrasp
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Scimitar
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 300
| Lash || Edge || 10 || 50 || 2.0x
| Whip
| Goblin
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 100
| Lash || Blunt || 1 || (10) || 5.0x
| Whip
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|}

== Size==
Weapons have a minimum size to use at all, and a minimum size to use one-handed. Adult dwarves vary in size between 33750 and 93750 (average 60000) based on their height and broadness, so not all dwarves can use all weapons. The following table shows approximately how many dwarves can use each weapon one or two handed.
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Min Size
(Two-Handed)
! Min Size
(One-Handed)
! Dwarves
Can't Wield
! Dwarves Wield
Two-Handed
! Dwarves Wield
One-Handed
|- valign="top"
| Battle Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Mace
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pick
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Short Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Spear
| 5000
| 47500
| -
| 11/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| War Hammer
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Spear
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| 2H Sword
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Great Axe
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Halberd
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Dagger (Large)
| 5000
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Long Sword
| 52500
| 57500
| 11/49
| 7/49
| 31/49
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Morningstar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pike
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Scimitar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|}

See [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101379.msg3029579#msg3029579 this forum post] for details.

==Material==
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*''Combat information'' is used internally by the game to determine the combat properties of weapons and armor made from this metal:
**'''Density''': Used in conjunction with other factors - heavier weapons (higher numbers) hit with more force, light weapons tend to have less penetration. Value shown here is g/cm3, which is the raw value divided by 103
**'''Impact yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact fracture''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact elasticity''' (or '''strain at yield'''): Used for blunt-force combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.
**'''Shear yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear fracture''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear elasticity''' (or '''strain at yield'''): Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.

*General Term Explanations (From Wikipedia)
**'''Yield Strength''' - The stress at which material strain changes from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, causing it to deform permanently.
**'''Fracture Strength''' - The stress coordinate on the stress-strain curve at the point of rupture.
**'''Stress''' - Force per area = F/A
**'''Strain''' - Deformation of a solid due to stress = Stress/Young's Modulus

=== Explanation ===
* '''Yield Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently deform (bend) a material (plastic deformation).
* '''Fracture Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently break (rupture) a material.
* '''Elasticity''' or '''Strain at yield''' is the amount of deformation (bending) that occurs at the yield point.

=== Implications ===
Yield strength combined with strain at yield can tell what a material will do under stress (be it from a hammer, axe, or arrow); higher yield means that it takes more stress to deform, while lower strain at yield means that it will deform less when stress is applied.

== Combat testing ==
[[Adamantine]] and [[steel]] take first and second place respectively, with [[iron]] the third best material in the game, matched by the [[bronze]]s. Beyond that is [[copper]], the second worst material, and [[silver]] is the worst weapon material available (and due to the existence of training weapons, not even useful in that regard) in regards to edged weaponry.

Additionally, with regards to blunt weapons almost all of the non-adamantine materials perform equally well, with a very slight edge towards steel and silver. Here is the thread with the details: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53571.0].

Keep in mind with how unbelievably complicated this system is nothing should be taken as word of law yet.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#999999"
!
! Best
! Better
! Good
! Fair
! Poor
! Terrible
! Notes
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| Armor
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
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|-
| Edged Weapons
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
| Silver
| For piercing iron armor, copper is better than bronze. For piercing copper or bronze armor, bronze is better than copper.
|-
| Ammunition
| Steel, Iron, Bronze, Bismuth Bronze, Copper, Silver
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| Adamantine
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| Adamantine bolts deflect off of adamantine armor, but otherwise their performance is on par with bolts made out of other metals.
|-
| Blunt Weapons
| Steel, Silver
| Copper, Bismuth Bronze, Bronze, Iron
|
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| Adamantine
| All six non-adamantine metals perform nearly identically. Steel has a slightly higher rate of critical wounds, while silver is slightly more likely to penetrate armor.
|}

Cross referencing this table with the table at the top of this section seems to indicate that low densities, high impact fractures, and high shear fractures contribute to the killing power of edged weapons.

===Analysis===

Testing of weapons (15 dwarves vs. 15 dwarves combats) in the [[object testing arena]] shows that the best dwarven-made weapon against humanoids is the silver war hammer {{version|0.31.12}}.

Even in 15×(steel armor+silver war hammer) versus 15×(adamantine armor+adamantine battle axe) matches, hammerdwarves won with less than 50% casualties (mostly one-strike kills). However, when the dwarves in question were without armor or only wearing leather/cloth, the result was inverted — axedwarves won with less than 50% casualties. In battles against megabeasts, 6 silver hammerdwarves were barely able to scratch a [[bronze colossus]] (attacks were glancing away) due to bronze being a better "weapon" material.

This is because silver has the highest solid density of all materials that can regularly be made into weapons by dwarves. Tests show that indeed [[gold]] and [[platinum]] (increasingly dense) do increasing amounts of damage, and that war hammers remain the tool of choice, however they can only be produced by a moody dwarf (and a very lucky one at that).

For more on ranged ammunition see the forum thread [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=116151.0 Dwarven Research: A Comparison Study on the Effectiveness of Bolts vs Armors].

More arena tests are available in the [[Main:Military testing|Military testing]] article.

==Bugs==
*Equipping weapons/armor on military is erratic{{Bug|535}}

==See also==
* [[User:Shinziril#Weapons_and_Armor|Outstanding research]] on weapons and armor by Shinziril

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{{Category|Weapons}}

v0.34:Combat skill

2012-10-14T23:52:50Z

HiEv: /* See also */ Added Archer/Marksdwarf research link

{{quality|Exceptional|20:17, 26 December 2010 (UTC)}}{{av}}

''Until more is known about each individual skill, and on the suspicion that much will be parallel and/or related, and so that all information/discussion can be collected in one place (for now, at least), all "combat skills" will redirect here, at least until it becomes more clear if/how we should break them up.''

== General combat skills ==

'''General Combat skills''' are a category of skills that are collectively unrelated to whether a dwarf is using weapons or armor but are useful for combat.
* [[archery|Archer]] - increases with the use of any ranged attack, including throwing. Its exact function is unknown, except that it was shown to decrease the probability of an enemy dodging a ranged attack. Aside from that, it can serve as an indicator of how much ranged weapons are used.
* Biter - increases whenever a character chooses to bite an opponent. This is probably the most effective attack for a creature whose biting causes a [[syndrome]], but some [[immigrant]]s will arrive with this skill as well, and unarmed combatants will occasionally learn a bit when they choose to bite during a combat.
* Dodger - aids creatures in avoidance, causing enemies to miss more often. Scanning of combat reports suggest that dodging is very common and effective - assuming that messages referring to dodging are in essence caused by the dodger skill. Dodging can, unfortunately, cause dwarves to fall through z levels into chasms, pits, or water; they do not attempt to avoid dodging into perilous locales. Dodging can even be done while lying on the ground, making it a particularly valuable skill.
* Fighter - increases with each melee attack (from or to a target), no matter what kind of weapon is used, and can increase rather quickly. Its use or significance is currently not known. However, when tested in arena mode with two dwarves, one unskilled and one grand master fighter, the one with fighter skill won consistently while armed with any of the default weapons. Unarmed dwarves showed no preference.
* Kicker - increased by kicking in unarmed combat. Stance strikes from kicking tend to have a blunt [[attack type]].
* Striker - increased by throwing punches and scratching with claws or nails in unarmed combat.
* [[Wrestling|Wrestler]] - pertains to incapacitating enemies by holding limbs. Wrestlers are generally unable to kill much, but they may make killing easier for their armed comrades. Their punches do kill fellow dwarves when tantruming. Wrestlers can strangle enemies unconscious, break joints, and even take away weapons and armor, but the AI is rather unlikely to do so (making [[adventurer mode|adventurer]] wrestlers much more effective).

== Equipment skills ==

'''Equipment skills''' are associated with the use of non-weapon equipment, and as a class increase dwarf survivability.
* Armor User - related to how well a dwarf moves in [[armor]], and increases whenever a dwarf wearing armor attacks or is attacked. Higher levels of this skill reduces the encumbrance penalties of armor, allowing dwarves wearing full steel plate to move at normal speed. Arena testing also indicates that armor users become tired less easily than non armor wearers (300 vs 100 announcements vs bronze colossus). Because even leather [[clothes]] count as armor, this skill often appears at dabbling level on civilians who briefly struggle with a [[kobold]] [[thief]] or predatory animals.
* Shield User - increases whenever a dwarf uses a [[shield]] or [[buckler]] to block an attack, which is often. Shields increase survivability of dwarves a great deal, and can block anything from a [[goblin]] axe to [[dragon|dragonfire]].

== Weapon skills ==

'''Weapon skills''' are associated with the use of a particular [[weapon]] type, even if that weapon type is "thrown [[vomit]]" in adventure mode. The name of many of these skills is dependent on species: a dwarven spear user will be known as a 'Speardwarf'.
* Axeman - allows characters to use axes, great axes, and halberds more effectively.
* Blowgunner - allows characters to use blowguns more effectively.
* Bowman - allows characters to use bows more effectively.
* [[Crossbowman]] - allows characters to use crossbows more effectively. The dwarven version is called '''Marksdwarf'''.
* Hammerman - allows characters to use mauls and war hammers more effectively, as well as crossbows in melee.
* Knife User - allows characters to use large daggers and knives more effectively.
* Lasher - allows characters to use whips and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scourge scourges] more effectively.
* Maceman - allows characters to use flails, maces, and morningstars more effectively.
* Misc. Object User - allows characters to use objects like tables and chairs more effectively as weapons. In fortress mode, this skill tends to increase when dwarves tantrum and break some heads with a +Granite Throne+. It also is used with shields, making it useful if a military dwarf is disarmed (either literally or not).
* Pikeman - allows characters to use pikes more effectively.
* Spearman - allows characters to use spears more effectively.
* Swordsman - allows characters to use long swords, scimitars, short swords, and two-handed swords more effectively, as well as blowguns and bows in melee.
* [[Thrower]] - allows characters to throw miscellaneous objects more effectively. Throwing is still as hilariously overpowered as in previous versions, and you can totally kill a charging elephant with thrown water.

==See also==
* [[User:Shinziril#Skills|Outstanding research]] on several combat skills by Shinziril
* A scientific test of how the Archer and Marksdwarf skills affect ranged combat: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=117284.0 Dwarven Research: A Study of the 'Archer' and 'Marksdwarf' Skills]

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v0.34:Magic

2012-10-14T01:16:06Z

HiEv: Corrections and clarifications; links added

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'''Magic''' exists in limited form in Dwarf Fortress. It normally only shows up in the form of [[Necromancer|necromancy]]. With [[Modding guide|modding]], however, it is also one of the many ways that [[Interaction token|interaction]]s can be manifested.

Necromancy is obtained in Adventurer mode by reading a [[book|slab]] that contains the secrets of life and death, traditionally obtained via necromancer [[tower]]s ({{Tile|I|5:0}}). Their towers are often packed tightly with [[undead]] and usually more than one necromancer, whom will not hesitate to raise any fresh corpses you make, or even the limbs of their minions that you chop off. But of course, if you can overcome the danger, the power is yours.

[[ru:Magic]]
[[Category:Game_mechanics]]

Main Page/Quote

2012-10-12T21:10:44Z

HiEv: Added quote

<noinclude>
Please limit quotes to ~135 characters or less (longest below are longer than that, but remain as "legacy" from Toady etc.). Longer quotes may be deleted.

Do not use equals signs or vertical bars in your quotes or they will break.

When adding a quote, be sure to update the {{tl|rand|###}} number.

[[Category:Humor and stories]]
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</noinclude>{{#switch:{{rand|141}}|
|1=I can't put my finger on it. Something about this [[Fire|‼]]Cat tallow roast[[Fire|‼]] tastes funny.
|2=Toady withdraws from society. Toady has begun a [[Strange mood|mysterious]] construction!
|3=Let us never forget the last words of Inod the Stoker, [http://archive.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Fortress_Paintrag#1056 "Aaah! Gorillas!"]
|4=[[Children|Newborn]] Zuglar Baldnessgranite prefers to consume Gorilla. A sure sign of his unparalleled strength!
|5=[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/video-game-article/duke-nukem-image.php In an unrelated article] - I had no idea elephants could bounce that high!
|6=[[Toady]] looses a roaring laughter, [[Fey|fell]] and terrible! Toady has butchered a spammer!
|7=The critical question is this: do elf bones yield more crossbow bolts than the average number of bolts necessary to kill an elf?
|8="Dwarf Fortress" ... "Like chess, only with short people that can catch on [[fire]] like [[clothing|rags]] soaked in tar, and lots of [[booze]]." ... "Like chess."
|9=Dwarf Fortress has taught me that all the world's problems would be substantially reduced had our parent civilizations never minted more than four stacks of [[coins]].
|10=[[Booze]] does all the work in forts. Dwarves are just booze exoskeletons.
|11=My unconscious and bleeding [[mayor]] just mandated the construction of some goods.
|12=I can just imagine a wagon throwing a tantrum and tossing all its contents at people.
|13=Döbesh Udosdeb has been ecstatic lately. He was forced to eat a friend to survive. He enjoyed a truly decadent meal.
|14=Iron [[screw pump]] exercise equipment. Pump iron and get superdwarvenly strong!
|15=The violence, aggression, pain, madness, sadness of the ASCII characters never ceases to amaze me...
|16=Wait, you're MAKING animals? —''Torak'' At this moment, yes, I am smelting cows. —''Spiders Everywhere''
|17="Didn't you read the manual? He he he he... the manual... ..." --[[Toady One]]
|18=(Compared to real-world years) Dwarven years are shorter. --Sowelu Very fitting to dwarves, I must add. --Sean Mirrsen
|19=[[Magma]] is not a [[water]] source. Dwarves can't drink it or supply it to their wounded. --[[User:AlienChickenPie|AlienChickenPie]]
|20="[B]oats are the enemy of tiles. And tiles are the enemy of boats." --[[Toady One]]
|21="I went through and fixed a few places where forbidden/on fire weren't being respected for next time. Burning milkable creatures were still a problem for example." --[[Toady One]]
|22="You have been processed! Go forth, now, and edit!" --[[User:Savok|Savok]]
|23="What happened in 1048?" "Jreengus occurred."
|24=Making rock instruments isn't nearly as awesome as it sounds --Shandrunn
|25=The cyclops I was quested to kill had a thousand year history of badassery, and all of that without the leg it lost in the Year 3 (a dwarf bit it off... I should probably deal with that). --[[Toady One]]
|26=[FIREIMMUNE] makes them think that [[magma]] is safe but doesn't actually make them fireproof. This can lead to some rather interesting results.
|27=Endok Cerolneth has begun a mysterious construction! Endok Cerolneth, Planter has given birth to a girl.
|28="Incendia sunt socia vestra, armaque vestra, fortesque Montis Domi." "Magma is your ally, your weapon, the strength of the Mountain-Home." --Eita
|29="Stopped people from giving quests to kill themselves." --[[Toady One]]
|30="...And I simply doubt we have a need for 7 fishery workers. On top of that, a second soap maker. The hell IS soap?!" --Zero
|31="This is a terrible pun. All craftsdwarfship is of the poorest quality." - [http://tinyurl.com/6yruly Soup_alex]
|32="The default mental state of a dwarf is madness. Sanity is a temporary condition - a PRIVILEGE you have to EARN!" --[[User:Fedor|Fedor]]
|33="Why get normal cats? I buy lolcats in the embark screen. Much more fun to engrave about them." --Yanlin
|34="Dwarf Fortress taught me it was okay to make a suit out of my neighbour's skin, as long as I gave it a name."
|35="Got rid of world gen crash during succession after death of prolific long-standing position holders with inbred descendants" --[[Toady One]]
|36="There was a typo in the siegers' campfire code. When the fires went out, so did the game." --[[Toady One]]
|37="Hey, what does that flashing red and orange text mean? What? Why is there smoke everywhere? Oh god, are those BABIES on fire?" --[[User:StrawberryBunny|StrawberryBunny]]
|38="It's never 'just a game' when you're losing." --George Carlin (if he played Dwarf Fortress)
|39=Not that building a bridge out of soap makes much sense to begin with anyway.
|40=Note that while you cannot milk larger animals yourself, civilizations can still milk animals "off screen" for your benefit.
|41=Tosid Idenarzes likes tentacle demons for their corrupt intentions. "There! Now we've covered all of the seven deadly sins."
|42="Litast Idenudesh, baby, is throwing a tantrum! Inod Litastrilem, Mayor, has lost consciousness. Inod Litastrilem, Mayor, has bled to death."
|43=Bug 000780 [adventure mode][crime] - town guard becomes a criminal after getting an adventurer's stolen weapon stuck in his body
|44="Udib Toblumaid, Axedwarf, cancels sparring in Barracks: too insane." [[User:Ben jamm1n|Ben jamm1n]]
|45=Kosoth Cilobonol, Bone Carver cancels Drink: Unconscious.
|46=Sizir the Snail of Bait is a deity of The Fresh Towers. Sizir most often takes the form of a female dwarf and is associated with jealousy.
|47=Sibrek Tanbim likes Limestone, Tin, Smoky Quartz, the color crimson, bolts, scepters, anvils, and rock blocks for their lack of quality levels.
|48=There are 5 articles in category Lore: Armok, Cave Adaptation, Elephant, Philosopher, and Vomit.
|49=There is nothing to catch in the magma pipe.
|50=Bug 000563 [dwarf mode][justice] - mayor ordered himself beaten for failing to make crystal glass objects
|51=If cow cheese is made from cow's milk, what is dwarven cheese made of?
|52=Bugs are opportunities to cause unprecedented amounts of destruction. --Zorgn
|53="You know, Urist, you've got a mind like an +Ash Trap+."--[[User:Destor|Destor]]
|54='''Zander J:''' "Is there a way to stop immigration without setting the population cap?" '''Yanlin:''' "Magma."
|55=An animal trainer just suddenly stopped working and hid himself in a workshop. He's probably going to make a wardog out of rock and goblin skulls.
|56=Bug 000597 [creatures] - flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy.
|57='''Urdim Kutamèrith, Pump Operator, has created Rakusttenshed, a Glumprong blowgun!''' Urdim, you are a freaking idiot.
|58=<Forkez> I don't get the game, but I do get that tunnels flooded with water is a bad thing.
|59="If you give a dwarf a fire, he will be warm for a night. If you set a dwarf on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life."
|60="Since the Elves said they won't let me cut down any trees, I bought 50 of their logs instead."
|61=Do not make a trading race that breathes fire. I REPEAT, DON'T!! EVER!!
|62=Dwarf Fortress: Because burning elves are funny.
|63=The carp has drowned.
|64=There's one thing a dwarf needs, and that's stones. And alcohol... and magma... but mainly stones.
|65="I swear to god once I saw a dwarf who was labeled as being Strong, Very Agile, Very Tough... and ''Clean''. But it was probably just a bad dream."
|66=Urist McRandy has been ecstatic lately. He brought somebody to bed lately.
|67="Dwarven children kidnapped and incorporated into goblin society might sh... shave." --Toady One
|68=Bug 000871 [projectiles] - babies fall to death when born on stairs
|69=Bug 001031 [adventure mode][inventory] - a merchant pack animal caught at an old dwarf site during adv mode was wearing a full set of clothes
|70="[[Magma]] solves everything. [[Fire]] just ruins the [[booze]]." -sonerohi
|71=You can't yet strangle people with the exposed guts, though I suppose that's now within reach. --[[Toady One]]
|72=Look, there are roving clumps of sentient lava outside, ... This isn't going to get better. --PTTG??
|73=...and the only surviving dwarf is a noble who has mandated the construction of crowns and clear glass items to the empty halls. --PTTG??
|74=Adil Idenlocun is conflicted: "When possible he prefers to consume purring maggot, Dwarven ale and Dwarven syrup. He absolutely detests purring maggots."
|75="I had to leave just before I tested the dwarf with the boiling gold blood." -- Toady the Great One
|76=Urdim Zatinod has been quite content lately. She has lost an annoying friend to tragedy lately.
|77=I added two levers. One opens the magma. The other sets free all the cats. --Someone in Headshoots
|78="As Manbaspecut, Human Merchant is stricken by melancholy!" "Muskox has gone stark raving mad!" I think something is wrong with the human caravan...
|79="Somebody needs to build an active volcano inside a fortress inside an active volcano." --Boksi
|80=It has stats. It can be killed.
|81=Bug 000432 [dwarf mode][items] - Bones pop out of coffins.
|82=Thanks. I wish I had known that about three forts ago.
|83=If I ''remembered'' what the damn lever did, I'd ''pull'' it! <...pulls lever anyway...>
|84=Sarvesh Ralrubal likes olivine, olivine and olivine.
|85="So let me get this straight. We managed to destroy a dwarven civilization while only managing a single town??"
|86=Kara Mase, the Glory of Amusing: Engraved on the wall is an image of a dwarf and an elf. The dwarf is committing a depraved act on the elf.
|87=Once saw a water skin with red beryl spikes. I still wonder how you would drink from that.
|88=Watching a kobold thief be chased by batman is very satisfying.
|89=Kol Tölunimush has been ecstatic lately. He killed somebody by accident while sparring recently. He took joy in slaughter lately. He has lost a lover to tragedy lately. He has witnessed death. He had a satisfying sparring session recently.
|90=There was kind of a violent explosion of boiling human blood when I was testing a human vs a magma man in the arena... it was a little weird, but I guess that's okay. --[[Toady One]]
|91=Mew? Chop!
|92="If Dwarf Fortress geology is to be believed, then the Earth's core is made of microcline and demons."
|93='They're firing arrows at us! Quickly! Raise the babies!!' -Urdim McSquadLeader, mother of 8
|94=It started raining, then all my dwarves outside started bleeding to death. On inspection their upper bodies were missing.
|95=It seems that a fresh recruit given a crossbow and a quiver with ammo in it will opt to run up to the enemy and bash them with the crossbow.
|96=Bug introduced in the latest version: Firemen can have their flames severed. These flames then just lie around the place.
|97=You stab Iron Man in the right leg from behind with your adamantine short sword, breaking away a piece of the gas and shattering the iron! The Beak Dog is caught in a burst of Iron Man gas! Beak Dog vomits into the Iron Man gas.
|98=Urist McDairy, Milker cancels store item in stockpile: handling dangerous creature
|99=Ildomushat, Fish Cleaner, cancels Clean Self: Could not find path.
|100=Losing is [[Fun]]!!! --The Motto of Dwarf Fortress
|101=I hate walking under dwarven archways. You never know how many mechanized crossbows they have hidden underneath those damn things.
|102="Bibo ergo sum. I drink, therefore I am." -- Dwarven Philosopher
|103=This is a menacing iron spike. This object menaces with spikes of iron.
|104=Kogsak is a deity of The Helpful Diamond. Kogsak most often takes the form of a dwarf and is associated with fortresses.
|105=The Forgotten Beast pushes The Wrestler in the head, bruising the muscle, driving the skull through the brain, and tearing apart the brain! The Wrestler has been struck down!
|106=Goblin Chops at the Diagnostician in the right leg, damaging the muscle! Urist McHouse is Unconscious!
|107=Limul Itebdesis, trader has been Possessed. Limul Itebdesis, trader has created Stodir Isethlolor, a Mortgage-Backed Security!
|108=The heart wound ended up being a guy getting shot in the arm, dropping his crossbow, running over to the opposing line, and jabbing his stack of bolts into somebody's chest.
|109=Giant mole has stolen a preserved prepared giant mole lung! ''"Hey, I want my grandfather back!"''
|110="You must construct additional barrels!" - [[User:Speed112]]
|111=All I want is a major river next to a volcano with flux, sand and bituminous coal.
|112=Do not taunt magma.
|113=I bury my pets in gold coffins and my nobles in wood coffins. Pets before people, I say.--[[KingAuggie]]
|114=[the cavern] is basically like the surface, except underground
|115=The fortress' randomly generated name was "Greatestfailure".
|116="You stab the Human Thresher in the mouth with your large copper dagger, tearing the left cheek!" "The large copper dagger has lodged firmly in the wound!"
|117="The best way to determine how dangerous a fortress is, is to make only one dwarf with the burial job, and nothing else: the lower his social skills, the more dangerous the fortress is - [[User:Rhenaya|Rhenaya]]"
|118="Before retiring in the evening, heed my words and give yourself to volcanos" - Ted Usmokatra, law-giver
|119=Upon coming of age, about 8, Urist McYoung Made an artifact, became mayor and promptly mandated the construction of slade goods.
|120=Dwarf Fortress: You've already lost.
|121=A sober fortress makes even a mental hospital seem like a pleasant place to live.
|122=A typical Dwarven nightmare consists of running out of booze or getting a beard lopped off in an accident.
|123=There are two ways of dealing with goblins in a tree. One is by marksdwarves. The other is by flooding the world with magma.
|124=Portal and Dwarf Fortress share a mystical trend. It is !!Science!!.
|125=The were-capybara is only one of the myriad lunatic monsters that terrorize the living. -- Threetoe
|126=The only time I ever saw the stupid thing fly, was to cross the aqueduct, to the beer hall. -- Fredd
|127=(On artifacts) I got a flint door, called The Noiseless Odors. -- Nyxalinth
|128=So apparently she became queen before becoming a twilight freak wife. Fascinating. -- Samuel
|129=The zombies in a necromancer's tower became suspicious after the necromancer failed to age -- Toady One
|130=Got a few barrels of beetle ichor and duck blood, gave some pig cheese in exchange. Made a present of three coffins to the queen.
|131=I'd have to look back to see if it wants the physical or metaphysical id on the corpse. -- Toady One
|132=The Sasquatch corpse has lodged firmly in the wound! The goblin has been struck down!
|133=[22:57:46] <Dik_> How do I wash myself up from blood? [23:06:20] <Dik_> How the fuck do I get out of the river?
|134=No, you're not getting that leg back. In fact, that creature over there is going to pick your leg up and beat you to death with it. You won't respawn.
|135=My refuse pile just woke up and ate my dwarves, who in turn got up themselves and started eating the other dwarves.
|136=[http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=2264 bug 2264: Adv. Mode travel (near oceans) teleports player underground and turns them into an underground creature]
|137=[http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5921 Bug #5921: Biting dwarves in minecarts infinitely increases combat range]
|138=Fort flooded. So that's what an aquifer is. -- Exelixi
|139=Axedwarf looks surprised by the ferocity of Spearmasters onslaught. Spearmaster charges at Axedwarf. Spearmaster stabs axedwarf in the left eye with his +Adamantine spear+, lightly tapping the target.
|140=In 4, the Castle of Fortune of the Tombs of Gold constructed the Hell of Taxing in Entrancedcrafts.
|141=I also got started on jumping. My first jump was off by a factor of 100, so I flew against a cliff and blew apart. I'm still working on it. -- Toady One
}}

v0.34:Init.txt

2012-10-10T22:55:07Z

HiEv: Undo revisions by Dibesh Durad (talk) (This is meant to be a raw copy of the init.txt file, not wiki formatted text)

{{quality|Tattered|20:33, 4 May 2012 (UTC)}}{{av}}

The '''init.txt''' file can be used to make many adjustments to the game presentation and feel, like changing [[Technical tricks#Screen_sizes|screen size]], or enabling [[Tilesets]]. Other options that would [[Technical tricks|improve framerate]] by deactivating features are now contained in [[D_init.txt]].

This file is located at '''Dwarf Fortress\data\init\init.txt''' along with the embark profiles, d_init.txt and other useful files.

==Default Settings==
{{gamedata|1=WARNING: Do NOT copy over the init.txt from an earlier version of DF.
Always read the file carefully, including the comments.

In general, you can copy savegames and tilesets from older DF
versions, but you should not copy anything else. You should not, under any
circumstances, unpack a new DF on top of an older one.

Change this to turn sound off.

[SOUND:YES]

The sound volume runs from 0 (off) to 255 (full). You can set the volume from the ESC options menu as well.

[VOLUME:255]

Change this to skip the wonderful intro movies.

[INTRO:YES]

This lets you set the starting windowed/fullscreen setting. Can be YES, NO or PROMPT.

[WINDOWED:YES]

This is the size and font for windowed mode. Changing to the 800x600 font might make you happier.
If set below 256x256 it specifies the grid size instead, with a minimum of 80x25.

[WINDOWEDX:80]
[WINDOWEDY:25]
[FONT:curses_640x300.png]

You may disable window resizing if you wish.
[RESIZABLE:YES]

Full screen info. The 0s below mean that the game will choose a resolution for you, but you can set it yourself as well.

[FULLSCREENX:0]
[FULLSCREENY:0]
[FULLFONT:curses_800x600.png]

If this is set to NO, tiles will be stretched to fit the screen if there is a resolution mismatch.
If this is set to YES, the tiles will not be stretched, but rather the game view will be centralized, surrounded by black space. Tiles that are too large will always be compressed rather than running off the screen.

[BLACK_SPACE:YES]

Graphics info, most of it as above. Set GRAPHICS to YES to turn it all on. This will use the "raw/graphics" folder for tile information. Currently this is limited to whatever creature graphics you have downloaded. The game comes with a few pictures to demonstrate. As of May 2012, the Dwarf Fortress Wiki has custom tilesets available at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository and creature graphics at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Graphics_set_repository.

[GRAPHICS:NO]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:0]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:curses_square_16x16.png]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:curses_square_16x16.png]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

These settings can have a significant impact on frame rate, especially for people that have slow frame rates on the title screen. Available modes are 2D, 2DSW, 2DASYNC, STANDARD, PARTIAL:<number>, ACCUM_BUFFER, FRAME_BUFFER and VBO. The number after PARTIAL refers to how many frames it will redo a printed tile before skipping it, so you might try increasing it a bit if you have flickering when PARTIAL is set. Please note that any of these combinations might cause frame rates to drop significantly or cause unpleasant side effects like flickering.

By and large, 2D should be the most reliable, while STANDARD has a good combination of speed and reliability. However, all 2D modes are normally far slower than even STANDARD, which may be the slowest OpenGL mode.

On a multi-core machine none of this is very likely to matter; stick to 2D.

2DASYNC may be slightly more responsive than 2D on a multi-core machine, but this has recently become doubtful due to improvements to the other modes.

Linux/OS X users may also use PRINT_MODE:TEXT for primitive ncurses output.

[PRINT_MODE:2D]
Mode examples:
PRINT_MODE:2D
PRINT_MODE:TEXT
PRINT_MODE:FRAME_BUFFER
PRINT_MODE:PARTIAL:0
[SINGLE_BUFFER:NO]

Switches truetype on whenever the vertical tile size is this many pixels or larger. You may also use YES/NO to force it on/off. Turning it off may provide a minor speed boost (using font small enough that it doesn't activate won't).

[TRUETYPE:24]

Change this to YES to keep the DF window on top of your other windows.

[TOPMOST:NO]

Change this to YES if you want to see an FPS counter at the top left.

[FPS:NO]

Use this to set the maximum frame rate during play. The movies are always capped at 100. A frame in this case is not graphical but related to the movement speed of a creature. A healthy, unencumbered dwarven peasant takes one step every 10 frames.

You may set FPS_CAP to 0 to make it uncapped.

[FPS_CAP:100]

Use this to set the maximum graphical frame refresh rate during play.

[G_FPS_CAP:50]

On cards that support the OpenGL ARB_sync extension, turning this on can improve framerates in GPU overload conditions. It defaults to NO, as many cards that claim to support this will crash if asked to do so.

[ARB_SYNC:NO]

This sets the applications vertical synchronization behavior. Changing this to YES can impact your FPS if your G_FPS is high. ARB_SYNC is a better option, if your system supports it.

[VSYNC:NO]

Change this to NEAREST if you want the texture values to use the nearest pixel without averaging.
Change this to LINEAR if you want the texture values to be averaged over the adjacent pixels.

[TEXTURE_PARAM:LINEAR]

Change this to make the dwarfort.exe process have a different priority. From highest to lowest, the options are REALTIME, HIGH, ABOVE_NORMAL, NORMAL, BELOW_NORMAL and IDLE.

[PRIORITY:NORMAL]

Use this to set how fast the game zooms. The default corresponds to
increasing grid size by 10 units each time you zoom.

[ZOOM_SPEED:10]

Change this to NO if you don't want to have the mouse involved at all.

[MOUSE:YES]

Change this to YES if you'd like to use a BMP for the mouse cursor. The image currently lags when the game is lagging however.

[MOUSE_PICTURE:NO]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before a held key sends an initial repeat press to the game. You might need to adjust this.

[KEY_HOLD_MS:250]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before a held key sends a repeat press to the game after the repeat process has begun.

[KEY_REPEAT_MS:150]

If you set KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_LIMIT above one, then after KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_START repetitions the repetition delay will smoothly decrease until repetition is this number of times faster than at the start.

[KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_LIMIT:8]
[KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_START:10]

This controls the number of milliseconds between macro instructions.

[MACRO_MS:15]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before input works again after the view recenters on an event in dwarf mode.

[RECENTER_INTERFACE_SHUTDOWN_MS:0]

Change this to NO if you want to leave save uncompressed (you might want to do this if you are experience save corruption).

[COMPRESSED_SAVES:YES]}}

v0.34 Talk:Quickstart guide

2012-10-09T21:30:11Z

HiEv: Signed unsigned comments; fixed section titles

Please leave any feedback here and sign with <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>

==Old info==
This is still slightly out of date... For example, kennels appear to only train vermin--[[Special:Contributions/173.3.16.92|173.3.16.92]] 02:45, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

==Newbie question about trade depot==
I'm a newbie. This guide indicates that I should have my trade depot at the end of a hall that is one space wide. If I do that, the caravan can't reach the depot when it comes. Should I widen the hallway when a caravan arrives, or will it be too late? Also, if I widen the hallway, how can I make it narrow again to tighten my defense?[[Special:Contributions/24.151.147.137|24.151.147.137]] 13:03, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

: That "Level 0" image was probably from one of the 0.31.x versions where wagons were broken. In the current version, wagons are back, so you should make a 3-wide path to your trade depot. You'll need to ensure that wagons have an accessible path ''before'' they show up. If the caravan arrives and there's no path, the wagons will vanish and you'll just get the merchants with single pack animals. --[[User:Greycat|Greycat]] 14:02, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm out of practice and a few versions behind and I got lost when I was told to put the hall before the depot and then found out I couldn't trap the hall after all. --[[User:Scribbler|Scribbler]] 14:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

== Better farm plot explanation ==
Another Newbie here, first off: thanks for the guide! But, expanding the "Sustenance by plow"-paragraph about how to identify soil/how to identify possible places for a farm plots would help very much, especially about how to find good places underground witgout knowing where to search. -- [[Special:Contributions/77.1.211.253|77.1.211.253]] 16:42, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

== Inaccuracies ==

Reposted from the forum:
The quickstart guide has what appears to be a couple pieces outdated info, at least from my limited/nooby knowledge. I want to check that they are inaccurate before I change them.

1: "Also make some shields out of wood (since the shield's material doesn't matter for defensive purposes), unless you're swimming in metal."
- Materials do matter now, right? (according to the armor page)

2: "Build a kennel and train some war animals" --[[Special:Contributions/173.3.16.92|173.3.16.92]] 17:01, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

3: "Create stone fall traps near the start of your entry hall" - [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=109473.0 traps block wagon access], perhaps a section on designing a wagon accessible trapped entry hall should be added? -- [[Special:Contributions/178.73.212.241|178.73.212.241]] 21:23, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Hey, I'm a beginner, and this part caused a lot of confusion for me, it wasn't until I read your link that I realised it's a recent change, and that's why traps are blocking my wagons, I guess it means I'm going to have to work out how to fix it myself, but it would be nice if a pro could update it a little, or at least add in this new change so noobs aren't confused at this point and left floundering, like I was... Thanks also to everyone who helped create this guide!!! I definitely wouldn't have bothered learning if it wasn't for this! [[User:Fleecemaster|Fleecemaster]] 12:55, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

== More Extensive Layout Examples ==
For a complete beginner like me, it got kind of confusing when we were told good things to put on floor 0, -1, and then skipped straight to floor -9, and then back up to -2. Then all that empty space in between, I'm personally a bit lost as to what should be put on which floor. I know it's up to us, but I'm not sure why we had to skip so many floors if there's nothing to even put there. A section about what should be put near what for efficiency would be nice. [[User:Hesuchia|Hesuchia]] 18:44, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

== Explanations ==
Hey, I'm also a beginner, but I read in the "bedroom" section that the bedrooms should be built deep to keep away from noise, such as woodcutting on the surface. I think this is why the tutorial suggests building the bedroom so low, and leaving such a large gap! Hope this helps! [[User:Fleecemaster|Fleecemaster]] 12:37, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Agreed, if something can be summed up in a sentence or two, then it should be in there.--[[User:Scribbler|Scribbler]] 14:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

== Bedrooms ==
Just wanted to point out that trying to build beds, cabinets, and coffers, all at once is a bit labor-intensive and nearly impossible to keep up with once the bigger migrations start popping up. I think that the Cabinets + Coffers part should maybe be added as a suggestion to do eventually, as it is by no means necessary to do in the early stages of the game. -- [[Special:Contributions/219.110.224.136|219.110.224.136]] 14:14, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Amen to this. I personally, once I get stuff mildly settled, build a second Mason's workshop just so I can have him make doors on repeat, because I'm OCD and like having doors everywhere. Plus it makes the dorfs less pissy when they inevitably start starving. I know I have a tough enough time remembering to make enough BEDS, let alone comfort furnishings. -- [[Special:Contributions/174.21.25.90|174.21.25.90]] 5:57, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

== Maisma ==

Under the section of refuse it has a picture that says to have your refuse pile outside or designate a dump, I'm moderately sure that refuse still creates miasma if dumped but can someone confirm this before I make any changes -- [[User:Timlyo|Timlyo]] 16:06, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

v0.34:Screw pump

2012-10-09T21:21:45Z

HiEv: Undo revision 178113 by 76.112.146.89 (talk) (information wasn't redundant)

{{quality|Masterwork|21:05, 26 April 2011 (UTC)}}
{{Machine_component|name=Screw pump|key=s|job=[[Pump operator]]
|construction=
* [[Block]]
* [[Trap component#Enormous corkscrew|Enormous corkscrew]]
* [[Pipe section]]
|construction_job=
* [[Architecture]]
* 1 of
** [[Carpentry]]
** [[Masonry]]
** [[Metalsmithing]]
|power=Needs 10 power.
}}
{{av}}

A '''screw pump''' is a small [[building]] that can lift liquids ([[water]] or [[magma]]) from one level below onto the same [[Z-level]] as the pump. It is two tiles by one tile in size, and it can be either manually operated by a [[dwarf]] with the [[pump operator]] job or by being [[power]]ed by [[water wheel]]s and/or [[windmill]]s.

The direction you want the fluid to travel must be chosen at the time of construction. Pumping only occurs in a straight line, and involves a total of 4 tiles in a row - the liquid source, two for the pump, and the output. The "rise" in levels occurs on the first tile, the intake side, from one level below up to the level of the pump*. Pumped fluids can and will flow immediately after being pumped, as normal for that fluid. Pumped fluids will have a [[pressure]] equal to the exit [[z-level]] - a pump never "forces" water to a higher [[z-level]] than the output tile.

:''(* A DF pump can best be imagined as a simple [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27_screw archimedes screw].)''

[[Water#Salt Water|Salt water]] pumped through a pump will desalinate and become drinkable, but only if the cistern has never contained salty water. [[Water#Stagnant Water|Stagnant water]] pumped through a pump will become clean, letting dwarves drink it without getting an unhappy [[thought]] and letting [[doctor]]s clean [[wound]]s without causing an [[Health care#Infection|infection]]. As with desalination, this only works if the cistern has never contained stagnant water.

''For a basic overview of how the different machine parts work and work together, see [[machine component|machinery]].''

== Construction ==

Building a screw pump requires an [[Trap component#Enormous corkscrew|enormous corkscrew]], a [[block]], and a [[pipe section]]. The construction itself is completed in two stages. First a dwarf with the [[architect]] labor must design it. Then a dwarf (the same or a different one) with the appropriate labor must complete the building. This could be [[carpentry]], [[metalsmithing]], or [[masonry]], depending on the material of the block.

To select pump, use keys {{k|b}}-{{k|M}}-{{k|s}}. It's important to choose the proper orientation for your pump, where it will draw water from and where it will deliver the water. This is determined before placement with the {{k|u}}, {{k|m}}, {{k|k}}, or {{k|h}} keys, and the text at the top of the sub-menu will change to confirm your choice. The default (as shown above in the sidebar), "pumps from the north" (top). The ''light'' green X must be next to the liquid source and the ''dark'' green X is where the liquid exits the pump.

[[Image:Small pump.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'''Basic Side View of a Pump'''. This pump "pumps from the west", from left to right. The area to the right may fill to the top of that level, but no more (See [[pressure]]; see [[Screw pump#Pump Stack|Pump stack]]). Note that the entire space required is 4 tiles long by 1 tile wide, not including any retaining walls for the outflow. If pumped manually, the [[pump operator]] stands in the light-colored area, as the dark-colored is impassable to both fluid and movement. ''(Although the "liquid" is shown as blue, this can work for [[magma]] as well, with the [[magma-safe|appropriate precautions]].)'']]

The example shown in the infobox above "pumps from the north" (top) to the south (bottom). If pumped manually, the dwarf stands on the light-colored tile, as the dark-colored is impassable.

The orientation is visible after placement by using {{k|q}}uery over or near that pump or during placement, using UMKH to select the direction of input. Orientation of a pump cannot be changed after being constructed, but, as with any building, it can be deconstructed into its component parts and rebuilt as and where desired.

Having specified the direction of travel, you must ensure that the source side of the pump is placed adjacent to and above (in the [[z-axis]]) a liquid. The screw pump will draw the liquid up from below its level, and distribute it out of the other side of the pump.

== Notes ==

* The source of the pump must be directionally adjacent to "Open Space" that is directly above a source of liquid. The adjacent space cannot be a floor, stairway or wall suspended over water. Screw pumps can pull water through a [[grate]], floor [[bars]], or a [[construction|constructed]] [[fortification]] on the Z-level below.
* The light pump tile is where a pump operator will stand (if the pump is not powered mechanically). Liquids to be pumped must be 1 level below the (empty) area adjacent to this tile.
* Dwarves must be able to access and stand on the light tile of the pump in order to build the pump and then to be able to operate the pump manually.
* The dark pump tile is on the output side. Liquids will appear in the tile adjacent to this.
* The dark pump tile blocks liquids flow and creature movement, and can be built between wall segments to create a solid barrier. The light tile of the pump does not block flow or movement.
* Pumps can also be used in conjunction with a [[water wheel]] or a [[windmill]] to become self-powered.
* Active mechanisms connected to the pump will automatically start the pump; to prevent this either restrict liquid flow using floodgates or hatches, or put in a [[gear assembly]] linked to a [[lever]] to disconnect the [[power]].
* Adjacent pumps ''automatically'' transfer mechanical power to any other adjacent pump(s); no [[axle]] or [[mechanism]] is required. If too many pumps are adjacent, there may be insufficient power to power them.
* Dwarves operating pumps do '''NOT''' generate power. Thus, one cannot use a single [[pump operator]] to power an entire pump stack.
* A hatch above the input tile (on the same level as the pump) that is linked to a trigger (a [[lever]] or [[pressure plate]]) makes an effective on/off switch for that pump.
* In order to build pumps in a "hanging" state, as in the stacked screw pump example (below), one of its tiles must be able to connect to a nearby machine, either already existing or designated to be built. If, when the screw pump's construction is completed, the supporting mechanism has not yet been completed, it will promptly collapse into its component parts.
* Pumps do '''not''' push liquids '''up''' additional Z-levels above them. They only deliver water to their own level. That is, if you direct the output of a screw pump into a 1-square space surrounded by walls, the water will not "overflow" the walls. Consequently, a pump will refuse to move liquid if the level it is pumping to is completely filled. Higher levels can be achieved using a "pump stack" (below). (See [[Pressure]])
* In order to safely pump magma, you must use [[magma-safe]] materials, though magma-unsafe metals have been observed to be safe unless the open tile is going to be submerged in magma. Wooden parts (except for [[nether-cap]]s) will burst into flames the instant the pump is activated, and magma-unsafe stone [[block]]s melt after a short time. Despite the requirement for magma-safe materials, the exterior of the pump does not heat up, and dwarves do not mind operating a magma pump directly.
* Magma, which normally has no pressure, will behave as though pressurized when pumped. For example, when pumped into an U-turn, magma will come out at the other end. Normal (non-pumped) magma would just pool at the lowest level. This may be either very useful (can be used to build pressure towers for magma) or deadly (forge level flooded with magma, because someone tried to pump magma into a volcano).
* Pump's pseudo-pressure doesn't work across diagonals. If there is a diagonal-only passage in your tunnel, liquids will seep slowly through it, instead of bursting through above their normal maximal speed, like they would if there was good passage.
* The liquid in a pump's intake tile must have a depth of at least 2/7 for the pump to be able to remove any amount of liquid from it.
* If a pump's intake tile on the z-level below the pump becomes blocked (e.g. cave-in, magma cooling into obsidian, or a sapling maturing into a [[tree]]) the pump will still run but not pump any fluid.
* If a pump's output tile contains magma and the pump is pumping water or vice versa, the output tile will be turned into [[obsidian]].
* Pumps operate in the reverse order in which they were built-- the most recently built will try to pump, then the next recent, and so on. You can use this to your advantage for [[mist]] generation, to maximize fluid throughput, or for advanced [[repeater]] design.
* Screw pumps continue to operate for a short period (49 ticks) after losing power-- that is, a screw pump supplied power for exactly 1 tick will actually pump for 50 ticks.

====Common mistakes====
* Orienting a pump incorrectly, and/or not having a proper open liquid source.
* Pumping water into an area with a path to other parts of your fortress. (The pump may work perfectly - the fortress quickly [[flood]]s.)
* Expecting water to rise up above the same level of a pump.
* Building a wall attached only to the light tile - this leaves a diagonal leak between the wall and the dark tile unless sealed there. (If that's not a problem, don't worry about it.)
* Having stairs as input tile. Stairs block input tile, thus rendering the pump useless, even though liquids usually ignore stairs. Output tile can be any liquid-passable tile.
* Not channeling below the impassable tile of an individual pump in a pump stack. This is how power is transmitted to the pump below.
* Pumping magma into a lower z-level (same as the source) and then being surprised it is forced back up to the pump's z-level further down the line (where you were planning your magma forges, for example.)

== Example layouts ==
=== Single pump ===

[[Image:jt_screwpump.png|frame|left|A screw pump delivers from the level below to the tile in front. This pump pumps from the right to the left. The "dark tile" would be on the left - that entire tile is impassible to movement and fluids.]] 
=== Pump stack ===
[[File:PumpStack2010.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Illustrated Side View of a Pump Stack.''']]
[[File:PumpStackTopView.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Illustrated Top View of a Pump Stack Layer.''']]
[[File:Pumpstack.gif|thumb|right|'''Animation showing the general construction using an isometric projection.''']]

A Pump stack is a method used to draw water or magma vertically across multiple z-levels requiring a minimum of parts. The basic functionality is possible because the Output (dark) side of the pump can be built over open space with a machine component located directly below, in this case another Screw Pump. Note that for power to properly transfer the intake (light) side of the pump must line up with the output (dark) side of the pump on the floor above it through a space in the floor, as in the illustration.

A pump stack minimizes the amount of machinery required to lift water or magma by allowing for power to be supplied directly to only the most accessible pump (typically the topmost) which in turn allows the player to operate a stack limited only by how many windmills/water wheels they can fit into the area. The price of optimal parts density is fragility: each pump relies on the pump below it for support. If [[forgotten beast|anything]] breaks a pump in your stack, every pump above it will be disassembled. This means that a single pump accidentally assembled with non-[[magma-safe]] parts can cause an entire magma pump stack to spontaneously disassemble.

Typical applications for a pump stack include moving magma from a lower level (often the [[magma sea]]) up to a convenient level for forges and furnaces, extracting water from a flooded fort, raising water for a decorative [[waterfall]] (and extracting it afterwards), or any other purpose that requires water/magma on a z-level significantly above its current location.

The Illustrated Top View of a Pump Stack Layer shows a basic section of a pump stack. Only the door (or a floodgate) on the Containment side is strictly necessary in order to prevent flooding. Two doorways are used here, each lining up with the solid ground within the pump assembly, in order to prevent workers from trapping themselves after digging channels or assembling the pump.

Be warned: pump stacks move water '''fast.''' If you are pumping from a large reservoir into an open area, be prepared for a huge outflow, roughly akin to the kind of water dump you'd get if the whole reservoir was balanced above the pump output and then released. If you are using pumps to empty a large underground reservoir (or, say, a flooded fortress) onto open land, use an aqueduct or some other method to make sure the pump system outlet is a good distance away from anything you wouldn't want to get drenched.

As an alternative to a large reservoir, it is also possible to combine a [[Dwarven Atom Smasher]] with the top layer of the Pump Stack to create a "vacuum cleaner" of sorts.

====Tips====

* Ramps can be used in place of channeling. Liquids will transmit through ramps, unlike stairs, and when pumps are constructed they annihilate the ramp they're built on much as walls do. Power will still be transmitted, so they don't need to be removed by miners prior to pump construction. Ramps make it virtually impossible to strand your miners and allow the stack to be dug out using only access doorways on the intake side of the pump, so no construction or doors are later needed to eliminate leaks. A pump stack can be very rapidly carved out with this method as even if a miner/builder is trapped on the containment side of a pump, they can walk up the ramp to the intake side of the pump above and walk out.
* Power can be transmitted to the stack by channeling out the tile directly above the intake (light) tile of the topmost pump and mounting a gear assembly. If the gear assembly is supported by an adjacent gear assembly or horizontal axle on a stable floor (be careful to not have that adjacent gear assembly disengage via lever), this will allow the stack to hang from the gear assembly. If a lower pump needs to be removed, or should self-destruct, the problem of the entire pump stack disassembling described above is eliminated. Further, if the supported gear assembly is built first, the pump stack can be built both from the top and bottom simultaneously, halving construction time, assuming that sufficient attention is paid to make sure that the pumps will align with the proper orientation when the two partial stacks meet. Properly channeling/ramping out the stack should ensure this.
* When pumping water, make sure all tiles on the containment side of the stack are covered with a [[construction|constructed]] floor or [[fortification]] to prevent subterranean trees from growing and blocking flow of the stack. Fortifications have the added advantage that, when used with water, they will never become muddy.
* When using pumps to empty a large body of liquid, make sure that the pump output is properly isolated from the intake, otherwise the liquid can flow backwards into the pump's walkable tile and cause problems (such as flushing the dwarf operating it into the body of liquid being drained).

===Improved Magma Pump Stack===

Because a pump stack pumping magma is known to cause significant [[Maximizing_framerate|lag]], a [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72296.0 new type of pump stack] was developed by [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=19835 NecroRebel] that causes a much smaller drop in [[FPS]]. Changing the single tile magma chamber at the output of every pump from a 1 by 1 to a 3 by 3 area reduces the lag to 1/15th of that caused by the original pump stack. The designer hypothesizes that the larger chamber requires many fewer temperature calculations when magma is pumped in or out; that also implies that there will be no FPS improvement for water pumps by using this design.

====Newer Magma Pump Breakthroughs====

Newer breakthroughs in magma pump design has since made the 3x3 reservoir design obsolete.
NecroRebel has tested a [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72296.msg1772802#msg1772802 1x3 head-over-tail variation] (which is very similar to [[Screw_pump#Pump_stack|the typical 1 by 1 pump stack]]) as well as a [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72296.msg1795907#msg1795907 2x3 head-over-head variation]. Both of these new designs require less space and work as effective as his original 3x3 reservoir head-over-head design, with no significant drop in FPS. The 1x3 head-over-tail design has the advantages of requiring the least amount of space and being simple to refit from the standard 1 by 1 water pump stack.

{{buildings}}

v0.34:Stupid dwarf trick

2012-10-09T21:13:11Z

HiEv: Undo revision 178112 by 24.184.54.194 (talk) (undo vandalism)

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{{D for Dwarf}}

A '''stupid dwarf trick''' is any project that requires a large amount of time and effort - often for little or no practical benefit. They exist only as a challenge for experienced players.

==Adventure Mode Fortress==

Build a fortress specifically for exploring in [[adventure mode]]. You can either make a nasty monster-filled challenge, or a smörgåsbord of masterpiece adamantine weapons and armor. Possibly both. Breaching the [[caverns]] or [[hidden fun stuff]] should ensure the fortress is occupied.

'''Difficulty:''' The sky's the limit.

'''Usefulness:''' Not applicable.

==Alarm Clock==
Are your soldiers all sound asleep while blood soaks the walls? No need to deconstruct their beds one by one, ''if'' you bought the Dwarf Wakey 3000! Simply a solitary floor tile balanced on a support, one or more can be toppled with the pull of a lever to produce an earth-shaking racket that'll have them leaping for their axes!

'''Difficulty:''' Low.

'''Usefulness:''' Limited. They will sleep through <s>'''anything'''</s> Noise. Although have been known to awaken when drenched in water, only waking up due to thinking it's alcohol, making an Alarm clock not impossible, if carefully prepared.

==Alphabet Cages==
[[Image:Cage.gif|right]]
Use captured monsters in cages to spell messages.

'''Difficulty:''' Medium. Vowels are hard to come by.

'''Usefulness:''' Absolutely none whatsoever. (Easy reminders in case you're too lazy to use notes?)

==Aqueduct Power==
If your river's a long way away from your fortress, building a trans-map axle may be less efficient than building an aqueduct and pump stack driven by waterwheels in the river. The pump stack raises it to the height of your fort, where it flows through the long, long aqueduct and drives waterwheels on the other end. Getting the water pressure just right so it powers your waterwheel without flooding the fort can be [[Fun]]. Diagonal channels make good pressure reducers.

'''Difficulty:''' High. Lots of stone, lots of engineering, lots of dangerous outdoor work, lots of trial-and-error for the receiving waterwheels. Aquifers will absorb any amount of water at any rate. Using an aquifer as drain for the reservoir will nullify the risk of flooding the fortress due to the drain not keeping up with the supply.

'''Usefulness:''' High. As much water and power as you want, wherever you want, whenever you want.

==Aquifer Power==
Aquifers can be a resource of immense power. If you have two levels of aquifer, you can generate a continuous flow by draining one level of aquifer into another and plant waterwheels above it. One stream can power a lot of wheel.

'''Difficulty:''' High. Anything to do with draining aquifers is very [[Fun]].

'''Usefulness:''' High. The lowly windmill pales in utility compared to a waterwheel.

==Archaeological Excavation==
A Fortress in the Caverns, built by the first dwarf tribes. Build the Fortress however you see fit for those prehistoric Dwarves (i.e. only primitive metals, elaborate tombs for the chieftains with burial objects, cave art, etc.) and abandon it. Then, embark with modern Dwarves, and excavate the ancient Fortress. Sort of like the Adventure Fortress above, only for Reclaim Mode

'''Difficulty:''' As High as you want.

'''Usefulness:''' Not applicable.

*Bonus: A Museum detailing the lives of those early dwarves

==Artificial Waterfall==
To keep the waterfall going, you need a [[pump]] stack, preferably powered by a [[windmill]] or [[water wheel]]. Alternatively, an [[aquifer]], or other limitless water source, makes for a waterfall entirely underground.

'''Difficulty:''' Moderate (Low if there is an aquifer above pouring down).

'''Usefulness:''' Dwarves love [[waterfall]]s. Putting a waterfall in your [[meeting hall]] will give your dwarves good [[thought]]s, although it can significantly lower frame rate.

*Bonus: Build it in a "Warm" or hotter [[climate]] so it does not freeze.
*DwarfBonus: Build it in a freezing/cold/temperate climate and keep it going entire year!
*MegaDwarf Bonus: Use [[magma]]. It does not freeze, even in a freezing climate!
*MegaDwarf Bonus EXTREME+: Use magma and water in the same waterfall. The results will enshrine you in dwarf history! Possibly permanently.

==[[Ballista]] Battery==
Overlap a few ballistas to completely cover a narrow corridor. There is an unavoidable risk of your operators wandering into the line of fire.

'''Difficulty:''' Low. If you insist on highly-trained operators with high-quality ballistas, it gets harder.

'''Usefulness:''' A complicated and dangerous way to defend a single corridor. Ultimately extremely effective. Sometimes.

==Bastion==
Construct an isolated burrow containing a farmer and some labourers, containing at least an uncontaminated well (an [[aquifer]] is great for this) and some farms. Use whatever elaborate mechanism you wish to seal it off from the rest of the fortress. Congratulations; your bastioned dwarves and their descendants will keep your fortress alive forever until one of them goes nuts.

* Bonus: Build your bastion at least in part in a clay or sand layer, connect to magma (using a fortification in the channel to stop those annoying fireproof creatures from sneaking in), and continue manufacturing useless crap even as the world crumbles around you!
* Bonus: Build it on top of a tower outside, and then deconstruct the stairs up.
* Bonus: Fill it exclusively with vampires, to avoid having to worry about food, children, and aging.
* MegaDwarfBonus: Hollow out a shell around your bastion, connecting it to the rest of the cavern by a single 1x1 adamantine support, and flood the shell with magma.

'''Difficulty:''' Low.

'''Usefulness:''' High. If your bastioned dwarves have high enough quality living space and few enough nonbastioned friends, it makes the fortress functionally immortal.

==Bathtub==
Stop dwarves from hauling in tons of exotic, poisonous sludges into your fortress by creating a tub filled with 3/7 water that everyone has to get through to enter the fortress. Include a system to change the water, so that they don't bathe in grime.

'''Difficulty:''' Moderate

'''Usefulness:''' Low in most cases. High in some evil areas.

* DwarfBonus: Make it drain and refill itself with clean water automatically once in a year.
* MegaDwarfBonus: Clean it with magma.
* *MegaDwarfBonus*: Have an alternative bathtub-buffered entrance next to the main one, which opens automatically when cauterizing the main one and closes and cauterizes itself when it is no longer needed, so that no jobs are canceled during cleansing cycle.
* ≡MegaDwarfBonus≡ : Make it clean itself with magma automatically once in a year, but make it wait for the moment when it's unused, so that no dwarves or pets are incinerated.
* ☼MegaDwarfBonus☼: All of the above, plus make it detect when there should be no dwarves or pets around, but invaders are in it, so that the cleansing cycle can be started prematurely.

==Bolt Recovery Operation==
One curious property of Dwarven Physics is that a bar of metal makes 25 bolts, but if each of those 25 bolts is melted separately, they will become 2.5 bars, generating metal from nothing. The trick is in separating the stacks of bolts into individual bolts without destroying them, for which EliDupree found this trick:

∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙
∙++++@∙+++++++++
∙+∙∙∙┼∙+++++++++++++++
∙+∙g∙┼∙++++++++++++++@
∙+∙∙∙┼∙+++++++++++++++
∙+++++∙+++++++++
∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙

The @ at the right is a stack of marksdwarves (all in different squads so that they'll stand on the same tile) with [[adamantine]] bolts. The @ at the left is a single Perfectly Agile soldier with orders to patrol up and down, with little delays at the top and bottom. The "g" at the left is a goblin standing on a pillar (I pitted it from the z-level above.)

When the dwarf at the left runs up or down the line of doors, it opens all of them, and some of the marksdwarves shoot their bolts. By the time the bolts get there, the doors have closed, so they hit the doors and fall into the channel, where they can be collected and melted separately. (That distance is exact, by the way. Any less and they sometimes get shots through the doors, which kills your goblin. Also, with less-skilled marksdwarves, some of the bolts will stray and land on the floors, but that isn't enough to worry about even with mere dabblers.) Naturally, this is also an excellent way to train marksdwarves.

Certainly, there are other ways to set-up a recovery/live fire operation.

'''Difficulty:''' Moderate. The hardest part is getting the marksdwarves to shoot from exactly the right spot.

'''Usefulness:''' High. Even in .18 or worlds generated with high mineral availability, because you can do this to generate [[adamantine]].

==Break the Dam (Release the River!)==
Dam a river (or brook) using something non-permanent (floodgates, drawbridges) and build your fortress entrance in the now dry river bed, make sure you can seal it off nicely (floodgates anyone?) then wait till the first Goblin siege, let them get to your entrance floodgates, seal them, open the dam and laugh manically

'''Difficulty:''' Low

'''Usefulness:''' Instantaneous death to all sieges

SuperDwarf bonus: Do this with magma

==Bridge-a-pult==
A bridge that opens outwards, to fling enemies away. Ideally, they land in a very nasty place.

'''Difficulty:''' The hard part is the nasty place they get flung to.

'''Usefulness:''' There are far more effective ways to defend a fortress, but few are as entertaining.

==Dam==
Build a wall across a riverbed to stop the flow of water. Floodgates optional.

'''Difficulty:''' On a map that freezes in the winter, or an aquifer located below the river, this is easy. Otherwise, very difficult. (See [[dam]], or Moses effect, below. But with the bonuses it gets a bit harder.

'''Usefulness:''' Depends on how many bonuses you fulfill. The power station is obvious, and with the control room you could build up a nice defense system.

*Bonus: Excavate a reservoir and a lower river valley. 
*Bonus: Build a control center to control the water flow. 
*Bonus: Draw your entire energy from a power station within. 
*MegaDwarfBonus: Use screw pumps and another dam to replace the water with magma.

==[[Danger room|Danger Room]]==
A room full of upright spear traps linked to a lever or pressure plate. Teach your dwarves to dodge the pointy sticks!

'''Difficulty''': Low to Medium, depending on how you activate the traps.

'''Usefulness''': High. Trains combat skills very quickly, assuming you don't kill anyone.

'''Downside''': Civilians and pets that wander into the danger room will inevitably get killed, even if you use low quality training spears.

*MegaDwarfBonus: Menacing spikes greatly increase the danger, and may help train your medical team (and/or your coffin construction crew).
*MegaDwarfBonus: Use [[adamantine]] spikes! On the plus side, you have a thriving coffin industry going now.

==Day Care==
A room where you put all your dwarf children so they cannot be kidnapped by snatchers. Make a room with beds and tables and stuff, then turn it into a burrow, then add all your children to it. Remember to include a food chute to quantum stockpile a huge amount of food and alcohol on a 1x1 stockpile (so it doesn't rot) in the room. High quality food, furniture, and socializing should keep them happy. Note that the children will no longer be able to perform certain useful tasks like crop harvesting and deconstruction, and will not level up their skill in various professions like an otherwise vulnerable child, but this is a small trade-off if they usually get kidnapped before maturing anyway. This is probably obvious, but make sure this room is guarded, otherwise it will turn into a Dwarf Orphanage (with Goblins and Minotaurs welcome!)

'''Difficulty:''' Low. With the invention of burrows, you can designate the Day Care to contain all children, so it is unnecessary to use suicide-booth-micromanagement to contain the children.

'''Usefulness:''' Low. Think of the children, they will grow up and enter adult Dwarf life completely unprepared for the [[Fun|things]] [[Dragon|that]] [[Hell|await]] them, having spent their entire lives coddled in a safe room. They might make good nobles however.

==Doberman Bomb==
Whenever a dog or cat gives birth, stuff all the kittens and puppies in one cage in your entryway. Link this cage to a pressure plate beside it. Should your last lines of defense be breached, goblins will step on it and in the next instant be torn apart by dozens of goblin-seeking hostiles and distracted by dozens of surplus targets. The trap actually going off will probably be very bad for your frame rate.

'''Difficulty:''' Low.

'''Usefulness:''' Medium, potentially fortress-saving

*Bonus: Train all dogs inside as war dogs when they mature.

*DwarfBonus: Make it a bear trap.
*MegaDwarfBonus: Combine with a drowning chamber and carp trap.
*SadisticDwarfBonus: Make it a [[giant badger]] trap.
*YouHorribleEvilDwarfBonus: Make it a drowning trap with a [[giant sponge]].
*SomeDwarvesJustWantToWatchThe‼World‼Bonus: Make it a magma chamber with an undead giant sponge.

==Drowning Chamber==

'''Difficulty:''' Moderate.

'''Usefulness:''' You can kill prisoners, useless peasants, irate nobles, hammerers, untamable animals, or anything else. Just be ready for something that knows how to swim. Also useful for catching fishies. See [[drowning chamber]].

*Bonus: Utilize lava.

*Bonus: Utilize trained fish.

*MegaDwarfBonus: Edit the raw and do both!

==[[Computing|Dwarfputer]] Complex==
A big mess of [[fluid logic|fluid]], [[machine logic|machine]], and/or [[creature logic|creature]] logic full of hatches, floodgates, gears, pumps, etc. and powered by waterwheels, windmills, or useless idle dwarves. Hook it up to doors, bridges, and traps.

'''Difficulty:''' Medium to high, depending on what you want to build. You'll want to build for very high water flow if you have more than a few fluid gates.

'''Usefulness:''' Your mechanics and architects will level up very fast. Manual pumps give something for your haulers to do<s> and makes them stronger</s> (in 31.25 only military work increases stats, i was really disappointed after 4 years of nonstop pumping only to see weak in urist description). Try and make a clock to trigger different mechanisms in different seasons. See if enemies actually blunder into your intricate traps. Watch all hell break loose as water freezes and building destroyers enter your computer.

==Dwarven Apartment Complex==
Essentially, one of the many possible [[megaprojects]] dedicated to providing dwarves with rooms so high above the ground they get vertigo. Every floor must have plenty of rooms of at least 2x3 squares, with walls and a door surrounding this. Oh, and it has to go up as many Z-levels as possible. For extra credit, decide on what the top story will be (i.e. as many levels up as you deem possible, minus one so you can build a roof) and turn this into a Royal bedroom for a [[noble]], complete with gem windows, artifact/masterwork components, and untold numbers of armour stands and weapon racks. And then build some shorter but wider apartment buildings nearby to turn your fortress into essentially a giant fist with extended middle finger. Extra points for adding extra useless things for luxury, such as a magma-based heating system, fireplaces in rooms, and a lock-down lever in case of goblin attack. (or a self-destruct lever connected to the main supports, in case your dwarfish tenants are unsatisfied with your 5-star service).

'''Difficulty:''' Low, although the walls around the rooms can be a bit fiddly due to the impossibility of building walls on constructed floors (yes, an extra credit challenge is to do this without using Remove Construction).

'''Usefulness:''' Limited, because you could just dig the things underground and save yourself the hassle. However it is much harder to flood a tower than a cave, in case you're prone to fun by water. Additionally, if you have the time and resources to train a sizable force of marksdwarves, placing a few "security rooms" (with barracks, ammunition store, ration cache, armory, etc) at appropriate floors, complete with fortified balconies, will allow you to take advantage of the higher vantage point.

Megadwarfbonus: Extend the tower to have levels below ground as well as above.

==Dwarven Courtyards==

I came upon this idea while doing my architecture theory paper.

Dig large shafts [first dig the staircase to the desired depth, digging out the size you want the shaft to be on all layers. Channel the outer later, then install supports on the base floor. Link the support to a trigger, clear everyone out, destroy the remaining staircase and pull the trigger] then cover them in glass, creating an indoor but light area that will keep dwarves from being irritated and nauseated by the sun, also improving general happiness and allowing close proximity to caverns and magma.

'''Difficulty:''' Medium, make sure not to mess up or you will lose your miners

'''Usefullness:''' Medium. creates vertical circulation and brings light to lower levels.

Megadwarfbonus: Create a network of self sufficient communities per shaft, allowing them to be sectioned off in case of disaster. (I plan on colonizing hell eventually on this paradigm, creating a mining team of soldiers to extract, manufacture and ultimately use adamantine products without being connected to the main colony in order to take on the demons while keeping the rest of the burrow safe.)

==Dwarven Disco Ball==
Why waste all those cut gems on things that only some selfish noble will enjoy? Create as large a wall-less sphere as you can, then cover it in Gem Windows of 3 different-colored gems to make it shine! The bigger, and more valuable gems involved (e.g., [[ruby|rubies]], [[sapphire]]s, and [[emerald]]s, or colored diamonds if you're really masochistic), the dwarfier.

'''Difficulty:''' Constructing a sphere is very hard, especially the larger you make one. Gathering enough differently colored gems can also be very hard, depending on stone layers. Trading helps a lot.

'''Usefulness:''' Negative. More value can be created by encrusting furniture, and Gem Windows lack quality.

*Bonus: Alternating [[alunite]] and [[obsidian]] tiles to make a 'dance floor'.

*MegaDwarfBonus: Use lava contained in glass for illumination.

*UltraDwarfBonus: Caged "[[DF2012:Elf|dancers]]".

==Dwarven Labor Camp (aka Dwarkuta)==
Create an aboveground walled fortress in a freezing climate with guard towers, barracks, housing, and armories. Dig a long ramp downward and add a large mining network below the surface. Make some small military squads to guard the camp. Designate the lower levels as workshops, and when migrants arrive, assign them to the mines. Give the workers minimal food and only water (no booze, booze is for the hypocritical decadence of Dwarkuta's leaders). Have them haul the stone and metal they mine back to the surface and ship the raw materials off to the Motherland. Import only food, booze, weapons, fuel, and other necessities.

*Bonus: Build the giant digging machines. They don't actually have to dig anything.

*MegaBonus: Escape. Wait for a goblin siege, then get everyone underground and block the entrance. Let the goblins in. Wait a few months. The goblins are now the guards you must kill.

Step 1. Secure the keys: Make improvised weapons. If you have obsidian at your disposal, make rock short swords.

Step 2. Ascend from darkness: Get your dwarves out of the mines and into the camp.

Step 3. Rain fire: Use your imagination. Try using magma, if possible.

Step 4. Unleash the horde: Attack!

Step 5. Skewer the winged beast: If the goblins brought a giant bat or other flying creature, kill it.

*Bonus: Use a ballista.

Step 6. Wield a fist of iron: Break open the armory and equip your rebels with armor and weapons.

Step 7. Raise hell: Exactly what it says on the tin.

Step 8. Freedom!

*MegaDwarfBonus: In Adventure mode, try (and probably fail) to lead the prisoners to freedom.

==Dwarven Refrigerator==
Dig down to the 3rd cavern layer and harvest as many [[nether-cap]]s as you can. Make them all into barrels! Nether caps have the unique property of being 10000° Urist, which is 32°F or 0°C. Now your dwarves can enjoy their favorite alcohol, cheese, and plump helmets chilled to perfection! If you've set your population cap very low in the INIT files, caverns aren't extremely dangerous, but you should still be on the lookout for nasties down there. Remember to wall off your entrance to the cavern once you're finished.

'''Difficulty:''' Low to Medium

'''Usefulness:''' None except pretty colored barrels

*Bonus: Nether-caps are magma-resistant. Flood your food stocks with magma to keep them safe from vermin and marauders.

==Emergency Destruct Stairs==
A tall column of stairs plunging all the way down into the underdark, with a one-tile wide area of thin destructible floor all around it. In case of subterranean invasion, a thrown switch drops a stone O straight down, ringing the staircase and neatly severing all inter-level connections at a blow. Does with one lever and one support what would take dozens of bridges or hundreds of retracting grates.

'''Difficulty:''' Harder than it sounds.

'''Usefulness:''' Sometimes... sometimes they fly.

==Execution Tower==
Just a tall tower to chuck your captives to their deaths.

'''Difficulty:''' Easy.

'''Usefulness:''' Lets you dispose of prisoners, and claim expensive silk, meltable iron, and (eventually) useful bones. Also highly amusing.

==Flood the World==
'''Difficulty:''' High danger. Will kill your frame rate.

'''Usefulness:''' Will prevent any sieges, at least. Or anything else, save for the occasional invasion of sociopathic [[giant sponge]].

*Bonus: Use magma, just like [[Main:Boatmurdered|Boatmurdered]].

*MegaDwarfBonus: Use trained fish to kill off all creatures not of your colony.

==Gladiator Arena==
Station some soldiers at the bottom of a shallow [[Activity_zone#Pit/Pond|pit]] and dump your captives in. You can also use dangerous animals instead of soldiers. For extra points, put the prisoners in cages connected to ramps underneath the arena floor. One lever will open both the cage and a hatch above the ramp. Variant: build prisoner cages inside the arena, link to a lever outside the arena, lock the soldiers in, and then open the cages.

'''Difficulty:''' Low, but time consuming. Some danger depending on the relative skill of your soldiers and the danger of the captive. (If the prisoners have weapons, you can remove them by using {{k|d}}-{{k|b}}-{{k|d}} to dump the cage and its contents, then looking at and undumping the cages themselves with {{k|k}}-{{k|d}}).

'''Usefulness:''' Low to High, depending on how long your soldiers can draw out the execution. Equipping your soldiers with wooden training weapons can greatly increase the fun (and/or [[Fun]] if their armor isn't as good as you thought).

*Dwarf Bonus: Losers get incinerated by Magma.
*Mega Dwarf Bonus: Use your arena as a "trial by fire" for migrants.

==Glass Ceiling==
Sick of having your dwarves vomit all the time when they go out to retrieve loot or lumber? Despair no more! Build an almost-infinitely tall tower, and then put a glass floor on the highest level, spanning the entire map. For extra kicks, make a mechanism that will crash the entire thing upon the heads of the one goblin horde that manages to get through all your other deathtraps.

'''Difficulty:''' Medium. Very grueling.

'''Usefulness:''' Low, but potentially fortress-saving. (see above)

*Politically Incorrect Dwarf Bonus: Make it a metaphorical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling glass ceiling] and give migrants and women less pay and poorer rooms.

==Greenhouse==
A [[farming|greenhouse]] is just a farm with the the ceiling channeled out from above. This lets you grow outdoor plants without venturing above ground. For maximum style, build the greenhouse above ground and cover it with a glass roof to keep your farmers safe.

'''Difficulty:''' Low.

'''Usefulness:''' Medium. Surface plants can be grown at any time of the year, and some are more useful than those available underground - for example, [[sun berry|sun berries]] can be brewed into valuable [[Sunshine]], and [[whip vine]]s can be milled into superior quality flour. Having greater food and booze diversity can also keep your dwarves happier.

*Bonus: Give it a glass floor to allow surface plants even lower down.

==Hammer of [[Armok]]==
A gigantic hammer made out of pure steel and/or valuables looming over your fortress entrance ready to smite those foolish enough to lay a siege on you. Also gives you a psychological advantage over the traders who unload their goods under it. Attach to a lever-linked support for quick-smiting.

'''Difficulty:''' Low. Depends on size and materials, though. Make it a gold hammer menacing with adamantine spikes, if you're going for high quality.

'''Usefulness:''' Low-medium. 10x10 size is minimum for practical effectiveness. 30x30 attached to a handle extending from your entrance actually works against sieges.

* '''Bonus:''' Cover it with blood.

* '''Mega Bonus:''' Cover it in [[DF2012:Demon|clown]] blood.

* '''Mega Bonus:''' Make it hollow and fill it with Magma

==Ice tower==

Building a huge tower is easy. To make things more [[fun]], make one out of some exotic material, like [[glass]], [[ice]], [[gold]], or [[soap]].

'''Difficulty:''' Low. You need to be on a freezing map to pull off an ice tower.

'''Usefulness:''' Depends entirely on you.

==Journey to the Center of the Earth==

Construct a sturdy vessel hanging over the top of a magma pipe or volcano, outfitted with everything your intrepid crew might need for their journey of exploration - food, booze, sleeping quarters and a bridge a must, but depending on the amount of effort it can include other items such as a recreation deck, water reservoir and trade depot for dealing with the natives. When all is ready, lock the explorers inside and send them on their way. Bonus points if you can detach it from inside so you can use it in Adventure mode later.

'''Difficulty:''' Moderate to High, depending on the size of the ship. For bonus points, carve the entire thing out of existing rock overhanging a magma pipe and engrave it with messages. Burrows help to get the whole crew inside at the same time.

'''Usefulness:''' Negative. For some reason, no explorers have returned. Of course, if you select only the [[Nobles |Best and Brightest]] for the ship's crew...

*MegaDwarfBonus: Design it so that it can return.
(NOTE: I am very curious as to how this can be done, even with dwarven technology)

==Maze==

A maze of twisty little passages, all alike. [[Trap]]s and dangerous animals are essential. You can have a retracting bridge drop invaders in, or just have a labyrinth as a back door.

'''Difficulty:''' It's a lot of mining. Having a bridge drop invaders inside is more difficult, but more useful. You can also use the free maze-generating program Daedalus, available [http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/daedalus.htm here] if you're too lazy to come up with your own.

'''Usefulness:''' It makes a nice element of fortress defense, and you can dump your prisoners inside it. Also makes a great place to explore in [[adventure mode]].

*Bonus: Generate a world with large mountain [[cave]]s. Instead of using the labyrinth as your backdoor, use it as your fortress.
*Bonus: Release a live caged [[minotaur]] into the maze.
*MegaBonus: Make it three-dimensional and [http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/maze/design/index.htm#uni unicursal].

==Magma Chamber==
'''Difficulty:''' Dangerous as any magma project.

'''Usefulness:''' It's like a drowning chamber, but any non-iron items carried by the victim will be destroyed. Depending on your style of play, this may be a good thing.

==Magma Cannon==
[http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=33837.0 It can be done!] It uses a row of pumps to pressurize the magma in a chamber with only one exit. When the floodgate opens, the magma flies out a short distance.

'''Difficulty:''' Very high. You need [[metal]] (or [[glass]]) [[screw pump]]s to make it work, [[magma-safe]] floodgates and mechanisms, plus a big above-ground construction.

'''Usefulness:''' Marginal. But very cool.

==Magma Highway==
Magma moves across the map annoyingly slowly, due to its thickness and lack of pressure. But a tunnel several Z-levels high, with magma entering at the top, will flow much faster because the magma's '''falling''' in, not flowing in, and can expand on either Z-level before falling down.

'''Difficulty:''' Medium. Not hard to make, but cutting open a multi-Z magmafall is [[fun]].

'''Usefulness:''' Medium.

==Magma Mausoleum==
This trick involves dripping water on to the middle of a magma pool until you have a column of obsidian, then channeling down into the obsidian ''more than'' one Z level, and putting a burial receptacle there. This probably won't work in magma tubes or Volcanos since the created obsidian would fall into the bottomless pit. The trick is getting the water to fall onto the magma in a controlled manner.

'''Difficulty:''' High. Requires certain resources from the start, plus lots of setup. And your dwarves tend to erupt into dwarf steam occasionally.

'''Usefulness:''' None, since an obsidian lined room with the exact same furniture somewhere else will please your nobles just as much.

*Bonus:Put the coffin at least 20 floors down.
*Megabonus:Build it in a volcano if possible, and put the coffin at the very bottom of the map

==Mass Cage Recycling System==

Build a '''[[Mass pitting]]''' system to recycle your cage trap cages quickly.

'''Difficulty:''' Very easy. Requires basic digging and very little time.

'''Usefulness:''' Very. Keeps you from having to build cages before releasing monsters from them. With six hatches you can safely empty out 48 cages very quickly. You can build lots of cage traps without having to worry about emptying each cage individually.

*Bonus: Cover the floor of your pit with cage traps, creating a neverending cycle and giving your dwarves something to do during the long harsh summer when going outside is overly taxing on their stomachs.
*Concentration Camp Bonus: Combine with Pit of Doom below.

==Mega/Water Drowning Trap-Thing==
This is basically a channel above some pressurized water with a short tunnel leading to a door. The door needs to be connected to a lever somewhere in a safe part of the fortress. Position the door facing the main stairs into your fortress (for multiple stairs use multiple traps). When enemies come down the stairs, pull the lever and make them drown. (It helps to seal off the rooms).

'''Difficulty:''' Medium. Needs flowing water under pressure and levers.

'''Usefulness:''' Medium. Depends on the size of your fortress/defences/amount of attackers. Works well with fire creatures to create a sauna.

==Monumental Statue==

'''Difficulty:''' Depends on how big you want the statue to be. If you are feeling really masochistic, cast it out of obsidian using magma and water.

'''Usefulness:''' None.

*Bonus: Make the statue hollow and have dwarves live inside it.

==Moses Effect==
With enough pumps, you can pull water out of a square faster than it flows in. This can create a reverse waterfall, or a dry spot in the middle of a flowing river. The effect is like Moses parting the Red Sea.

'''Difficulty:''' Surprisingly easy.

'''Usefulness:''' You can use this trick to create a waterfall or drowning chamber. It is also important if you want to pass through an [[Aquifer]], although that is far more difficult. The same trick can be used in lieu of a drawbridge, although its practicality as compared to the drawbridge is highly questionable.

==[[Obsidian]] factory==
You need one reservoir of water, and one of magma. Mix, cool, mine, and repeat as necessary.

* Megadwarf bonus: Make the system fully automated using [[computing]] principles.

'''Difficulty:''' Medium.

'''Usefulness:''' Obsidian is 50% more valuable than [[flux]] and 3 times as valuable as ordinary stone, making it ideal for your [[mason]]s and [[stone crafter]]s. Done properly, it can also serve as a magma chamber ''and'' a drowning chamber.

==Pit o' Doom==
Combine with an Execution Tower for maximum z-level executions! Traps which menace with spikes are a must.

'''Difficulty:''' Low. You want it nice and deep though.

'''Usefulness:''' Dispose of prisoners, execute nobles, gruesome fatal injuries, laugh maniacally.

==Pressure Washer==
A huge tower with floodgates at the bottom on one side. When opened, the pressurized water fires out and pushes anything in the way of the flow away. Depending on size, can be surprisingly powerful. You can see an example tower [http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-7485-griffonwind here.]

'''Difficulty:''' Medium, construction technique takes some consideration.

'''Usefulness:''' Medium-High. Tested in version .40d with 50 recruits standing in front of it when the floodgates opened, killed 46 of them, including ones not pushed into the pit.

*Bonus: Fill it with Magma instead (though Magma doesn't pressurize).

==Rehabilitation Centre==
Had any problems with dwarves charging brainlessly towards the enemy, getting slaughtered, and then starting a tantrum spiral that will destroy your fortress? Turn your prison into a luxurious room full of things that make dwarves happy. Add artifact furniture, beds, a booze stockpile, chains made of gold (or anything valuable,) a waterfall, creatures in cages, etc. Hopefully they will return to society as a happy, productive dwarf.

'''Difficulty:''' Low-Medium. Acquiring valuable items and setting up the waterfall can be annoying sometimes. Also you need guards to actually put them in jail. And it can be a real pain when those ungrateful sobs destroy the nice furniture you give them.

'''Usefulness:''' High. A tantrum spiral can quickly turn a productive fort of 200+ dwarves into a rioting fortress inhabited by a bunch of insane, miserable dwarves who spend their time punching people and breaking furniture. Don't let it happen to you.

MegaDwarfBonus: Points for making every other dwarf drink water and sleep on cheap beds.

==Road of the Damned==
Create a giant channel filled with spike traps, 10 tiles wide and going all the way from your fort to the map edge. Pave it over with crystal glass so traders can get that foreboding feeling that'll make them seal the deal without bargaining too hard!

'''Difficulty:''' Low-mid, depending on the rarity of crystal glass.

'''Usefulness:'''Low. The same as a normal road.

*Bonus: Spike a goblin on every trap!

==Sectorized World==
Divide the world edges into multiple sectors and then gate access to each one separately. This allows you to protect your fortress from seiges whilst keeping access to most of the outside world and allowing most traders into and out of the fortress (those unfortunate enough to enter the world from the same direction as the seigers may be screwed, of course). For bonus points, build separate gateable access routes for each sector. For further bonus points, design your fortress so that you can simultaneously allow access to traders ''at the same time'' as seigers are exposed to your defensive mechanisms.

'''Difficulty:''' Low, unless you allow separate access routes for each sector in which case high.

'''Usefulness:''' Moderate, increasing with each bonus you fill. Mostly for those who want to build the best possible defenses. Can also double as a means of easily trapping wild animals.

==Self-contained Vampire-based Factory==
Take advantage of the independence of vampires by building a self-contained factory. The best industries are those that require no special raw materials-- a factory containing both a magma glass furnace and a sand tile, for instance, would work well, as would a clay industry, but if you're feeling ambitious, consider building a vampire into your [[giant cave spider|GCS]] silk farm-- if you happen to have scored an [[undead]] GCS, your vampire won't even spook! You can treat your factory as a piggy bank to be broken into as needed, or for perfect fire-and-forget action, build a dropping [[User:Vasiln/Undump|undump]] into the factory, and the vampire will deliver the output to your front door.

'''Difficulty:''' The only hard part is getting yourself a [[vampire]].

'''Usefulness:''' Depends on how many green glass blocks you plan on using.

==Self Destruct Lever==
A mechanism that, for example, could flood your fort with magma, or release a trapped megabeast. For bonus points, build the whole fort on a single [[support]].

'''Difficulty:''' Very high. Extremely fun.

'''Usefulness:''' Could serve as kind of a last revenge on a goblin siege, but also highly amusing. If done properly it can make reclaim easier.

'''DorfBonus:''' Make it have a timer before your fortress self destructs. You can do this with a water channel, or if you're particularly technical, make a [[Computing|seven segment display]].

==Shark Catcher==
Capture of sharks or other dangerous fish achieved by making an artificial bay, filling it with cage traps, opening the floodgate to the sea or river and some sort of drainage system, likely pumps and/or floodgates

'''Difficulty''' low to medium as drowning while setting up is very possible with bad planning.

'''Usefulness''' low, purely aesthetic, but very cool to have a shark infested moat.

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==[[Swimming]] pool==
It's a reservoir that fills to 4/7 exactly. Station soldiers inside, lock them in, and fill. This way they gain [[swimming]] skill.

'''Difficulty:''' Low. It's just a pair of reservoirs.

'''Usefulness:''' The swimming skill is only slightly useful. This is most useful if the entrance to your fort has narrow walkways/moats surrounded by water, and you station your soldiers there. It does help gain attributes though. Though if you utilize a '''H'''ydraulic '''E'''levation and '''L'''owering '''P'''latform, this is a priceless necessity.

==Underground Forest==
Break into an underground cavern, make some muddy floors over a big area and wait.

'''Difficulty:''' Medium - need to dig out a suitably large area, then find a way of introducing water to the area and subsequently draining or evaporating it.

'''Usefulness:''' Depends on size (bigger is better) as well as proximity to wood stockpiles. A tree farm outside the caverns can grow trees from all 3 layers, and you'll never have to worry about hostile creatures threatening your wood cutters.

==Underground Perpetual Motion Power Plant==
Combine with a use for the power and you either have an awesome setup, or a ticking time bomb.

'''Difficulty:''' High. Maintaining the correct water level is annoying difficult at times. Note: Incredibly easy with an aquifer.

'''Usefulness:''' Depends on size of plant and what it's connected to. Also useful as a puzzle for adventurers.

==Underwater Statue room==
A simple room filled with statues that just also happens to be flooded. Simply dig a room near to a water source smooth and engrave the walls and floors than fill with statues. Dig a tunnel to the water source and a separate escape route. seal both off with floodgates pull the levers in the right order and bam! underwater statue room. For added effect make the meeting room a room directly above with a glass floor.

'''Difficulty:''' Low.

'''Usefulness:''' Absolutely positively none.

*Bonus: Build it on area with trees and shrubs; make walls from ice or use windows; fill it with fish and merfolk; now you'll get a big aquarium

*Note: It doesn't count if you accidentally flood your fortress and wind up with one of these. It does count if one of your nobles has an unfortunate accident in their sculpture garden.

==U.R.I.S.T. Artificial Intelligence==
Basically, a dwarf in a bunker that controls your fortress. Being that there are no supercomputers in DF at the moment, we'll have to use the closest substitute, a dwarf. Seal your dwarf in a room full of levers that activate various floodgates, bridges, doors, hatch covers, traps, etc. Make sure this room has no exits or entrances, but it needs a luxurious bedroom and dining area, and you must include a chute for dropping in <s>food</s> biomass and <s>alcohol</s> coolant fluid. Profile the levers so that they can only be used by the A.I. dwarf.

It would be a good idea to make the system into two rooms. The food/drink/bed room and the lever room. Should you need to add more levers, you can lock the A.I. dwarf outside the lever room and have your mechanics set up more levers without interacting with or releasing the A.I.

You can make the lodging room suited for the particular dwarf by adding furniture made from their favorite materials, and smoothing and engraving everything. Use quantum stockpiling to give them 10+ years of food and drink. Make sure the A.I. is unable to communicate with other dwarves. His/her mood must not be affected by the deaths of the walking meat-bags who tried to befriend him/her.

In order to ensure that your A.I. doesn't find sleep interfering with crucial lever pulling, you might consider incorporating an alarm clock. If a goblin siege turns up on your doorstep, a single external lever to dump 7/7 of water on the sleeping A.I. might well save your fortress (and is so much cooler than having backup levers in your meeting hall).

You must also make a snazzy/lame acronym name for your AI, here are some examples:
*U.R.I.S.T. - '''U'''nderground '''R'''easonably '''I'''ntelligent '''S'''ettlement '''T'''echnologist
*H.A.L. - '''H'''airy '''A'''lternate '''L'''ifeform
*D.O.S. - '''D'''warf '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem
*N.O.B.L.E. - '''N'''arcissistic '''O'''bnoxious '''B'''oastful '''L'''aughable '''E'''xcrement
*M.A.G.M.A. - '''M'''assively '''A'''lcoholic '''G'''ear-'''M'''achine '''A'''ssembly
*A.R.M.O.K. - '''A'''ll-'''R'''eaching '''M'''achine '''O'''f '''K'''illing
*A.S.S. - '''A'''lmost-autonomous '''S'''ystems '''S'''elector
*D.I.E.D. - '''D'''edicated '''I'''rrigation and '''E'''verything else '''D'''warf(s)
*D.O.R.F. - '''D'''oes '''O'''rders '''R'''ather '''F'''ast
*G.L.A.D.O.S. - '''G'''enetic '''L'''ifeform and '''D'''warf '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem
*P.O.T.A.T.O. - '''P'''ossibly '''O'''rganic '''T'''echnically '''A'''live '''T'''rash '''O'''mitted
*D.O.M.E.S. - '''D'''warf '''O'''perated '''M'''echanics and '''E'''ngineering '''S'''ystem
*V.O.D.A.P.H.O.N.E. - '''V'''ampire '''O'''perated '''D'''efence '''A'''pparatus, '''P'''erpetrating '''H'''arm '''O'''f '''N'''efarious '''E'''ntities (See Bonus for more information)


'''Difficulty:''' Medium. Setting up all the levers and lodgings can be a micromanagement hassle. Further research is required as to how well the A.I. will fit into a dwarven economy.

'''Usefulness:''' High. Having a dwarf dedicated to pulling levers will ensure that they are pulled on time. Additionally, you will have a constantly-ecstatic dwarf who is virtually invulnerable to all threats. Should your fortress be slaughtered by invaders or drowned by flooding or tantrum spiraled, your fortress will be preserved until more migrants arrive, or the AI runs out of food.

Bonus: Make the A.I. dwarf a vampire. Vampires don't need food, alcohol, or sleep and cannot age, which makes them perfect for the job. As an added bonus, keeping a vampire in this way will make your fortress completely indestructible, as sealing him in will prevent the possibility of the vampire of being killed in combat or from a syndrome, while keeping the vampire from making friends he will inevitably outlive will prevent him from going insane. (It also ensures that the bloodsucker won't use any of your dwarves as a midnight snack.)

===D.O.S.T.N.G.O.S.P.===

Dwarven Organic Switch Toggle, Neutered Gastrectomied Overpersistent Sober Prisoner. Goblins have several advantages over dwarves in the lever pulling department: they live forever, do not breed or tantrum, and need not eat, drink, or sleep. Seal one or more goblins in your supercomputer complex, and use their predictable pathing in combination with instantly lockable doors and pressure plates to make dwarven lever pulling a thing of an older, less advanced era.

Also known by several product names:
*G.O.B.L.I.N.A.T.O.R. - '''G'''oblin '''O'''perated '''B'''astion of '''L'''ogic to '''I'''nfalliably '''N'''eutralize '''A'''ntiquated '''T'''ypes of '''O'''perational '''R'''egimes

'''Difficulty:''' Medium. While goblin pressure plate runners require more space than dwarven lever pullers, once their room is set up, it's done, and easily copied for the next one. With only one goblin, you'll need a pressure plate for every possible combination of lever states, but it's easy to add more goblins instead.

'''Usefulness:''' High. Instant response time (<50 ticks is possible) can make lever worries a thing of the past. The G.O.B.L.I.N.A.T.O.R. requires absolutely no maintenance once set up. Unlike with the U.R.I.S.Ts of the previous generation, modern POW-based computing is never held hostage to eating, drinking, or breaks. Stay tuned for the next-generation C.A.C.A.M.E.!

==Vomitorium==
Prevents [[cave adaptation]]. It's like the greenhouse, only instead of a farm, it's a [[meeting hall]] or [[barracks]]. Since you can't build [[table]]s or [[bed]]s outside, build the room and [[channel]] down to it. Variant: above-ground statue garden or zoo.

'''Difficulty:''' Low.

'''Usefulness:''' Low. Make sure to wall the pit in or it will become very [[Fun]] once [[goblin]] archers become involved.

==Watervator==
By creating a vertical "'''H'''ydraulic '''E'''levation and '''L'''owering '''P'''latform" chamber, or HELP (so named for the cries of the passenger dwarf) with lever controlled water levels, you can move a dwarf up several z-levels without any stairs. All it takes is the dwarf's ability to swim up to the surface of the water to breathe.

'''Difficulty:''' Medium. Moderate possibility of Fun by way of flooding your fortress. Any dwarves that can't swim will instead experience Fun when using the Watervator. The actual construction time and resource usage is very low. Using the Watervator often leads to unhappy thoughts about drowning

'''Usefulness:''' Low to Medium. The Watervator requires manual micromanaging, while stairs do not. On the other hand, it can be used to create a pathway that most <s>Dwarves</s> enemies will simply be unable to use. Those that can would still be doing so at great risk of drowning or falling to their death. It is recommend that with the exception of the entrance you use stairs.

*Bonus: Utilize vampires (who can't drown).
*MegaDwarfBonus: Utilize trained fish.
*MegaDwarfBonus: Engineer it so that it performs a full cycle on one activation of a pressure plate and include that pressure plate as a part of the patrol route, then create a reverse Watervator and also include it as a part of same patrol route, so that your militia automatically uses it to get in and out the fortress.

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'''Giant tortoises''' are the "mundane" version of [[gigantic tortoise]]s.

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'''Gigantic tortoises''' are the monstrous version of [[giant tortoise]]s. Along with [[gigantic panda]]s and [[gigantic squid]]s, they receive the "gigantic" title instead of "giant", since there is a normal version of those creatures that is already referred to as "giant".

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v0.34:Gigantic squid

2012-08-10T00:13:49Z

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'''Gigantic squids''' are huge versions of normal [[squid]]s. Unexpectedly, they are able to move on land for a brief time before air-drowning, so they could surprise [[fisherdwarf|fisherdwarves]]. Aside from the [[gigantic panda]] and [[gigantic tortoise]], they are the only giant animals that are "gigantic", instead of merely "giant", to avoid confusion with their real life relatives.

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v0.34:Gigantic panda

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Though considerably dangerous, '''gigantic pandas''' can be a great asset to your fortress. Consider embarking near a temperate forest, on the chance that you might encounter this creature. It can be considered a must-cage creature for its tremendous size, value and train-ability (into either a hunting or war animal). See [[Animal training]] for how this is done, and for a list of other trainable creatures.

However, like their smaller [[panda]] relatives, gigantic pandas must graze on bamboo, and given their immense size, they must graze '''constantly''' to avoid starvation, making them a very poor choice for training.

It should be noted that this creature is considered gigantic, ''not'' merely giant. It is the only giant creature in-game named in this way, aside from the [[gigantic squid]] and [[gigantic tortoise]], presumably to avoid confusion from the fact that "giant panda" is the formal name of ''normal'' pandas.

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Though considerably dangerous, '''gigantic pandas''' can be a great asset to your fortress. Consider embarking near a temperate forest, on the chance that you might encounter this creature. It can be considered a must-cage creature for its tremendous size, value and train-ability (into either a hunting or war animal). See [[Animal_training|Animal Training]] for how this is done, and for a list of other trainable creatures.

However, like their smaller [[panda]] relatives, gigantic pandas must graze on bamboo, and given their immense size, they must graze '''constantly''' to avoid starvation, making them a very poor choice for training.

It should be noted that this creature is considered gigantic, ''not'' merely giant. It is the only giant creature in-game named in this way, aside from the [[gigantic squid]] and [[gigantic tortoise]], presumably to avoid confusion from the fact that "giant panda" is the formal name of ''normal'' pandas.

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v0.34:Opossum

2012-08-09T03:53:26Z

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'''Opossums''' are a small pest, common in a lot of different forests. They are too small to be butchered and are low-valued pets.

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v0.34:King of beasts

2012-08-09T03:49:13Z

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There are quite a few contenders for the title.

== Water ==

[[Sea lamprey]]: Sea lampreys are ridiculously aggressive, and ''will'' attack you if you find yourself in the same river. Since they are natural swimmers and you are not, they have a clear advantage.

[[Giant sponge]]: These horrifying monsters have never been killed in fair combat (though notions of "fairness" are not clear when [[dwarf|dwarves]] are involved). They are not very aggressive, but Armok help you if you are next to them in water.

== Air ==

[[Giant kea]]: These brutal, green giant parrots have the distinction of looking harmless, but not only will they seek your fort for stealing stuff (such as your sole anvil, when you have not built your forge yet), but also tend to brutally murder any dwarf they meet in the dark corridors of your fort.

[[Giant mosquito]]es: These may have had the shortest claim at the throne of King of beasts. In the initial v0.34.x release, not only could they fly, but they appeared by the hundreds (from 100 to 200 at a time), ensuring a large FPS drop to most forts and just plain being deadly in these numbers. This was corrected in the next "bugfix" release (see final item under "Other bug fixes/tweaks" [[DF2012:Release_information/0.34.02|here]]).

== Land ==

[[Unicorn]]: Their main definition of [[good]] is living in a fairyland full of [[feather tree]]s while stabbing and kicking dwarves to death, which is bad news when they're bigger than a horse and have hooves. [[Elves]] can bring a ton of them with their sieges.

[[Giant desert scorpion]]: These beasts are implacable killing machines, armed with a neurotoxin that can kill pretty much anything with blood and a nervous system. They can also shoot crossbows and ''hack people to death with their own weapons'', only adding to their terror.

[[Giant cave spider]]: This large arachnid will eat most stuff in the caverns, including most dwarves you throw at them. It can shoot immobilising webs and is armed with a deadly toxin, making it incredibly dangerous.

[[Giant badger]]: These striped monstrosities are hopefully rare, but in the days of 0.31.25 they were far more common. When they happen upon your fort however, one is often more than enough -- and they come in large bands of four to ''twelve''.

[[Cave dragon]]: Cave dragons are as skilled in battle as your regular soldiers, if not more, and are ''far'' larger than them. The [[fun]] news? They come in dozens with goblin sieges!

[[Giant dingo]]: A hell-spawned monster, the giant dingo not only is bigger, faster, and more aggressive than a bear, but it spawns in groups and happens in every savage biome. Few adventurers will survive.

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'''Giant mosquitoes''', as could be evidenced from the name and description, are able to suck blood. Giant mosquitoes appear alone, and are generally not much of a threat excepted to a single unarmed and unskilled dwarf.

== History ==
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Giant mosquitoes may have attempted what was the shortest claim at the throne of [[King of beasts]] for v0.34.01. Not only could they fly, but ''they appeared by the hundreds'' (exactly from 100 to 200 at a time), ensuring a large FPS drop to most forts and just plain being deadly in these numbers.

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v0.34:Emu

2012-08-07T23:34:31Z

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'''Emus''' will walk onto your fortress grounds in solitude and meander for no reason. They are half the size of a human, so they will provide roughly around the same quantity of [[meat]] as a [[dog]]. They have a pleasant pet value and can be used as live [[trade good]]s, but the best use of them that doesn't involve chopping them up is putting them in the same pasture as your other [[egg]] laying animals and watch them do their stuff, if they are female. Bonus points if you snag a pair and instigate a birdsplosion.

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v0.34:Giant peach-faced lovebird

2012-08-07T23:29:48Z

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'''Giant peach-faced lovebirds''' will fly around your fortress site, occasionally landing on trees to roost. They can be captured and tamed as a pet or a [[egg]] laying machine. They also have a sizable pet value of 500, like many giant creatures. In a desperate situation (or an unintended one, as your hunter might find it amusing if an expensive bolt got lodged in its head) they can also be used as sources of meat, bones and lard.

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v0.34:Stoat

2012-08-07T23:25:21Z

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'''Stoats''' are tiny little weasels that pose little threat to your dwarves. If captured, they could provide a pet to a dwarf. Because they are tiny, and thereby provide minuscule amounts of meat and bone, they possess little use otherwise.

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v0.34:Giant wren

2012-08-07T23:21:45Z

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'''Giant wrens''' are massive flying creatures that appear in most savage biomes rather frequently. They are handy for the production of [[meat]], [[bones]] and [[tallow]]. Being birds, they can be tamed and will lay delicious eggs if a nest box is provided. Both of these make them a colossal boon for a highly-populated fortress.

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v0.34:Sample Starting Builds

2012-08-07T23:10:01Z

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This is a collection of '''starting builds''' (or embark setups) which individual players find useful and generally worth trying.

== Nagidal's Allrounder ==

Recommended for newbies who want to play a ''defensive'' embark on sites with ''mild conditions'' (warm or temperate [[climate]], easy access to drinking [[water]], [[tree]]s and [[stone]]).

=== Dwarves ===

According to the dwarves' [[attributes]] you assign:

* 2 Proficient [[Miner]]s (high [[Attributes#Endurance|endurance]], high [[Attributes#Willpower|willpower]], good [[Attributes#Kinesthetic_Sense|kinesthetic sense]])
* 1 Proficient [[Mason]] (good [[Attributes#Creativity|creativity]], good endurance)
* 1 Proficient [[Mechanic]] (good [[Attributes#Analytical_Ability|analytical ability]])
* 1 Proficient [[Grower]] (good [[Attributes#Agility|agility]])
* 1 Proficient [[Wood cutter]]
* 1 Proficient [[Carpenter]]

Make one of five non-miners at least an adequate [[Appraiser]] (the one with good [[Attributes#Memory|memory]] or [[Attributes#Intuition|intuition]]).

=== Items ===

Keep all the standard stuff, sell some [[splint]]s, [[crutch]]es and [[quiver]]s to buy a couple of [[cat]]s and a dog or two. (The cats will eat the [[vermin]] trying to eat your food supplies.) You can also sell one of the battle axes or the anvil to buy even more stock or some more [[drink]]s and [[food]] if you wish.

Some dwarven [[civilization]]s start with a [[steel]] [[anvil]] rather than an [[iron]] one which will reduce the amount of points you can use for the dwarves' skills and items. In this case, sell the anvil and rely on [[merchant]]s bringing you one.

=== First year roadmap ===

We deliberately did't take any [[cook]]s or [[brewer]]s. You can pick both from one of the first [[Immigration|migration waves]]. Also, we don't have any [[military]] to start with. The idea is that our mechanic and carpenter will build us many wooden cage [[trap]]s which will easily deal with the first [[ambush]]es, maybe even the first [[siege]]. Any useless migrants of the later waves will become our military.

Your aims for the first year are: farming, traps, trade, healthcare (ordered by importance)

==== Farming ====
Start [[farming]] as soon as possible. Try to harvest the spring crop of your first year. Be careful not to produce too much food. Be sure to have some [[barrel]]s or [[large pot]]s reserved for drinks rather than stuffed with [[plump helmet]]s. Thirty tiles of farm plots are more than enough to start with. If you really want to farm more, try [[pig tail]]s and get the [[textile industry]] up and running once you have more dwarves.

==== Traps ====
Build a [[mechanic's workshop]] soon and let him churn out about 2–3 dozens of [[mechanism]]s. Your carpenter should produce roughly as much wooden cages before autumn. When you build traps, build them in a one tile wide meandring corridor—preferably outdoors. There should be no way around this corridor for the enemies. Use raising [[bridge]]s to direct the flow of all enemies heading for your fort's entrance through this trap corridor. Lower the bridges to allow your dwarves fast access to the fort's entrance bypassing the trap corridor. You should have at least ten traps up and ready by autumn. To deal with a [[siege]] in the later years without fighting you better have 40 of these traps ready.

==== Trade ====
Make one of your first immigrants a [[Stone crafter|stone crafter]] and let him make stone crafts 24/7. You will need them as [[trade]] goods. Textile industry is also a good starter. If your farms produce enough pig tails, go for it and ship some fine socks to your mountain homes.

==== Healthcare ====
Before you start thinking of having some military, build a [[well]] and a [[hospital]].

[[Category:DF2012:Guides]]

v0.34:Lye

2012-08-07T22:54:09Z

HiEv: Bug 5915 ("Lye Buckets Being Stored In Barrels") fixed

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'''Lye''' is made by a dwarf with the lye making [[labor]] enabled at an [[ashery]], and requires 1 [[bar]] of [[ash]] and 1 [[bucket]]. Ash is made from [[wood]] by a wood burner at a [[wood furnace]].

Lye is used to make [[soap]] and [[potash]], though potash can also be made directly from ash. Lye is moved from buckets into a [[barrel]] if you have a food stockpile with "misc. liquid" enabled, and a spare barrel. A barrel can hold 100 units of lye. However, a bucket of lye can also be used directly to make soap. Lye freezes in cold weather. You'll have to wait until it thaws in order to make soap. Magma helps unfreeze lye.

Lye is located under Food -> Misc. Liquids in the Stocks screen.

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User talk:Emi

2012-08-07T22:48:39Z

HiEv: /* Permission to make new Discussion pages? */ My two cents

Please leave new messages by pressing the new section button. It is next to the edit button, and says "Add topic". Be sure to sign your message with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> so I know who left me the message.
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== Empty DF:2012 Articles ==

Hello, I'd like to offer a few suggestions:
* Could the bot which went through and replaced all the v0.31 article links with DF:2012 links be modified to actually create those articles with a <nowiki>{{av}}</nowiki> template inserted, so that users can reference an older version easily while understanding that it could be outdated?
* Could a bot be created to go through all the current dead links and create those articles and place a <nowiki>{{av}}</nowiki> template within them?
* Failing that, I'd be willing to volunteer for this; I understand that I should talk to you for article creation. In that case, would I have to present you with a list of articles to be created?
--[[User:Reilwin|Reilwin]] 02:53, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

:Looks like I can create articles myself after enough edits. --[[User:Reilwin|Reilwin]] 06:35, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

== Spanish translation ==

Hello! I'm a Spanish player of this game and I would like to begin the translation of this wiki into Spanish. I hope you like the idea! Regards.

== PROBLEM ==
since you "upgraded" the wiki, sometimes when i try to load a page, any kind of page in the wiki, instead of loading the page, my browser (chrome) starts downloading a file like this: DF2010-Magma.gz
the file never ends downloading and it contains nothing, so i dont know whats the deal with that, sometime is loads teh page as usual
*Take a look at [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=96229.0 this forum thread] - most cases seem to result from using Avast Antivirus along with Google Chrome. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 00:38, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

== Upload Button Missing ==
Hello. I've uploaded [[http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/File:DA_Quarters.JPG,stuff]] before, but the upload link seems to have vanished for me. (I'd like to upload a small .exe file which makes the depot tradeing semi-automated so I can link to it from my user page.) What should I do?

Thanks,
--[[User:DDR|-DDR]] 01:28, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Update: Oh, so it's just down for a few days? OK, I'll be patient. Thanks for all the work you've done here, Emi. :)

== Eagles ==

Why can't I create new pages? I want to create a page about normal eagles.

: This wiki is going through a lot now. New name space for the latest DF version has been created and articles are copied to it, as far as they are still valid for the new version. Also this wiki's cluster size has been increased by two new servers and many things around it are being configured. So I think the admins just prohibited new article creation for a while until they sort things out. --[[User:Nagidal|Nagidal]] 17:31, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

: I've seen Briss has created the Eagle page, maybe it's so that you can fill it with content. --[[User:Nagidal|Nagidal]] 18:50, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

== a namespace just for me? ==

It says that if i'd like a user page i should post here asking for one.
can i have a namespace for me please? under Zazq? [[User:Zazq|Zazq]] 21:48, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

: A namespace is not the same as a user page. I'm almost sure you can't have a namespace just for you, but you can certainly have your own userpage where you can set up your own sandbox. I have created you your userpage, just click on the link on your name in the signature. You can start forging some good articles on your userpage. --[[User:Nagidal|Nagidal]] 23:46, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

== UserPage ==
could i have a page too? to edit and try stuff before posting ... Edit: it is Mohreb by the way ...

I'd like a user page too, name KevinFragger2427. Thanks.

== v34 Utilities ==

Can we get a [[DF2012:Utilities]] page created?

== Giant sponges ==

Hello, I am new to this wiki and I would like to add articles for giant sponges and giant mosquitoes.

I trust I can just copy-paste the old tags from a DF2010 creature page and change them accordyingly ?

[[User:Naryar|Naryar]] 11:28, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

== Can I have two pages created? ==

I'd like to have two pages created for me, please.

1. I'd like my user-page created, so I can do all the other cool stuff that people do with their user-pages.

2. I would also like a whole new mod article made, please. Title it "Modern Warfare: Year 2100" too, please, as well.

EDIT: Username is UristMcHuman. Sorry I forgot that

== Interactions. ==

I would like a page created under 2012:Interaction, please and thank you. [[User:Lofn|Lofn]] 15:54, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
EDIT: a userpage/sandbox would also be very much appreciated, if you find the time.

== User page for Darchitect. ==

I'd like one, if you'd be so kind.
[[User:Darchitect|Darchitect]] 20:24, 29 February 2012 (UTC)Darchitect

== Favicon Recovery ==

I notice the favicon seems to have gotten lost somewhere along the way. Since I'm the one who initially made it using the main site logo for reference, I still have a copy sitting around. [http://dffd.wimbli.com/images/dfwiki_favicon.ico Here it is, feel free to use it again.]

== Request for User Page ==

Hi there, can you please add a user page for me? Thank you. [[User:Timtek|Timtek]] 11:47, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

== Request for Confirmed User ==

I was wondering what I need to do to be able to upload a file. I registered four days ago, and have been waiting to become an "Autoconfirmed user" so that I can add my tileset to the Tileset repository. The "autoconfirmation" never comes, however. Attempting to google the issue said that I should be autoconfirmed after 3 days, which has not occurred. Am I missing something? --[[User:Taffer|Taffer]] 13:10, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello again! Thanks for the help earlier, and sorry for the second message. Would it be alright if I have a user page? Thank you! --[[User:Taffer|Taffer]] 18:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

== Cached Special Pages ==

The wiki currently has [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMiserMode $wgMiserMode] enabled, resulting in a number of [[Special:SpecialPages|special pages]] having their results cached (by MediaWiki itself) to reduce server load, but there's no cron job to run /maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php and actually update those pages - as a result, they're all 3 months out of date. I've mentioned this at least 3 times on IRC but it still hasn't been fixed. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 20:24, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

== Is the DF2012:Creatures page getting too big for the server? ==

The Creatures page still needs to be updated with the new creatures for the lakes/rivers but when I try to submit or preview tha page I get a blank page and a submitted update is not visible on the page. Is the page simply too big now, or is there some server side changes that can be made to fix this? [[User:Organised chaos|Organised chaos]] 20:18, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
*If you ask me, the Creatures page is currently being done '''all wrong''' - it should only list each creature '''once''' and include the relevant biomes, rather than copy/pasting it for every single biome (and introducing errors when one entry has different values from the others). --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 21:00, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

== DFRawFunctions ==

I've got an update for DFRawFunctions (corrects behavior for a few functions and adds new features to some others) which also includes a few new raw files - when you've got a chance, pull 'em from github. In fact, some option to automatically pull updates from github either periodically (once or twice a day) or on demand (e.g. editing a particular wiki page) would be really nice so I won't have to bug you about it. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 18:27, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

== I want to make Korean Wiki. ==

I was looking for administrator to discuss this, but I couldn't find anyone... also, I'm not sure that I should talk it to you. anyway, I leave this here.

I want to make Korean Wiki, There're some Korean fan, but they hardly play the game because of the lack of game information. So I thought They need wiki to know the game. I want to know whether the administrator can found Korean version of this wiki or not.

How can I get the permission about it? Is it needed that something to verify myself to them? I hope I would take a positive answer. --[[User:Tragal|Tragal]] 14:44, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

== Create Redir [[DF2012:Well_guide]] ==

Need a redir or crosslink created from: [[DF2012:Well_guide]] (empty page) -> [[v0.31:Well_guide]]. And/or snap relevant links. --[[User:Kim Bruning|Kim Bruning]] 08:37, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

== Froot wants a userpage too. ==

Hey-lo.
Yet another userpage request.
[[User:Froot|Froot]] 02:08, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

there is no "DF2012 Talk:Cave crocodile", added an my issue about my "Bosa, Cave Crocodile (+trained+)" which cost me about an game-hour lost due to reloading save in the article. Wonder, why there is no "talk" pages for everything by default? There are many cases which need some science before editing articles :(

== Minecarts 101 page? ==

Can we get a "Minecarts 101" page started the same way there are intro pages for things like the military?

Thanks,

[[User:Dhokarena56|Dhokarena56]] 17:25, 14 May 2012 (UTC)dhokarena56

== Page request ==

May I request a userpage?

-Erich

== User page request ==

Hello! I am requesting a userpage. --[[User:Spacer|Spacer]] 15:31, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

== DF2012_Talk:Siege ==

please, create http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012_Talk:Siege

thanks,

[[User:Kartofius al andalus|Kartofius al andalus]] 17:00, 4 June 2012 (UTC) kartofius

== Wiki in spanish??? ==

How can I create a page for the wiki in spanish?

== add #dwarffortress irc.freenode.net to main page IRC section ==

Hello everyone, could you please add #dwarffortress IRC channel on FReeNode in the main page IRC channel list?
Thank you

== new user page request ==

looking for a user page so I can store my scripts in the wiki.

thanks
vjek

[[User:Vjek|Vjek]] 20:17, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

== new page request ==
Hi
could you add a talk page at the "raw adamantine" article
user: grafsnow

== DF2012:World rejection ==

Hi, I'm trying to write the page for DF2012:World rejection http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:World_rejection which has a red link on the Advanced World Generation page but I can't create a new page. Do I need somebody to make it for me? Thanks, Seb. --[[User:SAFry|SAFry]] 19:08, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
:I created it for him. -- [[User:HiEv|Hi]][[User talk:HiEv|Ev]] 02:18, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

== Could I get a page for my mod? ==

I'm currently working on a mod, and I'd really like a page where I can put what the mod is, how you use it, what it includes, etc...
I'm sorry if it looks kinda sketchy that I just created this account today and I'm being vague about the mod Dx
Anyways, if/when you create it, could you title it ''PlayableCiv+''
Thanks:)
[[User:Toxicshadow|Toxicshadow]] 05:30, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

== Arms Industry Page ==

Could you create an "Arms Industry" page for information concerning production of weapons? Alternatively, it could be called "Weapons Industry."

== User Page ==

Would be very glad if i had a user page as a kind of sandbox (and to put some !!science!! stuff up there) [[User:Lorb|Lorb]] 09:53, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

== User Page Request ==

Could you make me a user page?

== Requesting Page Creation for 'Fixed Creatures' ==

There has been some discussion on r/DwarfFortress ([http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/w8ht8/need_help_my_giant_black_mambas_wont_breed/]) about animals that don't lay eggs that should, eggs that don't hatch due to a missing Tag, and other various issues. I would like to create a space where we can create a list of animals with the values and tags modified to be more accurate. Thanks!--Dragoon209

Edit: I haven't received any word that the pages have been created, and a quick search shows no matches for 'Fixed Creatures'. Is there any information I am missing to start the process? Thanks in advance!
[[User:Dragoon209|Dragoon209]] 18:19, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

: What page titlewould you like? --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 18:26, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

:: How about "DF2012:Fixed_Creature_RAWs"? [[User:Dragoon209|Dragoon209]] 18:34, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

== Outpost Liason ==

I am simply looking for more information about a phenomenon that has happened twice now. An outpost liason came to my fort and asked if I wanted to join their colony. What are the pros and cons of saying either yes or no? Please help!

== Yet Another User Page ==

Just requesting a user page created, to play around in and post some of my own DF-related stuff. Thanks! [[User:MasterShizzle|MasterShizzle]] 17:59, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
:Umm... wow. That was fast! You guys are awesome. [[User:MasterShizzle|MasterShizzle]] 18:12, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

== Symbol Sets (Modding) ==

Can someone create a page for Symbol Sets, as used in Entity files, and found in language_SYM.txt?
[[User:Toxicshadow|Toxicshadow]] 23:32, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

== 2012 Talk:Door ==

Hi Emily,

I'd like to start [[DF2012 Talk:Door]], since I can verify that artifact doors are indestructible. (There is a verify tag for that in the [[DF2012:Door#Notes]] section.) Here is the text I want to add:

<blockquote>
I can verify that artifact doors are indestructible. An artifact door is all that stands between my necropolis fortress (some 100 casualties in the previous siege) and 8 trolls standing right outside the door. The trolls have been there for an entire season. They showed up when the elven caravan arrived in spring, and are still there to greet the human caravan which just arrived.
</blockquote>

[[User:Great Cthulhu|Great Cthulhu]] 23:13, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

== Need 2 pages created ==

I would like to have my user page created, furthermore i would like to help improve the DF2012 Contaminant page,
and i need the DF2012 Talk:Contaminant created. 
[[User:Ipsin|Ipsin - Everything is better with magma ]] 16:06, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

== User page request ==

Hello there! I am writing this to request the a user page (obviously :)) I'm a confirmed user, although I have less than 10 edits so far, I swear I am not a bot! I am actually more interested in the user page as a personal sandbox of the moment to figure out name space templates and the like without messing anything up. I use the wiki daily (I have only been playing for a few months, you guys were a life saver) so I am still going through plenty of articles all the time and would like to contribute more than I am able to now. I learn by doing and don't want to mess up any templates or the like :)

Thanks very much for any help you are able to provide
--
[[User:Phage|Phage]] 05:45, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

== New User Page Request ==

Howdy, looking to get page for my user account.

Let me know if you need any additional info.

Thanks,

[[User:WhiskeyTangoFox|WhiskeyTangoFox]] 01:44, 30 July 2012 (UTC)WhiskeyTangoFox

== Permission to make new Discussion pages? ==

Hi Emi. I was trying to start a Discussion page in the "Sedimentary" article, but ran into a permission error. Since I am a longtime user, may I please have permission to make new pages? [[User:Coaldiamond|-Coaldiamond]] 20:00, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
:It seems like the wiki is a bit buggy in this regard. On [[Special:ListGroupRights]], only Administrators have the "createtalk" permission, which seems to be required to create talk pages. However, I was just able to create [[DF2012 Talk:Sedimentary layer]], but only after several attempts failing from a Permission error. Sometimes it would stop me immediately upon clicking the "Create" tab, and it always seemed to happen when I tried to Show Changes. I'm not really sure why this would happen, unless we're running on multiple servers and the configuration isn't synchronized. Hope this helps. --[[User:Timrem|timrem]] 21:26, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
:i just encoutered this problem today, I thought it'd be prohibited to create a user discussion page but that did not make sense to me. I hope this issue will be resolved soon. --[[User:Nagidal|Nagidal]] 07:28, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
::Yup, I too have noticed some odd inconsistency in the way the wiki may or may not allow you to create a page, with it being allowed after some N number of page reloads. I've mentioned on the [[Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Improvement Drive]] page that the wiki software is several versions out of date, so if we could get it updated, that would hopefully fix this problem. Is [[User_talk:Briess|Briess]] the correct person to contact about this, or is it someone else? -- [[User:HiEv|Hi]][[User talk:HiEv|Ev]] 22:48, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

== Another User Page. ==

Just here to request permission to edit my own user-page, let me know if any sort of information is needed from me first in regards to it. --[[User:Morekouto|Morekouto]] 17:29, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

v0.34:Kestrel

2012-08-02T05:54:03Z

HiEv: Added short description

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A '''kestrel''' is a kind of falcon. Despite the creature's description, it does not have the DIVE_HUNTS_VERMIN creature token that would allow it to hunt vermin in your fort if you tame them, the way that [[peregrine falcon]]s can.

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v0.34:Giant kestrel

2012-08-02T05:47:45Z

HiEv: Caps fixes; link added

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Giant kestrels are simply giant versions of their smaller, more common cousins: [[kestrel]]s. In a similar manner to normal kestrels, they can be captured in a cage trap and used for egg production. Making them better assets for your <s>slaves</s> dwarves alive than dead.

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v0.34 Talk:Necromancer

2012-08-01T03:51:38Z

HiEv: Various cleanup and signed unsigned comments

== Please verify ==

All my Fortress Mode edits are entirely from personal experience across approx. ten forts in three world gens. Can anyone verify? --[[User:Vietarmis|Vi Et Armis]] 15:17, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

== Hiding necromancers? ==

So randomly some corpses have started animating yet no necromancer is nearby it seems. I'm in a good region and have had no announcements except Urist McHauler cancels store barrel: Interrupted by Kea corpse.
Perhaps Necromancers can ambush?

What else could cause undeath?
--[[User:Merreton|Merreton]] 02:16, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

:I believe necromancers are capable of hiding and raising corpses while sneaking. Since you're in a good region that rules out the corpses raising themselves, and I don't think good regions produce mists or clouds, so there's no other answer. -- [[Special:Contributions/108.69.177.161|108.69.177.161]] 02:47, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

::I can confirm this; my fortress faced an early siege which (apparently) consisted of only a single Elf Corpse. The SIEGE indicator vanished when my military defeated the Elf, but things kept on animating. Later on, I noticed lines in combat log showing that a Human necromancer had been hanging around (in hiding) after the end of the official Siege, and raising corpses. -- [[Special:Contributions/24.138.132.123|24.138.132.123]] 02:47, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

:Yes, necromancers can hide. I've seen it with sieges, although not as separate ambushes. Even while hidden it still prints into the combat log ('the necromancer is fighting! the x corpse is fighting!') when they raise the dead, so it's easy to know if this is the cause, although that's probably a bug. -- [[User:Qazmlpok|Qazmlpok]] 17:22, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

== Tower Distance ==
Do we have any direct evidence that a tower more than 10 or 11 region tiles away will send necros/zombies to a fortress? In my own experience, the "Tower" designation only shows up if you embark within 11 region tiles of the tower, and I do not recall getting attacked when more than 11 but less than 21 region tiles away. I don't have firm data on the 11-20 region tile distance, however. [[User:Krenshala|Krenshala]] 18:22, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

== Clarification ==

"If you attack one of your own reanimated corpses, all of your reanimated companions will become neutral and will no longer follow you."

The word 'all' being bolded for this page has me concerned and curious, does this apply to zombies that are summoned later by yourself as well? -- [[User:Morekouto|Morekouto]] 03:28, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

v0.34:Undead

2012-08-01T03:45:46Z

HiEv: Undo revision 176291 by Bronzebeard (talk) ("fell", two L's, meaning destructive or deadly)

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The animated dead are the bodies of formerly living creatures animated through fell magic. Undead can be created intentionally by a [[necromancer]] to serve him, or arise naturally from the dark energies of [[surroundings|evil regions]].

==What is an undead?==
An undead may be formed of either the rotting husk or the bones and shell of a being. The former is considered a zombie, and the latter a skeleton. Although [[vampire]]s are no longer performing the bodily functions of a living being, they are not considered the "animated dead", this term being reserved for a corpse which has begun to move and act on its own or by the will of another, the distinction generally being held as one of cognitive capacity. Where zombies and skeletons cannot think or behave in any sophisticated manner, vampires are willful beings capable of great deception. [[Ghost]]s are called Undead in-game, but they are also not considered animated dead.

As long as the remains of a creature contain a body part capable of grasping, be it a hand or head or the entire upper half, those remains can be animated. This can lead to animated hands and heads, which seems comical until you consider the implications of a swarm of such monstrosities and the havoc that they might wreak. Currently, even some parts of creatures which should be incapable of autonomous movement can be raised, such as the hair or skin. They are, however, predictably nonlethal, mostly serving as a B-movie terror monster to scare your dwarves into running around.. A body part can be resurrected as a zombie even if it has already done so and been de-animated again. It is important to realize that an endless horde of the undead may '''really''' be endless unless the root of the problem is destroyed, or in the case of evil regions, avoided entirely.

==Traits==
Undead retain the wounds that killed them in life, as well as any they have sustained since or from a temporary de-animation. Undead vary in levels of strength depending on their form. Certain types of animal are likely the most dangerous that it is common to encounter, and can have dangerous strength, speed, aggression, and piercing attacks. The undead of butcherable creatures can still be butchered once de-animated, as long as they have not rotted; doing so will prevent them from re-animating again.

Larger undead with the BUILDINGDESTROYER tag can still destroy buildings, though undead with special attacks like webbing will not be able to use them. Undead thieves can still pick locks, but will not path to a locked door unless in pursuit of the living. If found underground, undead will usually path into a fort if they can.

==Thralls, Husks, and Zombies==
Certain kinds of evil [[weather]] can instantly turn any [[syndrome]]-vulnerable creature into a bloodthirsty undead killer, opposed to all life. These creatures are referred to be the sort of weather that transformed them, an identifier as a thrall, husk, or zombie, and their original creature name-- for example, a ''stray guineahen unholy gloom husk''. The specific syndromes that generate these creatures are created at the time the world is generated, but vary only slightly from one another. Some traits these creatures are likely to possess include:
*Increased [[attribute|strength, toughness,]] and/or reduced [[speed]].
*Opposition to life, lack of emotion
*Undead status (NOT_LIVING), sterility, no attribute rust or gain
*An almost complete invulnerability to the effects of damage

Because of the plethora of [[Creature token|tags]] added to these creatures, they are vulnerable only to beheading or bisection. Because the interaction can happen without first killing the target, thrall-like creatures retain any armor or weapons they were carrying. And, perhaps worst of all, they may still be contaminated with the material leading to the transformation, infecting those with whom they wrestle.

==Destruction==
Different strategies are required to beat animated corpses and thralls, respectively. Animated corpses are not difficult to destroy, but require unconventional tactics. These undead have a hit point based damage system, and as such tend to collapse after a few hits. Blunt weapons, being less likely to sever off parts, are the preferred weapons to use. Axes and swords can cut apart the physical form of the undead; this, however, may be dangerous if the source of the undead is still active and present, as the more body parts are about, the more fodder for animation is present. In this case, it is wiser to either butcher the corpses (if they can be butchered), throw them into [[magma]], or [[dwarven atom smasher|pulverise them with a drawbridge]], which will destroy the bodies so thoroughly that they cannot be reanimated again. It should be noted that magma will not currently kill a zombie itself, however.

[[Evil weather]] thralls are much more difficult to destroy. You would not wish to attempt to kill them with puncture wounds, as their organs no longer serve them in any useful regard. Likewise, choking is ineffective against their lack of breath, and unlike corpses, blunt weapons will have next to no effect. The '''only''' way to kill thralls in combat is decapitation and bisection, therefore axes and swords should be used. If possible, and if no risk of infection is at hand, they should ideally be outnumbered by a ratio of ''at least'' two soldiers to one, as even a small wolf husk can easily bring down one armoured dwarf.

The problem of confronting thralls directly is complicated by many factors: among them are their retainment of skills and equipment, and greatly increased strength and durability as compared to animated corpses. If the responsible thralling cloud is in dust form, there is in addition a great risk of infection, creating more thralls from soldier dwarves. Any thrall carrying a melee weapon or armour can dispatch a full squad in short order even with average combat skills, making direct confrontation an unwise choice. Furthermore, due to a bug, it is not unheard of for dwarves to fight very small thralls for so long that they ''starve to death''. In these and other dire cases, it is often better to not combat them at all, instead resorting to traps, [[dwarven atom smasher|atom smashers]] and other indirect ways to neutralise them. [[Magma]] doesn't kill thralls, so caged ones might require a creative way of destroying them, especially if they can destroy buildings.

Reports have been made of zombies animated by the ambient evil of a region deanimating on their own when wandering away from such a vile place.

==Undead Fun Facts==

* Undead can animate from hauled corpses
* Undead will not attack vampires
* Undead risen from starved animals in cages are not caged
* Undead attack Megabeasts as well as invaders, except necromancers
* Creatures capable of evading traps or bypassing locked doors retain that ability as undead.
* Enthralled dwarves from your fortress are not affected by traps.
* Dwarves who like an animal will also enjoy that undead animal

==Bugs==
Dwarves will not report someone missing as dead even if the corpse is gnawing on their ear.

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v0.34:Hauling

2012-07-31T04:26:06Z

HiEv: /* Tips and issues */ Minor cleanup

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'''Hauling''' is the process of bringing an object to its designated place. There are several specific types of hauling, based on the type of item(s) to be hauled and determined by designating the specific [[labor]]s on indivual dwarves.

Although not a term found in-game, '''hauler''' generally refers to a dwarf in [[fortress mode]] who has no labors enabled other than hauling. In large fortresses where there may be great distances for haulers to travel, individual hauling tasks may take a long time to complete. Haulers are good candidates for [[cross-training]] to help improve their strength and agility [[attributes]], which are important attributes for moving heavy objects across a fortress quickly.

To improve the speed of hauling, [[minecart]]s or [[wheelbarrow]]s can be employed.

Many larger fortresses use dedicated dwarves to do much of the hauling so that other, more specialized dwarves will spend more time in their [[workshop]]s and less time dragging raw materials or finished products to the appropriate [[stockpile]].

== Automatic hauling ==
Some hauling tasks do not require any hauling [[labor]]:
* A dwarf working at a workshop will gather the raw materials needed to produce wanted goods. However, produced goods require the appropriate hauling [[labor]] to be moved out of the workshop in order to avoid [[clutter]]. Dwarves producing goods at a workshop tend to keep producing them and will not necessarily clear their own workshops of clutter even when they have the appropriate hauling labor enabled.
* All adult civilian dwarves, including [[noble]]s, will bring goods to the [[Trade depot|depot]].
* A [[mood|moody]] dwarf will gather the raw materials needed for a mysterious construction.
* A dwarf {{k|b}}uilding something will move the needed materials to the construction site.
** Before a dwarf will build something, he will need to have the appropriate labor as specified by the task. If the dwarf is building a chair or similar, the dwarf needs Furniture Hauling; if the dwarf is building a wooden wall, it's Carpentry, and so forth. Workshops are usually constructed by any dwarf that can work in that workshop.
** A dwarf will clear the tiles where he/she builds from all scattered objects ('''stone !!!''') before starting the build
* A [[herbalist]] will haul any successfully-gathered plant to a stockpile immediately, if there is space available in one.
* Dwarves in the midst of eating will carry their meal to a table. Military dwarves, however, will eat directly off of the floor.{{verify}}
* Dwarves who have just finished drinking booze will return their barrel to the nearest food stockpile.
* Removing constructed objects will be done by all dwarves.
* Filling pits and ponds will be done by all dwarves.
* If you have the "All dwarves harvest" option turned on, all dwarves will help bring in the harvest, even if they don't have Food Hauling enabled.

== Stone hauling ==
Dwarves with the stone hauling [[labor]] enabled will haul [[stone]]s, [[ore]]s, and stone [[block]]s to the appropriate [[stockpile]]s.

Note: Dwarves, being the kind fellows they are, practically insist on hauling one of the farthest stones into your stockpiles. They tend to ignore eligible, nearby stones 'for the greater good of the fortress'. This selfless act often results in terribly long journeys, carrying just one stone. See the section on [[Stone management]] for tips on combatting this problem.

== Wood hauling ==
Dwarves with the wood hauling [[labor]] enabled will haul wood [[log]]s to the corresponding [[stockpile]]s. <s>Deforestation</s> Wood production can be sped up a lot by turning off wood hauling on your most skilled [[Wood cutter|woodcutter]] who will focus exclusively on cutting down trees. This will however expose more of your dwarves as many wood haulers will go outside to retrieve the logs.

== Item hauling ==
Dwarves with the item hauling [[labor]] will haul miscellaneous items like blocks and collect [[sand]] for a [[glass furnace]]. Finished goods (such as crafted goods) and [[gem]]s (both rough and cut) are also considered Items.

== Food hauling ==
Dwarves with the food hauling [[labor]] will haul food and drinks to the appropriate [[stockpile]]s.

== Refuse hauling ==
Dwarves with the refuse hauling [[labor]] will haul rotting food, and non-dwarf bodyparts to refuse [[stockpile]]s. They will also [[dump]] marked items to the appropriate [[activity zone]]. Refuse hauling are subject to refuse orders (''{{k|o}}: Set Orders and Options -> {{k|r}}: Refuse Orders'').

== Burial ==
Dwarves with the burial [[labor]] will haul dwarf and pet [[corpse]]s and bodyparts to corpse [[stockpile]]s or [[coffin]]s.

== Furniture hauling ==
Dwarves with the furniture hauling [[labor]] will haul [[furniture]] to the appropriate [[stockpile]]s. They will also '''{{k|b}}uild''' simple furniture items ([[bed]]s, [[chair]]s, [[table]]s, etc.).

== Animal hauling ==
Dwarves with the animal hauling [[labor]] will haul [[animal trap]]s and occupied [[cage]]s to the appropriate [[stockpile]]s.

== Tips and issues ==
In order to minimize hauling trips, stockpiles should be placed with care.
* Input and output stockpiles should be placed near corresponding [[workshop]]s. Consider proximity of input stockpiles to be about an order of magnitude more important; a working dwarf wastes time to get his own material, but having some haulers is enough to take care of moving the product.
* Construction preparation: when constructing something big away from your fort (e.g. a road), the dwarf assigned to the construction (or [[building designer|architecture]]) will have to carry each item from your fort to the construction location, which can take a long time. By putting stockpiles near your construction project, many dwarves may participate in the hauling, thus dramatically increasing construction speed. Note that materials are allocated at the time of building, so be sure the stockpile is filled before placing the construction order, otherwise the materials will still have to come from afar.
*Consider specializing your haulers if possible - food haulers that orbit around the kitchen/dining room/farm area, stone haulers that orbit around the mines and furnaces, and (if possible/needed) wood haulers that do likewise with the carpenter shop. Turn off refuse hauling if that dwarf isn't going to be near areas likely to have refuse. This keeps the mine hauler from deciding to walk aaaallll the way over to the kitchens for one load, and then out to the forest for one, and then back to the smelters, and so on.
*Furthermore, you can handpick your specialized hauler, selecting them by their attributes. A wood hauler might be chosen because of his agility, since he might have to walk a lot of tiles to reach the forest, depending on the fortress and map layout. A stone hauler, on the other hand, might be chosen because of her strength so that she can pick up and carry heavy stones (such as [[gold]] and [[platinum]]) more quickly.
*The [[Grower]] profession can have a ''huge'' impact on hauling - see [[farming]] for a discussion.
*If you create a loop of [[stockpile]]s giving to each other (i.e. creating a circle A->B->C->A), your dwarves will spend their entire time hauling.

=== Backlogs ===
To ensure that high-priority hauling tasks (like food), to clean up after get done quickly, you should employ a large number of haulers, and specialize them by having only one or two hauling [[labor]]s enabled. This is most important for food hauling, where [[prepared meal]]s in the [[kitchen]] often rot while your dwarves are hauling individual seeds left behind after someone eats a plump helmet, or if your hunters bring a herd of animals in for your [[butcher]]s all at once.

The backlog problem is exacerbated by the fact that the hauling [[job]] queue is tied to how many haulers of each type you have; if 100 dwarves have food hauling enabled, up to 100 food hauling tasks can be in the queue, even if those dwarves are busy hauling stone, doing workshop tasks, sleeping, or doing anything else.{{verify}} This is why hauling specialization is so important.

=== Two stockpiles are better than one ===

For stockpiles that use [[bin]]s or [[barrel]]s, it is usually better to cut one large stockpile into a handful of smaller ones. This is because dwarves will only load one bin or barrel at a time, and may go idle for long periods while they wait for the next-chosen bin or barrel to actually get hauled to the stockpile before they can load it. By using several smaller stockpiles, haulers can retrieve and fill multiple bins or barrels simultaneously.

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v0.34:Giant chinchilla

2012-07-31T04:10:38Z

HiEv: Added link; minor cleanup

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'''Giant chinchillas''' appear ubiquitously in a savage mountain biome in small groups, and are the giant version of [[chinchilla]]s. They walk around blissfully and do not try to eat your dwarves. They are cannon fodder for your <s>ruthless uncontrollable murderers</s> hunters and serve no other purpose other than being sold live in a cage or looking cute.
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v0.34:Giant hamster

2012-07-31T04:08:51Z

HiEv: Added link; some cleanup

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'''Giant hamsters''' are just the giant versions of their vermin counterparts: the [[hamster]]. They are fairly uncommon and may appear in a small group within most savage biomes. They are not hostile and will not attempt to remove the entrails of your bearded slaves. They can be caught in cage traps to be turned into pets, live trade goods, meat, bones, and leather. Despite their pet value, their products don't fetch a high price.
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v0.34:Utilities

2012-07-31T04:03:41Z

HiEv: /* Lazy Newb Pack */ Fixed typo and obnoxious caps misusage; more detail

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:''You may also like to see the [[DF2012:Tileset repository|Tileset repository]] or [[DF2012:Graphics set repository|Graphics set repository]].''

Here are third party applications useful for Dwarf Fortress players and modders.

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==Dwarf Fortress filesharing services==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/ Dwarf Fortress File Depot] ===
The Dwarf Fortress File Upload Service - an excellent place to store mods, community games, tilesets and other files. Courtesy of [[User:Janus|Janus]]; for files related to Dwarf Fortress only.

=== [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ DF Map Archive] ===

* http://mkv25.net/dfma/

The Dwarf Fortress Map Archive is a large collection of user-submitted maps and a nice flash viewer for perusing them.
Maps are uploaded, stored, and downloaded in a special compressed format created by the DF Map Compressor (see below).

Read more about the [[User:Markavian/DF_Map_Archive|DF Map Archive]] on [[User:Markavian|Markavian]]'s User page.

== 3D Visualizers ==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3882/ Fortress Overseer] ===
Fortress Overseer has been the only 3d visualizer since DF 2010, It has been completely rewritten and is currently updated to support DF 2012 (currently supporting versions 34.07 and 31.25).

Read more on the [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63484.0/ bay 12 forum post]

== Music and Sounds ==

=== [[Utility:SoundSense|SoundSense]] ===

SoundSense is a tool that parses game logs and reacts to game events with sound effects, incidental music and dwarfy comments.

[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60287 forum thread], download at [http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/ homepage].

== Interface tools ==

== Game manipulation tools ==

===[http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/ Dwarf Therapist]===

Dwarf Therapist gives you an advanced GUI to manage and check dwarf job allocations, military assignments (40d), statistics (such as attributes, personality traits and happiness), plus sort dwarves by various criteria (eg. profession, migration wave, happiness, number of assigned jobs etc.) and generally manage the Dwarven Resources of your fortress in a very convenient way.

Version 0.6.12 is out. This version supports DF builds up to 0.34.02 by default, but with the auto-update it supports up to 0.34.10.

Read the full changelog here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/source/browse/CHANGELOG.txt

Discussion on Bay 12 Games forums: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=66525

====For Mac users====
A DT version for natively running it on OSX is in the works by DwarfEngineeer and beta versions compatible with 34.03+ are now available on [http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/downloads/list the dwarftherapist downloads page]. A mac version of this utility (built by ghalidrim) is outdated and is compatible with DF version 31.25. It is free for download at [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4463 the DF file depot]. It is also possible to use DT with the latest version of DF by using Wine.

=====Dwarf Therapist and Dwarf Fortress on Mac using Wine=====
# Download latest windows versions [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ DF] and [http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/downloads/list DT].
# Download winebottler http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/. It should also download wine. Launch them both.
# Click the Wine icon on your taskbar and find Change Prefix.
# From there, create a prefix (it may auto-detect some other games and create prefixes for them, don't bother with that) in a convenient directory, call it 'generic' or something.
# Click Change Prefix again after it's done configuring and make sure Wine is using that one.
# Move DF and DT to the Program Files associated with the *general* prefix. DT won't find any running versions of DF otherwise. Mine was located in *username*/documents/generic/drive_c/program files.
# When launching DF and DT a small window pops up asking which prefix you want to use, choose general.
# Strike the earth.

If Dwarf Therapist in Wine starts running slow or gets really laggy, find it's preference file, "Dwarf Therapist.ini," and trash it.
It is located in *username*/documents/generic/drive_c/users/*usernameagain*/application data/UDP Software/.

===[[Utility:DFHack|DFHack]]===

DFHack is a Dwarf Fortress memory access library and a set of basic tools using this library. The library is a work in progress, so things might change as more tools are written for it. Releases support versions up through 0.34.11 (as of June 22nd, 2012). Runs on both Windows and Linux.

DFHack has an [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=91166.0 official forum thread].

Code and binary releases are available from the [https://github.com/peterix/dfhack/downloads Github site].

== Fortress layout tools ==
=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=87731 DF Designator] ===
DF Designator helps you build fortresses from either image files or Quickfort .CSV files. It also has a user interface that allows you to assign hotkeys to blueprints and to combine blueprints in multi z-level designs. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.

=== [http://www.joelpt.net/quickfort/ Quickfort] ===

Quickfort is an AutoHotkey-based utility for Dwarf Fortress that helps you build fortresses from "blueprint" .CSV files (comma separated values). These files are easily created and edited in an app like Excel. Most building-oriented DF commands are supported through the use of multiple .CSV files to describe the different phases of DF construction (designation, building, stockpiles, and making adjustments. Also see [[Main:Quickfort Community Blueprints|Quickfort Community Blueprints]].

== Modding tools ==

== Raw tile tools ==

== World Map / World Gen Tools ==
=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2354 Perfect World DF] ===
requires an additional (tiny) download to be funtional for current versions (34.#): http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5491 . generate worlds to your liking easier or faster than df's ingame map maker. easy access to world settings too to modify. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428.0 forum thread]

== Other/miscellaneous ==

=== [http://www.mindwerks.net/projects/exita/ Exita] ===
Exita is a python program that takes your DF world map exports and dump them into several different text outputs.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=103360 Raw Explorer] ===
Raw files manager.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72702.0 Legends Viewer] ===
Allows to browse legends easily.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 Lazy Newb Pack] ===
A commonly-used software bundle with a nice launcher. Allows to start playing DF really quickly on a new machine - no need to download and integrate common [[Graphics set repository|tilesets]] and tools like Dwarf Therapist, SoundSense, etc...

= Tools under development =
'''The tools listed below are under development for DF 2012, but cannot perform the task they are intended for at this time.'''

[[Category:Utilities|*]]

v0.34:Giant grasshopper

2012-07-31T03:54:48Z

HiEv: Noted max age; other minor fixes

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'''Giant grasshoppers''' are giant versions of the insect [[grasshopper]]. They have a size of 200,700 cm3 throughout their life cycle. They have no [[attack]]s apart from pushing and wrestling. Giant grasshoppers do not fly or jump, as they might in real life. They are [[animal trainer|tamable]], with special knowledge, but they cannot be trained for [[animal trainer|war]] or [[animal trainer|hunting]]. However, since they have a maximum age of one year like most giant insects, they do not make particularly good pets.

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v0.31:Giant penguin

2012-07-27T18:10:08Z

HiEv: Moved butchering returns into infobox

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This oversize puff-ball can murder a unarmed dwarf with ease, but can be killed be a unskilled dwarf with an edged weapon (Non-Blunt) and a bit of luck.
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v0.34:Megabeast

2012-07-27T04:27:06Z

HiEv: Fix redlink

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'''Megabeasts''' are just that: mighty creatures that will tear your dwarves apart in a heartbeat if given the chance. They are named [[world generation|historical figures]], and the game will [[announcement|announce]] their presence by name. They are distinct from, and larger than, [[semi-megabeast]]s.

== Description ==
Megabeasts are created systematically during world generation. Newly generated worlds are populated by initial populations of historical figures, megabeasts among them. The amount of megabeasts created at world generation is random, but based on two factors: the size of the world ("World Size"), and their prevalence ("Number of Beasts"). Megabeasts' presence (or lack thereof) is a major factor in world history. Over time, they will accumulate long [[kill list]]s, and the baddest of the bunch will acquire nicknames and [[deity|god]]-like associations with their [[sphere]]s.

Megabeasts are a distinct and serious threat to early development, threatening many a young outpost; but, inevitably, as the world matures, populations rise, and new settlements are founded, they become increasingly harassed. Although megabeasts will come out on top of almost any encounter, enough dice rolls and they ''will'' go down, felled by a lucky human or other sapient creature clearing the way for his fellows. The longer the world history, the more megabeasts are confronted and killed off, and the safer the world becomes for [[civilization]]. In most worlds, calender [[Calendar#Ages|ages]] go through three stages, the Age of Myth, the Age of Legends, and the Age of Heroes, each with a progressively higher percentage killed of megabeasts.

Some megabeasts (namely [[dragon]]s and [[roc]]s) can reproduce during world generation, but such an event is fantastically unlikely, for two reasons. The first is that megabeasts are immensely rare and elusive, and almost never bump into another. The second is that the starting population of megabeasts is also their population cap, meaning that other megabeasts must die before new ones can be born. They will also reproduce within players' fortresses if they are lucky enough to [[cage trap|cage]] and [[animal training|tame]] two specimens of opposite sexes. Megabeasts can be divided into two classes, "normal" ones, and randomly generated ones. Normal megabeasts are [[roc]]s, [[bronze colossus]]es, and [[dragon]]s; randomly generated beasts are either [[titan]]s or [[forgotten beast]]s ([[demon]]s are considered separately).

In world generation, all megabeasts claim and live in a [[lair]], a hunting (or, perhaps, haunting) ground from which they will attack other [[creature]]s, both wildlife and civilized settlements. A megabeast sharing its lair with another megabeast of the other gender is also far more likely to reproduce then if the two had been wandering the world. Lairs can and do change, however, sometimes regularly, and older megabeasts have called many a place their home.

Megabeasts will not attack the player until they have accumulated a minimum wealth of 100,000☼ or a minimum population of 80 dwarves. What megabeasts appear, if any do at all, is influenced by which ones are closest to the player; a dragon with a lair nearby is far more likely to attack than a roc several weeks away. Nonetheless, force-quitting and loading a fortress from a few days before a megabeast attack may result in a different one arriving on the same day, or later, or no one arriving at all, depending on what has survived world generation.

After an attack on a settlement in worldgen, megabeasts tend to be worshiped by [[dwarves]], most likely out of fear and the hope that worshiping the megabeast may persuade it to not eat its worshipers (this does not work at all). The megabeast is listed as ''object of worship'' on the dwarfs' [[relationship]] screen. This does not change your dwarves' behavior when confronted with an object of worship, nor the megabeast's behavior when bumping into its worshipers.

==See also==
*[[Creature]]
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Hydra]]
*[[Roc]]
*[[Bronze colossus]]

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