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Quietust at 12:37, 15 July 2024

2024-07-15T12:37:50Z

156.28.6.8: /* Dwartum Teleportation */ Updated to included flavor text relating to the 47.04 fix.

2023-03-24T10:19:53Z

Dwartum Teleportation: Updated to included flavor text relating to the 47.04 fix.

Jan: use bug template

2022-12-24T14:02:03Z

use bug template

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2022-12-21T00:41:53Z

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2022-12-20T03:49:00Z

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24.22.166.76: /* Force Based Phenomena */ removed D for Dwarf rating; the rating is at the top of the page

2022-08-11T02:14:30Z

Force Based Phenomena: removed D for Dwarf rating; the rating is at the top of the page

50.27.196.248: /* Force Based Phenomena */ Grammatical and typographical errors corrected

2021-05-17T16:07:36Z

Force Based Phenomena: Grammatical and typographical errors corrected

Voliol: /* Force Based Phenomena */ d for dwarf

2020-08-19T11:48:25Z

Force Based Phenomena: d for dwarf

67.8.251.106: Added information on the Giant Sponge phenomenon

2020-08-17T18:15:13Z

Added information on the Giant Sponge phenomenon

Silverwing235: /* Discrepancies between Dwarven and traditional physics */

2020-03-11T16:40:16Z

Discrepancies between Dwarven and traditional physics

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 === Indestructible Constructions ===
-All modern Dwarvish construction is based upon the principles of making materials indestructible. Dwarvish masons and carpenters are trained to make walls and floors with stone and wood, but are also capable of putting the material into a quantum state where they cannot be moved or destroyed by conventional means. Such technology has allowed incredible feats such as magma reservoirs made of wood or ice, or 1x1 soap pillars that can hold up an entire metropolis without additional support. This phenomenon has also been observed in the other races (but to a much lesser extent.) Humans have a very primitive understanding of it, making little wood huts, but these are dwarfed in comparison to the various megaconstructs built by the dwarves. The Elves have an irrational moral code which prohibits them from altering the quantum state of wood (they say it's inelvane.) Even goblins have utilized this construction method. Ever since the beginning of Dwarven construction, sieging parties have tried to find ways of countering dwarven constructions, with little success. However, through trial and error, it has been found that if the construct does not have a direct physical link to the Earth in its current state, it becomes very unstable and reacts violently with the force of gravity, then it hurtles itself towards the ground with enough force to obliterate anything underneath it.
+All modern Dwarven construction is based upon the principles of making materials indestructible. Dwarven masons and carpenters are trained to make walls and floors with stone and wood, but are also capable of putting the material into a quantum state where they cannot be moved or destroyed by conventional means. Such technology has allowed incredible feats such as magma reservoirs made of wood or ice, or 1x1 soap pillars that can hold up an entire metropolis without additional support. This phenomenon has also been observed in the other races (but to a much lesser extent.) Humans have a very primitive understanding of it, making little wood huts, but these are dwarfed in comparison to the various megaconstructs built by the dwarves. The Elves have an irrational moral code which prohibits them from altering the quantum state of wood (they say it's inelvane.) Even goblins have utilized this construction method. Ever since the beginning of Dwarven construction, sieging parties have tried to find ways of countering dwarven constructions, with little success. However, through trial and error, it has been found that if the construct does not have a direct physical link to the Earth in its current state, it becomes very unstable and reacts violently with the force of gravity, then it hurtles itself towards the ground with enough force to obliterate anything underneath it.
 === Urist McPauli's Conditional Inclusion Principle ===

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 ==== Dwartum Teleportation ====
 Dwarves have been shown{{bug|7444}} to be able to apply Quantum Teleportation on the macro scale. Despite having been known to be on one side of a wall, and being unable to exist within a wall, the dwarf will sometimes find itself on the other side of the wall. It is suspected that this may be related to Entanglement, as it is only observed when the dwarf is grappling with another being, and never observed when a dwarf is alone.
 ==== Urist's First Law of Relativity ====

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 ==== Dwartum Teleportation ====
-Dwarves [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=7444 have been shown] to be able to apply Quantum Teleportation on the macro scale. Despite having been known to be on one side of a wall, and being unable to exist within a wall, the dwarf will sometimes find itself on the other side of the wall. It is suspected that this may be related to Entanglement, as it is only observed when the dwarf is grappling with another being, and never observed when a dwarf is alone.
+Dwarves have been shown{{bug|7444}} to be able to apply Quantum Teleportation on the macro scale. Despite having been known to be on one side of a wall, and being unable to exist within a wall, the dwarf will sometimes find itself on the other side of the wall. It is suspected that this may be related to Entanglement, as it is only observed when the dwarf is grappling with another being, and never observed when a dwarf is alone.
 ==== Urist's First Law of Relativity ====

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 :''For in-game physics, see [[gravity]], [[temperature]] or [[minecart#Physics]].''

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 == Force Based Phenomena ==
 There are certain examples of creatures being able to pull off shocking feats of strength, we will only be going over one example: The Giant Sponge.
 The Giant Sponge is capable of grinding a dwarven skull to dust with little more than its own soft tissue. They can kill warriors in record times and are even able to achieve limited movement despite their limbless form. Through advanced research it has been deduced that the giant sponge is tamable, and is a possible war mount. Should goblins ever prioritize such technology the world as we know it would be doomed.

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 == Force Based Phenomena ==
 {{D for Dwarf}}
-There are certain examples of creatures being able to pull of shocking feats of strength, we will only be going over one example: The Giant Sponge.
+There are certain examples of creatures being able to pull off shocking feats of strength, we will only be going over one example: The Giant Sponge.
-The Giant Sponge is capable of grinding a dwarven skull to dust with little more than it's own soft tissue. They can kill warriors in record times and are even able to achieve limited movement despite their limbless form. Through advanced research it has been deduced that the giant sponge is tamable, and is a possible war mount. Should goblins ever prioritize such technology the world as we know it would be doomed.
+The Giant Sponge is capable of grinding a dwarven skull to dust with little more than its own soft tissue. They can kill warriors in record times and are even able to achieve limited movement despite their limbless form. Through advanced research it has been deduced that the giant sponge is tamable, and is a possible war mount. Should goblins ever prioritize such technology the world as we know it would be doomed.

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	Besides this difference, nuclear chain reactions and tantrum chain reactions behave in a similar way: Dwarves take the role of nuclear fuel nuclei, unhappy thoughts are similar to neutrons (with properties actually close to neutrinos, even lead doors won't stop them) and various devices like awesome rooms, lavish meals and booze serving as neutron moderators. When a dwarf nucleus undergoes nuclear fission, it sends high-energy unhappy thoughts through the reaction chamber (the fortress). These unhappy thoughts interact with other dwarf nuclei and may cause more fission events, leading to a chain reaction where more and more dwarves are tantruming. Fortunately, it is possible to moderate the effects of unhappy-thought-carrying neutrinos by supplying good, happy thoughts. The most common moderator is booze, but others exist, like contained mist accelerator cycler systems, literally spewing fission-dampening happy thoughts all over the vicinity. Taking joy in slaughter was once a popular unhappy-thought moderator, but is very dangerous to use, as it can ''accelerate'' neutrons instead of slowing them when overheated. This was a prime cause of the catastrophic meltdown of Chertnoble which scattered deadly Elf settlements over a wide area (cleanup operations in progress).		Besides this difference, nuclear chain reactions and tantrum chain reactions behave in a similar way: Dwarves take the role of nuclear fuel nuclei, unhappy thoughts are similar to neutrons (with properties actually close to neutrinos, even lead doors won't stop them) and various devices like awesome rooms, lavish meals and booze serving as neutron moderators. When a dwarf nucleus undergoes nuclear fission, it sends high-energy unhappy thoughts through the reaction chamber (the fortress). These unhappy thoughts interact with other dwarf nuclei and may cause more fission events, leading to a chain reaction where more and more dwarves are tantruming. Fortunately, it is possible to moderate the effects of unhappy-thought-carrying neutrinos by supplying good, happy thoughts. The most common moderator is booze, but others exist, like contained mist accelerator cycler systems, literally spewing fission-dampening happy thoughts all over the vicinity. Taking joy in slaughter was once a popular unhappy-thought moderator, but is very dangerous to use, as it can ''accelerate'' neutrons instead of slowing them when overheated. This was a prime cause of the catastrophic meltdown of Chertnoble which scattered deadly Elf settlements over a wide area (cleanup operations in progress).
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		+	== Force Based Phenomena ==
		+	There are certain examples of creatures being able to pull of shocking feats of strength, we will only be going over one example: The Giant Sponge.
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		+	The Giant Sponge is capable of grinding a dwarven skull to dust with little more than it's own soft tissue. They can kill warriors in record times and are even able to achieve limited movement despite their limbless form. Through advanced research it has been deduced that the giant sponge is tamable, and is a possible war mount. Should goblins ever prioritize such technology the world as we know it would be doomed.

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 == Discrepancies between Dwarven and traditional physics ==
-The following items are possible in Dwarf Fortress, but <s>impossible otherwise</s> humans have yet to learn from Dwarves how to build them in our own world.
+The following items are possible in ''Dwarf Fortress'', but <s>impossible otherwise</s> humans have yet to learn from Dwarves how to build them in our own world.
 === Dwarven perpetual motion device ===