Dwarf fortress’s “realistic damage system” may be really cool, but sometimes it’s really messed up.
To move the vast amounts of stone up and out of my mines i use a system of minecarts, at each loading level i have a dwarf dedicated to art of throwing heavy things into carts. Each Is stuck down there with enough food and booze to survive the Apocalypse, just in case somebody forgets to feed/booze them (again).
Now of course the minecarts once loaded with stone are hauled all the way up, and then emptied and kicked down the track letting gravity do it’s thing.
It works well. Apart from a few deaths when haulers decide that waiting on the track might speed things up, the area around the loading stop is now a nice “Warning Zone Red”.
And it looked like it could of been a repeat when I saw the report “Urist mc idiothauler is fighting!”
It turned out that predictably he was hit by a cart; “Whelp time to find a replacement”.
However:
He sustained minor injury to the EAR. Somehow being hit by a minecart, with enough force to be thrown 4 tiles into a wall before the cart caught up and slammed into him again. Bruising his ear.
“Peeta’s a baker’s son.” ((…That’s great. Thanks, really.))
“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part;”
Oh…
“With Adah, Laban buried his youth, his strength, and perhaps some forgotten better self.”
Okay…
“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?”
… Dagnabbit, Frankenstein.
“In 1989, however, the noted southern theologian Hanson Edwin Rose dramatically revised this reading.”
well, thanks House of Leaves. that was largely unexciting.
“‘Last, but the most important, rule for you to remember at all times is number seventeen,’ adds Guard Arnett in an ominous warning”“
UH EXCUSE ME
Rule 17 is ‘failure to obey any of the above rules may result in punishment,’ nOO I DON’T NEED RULES AND PUNISHMENT, THAT DOESN’T SOUND HEALTHY
” There. Can you… Still move it? ”
i.. am
not sure how to take this
l0l“Pausing only to employ a few of Uncle Vernon’s choicest swear words, he staggered back into the kitchen, clutching his head and staring out the window into the back garden.”
wow rude
“Even as he lobbed a set of robes, two spellbooks, and a packet of crisps across the room, the doorbell rang.”
how boring
“You’ll never get away with this!”
;-;
Either: (partly on page 44, but mainly on 45)
“All these modifications suggested that Maunsell was not satisfied with the performance of the Lord Nelsons and certainly the class, impressive as it was in appearance, lacked the general utility of the King Arthurs.”
OR: (first complete sentence on 45)
“This was partly because they needed a special firing technique to steam well which only specialist engine crews had mastered.”
From “The history of the Southern Railway”
… I don’t even.
(Source: chatvert)
This fucking asshole…
This is the best Dorf Fort post. I laughed more than I should have.
(via theargylegargoyle)
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
