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workknight void fort doodle

of a dead goblin snatcher unable to join the skeleton workforce.

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ok there something thrilling watching a doctor in Dwarf fortress operate on a resurrected corpse, and having said corpse die mid surgery and get prop back up with more resurrection so the operation could continue.

though this experience was done with the manual necromancy dfhack scripts I made... and force petitioning the antperson every time they died so that the goblins from this custom goblin entity I'm playing on would drag the antperson to a room to operate and treat the wounds.

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Thinking about Dwarf fortress during 2023

so kinda been playing Oregon trail Dwarf fortress edition for most of the DF50 experience. the mix of either void fort and just nomad had squeeze some fun out of an adventure mode-less series of updates. do wish the animal entity token stuff didn't make non sapient beings or animal entity folks you embark with not start with a historical figure and or a noble position... really limits what you could do with that stuff. though did learn some stuff about mapping layouts and world grid a bit. still found the way I got a mountainhome via just taking the throne to the queen than having the queen arrive to the site was fun.

getting necromancy to work as a ritual using dfhack scripts hooked into DF's cursed tomb mechanics open up some interesting playstyles with the undead and the woes of seeing a mangled unusable corpse.

the wagon storage scripts I made for nomad really did just streamline the stockpile stuff down to a 'I don't mess with stockpiles outside of using food stockpiles to store food in barrels then stuff the stuff back on to the wagon' which adds some fun to if the food goes bad on the trip do to improper storage. ramble aside it was interesting to see how the game change over time and how much stay the same when you explore the outskirts of just the single game mode.

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ok so my current fort I'm messing around with is one with the set goal to resurrect a bunch of dead folks using this custom dfhack script that dips into curse tomb mechanics to tap into the revive and reanimate interactions. a bit more in depth in the read more

before we get to that part there been a lot of stuff that happen since the site swap showcase post... site-swap and the later army view script I work on didn't really work out given the whole flaw with site-swap wasn't fixed so I took a break from that and went into figuring out how tombs work which led to some deep poking and writing a series of scripts that poke into assigning corpses, interactions, and zone placements for activating the interactions for tombs. then realizing the vanilla interactions don't work well on mangled bodies that often... flash forward to this session

the session is a bit more dfhacked as it starts with the mobile nano void fort with heavy use of nomad and finally figuring out a way to get around the hidden location even if you reveal it in dfhack ordeal.

this new reveal site uses embark notes to map where the hidden sites are while revealing them so the player... gets assaulted with a blinking light for locations they may or may not want to visit. so I learn this is a one time use script as it permanently sets the sites and embark notes on the save. the navigation of the world map while I do void fort stuff got a bit easier because of this and I been traveling the world for locations with old dead bodies and possible interesting people. the journey ended up with seeing a kobold encampment which I scoop up with a petition script and the kobolds in the fort were a major part of the workforce. later ended up finding some lairs that had a name dingo called egun lurchedglory and a named giant cougar called spitefulvalleys.

which led to the spot that spark me making this tumblr post a desert titan lair which had 2 skeletons and said desert titan SquidRivers the snarling rain. after moving in the desert titan into the fort and scooping the bodies I went into prepping the curse tomb set up for resurrecting them. the end result was uhh

getting utag resurrected and finding out what happens when you use an revenant/intel undead resurrection on a mostly skeletonal body. right after petitioning them to join the fort I notice utag wasn't really moving which led to a quick examine that the game treats them as wounded and needed treatment so I went and set up a quick hospital bed and assign a kobold to be head medical chief for the task. tried to assign the desert titan but they proceeded to not do the task

the kobold doctors operated on the skeleton by cutting off the remaining rotten flesh which led to utag having a series of straight scars all over the bony body.

then done the same on the other skeleton who name is quogub so there's like two skeleton bowwomen that just got cool scars. and suddenly after loading in the save to check on quogub's description uhh they are both gone. so now there's two historical figure resurrected skeleton hunters with surgery scars on their bones out in the wild of this savefile.

figures they were too cool to be in my fort any longer, I think one of them was a mom also.

here's the historical records of utag and quogub

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So currently working on a project where I taken this Minotaur and send them through hell with a nomad wagon with the task of hauling an Adamantine throne to some queen. it was at this moment I realize how far the queen is from the minotaur's lair well this going to be a fun run. Oh yeah another fun note due to how nomad keeps revealing tiles being in hell and having the adamantine tubes be reveal causes a wave of demons to pop up (usually it happens once if there already an wave of demons that spawn from that event and doesn't spawn another wave for each hole... but from what I seen if there's no other tube revealed or 'breached' the game will breach the next one and spawn in more fiends so it not just a one time deal.)

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necrofort woes, when you order bone bolts to be made and realize which bones you're using.

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here's a doodle of this mongoose fiend that I saw when I took control of this fortress via dfhack more of my thoughts behind the read more

so df 50.11 dropped and I decided to continue messing with a script that lets one swap sites, like adv mode having a body swap script it's that but for fort mode for sites. I seen results of this back when adv mode was still in the game with 47.05 and I guess the early set up of tofort where the game would adjust to the game field size of the site set in the plotinfo-main-fortress_site section

so here's a DF 50.10 showcase of the wip script as it requires finding the location of the site in the raid menu then quickly load(the load process uses the nomad script knowledge of setting the seasonal tick to 3999 and letting time past.) in that map chunk while unloading the old map chunk... this process also leaves the new map section filled with citizens with the resident flag on thus the game sense no one there and just auto ends the game. the reason this is still in WIP is I need to figure out a way to write up a bypass for that that saves folks having to run another script to smoothly get into the other site. oh and might require running revflood. any way that's what I been working on after the nomad stuff. well that and drawing demons as seen above.

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Ok so finally finish that helmad run I started a few days ago. the Minotaur has finally arrived at the Dwarven queen's fort from hell and had delivered the Adamantine throne

the process to pull this off took like pushing the limit of the nomad set up with how many embark spaces the game would let me, and finding out that if you keep setting the site size to be 1x20 or 20x1 a bunch you could push it to 40 or 50 I think I had one time where I hit 100 embark spaces ... but usually I also just crash the game in an attempt to load the next really large map chunk. the cavern layer kinda took a hit during the accelerated speed and loaded in normal grass tiles in the cavern layer. would say the experience was like playing Desert bus but in Dwarf fortress than playing Oregon trail.

oh and the dwarves that were in the cage were let out and they all dashed towards the food stockpiles and the site's tavern for drinks.

well lesson learn it's possible to nomad it across the world though it probably saner on my behalf to just void fort it next time I need to travel great distances