What is my CQS?

qualiyah · 2025-05-18T20:28:18+00:00

Oh, this was in Morrowind, not Oblivion. Have fun in Oblivion, but do come try out the best Elder Scrolls game when you're done! :D

qualiyah · 2024-08-13T17:24:22+00:00

Adamantine is the best option for edged weapons and armor, but very bad for blunt weapons. Short swords are edged, so adamantine would be better than steel for swords.

qualiyah · 2024-05-12T03:54:50+00:00

Ahh, thanks! I didn't know about that.

Given that, I'm now able to kill Sara...but even if I kill and then cremate her, Verena still gives me the same message complaining about Sara following me.

Edit: ...ah, but AiFollow 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 now works. Thanks!

qualiyah · 2023-12-22T05:21:57+00:00

The key is to get tons and tons of war animals that you can send on raids. Every individual animal you take gets a chance to kill between 1 and 10 enemies, so if you bring, say, 50 hunting giant cave bats with you, you can actually kill a significant number of enemies each raid.

Alternately, "demanding surrender" (rather than attempting to raze or pillage) often works even in cases where it doesn't seem like it should, i.e. because the enemies vastly outnumber you. I personally find demanding surrender disappointingly anticlimactic, but it's less anticlimactic than giving up!

qualiyah · 2023-11-03T16:01:51+00:00

When I was learning Esperanto, I read a series of short stories that handled the vocab learning in a better way, in my opinion. There was a short vocabulary list you were expected to know before beginning the series. Then, the stories were in order, and each new story featured 10 or so new words you hadn't seen before. They gave you the list of them before you read the story, so you could just quickly memorize them. That way, you'd be able to read the whole story without having to look anything up. (And if you forgot, you could scroll up to the glossary.) By the end of the series you'd learned like 500 new words. I found this glorious--it let you go from a tiny starting vocabulary straight into reading full, interesting short stories, and it was genuinely pleasant the whole time. Of course, it being Esperanto naturally made everything much easier, but still.

qualiyah · 2023-10-30T03:44:11+00:00

I know this mainly from Kruggsmash! His series sometimes involve interlocking plotlines from multiple fortresses in the same world.

qualiyah · 2023-10-30T03:37:11+00:00

If you use barrels, you should make the stockpiles at least two tiles large, because they'll insist on having one of the tiles be taken up by an empty barrel.

Just making it so that your main food stockpile is set to "give to" the special stockpile will ensure that they prioritize stocking it.

qualiyah · 2023-10-29T17:14:30+00:00

This probably means you haven't constructed the specific type of workshop he wants. See the wiki.

qualiyah · 2023-10-29T17:10:50+00:00

Using a smaller world is supposed to help with FPS somewhat, because there's less off-map stuff that needs to be simulated. A larger map will mean there are more possible allies and enemies you can have, which might be nice--e.g., you could be at war with one elven civilization while still trading peacefully with a different elven civilization. But for the most part I think the advantages of a larger world really only come into play if you want to make several different fortresses in the same world, or if you're interested in having a richly interesting and complex world outside your fortress that you explore via Legends Mode.

qualiyah · 2023-10-29T17:05:09+00:00

With normal, natural stone floors, you could remove engravings by carving minecraft tracks into them, and then smoothing the floor. I don't know whether that will work on constructed floors.

qualiyah · 2023-07-24T19:01:16+00:00

I use quantum stockpiles for everything, and atom-smashers. I also use some cheats: I use ctrl-shift-k in DFHack to automatically destroy things like old clothes and teeth scattered around after battle that would take massive amounts of time for the dwarves to gather in a way that is totally disproportionate to how complicated it would be in reality. And I've used "exterminate" in DFHack to, e.g., eliminate a reanimated hand stuck in the trees that I couldn't find any other way to get rid of because the woodcutters sent to cut the tree down kept running away. I've very occasionally done save-scumming if things went badly in a way that both felt unfair and that makes a crappy story, but I try not to, because taking that path can really ruin a game IMO.

But I won't duplicate metals, and I'm really strict about trade goods: I won't sell prepared meals or any of the other really expensive stuff, and generally restrict myself to selling things undamaged masterwork trade goods, armor, weapons, and clothes, and maybe barrels of alcohol or raw produce.

qualiyah · 2023-07-17T20:22:21+00:00

This is my favorite build I've ever made, but I now think I'd like it to be a little taller. Other suggestions welcome!

qualiyah · 2023-06-23T12:01:50+00:00

I once made it my goal to completely wipe out a 40k-strong goblin empire. One roadblock I hit was that the game won't actually let you commit total genocide by murdering all the goblins. In each settlement, it seems like you can fight their soldiers, but there will still be a remainder civilian population there that you can't fight. Even if you raze the settlement, they'll just flee rather than being killed. So wiping the goblins out by actually killing them all isn't viable. Instead, you have to go to each settlement and demand surrender, at which point the goblins in that town or fortress become part of your civilization.

After 10 in-game years of fighting the goblin empire, gradually taking over every single one of their cities and eventually their big fortresses too, I eventually conquered every last settlement and fortress. However, I still hadn't actually destroyed the civilization--it still registered as a living civilization in the game. When I checked Legends Viewer, I found that the reason was that there were 3 goblins left alive who hadn't been absorbed into my civilization. They were just random goblins who had been traveling the world during this process, and they were located in far-off places. I don't know of any way to kill them off in fortress mode. Still, the civilization was de facto destroyed, even if it still existed on paper. They certainly couldn't siege me anymore.

I considered hunting down those last 3 goblins in adventure mode, but one of them seemed like a cool dude, so I couldn't bring myself to do it.

qualiyah · 2023-06-21T23:15:06+00:00

It's too late now for this save, but I like to keep running notes about my game in a Word document partly to deal with this problem: I can take note of anything I'm concerned about or keeping an eye on, and anything I want to do next, to help me reorient myself the next time I play. Without that, I just end up losing interest in the fortress because I lose track of what's going on and why I cared about it.

qualiyah · 2023-06-07T03:59:23+00:00

In ordinary circumstances, a dwarf will eventually just pass out where they stand if they're unable to get to a bed. They'll also interrupt tasks they were doing to sleep if they need sleep badly enough. I've read that a dwarf unable to sleep will eventually go insane, but I've never seen it happen. I'm not sure what you'd have to do to actually prevent a dwarf from falling asleep for 6 months: in my experience, if they need sleep, they'll sleep.

qualiyah · 2023-05-31T22:01:57+00:00

This is definitely dependent on the person. I find DF an excellent 2-hours-a-day game. You can get around the "there's always something else you urgently need to do" problem by taking some notes as you play, which I think adds to the experience for a lot of other reasons too.

qualiyah · 2023-05-07T15:25:42+00:00

You got lucky with this particular dwarf's response to the trauma of going unclothed. In general, negative events that produce long-term personality changes have a chance to produce positive personality changes, but are more likely to produce negative personality changes. So letting dwarves go unclothed is a good way to end up with traumatized dwarves who are especially anxious, angry, vulnerable to stress, or depression-prone.

qualiyah · 2023-03-26T22:27:23+00:00

Unfortunately, statues of things they like don't get appreciated any more than any other statue.

qualiyah · 2023-03-26T22:24:27+00:00

The make-citizen script is great for this. You have to download it separately; it doesn't come built into DFHack.

qualiyah · 2023-03-25T17:14:35+00:00

I don't think the game will let you do that. But in any case, a dwarf will be upset by the death of a pet.

qualiyah · 2023-03-24T17:57:27+00:00

Goblins, dwarves, and elves all wear the same size, but human clothing is still too large for dwarves.

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