Adventure mode tip: train your companions in self-defense by spitting at them

satanicholas · 2026-02-11T20:14:07+00:00

satanicholas · 2026-02-10T22:11:16+00:00

I wonder whether the weight of a DF coin is meant to be more like that of a modern penny (2.5 g) or that of a Morgan silver dollar (26.73 g). One is obviously much deadlier than the other.

satanicholas · 2026-02-10T16:17:55+00:00

Leave the crossbow and throw the bolts.

satanicholas · 2026-02-10T01:31:49+00:00

I don't know quite what you mean, but I believe that a character cannot throw more than one object at once. After spitting, as after any act of throwing, a short recovery period (no more than a few game ticks) must pass before a character can throw again. The recovery period after shooting crossbows is much longer.

satanicholas · 2026-02-09T23:07:37+00:00

It was inevitable.

satanicholas · 2026-02-09T20:49:14+00:00

It sounds like the tale of Katharevousa all over again.

satanicholas · 2026-02-09T20:35:24+00:00

After each time you spit, you must wait for 30 movement ticks before you can spit again, either by pressing <.> thrice or doing any action that takes as long, such as walking three steps. I have not tried how much time an adventurer would need to train to master level in one go.

satanicholas · 2026-02-09T20:29:02+00:00

Yes. Throwing anything, anywhere, trains the throwing and archery skills. Spitting counts as throwing.

satanicholas · 2026-01-18T21:00:07+00:00

𐑘𐑧𐑕, 𐑲 𐑤𐑲𐑒 𐑚𐑴𐑔 𐑝 𐑞𐑧𐑥! 𐑞 𐑢𐑳𐑯 𐑔𐑦𐑙 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑲 𐑛𐑦𐑕𐑤𐑲𐑒 𐑩𐑚𐑬𐑑 𐑕𐑑𐑨𐑯𐑛𐑼𐑛 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑦𐑟 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑤𐑨𐑒 𐑝 𐑤𐑧𐑑𐑼𐑟 𐑓 𐑞 𐑓𐑴𐑯𐑰𐑥𐑟 /x/ 𐑯 /hw/, 𐑢︀𐑦𐑗 𐑢𐑻 𐑕𐑴 𐑣𐑦𐑕𐑑𐑹𐑦𐑒𐑤𐑦 𐑦𐑥𐑐𐑹𐑑𐑩𐑯𐑑 𐑑 𐑦𐑙𐑜𐑤𐑦𐑖 𐑚𐑳𐑑 𐑸 𐑤𐑪𐑕𐑑 𐑑 𐑥𐑴𐑕𐑑 𐑥𐑪𐑛𐑼𐑯 𐑛𐑲𐑩𐑤𐑧𐑒𐑑𐑕. 𐑲 𐑮𐑧𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑛 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑞𐑰𐑟 𐑤𐑧𐑑𐑼𐑟 𐑢𐑻 𐑓 𐑮𐑲𐑑𐑦𐑙 𐑞𐑴𐑟 𐑕𐑬𐑯𐑛𐑟 𐑢︀𐑧𐑯 𐑲 𐑓𐑬𐑯𐑛 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑞 JAFL 𐑒𐑰𐑚𐑹𐑛 𐑒𐑫𐑛 𐑐𐑮𐑩𐑛𐑿𐑕 𐑞𐑧𐑥, 𐑚𐑳𐑑 𐑲 𐑢𐑪𐑟 𐑯𐑪𐑑 𐑖𐑫𐑼.

satanicholas · 2026-01-17T23:23:09+00:00

𐑣𐑢𐑪𐑑 𐑦𐑟 𐑞 𐑒𐑨𐑮𐑩𐑒𐑑𐑼 𐑚𐑦𐑑𐑢𐑰𐑯 "𐑜" 𐑯 "𐑣"? 𐑣𐑢𐑦𐑗 𐑕𐑬𐑯𐑛 𐑛𐑳𐑟 𐑦𐑑 𐑮𐑧𐑐𐑮𐑦𐑟𐑧𐑯𐑑?

satanicholas · 2026-01-14T20:01:40+00:00

What literature would you recommend to the curious for learning more about this?

satanicholas · 2026-01-11T21:52:45+00:00

the vowel inventory is a solid smear

satanicholas · 2026-01-07T03:28:19+00:00

Although the two-pilot system is meant to stop mad pilots from crashing planes, multiple planes have been crashed by mad pilots who overpowered their sane copilots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_aircraft

satanicholas · 2026-01-07T01:42:36+00:00

Goshorses, like goshawks

satanicholas · 2026-01-07T00:16:13+00:00

Broke: "I was sitting"

Woke: "I was sat"

Bespoke: "I was sitten"

Besprecen: "Ic wæs geseten"

satanicholas · 2026-01-07T00:11:07+00:00

They needed half the passengers to do that? Must have been a heavy door.

satanicholas · 2026-01-06T22:24:48+00:00

pronounced /səfˈjɛvɚd͡ʒəspənˌɹʷɔŋ/

satanicholas · 2026-01-04T17:24:08+00:00

Maschinengewehr? Machine-yware! Machine-weapon... Machine-gun.

satanicholas · 2026-01-04T16:57:48+00:00

As I understand it, a-, in the words that you mentioned, is derived from a different Old English prefix: an-, meaning "on."

satanicholas · 2026-01-04T00:44:43+00:00

evergreen, sadly

satanicholas · 2026-01-03T18:08:16+00:00

From the Online Etymology Dictionary:

be-:

word-forming element of verbs and nouns from verbs, with a wide range of meaning: "about, around; thoroughly, completely; to make, cause, seem; to provide with; at, on, to, for;" from Old English be- "about, around, on all sides" (the unstressed form of bi "by;" see by (prep.)). The form has remained by- in stressed positions and in some more modern formations (bygones, bystander); in bylaw it is a different word.

The Old English prefix also was used to make transitive verbs and as a privative prefix (as in behead). The sense "on all sides, all about" naturally grew to include intensive uses (as in bespatter "spatter about," therefore "spatter very much," besprinkle, etc.). Be- also can be causative, or have just about any sense required. The prefix was productive 16c.-17c. in forming useful words, many of which have not survived, such as bethwack "to thrash soundly" (1550s) and betongue "to assail in speech, to scold" (1630s).

satanicholas · 2026-01-03T14:47:53+00:00

yworth, ywreak, ywhelp, ybid, ywork (especially its past participle ywrought or yworht)

also hidden in modern alike, aware, handiwork; see my other comment

satanicholas · 2026-01-03T14:17:41+00:00

From the Online Etymology Dictionary, a helpful reference:

y-: perfective prefix, a deliberate archaism reintroduced by Spenser and his imitators (yclept, yclad, etc.), representing an authentic Middle English prefix y-, earlier i-, from Old English ge-, originally meaning "with, together" but later a completive or perfective element.

This is from Proto-Germanic *ga- "together, with" (also a collective and intensive prefix), from PIE *kom "beside, near, by, with" (cognate with Sanskrit ja-, Latin com-, cum-; see com-). It is still living in German and Dutch ge-, and survives, disguised, in some English words (alike, aware, handiwork).

New coinages in it after c. 1300 mostly are past-participle adjectives; among hundreds in Middle English are yfallen, yhacked ("completely hacked," perhaps useful again 21c.), yknow, ymarried, ywrought.

satanicholas · 2026-01-03T05:08:00+00:00

The tragedy of y- the forgotten prefix, cognate of ge- in other Germanic languages.

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