Climbing trees to escape danger without using Z-levels

Random_dragon · 2015-09-02T16:30:51.000Z

Expect 4D trees within he century. :V

kevin.granade · 2015-09-03T15:41:09.000Z

\[dwarfishness intensifies\]

Flowing magma and water is too much of a pain in the ass to implement, and this is a survival game, not a fortress-building game. Bone crossbows don't really make any sense.

CosmicKobal · 2015-09-03T19:23:41.000Z

[quote=“Kevin Granade, post:22, topic:10446”]

[dwarfishness intensifies]

Flowing magma and water is too much of a pain in the ass to implement, and this is a survival game, not a fortress-building game.
Bone crossbows don’t really make any sense.[/quote]

Bone ‘crossbows’ dont, but ‘bone crossbow bolts’ are totally logical

Random_dragon · 2015-09-03T22:08:05.000Z

Kevin Granade:

Bone crossbows don’t really make any sense.

Better than adamantine warhammers at least. But yeah, I meant the bolts, not the crossbow itself.

Catfoodbob · 2015-09-03T23:13:37.000Z

Random_dragon:

[quote=“Kevin Granade, post:22, topic:10446”]Bone crossbows don’t really make any sense.

Better than adamantine warhammers at least. But yeah, I meant the bolts, not the crossbow itself.[/quote]

adamantine warhammers are niegh usless because its the equivlent of whacking something in the head with a feather

Random_dragon · 2015-09-03T23:18:24.000Z

A warhammer decorated with roc feathers, however, is a thing of beauty.

kevin.granade · 2015-09-04T03:23:10.000Z

AFAICT making arrows out of bone is similarly nonsensical, I can’t find any references to making arrows out of bone. If someone can point me to a (non-game) reference indicating otherwise, I’d be happy to reverse my position on the matter

Random_dragon · 2015-09-04T04:22:11.000Z

Dang. Bone sewing awls, fishing hooks, etc. But projectile points…lemme see.

It’d still be more logical than carved plastic arrows. :V

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_tool

Can be good to take wikipedia articles with a grain of salt, but a good starting point.

kevin.granade · 2015-09-05T00:39:45.000Z

Points are totally reasonable, it’s the shafts I’m sceptical of. If it’s bone-tipped arrows yea it’s fine.

Random_dragon · 2015-09-05T01:10:48.000Z

We’d likely need rather specific bones to make shafts, yeah. As for bone tips, already got that in the recipe for field point arrows.

Bone-tipped crossbow bolts would make my day though.

i2amroy · 2015-09-05T20:23:39.000Z

Yeah, bone tends to splinter when you try to make long lengths of it, making it fairly useless for shafts. On the other hand bone-tipped arrows are totally viable, and were actually used by Native Americans in some places around the US that didn’t have ready access to appropriate stone types for stone arrowheads.

Random_dragon · 2015-09-05T20:35:31.000Z

So in that case…bone-tipped crossbow bolts? <3

And to get back on topic, when 3D trees become a thing, we should add treehouses.

stk2008 · 2015-09-05T20:46:53.000Z

Tree houses tree hides would be bloody epic.

I’m almost scared to ask this because I know how hard coolthulhu has worked but how far off are we from full z levels?

Random_dragon · 2015-09-05T21:26:57.000Z

From what I’ve seen, Coolthulhu’s latest big project has been enhancing, altering, and overall unfucking NPC AI and their interactions with players: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/13486

stk2008 · 2015-09-05T21:30:25.000Z

Yeah I see this the other day :).

Well excited with cdda now and what is oming in the future

Random_dragon · 2015-09-05T21:45:38.000Z

Also got Kevin’s OK to PR another mod thing which I’ll do later on, need to decide how best to divide it up…